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We have begun the mamoth task of organizing all of the crap we've accumulated before moving house next month. Sometimes it's almost impossible to throw something away, even though you know you won't need it.
Date: March 17, 2012
Camera: Sony DSLR-A900
Exposure: 1/20 sec at f/1.4, ISO 400
Lens: 50mm F1.4 at 50 mm
© 2012 Benjamin Torode
shots taken out of boredom series
100mm+Nissin Di622
... playing w/ the flash. im quiet amazed of what this "cheap" flash can do : )
This projected piece (with spoken-word overlay) came preprogrammed with some "50 Easy Ways to Save the Earth" style sayings. Most of the anonymous responses, though, came from a rather sillier school of thought.
Three others: "I will recycle my bong water", "I will pleasure myself in the dark", "I will give it a faux hawk."
("What Will You Do?" by Nina Czegledy, Greg Judelman, Deborah Hession and Daniel Barber)
Model: Hạnh Tròn
Lighting: Khôi Đất & Hoang Phuc
Costume & Stylist: Nan Anh
Assitant: Sơn Lùn & Jimmii Khánh
Makeup & Hair style: Xiao Mei
Driver: Hieu Kenzo
Location: Bavi wild church
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Frickelfest (I love it)
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Why DIY?
Contrary to popular belief, the main reason for DIY is not (or should not be) about saving money. While this is possible in many cases (and especially against 'top of the line' commercial products), there are other, far better reasons to do it yourself.
The main one is knowledge, new skills, and the enormous feeling of satisfaction that comes from building your own equipment. This is worth far more than money. For younger people, the skills learned will be invaluable as you progress through life, and once started, you should continue to strive for making it yourself wherever possible.
Each and every new skill you learn enables the learning processes to be 'exercised', making it easier to learn other new things that come your way.
Alvin Toffler (the author of Future Shock) wrote:- "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
This is pretty much an absolute these days, and we hear stories every day about perfectly good people who simply cannot get a new job after having been 'retrenched' (or whatever stupid term the 'human resources' people come up with next). As an aside, I object to being considered a 'resource' for the corporate cretins to use, abuse and dispose of as they see fit.
The skills you learn building an electronics project (especially audio) extend far beyond soldering a few components into a printed circuit board. You must source the components, working your way through a minefield of technical data to figure out if the part you think is right is actually right. Understanding the components is a key requirement for understanding electronics.
You will probably need to brush up on your maths - all analogue electronics requires mathematics if you want to understand what is going on. The greater your understanding, the more you have learned in the process. These are not trivial skills, but thankfully, they usually sneak up on you. Before you realise it, you have been working with formulae that a few years ago you would have sneered at, thinking that such things are only for boffins or those really weird guys you recall from school.
Then there is the case to house everything. You will need to learn how to perform basic metalworking skills. Drilling, tapping threads, filing and finishing a case are all tasks that need to be done to complete your masterpiece. These are all skills that may just come in very handy later on.
Should you be making loudspeakers, then you will learn about acoustics. You will also learn woodworking skills, veneering, and using tools that you may never have even known existed had you not ventured into one of the most absorbing and satisfying hobbies around.
Ok, that's fine for the younger generation(s), but what about us 'oldies'? We get all the same benefits, but in some cases, it is even possible to (almost) make up for a lifetime spent in an unrewarding job. As we get older, the new skills are less likely to be used for anything but the hobby, but that does not diminish the value of those skills one iota.
However, it's not all about learning, it's also about doing. Few people these days have a job where at the end of the day they can look at something they built. Indeed, in a great many cases, one comes home at the end of the day, knowing that one was busy all day with barely time for lunch, yet would be hard pressed to be able to say exactly what was achieved. What would have happened if what you did today wasn't done? Chances are, nothing would have happened at all - whatever it was you did simply wasn't done (if you follow the rather perverse logic in that last statement ).
Where is the satisfaction in that? There isn't any - it's a job, you get paid, so are able to pay your bills, buy food and live to do the same thing tomorrow.
When you build something, there is a sense of pride, of achievement - there is something to show for it, something tangible. No, it won't make up for a job you hate (or merely dislike), but at least you have created something. Having done it once, it becomes important to do it again, to be more ambitious, to push your boundaries.
Today, a small preamp. Tomorrow, a complete state of the art 5.1 sound system that you made from raw materials, lovingly finished, and now provides enjoyment that no store-bought system ever will.
Used my coffee can flash modifier to really narrow the light from my flash. People were looking at it in amusement and confusion, but if they saw how the results looked they might make their own.
Heaven you may ask? Hardly. Lavirotte Art Nouveau Building in Paris.
Christina Saint Marché wardrobe: Blonde Fox Coat. Platinum dyed hair. Latex Corset in multi-level pink with 18 karat gold accoutrements from Deak-Perera.
I Have to admit that im not the best dark ride photographer but this picture comes with a story. A few years ago, I was in California with my friend and her family. We were in Hollywood eating at the Disney Soda Fountain Shop. We take two of the three tables they had at the front window. After a while a couple comes in and asks if anybody was sitting at the table next to us and we said, "your more then welcome to sit here". After a few minutes we finally realized who those nice people were. It was the great Richard Sherman and his wife. Now being the Disney fan that I am, I couldn't believe that I was sitting next a person who wrote some of the greatest Disney songs know to man and whose boss was none other then my idol Walt Disney. We respected him and and went about eating, but man, the questions I wish I could have asked that man. Come to find out, they were having the premier at the El Capitan Theater for the new Sherman Boys movie that very same day. What a great memory to have. He had any table to choose from and he chose to sit with us. What an honor. I hope you enjoyed my story.
Here’s my “destined for donation but has potential” dolls. I’ve been trying to see if I should keep this Sharpay due to her glue head but a treatment of cornstarch to remove huge chunks of glue, laundry powder to take care of her gummy hair and then a boilwash made her more tolerable to me.
The guy is a Fairy Prince doll I thought looked too awkward but then I switched him over to an older style Ken body and his long face suits the ken body’s proportions. I made his shirt from scraps cuz I loved the feel and weight but thought the print was too big. But i remember @dollsahoy‘s philosophy on “scale” fabric and I’m glad I made it. his skinny jeans are the My Scene Hudson bellbottoms I took in on the sides lol.
And the Shimmeron style doll was a *tiny* fairy doll head I modded to fit an old style ballerina body and painted it silver.
We have begun the mamoth task of organizing all of the crap we've accumulated before moving house next month. Sometimes it's almost impossible to throw something away, even though you know you won't need it.
Date: March 17, 2012
Camera: Sony DSLR-A900
Exposure: 1/30 sec at f/1.4, ISO 400
Lens: 50mm F1.4 at 50 mm
© 2012 Benjamin Torode
Winner of 1st Place in Two-Person Quilt category and Overall Award for Piecing at Changing Gears 2010 Quilt Show in Austin, TX. This design was developed before I had Electric Quilt software so I designed it on homemade hexagon graph paper. I pieced the top by hand with a modified version of the English paper piecing technique using hand-cut plastic templates instead of paper. There are more than 5,300 ¾-inch hexagons in the top. To preserve the hexagon shapes along the edge, the outside edge is faced with hexagons that match the color of the hexagons on top. The facing was applied by hand. Leslie Sparks of Glory B Quilting in Cedar Park, TX did the quilting, saving my fingers from having to quilt through all of those seam allowances. Thanks, Leslie!
האיור השבועי למדור ''תיק פלילי'' של גידי מרון בידיעות אחרונות. והפעם: ילדים בכתה ד' יוצאים לסיור בבית המשפט בשביל הצצה ראשונה במציאות.
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The fourth grade kids having their first peak of reality.
Editorial Illustration for 'Yediot Aharonot' Newspaper Criminal Section.
Image of Saving Money Tiles. Perfect for articles, blogs on saving money, couponing, and more.
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Financial Planning for a four year old.
The challenge was you were only able to use one light, but it needed to look like there was more than one.
Firstly, about 2 years ago, I did a photoshop job on a sign that says "Flood" next to the river in New Farm. I painted the river water up around the Flood sign which is next to a restaurant and quite large. Every time we get lots of rain here, the views for this photo goes through the roof, as people see it from a search.
Today, someone posted a link at the bottom of the comments to a ABC news photo of THE REAL THING and if you look at them side by side, it is amazingly similar. Mine was pure speculation.
As we walk around the Gilligans Island where we are trapped, I can't help but notice the irony of some signs, as if you haven't already guessed.
This was a silent carwash down the street.
Our late walking excursion showed that the water is dropping, probably by about half a metre from what we saw this morning.
The river is still a raging torrent, but the moorings and boats have ceased to float by, although there is a lot of smaller junk going passed.
I just watched on TV a large sinking yacht in the river with 2 men on board. Eventually, the yacht sank rapidly from the rear, and the 2 men managed to separate in runabouts, but they were very close, and as the yacht went down, the bow flipped up and over and the masts and rigging capsized the runabouts and depositied the people in the river. Apparently they were both rescued and one was slightly hurt.
I spoke to a policeman at the city end of the road closure, and he told me that if the circumstances were desperate, they would allow me to drive out on the only available bridge exit lane but I may not be able to get back. There are roads flooded everywhere, and it may be tricky finding a path through streets that were usable, if we were to try to return home.
It will be interesting to see what tomorrow brings, as it is possible that the water will drop quickly and sufficiently, to allow more roads to open.
People this afternoon were able to walk to the dry parts of the city and South Bank, but it is only open to people and pushbikes, as it uses an elevated pedestrian path.
A lady I spoke to returning from this trip says that South Bank looks like a war zone.
We are doing ok, we still get some emergency power, as the building manager has found a way to get friends deliver a drum of fuel at the railway overhead bridge where he meets it to trolly it across the railway to bring to the apartment. He is fantastic for that effort.
We walked over the railway footbridge to the dry side of the line, and found a small Chinese store who had friends buy essentials like bread, milk, batteries at stores in parts of the city less affected, and drive them to their shop so people here can buy some things. It is the only shop open here. Top marks to them for their efforts.
My comment last night about my camera was that the cable connecting the camera to the laptop was left behind. I have more photos, but no way of getting them onto the laptop.
If I use my Panasonic camera, it is all good, this is what you see today.
Cheers for now, and let's see what tomorrow brings. Mrs Mail is pressing to return to the castle, even though there is no electricity there.
A Reworking of 'Alice',Deep Dream Generator,Photoshop. Cyborg Alice Misused,Abused and Thrown onto a cyborg Scrapheap has been rescued by a mechanic and is now under Repair and Restoration..."Poor Alice"!
Prompt:- Spare Parts, modify composition by enhancing detail of spare parts, rust, tools, and enhance their distinctness, shine, etc and by showing the table, woman's head and shoulders on a table as she is being repaired with old rusty tools and spare parts.
If you are ever in Waikiki Beach in Hawaii and you venture to this gazebo at the end of the pier, there will be two gentlemen. These fellows were there every morning to greet the sun as I was. I would like to say hello again, if you ever reach the end of this pier, please say hello for me!
A saiga roams the steppe in Russia's Kalmykia region, which is a key stronghold for the species, and the epicentre of conservation efforts. The saiga are now in peril threat because of climate change. Due to bacteria that thrive in warmer weather, saiga populations are critically endangered. Poaching for their valuable horns makes the situation much worse. UNDP has supported the conservation efforts of these endangered species in Russia and Kazakhstan. Read more: stories.undp.org/saving-the-saiga
I found a bag of vintage craft felt at the thrift store in November for $.99 and have been using it to make Christmas outfits for Betsy McCall.
I ironed out the wrinkles by placing a wet cotton dishcloth over it and ironing on the wet towel.
This is the original, unprocessed image of this photograph.
Another Panasonic DMC-FZ28 user, renantcheng requested to see the original, full sized image for noise comparison.
Shot at Bogart's Place, Apple Valley, Minnesota, with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28. No flash, but at 400iso. I'm pretty happy with the camera's performance.
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
Peter De Vries