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I love the effect of the resist techniques that Jennifer has been showing us on the blog this week. So I thought I’d do some resist on this card.
I wanted to make a kind of stormy summer sky for the background so I embossed the grass in white on watercolour paper. Then I dabbed distress inks (shabby shutters, broken china and faded jeans) onto a piece of tinfoil and spritzed with water. I placed the embossed image in the ink, and hoped for the best as this was my first time trying this technique! The first attempt turned into a blobby mess so this is the second attempt.
A while ago I had dabbed alcohol inks and blending solution on glossy paper. When they didn’t blend and looked awful, I realised that I had used photo paper which wouldn’t work. I saved the paper anyway and stamped these dragonflies on it. For the card itself I embossed the Raindrop Background in white and applied faded jeans distress ink. I did a little bit of stitching on this card so I’m also entering the card into Jenny's Challenge #10 (In Stitches) suchins.blogspot.com/2010/06/challenge-10-in-stitches.html.
It's a dull day here today, so a dull photo I'm afraid! My blog stampingandstitching.blogspot.com/
Sorry for the lack of uploads, but I'm a kind of person who builds something maybe once a month.
I was segregating parts, and when I connected a few of those black pieces together, I realised, that it would make a wonderful tree trunk. What do you think about this technique?
(sorry for the dust)
Here is a new set of LEGO ideas and techniques, made with LDD
I'm sure you'll find a use to this idea
I tried to make the explanation readable thanks to the colors as if we had a tutorial
Do not forget to watch the album with all the right techniques on your right =>
Find all my creations on Flickr group « News LEGO Techniques ».
This Flickr group includes:
- Ideas for new LEGO pieces
- Techniques for assembling bricks
- Tutorials for making accessories, objects, etc.
Modeling her own crocheted dress. She had just learn the technique recently and was already making clothing pieces very well.
There is just no other way to describe the technique used by the Cape Gannet to come in to land - they tumble down in a not so elegant way!!
I wish you all a prosperous 2013 and hope that nothing will happen to you in 2013 that is similar to the way the Cape Gannet lands!
Well, while I have been building for CCCX I have found some fun ways to use fig parts, so here are some of the things I have come up with lately.
#1- Possible Steampunk Captain, or just castle adventurer.
#2-The new standard for a sci-fi faction called K Korps that I hope to do a few builds for in the near future. Also, a purist way to build an awesome looking sniper rifle.
#3-A turkey warrior, avenging his lost brotheren.
Long Live Purism!
By adding bricks and plates, you can achieve basically any angle you like. But the height on both sides must be equal.
Technique used for the round extensions and the low spiral stairs between the front of the main bulding and the wings.
The extensions should look even more gradual round irl with five overlapping hinges per level and thus six horizontal points of bending.
They are only attached to the main building with technic pins and should be easy to attach or remove thus making the main bulding easier to transport
The spiral stairs are details not strictly necessary on a project this large. But I disgress :o)
Very high setting rendering using stud.io
A vibrant and colourful piece of wall-art, formed using an acrylic pouring technique. The original artwork is acrylic on canvas.
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I have been trying to make a round tower using panels for a while and i have finally found a way to connect the different parts from the inside.
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Connecting plates on the studs side. This is a tablescrab my son Sandro came up with. Might be useful.
Here is a new set of LEGO ideas and techniques, made with LDD
I'm sure you'll find a use to this idea
I tried to make the explanation readable thanks to the colors as if we had a tutorial
Do not forget to watch the album with all the right techniques on your right =>
Find all my creations on Flickr group « News LEGO Techniques ».
This Flickr group includes:
- Ideas for new LEGO pieces
- Techniques for assembling bricks
- Tutorials for making accessories, objects, etc.
Those little guide pegs in the garage doors are the same diameter as a bar. See more at www.dagsbricks.com/2014/08/lego-techniques-garage-doors.html
Contributor(s):
Helene Fuld Health Foundation.
Publication:
[Trenton, N.J.? : Helene Fuld Health Foundation, between 1961 and 1963]
Language(s):
English
Format:
Still image
Subject(s):
Nurses
Clothing
Genre(s):
Photographs
Related Title(s):
Hidden treasure
Extent:
1 photographic print : 26 x 21 cm.
Technique:
hand-colored
NLM Unique ID:
101594810
NLM Image ID:
A033010
Permanent Link:
resource.nlm.nih.gov/101594810
NLM Hidden treasure p. 55
… or as right as you're going to get them on something that's going to be shown on hundreds of differently calibrated monitors. A lot of people who do color work say that their brightest colors get washed out when Flickr translates them. This is because Flickr unceremoniously strips them of their color profile on all but the original size, and very few browsers pay attention to color profiles anyway.
If you have a recent copy of Photoshop, though, you can brute force your way into your photo looking almost the same on Flickr as it does on your system. This is a more sure-fire mode than even just working in sRGB, the "official" profile of the web because when it comes to digital cameras, there are several different kinds of sRGB.
Under the Edit menu look for "Convert to Profile." Select the sRGB Web profile and then change the intent to "Perceptual." For our purposes, you're caring about how it looks, not absolute numbers for print quality. If you also do work that requires printing your photos in other profiles, it's probably best to save a copy first.
That's it. You're done, and your pictures shouldn't look quite so alien anymore.
UPDATE: I like relative colormetric better than perceptual these days, but either will be a big improvement.
Just testing to see how flexible this technique can be. Apparently quite!
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More techniques for the SNOT search engine. Pieces used can be found on this technique's page.
Credit for this technique goes out to Sean and Steph. Check out their awesome new video series! Lots of fun techniques.
An idea for a technique for locking parts together without studs using 1x1 cheese slopes. It exists currently as an idea which I have not yet tested.
Technique: It was early in the morning and this Wool Carder Bee was having a tough time getting its metabolism going. I was holding onto the stem of that flower with my left index finger and thumb, and resting the lens on that same hand to keep everything steady. The bee would occasionally move, and when it stopped I'd roll the flower's stem with my fingers to turn the critter toward the camera and look for a composition.
Tech Specs: Canon 70D (F16, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (around 3x) + a diffused MT-24EX. This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held.
Left: although the chimney shape seems basic in the final model (and in reality), it's quite detailed. To achieve the finer details, brown tiles are attached sideways to a tower with black SNOT bricks on each corner and minifig neck brackets in between.
Top right: by contrast, the Switch House tower is incredibly complex but luckily the four projecting angles of the pyramid match the angles of LEGO wedge plates fairly closely. To reduce the 'zig zag' of the vertical angles, each layer is offset by half a LEGO stud. This made the build much more challenging as did the inclusion of the windows. I will rebuild this when the new wedge plates (parts 24299/24307) appear in brown.
Bottom right: making the Millennium Bridge at such a small scale gave me many headaches until I remembered part 2852, which I had bought a few dozen of the year before for no reason other than they looked interesting!
In the darkest deepest oceans, beautiful creatures like Jelly-fish illuminate their surroundings and their environment. However, dont be fooled by their cute looks, they are extremely venomous and fast killers
Hand of Peace. Horizonal side-step "In the Round" multi-exposure technique with cataract eyes.
For years I have been living with cataracts, which have worsened this past year, especially in my left eye, to the point where I wasn't able to drive at night safely. Even during the day, eye strain became headaches, but I never put my camera down. Luckily my right eye wasn't as bad, but of late, that eye has become increasingly troublesome. Difficult to manually focus on just about anything, my saving grace was the old school technique of quickly turning the focusing collar from very blurry to ok blurry, then tweak it a bit to the best of blurry. Yes, there is auto focus, which I do use with a small amount of distrust in the older Pentax line during any fast action shooting. Its accurate, it's just slow, but a blessing.
A trip overseas started on the same day that I could of have scheduled my cataract surgery, no earlier appointments where available, damn luck. I had to schedule it a week after our return. So off we go, once in a lifetime, to see other parts of the world, all of us having the clarity and vision of a young child, except for me. But with my good humor, I joked that I would see twice as much as them, with my blurry eyes and occasional double vision. I also noted that the women at the pool, in thongs, I would only see them half-assed so not to worry about any gawking...as I sit with my 300mm at poolside!
It was a fantastic trip. We had a tremendous and fun time. The weather was perfect, and the people were kind and friendly. To bear witness to other cultures and traditions was remarkable and unforgettable. Despite my terrible vision, it seemed that my mind overcame most of the visual inaccuracies and I too, could view the world with a wee bit of clarity. Simply a beautiful world.
I had cataract surgery on my left eye the 15th of this month. Thinking that my right eye was not as bad as the left, I'll be back shooting in manual soon, and shooting in general, I thought. Not so. My right eye is so bad, compared to the new vibrant, crystal clear and sharp left, that now it's even harder to pick up my camera and photograph with confidence. The images through the viewfinder are a dingy yellowish in color with softness and no contrast. And to think that was my good eye all these years!
I'm scheduled to have surgery on my right eye in early December. The surgery is life changing, bringing such a rebirth of vision to these "Vintage eyes".
Peace in Hand, at the port of Kusadasi, Turkey.
Young Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abeli) named "Aisha" is not yet 29 months old but she is strong, agile, and seemingly fearless when climbing and swinging on the ropes.
San Diego Zoo
Conservation Status: Critically Endangered
I learned this on Scott Kelby's Wednesday Guest Blog. It's a technique used by a guy named Calvin Hollywood, which turns out to be a really hilarious name for some German dude who sounds even more hilarious in the video on the post. But anyway, that's another story. Some of his stuff is a little overdone for my tastes, but I do like the manner in which he brings out the details in a photo. Obviously, he's working with a much more professional setup than me, so his lighting and stuff is spot on, whereas the shot above is just some natural light coming from the window. Still, I liked how this turned out, so I thought I'd use it as a tutorial example.
First, I cropped the original image below to a square, and added just a bit of exposure to it in LR2. Then I transferred it into CS4 and did the following:
1. Control/Command-J to duplicate the background Layer.
2. Set this layer's blending mode to "Vivid Light". The shot will look pretty dark now.
3. Go to Image>Adjustments>Invert or just use Control/Command-I. This will look really funky.
4. Go to Filter>Blur>Surface Blur and adjust radius and threshold to your liking. This is weird because you'd think that blurring the image would not be what you want to do, but it works, trust me. Be careful with the threshold so that you don't see too much "halo-ing" around the edges of your subject.
5. Once the image is blurred, it will look really odd. However, now press SHIFT+ALT+CONTROL/COMMAND and the letter E. This will create a new layer with all of your work so far combined. Change the Blending Mode to "Overlay".
6. Now here's the key: Delete the first duplicate layer you made and you will now see the results of the enhancements. Pretty cool, isn't it?
Well, if you did it right anyway...haha.
Let me know if you try it, i'd love to see what you can get out of it if you like it :)
"Have A Heart"
Practice piece using techniques from "Letter Love 101" and "Artful Alphabets" with Joanne Sharpe
Permanent marker, watercolor brush markers (first attempt with those!) and white gelly roll pen. Oh, and a bit of zentangling because I can't NOT do zentangling.
Technique: I found this Woodlouse going through the leaf litter in my yard. I carefully picked up the leaf it was on and carried it to my patio table so I could shoot it in front of an artificial flower (to keep the background from being black). As it moved around it would pause and I'd look for an interesting angle. I held the leaf in my left hand, and rested the lens on that same hand to help keep the scene steady.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (around 2x) + a diffused MT-24EX (both flash heads on the Canon flash mount, E-TTL metering). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held.
Technique: I found this little solitary bee feeding on a Dandelion and cast my shadow over it to see if I could get its metabolism to tank. In cool weather (it was 15C) small solitary bees need the heat of the sun to keep them going. The bee flew to a leaf and I continued to shadow it, and after a minute of being motionless I moved in for a few photos. I picked the leaf and braced my hand on a fence post to help keep the scene steady and so I'd have some color in the background. It's a Mining Bee (Andrena), but not sure about the specific species.
Tech Specs: Canon 70D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (around 2x) + a diffused MT-24EX. This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held.
Technique: I injected artificial nectar into a Lavender flower, and even though I was using bait it was still a difficult shot. Of all the bees in my yard this one is the most skittish.
Tech Specs: Canon 70D (F11, 1/250, ISO 400) + a Canon EF-S 60mm macro lens + a diffused MT-24EX (flash head "A" set as the key and "B" as the fill, both on the Canon flash mount). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. Camera set to expose the natural light in the background, with E-TTL flash metering exposing the subject.
cause i'm thinking of you.
you showed me how to live like i do.
if it wasn't for you, i would never be who i am.
orientation tomorrow. ick. here are the classes i'm taking:
trigonometry, earth science, US history, english 11, religion 11, painting, vocal technique and phys. ed. (i don't take a language, in case you were wondering.)
what are yours? i'm curious about the curriculum of other schools!
#fact 51: i watch full house more than any normal person should. if you follow me on twitter, you probably already knew that. ;)
The steppe eagle (Aquila nipalensis) An opportunistic predator, the steppe eagle is known for using a wide variety of hunting techniques . Typically, this species soars high above its prey, before making a steep dive and seizing the animal in its powerful talons , but it may also steal prey from other raptors while in flight, or catch prey while on the ground, often by waiting outside a burrow entrance . Interestingly, a steppe eagle in East Africa was observed to ambush burrowing blind and semi-blind mole rats (genus Spalax) by watching for soil movement, before pouncing and burying its talons under the earth . Small mammals form the major part of this species diet, in particular various species of suslik (genus Citellus) which, during breeding, may comprise over 98 percent of prey taken by Aquila nipalensis orientalis. Carrion is also frequently consumed during migration, while winged harvester termites provide an abundant source of food for wintering birds in South Africa .
Steppe eagles arrive at their summer breeding grounds around April, at the start of spring. Large nests, up to a metre wide, are constructed from twigs and lined with various materials, such as old rags and camel dung. While the nests are usually placed on the ground in a position allowing a good view of the surroundings, as a result of habitat alteration and persecution, nests are increasingly being found in trees, bushes and on artificial structures. The female lays a clutch of between one and three eggs which are incubated for 45 days, with the chicks being brooded for a further 55 to 65 days before fledging. The steppe eagle is remarkably long lived, reaching up to 41 years in captivity.
Trying this new lighting technique for cars. I think I really like it. I can finally achieve a night photo of my black car using controllable lighting. This is just in front of my apartment, but I see a lot of potential.
Canon 5d + Rokinon 35mm f/1.4
Incomparable rapper Immortal Technique, October 5, 2005, opening for Palestinian rap trio DAM. His shirt says "GUERRILLA REPUBLIC: Since 1794."
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Lyrics from "Bin Laden" by Immortal Technique with Mos Def:
[Mos Def - talking]
Man, you hear this bullshit they be talkin'
Every day, man
It's like these motherfuckers is just like professional liars
YouknowwhatI'msayin? It's wild
Listen
[Hook - Mos Def]
Bin Laden didn't blow up the projects
It was you, nigga
Tell the truth, nigga
(Bush knocked down the towers)--[Jadakiss]
Tell the truth, nigga
(Bush knocked down the towers)--[Jadakiss]
Tell the truth, nigga
[Verse 1 - Immortal Technique]
I pledge no allegiance, nigga fuck the president's speeches
I'm baptized by America and covered in leeches
The dirty water that bleaches your soul and your facial features
Drownin' you in propaganda that they spit through the speakers
And if you speak about the evil that the government does
The Patriot Act'll track you to the type of your blood
They try to frame you, and say you was tryna sell drugs
And throw a federal indictment on niggaz to show you love
This shit is run by fake Christians, fake politicians
Look at they mansions, then look at the conditions you live in
All they talk about is terrorism on television
They tell you to listen, but they don't really tell you they mission
They funded Al-Qaeda, and now they blame the Muslim religion
Even though Bin Laden, was a CIA tactician
They gave him billions of dollars, and they funded his purpose
Fahrenheit 9/11, that's just scratchin' the surface
[Hook - Mos Def]
Bin Laden didn't blow up the projects
It was you, nigga
Tell the truth, nigga
(Bush knocked down the towers)--[Jadakiss]
Tell the truth, nigga
(Bush knocked down the towers)--[Jadakiss]
Tell the truth, nigga
[Verse 2 - Immortal Technique]
They say the rebels in Iraq still fight for Saddam
But that's bullshit, I'll show you why it's totally wrong
Cuz if another country invaded the hood tonight
It'd be warfare through Harlem, and Washington Heights
I wouldn't be fightin' for Bush or White America's dream
I'd be fightin' for my people's survival and self-esteem
I wouldn't fight for racist churches from the south, my nigga
I'd be fightin' to keep the occupation out, my nigga
You ever clock someone who talk shit, or look at you wrong?
Imagine if they shot at you, and was rapin' your moms
And of course Saddam Hussein had chemical weapons
We sold him that shit, after Ronald Reagan's election
Mercenary contractors fightin' a new era
Corporate military bankin' off the war on terror
They controllin' the ghetto, with the failed attack
Tryna distract the fact that they engineerin' the crack
So I'm strapped like Lee Malvo holdin' a sniper rifle
These bullets'll touch your kids, and I don't mean like Michael
Your body be sent to the morgue, stripped down and recycled
I fire on house niggaz that support you and like you
Cuz innocent people get murdered in the struggle daily
And poor people never get shit and struggle daily
This ain't no alien conspiracy theory, this shit is real
Written on the dollar underneath the Masonic seal
(I don't rap for dead presidents
I'd rather see the president dead
It's never been said but I set precedents)--[Eminem]
[Hook - Mos Def]
Bin Laden didn't blow up the projects
It was you, nigga
Tell the truth, nigga
(Bush knocked down the towers)--[Jadakiss]
Tell the truth, nigga
(Bush knocked down the towers)--[Jadakiss]
Tell the truth, nigga
(Shady Records was 80 seconds away from the towers
Some cowards fucked with the wrong building, they meant to hit ours)-- [Eminem]
Here is a new set of LEGO ideas and techniques, made with LDD
I'm sure you'll find a use to this idea
I tried to make the explanation readable thanks to the colors as if we had a tutorial
Do not forget to watch the album with all the right techniques on your right =>
Find all my creations on Flickr group « News LEGO Techniques ».
This Flickr group includes:
- Ideas for new LEGO pieces
- Techniques for assembling bricks
- Tutorials for making accessories, objects, etc.