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Paste original again (it will be on the top layer). Apply posterization (here, a 6). Play with the number so that it wacks out the original colors, but not so much that blurring it won't obfuscate the majority of the banding posterization creates.
In the final version this will leave more color along the edges of the shadows (like on the left side of her face) while the highlights are desaturated.
You can skip this step, as the difference is subtle. I found that if you do, there is less saturation next to the shadows.
Alternate technique: Duh. Skip the posterization. Go to the next step and blur. Then saturate (a +20 gave me the same final result). You'd have more control this way anyway! next
"This year my government will endeavour to pamscadise your easing troubles"
The language of politicians is often intended to obscure and their slogans are typically incomprehensible.
Perhaps Kwesi Yankah, one of Ghana's finest political columnists, was a fan of Ionesco.
Will Coles at work, gun in hand and bucketfull of sculptures, either squinting in the strong sunlight, or coming on to me. Hmm. Maybe potentially insulting a man with a silicone gun in hand which might be used for pluggin certain orifices is not a good idea...
Image obfuscated to conceal the guilty.
Preview of Outpost, the Cockatoo Island street art festival, which runs from between 4 November - 11 December 2011. The island is open to visitors, so even though the festival wasn't open for another week, people could come watch the setup preparations.
My super-rant ahead: The common belief of how trees became petrified is a myth of science. Petrified wood, and all the formations of the US Southwest, are brimming with strong evidence of a world-wide flood that covered the earth several thousand years ago, and quickly burried these trees under mud and sediment. The cystalization process was quite quick, compared to accepted scientific timeframes. (Info for that here: earthage.org/EarthOldorYoung/scientific_evidence_for_a_worldwide_flood.htm)
There is ample evidence for this account, but that evidence is ignored, so you won't hear any of it in the media. Or if you do hear it, it's derided with all manner of logical falacies and strawman arguments to discredit, and make the other positions look weak and ill-conceived. It's no wonder that the common man doesn't give such arguments a second thought, trusting "the experts" instead.
However, giving attention to the other side of such arguments would expose the flimsy foundations of mainstream science (i.e. beliefs like: everything came from nothing, big bang, evolution, universe/earth are billions of years old, no god, we are insignificant specs of dust in an endless universe, this reality and all you see is just convenient coincidence, etc).
Mainstream science is very much a faith-based religion, albeit a well disguised one. They have woven a false belief system with just enough truth sprinkled in to keep people invested in it, as the one-and-only possible view of how the world works and our place in it. This system continues to push the mainstream narrative without question, ignoring evidence, obfuscating, leading public opinion away from questioning the version of reality they're given, and away from the overwhelming proof of there being One true Creator of all things, our significance and our purpose in His design.
Science has been built on a foundation of deceit through its heavily controlled and funded, but extremely dumbed-down egocentric legions of scientists (scientific priests) for centuries to give the public a form of stiffled scientific advancement, while keeping them ignorant, and dismissive of anything that stands to question the foundational beliefs of science. Scientists who DO question and consider exposing the problems with their "on the shoulders of giants" textbook assumptions, face ridicule in their industries and career suicide.
This is why I always say, if you care to get closer to the truth of earth's past, humanity's past, the purpose of life, and where we're going, you have to accept that truth is never given so easily. But since most of us want it to be that easy, the con artists running this world are only too happy to oblige, at your expense.
Truth has to be diligently sought out, outside of mainstream circles. media, academia and the well funded religion of science will never admit that they've been wrong. Too much is at stake, too many jobs and industries, cultures, false religions and manmade institutions would be disrupted or dissolve entirely. That won't be allowed to happen, so the chrarade will continue.
Yeshua (Jesus) said, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but through Me."
The road to the truth is in Him, and He reveals these things to us if we strip away the layers of nonsense we've been taught all our lives.
Crystal Forest,
Petrified Forest National Park
"The viewer's perspective is very non-traditional. It is not the typical male gaze intimated by the obfuscated figure found in Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère; it is not the assumptive submission to the camera but defiance. The face is fuzzed out and leans away and openly disregards the viewer. The figure reclines, recalling Western art historical tradition, but reclines with invective. The figure assumes the repose of Classical Greek statuary, the reflective introspection of the heroine after the violence of action harkening the dying warrior from the Temple of Aphaia. The focus is not the figure itself, as it is in the Three Goddesses from the east pediment of the Pantheon. There is no folding of damp fabric applied in voluptive accentuation. The folds do not billow. They are not flimsy veiling. They heave. They bend like armor. The focus lies at the figure's feet. It is as though Judith has beheaded Holofernes, the viewer. The male gaze has been decapitated and lies in its last gasps of consciousness staring up at Judith in cowed subjection. Judith has rejected the prototype offered by the Saks Fifth Avenue model who is met at eye level, in full focus to be enjoyed in all her consumptive availability. "
Merrill Hutchison
Built in 1906 and renovated circa 1930, this Renaissance Revival-style theater was designed by Claude and Starck, and features an Art Deco-style marquee and first floor front facade, and originally served as a vaudeville theater before becoming a movie theater. The building is clad in Art Moderne-style enameled metal panels on the first floor with a marquee featuring neon lights above the entrance, an Art Moderne-style ticket booth with curved corners and curved glass, and four entrance doors flanked by poster display cases. The upper portion of the building displays the original style of the facade, with painted brick cladding, limestone trim, a large five-part arched window on the second floor of the front facade above the marquee, flanked by pilasters, a cornice at the top of the second floor, blind bays on the fourth floor framed by stone trim with a large decorative cornice above, and a cornice with dentils and modillions at the top of the parapet, which obfuscates the building’s low-slope roof. The building has a footprint that bends from King Street to the stage, which sits adjacent to Doty Street, with this being very evident inside the building. The building today serves as a live performance venue, with the original wall paneling, vaulted ceiling, proscenium arch, box seats, and plaster trim on the second floor of the space being intact. The theater primarily hosts live musical acts, occasionally being used to screen televised events or movies, or being used as an event venue.
📃Despite numerous documented pleas for assistance, my persistent outreach has been met with negligence, intentional obfuscation, and malicious actions, highlighting a deeply troubling scenario. The consistent failure to provide essential legal aid and advocacy over a protracted period raises serious questions about the integrity and humanitarian claims of those responsible. Such conduct starkly contrasts with the principles they profess, revealing a disconcerting reality. #LegalAidNow #JusticeForAll #EndNegligence #AdvocacyMatters #HoldThemAccountable #HumanRights #IntegrityInAction #SpeakUp #DemandJustice #TruthExposed
The FGR group for today was "blurry shit" (that's paraphrased, I think) and it got me thinking about how the brain attempts to fill in information that isn't there. I didn't exactly follow the FGR rules, but I did get something that is more conceptual. This experiment of mine tries to illustrate a very important topic in photography. The importance of eyes.
When I shoot someone, I try to make sure you can always see their eyes (sure, there are always exceptions both in aesthetics and conceputal). Eyes always identify someone. Eyes have a very telling silent truth to them. They are haunting, unique and beautiful all at the same time.
So, if I was to blur out only my eyes, my identity would be some what obfuscated. But, as it's evident in this shot, my eyes make me who I am. Squint alittle and you can see my entire face come into focus.
The eyes are powerful, my friends. Give them the focus and respect they need.
Box cars and snake eyes, the Boston, full-house, five-book no-trump uptown, six-book hearts-trump downtown. The kitty's full -
"Sapphire! Where's my wallet? Where's my claim to acclaim?"
Four cards, one to draw, one short of the flush. Amos in the cab, two hours on his meter - "Hey G" grinning to
"I don't roll like that, 'G.'" Calhoun says,
"The price of the ticket is the eradication of obfuscation of damnation and petrification of sublimation in the nation." Man, roll the damn dice . . . Black/Jack
Twenty on the table. I don't want no hit. Soon as I'm able, I'm going for the split. Hit Me!
"Sapphire. O, Sapphire, my Jubilee."
Nougat made sure to sit among the perpendicular stripes of the blinds and the radiator. She is practicing her ninja skills. Just in case.
That there is a smug cat face.
1. For this photo I wanted to take something familiar and make it a bit abstract. To do this I simply zoomed in and removed as many identifiers as possible that gave this subject away. Of course, not every element was eliminated this way, so I lowered the exposure and aperture to blur and obfuscate what I could of the object.
2. The only real separation between the subject and the background is the contrast of the dark tones of the subject, and the whites that seep between its lines.
3. I used no artificial light for this picture. At first, the setting was too dark, to correct this I changed two things. Firstly, I did want the picture darker than it normally would be, and so I lowered the EV setting to accomplish this, but it was by too much - I simply raised it some, next I added more light by opening the blinds in the room that I took this shot.
4. For this picture, I didn't do much in regards to post-production. About the only thing I changed was a little color saturation to get a richer feel into the high tones of this image. However, on the other image I took, I changed quite a bit. I wanted to obscure as much as possible of it as well - and the majority of that I had to do in post-production. This would include cranking up the contrast, raising the exposure level more (from an already high EV setting), and I even went as far as to altering the highlights in it to make the black and white appear more in contrast with each other (my goal was to eliminate nearly all signs of grey).
5. This week I faced a few limitations. Mostly that I've been quite sick with the flu, and haven't wanted to leave my apartment and spread what I've got around. So I was forced to get creative with what I had specifically and already in my possession and immediate vicinity. This is what offered me my greatest challenge. So I had one clear goal - abstract, abstract, abstract. That's pretty much all I could make with the challenge I had to overcome.
This is a rather rare and weird phenomenon. The wind is so strong that the rain (instead of clouds) obfuscates the blue skies. So you can't really tell whether some parts of the sky are blue or cloudy.
BOOK REVIEW
THE LAWYER’S GUIDE TO WRITING WELL
By Tom Goldstein and Jethro K. Lieberman
ISBN: 978-0-520-23473-4
University of California Press, Berkeley 94720
WHY GOOD WRITING MATTERS, EVEN IF YOU’RE A LAWYER
An appreciation by Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers
When Shakespeare penned his ‘kill all the lawyers’ line - forget which play… don’t ask - he might have had it in mind that even in his day, the often bombastic outpourings of the then legal leading lights were a bit long on pomposity and a little short on clarity.
It would seem that in the intervening centuries, not a lot has changed – hence the need for this terrific book aptly titled ‘The Lawyer’s Guide to Writing Well’ by Goldstein and Lieberman.
This is one guide to writing well that’s written well – very well. It’s immensely readable, laugh-out-loud amusing, yet deadly serious. It is not a new publication, having been around on the shelves of university bookshops worldwide for a while, but the advice it provides is timeless. In our opinion it should be in the library of -- or preferably at the right hand of -- every lawyer in the English speaking world.
Lawyers who are at least dimly aware of the need for clear, concise communication should, if there’s any justice, end up with a lot more grateful clients as a result of having read and noted the contents of this book. As the Washington Post commented, ‘lawyers…need writers, or at least a guide like ‘The Lawyer’s Guide to Writing Well’ to help them put together a sentence that the rest of the world can understand.’
‘The book’s authors provide straight-to-the-heart advice for lawyers who want to face the music and turn over a new leaf in their writing…a book deemed worth having,’ intones the Harvard Law Review.
‘Deemed?’ Uh oh! We have just perused the useful and trenchant Usage Notes section at the back of the book and have come across the word ‘deem’ and the authors’ low opinion of it. ‘Many lawyers love this word, for no apparent reason,’ they say rather unkindly. In their view, no way should you say that something is ‘deemed’ inappropriate. Say instead that something is inappropriate -- like over reliance on clichés, for example.
Goldstein & Lieberman may sound a little punctilious at times and quick to mock and scorn, but they do it gracefully. And how refreshing it is to read a readable book on English usage which blasts the incessant and almost compulsive use of jargon, not just in the law, but in management-speak, techno-speak, psychobabble and just about everywhere else, including the media where folk should know better. The book’s overwhelming endorsement of plain, precise English is encouraging and certainly positive.
‘Does bad writing really matter?’ challenge the authors, arguing convincingly that it does. It matters terribly if meanings are distorted or obscured, judges and juries puzzled and clients confused.
We once saw a bumper sticker on the back of a car at university which read: ‘Eschew obfuscation’. Think about it – and if you don’t get it, you are a lost cause, so don’t bother reading this book, then.
If you do get it, you need this book to tell you how to do it. Or if you do know how to do it, you’ll find ‘The Lawyer’s Guide to Writing Well’ a useful guide to good English usage for your more verbose and obscurantist colleagues.
Nothing new about this year's election in this regard. Judging a candidate's record or competency on relevant issues is hard, after all.
Renewed step by step analysis of this obfuscated image. Copyright ©️ 2023 Freyk John Geeris
Credits NASA JPL CALTECH / Freyk John Geeris
Brent Holmes: Jones Ranch Egypt
August 28 – September 28, 2024
Solo exhibition in Serva Pool Gallery, artist talk Saturday, September 28, 2:30pm
Jones Ranch Egypt is an ongoing process engaging historic European cataloging traditions and mid-twentieth century western agitprop. In this work, Las Vegas-based artist Brent Holmes explores his relationship with mark-making, Western / cowboy roots, and the African sculptural / spiritual traditions of his ancestors. Each image is based (however loosely) on a symbolic African sculpture and a piece of American Western art. In the incorporation of the two, Holmes depicts an imaginary West highlighting the dual stolen history he often obfuscated role that people of color have played in the development of western expansion, and the colossal act of theft that is the institutional African artifacts collection industry. In iconic depictions of the West, we find a cultural erasure of black and brown bodies presented in the “Cowboy”. 20th-century Cowboy culture serves as a soft propaganda about American individuality, sparingly distributed to the 25% African American workforce (or the 35% Latino) that made up most cowboys at the end of the 19th century. In comparison, the collection and display of tribal artifacts by private and institutional collections mirror this. From an egocentric hegemonic lens, both the creation and display of African sculpture and masks is a curious note in art history excluding them from what should be considered some of the most dynamic and meaningful object-making in all of humanity’s creative endeavors. To amalgamate the two, it’s to build a libratory narrative around foregone trajectories in human history.
This exhibition is sponsored by Double Scoop who will be hosting an artist talk with Brent Holmes on September 28, 2024 at 2:30pm during their annual “Scoop Fest” event at The Holland Project. This exhibition is also supported in part by the Nevada Arts Council and National Endowment for the Arts.
While similar kudos can be applied to Joe Biden's lifetime of public service, not one of these valued attributes would stick to Teflon Donald J. Trump. Any sort of federal archive would fit into a bungalow, since he does not read or write and has demonstrated a habit of destroying notes and records pertaining to his erratic behavior. An archive of the trail of legal infringements for DJT would filled a very large building indeed, by contrast. Thinking about a hallway like this one at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum, the relevant principles that might best fit Trump fit the acronym ODD: Obfuscate by muddying the waters flooded with irrelevancies that sometimes bear a resemblance to truthiness, Distract with calls for "what-aboutism," and Delay with law-suits and threats of retribution to encourage doubts).
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My super-rant ahead: The common belief of how trees became petrified is a myth of science. Petrified wood, and all the formations of the US Southwest, are brimming with strong evidence of a world-wide flood that covered the earth several thousand years ago, and quickly burried these trees under mud and sediment. The cystalization process was quite quick, compared to accepted scientific timeframes. (Info for that here: earthage.org/EarthOldorYoung/scientific_evidence_for_a_worldwide_flood.htm)
There is ample evidence for this account, but that evidence is ignored, so you won't hear any of it in the media. Or if you do hear it, it's derided with all manner of logical falacies and strawman arguments to discredit, and make the other positions look weak and ill-conceived. It's no wonder that the common man doesn't give such arguments a second thought, trusting "the experts" instead.
However, giving attention to the other side of such arguments would expose the flimsy foundations of mainstream science (i.e. beliefs like: everything came from nothing, big bang, evolution, universe/earth are billions of years old, no god, we are insignificant specs of dust in an endless universe, this reality and all you see is just convenient coincidence, etc).
Mainstream science is very much a faith-based religion, albeit a well disguised one. They have woven a false belief system with just enough truth sprinkled in to keep people invested in it, as the one-and-only possible view of how the world works and our place in it. This system continues to push the mainstream narrative without question, ignoring evidence, obfuscating, leading public opinion away from questioning the version of reality they're given, and away from the overwhelming proof of there being One true Creator of all things, our significance and our purpose in His design.
Science has been built on a foundation of deceit through its heavily controlled and funded, but extremely dumbed-down egocentric legions of scientists (scientific priests) for centuries to give the public a form of stiffled scientific advancement, while keeping them ignorant, and dismissive of anything that stands to question the foundational beliefs of science. Scientists who DO question and consider exposing the problems with their "on the shoulders of giants" textbook assumptions, face ridicule in their industries and career suicide.
This is why I always say, if you care to get closer to the truth of earth's past, humanity's past, the purpose of life, and where we're going, you have to accept that truth is never given so easily. But since most of us want it to be that easy, the con artists running this world are only too happy to oblige, at your expense.
Truth has to be diligently sought out, outside of mainstream circles. media, academia and the well funded religion of science will never admit that they've been wrong. Too much is at stake, too many jobs and industries, cultures, false religions and manmade institutions would be disrupted or dissolve entirely. That won't be allowed to happen, so the chrarade will continue.
Yeshua (Jesus) said, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but through Me."
The road to the truth is in Him, and He reveals these things to us if we strip away the layers of nonsense we've been taught all our lives.
Crystal Forest,
Petrified Forest National Park
Obfuscations and Reflections.
The Comcast Center building in downtown Philadelphia blends into the sky.
Random factoid: This skyscraper is the second tallest Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified building in the United States!
Springtail (Entomobrya spp.)
Relatively big one: Entomobrya multifasciata
Small greenish one: probably Entomobrya schoetti
30.01.10 [2/365] Obfuscation
I accidentally slept most of the light part of the day away so photography was a struggle and I'm not entirely satisfied with this but I don't want to miss a day so here it is.
texture overlay: dyingbeautystock ♥
Golden Solution does: Ariel ReCreation (part of their Altertruism series)
Michael Candy, Andrew McLellan, Kiah Reading
6 & 8 May 2014, 6-8pm
2013 was the pivot-point year drones escaped from the clandestine nightmare of foreign warzones to the daily contemplation of civic life. Accelerating past the usual embargo placed by law enforcement and corporate application, the hobbyists have begun droning themselves, venturing with the new extension into the physical laboratory of the public. As part of the weeklong Altertruism series, Aerial ReCreation proposes new prototypes and invented encounters with a technology obfuscated by standard images and news reports.
Altertruism is a series developed by Brisbane-based philanthropists Golden Solution (Michael Candy, Andrew McLellan, Kiah Reading). Part of the 2014 Next Wave Festival, the three-part series proposes situations and environments that network human action with technological apparatus and systematize activity.
Bev Dolittle expertly manipulates color and shape to obfuscate the fore ground from the background.
Val Curry
Golden Solution does: Ariel ReCreation (part of their Altertruism series)
Michael Candy, Andrew McLellan, Kiah Reading
6 & 8 May 2014, 6-8pm
2013 was the pivot-point year drones escaped from the clandestine nightmare of foreign warzones to the daily contemplation of civic life. Accelerating past the usual embargo placed by law enforcement and corporate application, the hobbyists have begun droning themselves, venturing with the new extension into the physical laboratory of the public. As part of the weeklong Altertruism series, Aerial ReCreation proposes new prototypes and invented encounters with a technology obfuscated by standard images and news reports.
Altertruism is a series developed by Brisbane-based philanthropists Golden Solution (Michael Candy, Andrew McLellan, Kiah Reading). Part of the 2014 Next Wave Festival, the three-part series proposes situations and environments that network human action with technological apparatus and systematize activity.
An anomaly with the dimensions of a football stadium is seen just south west of the rim of Heimdall Crater. In the original image it is hardly distinguishable. Unlike the rest of the image, this part (and some other parts of the image as well where sizable anomalies can be discovered) has clearly been treated with the NASA JPL equivalent of the Photo Shop healing brush, but in 2008 it couldn't be done as well as today. Hence we can still uncover the covered up parts in 2022 with modern image (restoration) tools, at least some of it. See that huge thing with the protruding nozzle (or whatever) sticking out from the hole on the right?
Strong's Concordance on the Hebrew word echad. Part of an upcoming rebuttal to a recent missionary obfuscation regarding the Arabic "ahad(un)".
This sign along Toledo's Maumee River waterfront seems like a roundabout way of saying, "No swimming."
I bought this photo at a garage sale for fifty cents. Notice the thumbprints: some 16-year-old kid in the Silver Dollar City darkroom had fixed all over his fingers and managed to handle this still-developing image multiple times between the developer tray and the fixer. (The obfuscation of the tour guide's face--first row, third from left--appears intentional.) Somebody still paid for it.
Slovenia, on live fraxinus tree.
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Investigating a nearly misanthropic flavor of abstraction, reveling in obfuscation really -- being another technique for keeping my near-daily hobonoautical shooting walks interesting.
I cannot breathe, cannot think, obfuscated by the hour
Up as late as usual tonight, my brain is acting stranger than normal ..
MacNamara
I was only at the summit about 10 minutes when clouds rolled in obfuscating the views. But it was a Glorious Ten Minutes.
Beyond the rhetoric, Sometimes suffering is so prolonged and painful to obfuscate a little positive thinking..
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Central African Republic: 450,000 Christians flee from Muslim attacks - #Jihad Watch ow.ly/rhRqo #Islamists #bbcnews #skynews #fb The media, of course, obfuscates the root cause yet again. "450,000 Christians Flee From Muslim Attacks in the Central African Republic," by Pierre...