Visceraman1 - Joshua Lopez

Contrary to the folks at Ambassador, who claimed it simply couldn't be done, the wood floors are in, and just about finished. A project long in the making - selection of wood took place nearly 9 months ago. However, the frigate carrying our wood from Uganda arrived in the U.S. on Wednesday, in Tucson on Thursday, and into our house on Friday. Yesterday, after allowing the requisite time for the wood to adapt to its quite foreign environment, installation began. I'd say we (my pops and I - under careful supervision from Jeri) made excellent progress. Still have some trim left, as well as the closet and let's not forget the seemingly endless clean up. I of course had the foresight to take today and tomorrow off, and can catch up on my gaming a bit.

Posted by Joshua at 08:40 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

I can't believe Visceraman1/Joshua Lopez has existed in some manner for nearly two years, and nary a mention of Jeri's ass do I have. Well, it's a nice ass. A tempting ass. A sweet ass.

Pictures to be uploaded.

Posted by Joshua at 03:23 PM | Permalink | Comments (6)

Greg over at Geese Aplenty briefly mentioned an issue regarding behaviours of persons riding elevators. Almost daily I'm irritated by the elevators here - or rather the people riding them, and almost daily I think "I'm going to write about this." Of course, I never do.

Anyway, his complaint was with people wanting the elevator held for them, even though they're some distance away from the elevator. I usually don't have this sort of complaint, but rather the following

• People who insist on holding the door open, while they finish their conversation with someone still out in the corridor.
• People who barge onto the elevator, rudely oblivious to the fact that some people have to get off on that floor.
• People that ask "Is this elevator going up/down?" after they've gotten on the elevator.
• People that touch elevator buttons with the same hand that's holding a wadded up, obviously used piece of Kleenex.
• People that sing or hum on the elevator.
• People that pretend to use a cell phone on the elevator (at least in these, there is no reception)
• Anyone who says "T.G.I.F." on the elevator (or anywhere for that matter).
• Anyone who feels they need to make some wise crack about my job (and of course laughs as though I've never heard that shit before).
• People who ride for just 1 floor (with empty hands)
• I'm sure there's more, but I'll save that for another time.

I had found a few blogs that mentioned the possibility of holding the desired floor number and door close buttons at the same time. Tricky, because you don't want to actually touch the button with an exposed finger, and if you don't get your shirt sleeve down fast enough, someone may decide to hop on. It seems to work most of the time, and adds to the pleasure of seeing the doors close just as someone appears trying to get on. (Which then necessitates the fake "Oh lemme..!", and then snickering all the way up to your floor.)

Posted by Joshua at 12:21 PM | Permalink | Comments (5)

Sure Flickr is a good source of photos to practice with, but it can be quite a pain in the ass to sort through all the crap people decide they absolutely MUST upload for the world to see. Wait....isnt' that the same thing I'm doing here? Ok then. Back to puttering in the morgue then. Meanwhile, here's a quick touch up:



Several adjustments later, and you end up with:

Posted by Joshua at 11:42 AM | Permalink

I was killing a bit of time this morning before readying myself for work, (sure most would call this procrastination, I disagree), and stumbled upon The Lotus Eater website. Reminiscent of the cemetery photos of Jonathan Clark - and yet entirely different. Different in that one uses photography and the other pencil and paper, perhaps theme as well - hell, maybe there's absolutely no similarity between the two, and I should have just left it at "I found this interesting artist's site, and wish I could draw, and need to step up my learning to draw quite a bit". Someday my friend, I will not only master the city scape that is apparently taught to the junior high kids, but eventually move on to people and scenes as well.

Posted by Joshua at 08:02 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

I've been wanting to attempt a different sort of photo restoration, one involving a torn picture. Of course, I don't have that many photos laying about the house, but Jeri does. I knew better than to help myself to some of her photos, and instead began harrassing her endlessly for several photos to work with. She said she would give me a few, and that I just needed to be patient. So, with the help of my dad, I spent Saturday working on the subfloor in our bedroom, in preparation for our rosewood flooring. With this now complete, and the arrival of our custom wood still in the delivery stages, I began hounding Jeri for those photos. She gave me a photo of my parents, which I promptly ripped:



I then set about repairing the damage that I had caused.

And here is the repaired shot:



What I should have done, was scan the picture before I ripped it to pieces.

Posted by Joshua at 04:11 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)

Obviously...changes are underway here Visceraman1/Joshua Lopez. I still have a few things I need to do (new navigation, linkage etc., and what the hell is going on at the bottom?), but I should be able to make quick work of it, famous last words. Off the top, I'd say it's one of my busier layouts, but I don't find that it'ss so busy that it distracts from the rest of the page. You?

Posted by Joshua at 09:44 AM | Permalink | Comments (6)

When the display on the laptop went out last week, (amazing how attached one gets to it....oh my...that's an original statement!), I wasn't able to finish my entry for Pixel Addiction (celebrity clown). Not really interested in the new contest, but in a few hours, there'll be a new one. Here's my "would be" entry:

Posted by Joshua at 01:31 PM | Permalink | Comments (4)

I think I was a bit over confident this morning when I announced to Jeri that "I would be entering this contest", and then began strutting about the living room, in my patented (thanks to Gary Newson Esq.) donkey dance, which as usual, caused me to fall flat on my back, bruising my tailbone, and biting through my lip. So, with that said, here's the first entry for today:



The original can be seen by continued reading.

Posted by Joshua at 09:40 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

How is it that there hasn't been any photowork since the Pessin shot? I won't offer an excuse other than the acquisition of Mortal Kombat 2 & 3 has kept me otherwise occupied.

Because of her excellent behaviour, I took Sweet Jeri to see Kathy Griffin on Friday. The highlight of the evening for me was listening to Jeri laugh, and listening to Kathy's commentary regarding the idiocy of Republicans. I am going to go out on a limb here, and say that the highlight of Jeri's evening was the time spent drinking coffee with Ms. Griffin herself, sharing biscotti and sharing the woes of marriage.

Saturday, our laptop arrived with at crisp, fresh new display attached, so I could once again begin puttering about....but!...my friend Gary came down from Gilbert just to take me on in a game of Madden, drink beer, and eat heartily! Always good seeing the Newson's though I now feel guilty when in the presence of Dawn....must be her criminal justice associations.

Rest assured, I will be back posting my little photo workings, PSC has invited me to participate in another competition, so I will be quite busy.

Posted by Joshua at 10:06 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

The judging closed over at Pixel Addiction, and I, or rather my adulterated photo of Julia has taken second place.

Posted by Joshua at 11:39 AM | Permalink

One of these days I'm going to get a nasty email from Ty Pessin, or perhaps his wife demanding that I cease any further alterations of their offspring. (Actually I don't fear any repercussions from his wife, I suspect she has successfully repressed any indication of my existancence, and as such any tinkering). So, to preempt that email, I now post my final (maybe) photo of the Connare Pessin.

Posted by Joshua at 03:31 PM | Permalink | Comments (6)

A trusted and well adored fan of Visceraman1/Joshua Lopez says that facial hair is no laughing matter from the female perspective. So without further ado, here is something else that's not laughing matter.

And mostly unrelated is:

Posted by Joshua at 11:58 AM | Permalink

The Pixel Addition contest of the weekend seemed fairly straight forward, yet presented a decent amount of challenge. I don't have a copy of my submission on my server, so I had to borrow a copy back from them, hence the added pixel addiction reference at the bottom. (Obviously the premise was transgendering)

Posted by Joshua at 09:23 AM | Permalink | Comments (4)

What more is there to say?

Posted by Joshua at 04:31 PM | Permalink

Rather impatiently, I'm waiting to enter another contest at PixelAddiction.com. Since it seems to be taking an excessively long time, I'll go ahead and post my entry here. Then, while I continue to wait, I will start re-editing some of my longer postings to utilize an extended entry format (i.e: Click here to continue), some of my posts like the Rudy series seem fairly annoying to scroll through over and over and over again, so with that in mind, follow the directions to see my entry.

The contest was to create motion within a still image. The original photo I used was a simple subway shot:



A bit of tweaking here and there, and I came away with:



Although, if one wanted to see the project, sans motion, here it is:

Posted by Joshua at 07:45 PM | Permalink | Comments (5)

Yes, I have entered my first photoshop contest, over at photoshopcontest.com. My entry specifically is the bird shit on Ozzy's tongue. Make sure you cast your vote, ah never mind, I'll do better on future entries.

**UPDATED:

Included below are the images from the contests...

First was the pile of pigeon dung


Which I decided would look best on Ozzy's tongue:



The next entry was an elderly woman on a bench


Her positioning seemed ideal for a wedding shot, oddly this wasn't the easiest of shots to find, and I'm not happy about the results



The stacks of pallets was next up on the list


I had started this one by aging different aspects of the photo, but then realized that a few homeless folks would fit in nicely


I also added this one, and was going to change it...but decided I would just wait for the next contest to start

Posted by Joshua at 03:32 PM | Permalink

I have a sinking feeling that my Pops doesn't browse over to the Visceraman1, Joshua Lopez site too often. Ok, with the exception of my very first site (an old Flash based site...the black one, with the purple bouncing buttons....and even then it was probably after being sent dozens of links to it every time I adjusted the motion tween of the buttons.) Ah such is life, and now he will be oblivious to the fact that I am currently amusing myself with a photo Jeri took of him. The photo used is of me getting my haircut by him, I wonder if he's secretly relieved he's off the hook on that one....

The Original:


Aged a bit:


Manually sketched:


Cartooned:


And lastly, as a superstar from another era. Sorry, I couldn't make him pop out of a 3D Star:

I know, it's not him in that one. Let's see how long it takes for him to notice ok?

Posted by Joshua at 08:32 PM | Permalink | Comments (5)

This could only happen in a perfect and just world...probably at the expense of higher gas prices.

Posted by Joshua at 10:45 AM | Permalink | Comments (4)

Do indeed make for the devils work. So, here's some crap that I worked on today.

First up, in honour of the Republican party, (no Ty, don't ask me to respect Mr. Bush), Eddie Lowenstein:



And then, we have a screenshot from the hit series, "Cooking With Rudy"



Four shades of Jeri



And lastly, The Real Last Supper

Posted by Joshua at 09:09 PM | Permalink | Comments (4)