Once upon a time...

I've been a Disney fangirl pretty much since birth. Disney World is one of my favorite places in the world and certainly my favorite I've ever been to. So when I heard about this I was so excited I knew I had to blog about it.

In Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom a new castle is being built in Fantasyland.
Which castle, you ask? Only the one in my favorite Disney movie of all time... Beauty and the Beast.

Not only that but they are building a Be Our Guest restaurant, as well as Gaston's pub, Maurice's cottage and the list goes on.

It's set to open in late 2012.

You can read all about it in this article.

Thank you Disney Imagineers! I can't imagine a better place to go on my next visit to Disney World (whenever that may be).

Blog y'all later.


~Twethereal

Visions of Video Games past...

I'm having Blog block. I had a heck of a time figuring out what I was going to write about for this entry.

But I recently joined the anime club at my school and someone there told me about an upcoming exhibit at the Smithsonian.

Next March at the American Art Museum in Washington DC they are going to be having an exhibit on the Art of Video Games. I'm really excited about this because it shows that they actually consider video games to be an influential medium. FINALLY.

The exhibit will be there from March 16th to September 30th 2012.

Until April 7th this year, you can vote on what video games will be featured in the exhibit. Here is the link.


Skull Kid from Majora's Mask

 Some of my favorite video games of all time are on this list, namely Final Fantasy (VII, X and XIII), Kingdom Hearts II, Okami, Shadow of the Colossus, and Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask.

To hear more about this exhibit click this link.

I hope you all are as excited about this as I am. Twethereal out.


~Twethereal

There and back again...

You know, I swore to myself that I wasn't going to bail on this blog after my media class was over. How am I doing so far?  /sarcasm

iMac

So what have I been up to since the beginning of December? Well, for starters, my parents were generous enough to get me a new iMac for Christmas (kind of as an "investment in my future"). I'm typing this on it right now. It's so much faster than my poor abused laptop. They got me the Adobe Creative Suite as well. Thank you mom and dad! So hopefully sometime in the near (or at least not too far distant) future, I might snazz my blog up a little bit.

Macintosh SE

It's been a while since we've had a desktop Mac in the house. In fact the last one, and the only one I ever knew was the Macintosh SE. Boy do I miss that thing. Dad said it only had 20 MB on it, but somehow back then that was enough. (Compare that to the 1 TB that is on my current computer.)





But I digress. I had been saving up money to get myself a computer for a while, so since I didn't have to anymore, I bought myself a Wacom Intuos4 drawing tablet.

Wacom Intuos4 tablet

WHERE ON EARTH HAS THIS TABLET BEEN ALL MY LIFE?

Honestly. It's the best thing since sliced bread. I've been drawing like crazy. Maybe if all one and a half of you that read my blog are good, I might put up a few sketches sometime.

I also recently joined Zazzle. For those of you who don't know what that is, it is a website that takes a design you've created and puts them on t-shirts, mugs, mousepads, etc. so that you can sell them and get part of the profit. So far I haven't sold anything, but I don't have anything too worthwhile on there yet. But I'm planning on creating more designs soon. Stay tuned.



And lastly, unless I've forgotten anything else, I've been keeping my eye on the new Mac App store. So you can probably expect a blog entry or two about that in the future.


~Twethereal