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The wicked team over at Smashing Magazine have posted their newest assortment of wallpapers for the month of August, one of which being my Signalnoise A/V piece. I had previously posted a version of the work entitled Varo International Ltd., but reworked it for Smashing.
If you’re looking to color up your system, head over to Smashing Magazine and check out the newest gallery of wallpapers.
©2008 James White. All rights reserved.
Explore #189; December 21, 2008
This is a camera toss to which the Fractalius filter was applied... The target was the lights on our Christmas tree. The geometry has not changed.
Just featured in "Smashing Magazine" - www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/09/25/beautiful-examples-of...
"one of the most 20 creative and original submissions"
view all the best entries on Smashing Magazine »
An attempt at tilt shift processing. This image was very very tricky to process because its slanted. Only after few trials (of processing, I mean) I got the DoF right. And after that I liberally increased the saturation and dodged and burned without worries to give it a toy-like feel :)
What do you think?
Taken on the tram in Getty Center. The freeway you see is I-405 (San Diego Freeway). Shot at 180mm.
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Thanks for your visits and comments on my last pic. I had submitted it to New York Times and it appeared here (the link might change)
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I am a little busy for few more weeks.
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Check out this smashing magazine article for some inspiration!
Squiggled door grille with initial E at Basel, Switzerland.
(No, this is no Ampersand ;-)
Verschnörkeltes schmiedeeisernes Türgitter mit Initial E in Basel.
DSC01161
Featured in www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/02/15/35-beautiful-examples... as one of the 35 Beautiful Examples Of Animals Photography
-Added to theCream of the Crop pool as most favorited.
For more information:
www2.philadelphiazoo.org/zoo/Meet-Our-Animals/Mammals/Car...
Cherry blossom in downtown Savannah, Georgia.
No. 1 of Feb 27, 2006 in Flickr's Explore.
Also showcased by Smashing Magazine as one of the 35 Beautiful Pictures For Spring Inspiration on Mar 23, 2009.
my first tilt-shift photography try.
نوع من التصوير و التعديل يظهر الصوره و كأنها لقطه لمجسم صغير
ان شاء الله تعجبكم اول محاولة لي فيه
اللي يبي يشوف امثله رائعه لهالنوع من التصوير:
www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/11/16/beautiful-examples-of...
.. and a God of lesser people to bank upon.
This boy seemed a bit different from the others. He seemed to think and have some sort of individuality. He will face tough odds to keep his dreams as he grows. Poverty, lack of good education, religious leaders drumming up paranoia and above all a world suspicious of him just because he is a Muslim.
My prayers are with him and other children here. May be they will grow up and there will be a different world, undivided by color and prayer style. More equitably distributed and more tolerant.
Visit this link to see some touching pictures of children from all over the world.
www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/10/15/poverty-lets-make-a-d...
My Smashing Book just arrived. Thanks to the Smashing Magazine team for sending me this free copy! Check out Smashing Magazine for more infos.
***Please feel free to use this Texture in your Artwork, if you do use it i would love it if you would please post your work in my group here****
www.flickr.com/groups/1296873@N23/
Thank you ***
Brushes~
Day 60/365
The rain woke me up again this morning, but I'm beginning to love waking up to it. In a strange way, it feels almost cosy. That is, so long as I don't have to go outside in it!
Luckily it warmed up this afternoon and I was able to get some nice light. :)
This is in the local farmyard, just opposite the house, I rather liked the idea of Sasha standing in it (all in pink). She looked so out of place, I thought it might create a nice controversial feel.
Anyway, hope you like this!! If you haven't seen this already, two of my photographs were featured in Smashing Magazine's October Wallpaper post. Check it out to download them! www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/09/30/desktop-wallpaper-cal...
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Model: Sasha Bell
Photographer: Olivia Bell (i.e. me!)
Processing: Olivia Bell (i.e. me!)
Facebook Page - Twitter - Olivia Bell Photography (website) - Formspring
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Olivia Bell
At Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, numbers within each terminal's letter indicate the walking time. This is so simple and great.
seen in smashing magazine blog post, August 2010
featured in www.smashingmagazine.com/funny-clever-original-signs-part-3/
featured in abduzeedo.com/typography-mania-92
Collage created using Shape Collage
Collage stolen from:
www.drweb.de/magazin/farben-themen-und-paletten-10-mal/
Photos stolen from:
www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/07/21/pop-art-is-alive-clas...
From the awesome macro studio made out of two pieces of paper
The macro studio is from a Strobist post, but I can't find it again.
fun for cheap is go.
I'm trialing Photoshop Lomo actions from here
cos I'm slack
Strobist - el cheapo macro studio, single Vivtar 285 HV fired at 1/16 camera right above sheet of paper as diffuser. Triggered by Cactus V2
This photo was one of winners of annual Photo contest organized by Smashing Magazine. My every morning starts with cup of coffee and reading Smashing magazine blog. That was also theme of photo contest - Daily dose of inspiration. More info here: www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/06/19/inspiration-around-us...
The Foggy Desktop ;-)
OS: Windows 10 Pro x64
Wallpaper: Kaohsiung City by peaceful shots
Rainmeter 3.3.0 beta r2464
Rainmeter Date/Clock: Color Flow
Rainmeter Weather: Amana Launcher and Weather
Rainmeter Audio Spectrum: Kantas
Taskbar Icons: Dashel Icon Set
Aero: Aero Glass
Taskbar Transparency: wTrans
Yay, my pic got published as a spring inspiration in Smashing magazine.
www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/03/23/35-high-quality-pics-...
Made my day!!! Just had to share. :D
old film I almost forgot to develop.
EDIT.
this picture has been featured here:
m.smashingmagazine.com/2010/03/10/uncovering-toy-cameras-...
Attempt at a tilt-shift fake. Taken from the Eiffel Tower looking west. Converted to a tilt-shift fake using Photoshop. Comments gratefully received!
Listed in the "50 Beautiful Examples Of Tilt-Shift Photography" at Smashing Magazine
Very proud!
Gouache in my moleskine sketchbook.
It's currently with Moleskine in Milan, Italy for exhibit in several of their events.
**Featured in Smashing Magazine.
My week old Macbook Pro! It's doing pretty awesome. Didn't change much from my previous screenshot other than the icons and whatnot.
I had the funny "Snow Leopard" background on for a while (via Smashingmagazine.com), but got really bored of it's "cute-ness". My Snow Leopard is on it's way! I can't wait to install it!
Here's the list of apps that are currently occupying my dock:
Finder, Dictionary, Safari, Photobooth, Mail, iTunes, Firefox, MSN, Pages, TextEdit, TextWrangler (coding), MS Word, Aperture 2, Limewire, Photoshop CS4, Flickr Uploadr, System Preferences, Application with Darth Vader icon, Documents, Downloads, Trash.
I also have iStat running on the top bar
The poster, with text reading "Zabawka" or "Toy," is by Stefan Norblin from 1933. It was found on Smashing Magazine's excellent feature "The Legacy Of Polish Poster Design;" full post (with many, many more excellent images) here.
Of or relating to the Morbid Anatomy Blog.
In a very sleek and contemporary design, this tie company knows the importance of having a responsive website design for e-commerce.
The day that I have posted this "Grande Dame" I could not imagine even to arrive one day at such a success.
Thanks to Flickr but also to Smashingmagazine.com and Digg.com who have relieved this photo.
And thanks to you all of you.
Le jour ou j'ai posté cette "Grande Dame", je me pouvais même pas m'imaginer arriver un jour à un tel succès.
Merci à Flickr mais aussi à Smashingmagazine.com et Digg.com qui ont relayer cette photo.
Et merci à vous tous.
Original is here:
BlueMasters for Drupal is based on the BlueMasters PSD template, which was designed by Wendell Fernandes and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers.
BlueMasters has been ported to Drupal and is supported by More than Themes, as part of our ongoing effort to bring quality themes to Drupal.
Which other theme would you like to see ported to Drupal?
Let us know at www.drupalizing.com.
Features
- Custom front page with 4 block regions
- Footer with 4 block regions
- A total of 12 block regions
- implementation of a JS Slideshow
- CSS rules for
- Read More and Comment buttons
- Images into content or blocks
- Contact form
- 2-column layout for inner pages
- 3-column layout with a JS Slideshow for the front page
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BlueMasters for Drupal is based on the BlueMasters PSD template, which was designed by Wendell Fernandes and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers.
BlueMasters has been ported to Drupal and is supported by More than Themes, as part of our ongoing effort to bring quality themes to Drupal.
Which other theme would you like to see ported to Drupal?
Let us know at www.drupalizing.com.
Features
- Custom front page with 4 block regions
- Footer with 4 block regions
- A total of 12 block regions
- implementation of a JS Slideshow
- CSS rules for
- Read More and Comment buttons
- Images into content or blocks
- Contact form
- 2-column layout for inner pages
- 3-column layout with a JS Slideshow for the front page
///////////////////////////////////////////////
BlueMasters for Drupal is based on the BlueMasters PSD template, which was designed by Wendell Fernandes and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers.
BlueMasters has been ported to Drupal and is supported by More than Themes, as part of our ongoing effort to bring quality themes to Drupal.
Which other theme would you like to see ported to Drupal?
Let us know at www.drupalizing.com.
Features
Custom front page with 4 block regions
Footer with 4 block regions
A total of 12 block regions
implementation of a JS Slideshow
CSS rules for
Read More and Comment buttons
Images into content or blocks
Contact form
2-column layout for inner pages
3-column layout with a JS Slideshow for the front page
BlueMasters for Drupal is based on the BlueMasters PSD template, which was designed by Wendell Fernandes and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers.
BlueMasters has been ported to Drupal and is supported by More than Themes, as part of our ongoing effort to bring quality themes to Drupal.
Which other theme would you like to see ported to Drupal?
Let us know at www.drupalizing.com.
Features
- Custom front page with 4 block regions
- Footer with 4 block regions
- A total of 12 block regions
- implementation of a JS Slideshow
- CSS rules for
- Read More and Comment buttons
- Images into content or blocks
- Contact form
- 2-column layout for inner pages
- 3-column layout with a JS Slideshow for the front page
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Good times with the Apart brands' friendly competitors, @markodugonjic, @indysigner, and Gru AKA Vitaly Friedman.
I designed a wallpaper for the kind folks over at Smashing Magazine and they included it in their monthly desktop gallery. You can download a version with the calendar included, or a standard version.
Head over to the post on Smashing Magazine to download.
©2008 James White. All rights reserved.
Please follow the link below to see more photos from the collection.
reallynattu.com/blog/the-smashing-book-in-pictures/
To check out more about the book please visit: www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/12/03/smashing-book-its-out...
Follow me on twitter: www.twitter.com/reallynattu
My new desktop theme for the coming Xmas.
Wallpaper: Christmas Train
VS: Snow World
AveDesk Icons: Smashing Christmas Icon Set, Snow Leopard
RocketDock & Icons: Panther in Xmas mood, Christmas Time
Rainlendar (including clock): statica
Rainmeter (system info): Enigma
AveDesk Weather: made by myself ( Icons: My Real Weather Bubble Version)
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Tilt Shift em uma foto minha com ajuda do Photoshop.
Conheci esse estilo de fotografia há pouco tempo, mas achei bem interessante o efeito que ele causa.
Pra quem quer saber mais:
pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt-shift
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt-shift_photography
50 belos exemplos:
www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/11/16/beautiful-examples-of...
11 October 2013
Today was SURPRISINGLY GOOD!
I fell asleep on the couch last night and woke up really early in the morning (like, 6:30) so I went back to my bedroom and tried to go back to sleep. Unfortunately, I had no luck with that. Around 8, even though I was tired and my eyes were stinging, I got up and came out to the living room.
I felt like shit. For some reason, my jaw had started hurting. The residual frustration from the previous day came back. I didn't want to go outside, or see people. I felt lonely and far away and unmotivated.
(I NEED TO WARN YOU: this entry contains depictions of extreme emotions. I said it before, but… it's just not a good time of the month. Don't judge me. This is truly par for the course; just ask Jimmy how much fun I am when PMSing--my MO is weird funny shit and crying, or as he says "It's like your brain is a piñata filled with candy and spiders.")
I needed to pay my credit card bill since it's due in a few days, and I thought of having to go back down to the cafe to use the internet and got annoyed again. I decided I needed to buy a puzzle, a big puzzle, and seclude myself for the weekend to do it (or just seclude myself in general). I guess doing puzzles is kind of like meditation for me. But for the morning, since I didn't want to get around, I decided maybe painting would be a good way to work out my emotions instead.
I decided to play with watercolors. I've always been really wary about using them. I had an art class in high school and I loved all the projects EXCEPT WATERCOLORS. I couldn't stand how thin the paint was and how I couldn't control it, so I'd always mix it too thick. I remember one day the substitute teacher (who was a retired art teacher--cool guy, but with a very strong personality) looked at what I was doing and was like "NO, NO" and took my painting over to the sink and rinsed off everything I'd just painted! He showed me how I should have been doing it and gave me tips… but since then I've avoided watercolors entirely.
But I love the way watercolors look. I've seen so many beautiful watercolor paintings, and I'd love to improve with them. So I decided to just play around with them, with no real aim or subject, and try to get used to them a little more. I kind of just mixed layers of colors, added or subtracted water to see how it changed the texture, and tried painting a couple little things. It was annoying, though, because it seems impossible to keep two adjacent colors from mixing on the paper! I know I probably need to let one dry a bit first, but I'm an impatient person.
I want to be good at art. That's the most general and inaccurate sentence, but what I mean is that I want to be able to properly and eloquently express beautiful things. I love looking at paintings, photographs, etchings, drawings, etc, that others have done. I really admire musical expressions as well, and adore poetry. I've always striven to be a "Renaissance Woman" (a boy once called me that in high school and I was so flattered, I dated him for two years!) in the sense that I'm interested in lots of different things. And I think it's valuable to be well-versed in many different disciplines and intellectual/artistic pursuits.
But sometimes I feel like I'm just "kind-of good" at a lot of things, and not REALLY SUPREMELY GOOD at anything. When I draw things, people are usually like "oh, that's a nice drawing." But it's not like "WOW THIS IS A WONDERFUL TRANSCENDENT PIECE OF ART!"
I just feel like I'm too logical sometimes. I have all these weird abstract feelings inside me, and I want to express them in a pure way that evokes the same emotions in others. But it all comes out highly structured, analytical, too accurate, too blunt, minimalistic. That's how I write, too. I think my writing can be incisive, accurate, and effective. But I don't think it's very emotionally evocative or aesthetically beautiful. The type of eloquence I achieve is just "plaintive," I fear.
I've tried to push myself into writing more abstractly and emotionally. But most of the time when I write poetry, like, I can't take myself seriously. It just sounds so avant-garde and dramatic and for-its-own-sake. Art is even more difficult because it's so subjective--I compare myself to others, but that's not helpful. The whole point of visual art is that you have YOUR OWN style. Even pieces of art that seem less technically well-executed than others might be more INTERESTING or beautiful or raw. So I'm constantly fighting myself to accept my own style but still improve my technical proficiency. It's a process.
And I just kept crying today randomly. If something I was painting frustrated me, I started crying. If a sad song came on, I started crying. If I thought of something sad… tears. It was silly. Also my eyes stung from being tired.
But then, out of the blue, my phone rang. It was a lady from the English Jazztel line, saying that the line had received a call from me yesterday and was returning it. Relieved to be speaking English, I explained my situation to her, and how I'd tried to get through the other line yesterday. I told her that the system never recognized my number when I put it in. She asked me if I'd received a text from Jazztel after the phone call when we set up my contract. I'd completely forgotten, since it was over a week ago, but I HAD gotten a text from them!
She told me that the text should contain the land line phone number associated with my contract, and that THAT was the number I needed to enter. I thanked her a ton and then immediately called the other number. After entering the CORRECT number, I talked to a guy and explained my situation. He told me that he'd notified a technician, and that I should get a phone call in the next week or so to set up the appointment. He said the very latest the installation would be done would be October 25th. I hoped it wouldn't take that long, but at least I'd taken a step in the right direction, I figured.
I hung up and went back to painting and drawing. But less than an hour later, my phone rang again.
It was a technician who was like "Are you in your house? I can be there in 20 minutes." I was like "YES COME ON OVER!!" I skipped around happily and frantically, cleaning myself up a little and tidying up a bit. The technician came and quickly installed everything. He didn't have the router and was like "they will send it to you…" but I rushed to my bedroom closet, because I knew a previous resident had left a router here. We hooked it up and… lo and behold! INTERNET IN MY APARTMENT!!
Things happen that way. Just when I thought yesterday that I'd never have internet, I suddenly had it all hooked up.
I naturally spent a ton of the time happily and comfortably surfing the internet from my couch BECAUSE NOW I CAN. I made some lunch and was able to Skype with Jimmy from my kitchen and terrace for the first time! I painted some more, between using Spotify and reading the news.
I also downloaded a VPN, HideMyAss, because I want to use Netflix here. But I'm honestly having some difficulty using it! Whenever I connect to a VPN in the US, no web pages will load or anything. I'm sure it's just a settings issue that I have wrong, but quite honestly, I don't know a lot about computers outside what I normally use them for.
Does anyone had experience with VPNs? I really want this to work so I can have Netflix, but if it doesn't there's a 30-day money-back guarantee, so I don't have to pay for the VPN service if it turns out not to work for me. Maybe I just need to spend more time figuring it out.
Anyway, I got frustrated with the VPN and also decided I should go outside at least a little today. In addition to my ANNOYING JAW PAIN, I'd developed a bad headache from not drinking coffee all day. So I went down to ambigu for a cafe con leche and drew a little bit in a notebook.
Then I walked over the the art shop that I went to last week. I knew they sell puzzles there, and I also wanted to ask about art classes, since Isabel told me they offer some there.
The lady I talked to was super nice (by the way, it's getting easier and easier for me to talk and understand people… much more natural) and told me about the class schedules. She showed me paintings that other students had done, and we actually chatted on and on for a while about different styles of art, which was cool. The classes are really laid back--you pay either 30 euros a month for one class each week, or 50 for two each week. Then you can come in either in the morning or evening, whatever time and for however long, to work on your art with the teacher there to guide you and help you along.
It's a little pricey (but really, less than 10 euros a class) but I think I might enjoy taking a class. I'm definitely thinking about it, and as long as I start making money from private lessons, I'm probably going to take a class. I'm also thinking of taking a Pilates or yoga class, since Yolanda told me that offer them for VERY reasonable prices at the pabellon (like 42 euros for 3 months, 2 classes a week). I want to go get more info about that soon, too.
So then, yes, I bought a puzzle. I can't resist! It's like a really weird guilty pleasure. I guess the only reason I feel guilty is because I could honestly sit and do puzzles and listen to music for hours without any social contact and be sooo content. And I've done that lots of times in my life…
I only bought a 500-piece puzzle, because it was cheaper… but they have 2000-piecers, which is just like the perfect size. Again, when I feel more secure about my money, I'll surely buy more (or, you know, if anyone wants to send me a care package… just saying… there are always cheap puzzles at thrift stores… I prefer the Charles Wysocki ones…).
So I came home with my treasure and set about doing it, with lovely, glorious Spotify to provide me with music. Since my jaw was sore, I had gazpacho for dinner while I worked on the puzzle. It was a wonderful, relaxing evening. I Skyped with my parents a little later on, and then it was late, so I went to bed!
April Desktop (1920x1200 please zoom in to see full details)
Enigma 2.0 Rainmeter Skin by Kaelri
Theme
NOOTO VS by lassekongo83
Wallpaper
Bring to Life by Hannah Kunar from Smashing Magazine Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2009
Icons
Mostly from ecqlipse 2 Icon Set by chrfb and the rest from diferent users in the icon's category in deviantART
Good times with the Apart brands' friendly competitors, @markodugonjic, @indysigner, and Gru AKA Vitaly Friedman.
www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/11/30/50-beautiful-examples...
I have five photos in 50... Congrats other friends :))
Please no award, no fave...
My inspiration for The Smashing Coffee Mug Photo Contest. www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/26/the-smashing-coffee-m...
Smashing Magazine, one of my favorite online magazines has this February Desktop with and without a calendar. Check it out and see all the other amazing calendars you can download at Smashing Magazine.
Solodogs is running along side of Briana with a speedlight at 1/8 power on a boom while I ran backward shooting up at her. Very complex, very dangerous... ;-) Keeping the light the same distance from her is the assistant's job and it is harder than it seems. A difference of a foot can be 1/2 stop. John (solodogs) did a great job. I was able to get off about ten shots per run and we did it three times. This is compiled from the best of those runs.
A CybersalonAZ project. This poster's actual size is 8 feet wide by 4 feet high.
Resources used in the design:
"Morning in Strawberry" by Devon Christopher Adams (used with permission)
Hand Drawn Vector Icons by iammikesmith
SwirlyCurls Brush Kit by createsk8
Decorative Swirls (vector) by www.opengraphicdesign.com
Swirls Vector Illustrations Set from Smashing Magazine
Typefaces: