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Because nobody ever looks at balloon pictures unless something weird is going on which it wasn't really here. It was just my pitiful attempt to con you out of a view and maybe even a comment but that's okay if you don't want to play my silly little game. The raffle prize was a doozy, though. Man, you would have loved that!
So here I am, 12:18am taking a picture because I got so carried away with homework and perusing around the Net and sort of forgot to take my picture. Nothing spectacular, but it was sort of an accident (the washing out of my face completely). I just hate noise a lot so I made the exposure bias +1.
Then it came to me that it was actually a nice mistake I made by washing out all my pigment. Of course, today was Inaguration Day and Barack Obama was finally sworn in as the 44th President. But today wasn't necessarily all about MLK's dream being fulfilled or African-Americans have finally triumphed over the oppressor. It was about the coming of a New Age. New administration and a New World Order. No more Red States or Blue States, but the United States. I know this is starting to get lame, but I'm almost there.
I remember reading in Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison and how the main character was struggling with an identity crisis. The picture today is I suppose to encompass that meaning by stressing the fact that the call for colorlessness (or white), is to call for the loss of identity. Sure, we shouldn't only rely on the pigment of our skin to help us identity ourselves as people, but its one of the things that make us individuals. I've realized that being African is a really cool thing nowadays. I mean, I've always acknowledged my ethnic background, but only within the past 2 years have I actually admitted to people that my parents were immigrants from the Continent. And I think I've become more of a human when I started to claim my African heritage. I don't know, just an epiphany.
Anyhow, me and my best friend are planning to backpack through Europe this summer with a couple of our friends. At first, we wanted to travel the Silk Road, but realized our parents, even though they grew up in 3rd World environments, refuse to let us explore impoverished and underdeveloped sites. Oh well. Our trip consists of going through:
1. England
2. Belgium
3. Switzerland
4. France
5. Italy
6. Greece
We have a whole plan set up to raise money, organize ourselves, and get discounts on International Student ID cards. We're going into Princeton to get them done tomorrow. Btw, our parents don't know we're doing this...yet. We're working on a PowerPoint Presentation to show them how well organized and level-headed we all are.
ps. So the update with my gauges - I bought 12s and 10s at the mall yesterday (and new vans). I had the 12s in for like...a day. I put the 10s in and they didn't hurt at all. I'm not gonna go up everyday, because that's crazy. But I think I'm gonna buy 2 at a time every week when my mom gives me money and go from there. I kind of want to go up to a 0. lol. Okay, 1. But I can see myself gauging my ears up to a 2 by mid-march. really. maybe I'm going too fast - someone let me know lol.
This photo series is in a small stream gorge valley not far from my home. Because this little stream is above the surrounding river valley, water in flows down to the Ohio River about 5 miles away and over the thousands of years that it has done this it has carved a deep valley / gorge through the underlying Sandstone. At the head of the stream is a cliff face with large sandstone blocks and cliff faces exposed as you go down stream. It is also the site of a grindstone quarry which operated here until it went bankrupt in 1928. When the Quarry went under they left a large mound of partially finished grindstones in a big pile. Over time all of this has been covered in Forrest. This first set is of the pathway leading down into the valley and a couple panoramas of some of the sandstone blocks and cliffs. My next set will have photos of the quarry and the cliff face.
Attempted to sketch Giacometti's cat at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but security guard made me stop. Apparently closing time is 15 minutes before closing time.
I reworked this photo because of something I saw on simis' photostream:
www.flickr.com/photos/simiwaiye/3061246911/?addedcomment=...
** Method used **
1. Take an amazing image. [DON'T KNOW HOW AMAZING THIS IS!]
2. use the eyedropper to sample the color you want to color the image with. This may be from another image, the swatches flyout, or really anywhere.
3. Add an empty layer to your image.
4.in photo shop ( or elements) press alt-backspace to fill the layer with the foreground color you sampled. (MAc, option-delete)
5.change the layer blending mode (where it says "normal") to "color"
6. If the duotone isn't quite right, you can use the eyedropper tool to grab a new color. just press alt-backspace (option-delete) to install the new color.
NOTE: The trick is to choose a color that complements your image.
What I did differently is made the color layer opaque about 65% after blending because there was a hint of red in the old building that I wanted to pick up. I guess this doesn't really make it a TRUE duotone but I really like how this photo turned out... I'll try the real duotone on another picture... that doesn't have my favorite color red in it:)
Siempre existen esos dĆas. Esos dĆas donde nada sale bien....donde... por un mĆnimo detalle todo se arruina y por una cadena de errores el dĆa termina mal.
Tiendo a cometer errores, suelo ser inseguro, suelo pensar mucho las cosas antes de hacerlas (lo que deriva a que no haga muy bien todo)... valoro mucho lo que tengo... tengo miedo a perder o daƱar a las personas que valoro.
Al no querer daƱar a las personas que me rodean, no hago cosas que sĆ deberĆa hacer... a veces (siempre) me termina pasando la cuenta y me doy cuenta que errĆ©. Es ahĆ, cuando con lĆ”grimas logro darme cuenta de las personas y cosas que tengo a mi lado.
Tengo mejores amigos, pero amigos como tĆŗ. Nunca tendrĆ©. No te quiero perder. Digan lo que digan, comenten lo que comenten... las personas no te conocen, eres una persona maravillosa y siempre te lo he dicho. Mi mayor temor en estos momentos es que me dejes de lado. No lo hagas, porfavor. Te quiero mucho. Soy humano... y me cuesta hacer las cosas de la forma correcta. Para Ro.
En la foto: de verdad me quedƩ dormido.
Walking in a track to know a Glaciar Perito Moreno in El Calafate city, Patagonia. Here you can see a panoramic photo from the glaciar.
The title is the punch line from the old joke "Why does a dog lick his own balls?".
Evidently buffalo can get darn close.
Oh well.
Cheers.
i took this photo of us, at our friend roni's 30th birthday party....and then layered it....cuz that's what i do.....and then neil went behind my back and pursued another girl that was 11 years younger than him...cuz that's what he does....
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It's 4.20pm and I've spent most of the day in bed, and I'm annoyed because I was hoping to hang out with someone important to me later who has pretty much just bailed via apathy. vjbvrjwvbrlvbrewlk. Life goes on.
I'm going to make a concerted effort to search beyond my current contacts list, find more people etc. :) once I've done this shoot I'm also going to finally start doing some more conceptual stuff again, not just nice portraits. Thanks for putting up with me being a boreeee. I promise more enthusiasm at a later date hahaha.
Because I live in an earthquake zone, I have to be really careful mounting a shelf. I used drywall anchors and screwed it right into the wall. To find the right location for the anchors I screwed the screws in first and pushed the shelf into the wall. The screws made marks on the wall and that's where I drilled for the anchors. Then it was just a matter of getting everything lined up.
āThe Dumpireā
So called because of the Superintendent from 1944 until 1966 of the Physical & Tropical Testing Laboratories and the Component Group later Applied Physics, GWA Dummer.
Motto āAnything the climate can do we can do it betterā
Dummerās experience of failure rates in radar due to a number of causes including overheating, soldier joints breaking, components coming loose and breaking during transport, water ingress, mould growth, etc; led to an interest in rigorous testing.
From WW2 up to the end of the 1960ās Britain still had a worldwide Defence roll. Equipment had to operate reliably in all climates. It ran TTE (Tropical Testing Establishments) outposts in Khartoum to test dry heat and dust conditions and the West African Tropical Testing Establishment in Nigeria for humidity and fungus growth. As Empire retreated all of these facilities together with physical conditions such as shock, vibration and altitude were replicated in A & J buildings by a wide range of systems in order to test a wide variety of systems.
There was a solar radiation lab; facilities to drop, bump and vibrate equipment:
Information sourced from MRATHS
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