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A tiny center bud is out of synch... but may have made the flower truly unique.
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Harry heard the high voice shriek as he too yelled his best hope to the heavens, pointing Draco’s wand:
“Avada Kedavra!”
“Expelliarmus!”
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 36: The Flaw in the Plan
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The long-awaited showdown comes to end, with Voldemort’s own hubris being his final un-doing. Fitting that it was Draco’s wand in the end that helped save everyone, eh?
I know it’s not a big build but I thought it would be cooler to focus on the spells rather than architecture or flooring or something, since this is, after all, the climactic battle of the series.
Stay tuned for the final vignette tomorrow!
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Book 1: Harry Potter and Philosopher’s Stone - Marcel Veit
Book 2: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Markus Rollbuhler
Book 3: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Kevin Wollert
Book 4: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Thorsten Xenomurphy
Book 5: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – Johannes Vaio
Book 6: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – Mel Finelli
Book 7: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Jared Rosenblitt
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I have all my flaws but I use them one at time.
And the sins?
The sins with subtle steps, they creeps inside, a serpent kiss, a whispered pride it weaves its web, a snare so fine and in its grasp, the heart does decline
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. ~ Havelock Ellis
Happy Imagoism Thursday!
Pattaya City, TH
a heavenly macro shot of a yellow rose....dat i find perfectly heavenly flawed..just like me..i am *unique*...
^i^
*perfectly flawed* ~ song lyrics by otep
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej4uAtX7SCE
If you do this
If you do this
If you do this you’ll never have a chance to try again
If you do this you’ll never have a chance to try
It’s the same sound
The same sting
The same collapse
Of everything
It’s the same slice
Same blade
The same lie
Same old vein
My weight, my face
My height, my race
I’m a mistake
My weight, my face
My height, my race
I’m such a disgrace
You’re perfectly flawed
You’re perfectly incomplete
Like cracks in the glass
And faded photographs
You’re perfectly flawed
You’re perfectly incomplete
Let them condemn
Imperfections make you unique
Nothing left to lose,
Just try again
Nothing left to lose,
Just try again
It’s the same doubt
The same dream
It’s the same sabotage
`Cause I’m the enemy
It’s the same night
The same day
It’s the same parasites
Feedin’ on the betrayed
My weight, my face
My height, my race
I’m a mistake
My weight, my face
My height, my race
I’m such a disgrace
You’re perfectly flawed
You’re perfectly incomplete
A work in progress
Imperfections make you unique
A disguise of self deception
Hides my secrets perfectly
I’m rejecting my reflection
`Cause I hate the way it judges me
Don’t you do it,
You’re not even you yet
Don’t you do it,
You’re not even you yet
You’re perfectly flawed
You’re perfectly incomplete
Like cracks in the glass
And faded photographs
You’re perfectly flawed
You’re perfectly incomplete
A work in progress
Imperfections make you unique
The Spill Canvas.
I got my textures from...
www.flickr.com/photos/8078381@N03/sets/72157603745560932/
So yeah, I love this song. Listen to the lyrics, it's lovely.
"Out of all the flaws I’ve stumbled upon,
It’s the hardest one to focus on,
It's the hardest one to focus on."
scttata con tamron 90 /2.8
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Found all four Strut It! Bratz but every single one had a flawed lip or makeup issue. Ugh. So bummed and I wanted fianna desperately :(
Allow me to share one of my pet peeves with you: photographers who once used film, then switched to digital and then complain about all the things they missed about using film. And they usually do so in a manner that suggests that film is gone and not an option for them anymore. I don't get it. If you miss film, then use it again. It's that simple. First, film isn't obsolete, it's still viable and easily found. Sure, there are aspects to the technology that digital has exceeded. But then again there are aspects to the technology that digital is still trying to catch up with film. Then there are aspects to the technology that are like apples and oranges. Second, it isn't an "either or" situation, right? If you want to dust off your film camera and load it with a roll of slide film or b&w film you neither have to set aside your dslr nor worry about any photography police busting down your door and fining you for mixing mediums.
It is all kinds of ridiculous, I know. But you may be surprised how many photographers I speak to or read about who come from film backgrounds and are now all digital who reminisce, wax, whine, complain or rant about how their old film cameras produced sharper images or how that old Fuji Velvia had "lollypop-like colors" (an actual quote from an article I just read where the photographer was doing just what I am writing about. Fuji Velvia by the way is still readily available on the market.). Or they will tell you how the process of using a large format camera was so much more enjoyable. Or they miss using cameras that didn't require batteries. The list can go on and on. And I just want to take them aside and politely but insistently point out that hey, nobody is forcing you to use just your digital camera. You can still use both, you can enjoy the strengths inherent in both portions of this spectrum.
But alas, I think the issue most of these photographers face is... well, I think there are two. First off they are addicted to a drug called convenience. They are hooked on the ability to see their images instantly. The instant gratification and instant feedback qualities to digital photography are certainly in and of themselves not bad things. They have many beneficial uses... until you become addicted to them and so reliant on them that you feel unable to be a photographer without them. If you listen closely, most ex-film photographers will hint that this is the reason "they could never possibly use film again". This isn't a healthy perspective to operate from.
The second reason is a tunnel vision-like perspective that is causing them to look only forward. We get so caught up in the march of technology we think it is a straight, two-dimensional line. There is only forward, or what has already been left behind. Yesterday's camera is made obsolete by today's camera, which will only be good until tomorrow's camera comes out and the marketing world tells you that today's camera is now obsolete. This is an incredibly narrow way of looking at things. By this logic, well, pinhole cameras would be super obsolete. After all, the Egyptians used them! Technology that old.... well why bother? It so far back... there and I'm only looking forward.
See what I mean? Hopefully you do.
Of course, there is an especially amusing irony in how many photographers who have only known digital are now experimenting with film cameras. They are going out and buy Lomos or Holgas or pinholes or TLRs or Hasselblads. All the while there is the other portion of the photographic population missing their film days but refusing to accept that they could have their cake and eat it too.
So if you are reading this and thinking, hey I'm one of those ex-film photographers eeyoring about what I am missing, what can I do? Here ya go:
Step 1. Go to your closet and reach all the way to the top and back where your old Minolta SRT has been sitting since you bought that Canon 10D all that time ago. Don't worry that it has been sitting untouched for a decade, it will still work just fine.
Step 2. Turn around and walk to your computer. In the browser bar type in: "www.adorama.com" (alternately you could also type in other sites such as www.bhphotovideo.com or www.bluemooncamera.com). Once there, run a search for "Kodak Tri-X". Yes, that film you cut your teeth on and remember so fondly for its rich tonality and gritty texture is still quite available. Now, order a roll.
Step 3. Wait a few days for the film to arrive.
Step 4. Load the film into your SRT. If you forget how run a Google search for an instruction manual. You'll find it as a free PDF to download.
Step 5. Now here is the really radical part. You have two shoulders. So take your SRT and hang it on your left shoulder. Take your Canon 7D and hang it on your right. Now point yourself toward your front door and go enjoy yourself.
It's that simple. You can thank me later by showing me great photos from that roll of Tri-X alongside great photos from your 7D.
Hmmm...Flawed...?...Full to the brim...? or a funky fun flower study?Actually, it's all three!
This was drawn and painted in the summer of 2006...when I was loosely beginning an attempt to introduce myself to the "wonder of watercolor". :)It is a spread in one of those inexpensive, thick, beginner all purpose sketchbookswith lots of simply average paper.I never intended it for a post...I didn't even have a blog then.
But, When thinking about the Illustration Friday theme for today: "Flawed"
and paging through past work at the same time...this spread spoke to me loudly and clearly:
...Could it just be that the things we once considered flawed in our lives are really jewels that have yet to be seen with "new" eyes??? Maybe you too will
discover a "flawed jewel" in your life today! :)
Illustration Friday: "Flawed"
January 30, 2009
“You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.”
~Martha Graham
"I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect."
~Unknown
"Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me."
~Alice Walker