Roswell...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!
I just finished handing out goodies to all the little children hitting up the campus for treats this year.
Dig it!

This picture takes advantage of a program aspect that even lets you pick what place, date, and time you'd like the "sky" in your scene to be. . . then automatically renders it in there for you!
Cool Beans?!
Yep.
Set this one to Roswell, NM - at just around midnight....
Have a sweet, safe night!
=)
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P.S.-This is one that looks better if you double click on the pix and view it enlarged....

Porch Light On...

A run on the LAW...

That's right.
A run on the LAW...
feels somehow like I 'got away' with something.
I had 4 big test out of 5 classes last week.
The 1st one being in my Business Law class.
Over a half dozen chapters.
Thank God, - literally - and the teacher, for that one being an open book.
I hadn't read all the chapters.
I tried, but, not only is this book the biggest, heaviest, most cumbersome book I've got this semester - it could quantify as a major sleep aid, people.
I missed a class or two of lecture.
(Death, Illness...)
...and...
Here's the amazing part:
I managed to miss out on only 8 questions
and I still scored a 100%!!!
(insert beaming smile here.)

He (teacher), bless his heart <-(in the true Nebraskan sense of this phrase), graded on a curve & I managed to be one of the one's topping the curve!
Whew!

I was disgusted, for a minute, reviewing the test when I saw 2 questions that should have been logical gimmes - which I totally blew... but then I recalled that I'd missed 8 and still scored a 100%. By the Grace of God, I'm telling ya ...and... through the open-book, open-notes sensibilities of this teacher.
=)

Happy Wednesday / happy Hump-day everybody!

I've a great deal more to do so ...
Back2it.
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So I learned some more about applying textures, backgrounds and such...
and I applied what I learned to the Teapot exercise.
Here's my results...

Friday October 13th

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They found your body
(& the corpus of your cat)
on a Friday, October 13th...

I'll never forget getting the call -
The one from your cousin...
Me in my Sunday dress -
curious over the strains of her small talking and then...
Her voice saying,
"Joe died."
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The clarity and conviction with which I said to her,
"No."
"No!"
"I just talked to him!",
...made her second guess the finality of what she already knew to be true.
I know it did.
I could feel her hesitation...sifting through realities in her world
- up -
on the Holy alpine streches of a far-western, reaching sky...
She was considering the supernal, the supernatural -
worlds,
lives,
loves
without end.
I know she was...
Considering that you weren't "quite" gone yet...

...and...

in that instant...
realities in my world shifted too, to ........
I knew.
(NOT willing to believe it, yet...)
I knew.
You were.
&
She was - breaking - the news.

I couldn't make the funeral.
My veil would have been too thin

I've never been ground -
that deeply sad
in
all
my
days.

At least we'd talked
We'd said what we needed to say
maybe not all that we had to say
but, was it enough - ?
It mustneedsbe.
You.
So self-professedly bad at writing -
surprised me
NOT!
that you hadn't left a note...
...was I your note?
Nah.
You were never that planned.
More happenstance, perhaps...
I think...
... it seemed that way to your family...
that I was somewhat of a "Footenote" - from you...
you'd trusted me with pieces of mind, heart and soul
with shadows, doubts & fears which you'd not given over to them.

You joked with me that I knew you better than you knew yourself...

One year latter, I saw them for myself.
Your family.
I gave them every picture I ever had of you.
ok. I censured that sexy, fetching little-bathtub-one.
I figured your Momma didn't need to see that one.
=)
She was so agrieved...
Yet she was gracious and good to me.
They all were.
Laura told me of your later visit - your spiritual visit
The one to your Aunt, because her sister was too grieved for the loss of her son, for your spirit could not break through her thick tears to speak any sort of peace to her "Mother's broken heart"...
You'd plead for that to stop -
from the world of spirits -
you came, escorted no less,
a message,
a plea,
for your Momma to not grieve YOU, not so hard -
how her sad was holding you
somewhat tied...
... to her...
that...
She needed to know
that...
you were
FREE.

I tried you know,
to not grieve you so hard -
for the sudden end to your living possibilities
for "our world" minus you
I sent them a baloon for you -
that being a special thing between you and me
A blue baloon with a silver string...
and a peace rose.
and many, many prayers...
but you know all that by now, don't you?
I thought of the birthdays we'd shared...
I thought
a lot
of you.
I've stopped asking, "Why?"
I know.
You had to go, Joe.

Rest in Peace, Dear one.
It's good to know that you are free.
... I always wished you could be.
Only...
I never,
ever,
thought -
it would be like this.
Rest in Peace.
Rest in Peace.
Rest in Peace
D.~

Here's the cool thang...

Once you create a scene in Cinema 4D you can rotate, scale, move - it offers amazing flexibility in creative compositions.
Here's the Little Teapot & spoon exercise - with lights & from 3 different angles...
I even moved the spoon to the other side of the teapot and spun it around to a front view on the last example.
It's the same picture - but with this program you can spin it the way, almost anyway, you want to!!!
Before I "rendered" the scene I could even go down below the horizon line, & look at it, the teapot & the spoon, through the place mat... I mean to tell you this program is cool, cool, COOL!

Blue Gasssss

This was yet another class room exercise in lighting sceens from the Cinema 4D program.
The composition has 4 lights.
2 simulating jets
1 simulating a nebulean gaseous space cloud
1 "Omni" light, high & opposite the blue gas cloud to spring highligts off the ship.
Coolio - huh?
=)
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A Red Planet

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2 "light sources" + 12 adjustment steps in Cinema 4D program turned this image out in a jiffy. Then, because I liked what I saw - I pulled it to photoshop for a background, side frillies, and a sig. just so I could jpeg it to the blog here. Cool Beans?!
No.
Not goofing off.
This was the assignment due.
Now on to a little exploring on my own.
=)
D.~

T-T-T-Testing!

I'm developing a nervous tick in my t-t-t-typing fingers. :P
I've got some HUGE testing coming on next week:

• Business Law
• Multi-media
• Marketing

SO... I maybe even harder pressed to post that ever before.

Back to the books for me.

You all have a woo-hoo weekend.

Seriously.

Run out and win the lottery.

Track down and phone up a long lost buddy.

Drink in the fall colors either on your own or with a loved one in tow.

Savor every breath of life....

Because you can.

Cheerios2U!

D~

Intro 3D

The text book is 3D Modeling with Cinema 4D R9
An Introduction to the Art & Technology of 3D Modeling with Maxon Cinema 4D
by Tony Alley
This is the first project the class has converted to psd (& I took it to jpeg here to share with ya'll).
It's a wooden toy train.
The book has it kept in entirely wood-finish renderings.
The class was allowed to play and choose whatever we would like.
I wanted the feeling of a well loved wooden toy coming alive.
(ok. I just re-read that... its an innocent, artistic thought. Have mercy. No Freudian, pysco-babble, wise-cracker remarks, please! lol...)
This is so fun.
I love my studies.
God help me to find a way to keep going with 'em and there after use what I've learned to good purpose.
Amen.

P.S. - As always you can double click on the image to enlarge your view if you'd like....

Detail of a Sea Shell

Been a while now since I posted any pencil sketching.

Here's an empty Shell...
Just for you...
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D.~

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes....

Friday was my "last" day at the daily Gazette. =(
I loved that job.
I loved the people I was working with.
I really learned a lot.
Wish it could have gone on trough this entire learning journey into the Graphic side of communications that I've got m'self on...tisk...*sighs*
Here's the LAST AD they tossed my way.
It was to be a message for the area Ministerial Association... and about the only other thing they'd written down, for me to "create" with was the phrases:
"Just say no" <-(to drugs) and "Say yes to God" Troubling when you consider the size - it was to be a "4x8" which in newspaper terms means a 4 column wide, 8 inch long advertisement. A wee bit less than a notebook or regular "copy-size" page of paper. Hummmm. What to do? Well, I googled - of course & the first image was the fried egg thang. lol. So done already.... then I found this site. Just as I've feared. Caffeine, my nemesis, is one of the worst and most highly socialized of the bunch!
I know some of you have you're own juries out as to weather or not there even is a God... for you I'd suggest substituting the word "Love" whenever the God reference comes up... that's assuming we can read it once I post it here. I had to make a jpeg out of it so... this posting may never see the light of day on this blog anyway... I didn't size it down any as I usually do. Thinking that if you'd like to read it - reading would be better if you could click it larger.
Hope all is well in your worlds
Cheerios 2 all who pass this way...
Hugs!
D.