NullCoding

It has been a long time indeed since I have made a "State of Affairs" post like I used to. Search my journal archives if you wish, but be warned, they go back to a time before I was, uh, properly medicated.

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Recently, I connected my external hard drive for a routine backup of some music and photos (basic stuff) and decided it'd be fun to look in the folder called "Categorized but not on MacBook." This folder contains exactly what it says - organized and categorized photos going back to roughly the end of 2008, including the entirety of 2009 and 2010. My actual computer hard drive goes back to April 2011 for some reason - I tend to back up and then delete older stuff to save space, but that's not a huge issue right now.

I looked through this massive folder and found ALL SORTS of cool stuff - indeed, it took me two days to go through it thoroughly, and I haven't even TOUCHED the separate folder for China yet! I copied photos I liked and could possibly work on into a folder on my computer aptly named "Findings."

So! I'm just gonna throw some numbers at you, because I have been busy busy busy all year (read: January), at least with photography - and at that, mostly just the editing and post-processing thereof.

• Size of the entire January 2013 folder on my hard disk: 1,81GB
• Number of items therein: 289 and counting
• Size of the Findings folder: 1,03GB
• Number of items therein: 270
• Number of finished works currently queued for upload: 68
• Number already uploaded: 10

And just for fun, the size of my entire Pictures folder on my hard disk is currently 34,27GB for 9.940 items.

That's not counting what's on my external hard drive. For example, I know for a fact that my photos from China came on 4 single-layer DVDs (long story) and each of those is 4,7GB, though I don't think they are all entirely full, meaning I have at least about 16GB or as much as 18,8GB of photos from three weeks in June of 2009!!

I do know for a fact that they are chronologically categorized in my typical meticulous fashion; nevertheless, searching through them all for neat little gems I may have missed the first time around will likely be quite an event - certainly one to which I look forward!

Thanks for reading, for glancing at my gallery, for your comments and favorites, for support and encouragement in any form, and especially for ideas! I have received many wonderful artistic ideas as of late, which happen to include making an Etsy store (in progress) and making jewellery out of computer parts (in progress but very difficult!)

I credit my wonderful significant other for these and many other fun concepts. She sees the world much differently than I, which I find beautiful and fascinating. Talking with her is so intellectually and creatively stimulating and fulfilling. I'm so grateful to have her in my life.

I have been so busy with changing my life lately that I've forgotten to leave room for creativity. Instead, I've been almost exclusively programming and playing the guitar. Both of these are, of course, perfectly fine pursuits - but I found myself itching to be artsy lately, so that's exactly what I'm doing.

I have an awesome new cell phone (HTC Droid DNA, best there is, naturally) and an awesome new 2012 MacBook Pro with a matte hi-res anti-glare display that's pretty damn sweet for photo and music editing, a bunch of new furniture, my room is getting clean and organized, my programs are working well, I might get a sweet new guitar, and oh yeah there's something else better than all of that combined, but it's a seeeecrettttt.



Promise I didn't leave dA or anything like that. Art is still part of my life. Just not huge.

I guess it's kind of funny that in my last journal entry, I mentioned how I might look at some code I wrote a while ago.

Well, I've been programming practically nonstop for weeks now!

Still keeping busy, but unfortunately not in the most artistic sense.

We'll see what the new school year brings. 2 weeks left.

It's been quite some time since I made a "state of affairs" post, hasn't it.

I'm not entirely confident that people read these, but it is nice to provide updates now and again.

Please check out my SoundCloud (link to the left) if you are at all interested in what I've been doing lately. Also, follow my Twitter if you're interested in what I'm doing in general.

Full disclosure - for the last half hour or so, I've been fighting with the CSS on this journal skin trying to figure out why there's a big empty space that links to my Facebook fan page. That doesn't make sense and I can't quite figure out how to fix it. Remember, I've never been any good with computer languages, except basic HTML and C++.

ahem, NULL CODING

On that note, I'm going to go take a look through some programs I wrote or helped write.

I'm sorry there hasn't been much uploaded here recently. I guess I'm in another creative slump, so to speak...

I've got a subscription again.  

Finished uploading what I've got of Gabriel. Next batch is some remnants of my trip to China in 2009. Better late than never, eh?

So glad I've got my computer all fixed and updated with CS5.5 and Photomatix Pro 4.1! Creative rut seems broken out of. Hooray.

Unfortunately, I didn't get to take many photos on my spring vacation visiting Gabriel at Penn State, but that's no big deal. I think I've got a fair bit of material to work with anyway, and perhaps with such nice weather I'll be doing a photoshoot with another friend of mine in the near future.

Til then...