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I don’t collect many things but I have long held a peculiar attraction to boxes. I particularly like unsophisticated carved wooden ones. These days I am not allowed to acquire more because of lack of space (though I do slip the odd one in under the radar every few years - Shhhh, don’t tell now...).
This box was hand-crafted in India and bought from a fair trade charity. It is of particular significance to me because it was an essential part of a parenting experiment that we did.
When my daughter was young we didn’t give her any pocket money. Instead, we had this box which was alway kept topped up with coins. She could take whatever she liked from it and spend it on what she wanted, though the agreement was that she would put any change from her purchase at the shop back in the box.
We did this because we hoped create a learning experience for her. In our society money is immensely important and I have always felt that being able to budget and manage money is essential for a young person to learn. Self-control in spending money is an important lesson too.
And values are particularly important as the ones we hold largely determine what we do with our lives and the impact we have on others. So we wanted to stop money being a control issue and an addictively desirable object for acquisition.
And the sorts of values we wanted to instil were ones like money only has value when you spend it and that it is meant to be useful or enjoyable, it’s for sharing, it’s a responsibility to be stewarded wisely, that the value of a person is not measured by their wealth but by the quality of their character (to borrow some famous words) and their integrity, that contentment is a better aim in life than success, that financial security does not mean having lots of money but that your income exceeds your expenditure, and, finally, that there is a tremendous amount of fun to be had in giving money away.
And with that rather lofty aim, we could only fail.
Except we didn’t. But I suspect that was more to do with our daughter’s personality (which parents don’t really control) rather than our experiment.
So that’s the story of this particular box. It’s still in use today as a change store, but in these days of contactless pandemics even that is on the decline.
I wasn’t feeling very imaginative today so you have a straight-down shot of the lid. I did try some other viewpoints but nothing was working. To add a bit of interest I used a lighting filter in the processing to add two lights top left and bottom right.
This is for the Smile on Saturday theme Money Box
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Smile on Saturday :)
This is what happens when you tape two cheap eBay lasers to a drill and walk in the dark trying to avoid tripping over the tripod....
I've been seeing these a lot on flickr, and wanted to try my hand at it. I only did the one exposure to see how it came out. Not that interesting, but fun to do. This is how exciting New Years is at my house. Standing in the backyard swinging Christmas lights around. I'm sure the neighbors thought I was drinking a little too much.
Playing with Photoshop and an old slide from around late 80s - early 90s.. Matkoja-035_edited-1 copy
LewDie is proud to finally release the Rigged Bento and BOM Muscle arms made specially for the Female Legacy body!
Come with 2 muscle materials!
Only on Marketplace currently:
marketplace.secondlife.com/p/LewDie-Legacy-F-Muscle-Arm/2...
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Twitter Account: twitter.com/LewdieStore
Discord Group: discord.gg/E5Zx5NCV6G
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Contents:
- Original Sized Muscle Arms (No alpha HUD)
- Original Sized Muscle Arms Experimental (With alpha HUD)
- Slim Sized Muscle Arms (No alpha HUD)
- Slim Sized Muscle Arms Experimental (With alpha HUD)
- Materials and no alpha layers HUD
- Experimental Materials + Alpha Layers HUD
- Muscle Reflection (Height highlight) and Ambient Occlusion BOM layers
- Muscle Reflection (Height highlight) and Ambient Occlusion Textures
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DISCLAIMER:
Because of a few current Second Life limitations in the Rendering department, you WILL see some horizontal seams on the Experimental versions due to the material splitting so they'd work with the Alpha HUD. That is why I made 2 versions for each arm. One with and one without alpha divisions.
This issue will be fixed once PBR comes out and the new rendering system is introduced.
The Slim version is made for both those who think the original size is too large and to better fit clothes.
Experimenting in the morning... These are reflections from my kitchen window on a bottle of Martinelli’s Gold Label Sparkling Cider.
This was one shot that I had in my backlog for a very long time but hesitated to upload somewhat, because I was not too sure how the reception would be to such an experimental or rather, accidental image.
This motion movement blur was created partly because I had set too small of an aperture at f/7.1 instead of a larger aperture, as well as too low of an ISO setting, resulting in a slower shutter speed as well. This was also definitely not an easy shot to post process and balance out as well.
Still, the moving tuk-tuk being captured in the movement does portray the somewhat chaotic, yet organised feel of Bangkok's Yaowarat Road at night.
Not a real space photo. Light art. Photoshop manipulations = composite image from 2 exposures, gas clouds/nebula created using Waterworld technique, background/foreground stars/gas planet from separate image (LED/laser/kiln), (Took out the increased noise layer...didn't like it, all effects now from two unmanipulated exposures). Still testing effects.
came across a sequence I'd missed with the 5d4+sigma zoom, used a different route between apps with this shot. As DPP isn't available to Macs post intel, used camera raw into elements then cropped & saved as uncompressed file to pass to Denoise, post filtering there back to elements and from there shared directly to Flickr which hadn't been available with my much older software used till very recently. These were nice bright files to start with but even so the result is encouraging.
We decided on a quick trip out to the nearest stone circle to where we live, only an hour away but I had never visited it. I have always thought that it would be difficult to photograph as it is hemmed in by trees. We were however pleasantly surprised at how dark it was.
This is experimental as I am still playing around with flash for night scenes, also I have had a go at a duotone.
Expensive as my favourite night lens, Samyang 14mm, apparently is softer than one of the standing stones.
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
Winston Churchill
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
William Ewart Gladstone
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it." - Eleanor Roosevelt
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At BrickFair Va 2019, where I was displaying Cold War models as part of a collaboration, we started discussing what to do for the 2020 event. My X-29 (front and centre in this picture) prompted the idea to build experimental military models. I started building my models for the collaboration in February, with my Sukhoi S-37, at a time when COVID-19 seemed to be something happening in Asia. I subsequently built the YF-23 and X-47, even though it seemed less and less likely that the event would take place, due to the developing pandemic, and indeed, it was cancelled. The hope now is that I will be able to travel to the US next year and that we will have our collaboration then, so I continued building, adding the British Aerospace EAP and lastly my M-21 Blackbird/ D-21 Tagboard.