YouTube Stuffs

Okay this is hella cool. youTube has been implementing some really cool stuff of late. first is this:



Yeah. youtube really put it in. how cool is that?


another is this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7g0Ox-2c3M&feature=related

sure cheesy but check out the comments. apparantly you can now hyperlink 0:39 in your comments. its like. you used to have to slowly seek through the video, and it didn't always work at that exact time, so you had to watch abit more than you want to get to that time.

now you just click the link! hella awesome! [i sung along]

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HAT UPDATE

Lets follow up.

STAGE 3: Coloring and Texturing

No Text, lazy, haha.



AND THE SMALL ONE:

Top Hat

If any of you have ever tried doing slash for halloween, on a budget, you'd know how hard it is to find a suitable tophat. that flare at the top, the nice bendy up rim thing, and the conchos, well. i got fed up of searching. so i decided to make my own. with some metal wire and lots of duct tape.

so. i drafted 4 stages

STAGE ONE: Framework



here you can see the wig that dad got from the states [thanks dad!], and the frame of the hat coming to shape. i used 3 rings of wire, started from a base ring, then made 8 slightly bent struts jutting out. it was messy at first, then i added another smaller ring, to hold it in the center. then it started to take shape. the final ring made it rigid, and made it stop looking like a crown. all held together by tape.

here i cheated a little. that styrofoam crown you see was originally meant only for measurement and forming. then i decided to stick the metal 'tube' onto it, turning it into the rim of the hat. how's it look? haha

so i brought all that, the wig, the hat, the accessories, down for friday night starbucks, where we wore it most the night. haha

STAGE 2: Covering



so here i added more tape to the inside, to cover it up in a complete layer, excluding the top. i intend to get black tape, maybe electrical tape to texture the outer layer. so now the outside is sticky and ugly. just wait and see. but first, hat with wig:



so thats where it is right now. tomorrow i'll move on to stage three, texturing and coloring, and then stage 4, final touches.

anyway there's this too:



which was inspired by:

of wind and darkness

okay a few things with this post.

1: Hurricane Ike
2: The appeal of late nights.

one thing i need to get off my chest, and one thing to keep you guys interested. alright. lets begin, if i may.

HURRICANE IKE

since we're in singapore here, i don't know how many of you know about hurricane ike right now. at this very moment its ripping into the houston bay area, it just hit inland on galveston. i'm sure most of you know the calm area in the center is the eye. now the winds around that eye are probably the strongest. have a look:

this is the current situation in galveston. i wasn't even paying attention to what they said just see the winds that are hitting the place. the eyewall hasn't even hit yet. earlier this morning [for GMT+8] the water was rising and winds were picking up but now the bulk of is over it.

this was what we were seeing last night. [GMT+8 again] this was before the hurricane hit hard. people were still evacuating. and by the way, its unlikely but if anyone is reading this there and can't get into CNN [heavy traffic, some can't connect]; CNN has told people to stay in their homes. at this point, closer up to sugarland, it is now safer to STAY IN YOUR HOMES than try to evacuate. the house will hold up better than your car. the hurricane is at this point in time moving at 12 mph. winds are 110mph. i have relatives there in sugarland, including my dad. we [edit] just made [/edit] contact.



one more thing. thats clearlake. my old home is supposed to be there. the hurricane isn't even there yet. the floods are already up. sigh. okay.

THE APPEAL OF LATE NIGHTS TO TEENS

so i was thinking about this awhile back. so many people i know like to stay up late at night, and wake up late. and alot of people i know also believe this is bad. the trend is that those who like staying up tend to be 15-25, and those who don't are usually older.

so teens like to stay up late at night to do stuff. why? alot of us just stay up without really acknowledging the true reason why we stay up late. so a few showers and i've come up with this. i think we are attracted to the freedom of staying up late. no one is around to tell you to do anything.

in the day, you could be trying to do something like, research for a blog post, playing a video game, finding out information, and you're more likely to be interrupted. go do the dishes. come help me with this. stop spending so much time infront of the computer.

at night its different. your figure of authority is most likely asleep. you are alone. you get to do whatever you want. game for hours on end. surf the net. for hours. midnight, to even 5am. i know many. the appeal of late nights: freedom.

so there you have it. haha.

more to come. i'm not leaving this blog to die. [readers please come back?]

ntniytnnhei.

you guys MUST check this out:

www.weffriddles.com

gogogo and see how far you get. i just finished batch 2. started August 29th, around 2200 ish. finished qn41 August 30th, 0417.

so yeah. i've got up to there. leaving the rest for tomorrow. gogogo and try it. if you need help you can go to me or hwen. FREAKING EPIC, MAN.

[the title is a caesar's box. google is your friend]



[EDIT]Batch 3 started August 30th, 1200, Finished: August 30th, 1530 [/EDIT]