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New Paint – The Pics
I have been lazy uploading pictures of my living room, first, let’s compare my workstation.
Before:
After:
I know, it’s kind of stark, especially in the following pics, but it really brightens up the place, makes it seem even larger and will let me hang out my artwork without needing to match colors, etc etc.
Off to the living room.
And the hallways.
MUCH brighter, cleaning and nicer. I can’t wait to hang some of my own artwork as well as other pieces of art that will probably be a lot better than mine 
Engadget… Why I Oughta!
My AppleTV has been acting up… I think it might have something to do with the fact it gets two trillion degrees… There is a fan in there but damn, that thing gets hot. I opened it up to replace the hard drive, using Engadget’s directions.
First, let’s look inside
Fan vent along the left, fan on the bottom left, audio/video, ethernet, usb, power inputs on the bottom. Power supply along the right etc etc, nothing special (cough, this thing is fucking crazing).
Sadly, my upgrading of the measly 40gb drive to a 160gb drive didn’t go so well. Engadget’s directions didn’t quite work. Hard to mess up terminal commands…
dd if=/dev/disk1 of=/Users/justex07/AppleTV.img count=1335 bs=1024k
dd if=/Users/justex07/AppleTV.img count=1335 of=/dev/disk1 bs=1024k
2732016 309849759
gpt add -b 2732016 -i 4 -t hfs /dev/disk1
diskutil eraseVolume “Journaled HFS+” Media /dev/disk1s4
gpt add -b 3141672 -i 4 -t hfs /dev/disk1
Plus a few gpt commands… Well, no go. Put the old drive in and it works well enough. I’m just going to go the lame-oh way and have a kit shipped to be, pre-formatted hard drive. Thanks Weaknees.com.
The thing is… After you get all of the tools, the Weaknees’s deal is as cheap or cheaper than doing it totally ourself. Who knew?!
My New Lights
I made some cool photography goodness tonight. I have the stuff to make another set, but just ran out of time. But basically I turned <$100 in cash into >$1200 of lighting equipment.
My DIY Light Ring
My DIY Softbox
Not bad considering the price and that I did it without that whole making a plan thing, just ran to Lowes right before it closed and the wonderful people there helped me get the stuff I was going to need. I way over bought and actually am going to be able to return stuff and get money back tomorrow. How awesome!
I’m Building a Wine Room
This week I’m starting the conversion of a utility room into a Wine and Booze room. Painting the walls a dark burgundy with copper faux finish. Then installing some wine racks. I have so much room for storage and will never be able to fill the entire room with wine… I’m thinking of other things I could build for the room. Some speakers for music is a must of course, I mean, it is Justin’s wine room and every room deserves good sound.
So the walls are dark burgundy with a copper faux finish, but what color for the trim and ceiling? Currently the trim and ceiling are a combination of sand beige and off white. I’m thinking a solid bright white would make for some serious crisp lines. I’ll try to take pics and you can tell me what you think.