This blog is a compilation of my professional and personal experiences. Here, you will find anything from music, art, flash, inspiration and many more things. Basically, anything I personally think is cool, will be here.
I can’t even begin to tell you how happy I was to see this site! I a soccer fan, and a huge Fifa Games Fan! this site strikes both of them… not only that, but it highlights my favorite team… REAL MADRID! The site is about the experience of soccer, and being immersed in the game. Believe it or not, sometimes it gets like that in my apartment… lots of screaming and cheering! It is definitely an awesome game and the site captures the emotion of what it’s like to play it!
Speaking of cool prelaoders, I just saw this site, this is a perfect example of how a preloader can be entertaining… I almost didn’t want the preloader to end… This site is done by Gringo – I Can Bank It – check it out… pretty cool…
So, I’m my class, I always talk about how important preloaders are, and why we should take the time to make innovative preloaders, and entertain the user from the get-go… Most people don’t realize how important these little pieces of art are, in fact, most client don’t want to see a preloader… ugh… However, when preloaders are done right, they can be pretty entertaining… Big Spaceship created a nice little repo of these, and it’s fun to see how much Flash Creatives and Developers have evolved…
Remember, these pieces may soon be a thing of the past with the faster connections and the future of our Digital World…
So, I’ve been trying to get started with P90X and consistently keep with it without breaks, I first got it right before the holidays, but I took a short trip and kinda stopped after just a couple of days. Well, it’s been a week, and I can confidently say that I’m on my way, and there’s no stopping.
For those of you who don’t know what P90X is, you can check it out here (I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO AFFILIATIONS WITH THEM): http://www.beachbody.com/
So far, my experience with this has been painful, I’m really struggling with the exercises at times, but it’s supposed to be hard, otherwise you wouldn’t get the results right?… Even though it is hard, after only a few days doing it, I already feel a change. The first day I bought the pull up bar, I could barely do 3 pull ups. I tried it today, just to test, I was able to pull 7 in a row… I know it’s not much at all, but for a person who’s never put working out in the forefront of this priorities, it’s a big accomplishment.
Last night, I had to do Yoga… ok I know what a lot of you are thinking, Yoga? Flexibility? Stretching?… Let me tell you, it was the hardest, most greatest experience in this program thus far. I was sweating profusely, shaking, feeling the stands, really tough stuff… I normally suffer from lower back pain from always sitting at my desk, I think I have found the solution for it.
Diet has a lot to do with it, but to be honest, I’m not following the program completely. I read through the nutrition guide, and took the most of it. To be honest, I know that I can do a little better on my diet, like stop drinking beer for example… but I also want to keep enjoying the quality of my life a bit . I probably won’t the the full results, but I know I will benefit from it either way.
I will try to give updates every week on my progress with the program. And will be uploading my pictures soon enough. I’m hoping to use the blog as a way to push me forward and see the program through… So, any encouragement is always welcome
Bloodninja: Wanna cyber? MommyMelissa: Sure, you into vegetables? Bloodninja: What like gardening an s**t? MommyMelissa: Yeah, something like that. Bloodninja: Nuthin turns me on more, check this out Bloodninja: You bend over to harvest your radishes.
(pause) MommyMelissa: is that it? Bloodninja: You water your tomato patch. Bloodninja: Are you ready for my fresh produce? MommyMelissa: I was thinking of like, sexual acts INVOLVING vegetables… Can you make it a little more sexy for me?
(pause) Bloodninja: I touch you on your lettuce, you massage my spinach… Sexily. Bloodninja: I ride your buttocks, like they were amber waves of grains. MommyMelissa: Grain doesn’t really turn me on… I was thinking more along the lines of carrots and zucchinis. Bloodninja: my zucchinis carresses your carrots. Bloodninja: Damn baby your right, this s**t is HOT. MommyMelissa: … Bloodninja: My turnips listen for the soft cry of your love. My insides turn to celery as I unleash my warm and sticky cauliflower of love. MommyMelissa: What the f**k is this madlibs? I’m outta here. Bloodninja: Yah, well I already unleashed my cauliflower, all over your olives, and up in your eyes. Now you can’t see. B**ch. MommyMelissa: whatever.
So this is the new piece I started, first i’m going to show you the initial image, which I took from a free site called: stock.xchng, if you haven’t been to this site, and need images, you should really bookmark it. Most of the images are royalty free, and if it’s not for commercial stuff, most of the people are cool letting you use their images – I hope the owner of this picture is one of those people
Anyway, onto the image:
And here’s what i’ve got so far… I plan on continuing to work on the image. Some of the basic stuff i’ve done here is enlarge the eyes a bit, and give it sort of a elf angel look. I’ve als played with saturation levels and color corrections. If if get requests later on, i’ll be more than happy to to a detailed tutorial on how I create these pieces.
Again, onto the image:
DISCLAIMER: I’m not trying to kill this beautiful girl hehehe, this is just a distortion of a simple image to reflect my crazy head Enjoy.
I am a Flash Developer, and I love what I do, but I’ve found myself gravitating to Photoshop often to sort of relax and let my creative juices flow. That’s where the whole Cursing Angel comes from. I started creating weird art pieces that sort of enhanced my creativity and let my experiments with Photoshop and photo manipulation.
Here are some of the pieces i’ve created:
So, feel free to drop your comments, i’m always looking to improve my style, and see what new direction I can take. By the way, i’ve started a new piece, which I will be posting next.
So I finally took it upon myself to upgrade my wordpress, I think I was like 3 releases behind… the reason why I hadn’t done it was because of all of the horror stories i’ve heard about upgrading. People have problems with it, they loose posts, images, and more. Well, It’s all good in the world of Cursing Angel.
I you haven’t upgraded your version, make sure you do, it has a brand new interface, super easy to use, much more intuitive. Not that the previous was bad, but this is just better .
So, I came across this service a few days ago, and I was very reluctant when I first learned about it. I’ll give you my short review…
So, apparently you can donwload movies, games and music to the Wii… this essentially makes your Wii a very powerful entertainment center. Not only that, but you can download all of the media into your PC and then transfer it to the Wii, giving you even more flexibility with your downloads.
And what’s the downside? Well, after a while, you’ll find yourself paying a lot of money for all of this media.
. I probably won’t the the full results, but I know I will benefit from it either way.
