Watch Me Tweet

Posted by Watch Me Rise | Thursday, April 30, 2009 | , | 0 comments »

Anarchism

This week's Watch Me Tweet question... What does Anarchism mean to you?

@Replies

  • tashadoe@WatchMeRise anarchism means freedom to rule your own life and choose what influences you,instead of being told what to let influence you.
  • aretepraxisRT @janagyjr: RT @WatchMeRise: This pretty much sums up "What Anarchism Means To Me" by Cat Farmer http://tr.im/jzAJ #anarchism #tvot
  • janagyjrRT @WatchMeRise: One last time... This week's Watch Me Tweet question... What does Anarchism mean to you? PLS RT need answers
  • arynnc@watchmerise anarchy means that I litter
  • notexpresidentAnarchism is the complete breakdown of a social network. It is everyone becoming isolated and self serving.
The Link that @aretepraxis gave was this http://www.catfarmer.com/str/whatanarchismmeans.html


What does Anarchism mean to me?


To sum it up quickly because I am doing a paper on Anarchism and will post it when it's done, Anarchy, contrary to what most think of when they hear anarchy, is peace. To me, Anarchism is true democracy... everyone gets heard.

Here's a good link to see what i'm talking about until i get my paper up























To follow any of the twits named above just click on their name

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Watch Me Watch

Posted by Watch Me Rise | Wednesday, April 29, 2009 | , | 0 comments »

Cracked Bell Productions

This is a video I did a while back...



The audio doesn't play during half of the commercials i've just never had the time to go back and fix that.

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iRecommend

Posted by Watch Me Rise | Tuesday, April 28, 2009 | | 0 comments »

Where are the Skaters at?

If you're a skateboarder and looking for new spots to skate around you or want to share spots with others iRecommend you check out SkateSpotter.com. As i said you can add spots or look up spots to skate that you might not have known about. Here are the latest spots that have been added. (As you can tell it was pretty much only a couple people just adding a bunch of spots at once.

List:

New Skate Spots

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Watch Me Read

Posted by Watch Me Rise | Monday, April 27, 2009 | , , | 0 comments »

Animal Rights on Myspace

Some lyrics to start


Bathory- By Kingdom

i know that each day you tell yourself, "this is how it's supposed to be"
and each day you wonder how much longer you can believe
you feel the wrong.
you lie to carry on.
i lost my faith
staring into the eyes (a promise made)
of those condemned to die (to those we've betrayed)

LOSE YOUR FAITH

in this grand illusion of entitlement to life
our "need" is a mask for our greed
and it's not fucking right
we are executioners that parade ourselves as kings
death as life
we are a society of bathories

in a moment i was forever changed
when i made an oath that no life
would be taken in my name
our claims of natural
reveal themselves as criminal
so i comitt to compassion
will you answer to this call for action?

lose your faith
you feel the wrong
lose your faith
you lie to carry on

Now for the list

Action For Animals


Veganism In A Nutshell











Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary













TryVeg.com
TryVeg.com

Myspace Vegans










Peta2









Motive














The Vegan Society







Vegan Outreach














Huge list of Veg/Vegan Bands

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Watch Me Cook

Posted by Watch Me Rise | Monday, April 27, 2009 | , , | 0 comments »

Ok, I realize this isn't a recipe but it is pretty useful and i'm pretty busy so here goes...

Stolen Straight From Peta2.com

411 on 7-11

Taking spontaneous road trips or traveling to grandma's is a necessity in life. So, if you're cruising along when the grumbling kicks in, isn't it nice to know that the nearest mini-mart or gas station will have a bundle of vegan treats to help you push on?

Candy

Airheads taffy
Blow Pops
Brach's Cinnamon Hard Candy
Charms lollipops
Chick-o-Sticks
Cry Babies
Dem Bones
Dots
Dum Dums
Fireballs
Goldenberg's Peanut Chews
Hot Tamales
Hubba Bubba Bubblegum
Jolly Ranchers (lollipops and hard candy)
Jujubees
Jujyfruits
Laffy Taffy
Lemonheads
Mambas
Mary Janes (regular and peanut butter kisses)
Mike and Ike
Now and Later
Pez
Ring pop lollipops
Smarties (U.S. version only)
Sour Patch Kids
Super Bubble
Swedish Fish
Sweet Tarts
Tropical Source mini chocolate bags
Twizzlers
Zotz

Snacks

Bean dip (make sure it's lard-free)
Cracker Jack
Fritos
Lance's Toasty Crackers
Lay's Stax
Lay's WOW! potato chips
Microwave popcorn (minus the real butter flavor)
Munchos
Peanuts, sunflower seeds, almonds, cashews, and Pistachios
Pretzels
Salsa
Skittles' Mints
Tostitos
Trail mix
Triscuits
Wheat Thins

Watch Your Mouth

Not what comes out but what goes in. Sure, you might follow the two-second rule when you drop your Tofutti Cutie on your kitchen floor, but you won't want to give these disgusting hidden animal ingredients the time of day.

Casein—Whey's cousin, casein is made from curdled milk. Yuck!

Gelatin—Rhymes with "skeleton." Coincidence? I think not. Gelatin is a protein made by boiling cows' and pigs' skin, tendons, ligaments, and bones. Jell-O? Hell, no!

Honey—Sure, honey tastes sweet, but you'll get a bad taste in your mouth when you learn how it's "harvested."

From a former beekeeper: "[T]ypically, beekeepers are gloved and netted to avoid stings (nearly every bee who stings will die due to her entrails being pulled from her body attached to her stinger.) Then the hives are opened as quickly as possible and the bees are ‘smoked.' Smoke from a smoldering fire carried in a ‘smoker' is pumped into the hive and the bees are ‘calmed.' In spite of this, the combs are pulled quickly and many bees are crushed in the process. When a bee is hurt, she releases a chemical message that alerts and activates the hive members who proceed to attack the intruder—giving their lives in the process."

Lard—Lard is such a gross word, it almost makes you wonder why they just don't call it what it is: "Fat from hog abdomens."

Pepsin—If the thought of eating lard turns your stomach, stay away from pepsin, a clotting agent from pigs' stomachs, used in some cheeses and vitamins.

Rennet—Certain words just make you cringe, like coagulate, congeal, clot—which is what rennet, an enzyme taken from baby calves' stomachs, is used for in cheese production.

Stearic Acid—It may sound less gross than "lard," but stearic acid, which often rears its ugly head in chocolate and vitamins, comes from a fatty substance taken from slaughtered pigs' stomachs—or from cows, sheep, or dogs and cats euthanized in animal shelters. Still want to chew on that piece of Fido?

Cetyl Palmitate—Check your head if you're using margarine that contains cetyl palmitate, the fancy term for the waxy oil derived from sperm whales' heads or from dolphins. "I can't believe it's not ... oh, wait. It is? Whale head wax?"

Urea—Urea comes from piss and other "bodily fluids." It's used to "brown" baked goods, like pretzels. Um, yeah. And the oven is for ...?

When going to any convenience store, take a look around and see what other food services they offer. Often, you can get made-to-order sandwiches and salads. For instance, Speedway gas stations can make up MTO veggie wraps and sandwiches, and you can also snag bagels, garlic fries (minus the cheese), and cheese-free nachos.

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Watch Me Rise

Posted by Watch Me Rise | Sunday, April 26, 2009 | , | 0 comments »

I've Got That PMA

Yup, Sunday is Keepin it Posi Day! When you talk about Positive Hardcore, there's no way of not mentioning Good Clean Fun. Hitting the scene in 1997 they sought to bring positivity and fun to the scene. They sang about serious issues like Straight Edge, Veganism, The Hardcore Scene, and Positive Living but with a sense of humor. Good Clean Fun "broke up" in 2002. I say "broke up" because it's sort of a long running joke that they've kept going for this whole decade. Here's the song that explains what i'm talking about...

I can't wait:

Looking back now the summer of '88
When hardcore was young and the shows were great
The sky was the limit, the world was our stage
The future so bright we had to wear shades

I can't wait until two thousand ten
So we can relearn these songs and play them again and again!

I long for the days after we've had our fun
When we will look back on what we have done
We'll remember the dreams and all that it meant
But all the memories in the world, they can't pay the rent

Two thousand one: we'll call it quits the band will be done
Two thousand two: we'll sell our discography to you
Two thousand three: we'll sit back and we'll count our money
Two thousand four: two words "Reunion tour!"

...They've kept their word so far on everything and now they are putting out a Good Clean Fun Movie that will be out this summer.

Here's a great interview done way back in '01 by Punknews.org.

So in the words of GCF... "I can't be Posi alone!" So go check out everything i just mention check out their myspace. Buy albums. And wait for 2010

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Watch Me Teach

Posted by Watch Me Rise | Saturday, April 25, 2009 | | 0 comments »

My first edition of Watch Me Teach

This week I want to talk about Product Photography

Here are a couple of tutorials:

Photographers Academy



The Art of Food Photography


ProPhotoLife



Here are a few of my own photos:


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Feedjit Creeps Me Out

Posted by Watch Me Rise | Saturday, April 25, 2009 | 0 comments »

Feedjit is the tracker that you see on the side of this blog that tells you were all the readers of this blog are reading it from. One feature of Feedjit is that you can actually look at a map and look where individual readers are. It operates using Google Maps and we all know how crazy Google Maps is. Here are some shot's of where some of my readers are from...

Creepy















Apparently I have dead readers too
















...and readers who like to swim and be online at the same time

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Watch Me Read

Posted by Watch Me Rise | Saturday, April 25, 2009 | | 0 comments »

School is Killing me

Sorry folk, i've been so busy with school lately i haven't had the time to get anything posted. I'm going to try to catch up a little right now. For my first post I want to talk about this awesome thing I found for twitter this afternoon. I found it while Stumbling, it's called Troy's Twitter Script and it was on a website called Userscripts.org.

Here's what they had to say about it:


Script Summary:
Nested Replies, Custom Search Tabs, Autocomplete, Pagination, RT button, Media Embed, URL Expansion, Hash Tag Search Links, Social Links
Version: 7.7

Cool Things I've found with it so far:

Retweet Button

A few other things you can see in the screen shot are that you can search right inside your homepage. Also it shows you replies to tweets which is really helpful when you can't think of what some one is replying to because you've had a few posts since the one they are replying to. Somethings that you can't see from the screen shot are once you've searched for something that tag will stay on your side bar until you delete it. Also, if someone posts about a picture of video, you can see it in your timeline. I would definitely say give this a try, i've been using it for a few hours and I love it already.


Watch Me Rise on Twitter

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Watch Me Tweet

Posted by Watch Me Rise | Thursday, April 23, 2009 | , | 0 comments »

Yesterday on Twitter I asked....

" What is your favorite blog?"

And here's what I got back...


I was hoping for more answers than that so I guess I will just throw out a few of my own. A thank you goes out to sheridesfixed. I definitely recommend you follow her.


Here's Mine:


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Watch Me Watch

Posted by Watch Me Rise | Wednesday, April 22, 2009 | , , | 0 comments »

America: Freedom to Fascism

This is coming a little late based on the content of the video but you should still watch it for next year. Do some research, you might be very surprised at what you come up with...

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Watch Me Read

Posted by Watch Me Rise | Wednesday, April 22, 2009 | , , | 0 comments »

Been Busy
I've missed my posts the last two days. It's starting to get hectic with school. The two posts i missed were iRecommend and Watch Me Cook, I'll give an extra for both next week. I also missed a Watch Me Read and i'll make up for that one right now.

For activists














Here is one of the petitions that is going on right now...

From now until World Malaria Day, April 25, the UN Foundation's Nothing But Nets campaign is working with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to send 275,000 life-saving nets to protect African refugees from malaria—the #1 killer of refugees in Africa. And we need your help to make it happen.

Sign here


Sampler Fi

The newest RevHQ Sampler can be found here


Track listing

1. The Year Ends In Arson In The Blink Of A Heart [From the release Vessels]
2. Blackened This Burden Off My Back [From the release This Means War]
3. The Wonder Years Don't Open The Fridge! [From the release Distances (Split w/All Or Nothing)]
4. Into It. Over It. Corrugated Windows [From the release 52 Weeks]
5. Monument To Thieves Anyone But You [From the release Anyone But You]
6. Underneath The Gun A Sharp Definition Of Dull [From the release Forfeit Misfortunes]
7. Pulling Teeth Bloodwolves [From the release Paranoid Delusions | Paradise Illusions]
8. Lewd Acts Nightcrawlers [From the release Black Eye Blues]
9. Reign Supreme Slipping Away [From the release Testing The Limits Of Infinite]

10. Narrows Chambered [From the release New Distances]
11. Bishop Edge Of The World [From the release Drugs]
12. Alarmed Brainwarshed [From the release s/t]
13. My Turn To Win Hear Me Now [From the release Weight Of The World]
14. Anchor Finding Home [From the release The Quiet Dance]
15. Make Do And Mend Winter Wasteland [From the release Bodies Of Water]
16. Detournement Odessa [From the release Screaming Response]
17. Mouthpiece Column [From the release Can't Kill What's Inside]
18. Seven Generations Chimera [From the release To See The End]
19. Time For Change Twenty-One [From the release Memoirs]
20. Down To Nothing When My World Turns Cold [From the release DTN/50 Lions (Split)]

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Watch Me Read

Posted by Watch Me Rise | Monday, April 20, 2009 | , | 0 comments »

Earth Day is coming...










I've compiled some great sites you can visit to get some ideas or to find events

Twitter:










Earth911
Earth Day Birthday

Facebook:











Earth Day Network (Group)
Earth Day (Group)

Myspace:








Our Planet
TreeHugger.com
A Place For Impact

Websites:

EarthDay.gov
Earth911
Planet Green
EarthDay.net


Disneynature Earth Trailer HD




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DSWieting Photography

Posted by Watch Me Rise | Sunday, April 19, 2009 | | 0 comments »

Here's the logo. Nice and simple....


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Watch Me Read

Posted by Watch Me Rise | Sunday, April 19, 2009 | , | 0 comments »

Music News:

Outbreak
: Dropping New 7" in June. New song on Myspace

Word For Word: Coming out with a split with Doggfight U.S. (pre-order)

Earth Crisis: First Earth Crisis Album in 8 years Pre-order here

Dead Kennedys: Blog and Bulletin posted by Dead Kennedys reads "
Very Special Event! - Keep an eye out for a rare and special event on Friday June 12, 2009
- That is all..."

Good Clean Fun
:
Bulletin posted by Good Clean Fun "Hey everyone...Just wanted to let you know that the movie is coming along and is almost done..."

Kid Dynamite tribute
:

Final Track Listing:

Antillectual - Wrist Rocket
Smartbomb - Heart A Tact
Ernie Parada - Bench Warmer
Call It Fire - 32FPS
Fallen From The Sky - Pits and Poison Apples
12 Cent - Pacifier
Broadway Calls - Bookworm
All Teeth - Never Met The Gooch
Deny Everything - Zuku's Back in Town
No Secrets Between Sailors - Living Daylights
Lewd Acts - Ph.
Decontrol
Comadre - Death And Taxes
No Harm Done - Three's A Party *Featuring Dan Yemin of Kid Dynamite and
Danielle Allen of Offsides
First To Leave - SOS
The Golden Age - Got A Minute?
Death Is Not Glamorous - Pause
Make Do and Mend - Ronald Miller Story
Endgame - Copout
Get Back Up - Sweet Shop Syndicate
Static Radio NJ - Give 'em the Ripped One
To The Lions - Rid Of The Losers, Bring On The Cruisers
Stay Warm - Showoff
Hollywood - Gate 68
Take My Chances - Handy With The Tongue Sword
Hour of the Wolf - Breakin's A Memory
The Geeks - Shiner
No Trigger - k05-0564
Jump The Shark - Scary Smurf
Sakes Alive - News at 11
Latin For Truth - Table 19
The Ergs! - Fuckuturn
Soldiers - Introduction to the Opposites
Kill Conrad - Rufus Wants A Hug
Spanish Gamble - The Unheard Chorus
Torchbearer - The Penske File
The Wonder Years - Cheap Shots, Youth Anthems
This is Hell - Troy's Bucket
Troublemaker - Two For Flinching
This Time Next Year - 3 O'clock

Verse: Final two shows,
Friday, May 22

Verse
Shipwreck
I Rise
Saint Jude
Product of Waste

Saturday, May 23

Verse
Soul Control
Crime In Stereo
The Body
Wasteland

AS220
115 Empire Street
Providence, RI

Doors: 8 p.m.
/ $10


Death Before Dishonor
:
WorldMovesFast.com interview... Studio Update

Break Even: Bulletin... "The last month we have been recording are own cd at reading room and underground studios the cd will have 12 tracks and will be out in June on Resist Records."

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Watch Me Rise

Posted by Watch Me Rise | Sunday, April 19, 2009 | 0 comments »

Sing The Sweet Redeeming Song About Living This Life Free And Long

I've been using the name Watch Me Rise for a while now. It comes from a band named Have Heart. They put out a song called Watch Me Rise a couple of years ago and it's about not letting anyone hold you down and being the person that you know you can be. It's a really powerful and uplifting song and this is why I chose it for my first Watch Me Rise topic.





"goddamn", he said, "i promised myself
i'd never feel this fucking way
again, this world has got me praying on my knees
for one peaceful thought

in my mind,
my stride,
my life,
my time
is consumed with a thousand thoughts

flying free like a flock of birds
with no direction or intention of finding home

it's so hard to think,
it's so hard to change
when this world doesn't see you any other way

in this world, they choose to see me,
they choose to see me
like a setting sun

so it's up to me,
i have to see me,
i have to see me
like the rising one

in my days somebody told me that the rain would always come,
always come to wash away the pain
but nothing changes and this world still wants me down,
wants me down on my knees praying in that rain

"born this way, die this way"

i'd rather die on my feet
than live on my knees
i'd rather die on my feet
so you can watch me,
you can watch me

WATCH ME RISE
with the things we carry

the loss,
the scars,
the weight of heavy hearts

so i say to the slaves of depression
CARRY ON
and sing the sweet redeeming song
about living this life free and long

watch me, watch me,
WATCH ME RISE
for Miles and miles

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Spreading The Wealth

If you've been following along recently you may have noticed the things I've been adding, like The Watch Me Read series, The Watch Me Tweet series and also the iRecommend series. Well, starting tomorrow i will be adding a new series for each day of the week. That's right, not only are you getting a daily (Watch Me Read) but you're getting a different series for each day of the week. Here's the break down of what I will be putting out from now on...

Daily:

  • Watch Me Read- I pick out something from the internet and share it with you. The things you see in the catagories on the side are most likely what I will pick for subjects to share with you.

Weekly:
  • Sunday: Watch Me Rise- Keepin it Posi

  • Monday: Watch Me Cook- Your once a week vegan recipe

  • Tuesday: iRecommend- Just a recommendation by your favorite vegan, straight edge, photographer, blogger

  • Wednesday: Watch Me Watch- I'm going to be posting some kind of video, be it documentary, show, tutorial, movie, or what-have-you

  • Thursday: Watch Me Tweet- On wednesday I ask my twitter followers something and Blog about it the next day. (My first one was "Vegans, what is something you miss that you wish you knew how to make vegan?")

  • Friday: Watch Me Take A Day Off- Yeah, watch me take a day off. There will still be posts but nothing scheduled.

  • Saturday: Watch Me Teach: Tutorial Day


So, if these interest you, you should comment/follow/subscribe/share away.

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Watch Me Read

Posted by Watch Me Rise | Saturday, April 18, 2009 | , , , | 0 comments »

Hey folks, today was a busy day. I couldn't come up with anything to read today so I picked out something to watch that I haven't seen in a while that I thought was worth sharing. It's a documentary done by the history channel about straight edge. If you're edge you've most likely already seen it, if not, check it out...


Part 1



Part 2



Part 3



Part 4



Part 5

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Crazy Day in Maine

Posted by Watch Me Rise | Saturday, April 18, 2009 | | 0 comments »

This is what my day has been consumed with today...


The Black and Whites are being submitted to my school's newspaper. I obviously have a ton more pictures that i took but this is what i have for now.

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Heavenly Blueberry

Posted by Watch Me Rise | Friday, April 17, 2009 | , | 1 comments »

Vegan Blueberry Crumb Cake
adapted from Fundamentally Flawed

For the Crumbs:
5 tbsp vegan margarine at room temp
1/4 cup sugar
1/3 cup light brown sugar (packed)
1/3 cup all purpose flour1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup chopped walnuts* optional

For the Cake:2 cups blueberries (preferably fresh, or frozen, not thawed)
2 cups plus 2 tsp all purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
1/8 tsp freshly ground nutmeg
2/3 cup sugar
grated zest of 1/2 lemon or 1/4 orange
6 tbsp vegan margarine at room temp
                                                                         Egg Replacer for 2 eggs (mix for 1 at a time)
                                                                         1 tsp vanilla extract
                                                                                           1/2 cup vegan buttermilk (1/2 cup soymilk & 1tsp                                                                                  white vinegar)

Preheat oven to 350. Butter an 8-inch square pan and put it on a baking sheet.To make the crumbs: Put all the ingredients except the nuts in a food processor and pulse just until the mixture forms clumps and curds and holds together when pressed. Scrape the topping into a bowl, stir in the nuts and press a piece of plastic wrap against the surface. Refrigerate until needed.
To make the cake: Using your fingertips, toss the blueberries and 2 tsp of the flour together in a small bowl just to coat the berries; set aside. Whisk together the remaining 2 cups flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg.

Working in the bowl of a stand mixer or in another large bowl, rub the sugar and 
zest together with your fingertips until the sugar is moist and aromatic. Add the butter and, with the
paddle or whisk attachment, or with a hand mixer, beat the sugar with the butter at medium speed
until light, about 3 minutes. Add the egg replacer one by one, beating for about 1 minute after each addition, then beat in the vanilla extract. Don’t be concerned if the batter looks curdled — it will soon smooth out. Reduce the mixer speed to low and add the flour mixture and the buttermilk
alternately, the flour in 3 parts and the buttermilk in 2 (begin and end with the dry ingredients.) You will have a thick, creamy batter.

With a rubber spatula, gently stir in the berries.
Scrape the batter into the buttered pan and smooth the top gently with the spatula. Pull the crumb mix from the fridge and, with your fingertips, break it into pieces. There’s no need to try to get even pieces — these are crumbs, they’re supposed to be lumpy and bumpy and every shape and size. Scatter the crumbs over the batter, pressing them down ever so slightly.

Bake for 55 to 65 minutes, or until the crumbs are golden and a thin knife inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Transfer the cake to a rack and cool just until it is warm or until it reaches room temperature.



I do not take credit for this recipe other than changing it to be vegan friendly and the photos all credit goes to fundamentally-flawed.blogspot.com

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Watch Me Read

Posted by Watch Me Rise | Friday, April 17, 2009 | , , | 0 comments »

Damn I'm Hungry....

This morning I decided to pick out my favorite sites to go to for vegan recipes. The Screen Shots will take you directly to the site. Enjoy.

VegWeb.com














Vegan Yum-Yum









Vegan Dad









RecipeZaar


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Holy New Equipment Batman

Posted by Watch Me Rise | Thursday, April 16, 2009 | , | 0 comments »

Nine Grand Coming My Way

I'm finishing up my junior year in college and I have yet to take out a loan. That was until about an hour ago when i was approved for a $9,000 loan through SallieMae. Since graduating from high school I have worked my ass off every summer doing some kind of construction, most of the time it has been carpentry. Doing this has allowed me to make enough money to be able to pay for school. But this past summer i broke my collarbone and wasn't able to rake in the dough like usual. When I'm going to school I have a hard time juggling school and a job so i rely on what i make over my breaks to get me through. Well, school is just about up and so is my money.
As you can probably tell I'm into photography. Right now I'm working with my school's equipment but when that loan comes in it's going to my bills and to an assortment of new equipment. What is below is what I'm planning on getting....

Camera:

  • Canon 50D Star Package


Other Essential Accessories:
  • UV Filter
  • Polarizing Filter
  • IR Filter
  • ND Filters
  • Strap
  • Battery
  • Charger
  • Flash
Debating on:
Computer:
15-inch: 2.66GHz
Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB Memory
320GB hard drive
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M + 9600M
GT with 512MB
Illuminated keyboard

  • Free software (Because I'm getting it through my school)
Final Cut Pro
Adobe CS3 Creative Suite Design Premium
A ton of other awesome stuff that I'll let you know about when I get it

  • Other software (That I'll get on my own)
Upgrade to Photoshop CS4
OnOneSoftware Plug-in Suite 4
SiteGrinder 2
PhotoMatix Pro 3
Lightroom 2

Stuff:
  • Wacom Tablet
  • NAPP Membership

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Watch Me Tweet

Posted by Watch Me Rise | Thursday, April 16, 2009 | , , | 2 comments »

The New Thursday Twitter Series

Yesterday I set something in motion that I wasn't intending to but I'm going to go with the flow.Starting... well yesterday i suppose, every Wednesday I'll be asking something over Twitter and every Thursday I will be posting whatever it happens to be. This week as you can see from the screen shot above i asked the vegans who are following me what the one thing the miss is that they wish they knew how to make vegan. A few people gave a couple of things so I will pick one and give a recipe and for the rest I will provide a link if I can find one.

Recipes
I do not claim these to be my own

@writergal85

Writergal85 said that the things she missed most were pizza, lasagna, eggplant parm. brie and tomato sandwich.

I'm going to give a recipe that my girlfriend and I mixed and matched together for the greatest pizza we have ever had

Ingredients:

  • Any crust that you can find that is vegan
  • For sauce i like to go with Ragu's Homemade Style Pizza Sauce
  • 1 Tomato
  • 1 Onion
  • Cheeze
  • Basil
  • Oregano
  • Olive Oil

Directions:

I usually start by slicing up your onion and tomato to whatever thickness suites you. Then brush on some oil on both sides of the crust and spread your sauce over the top. After that, follow the link that i attached to "Cheeze" above. After you get that going pre-heat the oven to whatever temperature the crust calls for. When your cheeze is done evenly spread it over the top of the pizza and lay your onion and tomato down. Brush the toppings with some more oil and sprinkle with your basil and oregano and cook using the directions for the crust. Enjoy
Links...
lasagna, eggplant parm

@sheridesfixed
Vegan Sloppy Joes for SheRidesFixed

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Heat the margarine or water in a large skillet over medium heat.
  2. Add the onion and green pepper, and sautè or boil until the vegetables are well cooked, about 5 minutes.
  3. Add the mashed tofu and sautè for another 15 minutes, until the tofu is completely cooked.
  4. Add the ketchup, chili sauce, salt, and pepper and continue to cook over low heat until the mixture is heated through.
  5. Add a little water if the mixture is too dry.
  6. Spoon onto lightly toasted burger buns.

This recipe is from recipezaar.com
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In2Design wanted a Paska Bread which is something I've never heard of. I found a non-vegan recipe that I am going to post below and suggest what should be changed. I've never made one so this is just suggestion, I'm not promising perfection...

INGREDIENTS

  • 2 (.25 ounce) packages active dry yeast
  • 1/2 cup warm water
  • 1/2 cup white sugar
  • 3 cups warm milk (Use soy milk)
  • 4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 6 eggs, beaten (use 3 tablespoons of silken tofu and the equivelent of 3 eggs with egg replacer)
  • 1/2 cup white sugar
  • 1 cup margarine, softened (soybutter)
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon lemon zest
  • 12 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 egg (equivelent of 1 eggs with egg replacer)
  • 1 tablespoon water
  • 2 tablespoons butter, melted (soy butter)
DIRECTIONS
  1. Proof the yeast in 1/2 cup warm water in a large bowl until slightly frothy.
  2. In the meantime, dissolve 1/2 cup sugar in the warm milk. Cool to lukewarm. Once cooled, add the milk mixture to the yeast mixture along with four cups of flour. Mix well with a wooden spoon. Cover and put in a dark, warm place until the mixture is bubbly and doubled in size, about 2 hours.
  3. Stir in the beaten eggs, 1/2 cup sugar, margarine, salt, and lemon peel. Stir well to blend. Begin adding the remaining flour a cup at a time to form a very soft dough.
  4. Knead the dough on a floured board until soft and elastic, about 10 minutes. Place the dough in a greased bowl, turning to coat both sides. Allow to rise in a warm place until doubled, about 2 hours. Punch dough down, and allow to rise again for 30 minutes.
  5. Divide dough into three parts. Shape into slightly rounded loaves, and place on greased baking sheets. Let rise until doubled, about 45 minutes to 1 hour. Beat 1 egg with 1 tablespoon water; brush onto loaves.
  6. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 45 to 50 minutes, or until done. Once they are done, brush the tops with melted butter for a soft crust.
This recipe is from recipezaar.com

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