Sunday, December 31, 2006
[The Oddest Blogskin I've Ever Made]
[The Oddest Blogskin I've Ever Made]
This blogskin's kinda dark.
AND IT'S DAMN TIME-CONSUMING.
I took FIVE FUCKING HOURS to make the background ONLY.
And resizing took ONE HOUR.
Typing the codes took another hour.
And in the end, it's not perfect at all.
Perfectionist? Oh yeah.
I took at least twenty different screenshots in The Sims 2 just to get this fucking view.
Which incidentally still isn't good, but the best of the crop compared to the rejects.
All that photoshopping only led to nowhere; in the end I still used an unPhotoshopped screenshot, resized to fit the background.
I Photoshopped at least six different copies.
Damn. My angstiest blogskin.
All that time and effort for this trash.
And I could've started on my holiday homework.
Oh well, I still like it anyway. My first Linkin Park-inspired skin.
It all started when I was throwing out old stuff from my bedroom. I chanced upon a magazine I had bought three years ago simply because Linkin Park was on the cover.
My first ever fandom. It came even before Harry Potter and Adrien Brody!
And the first time I decided to try something really new then. I was never a music person - I knew who Britney Spears was but I didn't know what her songs or her voice sounded like, and bands and songs came and go too quickly for me to notice.
Can you believe it? I moved from Mozart to Tchaikovsky to Linkin Park!
My brothers thought I was mad to like their songs, but what can be done, their songs kinda work for me.
Actually, I can't really relate to their lyrics since I've never been so badly betrayed, ignored, battered, beaten or tenderised.
I think it's the sincerity they put into making their music that makes me listen. Most pop singers have songs custom-made for them, with sparkly costumes and a trailer to boot. But these guys have come a really long way.
And of course, other reasons include Mike Shinoda and Brad Delson's huge headphones.
Enough fangirlism for now.
[fangying] [1:24 AM]
