What do you do when you are bored?

Colleges & Universities California Institute of Technology
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<p>I do graphic design.</p>

<p><a href=“http://mygwl.com/~lizzardfire/caltech.jpg[/url]”>http://mygwl.com/~lizzardfire/caltech.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I play soccer to complete exhaustion.</p>

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<p>lizzardfire, that’s a really nice picture :)<br>
How did you create it?</p>

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<p>I read a lot of Spanish literature…I play basketball and soccer and do Taekwondo too. Mostly, though, I just read and go out with friends.</p>

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<p>It’s made in photoshop. Generally stuff like this takes around 2-4 hours for me… I make shapes and play with them until I like how they look basically. Then I add effects. If you look at the Caltech one almost all of the letters are either gradually curved or straight lines–so a bunch of circles and rectangles. Even the tree leaves are three half circles on top of each other rotated at 30, 0, and -30 degrees from horizontal and then stretched. I do stuff like this all of the time as a way just to relax. </p>

<p>Other geometric experiments:</p>

<p><a href=“http://mygwl.com/~lizzardfire/abio.jpg[/url]”>http://mygwl.com/~lizzardfire/abio.jpg&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://mygwl.com/~lizzardfire/claw.jpg[/url]”>http://mygwl.com/~lizzardfire/claw.jpg&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://mygwl.com/~lizzardfire/infinity.jpg[/url]”>http://mygwl.com/~lizzardfire/infinity.jpg&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://mygwl.com/~lizzardfire/luck.jpg[/url]”>http://mygwl.com/~lizzardfire/luck.jpg&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://mygwl.com/~lizzardfire/Imppride.jpg[/url]”>http://mygwl.com/~lizzardfire/Imppride.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>And now a variation on the first:</p>

<p><a href=“http://mygwl.com/~lizzardfire/caltech2.jpg[/url]”>http://mygwl.com/~lizzardfire/caltech2.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>The last one is really quite beautiful.</p>

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<p>Thanks! +10chars</p>

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<p>ooo, they’re all so pretty! I wish I did such productive things when I was bored…</p>

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<p>What is this “bored” of which you speak?</p>

<p>Also, I concur that those graphics are lovely. I’m rooting for you to get off the waitlist, you sure seem deserving/qualified to me. Good luck!</p>

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<p>Bored is the space between homework and sleep. :stuck_out_tongue: Thanks for the well wishes :)</p>

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<p>Here’s my photoshop work: <a href=“http://halfthelaw.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/[/url]”>http://halfthelaw.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/&lt;/a&gt; (even though photoshop is far from my specialty) and my caltech tribute graphic: <a href=“http://www.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/deviation/31496895/[/url]”>http://www.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/deviation/31496895/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Good stuff. I especially like your “orange flow”. I used to (well still have but don’t update) a deviantart page. Unfortunately it’s very slow, so I got one of my friends to host a personal site for me.</p>

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<p>On a rather random note (this a boredom thread, after all), does anyone want a lala invite?</p>

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<p>lala invite?</p>

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<p>it’s a music thing. Google lala.</p>

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<p>What can you do with it?</p>

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<p>Three words: fire.</p>

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<p>it sounds like <a href=“http://www.pandora.com%5B/url%5D”>www.pandora.com</a></p>

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<p>i compose… but you already knew that, lizzardfire…</p>