Here's a couple of me!
See, it's a little-known fact around here that I am a poet. Some time ago, I entered a campus-wide competition called the Steve Grady Competition for Creative Writing. I won second place in it, so I got to read my works at the New Writing Series. Here's a couple of me involving them.
They needed a profile pic of me, so here I am. Whoo!
Me with one of my books. Yes, I sell poetry books. Didn't sell any here though. Didn't do the sales pitch.
Joined: 4/21/2004
Posts: 3517
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Best hyped picture ever :)
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Arc wrote:
I enjoyed this movie in which hands firmly gripping a shaft lead to balls deep in multiple holes.
natt wrote:
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Cooljay wrote:
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Oh... I almost forgot to post this here.
So this is me, finally realizing my dream of moving into some RPG world. Kindof. It's Final Fantasy VII. Doesn't seem to make too happy, though. I must find a better game!
Joined: 4/20/2005
Posts: 2160
Location: Norrköping, Sweden
Haha, I actually recognized that room immediately (how you got the idea to make that picture is a little unclear to me). What does "Kuka tunnistaa paikan?" (the text under the picture in your IRC gallery) mean?
Haha, I actually recognized that room immediately (how you got the idea to make that picture is a little unclear to me). What does "Kuka tunnistaa paikan?" (the text under the picture in your IRC gallery) mean?
"Who will identify this place?"
Google Translator is your friend. :P
Joined: 6/13/2006
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Location: Massachussetts, USA
It's a good thing this was during a photoshoot, and not during a performance.
I was copying him, not the other way around. Honest.
He actually figured out how to make my watch use the indiglow background before I did.
Haha, I actually recognized that room immediately (how you got the idea to make that picture is a little unclear to me).
Oh, well it is a little unclear to me too. When I saw the scene in the game, I just thought immediately of taking that picture. Mostly because of the matching photorealistic quality and the lighting conditions that are easily emulated. I haven't actually played forward from that point yet.
MUGG wrote:
Google Translator is your friend. :P
Yes… Though Finnish language is not a member of Indo-European languages, and consequently mechanical translators designed with Indo-European (Germanic and Romance) internal structures are usually less than successful at conveying the meaning either way, in this particular case, Google Translator did adequately.
(Incidentally, the above sentence, though grammatically correct, is written so that the first reading of it by a human person will usually be a misparse, due to the assumption that the first "though" binds to "Yes", when in fact it binds to the clause starting from "in this".)
Next I'll probably try to find a scene from Chrono Cross. That's quite difficult because in most scenes the perspective is bad: Either too far away, or a too vertical angle. Or too cartoonish; not looking like a toon character I wouldn't fit. Or which I don't have blankets of matching colour (for cutting without edge artifacts) for :]
For anyone interested, I created the above picture in these ten steps:
Ⅰ) Find a scene in a game.
Ⅱ) Take lots of screenshots from the scene. Move the player character around so you get screenshots from every corner of the room. Try to ensure that every nook is pictured at least once without the player character or his shadow obstructing the view.
Ⅲ) Use gimp to composite the screenshots into a bigger background picture.
Ⅳ) Gather equipment: A digital camera; blankets and towels of the colours matching those that are right behind yourself in the spot of scene where you want to be placed, when viewed from the camera; proper light sources (I used a 500W halogen lamp ― you need bright lights unless your camera is good at taking pictures in roomlight). Dress up in a way appropriate for the scene and apply makeup if necessary ;)
Ⅴ) Situate yourself, the camera, and the light source(s) in such a spatial relationship that matches those found in the scene. Ensure that everything is oriented in a way matching the scene. Lay the blankets and towels behind you so that from the viewpoint of the camera, every part of you is situated in front of them. I put my camera on top of a book shelf (though it should have been higher). I sat on my bed. Be wary of placing the camera too near you, because it distorts your proportions. Using optical zoom is better. Take a picture. If you can be perfectly still, don't use camera flash, but instead, use a long exposure time (I'm not sure but I probably used ⅓s or so). The colour depth will be better and the grain artifacts fewer.
Ⅵ) Use gimp and add alpha channel to the photo, and then carefully cut out everything that's not you, in the photo. The crop, lasso, eraser and the magic wand tools are all good for that purpose. Use zoom for details. Try to preserve the edges of the hair.
Ⅶ) Take the background picture, add a layer and paste your picture to the new layer. Scale your picture and rotate as needed to match the right proportions and angle for the scene. If you can't get it fit, restart from step Ⅴ.
Ⅷ) Adjust the colour balance of the layer with your picture in it (gimp: colour tools, colour curves for each individual channel, and then hue and color saturation) until it fits the lighting conditions in the background picture.
Ⅸ) Add a layer between your picture and the background, and plot shadows using the (air)brush tool. Draw the diffuse reflections too. (E.g. if you're standing against a lit red wall, the red is also reflected upon you and thus you should add some red tint to your picture. Conversely, your clothes may reflect some coloured light upon the surfaces in the scene.). Adjust the edge smoothness of the brush and the opacity of it as needed.
Ⅹ) Save the result, post it everywhere.
Joined: 6/13/2006
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I was the only one clever enough to lift my feet high in the air as we snuck up on some bookworms. This is from the world premiere musical that we just completed.
I've cleaned my room many, many hundred times before and promised myself I won't thrash it ever again. But after all it seems I can't keep up with my own promise.
Welcome to my hikikomori room full of secrets and dimensions
Sorry for the bad quality, but this is the only way to hide how ugly I am bla bla jk lolz
They needed a profile pic of me, so here I am. Whoo!
Me with one of my books. Yes, I sell poetry books. Didn't sell any here though. Didn't do the sales pitch.
So this is me, finally realizing my dream of moving into some RPG world. Kindof. It's Final Fantasy VII. Doesn't seem to make too happy, though. I must find a better game!
I was copying him, not the other way around. Honest.
He actually figured out how to make my watch use the indiglow background before I did.
:D
I was the only one clever enough to lift my feet high in the air as we snuck up on some bookworms. This is from the world premiere musical that we just completed.
