Tossing your works out onto the internets for everybody to see comes with a few interesting points. Without knowing it, you can be featured in a Brazilian magazine, offered employment at a large game company and now have one's work translated and dubbed into another language:
Thank you, Ju4NJo09, for making my labor day weekend a little more awesome!
Be sure to check out the full animation in English on Newgrounds or in the gallery.
I should hardly have to mention anymore my glorious walk for free vacation time. The graph has been sitting there up at the top of my blog page slowly counting up to the grand total of 750,000. And today, one week before deadline, I have hit that total. This little exercise has added quite a bit to my life, from friendly competition with co-workers to some much needed think time. Now, to celebrate this achievement, I give you some more photos of my journeys.
I live a fairly open online presence. This whole Facebook debacle has nary phased me as the whole point I post things on there is for selfless promotion and narcissistic reasons. I want people to read those things. But, there are a couple things I hand out to only an elite few people: my phone number and the privilege of Skyping me. This latter one is especially fun for me.
Sometimes during conversations, something interesting will be said that sets me off on a journey to Photoshop to concoct a visual representation of said mutterings. The fruits of these labors are interesting indeed and I present them here for your enjoyment.
[gallery=Skype-shops]![](http://images.dxprog.com/blog/skype_ham.jpg "This was the result of a conversation with my mom back when I was in school. She had mentioned that she needed to leave and get ham for supper stating it was a "ham emergency". The picture kind of explains itself.")
![](http://images.dxprog.com/blog/skype_sakura.png "One of my and my brothers favorite past times is to search deviantArt for super crappy "artwork," much of which seems to be made in MS Paint. Using my mouse, I made this homage to those people.")
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I am in the realizing that it's been nearly a month since I last blogged anything, granted this comes on the heels of an unusually active period for me. But, hey. Nothing terribly exciting has happened, so there it is.
I decided that last week would be a pretty good week to blow a whole bunch of my paid vacation time... after all, the best day of the year happened to fall in that week (hint: my birthday). It was nice to just forget about the world around me and piddle around quietly the way I used to back in the days when I was without work. I churned out no less than three distinct (but wholly unfinished) projects.
The first of these is a UX re-imagining for my ongoing project, the Music Page. Now that I am a far better JavaScript guru than I was when this was originally written, I've decided to take a completely different approach in terms of user presentation (though, the underlying functionality is pretty much the same).
Another thing I did was start in on learning some more HTML5 canvas stuffs, as it provides a pretty sweet opportunity for gaming purposes. I started messing around with coding a simple drawing framework and, at the behest of my osu! fanatical brother, began attempting a clone of sorts for that. Ultimately, I made some good progress and the canvas object is certainly a powerful tool, but there are some simple things that it simply can't do that keeps Flash at the advantage (I'm looking at you, per blit alpha).
Other than these few programming things and a goodly amount of time with my nose in books, it was a slothful week to be sure. But, then again, that's the whole point of "vacation."
Tune in this weekend as I head to yet another anime con.
