The overwhelming need to update pixel ellipsis took over rather quickly and has consumed me for the last few weeks. It was sparked by me finding a folder (which I hadn’t created) on the old site that had text files (which I hadn’t uploaded) titled things like “paris-hilton-gets-laid-in-cancun”. Pixel Ellipsis had been hacked before, but somehow this was the last straw. In between my volunteering stints I took advantage of good internet at my boyfriend’s to migrate most of the walls over onto Wordpress, and also did a preliminary redesign-hack of Chris Wallace’s awesome Gallery Wordpress Theme. Once I had moved all the wallpapers onto Wordpress I decided to soft launch the site since, given my intermittent access to internet, getting the site 100% fixed up and complete might’ve taken months
(As part of the pixel ellipsis wordpress migration, some things are getting moved around – including this old walkthrough for my Loveless wall that I wrote up in February 2009!)
This walkthrough highlights some of the more important/interesting steps I took in Photoshop CS2 to create this Loveless wall. I use Illustrator & Photoshop CS2 so if you’re using a different version of these programs, I can’t guarantee that you’ll see the same tools and options that I do. I’m also going to assume that you’re fairly comfortable with both programs. Anyways, hope you’ll find this helpful in creating your own walls
A co-worker just showed us all this video that one of his friends had linked on facebook. Everyone who saw it lol’d. This is definitely one of the funniest commercials I’ve ever seen!!
Maru the cat is definitely a resident internet celebrity by now, with all his adorable youtube antics. (One of my favorite videos of him was Maru and the big box, which I had previously blogged about here.) Last night I suddenly felt the need for some more Maru goodness, and after a bit of browsing came across Maru’s blog. I only meant to spend a few minutes on there but soon I found myself going through page after page, bizarrely addicted to the cuteness that is Maru. I think I got to page 17 before I had to force myself to stop clicking and go to bed – there’s just something about those adorable eyes, white paws, and ridiculous poses that I find absolutely irresistible! That and his owner is a great photographer ;D
So if you’re a cat lover, or even if you’re not a cat lover and just like looking at awfully cute things, you should definitely spend some time with Maru desu~!
(If I ever get a cat, I’d want one that’s just like Maru )
Don’t have enough ideas (A.K.A. am too lazy) to write full blog posts on some of my anime/manga viewings in the past month, so I thought I’d just consolidate some of my main thoughts into one big post below:
1. Why why why do all of my favorite shoujo mangaka have to stop at cliffhanger developments in their series and go on maternity leave?? Cases in point – Tomoko Ninomiya (Nodame Cantabile) stopping right before Nodame’s big debut, or Karuho Shiina (Kimi ni Todoke) leaving right before a pretty big misunderstanding between Sawako and Kazehaya can resolve itself. (Not going to ruin Kimi ni Todoke for those of you who haven’t caught up to the hiatus point, but this crisis is HUGE. Probably not too hard to guess what happened and the amount of agony such an event would cause the reader D:) I know Tomoko Ninomiya has since returned from her break, but still. Babies suck D:< Read the rest of this entry »
The opening part of this video where the choir simulated the sounds of an oncoming thunderstorm is without doubt one of the coolest things I’ve seen on the internets in recent memory The actual song part didn’t quite impress me as much, but… that opening is just flippin’ awesome, ’nuff said! >_<
This is the companion blog (of sorts) to pixel ellipsis. I like to plop cool stuff that I come across the internets here, as well as any anime/manga/walling-related thoughts that pop into my head.
