I am going to Ida Red on Brookside tonight to record the show. It should be a lot of fun you should come and check it out. Girl singer, kind of jazzy.

I put up a bunch of pictures from a high school party. They are on MySpace but if you like to view them on Flickr or want bigger versionsions you can get those all here

I put up these pictures of Viet’s going away party. It is a good set but I also thought I would put up this video. When I shoot a group of images I usually just put up one, whatever is best during the second long burst but when you view them all together it is a pretty nice experience.

Because MySpace is kind of restrictive about what you can post you will need to go to my site to view the video.

So the man at MySpace will not let me post this video like I want so I am just going to point you to the source. Go here to see the amazing video I made in high school that was recently recovered during the 9 days I was without power. Can you handle it?

My cousin Dustin the Cosmopolitan Virginia Bachelor for 2007 and is in the running for bachelor of the year.

You can see his profile here.

http://www.cosmopolitan.com/hot-guys/bachelors/07bachelors/virginia-bach-07

and to be super great you can vote for him here.

https://subscribe.hearstmags.com/subscribe/cosmopolitan/11643

You can vote once per day per email address so just make up email addresses or something and vote a few times.

Last evening I sat down at my office chair and looked out my office window. I saw a little bird sitting on the outside of my window looking in. I ran to check it out and it was this stuffed bird with glasses. It is looking at me right now.

So the point is, I don't know who left it, when they left it but I am pretty sure they did leave it because they think I am super special. If you know anything about this bird let me know.

I am painting my wall right now with a couple coats of primer and then if that looks thick and smooth enough I am going to add on Behr Silver Screen paint (770E-2). It gets good reviews for a screen surface so I should like it. We will see.

This is a link to the new projector setup photo set where I will be adding pictures of my painting and the progress as it gets finished and as the projector goes up and I will add another post that is more complete when I get to a more final stage in the process. The stages are 1 choose a target size and prepare an area larger, I went with 3 inches on each side extra so I would have some room, 2 sand and primer the surface to smooth it out and get rid of the yellow, 3 paint plenty of grey on the area, 4 mount the projector and figure out the best size for the room and the projector, the larger the image the dimmer it will be but the blacker the blacks so a balance must be reached and 5 paint a black border around my final screen size to enhance contrast and improve the cinematic feel.

Stages of Projector Setup

Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 3



You can see this image big to check out the surface detail. There are some little marks but it is very smooth overall. This picture below was taken when there were still a couple coats left for the wall.




Stage 4 So it took an extra day because Optoma changed the size of the screw holes. Lowes and Home Depot didn't have the screws I needed. Lowes had the area for the screws but the what I ended up with at home for sure weren't the right fit. Ace Hardware really came through. That place is nice. So after one awesome night of using the projector on the coffee table projecting an image about the size of my last setup, 92". Because the projector was brighter than I imagined and because of the changes of the screen surface I think I could go really big. I might go ahead and fill up my whole painted space or I might go with my original estimate of around 110" being the correct size. This image below is 107", or pretty close to that. If it gets bigger my couch starts to be in the way and I already had to take the globe, chains and light bulb out of my ceiling fan. It hangs down just a little too low but any light fixture should work, probably just no fans.

If you click on this image it will link to the larger size.


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And this is an example of why I was hesitant to paint my walls. I don't think that some spackle or mud or whatever would be able to get it totally smooth. I sanded it to get the intense peaks out but this is some serious plaster warpage. My experience with the previous screen assures me that these won't really be noticeable unless the bathroom door is left open which happens sometimes.
Update: You can't see any of this stuff. It looks great.