I'm Back!

So, after taking a little break from photos over the summer I am back with new stuff, and ready to start this blog again. A few updates on what I have been doing...I am helping a friend right now with a webcomic project (called Happenstance - although we are taking a break right now since school has started up, but updates should resume within the week) and I have plans for my own comic projects that I will be putting into play in sometime. I am also working on some film projects for school in a creative/artistic/lighting director kind of role that are in stages too early to talk about right now, but I think they will be pretty cool. So, I will be using this blog as an easy way to give out updates on all of that, but unlike last time when I was keeping this blog, I will be updating once a week, on the weekends - so either Saturday or Sunday - and then maybe some other time in the week if I feel like it and have time.

(OMGOMG Felicia Day was in the season 1 finale of Dollhouse!! - sorry. I am watching netflix as I am typing this lol)

Anyway, for this first update I just wanted to though up some pictures that I have taken since school started back, some of band, some of move in day, some of the freshman stuff, some honors stuff. Sometime later this week (maybe I will do a short post tomorrow) I will update with a project that I am working on for my New Media class (ART221) but for now, here are the pictures.

These first few are from move in day. Some important people. (A new trustee and then President and Mrs. Barker.)

I really like this next picture because of the focus it brings to Mrs. Barker.

The next few are from the freshman activities.

I don't usually like the Greek orgs (just not a big fan, they like to smile and pose too much) but I really like this picture.

This next picture is of the author of the play that the freshmen had to read. It was really enjoyable to listen to her talk about her process of writing.

I also took some pictures for the Honors college. (Not much to elaborate on here lol.)

I really like the football stadium, and unfortunately it doesn't look like I am going to be there that much this semester, but we will see what happens.

So, that is all for this update. Hopefully I will have some awesome photos for y'all this year.

-joshua

Changes

So, I know that I haven't posted here in a while, but I really haven't taken pictures of many things since my last post. And for about a month of that time my laptop was broken anyway. But, to make a long story short, there is one week left in school, and after that is over there will be some changes coming to the main site, and this blog.

Really what is changing is that I no longer just do photos (and next semester I will be moving into more digital media based design projects/art) so I am changing from "Orange Hat Photos" to Orange Hat Media - which will be a kind of "umbrella title" for pictures, videos, and comics (something that I am doing more of on the computer).

School has really gotten to me this semester, but it is almost over, and when it is I will be able to get back on top of all this and I am looking forward to a good summer with everyone - if there are still any of you out there haha.

Anyway, until my next post, which should be (relatively) soon,

-joshua

A Little Overdue

So, I kinda took this past weekend off, and I know that I promised a blog at the end of the week last week, but I fell asleep and that went into the weekend (which I took off) and so you are getting the post today.

First off, for those of you who don't know I do have another blog now as part of a class that I am going to be taking this semester which combines blogging and exploring another culture which can be found here. I don't think that anything I post on that blog will make its way onto this one, but it might. We shall see.

Really what I feel is overdue with this post is some basketball pictures. So, I think that I am just going to let the rest of the blog be a bunch of basketball pictures from the past two games.

This picture just makes it look like the BC guy is going to get destroyed before he gets the shot off:


The halftime show was really cool and I don't know if I can really explain it in any other way than to say that this lady was flipping bowls off her food and catching them on her head while balancing bowls she has already caught and riding on a ten foot unicycle. It was crazy.

(I think Booker looks like a bunny in this picture. Just saying.)

Then here are some pictures from the UNC game. Which was awesome. I just hope that we can do better against Duke this weekend. That will be a fun day. Starts at 7am and the game isn't till 12 hours later...anyway.

I like this shot of the band before the game. Might try to get it again with more people in the stands.

Sadly most of my action shots this game were of UNC, but I really do like this one of Booker, even though it is just a little bit of a foul.

This is my buddy. He is at like every game, and he always compliments me on my hat. I think he knows like all the camera men and refs and is always talking to them from the stands.

Of course the court was rushed after the game, and if we beat Duke it will happen again. This was an interesting experience, and I will be prepared if this happens on Saturday.

I will probably have the next post up Thursday or so, it should be interesting and may infact be a day that I put up two posts, one with some pictures from club rugby and club volleyball and then another post where I show y'all my sculpture that I have been working on for my Intro to Visual Arts II - 3D Sculpting. I think that the project is coming along really well, and I really like what is becoming of it. I am really thrilled with how artistic I am becoming through my classes (not that I am getting snobby about it, but I am becoming more comfortable and happy with my abilities) and I hope to be able to share that with y'all more as the semester progresses.

So, until Thursday,

-joshua

Music City Bowl and an Epic Video Gaming Adventure

So this update is a little over due...but let me explain to you what I have been doing for the past few days...

Of course I have been bouncing around everywhere with like no internet for the whole break and it has been pretty annoying, but Wednesday me and some friends decided to start a gaming marathon to bring in the new year by playing borderlands until we beat it. So we start off and learn that you have to have one xbox 360 per person playing, and we only had 2 (there were 3 of us). So, we concoct a brilliant plan to go to gamestop and buy a 360 used, and then return it when we are finished the next day for a no questions asked refund. While we are out we rent Borderlands from Blockbuster.

So we get back and we hook up the xbox and it red-ring-of-death's on us. We take it back to gamestop; they have no more used 360s, so we just buy an arcade version an be done with it. Then we go back and get ready to play, and the 3rd Borderlands disk (the one we rented from Blockbuster) is really scratched, so we can't use that disk. We also check while we are at my friend's house that we are staying at, and see that the internet isn't working to update the new xbox, so we have to go back into town one more time...

We head to Walmart to buy a new Borderlands disk, and then to my other friend's house (the one that has been buying the xbox and the game and all) to update the thing so that we can play. However, when we get there, we realize that we don't have a controller to navigate the menus to update the xbox. So, after calling ourselves stupid for a while and about going out to get another controller (since we had left all the ones we had at the house we were staying at) we try to use a usb keyboard to control the 360...and it worked! So then, about 5 hours after our adventure started, we were finally able to play...and what an epic night of gaming it was...

Anyway, on to the Music City Bowl. We won this one, but I still don't really have much to say; I do have a lot of pictures though, and so I guess I will just jump right in there with those. Sorry that I haven't posted this as I have had the pictures ready for 3 days now, but with all the New Year's festivities and no internet and all I am doing the best I can lol.

The night before the bowl game there was a battle of the bands in downtown Nashville where both the bands and cheerleaders when and play songs/did cheers back and forth at each other. I think it was pretty fun and I enjoyed it though I did about get kicked in the head by the TigerBand dancers about 8 times. Anyway, here are the pictures, enjoy!

Their mascot was a very tall fellow...

They also had a dance off between the school's mascots. I think we won (cause we are just that awesome).

It was pretty cold at the game - it was snowing the whole second half. Sure not like heavy accumulating powder snow, but it was 24 degrees and there were white flakes coming down. But we made it though and pulled out the win which was really good.

This is a pretty cool series of photos here I think.

This one I am adding to my portfolio, really love this shot.

Rumor is the band is getting pretty shiny (literally shiny) drums next year and I am pretty excited about that haha. I think it will make for really cool pictures.

I have been wanting a good picture of a handoff all season long and I finally got one here. Spiller is out of focus, but Parker is sharp and you can really see the determination on his face. I really love this shot too.

This was after a fumble that followed a punt by us. It was really good that we recovered this, and this drive put us on top when we scored.

This guy was really old school; he was shooting with film. I have thought about what it would take to shoot sports with film and what it must have been like back in the day and it is just crazy to me to think about that. But anyway just was interesting I thought.

I know that I said I wasn't really happy with the pictures I got at the ACC Championship, but I really liked the photos I got at the Music City Bowl. I think it was definitely an awesome end to a great football season.

So, hope everyone has a happy new year and that school starts off good for everyone. I will be posting some on the basketball game we had the other night probably Monday, so until then,

-joshua