beautiful sun in seattle!

well, election results went far better than i could have expected! so far, it seems the rest of the world is taking this in a rather good way, from the different papers that i read from france, britain and brazil, and reading what the new york times had to say about foreign opinion, especially in the middle eastern region of the world. i'd love to read about places that were actually against the shift in politics (internationally) as i generally see only a domestic pushback against such actions. even japan, that had strong ties to bush, is looking to connect better with the new structure inside u.s. politics. it'd be really interesting to be back at school and to hear about what the political scientists and international studies professors are saying about this shift. i already owe a professor a translation of a song, hopefully i'll do that today, and inquire what she had felt in regards to what went on yesterday.

for some particular reason, today i woke up rather creative, and after walking my wife to work, on the way home i saw many different things that looked interesting to photograph. i walked back, took the photos, then manipulated them using photoshop, putting together two to three images and melding them in many different ways. the results were very pleasing, and now i have very good resolutioned images, one that i'm now using as the desktop image. if i were still writing music, and the album had a natural feel to it, i'd probably use the images as the art. however, music for me has been slow (glacial) going, so they'll just sit on my computer for now. i was having real fun putting my sketches over the images, and i've learned a new technique in photoshop to isolate a complicated image from a background, it took a while to actually get done, but it will really help me improve my digital art. i'm listening to mice parade's "mokoondi" and "ramda", very positive sounding albums, generally instrumental and circular rhythms, but beautiful and optimistic.