Childhood Dreams
I’m sitting at my house in Toledo, watching Independence Day on TV with my mom. 13 years later, the special effects are still as captivating as they were when I was 10 years old. Around the same time was the peak of my childhood interest in astronomy and all things spacey. At the time, I still wanted to be an artist when I grew up, but Independence Day threw me into a brief stint of wanting to design special effects for sci-fi movies.
In actuality, with my training, I probably could do this. It’s interesting where life takes me sometimes.
But shortly after that, I decided I wanted to be an astronomer instead. Astronomy still fascinates me, and they were my science courses of choice at OSU. Not to mention that knowing how many light minutes there are from Earth to the Sun is a definite plus when dating geeky boys. (The answer is 8, by the way.)
Of course, as the years went on, my interest in math and the rest of science wasn’t intense enough for me to continue with a realistic dream of being an astronomer, and I went back to artist.
But anytime io9 posts something with the tag [Space Porn], I just can’t help but admit that it’s a good descriptor.
Besides, can you really say you’ve seen anything as amazing at this?
Camera Phone Dump
I’ve got an interesting batch of photos that I just transferred off my phone.
I went to lunch with Codi earlier this week at Five Guys, a burger place that we always go to on the Sunday of Tsubasacon before we head back home. They expanded into Columbus this year, and now there’s a location at the Gateway! They have huge portions of fries, so I got an order for us to split, and it ended up completely burying my burger in a hilarious way.
I got myself some Nerd Merit Badges. I don’t have anything to stick them to, but they do kind of stick well to the fabric that covers my computer speakers. </geek>
Now the rest of these photos are from my late grandparents’ house. Since I’m not doing a whole lot else this summer, I’m currently living in Toledo 4 days a week in order to help clean out their house, which is full of crap. That’s not really sarcasm. My grandmother (who was mentally ill) stuffed that house full for 30 years, and now me, my sister, and my brother-in-law are all sorting through stuff and getting the trash out of the house.
Some interesting high-heeled sandals I found, with carved wooden heels.
This is the coolest thing– it’s a Weston Wattmeter that’s dated January of 1916. There’s also a set of blueprint diagrams that were tucked into the lid of the box. My great-grandfather was an engineer, so we think it belonged to him. It’s very steampunk. More pictures:
With it is also a Weston Ammeter, but it’s not dated. They certainly look like they go together, though.
Lastly, a school paper by my uncle from when he was a child:
I like the airplane best. ^_^
Commission: The Schnuthcast
This art was commissioned by Aaron and Diana Schnuth. They needed some snazzy album art for their new podcast, the Schnuthcast! ^_^
AP09 Art: Zeon
This is the last of the AP 2009 badges I did: Zeon. To quote Mike, “Man, that is one AUSTERE looking Ann.”
AP09 Art: Ultimate Weapon Girlfriend
UWG references Chise, the main character of Saikano.