The Gimp

I forgot to install Photoshop Elements on my work computer, so I perused the internet for some form of free editing gadget. Sometimes, I just love the internet...when it's not sucking my time away in a most annoying fashion. Anyways...I found this program called "The GIMP" . It's referred to as the "free photoshop", and it's pretty darn cool. I'm having issues with the pseudo lasso tool though. All I want is to trace the cortex of the brain, so it's clean (remove what looks like a glowing halo surrounding it)...but everytime I try to cut out the right part, it deletes the inside and not the outside. hrm. I'll have to mess with this tonight. I like messing with computer type stuff, even though I'm not really a techno geek. I work with UNIX a bit, but not to the point that I could be a programming genius (that would be cool though, as a hobby or something. Speaking of hobbies, I'd really like to take another pottery class...)

In other random non-related thoughts...I was thinking about some of the crazy movies out lately. Nothing out of sync from the usual offering of insanity....but SAW and The grudge? eek. Oftentimes I think about what exactly it takes to concoct these stories (like many others do I'm sure). The gory ones are frightening to me. I always imagine someone like Stephen King locked away in his Bangor dungeon concocting tales of evil. Cackling merrily all the while.
But then, as a nice yin to the blood and guts yang, there are those epic films radiating with pure imagination and creativity. Ideas in general are mind-boggling...and it struck me that there are times when I wake up and it seems an entire movie has played through my head in it's entirety. Scripted and acted out in a matter of hours by the subconscious, complete with special effects, plot twists, and amazing clarity. If I could capture my dreams and lock them inside something, it's quite possible I'd have a blockbuster on my hands. Or not. Perhaps I'm trivializing a more complex art.