Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Progress but its a bit painfull


Helen Index : 5-6
Mood : OK
The last few days I have been feeling rather unwell, Last Friday I ended up with my first migraine in around 5 years, and then I had another one on Sunday. Why now, I don't know, it all starts with my eyes and not being able to see clearly and then the jazzy lights start and that leads to the pain in the head. I would not say that it is very bad but it sorts of stops me doing anything and it can also resulting in feeling sick (nauseous). As a result of this I have not done much work on the house but have managed to do some drawing and reading etc.

First I have finished my first go at a digital art image using Bryce5 and Photoshop. I started the image as a workshop from ImageineFX Issue 14. The workshop was by Adam Benton and he provided the model of the space ship and some instructions. I will admit that I found the workshop hard to follow, with some instructions very detailed and others very vague, It was not very usefully for a complete novice. But I persevered and I am quite pleased with the result.Click image to enlarge
The image above consists of 4 Bryce models, one for the ship and land and 3 for the planet. The separate rendered images are then put together in Photoshop.

I have also been reading a Spanish book about Canarian volcanoes, I seem to get interested in a lot of diverse things, and trying to read a Spanish book does help my Spanish, if only in volcanic technical terms. But I have learned that La Palma consists of two main groups of volcano's, 5 very large ones to the north and one smaller one to the south (though the southern one consists of many vents), The one thing of interest is that originally I thought that La Palma had only one Caldera, and that was the result of erosion. but there is actually two and the hidden one (though it may not be a strict caldera) is much, much bigger. - I need to write it up some time once I can work out a way to generate a set of graphics to illustrate it..

Monday, October 22, 2007

From bad to worse


Helen Index :6
Mood :Low
It seems that since I have been taking the meds for high blood pressure (started again around a month ago) my mood has goon down.
Last week there was an item on panic attacks on the radio. I seem to get something like them, but instead of the racing hart and sick in the stomach. I seem to get suicide attacks.. Something will set me off, a situation, a noise or a thought, and then I feel my stomach knotting up and then the feelings and thoughts come... This can happen any time and for any thing. Here in La Palma its the nabors or going to the doctors or even going out of the door on my own. Some times it just make life a miserable existence.
It seems to be getting worse at the moment but I am still trying to cope with it all but some times I just wounder if it is all worth it.