Now let's see what sort of mischief we can
get up to.
GIF transparancies
I discovered a little button in Image Ready that will make all the difference. Such a tiny thing that has a huge effect, makes you wonder why it's hidden. It has to do with the way .GIF files are optimized when saved. When the image is a transparancy, it's outlined as part of being saved. Like a cartoon. If you match the color of that inevitable outline to the color of the background the line effectively disappears. Imagine an actual transparancy outlined in white held over a white piece of paper. This outline messes up things royally when the transparancies are stacked in a table to animate at different speeds. I discovered IR, the new version anyway, gives you the choice of "none" in the place where you select matte color in the optimization palate.
Now let's see what sort of mischief we can
get up to.
Now let's see what sort of mischief we can
get up to.
Go ahead and skip October
The last few days of this month I copied all my content to alternate servers and show it here. I did that because my service provider proved untrustworthy. I became uncharacteristically angry when forced to hold for hours in order to talk to somebody, and then doubly angry at having to do that twice. This is the second time this has happened with service providers, it was the reason why I got them, Startlogic, in the first place. Anyway, this is all the poo that happened when I first attempted Photoshop.
Point taken.
Point taken.
London poster
The original says care beneath watchful eyes.
Welcome to the Nanny state.
Can you believe they put up stuff like this?
Yes?
Big on literature, I'm certain they've seen this all before, and themselves find it Orwellian.
Eric Arthur Blair, George Orwell, after all, is British. Was.
Remember the American Gatsby partied with his friends in the seedy section overlooked by an omnipresent billboard featuring a giant eye peering through a monocle advertising a local optometrist, which felt to them to be continuously observing their nefarious activity. Now there's a graphic not easily dismissed.
Malloch Brown
Deputy Secretary General U.N.
Squeezed four pictures with one tiny back and forth anim and without the benefit of a table. This was a lot of trouble just to try something and I must say not the slightest bit worth it. The code on this is ridiculous. I was trying slices in Image Ready. It makes sense when only a small portion of an image is animated, but what an insane bother.
Squeezed four pictures with one tiny back and forth anim and without the benefit of a table. This was a lot of trouble just to try something and I must say not the slightest bit worth it. The code on this is ridiculous. I was trying slices in Image Ready. It makes sense when only a small portion of an image is animated, but what an insane bother.
rescue
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Please notice the birds exchanging decidedly unsweet nothings in midair. Charm'n, innit? You know these creatures reek. They are vultures, after all. Their heads are bald because they've made a habit of sticking them into the inside of carcasses and out there on the savanna there's not always a readily available headbath.
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Some guy wrote an article that said the converse of this and illustrated it with a series of clip art like ↑ this so I used his clip art, elaborated and replaced, used in an email to him. That is all. It's stupid, yes, but he started it, and this is at least 10x more creative. Asshole. Sort of irks me people get paid for opining poo like that, then, because you're so idiotic the point must be illustrated -- illustrate pooishly.
Unless of course, like myself, he's merely learning and having fun, then never mind and all's forgiven.
Weland had a greater
developed sense of self-preservation than the usual lemming yet found himslef oddly compelled by mob impulse.
hamburger
Biggest one in history. Some kind of contest or a challenge. A couple of skinny dudes actually ate a ten pound hamburger, or something.
It was, after all, a noteworthy occasion.
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It was, after all, a noteworthy occasion.
bridge
This is one of my brother's favorite spots.
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One of my brothers, one of his favorite geographic locations.
He likes to bring people to this spot. Just now, he mentioned taking his new wife there.
To the left of the frame is Fort Point, as martial a maritime post as can be imagined and rather grim. Put there at a time when San Francisco accepted a military presence and just in time to be completely outdated by serious advances in ballistics. To the right, portable toilets.
I know. Where's the helicopter and shark?
Jennifer Wilbanks
Remember her?
She ran away from her own wedding. Claimed she was kidnapped by a black guy. Created a BFnationalD. Was made to do community service and repay the couple million it took looking for her. ←last part not true. The thing is, you knew she was twisted right off when they started showing pictures of her. She purposefully widens her eyes ridiculously for photographs, for a reason unknown and this is only my customary 12% exaggeration for dramatic effect.
bible belt
My sister doesn't like this. She says it makes
it look like the bible is squeezing people.
Therefore, I made it small
poopers
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these two things are completely different
This is the first thing I drew in Photoshop. Hey, you have to start somewhere.
Geese of Meidum
This is the most famous fresco in Egyptian art. It's also the earliest. It's everywhere. I painted it a couple of times, This one wot I dun is six feet long.
Dean Howard
Or Howard Dean, I can never keep that straight
Something has happened to the lad's neck, and I do believe, with therapy it can ameliorate if not completely heal.
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Something has happened to the lad's neck, and I do believe, with therapy it can ameliorate if not completely heal.
Brighton
You're all gay.
It's amazing their background is that particular purple. And the party emblem is a rose. The party genes are showing.
Someone actually did set off a rape alarm, created a proper scene, disrupted things completely if only briefly, got themselves dragged off -- 'zactly the same thing as Code Pink and I mean 'zactly.
'Cept diff'ernt.
A whole list of stuff
Wot got loaded to Picasa. They all have names, of course, but I can't be arsked. Just B click.
Nothing against therapists. Nothing at all. Nothing. Nut'n. "0" nada. I said I got NOTHING AGAINST THERAPISTS !!!!!!
honestly
well, why would I ?
FINE
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Lizbeth died. This is a friend's dog who had me very well trained indeed. She came to my house once a week and stayed all day. This went on for years. It was as if she had her own private driver.
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Remember this? ↑ Those were the days. Saddam is noted for two things on this blog; for being found hiding in a hole, and for being hung. Most unlovely.
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apologies ↑
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Nothing against therapists. Nothing at all. Nothing. Nut'n. "0" nada. I said I got NOTHING AGAINST THERAPISTS !!!!!! honestly
well, why would I ?
FINE
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You must not look at these
| The following few things are quite bad. Therefore, they are small so that you might put them out of your mind all the more quickly in case you don't listen. Look, everybody makes mistakes, personally, it's how I manage to learn anything at all. |
This actually happened. ↓ The most embarassing thing ever. But what can a person do? Sometimes you just get sick. Paula Radcliffe gets totally ill during a race. Naturally, everyone has a camera. |
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| I never liked that thing the pope carried. ↓ Sorry. It always looked to me like a weapon, and popes shouldn't be carrying weapons, at least not obvious ones, that's what cardinals and bishops are for. I didn't care much for him waving around the crucifix like that. So this came out. Apologies, I've got nothing against clergy. |
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You were told not to look.
sweary snake
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See now that's rather mean. I nearly banished this. It was a tough call, I guess I just have to accept I like snakes and sweary words.
Sofi
My neice. It's wrong of me to put someone so sweet in a place like this, among not Zs, snakes, urinals, and plagues, but then again, my whole family knows better than to give me photographs.
swirl
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Mesmerizing, innit?
Not a curved line in it.
Drew it only once. Copied 8 times. Flipped 4 horizontally. Alternated and shoved all together within division tags. Resized all to 133px (400 ÷ 3).
Inserted into a one-cell table fitted with a dazzling background of changing color fields.
It's actually uploaded to blogger more cleverly than that. There are only two files uploaded to blogger, in this case, uploaded to photobucket.com and pointed to by blogger, but blogger pretends to upload the file even though this time it's hosted on photobucket because it keeps things simple. Were it uploaded to blogger, it would use up large amounts of your available storage. Blogger takes the files as it gets them, thus, I've found blogger's saved picture files are much larger than the other three places where these photos are stored for free. One file is the original and the other file is a copy that was flipped horizontally. They're named 1 and 2. After they're uploaded, the string of code is copied. It goes basically, blah blah blah "1" blah blahblahblah"2"blah. That long string of code is pasted twice into one long continuous string, and because there are nine cubes, another copy of the original is needed to end the string so the string begins and ends with file #1.
Would you like to see what all that code looks like? Move your curser to a blank area of the page. Rightclick or controlclick then select "view source" from the dropdown menu. Use browser's "find" feature to search for the word "swirl" that will take you to the point on the page you're interested in examining. Allow your wondering eyes to behold what you find there. Oh, the eloquence of it all.
Not a curved line in it.
Drew it only once. Copied 8 times. Flipped 4 horizontally. Alternated and shoved all together within division tags. Resized all to 133px (400 ÷ 3).
Inserted into a one-cell table fitted with a dazzling background of changing color fields.
It's actually uploaded to blogger more cleverly than that. There are only two files uploaded to blogger, in this case, uploaded to photobucket.com and pointed to by blogger, but blogger pretends to upload the file even though this time it's hosted on photobucket because it keeps things simple. Were it uploaded to blogger, it would use up large amounts of your available storage. Blogger takes the files as it gets them, thus, I've found blogger's saved picture files are much larger than the other three places where these photos are stored for free. One file is the original and the other file is a copy that was flipped horizontally. They're named 1 and 2. After they're uploaded, the string of code is copied. It goes basically, blah blah blah "1" blah blahblahblah"2"blah. That long string of code is pasted twice into one long continuous string, and because there are nine cubes, another copy of the original is needed to end the string so the string begins and ends with file #1.
Would you like to see what all that code looks like? Move your curser to a blank area of the page. Rightclick or controlclick then select "view source" from the dropdown menu. Use browser's "find" feature to search for the word "swirl" that will take you to the point on the page you're interested in examining. Allow your wondering eyes to behold what you find there. Oh, the eloquence of it all.
camelflage
Camels are funny. They'd be my fave if they weren't so gross. Llamas are gross too, but at least llamas are fluffy.
Camelot
This is the only appropriate use of the words camel lot in modern English. The word Camelot refers to a mythological place first mentioned in Lancelot, le Chevalier de la Charrette, no place in particular that could be any place. Kings had many castles, in the book the place wasn't all that important, it wasn't even described. It has, however, over the years come to symbolize an ideal place of truth and justice and chivalry, virtues of the romances. The idea of an American Camelot as euphemism for the far less romantic White House during her own occupancy, arose in the mind of Jacqueline Kennedy, who in an interview with Life magazine expressed something about "one shining moment," [they, being in executive control of an exceedingly large fiefdom] her romantic notion extended the myth that is nowise American but rather centers around knighthood and royalty. But that was possible only because she had virtually an open checkbook to redecorate the whole place, and under those terms what woman wouldn't find the aura of a national mansion as positively chivalrous? The population of the entire globe ran with her dreamy phrasing. Therefore, the entire globe is romantically inclined. I hope my unassuming Photoshop™ of smelly camels could serve to disabuse a viewer of that unrealisticly romantic notion, if only just a little. It completely clouds discussion.
Giuliana Sgrena
I would like to honor her
for her willingness to go to extremes
to make the points that simply must be made
no matter how many lives are endangered in rescuing her.
two females
wot I don't much care for
Amy Goodman ↑ I'd like to see
the sneer slapped off her face.
Antje Vollmer ↑
Amy Goodman ↑ I'd like to see
the sneer slapped off her face.
Antje Vollmer ↑
R2-22
all-terrain utility ballerina droid
because you never know when the urge
for a pas de deux will come upon you
(not pictured, R2-Desmund)
knot
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Also fisherman's knot
I drawed this.
The drawing is half that ↑ up there, duplicated, copy flipped horizontally, then stuck together.
the mammalian front
of the Interspecies War.
See what's happening here?
The seals have finally had enough.
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See what's happening here?
The seals have finally had enough.
wasp
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Ever since the arrival of Africanized bees
stingers just haven't cut it in the power up game.
Same thing 'cept bigger and with better wings.
bonsai seppuku
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Yo Dogs, check out 500px width magnificence with my 27th favoritestest song in the whole world, Norman Greenbalm's recommendation to Espiritu en el Cielo en una ventana nueva. I lurv the way he shreds the amp to get that sound with sort of a tinfoil-on-a-filling sensation. Loops for endless listening pleasure and continuous spiritual upliftenment.
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