The Sims 2 Let's Play!!!

I've started doing let's plays of The Sims 2. I love The Sims 2, it's still my favorite. I haven't really gotten into playing The Sims 3 or 4 yet. Plus I feel it would be better to get a new computer first, because my macbook is over 4 years old now and it does freeze sometimes while using programs that use a lot of ram and power.

I have The Sims 3 game, but like I said, rather a get a new computer. The Sims 2 is starting to freeze my computer sometimes now. It's really annoying. Hopefully it will continue to work good enough for me to still record Let's plays every now and then.

Anyways, this is part 9 of my Sims 2 series I started. I want to upload them more frequently. Get to know Maya and Jay and check out the rest of the series on Youtube.

Tech Haul- Lighting and Batteries

Here's a tech video for you. I talk about affordable lighting that I bought for filming my videos and batteries for macbook pros and Canon DSLR's.

A Video Project...

I just spent a whole month filming and editing a video for my Video Project Class. Ok this has got to be the most stressful class out of all of them. And a few of them have been pretty damn stressful for me. I mean, I did enjoy this class a bit, since it is filming editing and stuff, the type of shit that I already do. I love filming and editing videos. It's just that since this was for a class project, everything has to be done a certain way and done by a certain time. Basically the video is supposed to be about me as an artist and my process on how I put together a certain project. We had to record a voice over, film an interview of ourselves and film a lot of footage to add to the video. I think it's pretty cool. It took me a lot longer to get mine done than everybody else. I feel like maybe I just spent a lot of time on mine because I feel it has to be perfect. I Think all the other students did pretty well on their projects, some better than others. There were a few who's projects were filmed very well and edited to look more professional. I was kinda nervous about my project not being that great, but after seeing some of the projects, I think I did pretty good on mine. I will probably upload my video to youtube soon and then share it here on my blog.

Bloggin

Ok, I need to start writing in my blog more often. I want to, I always think of things that i think would make a interesting blog post. But I just never post it. I wanted to write something about 9/11, and I've had some interesting dreams that i wanted to write down. So I was  thinking maybe I should make a schedule like, posting something at least once a week.

Well anyway, My Typography teacher pissed me off, I'm not gonna get into that right now.
Let's see... I want to step my game up with youtube videos, mainly for my drawing channel and my beauty channel. My drawing channel, I just need to upload more often, I need to get to working on more drawings, and post some interesting vlogs. I would like to become partner on that channel. I think I could if I was uploading vids more often, I have pretty good drawing skills. So eventually I'll start getting more subscribers and views. So far Youtube invited my videos to be monetized for revenue sharing. So whenever I upload a video, I automatically have the option to monetize it. It's not like when they just invite one of your videos because it's getting a lot of  views. But why give you the option to monetize all your videos like your a partner, but... not let you be partner..? idk.. I guess you still have to apply or be invited for that separately.

And Then my beauty channel, I'm already partnered with StyleHaul. But I feel I just want to make better videos. The main thing is that I just need a better camera, but i can't get it now. But I also realized that the lighting is a problem. But for now I think that buying light bulbs that give off more of a white light than yellow helps a lot. So that's what I did. I don't think that the bulbs I bought are as white as i wanted, but there's definitely a big difference, and I think that definitely helps my videos look better. But I also want to just make better videos. I get inspired from beauty ads and commercials. I just filmed a make up tutorial inspired by Candies. I like the photos with Vanessa Hudgens and Hayden Panetierre. My make up was inspired by Haydens make up in her pics, and then I also took pictures that were inspired by their photo shoots. I still need to edit the video. When I'm done, i'll upload some of the pics to my blog.

New Macbook and School

     I just started school last month, I'm doing a Digital Arts and Design program. I just decided to try to go back to school. Thought I might as well since I'm not really doing anything else. So everything has worked out and I was able to start in January.

This is a school for entertainment and media. That's all I know is that I would like to have a career that has something to do with the entertainment business. I love art, music, dancing, fashion, singing. So I feel that this is the school for me. I kinda wish I could do something from every program, but I just went with Digital Art and Design because, it looks like a pretty cool program. I can do stuff with graphic design, motion graphics and editing videos. I wouldn't mind getting paid to do something that I already like doing anyway. Plus, I'll get to learn how to do more advanced stuff with graphics and video editing, so that's cool.

I went to the Behind the scenes tour before I started, it was pretty awesome. I said, "I definitely have to go here". also, people that have went to this school have done work for movies like, Avatar, Harry Potter.. worked with Artists like Beyonce, Lady Gaga, TLC.. have done work for popular video games out and a lot more! So yeah.. That's what's up!! And Also, another reason that might of helped my decision to go to this school, is everyone gets a MacBook Pro!!! holla!! lol.

I've already been wanting to get a laptop really bad, and then I started thinking about a macbook, because a lot of the people that I'm subscribed to on youtube, mainly beauty gurus all seem to have a macbook, and they edit their videos with imovie. I've been a bit jealous of people that have imovie, there's certain things you can do that you can't do with Windows Movie Maker, and also imovie provides royalty free music that u can use in your videos. That's a little easier than having to keep searching the web for free royalty free music that doesn't sound too stupid and corny.

So yeah I was looking forward to getting me a macbook, oh and the mac comes with Garage band, which is another program I wish I had, you can make your own music and shit with that, so yeah, that's definitely awesome lol.

And along with the macbook we also get all this expensive software because, we need it for our degree program. So I have Final Cut Pro and The Adobe Master Collection, that stuff is actually wicked expensive, like thousands of dollars. But now I have so much cool software, now I have a few different video editing programs that can do so much shit that Windows Movie Maker could not do. I have a few different music programs on here now. Man I don't even know how to use most of this shit yet. But I guess we'll be learning how in school.

I think I'm gonna be learning a bit of photoshop this month, and Illustrator. But yay I'm excited!

Editing Videos

I edit all my YouTube videos with Windows movie Maker, I have Windows Vista. The Movie Maker was already on this computer. If u don't have it. It can be downloaded for free, just search google. I also downloaded more effects. I found a couple websites where u can download more cool effects to the Windows Movie Maker, just search google. I have a kodak easyshare camera, it records videos in .mov format. but I heard WMM doesn't accept the .mov file just mpeg and a few others. but mine accepts them for some reason, it always has. So I don't know why my WMM accepts .mov file and for other people it doesn't on their computer. there's gotta be reason for this, I haven't figured it out yet.