DNRtime

C is for Coconut Waffle!

2010-10-24T20:48:00.000-07:00

New camera plus new waffle maker = 100th revival of DNRtime!

These are the same photos but the second one I edited using picnik (lazy). Someday I hope to be able to understand shutterspeed and all those other knobs so that I have a great photo to start with.

Anyway, here's a coconut waffle. Mmm!

B is for Bengay

2010-08-26T09:55:00.000-07:00

Someone in this household has hurt himself. Not naming names.

Still enjoying this camera. Way more fun than point & shoot.

A is for Ads

2010-08-25T22:23:00.000-07:00

I'm back! Starting round two of DNRtime.

Our friend forgot his Canon Powershot G11 here and gave us permission to play around with it. I was just sitting here, procrastinating cleaning, so I picked it up and started snapping away. It. Is. So. Cool! I have no idea what I'm doing but it's pretty fun to turn all the different knobs to see what kind of picture it'll take next. I want one! I also need to renew my flickr pro account. Two things to look into before football season starts! :)

"10" Thousand Feet In the Air

2010-01-26T21:49:00.000-08:00

Okay, so I got a little lazy on this one and just took a snapshot outside a plane window...

Bottoms Up. "9" Glasses

2010-01-18T00:30:00.000-08:00

"8" New Photos From A New Camera!

2010-01-13T00:33:00.000-08:00

An Orange. "7" Ways

2010-01-04T23:44:00.001-08:00

"6"

2009-12-27T21:12:00.000-08:00

tiny baby. horrible photoshopping job but i wanted to get this one in on time!

"6"

2009-12-27T12:14:00.001-08:00

"5" is for bejeweled

2009-12-22T12:30:00.000-08:00

I was waiting for my mom and was in the holiday spirit, I guess! Don't worry, they're coming off before dinner. :)

The "5" Key.

2009-12-20T23:37:00.001-08:00

Hooray! It's not one of me for once!

"4" is for erm.. Setting Up the Tree?

2009-12-10T23:13:00.000-08:00

Well... There's 4 of me...

I coulda done better, but the final outcome isn't bad enough for me to try again. =p

"3" is for Westside

2009-12-06T22:27:00.000-08:00

"2" Awesome

2009-11-25T20:23:00.000-08:00

The photo of me isn't the sharpest... I guess that's what happens when you're relying on tripod to take your photo using the maximum fps. Oh, and Powerpoint ftw.

"1" is for Neo

2009-11-20T16:27:00.000-08:00

Took this shot at the under construction area of my work's new building. Got to test out my new tripod. Some bits are fake. =D

I never would have known the whole One = Neo thing if it wasn't for Krispy pointing it out to me. I guess if we were going by alphabet, I could also use this as "A" is for Anagram.

"Z" is for ZZZzzz...

2009-11-15T15:37:00.000-08:00

It took a few tries to get this shot right. Had to experiment with the camera on timer, on manual focus (to where I thought I would be) and with different flash settings so that there weren't really strong shadows. There is very little lighting in my room and the walls are pretty dark which made it rather challenging. I would prolly do it differently now, but I didn't want to spend even more time on it. I learned a lot from trying it tho!

"Y" is for Yin Yang

2009-11-07T22:22:00.000-08:00

"X" is for X-MEN

2009-11-04T23:40:00.001-08:00

"W" is for Warholio

2009-08-17T23:14:00.000-07:00

W is for Wonder of the West

2009-08-17T16:58:00.001-07:00

Yosemite is one of the 10 wonders of the west according to the Travel Channel.

"V" is for Vespa

2009-07-30T18:33:00.001-07:00

Not really, I believe it's an American copy...

"U" is for me

2009-07-20T21:25:00.000-07:00

A self portrait if you will/

T is for Turtle

2009-07-10T11:47:00.000-07:00

In an effort to not let dnrtime go under I just drew a little Mr. Turtle on a handy dandy post-it. He'll keep me company on this lovely Friday.

"T" is for Train Tracks

2009-07-08T12:12:00.001-07:00

This was taken just outside of my work... I have to cross 4 train tracks just to get to work... Location is in San Leandro, on Williams St.

"S" is for Sexually Transmitted Disease in a Can

2009-07-04T00:03:00.001-07:00

What were you thinking? It's dick in a can.

S is for Save the Date

2009-07-02T14:17:00.000-07:00

I have yet to make a S.T.D but figured I can start since I have an actual date now. I wasn't going to do one but it was recommended since it falls on a Friday and out of town-ers need to take more time off. Who said I wanted them to come, I'm trying to eliminate hundreds of folks not gain them?! :P

In any case, I found this picture I drew in '96 and think I'll use it as inspiration.. or just copy it completely haha! So here it is, my inspiration from back in the day..

S is for Skeleton

2009-07-01T12:06:00.000-07:00

I forgot that I doodled a skeleton in class on Monday for Dnrtime. My class happened to be held in some physical therapy classroom so there were skeletons and body parts lying around.

Poor effort but I'm easing back into dnr!

Also, I wanted to let you know that I used Picnik to edit this phone camera shot of my doodle. It's a neat website that let me edit, save, and blog my photo in the same amount of time that it took for me to get Photoshop open. Enjoy!

R is for Red Cherries

2009-05-31T20:17:00.000-07:00

Hullo! Went cherry pickin' over the weekend & saw lots of cherries in various shades of red which I tried to draw for "R". Realized I am not a great colorer so I made this red collage instead.

Hope you had a rrrrrrrrrad weekend everyone!

Q is for Quiet Time

2009-05-24T07:44:00.000-07:00

Shh, the babies are sleeping. This is Benji at about 7 weeks and Bella, the cutest chubster, is about 13 months.

"O" is for other side.

2009-05-21T18:43:00.000-07:00

I'm posting early because I'm leavin' for Miami tonight!

edit: Apparently, I super fail at ABC's...

"P" is for Procketteer!

2009-05-17T19:38:00.001-07:00

"O" is for Originally Oscar Only

2009-05-10T23:43:00.000-07:00

The two dogs move so fast that they're rarely in the same frame during a good shot. So... I placed Jake in one of Oscar's photos. hehe. It kinda looks like Osc is the one that's p'chop'd in. haha

O is for Octopus

2009-05-10T21:15:00.000-07:00

I decided that this sketch of "O is for Octopus" is better than last week's "N is for Nothing".

O is for Ostrich

2009-05-09T22:42:00.000-07:00

It was the first O thing that popped into my head that wasn't food related. Who doesn't think about Oreos all the time?!

"N" is for No Mole!

2009-05-03T22:45:00.000-07:00

My Japanese look-a-like forgot the mole!

Hiroyuki Ikeuchi

The mole^

M is for Move over Homie...

2009-04-30T11:06:00.000-07:00

...there's a new pup in town! Please welcome Nameless Puppy. At 7 1/2 weeks old, he is fully vaccinated and ready for visitors. This new Bad Boy of the house took 4 shots like a champ - no crying, pouting, or peeing on the table (as Homie did).

M is for metal dog-tag

2009-04-27T21:54:00.000-07:00

L is for License to Ill.

2009-04-20T23:51:00.000-07:00

Unlike the current Hollywood Bond, I have black hair (as per Ian Fleming's true character).

L is for Little Lamb

2009-04-19T11:04:00.000-07:00

... and Mary had one. I call her Possessed Mary since I accidentally messed up on her eyes and had to color them in. Possessed Mary better not hurt that little lamb!

K is for Kid flying a Kite

2009-04-13T22:52:00.000-07:00

I love Easter, I love kids, I love kids at Easter :) Yesterday we had over 100 eggs filled with goodies for my nephews to find. I wanted to take them to fly a kite too but we were distracted with all the eggs, food, babies and Bakugons. Don't ask me what Bakugons are, I'm still the cool Auntie for pretending to know what they are and how to play with them. Since I didn't get to flying the kite I might as well draw one.

Egg Dash! (And Bakagon shirt) Uncle Vince was a rascal and hid them too high

K is for Kid in a Box

2009-04-13T18:31:00.000-07:00

The Japanese Cherry Blossom festival in Japantown had some interesting things going on, like this traditional Japanese child-box.

K is for kaffir lime leaves

2009-04-12T22:16:00.001-07:00

If I had a favorite leaf, this would be my new #1. I was introduced to the kaffir lime leaf two weeks ago at my first Thai cooking class. It is widely used in Thai (and other southeast Asian) dishes for its unique and aromatic scent. I did my Thai "homework" today and made two dishes containing these leaves: a hot and sour prawn soup (dtom yam gkoong) and a green curry (gkaeng kiew wahn moo). Mmmm.

J is for Jumping

2009-04-07T14:09:00.000-07:00

D and I hiked Mission Peak on Saturday and the hills were beautifully covered with these purple flowers/weeds. I smelled an opportunity for another jumping picture.

I really tried with this one but, sadly, it looks like I have bound feet and burnt skin.

J is for Jeepers

2009-04-05T09:13:00.000-07:00

I is for Iberian Breakfast

2009-03-30T23:18:00.000-07:00

Spanish brekky at Cesar in Piedmont. Well... the start of it. It ended with churros con chocolate.

I is for ice pack

2009-03-29T22:46:00.000-07:00

I ran four miles yesterday and biked 15 miles today. My body, especially my tush, needs a good icing! It's a lame drawing but I really wanted to use these new Derwent studio colored pencils that D gave to me. As you can see, I am really bad at "blending shadows and highlights" - what these pencils were intended to be good for. Anyone want to take a drawing class??

I is for Ice Cream

2009-03-29T08:03:00.000-07:00

For lent I gave up this culinary wonder and it has been pretty hard. I miss it a lot and I'm sure it misses me too :P Sundaes, halo halo, milkshakes, floats, ice cream cake, ugh. Two more weeks and we'll be one again.. I can't wait

H is for Halibut

2009-03-28T22:42:00.000-07:00

I didn't want to be completely left out of "H" week so with an hour before the "i" deadline and 7 days late for "h", I present to you "H"alibut ...the ugliest fish ever.

H is for Hayward Hamburgers!

2009-03-23T19:15:00.001-07:00

I always thought that this Wendy's on Foothill Blvd looked really cool and original.

H is for Hands

2009-03-22T10:37:00.000-07:00

These 4 day old hands belong to baby Benjamin. I was patiently waiting for him to go into his praying hand position but that didn't happen. Trust me, it's the cutest thing. Once he did it I knew he was Grandma's boy and they'd be church buddies soon enough (Grandma is a devout Catholic). A few seconds later I felt his lil farts and figured out the position was just helping him push :P

G is for Golden Gate Garden

2009-03-15T22:28:00.001-07:00

Sooo... while Tina and I were in the Japanese Tea Gardens today, I was trying to think of something for "G" and I couldn't come up with anything... so I took this photo of "g"ear around 10pm...

It wasn't until after this shot that I realized... DUH! "G"arden! I took hella photos around Golden Gate Park too, lol. I'm an engineer dagnabit... numbers > letters

G is for Groom

2009-03-15T21:07:00.000-07:00

This is going to be part of a cake topper that I'm making for a friend's wedding. Say hi to Minh! During the course of sewing on Minh's clothes, his head fell off several times! I added some extra hot glue so hopefully it'll hold. Minh is currently resting atop a jar as his head finishes drying from all the gloss I gave him. G-L-A-M-O-ROUS.

G is for Goofball

2009-03-15T19:35:00.000-07:00

Yes, I'm the Goofball. I was walking around the house trying to find my "F" project. I searched for the "F"riendliest looking "F"lowers, snapped a picture, downloaded it, tweaked it and opened up DNRtime to post it. What do you know, last week was "F"... M-O-D-E-D! That tells ya how out of it I've been. Since I'm too lazy to find a real G project I hope my 2nd F will do. I specifically tried to find 3 of the friendliest looking flowers to represent D N R ;)

F is for Frank Lloyd Wright

2009-03-09T22:57:00.000-07:00

no, that's not the guy who made Phantom of the Opera.

Yea, it's not the best photo of it, but the lighting in there is weird and very low, so I had to do some crazy color balancing to get it to look right. At the time, I just snapped it real quick so the white balance was a bit off.

F is for Fat Cat

2009-03-09T11:06:00.000-07:00

I think I spent so much time on last weeks entry that I completely disregarded this week. I found a picture of a fat cat and quickly doodled it this morning. He's not as fat as I'd like him to be but he'll do. In case you're wondering, his name is Fatty Fredo.

F is for Fishing

2009-03-08T16:45:00.001-07:00

...something I'd much rather be doing than studying! I promise to put more effort into next week's project but this is all I can manage while I cram. Drawn with pencil on the back of one of my index cards and then darkened highlights using Photoshop.

Hope everyone makes it to DNR this week, even if it's just a doodle. :)

E is for Embroidery

2009-03-01T20:42:00.000-08:00

Left (blue): I added some simple embroidery to an existing pillowcase; middle: Chabby Chic Kids; right: I made the pillowcase from a yard of fabric and embroidered a herringbone stitch to the top. Someone told me it looks a little Native American-ish; that was not the look I was going for.

E if for edifice

2009-03-01T18:54:00.000-08:00

Took these in the city on Sat. I really like the way they came out. I didn't process them at all, but it looks like the camera's auto settings provided some good high dynamic range!

E is for Eric

2009-02-28T17:54:00.000-08:00

I was going to do E is for Event so I was trying to think of a recent event we are all familiar with. I came up with Eric and Melissa's wedding and ATTEMPTED to paint one of my favorite pictures from their big day. I think the end result is hilarious because Eric looks unbelievably scary instead of incredibly happy :P

This is the failed attempt.This is what it's supposed to look like :P

D is for DandyLion

2009-02-22T14:32:00.001-08:00

Branching out to different forms of media. mine is actually more girly than Tina's :(

D is for Devour!

2009-02-22T14:27:00.000-08:00

D is for Dom Perignon

2009-02-22T13:49:00.000-08:00

I really wanted to do "D is for Drinkability" but we didn't have any Bud Light here. I looked at the wet bar and this was the only "D" thing that I found. Painted with acrylic on canvas paper, laid flat on the table (instead of an easel). The dimensions of my bottle are way off!

D is for Dogs

2009-02-22T11:57:00.000-08:00

I'll try to be more creative next week. For now, enjoy pictures of the monsters.. I mean dogs.

Toby and all his fur call it a day.

Leila often gives me this expression hoping I'll pick her up. How can I resist?

C is for Converse

2009-02-19T10:21:00.000-08:00

At long last, C is for Converse! Wendy and I each made one of these using a direct transfer technique I found in my "Acrylic Revolution" book. I've always liked the idea of photographing or drawing things about my friends that sort of represent them - like their favorite pair of shoes. So this is my take on a BFF picture only instead of it being of us, it's of our shoes. I staged a little photo shoot for our Chucks, made it black and white and then over exposed it in iPhoto. Then we made copies to transfer onto the canvases we painted.

C is for Crystal Chandelier

2009-02-15T14:07:00.000-08:00

It's my Mom's new chandelier. The picture doesn't do it any justice but I thought it looked cool from the bottom up.

C is for self explanatory

2009-02-15T12:55:00.001-08:00

C is for Clouds

2009-02-15T10:53:00.000-08:00

I tried to use all the painting techniques from painting class. It was a toughie. Happy C Day, everyone!

B is for brakes...

2009-02-08T22:55:00.001-08:00

Brake hot. Everything is black and white except for the brakes which were glowing red.

B is for Bat

2009-02-08T15:58:00.001-08:00

My 4-year old cousin came over with his animal figurines. Among his amphibian, reptile, and mammal collection was this bat figurine. I drew it and then colored it using a blending stamp and colored pencils.

B is for Buttons

2009-02-08T13:17:00.000-08:00

Thanks for letting me play along, DNRtime people!

I'm beginning to realize that embroidery is a super cheap craft. Thread is only 33¢! Anyway, I thought I'd get some practice in by completing my first entry with good ol' thread and fabric.

B is for Bacon

2009-02-08T10:30:00.001-08:00

Not Bacon aka Toby (Thanks a lot B). Instead I give you the real deal.. or a drawing of bacon in a tub of hot oil. I know how much this audience loves deep fried food.

A is for Aardvarticado

2009-02-01T11:57:00.000-08:00

Kind of a double A thang, but it's really guacamole.

A is for Governator

2009-02-01T10:56:00.000-08:00

I mean Arnold. No, this is not the way I view our Governator (or is it :P). I found this caricature online and attempted to copy it.. attempted.
Hey, we're only at A, give me a break, I'm hoping to get better by the time we get to Z!

A is for apple chips

2009-02-01T10:05:00.000-08:00

I wanted to draw something other than an apple... so I drew apple chips and used some paint to color it in.