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More Flood Pictures
Article Posted: May 17, 2009
I've finally had some time to actually look through the pictures and videos I took on the first few days. No video will ever be uploaded, but here are some pictures.
Two days after the flood and it was still much higher than usual
My side yard with one of my buildings pushed against the neighbor's house
Back(ish) yard
What remains of building #1 and misc trash
Building number #1 and backyard
Backyard/fence and ~3 feet of sand/mud
Backyard and uprooted tree
Backyard
Some flowers I had planted just a few days prior. Hadn't even moved them up front yet...
Backyard
Front porch. The water somehow managed to pull the carpet/rug up. It was glued pretty well.
My foot, front sidewalk.
Road in front of the house.
Backyard
Trash out for the National Guard to pick up
Floors are buckling, hooving.
The dryer vent o' mud lol
Flooded
Article Posted: May 12, 2009
My house was flooded on Friday night/Saturday morning (around 3am). Nothing much else to say so here are some pictures.
More pictures located here: http://hellokevin.com/flood.
Facebook: Pirate Edition
Article Posted: April 28, 2009
My friend Aken (@cryode, Cryode.com) pointed this out.
Full screenshots:
http://hellokevin.com/files/upload/fb_profile.png
http://hellokevin.com/files/upload/fb_profile2.png
To change yours, scroll to the bottom of Facebook, click English (US) to bring up the language menu, and select "English (Pirate)"
YouTube Math
Article Posted: April 28, 2009
"Cute, fuzzy...let's show it to a friend!"
At this moment, that video has just a dash over 8 million views. That's not really any news for a youtube video. Hell, Avril Lavigne's video for "Girlfriend" has over 118 million views (Most Popular YouTube Videos, Alltime).
Back to the kitten video -- I was in my own little world, staring and smiling at the playful lil kittens pouncing around when it hit me: "How many other slobs are blobbing in front of their computers doing the same exact thing?" So, I did some quick math.
8 million views for a video that is roughly 1.5 minutes.
That's 12,000,000 minutes of wasted time. That's 200,000 hours gone. 8,333 days of human life lost. That's 22.8 YEARS of life that can never be lived again. I'm only 21 years old, these cute little kittens, no more than a month or so old, have consumed more human life that I have lived.
Avril Lavgine's crappy video, at 3:48 in length and 118,768,725 views, has consumed a whopping 27,079,269,300 seconds; 451,321,155 minutes ; 7,522,019 hours ; 313,417 days; 858.67 YEARS of life. Someone *please* correct my math if I have made a mistake. This is just hard for me to believe. I had never really stopped to think about how much time is wasted.
Getting some press
Article Posted: March 4, 2009
My latest project, SecretTweet.com, has been getting noticed by a few major names in the world of news.
LA Times:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/02/like-postsecret.html
New York Times:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/anonymous-confessions-go-online-with-secrettweet/
And it was on Fox News, too:
NYC and Misc Photos
Article Posted: February 15, 2009
Huntington was recently hit with some fairly harsh snow and I snapped a few photos predawn -- wanted to get pictures before sidewalks were salted and such.
And I just returned from NYC. I didn't take as many pictures as I had planned -- too busy having fun and hanging out with people. I plan on going back sometime soon so maybe I'll get some more interesting "touristy" photos then. Here are a few photos of some museums and galleries that I visited (and a few random snapshots). If you were with me or hung out with me at night, I have some photos if you're interested...I'm not posting them online (don't want to embarrass anyone or myself LOL...good times, good times).
Ceramics Part Two
Article Posted: December 12, 2008
Here are the two remaining pieces. I rushed while taking these pics. The first piece is my favorite. It has faults all over it but it helps the character. I put a cone 10 glaze on it but it was only fired to cone 6. I started to refire it but I liked it the more I looked at it -- left somewhat of a grunge effect.
Ceramics
Article Posted: December 11, 2008
EDIT: Just realized there's one more piece that I didn't take any photos of. Will include photos of it when I get the other pieces back.
Today was the final critique in ceramics. There are still two or three of my pieces that weren't fully cooled from firing so I won't be able to bring those home until Monday, probably. I wasn't sure how to take photos of this stuff so I just threw up two pieces of mat board and dusted off my camera. Results aren't too bad.
Overall, I'm very satisfied with how everything came out (excluding the three remaining pieces which I haven't seen since I glazed them a few days ago). Working with clay is, by no means, as simple as it looks or sounds. I took the class thinking it would be an easy way to fill a requirement...rude awakening LOL. Click to enlarge.
Drawing
Article Posted: December 9, 2008
The only thing I've done this semester (in the tangible form) that is with me here in Huntington is this drawing (and a ton of stuff from Ceramics that I finally got around to glazing today...I should be able to get photos of that stuff this weekend or maybe sooner. When I have my camera ready and I'm near the rest of my drawings, I'll try to remember to snap pictures of them, too...
(click to enlarge)
This is the first drawing class I've ever taken and I think I've done fairly well in it. I've kept up with other people that have taken art classes for several years (I was a Business Admin major until this semester)...and the fact my professor is an awesome guy makes things easier.
The assignment was to create a cubist drawing from a still-life...cubism is not really my cup o' tea.