Cardiff

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Puffer fish

The joke...

So he was telling me this lMe joke I was totally asleep in my helm..... shit.... he's right behind me isn't he!??!

The art of lighting.

I was told once that the best way to learn about lighting was to photograph an egg. A simple white egg. When I heard that I though how brilliant that was. A simple subject like that was easy to wrap your brain around. You would be able to see where he shadows and highlights fall just as it would on a person you were photographing.

However I have never tried the egg thing, seems easy enough, but in the end I felt it was too daunting. I ended up using Legos. Star Wars storm troopers to be exact. These little plastic people are perfect. You can set the up any way you like, for lighting I just use a cheap flashlight. I feel like this type of setup gives a much better idea of how your subject will be lit.

My thoughts on zombies and the culture they have created.

Zombies have become quite popular with my 25-35 generation. Something about them just makes it so very interesting. Being a man of science and logical thought, it's a pretty big stretch for me to believe that one day our world would become over run by these brain eating crawlers. When taking into account at what zombies are it's very difficult to justify their existence. But in the end it's just down right exciting.

I believe that the underlying principals of such an event foreshadow a large scale biological disaster which in today's climate is very real. Understanding and accepting this fact, it has become part of the social subconscious. We just have to put a picture of something which is not so grim... Zombies. All in all I feel like preparing for the future zombie apocalypse is the same for my generation as it was for those in the cold war era, we just have a much more entertaining adversary... Even though we might never encounter them.

My gaming addiction.

Many people will admit they have a gaming problem. I am one of those people. I love gaming. I have more games than I know what to do. Sadly this is where it stops. Unlike most game addicts, I actually don't have the time to play them all. I have enough games to last me a solid century or two. It's almost like a form of OCD hoarding. In my case it's digital. Most folks will never see my over filled hardrive. And I cannot be blamed for gaming too much because ... Well simply put, I don't have time for it.

The writing of blogs.

So recently I have decided with my wife to start writing blogs. At least one entry per day. My wife is an amazing writer so it's a wonderful exercise for her, but me? Well my personal journal that I have once tried to keep averages about 1 entry every 1.2 years... Yea it's not a very optimistic result but I'm hoping to get better at. I guess for me it will be a creative exercise. Hopefully I can sneak some sketches into it. We will see... I'm optimistic.