365 - 011. Hannah Banana

Dinner at the Spaghetti Factory with Bev and Hannah. She'll kill me if she sees this.

395 - 010. Night Palms

My view looking up at the world.

365 - 009

This is another sunset pic. Sue me again, i've been sick.

365 - 008. I've been sick

Sorry for the delay and not posting a couple of nights. I've been fighting off a cold and haven't moved from the couch when I haven't been at work.

365 - 007. Red sky at night.

Sorry for the terrible amount of sunsets, but they're beautiful. Deal with it. 

Also, shout out to my biggest fan Edgar. Thanks for being the only person to notice this. Haha!

365 - 006. ISO

I was noticing how that, depending on my ISO speed, the water would come out differently. I'm getting the hang of this. I think.

365 - 005. Grimy

I take walks on my days off. I love my grimy city.

365 - 004. Sadness.

The second, but actual post, for today. It was a sad day in my household since the Eagles were eliminated from the playoffs today. My football season is over. But, I'll still watch to see what results from it.

365 - 003 (A Day Behind)

I got home late. Not off to a good start.

365 - 002

Here's another pic from Newport Beach. In my attempts at discovering how best to use my camera in different lighting settings, I took a bunch of photos during sundown. The Golden Hour.

I love the lighting and reflections off of the windows.

365 - Day One

Hey people who don't read this! How are you?

I've always wanted to do a 365 type photo journal and now's the time to start. I've recently gotten a Nikon D5200 and I plan on getting really good with it. What's the best way to accomplish that desire? Shoot as much as possible!

Therefore, I'm going to attempt to complete this 365, one photo a day journal. It will be mostly shots from the D5200, but I also have an iPhone 5S with a great camera and a GoPro. The key is that I'm going to upload something every day, to the best of my ability.

Hope you enjoy the results!

Time for my yearly post

Here I am again. Just had to get one in for 2012. /sarcasm.

What's up, kids.

It's been over a year.

I'm still alive. For now.

Want.

Air Jordan 3 Retro - "Countdown Pack"

I so want these. i think the III's are my fave of all Jordans. If things go "my way" in the next coming weeks, i think i'm going to get a "celebratory" pair.

Do i deserve them? Eh, maybe. But then again, I haven't indulged in quite a while.

Now to save up... *smile*

Reason #73, #74 & #75* Why I Should Have a Beard...

Just for some back story, I've wanted a beard for several years. For reasons that I won't discuss at this time, I cannot have one. But, know this. I would be AWESOME in a beard. Here are some reasons:

Reason #73 - I look silly with just a mustache: And all racism aside, if you're not a Black guy, you look silly, too. Now take this from a Black guy. We look cool in mustaches. Well, all of us besides me. For some reason, perhaps my lack of "visual" ruggedness**, I look silly with just a mustache. But, add a beard/goatee to that equation?! Pure sickness of the dope kind!

Reason #74 - Now, if it wasn't for those pesky Hipsters messing this all up, only cool guys wore beards. For the record, I'm not talking about those stupid (*cough*Hipster*coughcough*) bushy, backwood Oakie beards, I'm talking about a nice, trimmed and neat beard. Mysterious guys made beards cool. And a heavy 5 o'clock shadow just looks rugged! And dude... sheiks wear beards. And they're rich and dress cool in the heat! What's cooler than that?! Plus they gave us Shemagh scarves! They were cool! (again, before Hipsters ruined them. Arg! Touche Hipsters!)

Reason #75 - This is the reason that spawned this post. I recently discovered that I have six (count 'em, SIX!) gray hairs in my beard. THIS IS PERFECT! The "salt and pepper" look has always been considered attractive on guys. And for me - a dude who's always looked 10 years younger than I was - it's perfect. I hate looking younger than I am. Granted, it's a blessing and it's helped me at times, but I'm about ready to look my age. This would be the perfect scenario! I only have 2 gray hairs in my head which are even visible. Having a trimmed lined up beard (not the chin strap sort... that's played out) or a almost Eric Dolphy looking goatee with some peppered gray up in there!? That's the perfect look to balance out my juvenile looking face! Finally! Having the best of both worlds!

But alas. Like I said, I cannot have a beard at this time. But a boy can dream can't he? (or just "photoshop" a cool looking beard into his profile pics....)


*-Reasons 1-72 will be posted at some future date. (...don'tholdyourbreath)
**-(inside, I'm as rugged as they come, son! What!?)

Best action scene of all time

This video clip is the best thing that I've seen all day. I mean, the 2:00-2:10 is everything that is good in life. If that's all you watch, then it's worth it!

Just some notes:
1. I have no idea who many pane glass windows were in that building, but it was a lot. Did they spontaneously regenerate?
2. I want to move to India/Pakistan and become a stuntman. Obviously they're the best in the world.
3. While cool, anti-gravity jeeps seem more dangerous than practical (the bridge scene...)
4. What was the Bollywood/wedding scene all about? Still loved it though!
5. Spontaneously exploding cars FTW! (unless they're roadside car bombs, then that's just not cool).

Hey Young World

I really need to start using this thing again. Even if it's just a place to display the mental rantings that go on in my mentals (redundant much?). I'm rambling... But I guess that's what this is for.

Much more to come!

(What ya'll know about Rick the Ruler?)

Shot a Day #3: (semi)clean workstation

(semi)clean workstation
Originally uploaded by jay the younger

Unofficially the third of my "Shot a Day"* series. I tried uploading 2 previous ones but it didn't take =).

This is where i do my work... for now. I am saving for a new laptop and seriously need some more computing power and organized space. It's tough out there for an illustrator/artist!



*-Shot a(n almost) Day, that is....

i really need to fix this thing...

sorry for the uglyness that is this blog. I really need to fix this thing but life has been hectic (and depressing) lately. I keep waiting for some sort of normalcy to return but alas, it doesn't come.

I promise this thing will get better. I want to do it my way and it's taking longer than expected.

(i need to go wordpress but don't have the ends to make it happen yet... ugh.)

UPDATE: i just went back to "default" for now. Eh.

There's a map for that.

http://gizmodo.com/5445780/mia-writes-song-inspired-by-three+hour-verizon-tech-support-call

It appears that musician/activist M.I.A. wrote a song about her 3-hour tech support call experience with Verizon. The best part? She got some of the tech operators to sing the hook. I have to hear this!