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Felling Good? Challenge Me!

I’ve been thinking about doing one (or a few) of those 30 Day Challenges that they’re always posting on Tumblr. I don’t really use my Tumblr enough to be motivated to post stuff there, so I’m thinking about posting some stuff on my personal sites. The music and movie challenges are the two that I have my mind on for this site since I mostly post random and entertainment related stuff here. We’ll see though!

Oh, I was listening to Pandora and Michael Bublé’s version of “Feeling Good” came on and that made me want to listen to (almost) every other version of the song and I quite enjoyed doing that, so I’m posting my two favorite versions for your listening pleasure!

Nina Simone’s

Check out Muse’s version on YouTube since they disabled embedding. Smh!

YouTube, We Have Issues!!

YouTube really gets on my nerves sometimes. Don’t get me wrong, I love the website and would never stop using it, but it’s just annoying lately. A few things have really been bothering me about the site recently. Firstly, I’m getting pretty sick of the advertisements at the top of the page and the ads that insist on starting before I watch a video. I do not want to wait 20 seconds to watch a video. Isn’t it enough that they stick ads at the bottom of the video and all over the page. You have to make me wait to view a video too? Smh.

Secondly, there’s the featured videos at the bottom of the page. Why can’t I disable that? I can disable other crap, why can’t I turn that off. I like that feature at times because it has introduced me to people I wouldn’t have been exposed to otherwise, but some of those videos are just strange.

Thirdly, I hate that new autoplay feature they have when you watch a video posted by someone you subscribe to. I don’t want the next video in my subscriptions playing automatically! Yes, they give you the ability to turn that off, but you have to turn it off every time you click a new video. That’s too much trouble.

Lastly, I want to always be able to remove the videos from my subscription list that I don’t want to view. That feature comes and goes as it pleases. Smh. Other than that, I love YouTube!!!

Tip On The Tightrope!!

I know this video has been out for over a week now, but I forget to post it when I first watched it. I love this video! I really loved the original song and video, but I can’t get enough of the remix song and video. This is so good. I think Janelle really held her own with the guys and I can’t even decide if I preferred B.o.B’s verse or Lupe’s. They were both great. This is awesome music.

Art Envy…

Oh man, this thing is so cool! I need his whole setup. I can only imagine how much it costed though. I’m not sure which model of the Wacom Cintiq he’s using, but I believe the cheapest one is almost 1,000$. Steep. That’s about half the price of my computer. And you have to pay extra for all the different pens. And those are almost 100$ a piece themselves. SMH. I would definitely invest in one of those if I was a successful freelance graphic artist. To me, it’s not worth it to pay that much for a product that will only be used for fun. Besides, I haven’t even mastered the Wacom tablet that I do have!

But I know one thing… I used to feel bad when I would try to draw certain things and it would never come out nice, but I don’t think I feel so bad anymore. If I had one of those my stuff would probably come out a lot better as well. It’s a lot easier to draw with a pen than it is to draw with a mouse.