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Made this for my daughters girlfriends 18th birthday cake.
Bottom layer is chocolate cake with dark chocolate ganache, and top layer is white chocolate mud cake with white chocolate ganache. Both covered in fondant. The birthday girl picked the colours.
Still hell raising after all these years, the Rolling Stones unleashed a rawkous video this week for their "Doom and Gloom" single. Starring "Girl With a Dragon Tattoo" actress Noomi Rapace as a zombie-shooting, breast-flashing bad girl who appears to be losing her mind, the video was shot in a Paris warehouse and directed by Swedish filmmaker Jonas Akerlun.
n the quick paced clip, Noomi wallows in a trash pile, flashes passing motorists, stuffs her face until her head explodes and lays in a bed of money before setting it ablaze. The Swedish actress, who recently starred in "Prometheus," also gets to strut and bounce with the band.
Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ron Wood stay put on their makeshift stage throughout the video, playing the song's loose, gritty shuffle as madness swallows up Rapace.
"All I hear is doom and gloom, all is darkness in my room," Jagger sings in the chorus. "Through the light your face I see. Baby take a chance, baby won't you dance with me?"
The song, produced by Don Was, appears on the newly released "Grrr! Greatest Hits" and is the band's first new single since 2006's "Biggest Mistake," off their last album of originals "A Bigger Bang."
The boys are gearing up to play London's O2 Arena on Nov. 25 and 29, where former members Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor will join them onstage for the first time in 20-plus years. The Stones then travel to the U.S. to play Brooklyn's Barclays Center on Dec. 8 and the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ on Dec. 13 and 15.
Dar os devidos creditos, edição e fotografia: Arthur Cruz
Giving the appropriate credits, editing and photography: Arthur Cruz
© Mark Watson.
Taken with a make highspeed kit and a panasonic FZ50.
DONT TRY THIS AT HOME BECAUSE OF THE DANGEROUS MERCURY contained within the bulbs..
shot with a .22 airgun pellet.
see all sizes.
She’s a traveling teacher who teaches entrepreneurship in several ivy -league business schools around the world. The reason, she says, is narcissism. She wishes she was twenty years younger so she could have started her career now when India is exploding with opportunities but since she can’t, she teaches, so her students can be the architects of a vibrant entrepreneurial India. From being just a word in the dictionary five years ago, it has now consumed her whole being.
Her moment of epiphany happened four years ago when she realized that in India not too many people became entrepreneurs simply because they didn’t know how. So she founded her company Startups to mentor entrepreneurs (forstartups.blogspot.com) . Up until July this year, she has mentored over 500 startup entrepreneurs across domains, across geographies, pro bono. Twenty years in the corporate sector, in MNC’s from as diverse domains as security, animation and pharmaceuticals, on all inhabited continents, have given her enough reason to say, “Been there, done that.”
Startups has also been involved in mentoring women build micro enterprises in economies as plural as Afghanistan, Ethiopia and India.
Six months ago, she co-founded CARMa (Creating Access to Resources & Markets), (www.carmagroup.in) with a lofty ambition : to change the karma of entrepreneurs in India. CARMa mentors startups, mature enterprises and family businesses. The mentoring encompasses getting organizations investment ready, helping them raise capital on a unique, online, proprietory platform, and deploying capital efficiently. CARMa’s business model is extremely entrepreneur friendly.
She writes a regular column for the magazine, Entrepreneur, and she’s motivated by the amount of mail she receives in response to it, from smaller towns.
Her passion : to make every Indian an entrepreneur.
Setup for Eruption followed Ryan Taylor's excellent Water Figure Tutorial.
I forgot to shoot the setup at the time so I have recreated it.
Out of picture, my pc is running Multisine 1.74. Using the headphone output I have then connected my pc via the Mic input to an old stereo (at the the top of the picture) which is connected to the speaker.
The speaker was wrapped in clingfilm, and a small amount of a 50:50 cornflour (cornstarch)-water mix was placed on top.
Due to the small space, I could not get the legs of my Giottos MTL9361B tripod splayed wide enough to drop the camera in line with the top of the speaker. So I moved the centre column into the lateral position and hund the camera upside down off my Manfrotto 322RC2 ball head.
The lights on the landing and bedroom behind were turned off and at f/16 I ran a 5 second exposure. Using my wireless remote shutter I triggered the camera. During the 5 second exposure I activated a 0.2 sec pulse at a frequency of 120Hz on my pc and using a PT-04 wireless flash trigger in the other hand tried to time the flash to coincide with the sound. This took several attempts to time it right, and in actual fact the final Eruption shot is actually a blend in CS3 of two images in order to increase the drama.
The ghosting in Eruption is not an artefact of blending the two images, but due to some double triggering of the flashes when I pressed the remote trigger.
The pink/orange hues in the conflour-water mix of the final shot are, I think, attributable to the flashes bouncing off the bare plaster walls. This was not intended but presumably it would have helped to soften the light as specular highlights are not too much of a problem.
The final edit involved usual adjustments in LR3.6 to saturation, levels, sharpening etc together with burning in CS3 to darken the background which in the original shot I felt was distracting.
Olympus XZ-1
1/15 sec at f/1.8
ISO 200
6 mm
Copyright 2011 Ben Gethin
I was driving home yesterday when I saw this in the field. It had rained really badly, but there were some clouds left in the sky. The sun was shining really bright behind the clouds and it resulted in these awesome sun rays. I was like I HAVE to shoot this. Even my mom recognized the awesomeness of this shot so she drove back a bit so that I could take this shot. I must say that I had hoped for it to be a better shot, but in the end I still like it a lot :)
Actually it's an HDR from three exposure created using the auto exposure bracketing.