Another year has come and gone. You were a lot of fun 2010 we won’t forget you!
-Sterling
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Happy 2011 Everyone!
Category: Ramblin’
The blog within the blog. Your non art Sterling Sheehy news source.
Wahoo! I have perfect color vision!
…well as far as this IQ test is concerned. Now all I need is to learn is how to use them.
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Road Tripping
I made the long road trip from Vancouver to Northern California just before Christmas. SInce I was by myself I rigged the car with a tripod and my trusty Nikon D700 and made this time-lapse movie.
I shot the first day out the side window but the wind pushing on the lense proved to be problematic and it never stayed one hundred percent perpendicular. I had to stop a couple times to fix it. It was also freezing! Driving with the windows down in windows down is both loud and cold. I had to stop and buy gloves at one point cause my hands were freezing.
The second day it was raining and so I couldn’t leave the window open without lots of glare and raindrop blurring. Instead I did the default thing and shot out the front window. Not as interesting, if you ask me, since I’ve seen that shot a thousand times before. On winding roads with a slow frame rate it looks exceptionally bad. At night thought I tried to make the most of it by drawing with the light of my cell phone. I know texting is illegal while driving but I wonder if animation is? Maybe in the future I can expand on that idea. Till then here is the movie.
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Orchard doodlin’
If I remember correctly, the internet was down for a few hours and having nothing to do at my parents house I sat down and did a few quick photoshop paintings. This one was the only one I kept.
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Rosko and Chiade
We’ve been running around Azeroth with Roskolikov and Chiade quite a bit lately. Virginia and I have been having fun getting ready for the big cataclysm that is on its way. Personally, I’ve never been a big fan of the dungeon and raid scene. I really just like exploring. So a total rewrite of the game and the addition of a archeology profession sounds like a lot of fun.
So far I think Blizzard is doing a much better job with its release of this expansion than the previous two. I really like the way they have been introducing it within the game. The added storyline quests are a really nice way of setting things up and the gradual addition of elements from the new game really builds anticipation. I love the idea of an ever evolving landscape and really look forward to exploring a topsy turvy Azeroth.
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Light Paintings
Virginia, Silas and I were at the park last night with our lanterns and mooncake for the annual moon festival. I had my camera, a tripod and a flashlight with me. Just for the fun of it I started playing around with some long exposures. Running around the park with my flashlight on got the attention of a couple of curious boys who proptly came over to see what Silas and I were doing. Together we had a great time making “light paintings” as their mother called them.
primitives 
light tree 
tracing 
The ghost in the park 
blue hands 
name on the ground 
Ghost 
three point lighting with a single light source 
Not sure kind ok looks like a mushroom cloud 
RGB 
Silas name in light 
blue lightsaber wash 
learning to play with light 
light writing 
drawing with light 
car 
flashlight 
the flashlight is working 
green fire 
“S” is for Silas
shot on a nikon d700 50mm lens
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Trippy new 3d glasses
I found a pair of plasitc 3d glasses at a dollar store today. Which is sort of a major upgrade from my paper ones.
Walking around the house with them on makes the real world looks so real. Its amazing! I felt like I could reach out and touch just about anything. These glasses are blowing my mind. I’t like i’m on drugs or something.
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The man behind the curtain
I built a redirect page for the website today and to style it out a little bit drew this little cartoon. You can never fail with a good wizard of OZ reference!”
We bough the blueray remastered version of the movie a few weeks ago and ever since the songs have been playing in my head on repeat. What an awesome story. I’m happy to have flying monkeys running around my brain.
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Red Silas Painting
Silas brought me my hat this morning which was his way of yelling “Get Up!”. He spent a good half hour drawing in photoshop. Here is the mornings masterpiece. Â I helped by picking different colors for him every few minutes but other than that its all him.
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First Digital Painting
I practically had to tear Silas away from my wacom tablet today. He was so passionate about his scribbling. He watches me draw at the computer all day so I guess Its no surprise that he would want to have a go at it as well.
More than anything I think he really just likes the shinny tablet pen. It is his precious. We’ve caught him running away with it several times this week and now I must make a habit of keeping it away from the edge of the desk.