Hey, I found this really cool site that has a ton of Flash stuff.
http://www.jrvisuals.com/
It has games and website.. Not that they pertain to my project, but I thought it was really neat.

This weekend I will be in Cincinnati... I am going to a programming competition with a team from AU. I went last year and I had a lot of fun. I know, programming isn't really fun, but my team last year placed the highest AU had ever done. So, I had a good time, just because we did well. This year it's me and two freshman, so I don't know how well we will do, but I'm hoping that we can still solve at least one problem (last year we solved two). Anyway, I'll be there this weekend and I won't be able to see my mom or work on homework...
I went home on Wednesday to pick some stuff up and did see my mom. She stayed home from work because she wasn't feeling well. I did get her some french fries at Wendy's and even though she said she ate dinner she took them at ate them right away. I was just glad to see that she still wanted to eat, even though she didn't feel well. I think that not eating was one of the reasons my aunt did so poorly in her last years. When you get sick after chemo ever week, then any food you eat then you don't want to eat again. I learned about why that is in psychology.. Something about conditioning. I just hope that my mom continues to eat and doesn't start to hate all kinds of food....

Well, I've been neglecting my blog lately. Life has been very busy... My mom is doing well so far. She is back at work and seems to be happy about that. I think that she wants things to go back to normal, not that that will happen soon... The big thing that she's worried about is in January her license expires and she will have to get a new one. She will still be doing chemo then and she will be bald, so she's worried that her picture on her license will be bald for the next 5 years. I guess if that's her biggest worry, then she's doing pretty good....

Ok, here's my artist statement so far, please leave feedback:

The artwork that I create is inspired by the need for basic human rights. I believe that all humans deserve to have certain rights fulfilled. Those rights should include: freedom – freedom in thought and in physicality, safety – from violence, and access to affordable healthcare. These ideas have inspired the artwork that I have done in the past years. I want to continue to create artwork that displays these ideas of human rights in the future.
I choose to do my work in the digital medium. I enjoy the flexibility and control that the computer and scanner give me over my artwork. The colors that I use tend to be bright and contrasting, because I want my viewer to be drawn in by them. The colors pull my viewers in and the subject keeps them thinking. My artwork makes my viewer rethink what human rights are and how they are addressed in our world.
This semester I am working on a piece that focuses on breast cancer. Breast cancer is a subject that is important to me because it has been in my family for generations. My great-grandmother, grandmother, aunt, and mother have all been cursed with breast cancer. The cancer killed my great-grandmother and my aunt and has my mother battling. My artwork is pair of Flash videos that feature my family and the rewards and struggles that have come along with breast cancer. These videos will show how breast cancer has taken away the rights of my family to be normal, to not worry, for my cousins to have a mother, and for my mother to love her body.

This weekend I spent lots of time with my mother. She had her second chemo treatment on Friday. On Saturday she shaved her head because her hair start to fall out earlier this week. It's very odd to see her bald, but I guess I'll get used to it. As a family (minus my brother who was at college) we went to my grandmother's for lunch on Sunday to spend time with my dad's family. My dad's mother had 16 children and I now have 48 first cousins and those cousins have maybe 10 or so children of their own. There were about 25 to 35 people at my grandmother's house throughout the day. I was just happy to see my mom having a good time. The last Sunday after her chemo she slept all day and barely ate. But yesterday she sat outside and talked with everyone for 4 hours. I had a lot of fun too, it's always nice to spend time with my family, especially since I've been at college and don't go home that often. All in all it was a good weekend and I feel like my mom's made it half way through the hard chemo, just half way more and she'll be into the "easy" stuff......

This whole artist statement thing is stumping me.. Anyway, I thought I would post some more inspirational pieces....

I really like this photographer, Art Myers. He did some stuff with breast cancer survivers and HIV pantients...

The week has flown by... And there seem to be a lot to do be for it ends... So, I've been working on how to make my video better, and it's been hard. As always, flash doesn't want to cooperate with me. Whenever I want to do something, flash wants to do the opposite. Like I said in the critique, the spinning of the clouds was flash... I put the clouds in one frame and inserted a key frame and just shrank the clouds. Flash took that shrinking and added a 180 degree turn to the motion tween for no reason and it seems to do things like that all the time.... Well, I guess this is the medium that I choose to work in and like every medium, it will try to work against me... I just feel like this medium has some kind of AI that is work against me for some evil purpose.....

So, I've been very busy this week.. I have made progress or what i think is progress on my work. I would like to post some of the photos that I plan I using in the future though, so that at the critique I can show what I will be doing soon. Most of the "work" that I have done has been to update what I had done before. I really didn't like what I got out of the last critique and I want to make m video flow better, so I been making changes so that I feel better about it. I've also been researching some more music options, but I've kinda been stuck there. I will bring in a song to class that I really like, but it is copyrighted... Maybe I can get permission for it because I think it might work well, but I'd like to see what the class thinks of it first.

Ok, so the pictures... and yes I've photoshoped them to make them pink...

Man this week is long.. I wish I could just pause time a take a nap. I really could use a nap... I am really looking forward to the critique on Monday. I have been having trouble making my pink video not so cliche. I want it to be unique, not sterotyptical. I guess I'll wait for feedback and see how I can make it better. Well, until then I hope it doesn't get too much colder, or they at least turn on the heat in the dorms at night....