Photoshop do I?

So I am taking a digital imaging class at my school. After finishing the first quarter, I was looking through my portfolio and figured I'd throw some up here for y'all to see... (All 2 of you that I know read this)
Austin sits next to me. He did a pyramid too.

Cause I can.

Zombie Lance(sorry for the low quality)

Might be my favorite...

Not political, just Obama ghostbuster : )

A Word on Fallout 3 and Fable 2

Today, October 28, Fallout 3 is released to the public. As exciting as it is, I can not help but compare it to the recently released Fable 2. A lot of people out there are trying to make the decision of which one to buy, or in my case, which to play first.
Let me start off by saying both the games are equally kick ass on all accounts. Having just played through most of Fable 2 and playing enough of Fallout to get a fair feeling of what its like, and let me tell yah, you can't go wrong either way! But if you had to choose I would say Fable 2.
What you say, Fable 2 over Fallout 3! Yes, I would choose Fable 2. Fallout 3 has all the aspects of a great game, be it the bleak environments, innovative take on FPS and storytelling that we have come to expect from Bethesda, but it lacks a certain charm that Fable 2 is full of. From start to finish, Fable succeeded in keeping me drawn to the ever changing world that I feel Fallout lacked. You could argue that Fallout is a post apocalyptic wasteland, of course it is, but it still makes for one lonely game experience. To put it simply, playing Fable is like going to Disneyland, the experience is fast fun a full of personality. Fallout is more like a real adventure, where for action packed moment there is another spent wandering around looking for your next objective. While some may enjoy that type of game play. I being as busy as I am with school and... well school, don't have time for that kind of thing which makes Fallout increasingly hard to feel rewarded from. For fans of the series or Oblivion you can't go wrong with Fallout 3, but for someone just entering the action RPG space, Fable 2 is much more enjoyable time to be had.









Alright, maybe Fallout 3 will grow on me, but I do love my Fable 2. : )

Company of Heroes

What an amazing game. After all these years, it is still one of the best rts's I have ever played. Can't wait for DOW 2! Sorry for the short post, more tomorrow.

oooooo whats this Twitter!

Once again I preach to my invisible audience, but hey, you're there I know you are! I will be updating more frequently now that I have gotten past some hard stuff. AND! I got this twitter doodad so follow me. FOLLOW ME!!!

Or don't I could care less...
Ok I do care, just follow me damnit!

For what it's worth, it could be worse.

Hi there. This is new to me, this whole "blog" thing. I enjoy writing. I enjoy reading. 'Nuff said. I am here to just present my writings from the past, my ideas and just to train myself to be a better writer by regularly writing here on things that interest me. I may as well introduce myself. My name is Mason, I am an aspiring something or other that has no idea what to do with my life. As a third year student in High School, a lot of my peers are dead set on their goals while I sit back and bitch and moan about my problems with the system around me. Instead of accepting the usual process of -you do well in school, you do well in college, you do well life- that is the basis for my peers and I getting through high school (not that I don't enjoy it) I just don't buy into it. Be it that its my unorthodox raising (not deprived, let me make that clear) I have been open minded my entire life (or I at least like to think it). For the most part, I am a good kid, and I like to think that there is some worth to that. Especially in a world that does not seem to want that anymore.


I think I'll end with some of my writing form stuff I have done in the past

If any of you that are reading this (Which there probably are about 0) I highly recommend any book by Chuck Klosterman, but this here pertains to "Killing Yourself to Live"


Killing Yourself to Live

The Alpha Male vs. The Beta Male
Chuck Klosterman discusses two types of people in the beginning of his book. There are two “male” species of which we all come from, that differ very much. While I could rewrite what I had read in the beginning ( and I am sure your would love the Mr. Readerman) its just not fun to write.
Now, as he described to me the beta male being the lesser of the two, I couldn’t help feeling much like the beta male, because lets be honest, I’m not hardcore, plate head of a persons that enjoys steroids with their power shakes. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not some silly nanny of sorts that just sits around all day feeling bad for myself. Yet, I still qualify ad the “beat male”
At first I was like ‘damn, what’s wrong with me, I am being smack talked by a book’ and then I realized I had let Klosternan’s point go right over my head. I believe the writer was to use this to convey how things in life are always shuffled into genres, and categories, and is constantly under review by professionals telling you what not to buy, what not to do, etc. Much like the writer reviewed me, the reader, and led me to believe I am something that truly I am not, and really no one is.
Take music for example, people refuse to branch out because its not in there genre, or don’t listen to music because rolling stones said its sucks. What’s the point if you don’t experience it your self. If who you are is really defined by your experiences, what are we as a people doing letting other people detract from these crucial elements of living by removing the important part of experiencing, which is experience.

Or maybe I’m just a beta male…



Nah



See ya tomorrow