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New Tumblr

Well folks, this is the last message I plan on posting to this Tumblr. Thanks a ton! It’s been fun. This will stay open so I can go back and check out certain years of my life, but I am no longer a blogger, but a vlogger. If you want to keep up with my life, I’d recommend subscribing to me on YouTube. http://youtube.com/stephenvlog I have, however, opened a new Tumblr account. One...

Jan 27th

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Woah dang.

I completely forgot about this. This is just a small little update to let anyone who sees this aware of the fact that I started a vlog (video blog) at the end of November. So if you were interested in reading up about my life, well, now you can just watch it. http://youtube.com/stephenvlog I can’t promise I’ll update this again, but hey, who knows. In the meantime, you’ll want...

Jan 8th

3 Weeks Left

Been a little over a month since my last update, and even though I’ve waited so long there’s still hardly anything new to report on. Usually I have projects to show but despite having two different studio classes I really don’t have anything to present for it. I’m editing a film in my post production class, but since I didn’t shoot it myself (nor do I really like it)...

Nov 2nd

“[17:54] Alex Forsythe: part of being a man is knowing which emoticons not to use...”

Oct 26th

“[18:09] Stephen Georg: his parents have been right about everything...”

Oct 19th

2 Weeks Down

The last entry detailed my wonderful trip to Wisconsin, so I figured since that has been a few weeks ago, it might be time to update my blog. So here goes. I moved back into SCAD on September 12th, this time moving into Barnard Village, one of the nice apartment style dorms (this year I would not only be living with Alex, but also Dan and Taylor—and hey, Ian lives two doors down). Move-in went...

Sep 27th

Wonderful Wisconsin Week (Alliteration!)

To avoid the syndrome known as “oh crap I can’t remember what happened 6 days ago”, I decided to write down what happened each day at the end of each day, so at the end of the week I would have a very comprehensive list of things I had done. So without further ado, here’s how my week in Wisconsin was, August 31st to September 6th. Monday, August 31st Mal and I woke up...

Sep 7th

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We Meet Again, Wisconsin

So with summer winding down and August finally here, we knew it wouldn’t be too long before we needed to stop our jobs at Carrabba’s and get everything ready for the big trip: since Mallory had driven down to Myrtle Beach, we had to take the car back to Wisconsin. Yep, you guessed it: road trip. We stopped working on August 23rd (a Sunday) and took a few days to ourselves to wrap up...

Sep 2nd

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Jul 30th

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July Ends, August Begins

Seeing as how it’s been a while since I posted anything, I figured I would update this blog to remember things later on. Or something. I haven’t said much because I haven’t been online all that much. When I’m not at work I’m normally playing video games or doing something with Mal, and it’s now a rarity to even see me on AIM. I know that’ll change when I...

Jul 26th

Waiting Tables and Playing Games

July! I can’t believe it’s already July. A guess quite a bit has been going on, so I’ll elaborate a bit on how my summer has been going thus far. Mallory and myself got jobs at Carrabba’s, a nice Italian restaurant chain that happens to be only a few miles away. Being a waiter was something I really didn’t have in mind, but it’s work and pays well. Training was...

Jul 3rd

Hello Summer

It’s been quite a while since I bothered to update the internet with my life, so perhaps it’s time I did so. School is done, finished. The last week was absolutely crazy and I thought I would die, but I finished it. The last big thing to do was the final video for my Lighting and Field class, which I titled Burger Fever. Not my best work by any means, but it was definitely fun to do...

Jun 6th

Sad but true

Dan: What did our parents do before video games?
Alex: They went outside.
Dan: What's that?

May 18th

An Unexpected Passing

This morning, around 4am, my grandfather woke up and went to get his paper like he always does. He takes a flashlight and walks outside since it’s dark. This particular morning was different. My grandfather was found several hours later on his kitchen floor, flashlight lying nearby. As of right now, the cause of death is uncertain, but they suspect it was a heart attack. 8 months earlier,...

May 8th

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Watch

abjure: This game really caught my eye today and I thought it was pretty cool. I’d like to see something like this but on a larger scale, maybe Valve should hire them?

Apr 26th

Wildfire

melcat: In case anyone hasn’t heard on the news North Myrtle Beach has had a wildfire on the residential side of the waterway since wednesday night. The fire is about 50% contained the wind off the ocean is supposed to pick up this afternoon and possibly spread it further towards the north east, towards Stephen’s house. (as of 11:30 a.m.) Preliminary damage estimate: $8,290,000 Percentage of...

Apr 24th

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The night that the lights went out in Georgia

Good lord, crazy stuff just happened. I was over in Hamilton Hall, SCAD’s film building, because I had to capture the project I had shot this past weekend (you shoot on tape then you capture it with a tape deck to turn it into editable digital footage). It was about 9pm or so and a deck had just opened up so I began capturing my footage. About 5 minutes into the process, it started raining:...

Apr 21st

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I built a Mac

For those uninformed, I spent the last month or so planning my hardware configuration for building a Mac. The correct term is ‘hackintosh’, and it refers to particular hardware configurations (along with certain software hacks) that allow you to successfully install Mac OS X onto ‘normal’ PC parts (which are what Macs are built with anyway—when you pay those high Mac...

Apr 9th

Spring break ends, back to the grind

Ah, spring break 2009. Easily the best spring break ever (second only to the previous year with the ever-talented Jon and Sabrina Kay, but nothing can trump being with my sweetheart, of course). To ensure that I don’t put off making a write-up of the things we did, I decided I would do it now. Oh yeah, as a precursor to this, I just wanted to add that I made a perfect 4.0 last quarter and...

Mar 25th

MeStephen.com turns 4!

It definitely went by fast. I wrote a bunch of stuff over on the homepage, so go read that when you get a chance. Leave a comment here and wish the site a happy birthday :D

Mar 5th

Feb 28th

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End of February Update

February 2009 is coming to a close and we’ll soon be entering March. With March comes spring, and the end of cold weather. Unfortunately, living in Georgia and having a girlfriend in Wisconsin keeps me from ever being able to say anything about how cold it is. “I froze to death because it was 55º today” will only get a “55º isn’t cold!” out of her. It’s...

Feb 26th

TvBully →

Some video site trying to gain a collection of shorts. They emailed me wanting to showcase Crooked A’s, so I checked with them about their terms of service and it checked out. So now you can watch Crooked A’s there… if you didn’t want to watch it on YouTube or something, heheh.

Feb 20th

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Feb 19th

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Dan and his lack of tacos

A wonderful, hilarious story for you. Whether you think it’s a crazy coincidence or that God has a sense of humor, this is great. Dan Settembrini lives next door to me in the dorms here at SCAD. There’s about 5 or 6 of us who almost always eat together in some combination. There’s a restaurant right below our dorm which is where we normally eat. There’s always a wide...

Feb 15th

Feb 14th

One month of this

You may or may not recall that a few weeks ago I posted a link to Daily Mugshot, a site which holds daily photos of you to create a cool animated sort of thing. Well today I took my 31st shot, which means I’ve been doing this crazy thing everyday for a month. Daily Mugshot

Feb 10th

“Give me your juices.”

– Alex Forsythe, referring to a ? block in Super Mario World that held a mushroom

Feb 4th

Super Week XLIII

As I write this I’m sitting in my office chair (not surprising) watching the super bowl (surprising). This year, I decided that it would be beneficial to watch a sports game in HD (since I’ve never done so before), and what better game to do that with than the football game. To help me pay attention, I made a bet with my roommate Alex. I’ve got 5 bucks on the Cardinals, so they...

Feb 2nd

I have a dream...

That one day I’ll be done with school and living in Delaware. Well, maybe not Delaware. Just choosing a random state, I guess. I figured it’s probably time to update my blog with something other than quotes from Alex (which this blog normally is, for the most part), and after finishing 2 weeks of school I’d say something can be said. As I suspected, this quarter is ridiculously...

Jan 19th

“Cats are 99% furry and adorable and 1% sphincter.”

– Alex Forsythe

Jan 17th

Daily Mugshot →

Take a picture of yourself every day… forever. I’m xfisjmg1, look me up.

Jan 17th

Belt Snakes

Alex: I, uh, just wanted you to know—
Stephen: Oh Lord, what is it.
Alex: Well uh, I just wanted you to know that my belt is in the bathroom on the floor.
Stephen: Okay.
Alex: It's a belt, not a snake. So don't get out your .38 and shoot it like you did last time, grandpa.
Stephen: Okay. Well if it's in there now and you're still awake, why don't you go pick it up?
Alex: Well... I'm afraid that it will bite me.

Jan 11th

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Time

Time never changes. It unfortunately (and fortunately) never slows down. Story time. It’s cold. Snow litters the ground and chills my southern bones. It’s 8 am and we’re getting in the car, bound for the Appleton, WI airport. Somehow the weather seems to affect me less than it has in the past week-and-a-half, perhaps it’s just the thought of knowing it’ll be over...

Jan 1st

Daniel Petric killed mother, shot father because... →

Warning: this is really, really messed up. You’ll probably either get really mad or cry. It’s obvious this kid had some serious, serious problems. I mean, wow, that’s really messed up. It’s been over a year but my heart goes out to the father.

Dec 20th

The New Year's Resolutions of LiveJournal -... →

I can assure you that even if I had an inner katon, I would most certainly not want to connect with it.

Dec 12th

“Is this your grandson?”

– Random old lady in Belk speaking to my mother regarding me (my mom wasn’t very happy)

Dec 8th

Copied from Ben

Meme rules: Put your MP3 player on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-first is the title. Don’t Talk, Listen, This Is No Time To Fill The Room With Words Like this, like that, like this this, like that (1) Mardi Gras lights up the city (2) Take your head around the world (3) You only hold me up like...

Dec 3rd

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Black Friday!

So yesterday was Black Friday. I celebrated in tradition by waking up and joining my good buddy Jarrett Hucks for a day of finding left-over sales and laughing at people fighting over random crap that they won’t care about a few months after Christmas. We started at Best Buy, grabbed some breakfast at Chick-Fil-A, hit Office Depot, headed over to Michael’s then to Circuit City, and...

Nov 29th

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Homeward Bound

Cue Simon and Garfunkel, please. Well, that’s it. I’m finished. As I type this, I’m sitting in my old office chair in the office of my house. Being home feels amazing, and while I love SCAD to death and wouldn’t mind being with my friends at school again, it’s nice to finally chill out and take a break. Projects, projects, projects. For my final in Advanced Computer...

Nov 23rd

“Jregit: To poop while drinking tea; must be done in the presence of aristocrats”

– Alex Forsythe

Nov 16th

“Oh my God I have to poop! For the first time in six days!”

– Alex Forsythe

Nov 10th

“I swear to God, deaf people are always asking for money.”

– Alex Forsythe

Nov 9th

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Weekend Update

Haven’t updated in about a week, so I guess I should take the time to update folks on what’s going on. Let me go grab Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler. Let’s see, what’s happened recently that’s really important… oh yeah, that presidential thing. Obama beat out McCain in electoral votes badly. But seriously… did people actually suspect McCain was going to win?...

Nov 6th

Nov 1st

“I wonder if hookers accept candy as payment on Halloween. I mean, hookers love...”

– Alex Forsythe

Nov 1st

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Watch

This is my After Effects project for Minho Shin’s Advanced Computer Art Applications class. The characters were done in Photoshop and then animated in AE. In total the project took around 7 or 8 hours or so (though it felt like much more D:). I’m pretty happy with how it turned out, though. With any luck I won’t completely screw this one up like I did with the Maya EB cart....

Oct 31st

Oct 29th

Alex is going to hell

Alex: PETA is retarded, though. They've compared slaughterhouses to the holocaust.
Stephen: Yeah, that's ridiculous, you can't do that. One of them is delicious.
Alex: And the other is...?
Stephen: No, I'm not making comparisons, I'm just pointing out that one is delicious.
Alex: ...and the other is livestock?
Stephen: No!

Oct 28th