How to make your own at-home comedy
For those of you who need a recipe for laughter and family time that will give you a smile you can keep, look no further. Here at crunchy little bites, you’ll find a tutorial for a making your own comedic video short. Here’s our final product:
Follow these instructions to create your own!
To begin, grab your video-recording device (i.e. your dslr camera with video capabilities, iPhone, iTouch, iPad) and set up a pleasantly simple frame.
Like so: 
Next, you must chose your plot, characters and crew. Then sketch out a rough screenplay and go to work! (more…)
Shabby chic is no faux pa
That’s right, the title says it all. Actually, I’m not even sure what I am getting at with the title but when blogging I try and let my stream of conscious run wild. In this way, I do not feel obligate to edit before publishing. Congrats, you’re reading garbage!
Want to be the best? I know you do…let me tell you a little something
You are a few steps away from creating finely composed photograph.
“But I am only an amateur…” you say?
“Me too!” says me.
Take a deep breath. Here you go…
Step one: Observe to your surrounds everywhere you go. That’s right, you heard me: everywhere you go. Your heightened awareness of social, physical and theatrical context will automatically improve your ability to capture photographic moments with style. My statements may not make the most sense at face value but just apply my basic suggestions and find yourself experiencing your surroundings with a profoundly more insightful attitude. Invest close attention to your surroundings. It pays off. (more…)
Technically unspectacular
In a perfect world, I would use a medium format camera for shooting and processing my own black and white photos. Alas, I am here on earth. That’s right, I work a forty-hour work week and have little time to snap digital photos, let alone buy and develop film in a lab. So for those of you who lack the time and resources to support romantic photography practices of yore, I give you: “Black and White tips, the {Un}edition”
do the “do”
Have you ever seen someone bunch their hair up in the cutest bun and wonder how they sculpted it so effortlessly? Well, I have attempted to capture this phenomenon on camera. My fantastically talented, remarkably enjoyable and kind friend helped me recreate one of those simple ballerina buns, perfect for any afternoon excursion or casual outing.
Use the fun little “do” for all of your fun weekend plans!
Photos on this post were shot with a Nikon D60 dSLR camera 55-200mm kit lens.
news for you; strange for Jasper
It’s been a while since taking my last “artsy” photograph. Unfortunately, that’s because my Nikon is out of commission. There a few benefits to my dilemma: I am forced to find neat photos that I have taken in the past and would have, otherwise, never used in a blog post or attempted to share. And I am actively searching for a new camera in which to invest my money. One other thing that is true, aside to my camera being out of commission, is that I’ve applied for an associate’s degree program in commercial photography. Since I have major pride issues, the idea of announcing my future “lesser” schooling endeavors to a community full of genius-achieving “academics,” I tend to call them, was not so appealing. But that needs to be my old opinion, thank you very much. If anyone wants to ugde me based on my degree program well then that will have to be there deal.
Making a big and fancy announcement doesn’t have to be the focus of this post, even. Perhaps I just want to write about it to put it out there in the open. No longer does it need to be a secret or hidden from the world. So hear this world: “Jasper’s goin’ back to school!” The future is brighter 
Recently I have been in what feels like a deep trough depression. Many people say “What?! No way! You don’t ‘seem’ depressed.” It is possible that I have gotten so used to carrying on with “life” no matter how I feel that others do not notice or it is possible that the way I cope with depression is unique to me. Nonetheless, I am grateful to have had last week and four days therein to spend with my parents at the beach! Stay tuned for photos and re-cap for the beach trip for which I am ever grateful to my parents for treating me! Thanks!
What’s your big news of late? Do you have any fun plans for the weekend?
Happy Friday ~ Jasper …
PS. This lady’s taking the high school and middle school students camping!
change your photos into cartoons, today!
Would not the world be a more fun place if you could take what you picture in your mind and turn it into this:
from this:
or this:
from this:
Perhaps you do not think the world would be such a fun place if one could do this magically. I would, though! And some of you may, already, be able to do this. If you dream it up or something like that. Or dream in cartoon-vision. Sometime I dream in cartoon vision. Last night I had a dream about the movie that I watched after dinner with my aunt. Expect, in my dream, the characters were a lot more complex. More complex in that: nerdy FBI agent who turns out to be Soviet spy was played by a goat in my dream…well, goat-ish-centaurish-Soviet-spy and the hunted, older assassin from the movie night was played by a kingly-horseish character in my dream last night. No, I did not say horseradish, I said “horseish.” I like that I have completely random {although last night’s dream was not so random as it was loosely based on the movie viewed, just, before bed} dreams each and every night. Let me know if you would like to hear more about them…
And for those of you who wonder how to cartoonify your photos, check out this website where I changed mine: http://www.clker.com/my-cliparts.html
Happy Saturday loves ~ Jasper Naomi
proof is in the pudding
Originally I had wanted to make this spectacular recipe to submit to Better Homes and Garden. But that cannot happen when you use almond milk and flax and old yeast rolls…can it?
And I may be getting used to the remote for the camera…
Just as I was getting used to the camera remote my focus motor broke! woops!
And my other kit lens broke last year, to boot!
Nonetheless, here’s a little recipe:
The line-up:
8 yeast rolls (rough-chopped into medium-sized-subes)
1 c. raisins
2 c. almond milk
1/2 c. sugar
4 T. ground flax seed plus 8 T. water (max flax eggs)
1 t. cinnamon
1/2 t. vanilla
1/4 t. salt
directions: whisk all ingredients (except for raisins and bread cubes)
next: place bread cubes and raisins in oven safe baking dish, pour liquid (whisked) mixture over dry ingredients and place into 375 degree, pre-heated, oven.
Other instructions: try to not get very carried away with shutter release remote.
Suggestions: I mean it!
Next up: find some nice light!
Ehhhh, I don’t know how I feel about this, a little too dim, perhaps? The sun was headed down for the evening!
Jasper, seriously, you’re finished with the baking, go back to lighting!
Getting there…I may have lightened the photo up a bit. And don’t forget to take your bread pudding out of the oven after 45 minutes of baking!
Perhaps setting up a little contrast with a light colored towel will help to compensate for the waning daylight?…
Or, perhaps, to hide the towel in the background will provide onlookers with a bit of distraction from the foreground. Does anyone get where I am going with this? 
This may be the baby bear photo: “just right?”
You tell me because, after all, the proof is in the pudding!
Many times I sit down to write and publish a post and it turns out a completely different way than I had initially intended…from the get-go I wanted this to be a funny play-by-play of my making bread pudding but I discovered that I did not take enough photos for that, really. My initial plans went unsupported by my photo work so I wung-it 
.
Must you ever just “wing-it” with your posts or writing?
Happy Tuesday to you all!
making a gift package for any one one oh one
As you may know, I like to write letters. And I like to send packages. Well, I thought I’d share a little 101-package-making-post with you.
Bubble wrap is a must. Package-recievers can, then, POP all of the little bubbles and annoy their friends!
Make sure an wrap all of the little package contents with cute baker’s twine or ribbon, too!
They’ll appreciate your attention to detail .
Since my parents live in Angola, Africa, I have sent them a few care packages but none were this adorable.
Gotta put AWESOME movies in the care packages, too! As DVD’s become more and more obsolete, you’ve got to take advantage of the times!
Sometimes it’s just fun to make a bit of a mess while you craft, too!
I really really really wanted to send all of the baker’s twine along so that my package-receiver could decorate packages to send to her friends as well! But I could not let it go! So much for wanting to be a minimalist
Will it all fit?! I hope so!
Always choose your favorite package content so that you’ll know what to pick up at the store for yourself later!
Always have fun!
After all, a care package IS to show that you care
how many shots does it take to make it JUST right?
eeeeeeh. when you know, you know
this is for the sad little photographer who can never get that shots right….
never fear for, one, day, you’ll get the styling and lighting right!
just right!~
maybe 
rubber band balls for dummies
So my home gym consists of Netflix-stremed exercise videos, a jump rope, running shoes and an indoor poor + slide plus 2.5 lb free weights. Right now, though, I m in the process of making one new addition to the home gym! A medicine ball!
Don’t mind the iPhone and nail polish, they’re just for good measure. Literally! The rubber-band ball continues to grow as I continue to add pound after pound of rubber-bands to the ball!
YOU get a vote, too! How many pounds, more, of rubber-bands shall I add to my rubber-band ball for making my home-gym-medicine-ball? 1? 2? 3? 10lbs more?
All it takes is more and more bags of rubber-bands to add to the ball!
For tomorrow! “Postcard writing/making for Dummies!”
