December 27, 2007

Snooze

Sleeping off Christmas lunch at the Zoo

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November 26, 2007

timely

Over the weekend I decided to start archiving my digital photos. I wont bore you with the gory details, but lets just while I was staring at a computer screen, waiting, waiting, waiting, I thought I should do something constructive.

So I thought, hey, why not make a new calendar for 2008?!?!

I knew that there was an flickr toy that would make calendars out of your photos for free so I got to it.

First I picked 14 photos I thought would make great photos (I wanted the calendar to start Dec 2007 and end Jan 2009) and dropped them into the create a calendar app. (sooo easy!) Then I saved each month into a folder. This part took a little while, but I did have time to kill.

I then tried to print a couple out onto 200gsm paper (so it would be nice and stiff) but I soon figured out that each calendar page defaulted to 'letter' size, and here in Oz we use A4 size.
Ug.
So I had to take each calendar page and put it onto a Word page and resize before it would print properly. And I figured that since I was doing that, I might as well add some 'inspirational quotes' to the bottom of each month.

Once it was all printed out I took it up to Officeworks and had it spiral bound across the top (which cost like $3 or something). I'm planning on using a bull clip to hang it on a hook in my cubicle at work.

I'm quite happy with the results, I can't wait for December 1 so I can put it up!!!!

-gg

If you want to make a calendar for yourself:

Here's the flickr calendar toy thingie, here are a few quote sites, I just love good quotes and just in case you are the one person who doesn't use flickr, now's the time to get signed up, mk?

Here are the photos/quotes I used:

*Dec 07-'Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly'- Robert F. Kennedy
*Jan 08-'Back up my files?! Are you kidding? Is that a real thing you have to do? I always thought that that was just like... you know, a figure of speech.' -Strong Bad
*Feb 08-'You must be the change you wish to see in the world.' - Mahatma Gandhi
*March 08- 'We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.' -Kurt Vonnegut Jr
*April 08- 'The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.' -Mark Twain
*May 08- 'Birthdays are just nature's way of telling us to eat more cake.' - Anonymous
*June 08- 'If you never change your mind, why have one?' - Edward de Bono
* July 08- 'Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.' -Jacques Delille
*Aug 08- 'We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.' -Aristotle
*Sept 08- 'Paths are made by walking' - Franz Kafka
*Oct 08- 'As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.' -Julius Caesar
*Nov 08- 'Play is the highest form of research.' - Albert Einstein
*Dec 08- 'Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.' - Scottish proverb
*Jan 09- 'If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.' -Tallulah Bankhead

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October 09, 2007

In Your Face

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September 24, 2007

Yarr!!!

Some people might have been a little confused in Sydney on Saturday.....The pirates took over the city in the 3rd annual Aussie Pirate Day

Here RRRR my photos and Rob's and Tim's

Wow, that's some sort of pirate OD.

-gg

Posted by gadgetgirl at 01:08 PM

September 17, 2007

Hubby

I took this one with my trusty little Trip 35. What's funny about that camera is that call it my 'black and white' camera because I never shoot colour in it. Funny.

-gg

Posted by gadgetgirl at 08:40 PM

August 02, 2007

sparky lickin' good

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March 04, 2007

pink pink everywhere...

The funny things you find in laneways during the Mardi Gras parade.... Happy Mardi Gras everyone!

Posted by gadgetgirl at 08:41 PM

August 30, 2006

cool gal

The 50's fair at the Rose Seidler house was a blast. There were so many cool cats and groovin' gals. There were so much amazing stuff to photograph and the weather was just perfect.
The we spent a wonderful afternoon with good friends at Kate's place (and Rob got some chiropractic work done...)

Food, sunlight, photos, drinkies, good friends.
What more can a girl ask for?

-gg

Posted by gadgetgirl at 06:52 PM

August 16, 2006

home james

From my very first roll of black and white film. Taken with my cute but heavy trip 35.

-gg

Posted by gadgetgirl at 08:18 PM

August 14, 2006

pimpin' my photo

thanks to the photo in the previous post I'm SOOOO close to achieving #7 on my list....
anyone want to help a sista out and add it as a favourite???

thanks guys!
-gg

Posted by gadgetgirl at 10:03 PM

July 17, 2006

the magic of flickr.

Guess who's got a photo in a magazine like the big kids?
Can you tell I'm a little excited?!?!?

If you want to pick up your own copy...it's $20. For those playing at home, I'm on page 51.

And all because I submitted a photo to their pool on Flickr. Too cool.

But in an ironic twist, the link to my blog is wrong...and this is the 'OOPS' issue....(update: the link's fixed, huzzah!)

-gg

(oh, and if you are looking at the banner at the JPG website, mine is the photo in the lower left hand corner)

Posted by gadgetgirl at 08:41 PM

July 11, 2006

dancing water

A close up of a dancer from the Joffery Ballet preforming a gumboot dance in the water in the Crown Fountain at Millennium Park
Chicago.
It was like 95 that day and these guys were dancing in rubber overalls. Now THAT'S dedication to your art.

-gg (who has posted more Chicago photos for Tanky)

Posted by gadgetgirl at 08:56 PM

April 30, 2006

BRAINS!!!!

Rob and I headed into the city today to watch the Sydney Zombie Lurch.

It was pretty much what I expected. Mostly goth kids wanting to shock, but there were a few people who really put a lot of effort in. One guy had a full sized spear 'through' him, a a Thriller Michael Jackson and a bride or two

My favourite part was when everyone started chanting, 'What to we want? Brains! When do we want them? Brains!'

There are some amazing shots over on Flickr. Here are mine, Rob's, Wiredjazz's, trythis' and Robbie Gates' photos.

I'm sure there will be more photos out popping up over the next few days. There seemed to be as many photographers as zombies.
It was a good ole time.

-gg

Posted by gadgetgirl at 08:35 PM

March 09, 2006

pretty newness

look who got a new camera.

I think there will be an amazingly steep learning curve on this one....

-gg

Posted by gadgetgirl at 08:43 PM

February 12, 2006

lantern festival

I really liked the woodland creatures at the Lantern Festival.
Somehow this makes me think of the Flaming Lips....

Posted by gadgetgirl at 09:15 AM

February 06, 2006

dragon

Happy Chinese New Year! It is now the year of the dog, and I am a dog so I guess it's my year.
whoo-hoo!

Posted by gadgetgirl at 07:56 AM

January 30, 2006

I'm with the band

look at me bein' all rock star-ish.

-gg

Posted by gadgetgirl at 07:40 PM