MotorTrend Auto Show, Las Vegas from Mitchell Bartlett on Vimeo.

And what’s a car show without bikini-clad women?

I probably won’t buy a separate domain for it. What would I use, Tuuumblr? Meh.

But, I like Tumblr because it’s kind of the best of both words - twitter and blogging. I can post a bajillion times in a day if I want, like Twitter. All of my posts are organized by date. And I can post any kind of media, video, picture, audio, text, quotes, chats… anything. Just like blogging. So it’s pretty cool, if you ask me. So my tumblr will just have a bunch of random stuff that I like. Yeah?

Anyways, click the picture above, or click right here to check it out. And subscribe to the RSS feed, just below the search field on the right.

See it twice. The first time, watch intently and laugh at all the right parts and enjoy the screaming fangirls when Robert Pattinson (that’s Edward, the whole point of the movie) walks into the cafeteria. Also, watch the baseball scene and try not to be immensely turned on when Ashley Greene (that’s Alice, the whole point of me going to see the movie) lifts her leg perfectly straight up and pitches. The second time you watch it, you’ll know exactly when to stop paying attention, and you can semi-ignore the bad parts. The parts where the low budget of the film clearly shows, where Catherine Hardwicke commits a Twilight No-No, like how Edward is suddenly not reluctant to touch Bella, and is more interested in showing her his skin in the sunlight, which is not as glittery as I expected, now that I think about it. Also, try not to mouth all of the lines in the movie, because there’s only so much dialogue and by the second time you’ve seen it, you’ve pretty much memorized all of it.

Twilight Trailer in HD

So that’s my advice. When you go to the Friday morning 12:20 showing and get home at 3:30am, totally not tired in the slightest, try and get some sleep. Even if it’s only four hours, that’ll get you through Friday, the last school day of the week, and then through the afternoon where you go directly with a different set of friends to see the movie again. Also, grab a starbucks ASAP, but preferably not a Grande Ginger-Snap Latte with whipped creme because it really wasn’t that good, and do they actually put little bits of ginger in it? Those little white pieces of mush at the bottom of the cup were not yummy at all, and now that I mention it, the rest of the drink wasn’t that good either, it tasted more like coffee than ginger bread, which was totally not what I was expecting.

The four hours of sleep, the Starbucks, and the lemon-lime Gatorade you bought during lunch at school should keep you awake through the afternoon, and into the evening where you eat a monster plate of chicken parmesan and ravioli with pesto and watch Iron Man with the family. Then at 11:00pm you can crash, and try not to dream about Twilight, Ashley Greene playing baseball, or chicken parmesan loaded with mozarella cheese.

By the way, I won’t be seeing the movie for a third time in theatres unless someone else pays for me, because what’s left of my money has to go towards, you know, christmas presents and stuff. That is all.

ps. If you had trouble reading this post, a thousand apologies. I’m not entirely sure it makes sense… except to me.

I just really want need a new phone.

The only negative about this app is that you can’t write captions on the pictures like the good ol’ days, you have to open them up in Photoshop (read: resource hog), and do that yourself. Oh well.

Here are the polaroids I created, starting with the clear favorite of my Macro shots:

And here are some macro shots I was hiding from you guys…

And some of my favorite shots from various events…

Now, go make polaroids! SHAKE IT!!

So when I discovered that my digital camera (for you curious folk: Canon PowerShot SD1000) has a Macro setting (isn’t that handy, I can take macro shots just by pressing a button!), I put it to work.

I was sitting in my room. Crap lighting, and nothing terribly interesting to shoot. But then I realized: half the time, macro pictures aren’t exactly interesting things, just really really zoomed in!

So I thought I’d share with you guys the shots I took. With just a touch of Photoshop (Increase saturation, increase contrast), these pics are almost good. Imagine what I could accomplish if I put my mind to it and actually cared about the way these pictures turned out!

Chapstick barcode against miscellaneous desk items.

The jeans I was wearing.

When I bent my leg, and fold that was almost interesting appeared! So I took a picture!

This is my personal favorite. Mostly because it’s my favorite keyboard ever.

Isn’t that awesome? With the right settings, you can be a photographer too, no matter how inept you are at handling a camera!

I want to see your favorite macro shots, whether they’re a masterful work of art or a closeup on the barcode on a tube of chapstick.

So my prize is I get to pick any threadless tee that I want. Woohoo! Only, I kinda had some trouble picking out a threadless tee that was bitchin’ enough for the T-shirt Junkie (that’s me) to wear.

So here are my top six. Please, please pick one and let me know via comment down below, and if you have another threadless fav don’t hesitate to put some linkages.

Ah Munna Eat Choo!

In Case of Zombies

Interpretive Dance

Nuts

Stop Destroying Our Planet

The Morning After

I’m leaning towards In Case of Zombies, Stop Destroying Our Planet, and Interpretive Dance. Because I’ve been known to break out in interpretive dance, I do indeed keep all my stuff on this planet, and you can never be too careful when it comes to zombies. You might even know one!

The voting is closed! Thanks so much everyone for all of your votes, I’m going to go with “Stop Destroying Out Planet”, the clear winner! Thanks again!

Podcamp AZ?

This is probably the most important issue here. I’ve known for a while that I couldn’t go to Podcamp AZ in Tempe, Arizona, October 31-November 2. The reason? I couldn’t afford it. Or at least, that’s what I was telling myself. I sorta guessed at how much it would cost me to fly out for the weekend, and came up with a ridiculously high number that I could never, ever come up with. Then, skip to a couple of days ago. I got curious and looked up flight prices for a round trip from here to there. Only $134. I could most definitely afford that! I could also come up with another hundred or two for a place to stay, and cab fare, and food for the weekend. It was most definitely do-able.

And then when I told my parents that I could afford to go, they told me flat out that I couldn’t. I’m too young, and I don’t have official ID (no driver’s license, etc.) so it would be a huge hassle. Whatevs. I guess I’m (still) not going to Podcamp.

T-shirts and winnings

I won a Gary Vaynerchuk wristband, as you already know. That hasn’t come in the mail yet, probably because Gary is too busy to get that together. Oh well. Eventually, I guess. Also, my e-bff Rachel was streaming a couple of days ago and was giving away eatsleeptweet tees. All we had to do was play hangman with her. Pf! I know Rachel too well, I got the answer right away. Hehe. So whenever Rachel gets her shit together (just kidding!), I’ll get the tee I picked out in the mail. Also, she stole my ustream.tv stickers that we got at NME. Okay, she didn’t actually steal them, I forgot I had them and left them in her bag. Same dif.

Also, my Miiitch t-shirts were delivered! I heart Zazzle, they UPS’d them to me a full business day before I was expecting them. I paid for 4-10 business day delivery, got them in 3 business days! I was so excited. Here’s the video… I apologize for the crap sound. I was kinda yelling. I’ve discovered that the mic on my computer is kinda teh suckages (read: total fail), and if I get too close it fails to the max… but I need to get close so that my face fills up the screen. Because that’s what awesome people do. It’s a dilemma. I’m working on it.

It’s that time again

I know the design for this site is awesome. I know. And I like it, too. But it’s not mine. It’s a free theme from Smashing Magazine, with just a few customizations thrown in (like the kid up top, there. He’s not a natural blonde!). I really just want a theme that I designed myself that I can be really proud of, you know? So for the next few weeks I’ll be brainstorming and sketching and photoshop-ing to come up with a design that’s all me but still just as kickass as this one. It would also be nice if my blog design matched my logo and the colors of my viddler player. At the moment, it just doesn’t.

And lastly

I found out today that as a Mac user, I’m more likely than other people to buy organic food, drive a hybrid vehicle, drink Starbucks, care about the environment, etc.. These all seem like damn good things to me, so rock on Apple! Also, I’m apparently more likely to think that I’m better than everyone else in the world. But I don’t have to use a Mac to know that*.

* I don’t actually mean that.

I absolutely can’t wait for that to show up in the mail!

Next. I got paid yesterday! My current savings now sit at ~$190, which is good because the new iPod Touch (which I want) is only $40 more. I might be able to sway my parents into loaning me the last $40 (because I can’t wait until my next paycheck, that’s like a week away!), but I dunno if that’s going to happen. But either way, my thinking is that by Saturday, 20th of September, I shall have my very own iPod Touch.

Also, my birthday is coming up. Only a little over a month (31 days!)!!!!!!!! I’m thinking if most of my family gives me straight up cash, I’ll get a pretty good head-start in saving up for a Macbook Pro, which I’m hoping is renewed and redesigned soon-ish.

And finally, Blogworld Expo is here in Vegas next weekend. I’m not actually going to the event, but I’m thinking about swinging by the convention center to see MostlyLisa, who said she might be able to hook me up with a men’s t-shirt (because the one on my wall is a woman’s, and I want to actually wear it). I might also find out what’s going on at Blogworld outside of the convention center (because I just can’t afford the $100 entry fee), and so I might still be able to hang out with some people. Woo!

Design Upgrade, Without Sacrifice

When Apple created the Macbook Air, they sacrificed a bunch of stuff so that it could be the super thin, and super light. This shouldn’t be a problem for people, because they should be paying for a thin, super-portable notebook, not a notebook that is packed with features. In fact, nobody should complain about the limitations on a Macbook Air. A lot of people are saying that if the design of the Macbook Pro is updated, it will model after the Macbook Air design, something I’m not totally against. My only real request for Apple is this: Don’t mess it up. Go ahead and make the Pro look like the Air (it certainly is a beautiful machine), but don’t you dare remove any ports or drives. People buy the Macbook Pro for it’s power - it certainly isn’t the cheapest laptop out there starting at ~$2,000 - and if they wanted a notebook with less capabilities they would go with the Macbook or the Macbook Air.

I’m very fine if the Macbook Pro receives a design upgrade - I’m actually not terribly fond of it’s blocky casing right now - but don’t take anything away from the computer for aesthetics.

Pull an Apple!

Apple is known for reducing the price of its products (iPhone, anyone?), and I definitely wouldn’t say no to a price drop with a new Macbook Pro. Even a couple hundred dollars reduction would make it more affordable. I said in my last post that the only reason I can’t have a Macbook Pro is because I can’t afford it, and that’s because I can’t stomach a ~$2,000+ price tag, if you want any upgrades at all. If they were to drop the price down even a little bit, I certainly wouldn’t be complaining, and it would make it that much easier for me to save up enough to buy one for myself.

A thought

I had a thought. When Apple introduced the new aluminum iMacs for the first time, they got rid of some of the desktop line. Would they do the same with the notebook line? I can almost see Apple stopping production of the Macbook, focusing only on the Air and the Pro. But then again, I assume that the Macbook accounts for a fair chunk of Apple’s notebook sales, seeing as it’s perfect for the people who want more power than the Air, but don’t need as much as (or can’t afford) the Pro. Unfortunately, I’ve come to the decision to not settle for less, and will not settle for a Macbook when a Macbook Pro is what I really want.

What are your thoughts?