OREO!

Tinkering around with my DSi camera, I took this picture of my dog... I edited it so it's a tiny bit easier to see him... =)

You might notice he's a bit shaggy ;) He needs a haircut badly!

And, if you look below...

We've got another one of him... And, if you look closely, you'll see I'm not bright in the ways of fashionably dressing ;)

~BOB~

A weird week

The week after a bomb threat isn't usually too crazy, right?

*obnoxious buzzer noise* WRONG!

This week has been CONFUSING beyond any other since school started! Allow me to explain...

If you don't already know how my schedule works, I have orange and blue days. Orange has 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th periods. Blue has 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 7th periods. 7th period is half the length of a normal period because we have it on both days...

So, Friday when we had the bomb threat, it was a blue day. As a result of the evacuation, the day wasn't completed and classes got behind.

Monday was off.

Tuesday was orange.

And... Wednesday was considered Blue. However, we did not get to go to our classes that day because of PSATs (which caused us to get farther behind).

So, today was orange (even FARTHER behind!) and tomorrow is blue.

BUT, tomorrow we won't even come close to catching up in my most important class of the day because we're having an assembly during that period! Which means I am going to have a ton of homework to make up for time in class missed.

So, as you can imagine homework has been confusing for me and I'm not really sure exactly where I'm at...

But, there is an advantage! Because teachers are trying to keep classes from both days at the same pace, I've had much less homework =D

PSATs were not too bad... Except for the reading assessment... Reading's never been my strong point!

And..... THIS WEEKEND'S THE BIG EVENT!! The weather's looking pretty crappy, but heck with it! I'm from Oregon! The rain is part of me! ;)

Dixie and Mama Wolf are coming up for the weekend... Fun =)

And, lastly... If you haven't checked out my DSi "artwork", here's the link ;)

I have added more since I posted the link last on my blog =)

http://letterbob.webs.com/art.html

I feel a good hot tubbing coming on tonight! Rainy and cold outside feels even better when you get in... Getting out.... Well, that's a different story ;)

~BOB~

A Cross Between Art and Video Games?

Okay, before I start, I'd like to explain that I used to be addicted to video games! I couldn't get away from them and I used to play them all day.... ALL day...

ALL day... And, it didn't used to be any video games. They pretty much all had to be made by Nintendo. As I grew up (thank God I did!), I began to get bored with Nintendo, as every kid should. I began looking at Microsoft's video games and bought an Xbox 360 two or three years ago. That lasted for about a year before I was bored with that too.

So, downstairs in my basement now sit thousands of dollars worth of video games. The video games are rarely played. In fact, it'd be a sign of the apocalypse if I sat down and actually stayed interested in one of them for more than a few hours.

So... Earlier this year, I decided to actually rediscover handheld video games since the home consoles weren't doin' it for me anymore. After a lot of hesitation, I decided to buy a black DSi...

It was mainly because they were going to start putting weekly games out that I could download from home. Let's face it, I don't really want to go to a store anymore to pick up a video game unless I've been looking at it for a while... Which, in the last year, I've looked at about two or three video games before I've bought them... And that's about how many games I've actually bought from a store in the last year.

So, after getting home with it the day I bought it, I was looking forward to some quality games that I could download... They weren't going to be free, but then again, they were never meant to be. It costs a ton to make these games!

After looking around that first day, I found one game that I used some free points to download... And, I was bored with it in about 15 minutes.

After weeks of boredom and reconsidering my purchase of the DSi, I finally came across some puzzle games that I actually wanted. Since then, I've enjoyed it and yesterday, I decided to buy some software called "Art Academy". It was some of the most expensive on the virtual store, but having played quite a bit of it, it's worth the money! (It was 8 bucks worth of points, for the record).

Essentially, it's like paint for the computer, but WAY better. WAY better.

It has some fairly nice tools for use and you have the ability to use a stylus which makes it feel as if you were making art in real life! You can zoom in, follow square guides, and when you're done, frame it! You can save it to your photo gallery and bring them to the computer if you have an SD card =)

Well, after trying out the first few lessons they provided and taking advantage of some color editing features of the DSi, I've got a few of my "drawings" and "paintings" to show =)

So.... If you want to see them, visit here:

http://letterbob.webs.com/art.html

They go from the start to my most recent. The tree and the lime have multiple images. I saved them to my DSi gallery and used color techniques to adjust the images. And, if you're really paying attention, you'll notice where I messed up. The color had been preadjusted to an odd color I didn't have...

Unfortunately, you can't undo something in paint. You can erase pencil, but undoing a step cannot be done. It just shows how much it's like real life art ;)

So... there we have it =)

~BOB~

Trying Out Flipnote Studio...

A few days ago, Nintendo (maker of DSs and Wiis) came out with a DSi Application... it's downloadable from the DSi Marketplace... (which, I'm sure is a foreign language to most of you, but if you want to see it, go here.

So... (still) being the Nintendo geek I am, I have a DSi and I downloaded it... And I tried it out for a few hours... and it was great =)

And it was free, which made it even better =D

So, I spent a few hours or so working on my first Flipnote... and then an hour on my second one... and then I used a technique I made up to make another one... And, I wanted to let you guys see them =)

So, I have created a site with freewebs and posted the three I have made on there =)

Here's the link: http://bobsflipnotes.webs.com/

The first one took hours... Like 4 or 5... It may not seem like much, but it took a lot of work... Originally, I only made the Flipnote about the snail, but I felt it was too short and I put in the flower... Only to have the part with the flower being longer than the part with the snail ;)

The second one took about an hour... Even I'm not sure what's going on in it, but... I made it =)

The third one was made using the technique I used of the page turning on the first video... Since the videos on Flipnote Studio repeat over and over again, I just felt like making something that returned to instructing you to turn the pages of the never ending book... It wasn't as funny as I was expecting it to be when I was done, but I still like it ;)

So, enjoy =)

And, if you have any suggestions for my next Flipnote, go ahead and post in the comments space =)

~BOB~

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