Sooo, my junior year of school started last week :/
I'm pretty sure that this year isn't going to be a good one school wise, I like most of my teachers( mainly my Spanish and math teachers, they're pretty awesome), but some of them are kind of eh.

I'm really going to try to make this a good year for everything else though. I'm pretty much spending every ounce of freetime that I have doing something. I'm trying to get a hella lot better at clarinet so I can pwn me some nub cakes at the symphony I'm in and all-state. Oh yeah, I don't think that I ever posted this on here [link] we played rhapsodey in blue last school year and I had the solo, yeeaaaaah uber failz on itz. I've also been practicing anatomy a lot, which is why I haven't updated any art stuff in a while I really want to just nail the basics before I post anything art-wise again. I've also started working at the local music store, which is a relatively easy gig most of the time (just sitting around, watching hulu/studying) except for the beginning of the school year, when every person on the earth needs to rent an instrument. Princeton review is another thing that is sucking up some time. My parents for some reason decided that I need to get the national merit scholarship thing, but iunno if I can raise my scores by 50-100ish points :/ .

So pretty much the whole point of this is that I'm saying I'm busy, sooo I probably won't submit anything for a while . I'm going to start reading a bunch of photography books and try to improve myself that way since I've never really read anything on photography except for the basic "rule of thirds" thing.

So I really hope that I'll be able to post something soon, but if not I'll post the photos that I'm thinking about entering in the canon contest after the judging is over. I hope that you all have a safe end of summer, and a good school year.

September 14th needs to hurry the hell up D:

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I'll make a real journal entry in a day-ish, just wanted to share these for those that haven't heard them yet. And if you have never listened to muse before, shame on you, SHAME ON YOU O=<

EDIT - Here be link to my livestream [link] sorry >_>;
For drawing people..
Ok so, I'm going to try to do a livestream at 8pm (mountain time MINUS DAYLIGHT SAVINGS, so just subtract an hour from what it says on mountain time and that should give you the right time ) , unless something pops up in which case I'll do it tomorrow at the same time. I know it's kind of short notice but hopefully you guys see this in time if you want to see me draw... Just so you know what I'm drawing right now is mainly just scribbles on the canvas, because everytime that I've planned something out recently hasn't gone well, so I took 's advice and just kind of spu-glurred something onto the page.
I'll probably start a little earlier than 8, so in case there are any problems with the broadcast I can fix them before 8

For Photo people..
On the note of livestream, I might do a photography livestream at some point, where I'll just show the steps of editing and such, if anyone is interested in that.

Also here are some cool contests/places that hold contests that I found

For those that are really hardcore - [link] - You have to make a photo book using their software, and it needs to be either fine art, editorial, or commercial. The deadline is in 17 days unfortuneatly, and there is an entry fee, but the grand prize is $25,000. This is a yearly contest I think, so if you don't have time for it this year just build up a portfolio for next year! (I probably won't enter this since I don't think I'd have a chance/ I don't have enough time I think, I might try next year though )

ITFPC - [link] - Basically you have to take "fashion" photos in 4 different locations, in one of the cities on the list. My city isn't on the list, but if I happen to go to one before the deadline (october 1st) I'll try to take some pics . And there's no entry fee! So if you do live in one of the cities/near one I suggest that you definitely try entering!

Nature's best backyard photo - [link] - Basically you just have to take a photo of nature in your backyard, I think that there's a small entry fee and I don't think that they have mentioned the prize yet (but they might have, I didn't really read it thoroughly >_>; ). I'll probably try to enter this one, AND YOU SHOULD TOO O=<

Smithsonian Magazine contest - [link] - The Natural World, Americana, Altered Images, Travel and People are the categories (details on what is what here - [link]). Sadly you have to be 18 or older to enter :/

Your best shot - [link] - I don't think that there is really a deadline, they just do it monthly. basically just submit your best shot

The everyman contest - [link] - This is an amateur photo contest that they hold once a year. Iunno much about entering and prizes since they don't announce this years contest until July first, but it looks interesting =O

Photopro contest - [link] - They haven't announced it yet, but I think that they usually have monthly contests, and they'll announce the new contest on july first. The contest that they just finished looked cool though =O

Aperture portfolio prize - [link] - Deadline is July 16th, and there's an entry fee, but it looks like a cool contest.

Ok, soo I hope that some of you enter those, and good luck to you if you do! And don't forget about the canon one, that was in a few journals back, and as always there are some great contests on deviantart too.

So I hope to see some of you at the livestream, and at future livestreams

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Now, who wants to give me 20-40,000 dollars, eh, eh 8D?
These cameras are just.... amazing. I mean 50 Megapixles!?!? That's madness! To put that in perspective my canon rebel xt has 8 megapixels...
And they also have that old film camera charm to there looks, which is coolio.

So yeah, just wanted to spam you guys with that >_>;

I also found a bunch of other photography contests (to try to make money, and for fun : D) that I might try to enter, Iunno I have to get some decent photos together, and ask some friends if they're willing to let me take pictures of them and such. I'll post some links of them for others that are interested in the next journal

ALSO for drawing peeps, I might have a livestream tomorrow, if all goes well sketch wise in the next few hours, I'll post another journal tomorrow to tell you a specific time and such

Oh and I have over 3,000 page views now =O NOW ON TO 3,333,333,333,333,333,333,333,333,333,333,333,333,3333,3333.333 O=<
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It is the little things in life that keep me going <_<

Sooo, I hate dentists.
I just got back from dentist appointment and they told me that I have a random extra tooth that they didn't notice until now -___- I've already had two oral surgeries done (a tooth extraction where three teeth were pulled then a "tooth excavation" where they cut open my gums so the adult teeth could come in faster) and to put it simply... they aren't fun. I'm at least hoping that they'll knock me out or have some other means of making me not feel the pain where I don't need needles driven into my gums. Luckily they haven't said anything about my wisdom teeth yet ..... I'm sure that'll happen next appointment. Oh and I'm not happy, the mood thing is just messed up, if it weren't it would be more like "In a fetal position trying to hide from the scary people wearing masks"