Urban Landscape Theme: Lifeless

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Sentinel

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Originally uploaded by obliqueapproach

The eerily lit Gothic tower overlooks a line of grey, empty buildings.

An Empty Show For A Missing Audience

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The unoccupied bench overlooking the sprawling, empty building imparts the feeling that there is nothing to look at, and no one to look at it. Very lifeless.

Alone

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Originally uploaded by obliqueapproach

While this tree is still clinging on to the remnants of life, the silent and somber walls close in on all four sides and seal it from the world.

The Clash

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Originally uploaded by obliqueapproach

I love this panorama of mine because of the contrast between the red sodium lights and the light blue LED lights. In this harsh, lifeless night, a war of lights rages.

Dead Swing

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Originally uploaded by obliqueapproach

I like this photo of mine because the swing's hard geometry accentuates the coldness and deadness of the scene.

Mini Waterfall

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Originally uploaded by obliqueapproach

Long Exposure shot of a waterfall that I took last week.

Exposure: 0

ISO: 200

Shutter: 20 seconds

Aperture: 22/f

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Strawberry Macro

I was washing some strawberries for an upcoming party, and I was just suddenly overcome with a desire to photograph one.
I had never taken a macro picture before, so I thought I'd have a go at it.
I dumped the picture into Photoshop and added the border. Good result? y/n?

5 picnik photos

The Falcon Chronicles Page 3

Third page of The Falcon Chronicles.

The Falcon Chronicles Page 2

Second pages of The Falcon Chronicles.

The Falcon Chronicles Page 1

And here is the first page of our comic!

The Falcon Chronicles

My friend and I are working together on a comic that we've decided to call "The Falcon Chronicles." It's a story of two detectives investigating some murders and uncovering a conspiracy. So deliciously generic! Anyways, it's actually rather unique because the style is different from most comics, and it's actually a comedy. Dark comedy, that is.

Anyways, here is the cover of our comic!

Top 5 Blogs

My top 5 web logs are as follows and in no particular order:

Boing Boing: A blog full of tech, news, gaming, and misc updates.

Wired News, Tech Crunch, Gizmodo: All three of these are blogs dedicated to technology, and I love technology.

I Can Has Cheezburger: It's full of pictures of cats with funny captions. Who doesn't love that?

So there you are. A very, very simple list.

Basic Internet Etiquette

In accordance with my Digital Foundations class, I have created a blog.

Also, I hate the guy who took my username "obliqueapproach" and used it as his URL, because he has not used it in the 5 years that it has existed, and now I am forced to change my URL to a set of synonyms rather than my original name. I mean, "roundaboutroute"? That's fucking retarded incredibly lame. I guess if I was so inspired, I could make up a better name, but the point here is my ire! This entire entry is devoted to my being irked, so for the sake of blogging, I'm going to eschew reason.

Well, not really, since this is a perfect opportunity to live up to the name of my blog. So let's begin with some analysis of basic blogging manners. Not that it only applying to blogs.

There's only so many words in the English language, and only so many combinations of said words. And until we find a way to magically distinguish one username from an identical one, there is a limited number of possible unique titles to be shared by all the prospective members of a website. So if you just create a URL and then don't do anything with it, you're cutting off someone else from that certain combination of words. Of course, if you actually make use of your URL, good for you. But if you do make one and later realize that you haven't made use of your account, you should either start using it or delete it, so that you are not simply depriving someone else a URL they might want.

tl;dr: If you make an account and take up a unique URL, make something out of it instead of being a total dickhead retarded lazy and taking up perfectly good cyberspace.

Anyways, this really pushes my buttons, and that was my two cents about it. The end!