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Images from a performance by members of Magic Tree during the Day of the Dead Festival. They set up their stage right outside the Velvet Monkey (a hair salon) in the Plaza District
Or, as some call this, an MTmini.
Materials (including camera) were provided by my lovely friends at CanTouch. It was built with some help from my sister, who's an extremely gifted crafter/maker and has a kick-ass workshop.
On my Mac, I can read this thing's output and process it using BBTouch. From there I make use of the Reactable team's TUIO library for Processing to prototype stuff.
Visual output is on my Mac's screen, so it's not a true multi-touch interface, but it's enough to experiment with things. Once I have something running I'd be able to simply load it on a proper table and really play with it.
Now, what shall I build…?
Nikon CoolPix p80
Iso 200
F8
Vivitar 285hv flash controlled by Stopshot
Found a nice new way to create colored backgrounds...I use a piece of plexiglass to create infinite backgrounds, then spray paint acetate sheets for color. Thats how i got the gold. Enjoy
comments are welcome
I start putting in the foreground with a wet-on-dry wash of Burnt Sienna, Brown Madder and a touch of grey. I made a mistake by not noticing some area of green are reflected in the foreground but I will lift them out later. I have used liquid masking in the appropriate places. While still damp I added a few extra areas of darker shadow colour.
The military uses Roanoke Regional Airport for pilot training, whether it is a small Naval trainer from Oceana NAS, or the big Air Force VIP units from Langely.
This 757 variant was making passes while I was on my way to the rec center, then changed it's route just as I got there. But I timed it just right to arrive at the bottom of the hill where I live to catch this shot of it coming in on final. I got inside, and went out on the balcony to await the next pass, when suddenly it came from the other direction! I got off three shots of it heading around for another pass, and waited for it to come back, as I would now be ready for it when it cleared the roofline. I got two more shots, and that was it's last run. Wheels up, it headed back to home base, and I was at the end of the roll. 39 shots on this one.
That's all the testing for now. For a 95 cent camera, it did good. I don't know if I can use 100 ISO film in it, as that would at least help a bit on the resolution. From the looks of the exposures though, I think this camera was made for 400 speed film, so I wouldn't want to waste exposures trying out the 100. This one is not an award winner, but it would do in a pinch.
Friends of ours have a cottage in Healey Lake on the Muskokas ... just spent a couple of days with them ... before they head south for the winter ... gorgeous weather ... enjoyed the last few days of summer ... there aren't enough of these days in my opinion ...
Mamallapuram Beach
Alike an airplane, the take off and touch down are the most crucial moments, the rolling breakers a challenge for fishermen, the lightest as bow man, to jump on the beach to guide the boat, square to the surf.
2009-02-24 7:25 misty morning
Please, no logo's in your comment
"Wanna watch Charton Heston play a Mexican?" (Get Shorty).
Venice beach was the location used as a Mexican boarder town for the 1958 thriller "Touch of Evil" (top) with Charton Heston and Janet Leigh. When possible, I tried to match the location of the screen grab.
Looking east down Windward Ave. at Speedway.
The burning rubber @ touch down ... the Brand new Typhoon of the Royal Saudi Air force at runway 31 Luqa Malta Island.
The artist stood back to admire his work. He'd been commissioned to create this scale model of the Statue of Liberty for the museum's new exhibition and it was nearly complete. He'd finally finished applying the base colors and now all that was needed were a few finishing touches.
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This vignette was created for Category B of the Eurobricks Collectable LEGO Minifigs Series 6 contest.
The requirement of this category was to create an architectural scene between a Series 6 minifig (in this case, Lady Liberty) and one or more minifigs from Series 1 to 5 (in this case, the Artist from Series 4).
As required for the contest, this is the vignette without Lady Liberty, the Series 6 minifig.
See 3a to see what this vignette looks like with the Lady Liberty minifig included.
"Wanna watch Charton Heston play a Mexican?" (Get Shorty).
Venice beach was the location used as a Mexican boarder town for the 1958 thriller "Touch of Evil" (top) with Charton Heston and Janet Leigh. When possible, I tried to match the location of the screen grab.
The hotel room above Danny's Deli.
Yeah, we've opened the white cable package but haven't yet dug the extremely minimal "manual" out of the package (here under the white bezel).
Martina McBride > She's A Butterfly
She remembers when she first got her wings
And how she opened up that day
she learned to sing
Then the colors came, erased the
black and white
And her whole world changed
when she realized
[Chorus:]
She's a butterfly, pretty as the crimson sky
Nothing's ever gonna bring her down
And everywhere she goes
Everybody knows she's so glad to be alive
She's a butterfly
Like the purest light in a darkened world
So much hope inside such a lovely girl
You should see her fly, it's almost magical
It makes you wanna cry, she's so beautiful
[Chorus]
God bless the butterfly,
give her the strength to fly
Never let her wings touch the ground
God bless the butterfly,
give her strength to fly
Never let her wings touch the ground
[Chorus]
God bless the butterfly,
give her the strength to fly
Never let her wings touch the ground
God bless the butterfly,
give her the strenght to fly
Never let her wings touch the ground
Black Howler Monkey with Baby - Rainforest of the Americas Exhibit - Los Angeles Zoo - Los Angeles, California
Melica subulata is a distinctive understory oniongrass with a onion-like corm at the stem base, few-many stems per bunch, stems that tend to stand erect or ascend at a steep angle, and inflorescences that are held in a generally erect manner. The latter contrasts to most of the other coexisting native understory grasses (e.g., Bromus ciliatus, Bromus vulgaris, Festuca occidentalis, Festuca subulata), all of which have inflorescences that nod, droop, or arch outwardly. Like other oniongrasses, the leaf sheaths and blades are a bit scabrous (rough to the touch).
I have trouble trusting a photographer who never photographs themselves. I can't help wondering what they're hiding. Are we expected to believe that they see with the eyes of a ghost? They're like ectoplasmic shutterbugs, floating through space, having no presence in the world around them. I'm talking about self-portraits, not selfies, though I've got no inherent hatred of the practice. It's just hard to see yourself honestly habitually at arm's length from your face. The temptation is to look good, too often, until you end up on the wrong side of a funhouse mirror, completely disconnected from reality.
Ever since the early days of the internet, I've always hated taking my own picture. But it seemed important to get it across, to show my face instead of hiding behind the avatar of some hobby or interest. If I don't like the way I look, all the better. The awkward expressions and stuttering body language are just as good at telling the truth. More than anything, I need the reminder that this is a human story. When I'm taking pictures in the places that people lived once, it really helps to put myself in the present.
What's the message? Don't forget where you've been and how you got there. I try to be the someone in the somewhere, because it's so easy to lose my meaning, to look in the mirror and not recognize the face I'm seeing. There's something freeing about the cage of a composition – for all the times I question my existence, here's the proof that I existed for a moment. There's something naked about exposure, any movement captured in a fraction of a second, or standing still for half a minute. I'm not much for planning, after all, you get no retakes of your memories. I just remind myself of the goodness of human senses, and how it always pays to feel freely. Touch and listen, taste and see.
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So one last touch and then you'll go
and we'll pretend that it meant something so much more
but it was vile, and it was cheap
and you are beautiful but you don't mean a thing to me.
I wanted to believe in all the words that I was speaking,
as we moved together in the dark
and all the friends that I was telling
all the playful misspellings
and every bite I gave you left a mark.
A sculpture made of granite called "Touch", by Viktor Korneev.
It is placed in a dam above the water inlets to the nearby power plants.
"Wanna watch Charton Heston play a Mexican?" (Get Shorty).
Venice beach was the location used as a Mexican boarder town for the 1958 thriller "Touch of Evil" (top) with Charton Heston and Janet Leigh. When possible, I tried to match the location of the screen grab.
View looking west down Market St. The pillars seen in the screen grab are no longer there. I shot my photo from the building next door.
Model:
Eugenia A Touch Of frost (eyes enhanced by me)
Fashion credits:
dress by me
belt: Rayna High Toned
shoes: Adele Paparazzi
Thinking outrageously I write in cursive
I hide in my bed with the lights on the floor
Wearing three layers of coats and leg warmers
I see my own breath on the face of the door
Oh I am not quite sleeping
Oh I am fast in bed
There on the wall in the bedroom creeping
I see a wasp with her wings outstretched
Oh how I meant to tease him
Oh how I meant no harm
Touching his back with my hand I kiss him
I see the wasp on the length of my arm
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