Tuesday Sundries

[offbalance]

+ Sometimes the world works the way it was supposed to. I thought I couldn't buy tickets to Inception yesterday because the theater was being annoying. But no! The universe was telling me, "No, you dummy! Don't you know that tomorrow is Trivia Night at Rope!? You can't miss this!! You can watch Leonardo DiCaprio pretend to be Edward Norton some other time!"

+ Also - Triva! Tonight! At Rope!! One of the best things you can do with your brain for $2!

+ This made me lol my face off this morning. (and is dedicated especially to shackledangel)

+ It's the future! I was able to take an ebook out of the library yesterday!

- However, despite a truckload of article-reading and downloading three programs, it won't work with my kindle. *sigh* I need some geek-help, seeing as how there's no legal way to read this on my kindle, I have to crack the DRM in order to read my ebook on my ebook reader. ::facepalm:: Still, knowing what I know about publishing's old guard, this unfortunately makes perfect sense. Of course, I can't do this, so this entire thing has been an exercise in futility.

- The photographer hunt continues. I found a couple of possibles that were eliminated due to the fact that they were jaw-droppingly expensive. There are a few others who seem promising in my price range that I'd like to speak to further/see more from. The guy I spoke to last week, who is a friend of a friend and a cool guy who gave us a good rate said that it's to be expected. I like him, but I'm going to have to see some of his more "artistic" stuff. He said that anything is achievable through photoshop, but to paraphrase something teany said recently, "you can't photoshop talent." So I need to see more from him before I decide. (I just found an awesome one in my price range, but she lives in Idaho. *facepalm*)

+/- for some reason bad usage enrages me. I can handle the occasional misspelled word, but the wrong version of its/it's makes me see red (it's is a contraction of IT IS, and should only be used in that case. Otherwise, use its.) And don't even get me started on misuse of the apostrophe. 's refers to ownership. I can not tell you lately how many times I've seen this done wrong. If your'e referring to more than one burger, it's burgers, not burger's, unless you are describing perhaps the burger's bun. I can forgive mistakes if someone speaks a few other languages besides English and occasionally forgets little syntax issues. But if you're a native speaker? FAIL.

+/- as seen on twitter: I saw a woman while I was out at lunch today that looked like Hollie Hobbie as a Chav. Seriously. She had an orange tan, giant gold aviator sunglasses, designer bag, giant bright pink acrylic nails, tacky gold and diamond name necklace, but with a floppy blue calico peasant dress and cowboy boots. Probably the best fashion disaster I've seen in awhile, but someone walked in front of my surreptitious camera phone pic. *sigh*

+/- I gave into my baser instincts and had a burger for lunch. I now feel like I had a massage, so it's kind of a win.

Comments

[antheia.livejournal.com]

We have a member who's a photographer. Her work is good and she's a cool chick. I don't know what her prices are, but this is her website.

[offbalance.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I will certainly give her a shout.

[firynze.livejournal.com]

He said that anything is achievable through photoshop, but to paraphrase something teany said recently, "you can't photoshop talent." So I need to see more from him before I decide.

YES. This. And don't trust anyone who's going to photoshop the crap out of your pictures without seeing a lot of their work first. You might end up looking plasticized in the photos...

Apostrophe abuse enrages me, too. I feel your pain. *hug*

Mmmmmm, burger. I may have to give in and have one at writer's group tomorrow.

[offbalance.livejournal.com]

Considering that I was recently joking about hiring a model to pose as me in the wedding photos, I don't mind looking plastic so long as I actually look decent for once. Another round of utterly horrifying photos of me have cropped up on facebook, and I kind of want to die. Or never consent to another photo without first having a full workover by a hair and makeup stylist. *sigh* He was mostly talking about effects. But still, certain things about his point of view concern me - I was hoping for someone with a more artistic eye, you know?

It's just so wrong. Will no one think of the punctuation?

I <3 burgers. So very much.

[firynze.livejournal.com]

Plastic doesn't mean decent, though. Some of the samples I've seen from my friend Hope's potential photographers are horrifying. They photoshop everyone into Barbies, and it just looks...wrong.

See what else is in the guy's portfolio! Maybe he'll have something that is more artistic, or maybe you can discuss with him what you mean by "an artistic eye" and see if he's thinking along the same lines...

[redesigner.livejournal.com]

I may be wrong, but I think the problem with the Kindle is that it only reads its own format of eBooks in addition to PDFs. :(

[teany.livejournal.com]

Ugh. If he gave you that Photoshop line, I have a feeling you aren't really seeing eye to eye on what is "artistic." You do not need software to make meaningful wedding photos -- you just need a good eye. If you're not immediately drawn to his stuff, I wouldn't rush to hire him. Give it a few months, at least.