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Now is the Time to Realize More Than Ever, the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is is Not Just for Our Liberty, But Our Very Survival
Friday, November 25, 2011
The American people are not looking for a fight with the government at all. But for years we have seen the erosion of our liberties ever since September 11, 2001. The government now has taken their focus off the Muslims in the middle east now turning the barrel on the American people. With a the Passage of the Patriot Act in the fall of 2001 shreds our bill of rights. The Federal government is now more of a threat to the safety and security of its own citizens more than the phony radical Islamic terrorist threats.
We have the Department of Homeland Security that seeks to grab more power daily away from State and local governments. We have the TSA groping a 98 year old grandmother in a Wheelchair to keep us safe. We have Police acting like thugs beating up protesters asserting their right to free speech. We have US Senators voting on the US Military arresting Americans with no trial or due process. Sen Joe Lieberman is asking Google to censor the bloggers. The Congress and the President want to silence free speech as much as possible because they know their time is short to impose their will on us. If they cannot do it, they all face jail time or the gallows for treason.
They are calling for censorship of the internet and invasion of our privacy, restriction on our travel because their power is waning thanks tho the internet. The Alternative press and citizen journalist have been the news source people are looking to for information. The old media is dying and the new media I am part of is becoming mainstream in the thought of the people. Thanks to the internet, we have exposed the puppets looking right straight at the real power. A central banking cartel waiting to loot the wealth of the nation. There is one thing that stands in the way that scares them right now. This tradition has been a part of our culture for 234 years. This right preceded the Constitution, without this right. We would still be subjects to the British crown.
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The California State Polytechnic University, Pomona adopts as campus policy the California State University Nepotism Policy contained in Coded Memorandum HR 2004-18 including any subsequent revisions.
For the purpose of the Administration of Grants and Contracts in Support of Sponsored Programs, as the Sponsored Program Administrator, Cal Poly Pomona Foundation, Inc. is the employer of the principal investigator and other employees with regard to work performed in furtherance of each sponsored program. In this case, the University policy is supplemental by the language included in the Cal Poly Pomona Foundation, Inc. Employee's Handbook, which states:
The Foundation will not hire or continue the employment of relatives where actual of potential problems may arise regarding supervision, security, safety of morale, or where potential conflicts of interest exist. An employee may not work under the direct supervision of a relative. Relatives are defined as any persons who are closely related by birth, marriage or adoption. Relatives may by employed in the same department, but may not participate in any proceeding, evaluation, recommendation or action that affects the employment status of a relative.
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MMORPG.com Jade Dynasty Correspondent Olorunsegun Adewumi continues his report on his experiences in Perfect World Entertainment's F2P MMO.
Jade Dynasty had a double experience weekend from Thursday, September 3rd at 10 p.m. (Pacific PST) to Monday, September 7th at 10 p.m. (PST), since the last marathon session worked so well I decided to try it again. Levels have been hard to come by since I hit sixty and you really can't argue with double experience. I managed to gain five levels while finding out a few things that might have made leveling much easier before, more on that later.
I'd been doing most of my fighting in Skysong and Billows the last few weeks because it was just easier to do so. However, with the double exp I figured it was time to stop lollygagging around and go to Doom Bog, and am I glad I did. Doom Bogs' town is Brigand's Keep. It's a small wooden area on stilts over a large marshy area, with two upper bridges leading off to two small areas. It also has two renewable quests, gotten from Physician Berezi, which count the amount of kills you have for each creature. So once you've done all the quests lying around rather than hike back to town to refresh your list, you can keep fighting mobs for extra experience points. While that might not seem like a lot, anyone who has ever charted the fastest and best ways to get and turn in daily quests in WoW can see the innovation. Rather than having to waste time turning in quests back and forth, one can stay out in the wilderness indefinitely, or at least till your pot supply runs out. And if you haven't done daily quests runs in WoW then trust me, the faint irritation of traveling back and forth for quests is magnified tenfold when you've reached 80 and you're doing daily quest runs for the hundredth time.


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What do you think of when you hear the word turquoise? Most of us think of the Southwest,where turquoise has been a part of Native American tradition for thousands of years.
Turquoise has been minded in many places throughout the world. Clear blue Persian turquoise it thought by many to be among the finest turquoise. Mines in India produce green turquoise. Chinese mines are currently selling a great deal of turquoise in varying colors to the jewelry industry. Mines in the southwestern US, many family owned, yield turquoise in a variety of colors and qualities.
Turquoise forms when water percolates through rocks that contain copper, aluminum and other minerals. A chemical reaction takes place that results in deposits of what we know as turquoise. That's a simplified way of describing a process that takes millions of years and only happens when a complex set of conditions come together.
Many ask why turquoise is different colors? The blue in turquoise is enhanced when copper is present. If the area where turquoise is formed contains more aluminum, the turquoise will shade to green. When zinc is present, the deposits are a yellow-green color, a rare combination that so far has been found in only a few areas, including the Carico Lake and Blue Ridges mine in Nevada.
The dark markings in turquoise is what they call matrix, the rock that the turquoise formed in. When stones are cut, some of the matrix remains bound to the turquoise Matrix color varies because turquoise can form in different types of rock
**black matrix may be iron pyrite
** yellow matrix could be rhyolite
** brown is probably iron oxide
** The term spider webbing refers to stones with thin lines of matrix distributed throughout them.
Hardness of turquoise used for jewelry usually varies from 5-6 on the Mohs scale. The hardest turquoise is usually found nearest the surface of the earth, where it's had a chance to dry,or cure. Softer turquoise is chalk like---too soft and porous to be used unless it's treated.
Stabilized Turquoise is when an epoxy resin or other substance is infused into the pores of the turquoise. No longer porous, it's color remains the same over time. Natural turquoise develops a lovely patina as its worn and absorbs oils from our skin.
Stabilization allows designers to use poorer-quality turquoise that might otherwise not be suitable for jewelry.
Many also color treat their turquoise with chemicals to enhance or change the color to make it more appealing to the eye.
Other techniques are used to turn soft,porous turquoise into a usable product. Watch out for terms like reconstituted, which describes turquoise chips that have been mixed with resin then molded into shapes.
Most of the turquoise found in today's jewelry has been treated or enhanced in some way, and there's nothing wrong with that as long as you know it is treated and pay a suitable price for it. If jewelry designers had to rely on only high quality, natural stones, high prices would prohibit many of us from owning any turquoise at all.
Natural turquoise many have been cut and polished, but no artificial changes have been made to the gems. Color many change over time as body oils and other sources of moisture are absorbed into the stones. Only high quality turquoise can be used in it's natural state.
Handle your turquoise jewelry carefully to avoid scratching it. Don't store turquoise with harder gemstones or other material that might rub against it and cause damage.
Keep turquoise away from high heat and chemicals such as oils,perfumes, and household cleaners. Even stabilize turquoise can be affected by a constant bombardment of chemicals.
Clean your turquoise in warm , sudsy water and dry it immediately with a soft cloth. Avoid commercial jewelry cleansers.
Any time you pay a premium price for jewelry you should be sure the person you are buying it from is reputable and knowledgeable about all aspects of the item.
We tend to become attached to our turquoise jewelry. Choose turquoise because it speaks to you, not because it is the current fashionable color with the currently-popular amount of matrix.
Wear it often and you'll never give it up.
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Friday, April 10, 2009
Native American Turquoise Jewelry
In the 1920's and 1930's, the concho belt changed from a single belt to a more ornate belt with one to multiple turquoise stones in all the individual sections of the belt. The tourist jewelry of that era is highly collectible today. It began to be noticed that sales of Native American Jewelry had significant potential to provide a reliable income source to tribal members across Arizona and New Mexico. During those years, schools and classes were established at several reservations to train young men in the trade of making Native American styles Sterling and turquoise jewelry. In the following decades, many very talented artists came out of these schools. During the years following WWII, many Americans traveled across the country, and on their trips through the Arizona-New Mexico area, discovered that local traders had rooms full of this Native American jewelry, which the traders called pawn pieces. Most of these were jewelry pieces the Indian people made for themselves and pawned for one of two reasons: either they needed money, or it was considered a safe storage place. As a result of the popularity of these pawn pieces, a host of trading posts sprang up in the Southwest and knowledge of this unique style of jewelry became much more widespread. New jewelry was also created to meet the growing tourist demand. Those who appreciated the beautiful American turquoise began to recognize the general difference in matrix patterns and color, etc. between the different mine sources. During this time, which extended to the early 1950's, turquoise began to be named, for sales purpose, after the mine in which it was found, such as Lone Mountain, Royston, Blue Gem, and others.
An increasing number of American Indians continued to handcraft silver jewelry in the 1950's and early 1960's in the traditional way. Up to that time their work was generally popular only in the southwest region of the US, but the increasing amount of material available began to enable a larger audience to see and appreciate this beautiful style of jewelry art. Even so,it did not become widely popular across the entire US until the late 1960's and early 1970's. At that time the simple and natural beauty of turquoise jewelry became the rage of the American fashion scene. The prices of the old pawn jewelry rocked upward, and a craze for Indian turquoise jewelry swelled and boosted demand (and prices) for turquoise to previously undreamed levels.
The increased prices and demand caused the re-opening of many mines and the import of Indian "style" jewelry made by manufacturers in Mexico, Taiwan, and the Philippines. In time, the market became glutted, the consumer was confused by overpriced synthetic, stabilized and plastic imitation materials and by 1981 the supply was height abut the demand was gone. The market collapsed and most of the American turquoise mines were shut down and have remained closed since that time. Turquoise demand hit a low water mark in the early 1980's , but has been slowly and steadily increasing in popularity since that time. Most American mines has remained closed and in recent years high demand for natural American turquoise has caused once again significant increases in prices.
Many artists have now started using a variety of other stone alone or to compliment their turquoise pieces. The belt pictured above is an good example. This sugalite stone concho is a beautiful work or art.
Hope you enjoyed a little history on the Native American Jewelry.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Native American Turquoise Jewelry
The beautiful blue and green hues of turquoise have long been prized by the Native American people of the southwestern part of the USA. Entire cultures were built on mining turquoise and crafting sacred and special items from the attractive stone in areas which are now part of both New Mexico and Nevada. American Indian people were making necklace strands and other turquoise jewelry by hand many centuries before the first European settlers arrived. Because turquoise was so highly prized, it was widely exchanged and circulated among the Native people of the Americans, and then each of the tribes developed their own unique names for the striking blue stone. Scientific testing has proven that some ancient beads found in central and South American were originally dug from the Cerrillos turquoise mines near Santa Fe, New Mexico.
When the Europeans brought the technology of working metals like silver with them to the new world, the American Indians who learned the silver smith trade eventually began to add turquoise with the silver to develop their own special type of jewelry. A Zuni man by the name of Kineshde is believed to be the first to add turquoise to the hand crafted silver items he was making in the late 1800s.
Turquoise first came into popular high fashion in the US during the early 1890s, but Persian turquoise was the focus of the demand at that time, and only a few deposits of high quality turquoise were known in the US. In the following years, a number of high quality deposits previously worked by Native Americans were " rediscovered", and shortly after 1900 Americans began to recognize that American turquoise from the Western US was the equal of any in the world. Interest again began to peak around 1908-1910, and a considerable amount of American turquoise was mined, especially in Nevada. The majority of the Turquoise jewelry produced prior to 1910 was made by well-known jewelry manufacturing companies like Tiffany's, and was produced in the standard Victorian styles of those time.
None of this was what we would recognize as Indian style turquoise jewelry. There were a few Native American making turquoise and silver pieces in what we now see as the traditional style, but they produced very few pieces and their simple tools increased the man hours each piece needed for completion. That era was essentially the dawn of the traditional styles for silver-turquoise jewelry. America's fascination with turquoise and genuine Indian Jewelry really began in earnest during the 1920's when more people from outside the southwest began to see the beauty of this artistic jewelery. At that time, the Harvey House restaurant chain opened a number of facilities across the southwest during the great days of popular rail travel across the US. At first, Indian Jewelry was only sold as curios in the restaurants for the patrons touring the west. Earrings and thin, small bracelets stamped with arrows and bows and containing symmetrically cut small oval pieces of turquoise were the types most in demand. The pieces produced during this time are still termed as having been made in the "Fred Harvey" styles. Heavy Indian Jewelry did not become popular until after 1925, when the classic squash-blossom craze lasted until about 1940, when they were discontinued for the most part by most Indian artisans for requiring too much work and too much turquoise.
As you can see this beautiful stone has been around a very long time, and admired as much now as in the past. It is a staple in everyone's jewelry box.
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Friday, February 13, 2009
How to spot fake Turquoise Jewelry
For at least 8000 years people have coveted turquoise. In the early times, different cultures believed turquoise brought luck. Due to the high demand, turquoise was heavily mined leading to the decrease of high quality gemstones. Different enhancements used on low quality stones make them difficult to tell from the real thing. Follow these steps to spot fake turquoise.
1) Ask where the jewelry comes from. Today, turquoise is mined in Iran, China, Tibet and the southwestern United States. Fake turquoise can come from anywhere.
2) Look at the vibrant colors of real turquoise, which ranges from a light sky blue to a gray-green color. You want to see a uniform color throughout the stone. Fake or low-quality turquoise is a pale, chalky stone injected with dye. Turquoise comes from a process of millions of years where water leaks over rocks with high mineral content of copper, iron and aluminum.
3) Study the quality of the color. The bad or fake stuff often appears clear, as if you could see through it. The good stuff carries a more solid, opaque quality to it. However, even good quality turquoise can fade over time when exposed to sunlight, heat or chemicals.
4) Check the turquoise for the existence of veins or blotches, which are called the matrix. Although not all real turquoise has it ,many stones do have a matrix that varies from white to black in color ( see the above photo for a heavily matrix-ed piece).
5) Notice any smell to the gemstone. Reconstituted turquoise carries a certain odor that comes from the resin used to bond turquoise dust and pieces together. Dyes and minerals try to duplicate the color and matrix of real turquoise.
6) Price the piece of jewelry and expect it to be high. With turquoise supplies dwindling, the prices of good turquoise are rising. Consider high quality turquoise as an investment that will appreciate like diamonds or emerald.
7) Buy real turquoise jewelry from a reputable dealer and ask for a certificated of authenticity. Most of the good pieces are signed by the artist.
Hope this helps you with your turquoise shopping.
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I just want to tell you that I went through your Alaska 2 outing tonight and found it to be absolutely magnificent. Certainly one of the best, if not THE best yet to come out of the SW workshop. The Scenery in this outing is beautiful as expected, the water animation very smooth and pleasant and the fish, oh my god, they are huge and numerous. This outing will be a true delight to fish and to spend time with. I think we picked the right outing for our large fish contest. Barns has already caught a couple of very large fish and those will be the ones to beat. I think we will have a great deal of fun coming up with the right setup, fly and tactic to capture the largest fish prize.
A lot of fish record will be re-written. Poor Richard, I hope he will find some time to fish between record updates. It will be fun to see the excitement and posts in this forum on a daily basis. Thanks for all the fun that you have provided us. A truly great job!


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Police arrest three 'target killers' from Nazimabad
Police said that they arrested the hitmen while patrolling at night and that the suspects have confessed killing 12 people in initial interrogation.
The suspect Faisal alias Don told confessed killing PPP activist Shahid Arain near Saifee College and shooting dead two cops in 2014 at Five Star Chowrangi.
He also admitted firing at the residence of a local trader in North Nazimabad and extorting Rs 1 million from him.
Faizan's accomplice Muhammad Ali confessed killing seven people in different areas of the city including a taxi driver in Federal B Area and a rickshaw driver in Yasinabad.
Another arrested hitman Irfan admitted recceing in the murder of Ali Akbar Kumaili, son of Allama Abbas Kumaili.
Meanwhile, a Lyari gang war affiliate died of injuries he received during gunfight with law enforcers.
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Hello! Many of you visiting today are new here, so I'd like to formally introduce myself and my blog. Relax, grab a cup of coffee, and try to catch your breath if you have children hanging off of you.
I live in St. Louis, Missouri. South county, to be more specific. I live with my husband Tom, and with Picasso, who is 5 and in Kindergarten, and Cassatt, who is 3 and started preschool this year. That means I have two child-free mornings each week! Mornings that go by all too fast with cleaning, errands, laundry, meetings, Bible study, and I try to fit some writing in there too.
I am active in a local MOPS group. My time there is a chance to breathe. Picasso is upset this year that he doesn't get to go, and I am still adjusting to picking up only one child from childcare! I am the fundraising chair for our MOPS group, which keeps me busy at the beginning of each semester (and during fundraising time, which is now.)
I am also heavily involved in CHADD (Children and Adults with ADHD); I am the coordinator of our local chapter. So I am working hard to spread the word, and somewhat overwhelmed by how big and separated our city really is. It's amazing how much work goes into marketing! Hats off to those who do it well on a small budget.
Once upon a time, I went to law school. I had my own law practice, where I practiced family law and advocated for families working through the IEP process at school. My license is currently inactive, as my life is too busy to practice right now. I do keep active with my advocacy work through CHADD, however. For a while, I had a series on the Advocating for your Child on this blog.
For now, I write. Most of my writing right now is short fiction, which you can read over at my other blog, Fiction as Life. I have been published in MOPS's Hello Darling blog, and have a poem that will be published in When Women Waken in early November.
This blog is a haphazard mix of posts. If you stick around, you will find I am not very consistent with posts. I have made a commitment recently to post more regularly, please help keep me on track with that! I post everything from kitchen how-tos to posts about my family and my garden to advocacy posts. I have posted a few times about Ferguson, which is very close to me and appeals to my yearnings for justice. For the most part, however, I stay away from political posts.
Now you know about me, I would love to hear about you! What are your hobbies? What would you like to see more of on this blog?


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Street lighting is a key public service provided by public authorities at the local and municipal level. Good lighting is essential for road safety, personal safety and urban ambience. However, many street lighting facilities are outdated and therefore highly inefficient. This leads to higher energy requirements and levels of maintenance. For a number of municipalities which have outdated systems, street lighting can account for as much as 30-50% of their entire power.
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Brazil's coastal rainforest could hardly be more distant from a sheep farm in New South Wales. Yet I found visiting it both inspirational and helpful for my own plans.
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Its a Thursday and there's nothing much interesting about it. Ms Chew was asking us to write a poem regarding how the environment had changed the world. And I decided to write about the 2012 prediction, when the world ends. It was really weird when everyone actually laughed at my poem, especially when I quoted that "Hafreez died as an Interact extremist".
Daryl's oral speech was the most interesting by far. It was about Aruru, a great rock in Australia, also known as Ayer's Rock. This rock is amazing, as people like Wilson Phua is so willing to look for it in Flickr.
We had a random quiz and it was fun. Other than that, I stumbled upon this movie, so called District 9. The trailer isn't that bad and I guess its gonna hit the blockbuster next month. Cause the Ayer rocks.


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The two worst stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES:^DJI) so far this year are industrial giants Boeing (NYSE:BA) and General Electric (NYSE:GE). But neither company is struggling, especially as the energy and aerospace industries boom.
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" What to Do If You are Starting to Wonder if You and Your Team Will Soon be Out of Your League" with guest Margie Traylor, CEO, Sitewire
January 11, 2011
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Will your homegrown team be able to handle the demands of becoming a much bigger business? Will you all soon be in over your heads and just not know what you don't know? Listen to what Sitewire did a few years ago (at $25 Mil/year and 36 employees)…for the subtleties about how to choose what to read, who to listen to, which peer groups are/are not helpful, when/if to bring in new talent, if a boot camp experience could be useful, etc. Replace worry and concern with optimism as you hear details of Sitewire's journey to become a larger more resilient enterprise.
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Volume 19 Issue 10 | July 21- - 27, 2006
Downtown Express photo by David Spett
Lieutenant Jack Konstantinidis, head of special operations at the First Precinct, right, telling W. Broadway street artists last Saturday that they need to change the law in order to vend there legally. Artists leader Larry White is second from right and Jill Stasium is on the left.
Soho street artists brush with police
By David Spett
Rick Lee, a First Precinct community affairs police officer, gave this description of Sohos street artists:
Theyre rude, they urinate in doorways, theyre vulgar, they fight, theyre drunk.
The term street artists can apply to vendors selling 99-cent jewelry or to experienced painters and photographers who charge $500 for their work. But to Lee, theyre one and the same.
Probably, they all violate the law, Lee said. Every day for 14 years theres been a problem.
Now, it seems the police may be doing something about it.
Officers visited W. Broadway street artists all of whom sell more expensive, fine art on Sat. July 8 and Sat. July 15. They threatened a crackdown but did not issue any tickets or seize any art.
The police came and said theyre cleaning up W. Broadway and were not allowed to be here, said Jill Stasium, who has sold her paintings on W. Broadway, just south of Prince St. in front of the Swatch watch store and Mastic Spa, for nine and a half years. It was just very odd, she said.
Police told artists they were violating the 20-foot rule, which bans vendors from setting up stands within 20 feet of any doorway. On W. Broadway, the sidewalk is between 17 and 25 feet wide and doors are between 5 and 10 feet apart, making compliance with the 20-foot rule difficult, if not impossible.
Stasium called the polices actions ridiculous and said artists First Amendment right to free expression overrides the 20-foot rule. Several other artists, including Lawrence White, a de facto leader of the W. Broadway artists contingent and member of the Soho International Artists Cooperative, agreed.
But disagreements within the artist community have led to different interpretations of the polices actions and different ideas of how to proceed.
Officer Lee said the artists interpretation of the law is incorrect.
Irrespective of their First Amendment rights, they still have to abide by [Department of] Consumer Affairs guidelines, he said.
He added that the First Precinct receives a significant number of complaints about street artists.
The community basically doesnt want the artists at all, Lee said. The world has changed, its not 1969 anymore, and they [residents] dont want these people in front of their million-dollar condos.
Sean Sweeney, director of the Soho Alliance, said it is understandable that W. Broadway residents are frustrated by the street artists.
Do they violate the law on a constant basis? Should they obey the law? Yes. Do they? No, Sweeney said. Why would anyone want lawbreakers in their neighborhood?
Jack Konstantinidis, the First Precinct special operations lieutenant, who investigates street vendors and came to W. Broadway both Saturdays, added that some local storeowners have encouraged the First Precinct to enforce the 20-foot rule. But last Saturday, with police outside, two store managers praised the artists.
Melissa Sommer, manager of The GemStore, at 436 W. Broadway, said street artists are the stores best friends.
They do nothing but help us out. Wed miss them if they werent here. It would take away a lot of business, Sommer said. They make Soho Soho.
Jessica Wolfe, manager of Jurlique Skin Spa, at 436 W. Broadway, said every store she knows supports the street artists.
The only problem comes from the people who live in the neighborhood. They dont want to share, Wolfe said. [The artists] are friendly and creative.
White, who is a dance photographer, said that in the late 1990s, artists asked stores on W. Broadway to sign a petition.
Almost every single business on W. Broadway stated that they felt we should have the right to set up, White said.
The crackdown seems focused on W. Broadway. White said the street was historically the center of the art world of the United States, and that artists have been setting up there since the mid-1980s.
In April 2000, the City Council passed a law banning all street vendors on weekends along Prince and Spring Sts. between W. Broadway and Broadway, largely in response to pressure from the Soho Alliance. The group pushed for the legislation because the streets are crowded and narrow.
Stasium said, in the recent confrontations, the police told her they were going to clean W. Broadway like they cleaned up Prince and Spring Sts.
On July 15, Lieutenant Konstantinidis and another officer arrived at 9 a.m. to tell the W. Broadway street artists they were violating the 20-foot rule. The lieutenant spent almost two hours speaking with the artists. He issued no tickets but said he would return on July 29 to do so.
Other vendors in Soho last Saturday said threats of a crackdown were limited to W. Broadway.
At the northeast corner of Prince and Mercer Sts., one vendor selling inexpensive jewelry said the police had not spoken to her that day.
Across the street at the northwest corner, handbag vendor Pedro Salomon said police had earlier told him, You cant be here, then left without issuing a ticket.
On Broadway north of Prince, John Robinson, another vendor selling inexpensive jewelry last Saturday, said the police had asked him to move his stand to the other side of Broadway for the day, but he was unsure why.
Maybe theyre breaking in a new group of rookies. Everything will go back to normal, Robinson said, adding that police had enforced odd rules before. Theyve been pretty good with us. We understand. Theyre just doing their job.
The Soho artist community has two leaders: White, of the Soho International Artists Cooperative, and Robert Lederman, president of A.R.T.I.S.T., or Artists Response to Illegal State Tactics. The two have starkly different opinions on nearly everything. Recently, a key disagreement has been over the possibility that W. Broadway artists can comply with the 20-foot rule.
Jill Stasium has to do nothing more drastic than change the layout of her display and shell be completely legal, Lederman said in a telephone interview.
Not so, White said.
Its impossible to follow the 20-foot rule on W. Broadway, he said. There would be only five or six artists between Houston and Broome Sts.
Lieutenant Konstantinidis advised the artists to try to change the laws, through either the City Council or the courts, if they want to continue setting up on W. Broadway. On July 15, White and some artists considered pooling funds to hire a lawyer to challenge the 20-foot rule on constitutional grounds.
Its a sure loss, said Lederman, who has won First Amendment suits against the city. The 20-foot rule, which I agree is unfair, is not unconstitutional. The Supreme Court generally has allowed time, place and manner restrictions on free speech.
Lederman sent a mass e-mail this week to all his contacts in the Manhattan artist community expounding on his views. The e-mail, entitled CRISIS FOR STREET ARTISTS, stated that if the W. Broadway artists file a lawsuit and lose, it could seriously harm the entire artist community by validating existing restrictions or allowing lawmakers to strengthen them.
White, on the other hand, encouraged the artists to hire a lawyer.
Logic would dictate that if youre facing an issue of legality that you get an attorney, he said.
Public disagreements between Lederman and White go back several years. Lederman, who has a broader view of artists rights, said he believes courts, not legislators or vendors, should determine who can set up stands on the street without a permit.
White believes the city should loosen restrictions on more sophisticated, fine artists while cracking down on what he calls illegal vendors, those who do not sell their own work. White supports a system of licensing fine artists.
People who actually show and display their own work are a minority in the city, White said.
But Lederman said Whites policy is too restrictive of speech.
When these artists beg city officials to limit the right to sell art to just themselves and a few friends, they demonstrate a total lack of understanding about free speech, he said.
Last Saturday, the W. Broadway street artists expressed frustration with both Lederman and White, saying their disagreements have harmed the artist community.
This is not a game. This is peoples livelihood, said David Chatoff, who has been selling poster prints on W. Broadway for four years. Lederman and Larry White dont represent the street. We need to find a neutral third party.
The artists said that Lederman, who has led dozens of protests for artists rights and said he has been arrested 41 times, is too much of a fighter. Many of them sympathize with the gentler, smoother White but say he has been too willing to spar with Lederman.
We need a course of action, Stasium said on July 15 as eight W. Broadway artists stood in a circle, after their discussion with police.
White, who had been standing about 10 feet away, came over.
Go to meetings. Democracy means being active, he advised them. Sacrifice that time and you will not be sacrificing time on the street.
As they bounced ideas off each other attending Community Board 2 meetings, lobbying Councilmembers Alan Gerson and Rosie Mendez Stasium wondered whether a powerful, unified Soho artists cooperative was in the making.
Lederman was skeptical. Discouraging the artists from filing a lawsuit, he blamed the ordeal on the Soho Alliance and Gerson.
The whole thing is a Gerson scam intended to drive artists into filing a losing lawsuit that will help the Soho Alliance have even more restrictions to use against artists, Lederman said. Gerson is a puppet and the puppet man is Sean Sweeney, who is the biggest opponent of street artists in the city.
White, while not putting it as stridently as Lederman, agreed that the Soho Alliance had been able to lobby politicians and C.B. 2 to crack down on street artists.
Sweeney, the Soho Alliance director, said Lederman should give up on this, grow up, and denied that the Soho Alliance has complained to the police in the past 10 years about street artists.
We have better things to do. We are fighting Donald Trump now, he said, referring to a plan by Trump for a hotel-condo project at Spring and Varick Sts.
But Sweeney disagreed with Ledermans broad definition of art.
What is art? Is a T-shirt art? he said. Handmade T-shirts, knockoff T-shirts, I Love N.Y. T-shirts, knockoff bags. They say its all art.
Gerson has called for more police enforcement on W. Broadway, where he said street artists pose a significant problem.
The situation on W. Broadway is not acceptable. You cant have a wall of vendors of any kind, he said. Current regulations are not enforced. Its unsafe and its unlivable.
Gerson is getting ready to introduce a bill that would alle
iate congestion on streets like W. Broadway, he said, while accommodating artists and vendors in appropriate ways. The 20-foot rule is too hard to enforce and too restrictive of artists rights, he said, and a more manageable and legally enforceable set of regulations is in order.
Gerson did not give specific details of the proposal but said it would be introduced later this summer.
This is a problem that goes back to before I took office, he said, but until we have changed the law, the law needs to be enforced.
In the mid-1990s, when Lederman said he staged protests nearly every weekend, street artists rights were far more limited than they are today.
A 1996 ruling, Bery/Lederman et al. v. City of N.Y., which was appealed as high as the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, overturned the citys vending license requirements for street artists, Lederman said. Two other cases decided in 2001, Lederman et al. v. Giuliani and Bach et al. v. City of N.Y., overturned permit requirements for artists in New York City parks.
Since 2001, the City Council has considered re-instituting permit requirements for street artists in city parks. It also has proposed a cap of two artists per block. But neither proposal passed the City Council.
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Many of us rush through the day without giving too much thought to what types of food we put in our bodies. And when we do, many seldom have time to truly enjoy the food, gobbling it down quickly before rushing off to the next event.
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Viola J. Weiland, age 84, of Mound, died Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010, at the Waconia Good Samaritan Center in Waconia.
She was born June 8, 1926, in Mound, the daughter of John and Myrtle (Moline) Wicks.
Viola was united in marriage to Lamont J. Weiland Aug. 14, 1948, at her home in Crystal Bay, by the Rev. Harold Carlson.
A loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, Viola was a wonderful cook and had a gift for making everyone feel welcome when they came to her home.
She kept a daily journal throughout her life, and was very faithful about sending cards out for all occasions.
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She was preceded in death by her husband, Lamont; grandson Chad Weiland; parents John and Myrtle Wicks; sisters Dawnita Vogelgesang, Minerva Tesch, Dolorez Mathisen, Priscilla Langert; and brothers Quno Wicks and Carl Wicks.
Viola is survived by her loving family; children and spouses Linda and Larry Quaas of Norwood Young America, Barbara and Tom Heitz of Watertown, Monty and Shirley Weiland of Delano, and Susan and Delbert Meyer of Minnetrista; grandchildren Sharon and Darwin Roy, Don Quaas, Brenda and Rob Doboszenski, and Paul Meyer; great-grandchildren Nathan Roy, Tyler Entrikin, Megan Doboszenski, and Emily Doboszenski; sisters-in-law and brother-in-law Bev Wicks of Big Lake, and Joyce and Donald Langert of Glencoe; nieces, nephews, and other relatives and friends.
The funeral service was Saturday, Aug. 28 at 11 a.m. at the Minnetrista Baptist Church in St. Bonifacius with the Rev. Jerry Fluth officiating. Interment was in the Minnetrista Baptist Cemetery.
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|Crisis Pregnancy Ministry
We can oppose abortion and fully realize the intensity of crisis pregnancy.
"In the last analysis, the Christian church is a missionary body....The church can make a difference in the lives of individuals by believing its own message...God equips his church to respond to human needs...The church can prepare itself consciously to be the community into which a woman and child are welcomed and cared for in the long-term. The church can play a significant role in ending the crisis and can be the place where mother and child belong long after the crisis has passed. The church's objective in a crisis pregnancy is to consider both the means of preserving the life and well-being of the unborn child, and the long-term well-being of the pregnancy woman. Preserving the life of the child means, not only avoiding abortion, but also planning for the future or the child in a stable family and supportive community. Caring for the well-being of the pregnant woman means consideration of medical care for her and her child, as well as her economic, emotional, social, and spiritual need."
Involving your church in crisis pregnancy ministry
Walk Alongside Others in Crisis
The complexities of crisis pregnancy should not deter the church from being involved. However, resist the pull to mirror social services. Through entry-level adult Christian Education classes to support groups meeting various aspects of crisis pregnancy, the church can not only reach out but also draw in.
"The church should extend aid where help is needed, but the final goal is nurture of the needy that enables them to become mature Christians, able then to help others." (Not My Own; p. 109)
Become a Resource Center for Alternatives to Abortion in your Presbytery
In 1986 the General Assembly acknowledged the need for churches to assume an active role in providing alternatives to abortion by suggesting that each presbytery designate at least one church as a Resource Center for Alternatives to Abortion (RCAA). Resource Centers were again encouraged in the 1992 Policy on Problem Pregnancy and Abortion. PPL has resources to help your church in developing such a ministry - listed below.
Provide Housing for a Woman in a Crisis Pregnancy
Pregnancy help centers are always in need of families willing and able to provide this ministry, and congregations can help by encouraging members to open their homes to someone in such a situation. Once a placement has been made, whether for just a couple weeks or a few months, before and/or after the birth, others in the congregation can support the host family with meals, transportation, and just helping out. For a young woman in crisis, being part of a Christian family can result in life-changing effects. Contact PPL, your local pregnancy help center, or one of the organizations listed below for more information.
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Pregnancy Help Centers (also known as "crisis pregnancy centers" and "pregnancy care centers") provide free services such as pregnancy testing, infant and maternity items, shepherding homes, and adoption referrals. Some are licensed for limited medical services, such as sonograms and first trimester prenatal care. Through a predominantly volunteer staff, their purpose is to reach those in a crisis pregnancy and provide the support that is needed for that individual to choose life.
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"Storytelling is the currency of community. The best stories are moving because at their heart, they shine light on the community of people that they serve." ~ Ale Besdikian
As we celebrate our 50th Anniversary of Rockford Lutheran School, it is important that we take the opportunity to share our stories and shine the light on our community and the community we serve. The stories shared here are stories shared by students, parents, teachers, and friends. Do you have one that you'd like to share? Let us know...
An Education in Faith
Good Student Equals Better Teacher
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Reading Buddies
Realizing an Undiscovered God-Given Gift
RLA is Our Home
The Joy of Chapel
The Meaning of Perseverance
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4. Moisturize, Moisturize, Moisturize! According to KeSARI Beauty Creative Director Richa Purohit, you should look for "oil-based moisturizers with vitamins C and E." These types of moisturizers will lock in moisture better than water-based moisturizers.
If you have problem skin and are worried about oil-based moisturizers clogging your pores, opt for a lighter lotion. Make sure to moisturize right as you get out of the shower so that you lock in moisture.
Don't forget to moisturize your lips with a great lip balm! Try Aveeno Ultra-Calming Daily Moisturizer with SPF 15 or Bliss Triple Oxygen +C Energizing Cream. As for a lip balm, I'm currently loving Burt's Bees Beeswax Lip Balm because it's all natural, has vitamin E and peppermint, and is really soothing my lips.
Have a wonderful winter!
xo, Leila


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Anime News Network has picked up on a fascinating trend over on YouTube: Anime and manga fans who show off their swag to support the industry.
The manga industry's push against scan sites, which resulted in the shutdown of OneManga, seems to have raised awareness across otakudom that watching pirated anime and reading bootleg manga online is illegal. The anime industry has been faltering for years—long before manga began to wobble in 2007—but the general tendency among fans is to blame the publishers (for high prices and bad translations), so this is an interesting shift. It also mirrors the trend of "haul videos," in which shoppers show off the results of their latest shopping spree.
This particular movement was started by The Right Arm of Edward Elric, who appears to have been doing video reviews for some time. In her introductory video, she discusses the industry's problems and says, "I don't see anyone at all doing anything publicly to help. So I guess, let me be the first person to do it." She pledges to buy either one anime DVD or two manga a month, and make a video showing her purchase, including the receipt, and she encourages others to do the same. A number of similar videos have sprouted since then, all with the title "Sustain the Industry."
Smart industry insiders should be watching these videos, as they provide an interesting glimpse into the lives of anime and manga consumers. There's quite a range of demographics (although the age range was pretty tight, maybe from 12 to 25), and commentary on what affects their buyingo Palkia 678, one of the younger-looking vloggers was quite articulate in saying that he used to watch anime online and didn't realize he was watching it illegally, and explaining how he did extra work to earn money to buy his anime legitimately. Also, the backgrounds are fascinating, sometimes worthy of our Shelf Porn posts, sometimes suggesting a very modest lifestyle. It's a marketing researcher's dream, a direct look into a person's house while they display what they bought and explain why they bought it. For the rest of us, it's heartening evidence that the kids really are all right.


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Spring soccer season starts this week, so my free time gets chopped in half. That's why it was so important I get a lot done this weekend. I had SEVERAL things on my "To Do" list for this weekend that were blog related. I got ZERO of them done. Actually, I even undid something I had done, so that means I got negative things accomplished. So, Yeah Me! But I got almost EVERYTHING done on my non-blog related list, so that's a big Non-Sarcastic Yeah Me!
Oh, it's also freakin' COLD, so these first few weeks back on the fields ought to be nice and miserable. Just the way the start of soccer season SHOULD be.
Pregnancy Update: Thursday morning is my ultrasound. There is no guarantee I'll be far enough along to see the heartbeat, but they'll be able to take some measurements to see if everything looks okay. My boobs are still sore and I'm cranky as hell. That first symptom hopefully means I'm pregnant, that second one? Just means I'm still a bitch.


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National Anthems Football England Vs USA Fifa World Cup 2010 South Africa [02:07]
National Anthems Football England Vs USA Fifa World Cup 2010 South Africa God Save The Queen Star-Spangled Banner United States of America.
Fifa World Cup 2010 (South Africa) Opening match [00:30]
The atmosphere was absoltely electric!!! Our ears rang for a good few hours after we left the stadium.
Fifa World Cup 2010 - Undercover Police in VIP section at Soccer City [00:15]
Some under cover agents doing some sweeps through the VIP section of Soccer City at the 2010 World Cup Opening match in South Africa.
This Time For Africa video [00:25]
A short clip of Shakira performing at the 2010 World Cup opening ceremony in Soccer City Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Tags: World, Cup, soccer, FIFA, Shakira, 2010, South, Africa
Chris Strikes Gorge Jumping Off Oribi Gorge in South Africa 2010 [03:49]
During the 2010 World Cup in South Africa I decided to jump off a cliff! lol Enjoy the video! Background music is Drake & Lil Wayne "HYFR" I do not own the rights to the music and this video is not for any commercial purposes.
Tags: director, chris, strikes, oribi, gorge, swing, bungee, jump, south, africa, 2010, fifa, world, cup


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Sometimes even I forget exactly what the term "composite" actually means. Technically it's just combining more than one image to make a single final picture, like when you do a family picture and Grandpa is looking confusedly off into space like he doesn't know how to be in a picture. (He always does that. GRANDPA LOOK HERE!!) So, you take the one image where he is mostly looking at the camera and kinda smiling and replace his head in the other photo where everyone else looks good … That's a composite. (Not to throw shade at my Grandpa, he is an 80-year old champion, whom I love.) I'm so used to shooting a subject in the studio and then clipping them off of their background to place them somewhere else, that in my brain, that process has taken the place of what it (my brain) believes is a composite. For the above image (and also below, I guess), I created the finished composited piece of art without ever cutting out the subject.
As I sat at my computer (almost exactly a year later) staring at the photos trying to decide which one to edit, and what exactly to do with it, I got inspired by a certain capture. There was just something about Loren's pose/face/posture/movement that looked like she was leaving the cave on a hunt. When I showed the work-in-progress to Loren she said she did seem to be "channeling her inner velociraptor." Then I thought to myself, "hey self, why would there be a lovely lady in a pretty pink dress leaving a cave like a glorious velociraptor?" My creative gears started to churn and I cranked out an idea that I'm quite pleased with ….
I had recently picked up these nifty blue shades for 3 dollars (because I have a nose for clearance sales). I brought those and a blue sweater I have and decided to base my image around them. Normally while creating a wizard image one might not think to include sunglasses, but I was imagining him summoning some crazy bright blue magic light and he would need these spacial glasses to be able to see by the light without his eyeballs melting out of his face ... or something. My brain is weird. So anyway, here is how I created said magical blue eye melting orb...
About a zillion years ago (ok, it was February ... so same thing basically), I created a self portrait image ( ... ok, so it was several images) using ONLY lights from around my house. I wanted an exercise in something outside my current comfort zone and to challenge myself to get back to my photography roots. I did a whole post about it. I encourage you to go and enjoy that blog post before reading this one, but it's not required... or is it!? No, it's not, but do it anyway. I then challenged any takers who might have felt like taking to also create a self portrait image without any traditional photography lights
As an artist who shoots mostly composites, more often than not I'm going to be cutting out my subject and placing them in a different scene. A lot of the time I only have a rough idea of what kind of a background I'll be using, so I just shoot my subject as best as I can and figure out the backdrop later. Sometimes I have no idea what I'm going to do with my model, but a wise and incredibly good-looking man once said, "You don't always need a plan." ... HOWEVER, if I do a shoot knowing full well what my background looks like before I even pick up my camera, it makes everything a million times easier.
As an artist who primarily creates composite images, I find that one of my biggest challenges is hair - masking hair, to be exact. It can be nearly impossible to get all of those little individual hairs cut off their background so I can place my subject somewhere magical. NEARLY impossible ... Ok so it's actually not THAT hard, but there is one major tip that will make your life about a 1000 times easier. Shoot on the right background.
These days I primarily shoot in a HUGE studio with more amazing flash equipment than I could ever hope to afford myself ... ok, so I could HOPE to afford them, but at this point in my career let's just say I'm a very lucky boy to have all these fun photography toys at my disposal.I was thinking about how I've come so far from those long lost days of household lighting experiments. Every once in a while I like to shake things up and challenge myself, so why not go back to my roots and try to do a self portrait image using nothing but lights from my house!?!?
Soooo yeah, remember that other time I created a baby dragon in Photoshop? Well, in the immortal words of Britney ... Oops, I did it again. (Yeah I went there.) I was thinking about how I'd love to grow my audience (weird, right?) and get more recognition for my work ... or whatever, and one of the best things you can do to stand out of the crowd is to figure out something you can do that not everyone else can, and you know, do it! Last time that I used my wizard-y-Photoshop-powers to craft a dragon, the internet sorta lost its mind. Ok, so not the whole internet, but those who saw it seemed to be pretty into it and that blog post is still one of my most popular. I say, give the people what they want! Also, I would be lying to your face if I said I didn't love anything and everything having to do with dragons. So without further ado, I grant to you kind readers, 4 tips for creating a dragon in Photoshop!
As photographers (or artists in general), we're all searching for that elusive "style" phenomenon everyone talks about. We want to have our own "style" with hopes that one day people might look upon our work and say things like, "hey, I like your style...." There is no formula for finding a style; you basically just have to create, A LOT. Keep shooting the things you love to shoot and editing the way you love to edit, try different things, fail, try them again, and your style will sort of naturally grow into a thing. One day it will just be there like a stray dog that falls perfectly into your life like it was always there. You won't even realize it happened. (Disclaimer: You might, however, notice a new dog in your house ... just an observation.) You can't force it (I don't believe anyone who goes out looking for a new stray dog finds one), just work and the style will come. (Disclaimer 2: Maybe this analogy is crap? ... because unlike a "style," if you want a dog, just go to the shelter and get one.)
I'm charging into 2018 with a fire under my ass that hurts so good! There are already some really exciting opportunities on the the horizon that I can't even believe are seriously going to happen, but before I move forward I need to do some important reflecting (get it, reflecting? Cuz of the mirror photo ... ) and hopefully bestow upon you a lesson I learned that I definitely shouldn't have needed to learn. Meaning it should just obviously be taken seriously and tended to all the time, not merely after something terrible happens. Friends, I'd like to talk to you about ... backing up your files.
Layers on layers on layers on layers .... I've been working on this image for far too long, just long enough, but also not nearly as much as I'd like to? Needless to say, I put a lot of time and love into this edit and really really enjoyed the process of adding in the countless tiny details. TBH it took some major restraint on my part to finally call it "done" and move onto the next project. Seriously though, people - I feel like I could continue to zoom way in and refine/add more details for-EVAH. Which is exactly what I'd like to talk about today: taking your time and adding more details!
Did you ever finish an image (or think an image was finished anyway) and it just didn't seem to sit right? You look at it and it's almost as if your eye can't decide where to go? Well, if you, the almighty creator, are having this issue, then odds are anyone looking at said image is going to suffer from this problem as well. One of the most important things you can do to an image is to "tidy up." Aka attack your image with the patch tool, clone stamp, and whatever means necessary to get rid of anything that might beckon the attention away from your subject.
First, let's get the tedious part of the process out of the way. For the most part, I hand paint each little particle so they fall exactly where I want them to go. I use Photoshop's default brush with zero percent hardness and click around constantly tapping the bracket buttons (right next to the "P" key - they are quick commands for enlarging and shrinking your brush size). I try to make sure there's a somewhat natural flow to them and not to have all of them too perfectly spaced out. There is definitely an art to particle placement.
Quick Mask Mode. Guys it's pretty awesome. Does anyone ever use this? If you're sitting there like "IDK, what's a Quick Mask," the answer is, "No, it's not when you use a layer mask as fast as you can." Quick Mask is a tool in Photoshop that lets you more precisely edit your selections. You can activate it by pressing the "Q" key or clicking the little rectangle-with-a-dotted-line-circle-in-it at the bottom of your tools palette. Some of you may already know what it is but hardly ever think to use it for anything. Well I'm here to let you know that it can be incredibly handy if you use it correctly.
If you're in the gym and trying to lift something heavy, odds are you need a spotter. Even if you fancy yourself to be a big strong macho man (or woman). You may think you can just do it yourself (and maybe you can), but wouldn't it be safer to have an extra set of hands to yank that weight off your chest if you try to bite off more than you can chew? Perhaps you and your silly pride can struggle through it, but odds are you're going to have bad form; the sloppy reps just aren't going to deliver the results you were hoping for. Creating a piece of artwork is no different. Sure, you can do it all by yourself and get something done, but it's always a good idea to find an artwork spotter to have your back.
I can't tell you how many times I get comments like "Wow this is so cool; it almost looks like a painting!" Not that I'm complaining about that whatsoever; I take it as a compliment. It's one of my goals when creating a work of art - to make something that isn't quite a photo, but isn't quite a painting. "Yes, but how do you make it look like that!?" Well, since you asked I guess I could explain some of the process. Obviously a LOT goes into making my images look the way they do. Fancy studio lighting and a hefty amount of digital painting play large roles, but one technique that really pushes my work towards that sort of hyper-real-digital-illustration-y-type-look is the use of the "Shadows/Highlights" adjustment.
A super easy way to add motion to an edit is to apply a motion blur filter. I know it's so obvious it seems silly, but there is definitely more to it than just slapping a filter on top of your image. First of all you have to decide what is in motion and what direction it's going in. For "The Retreat" I knew that he (the dragon ... well subsequently Niall too, I guess) would be charging towards the left side of the frame, so the angle of my motion blur was easy enough to figure out. I was attempting to emulate the look you get when you pan the camera following along with a moving subject. For example, if you were to try to take a picture of a passing motorcycle, you could track it in the center of your frame, then when you snap the photo the motorcycle would be more or less crisp and the background would have the motion blur.
Being a full-time huge fan/buddy of the guys over at the RAWexchange store, I often get asked to check out their new material. (Just to clear the air, no one is paying me to say any of this. I just love them and everything they put out ... like, for real. I DO get a cut of the sales if you happen to purchase something through one of my links, but that is besides the point. The RAWexchange Store really does just have top notch stuff that I ACTUALLY use in basically every image ... ok moving on.) Well friends, let me tell you that their newest endeavor to start selling in-depth tutorials is one of their best ideas yet. Stefan Kohler created a "Colors & Photoshop" tutorial that is two and a half hours jam-packed with everything you could ever hope to know about colors and how/why they work the way they do in Photoshop.
One of the techniques I frequently use when shooting on location (by frequently I mean pretty much every time) is to expand my frame. I believe that many of you know of this fancy maneuver and are probably already doing it like total pixel gathering pros. (Well done, friends.) However, we are all at different levels on our journey towards creative greatness, so for those of you who haven't tested out this handy trick yet - allow me to elaborate. ALLOW ME!! K thanks. (And for those that do know this technique, kindly stick around for some tips and tricks that will hopefully take your expanding game to the next level.)
I had the pleasure of shooting with Amy Wilder again! It is always such a joy to shoot with someone who is so on top of their shit. This girl knows how to work it. Normally when I do a shoot I'm trying to get as much "right" in one frame as possible. Aka the face, pose, hair, dress, whatever other magical elements that I'm capturing in camera, all to my liking in one shot. Very often I can get pretty close and only end up adding a bit of extra dress here or a hair flip there. Although apparently there are those other times when your model gives you too many perfect pictures and you just cannot decide what to use ... so you go nuts and just combine many shots ... so. many.
Sooooooo I made some armor. Not tangible armor, though (maybe one day). You see, the site ShiftArt.com does a monthly photo contest where they give you a selection of stock images to edit however you choose, as long you use a certain amount of them. This month the prize was a 13-inch Wacom Cintiq. So yeah, um duh, of course I was going to enter. I came in second place, but I still feel like I won because I ended up putting together this badass image that I never would have made otherwise. :)
Being the self-appointed-official-fancy-pants-Photoshop-wizard that I am means one of my favorite pastimes is to take a mostly simple image and add a bunch of elements to make it SPECTACULAR. (Well, hopefully spectacular anyway.) Here, my friends, is basically how that all went down in ten steps ...
I recently started a series of blog posts in which I gab on about the various selection tools of Photoshop. So far I've only gone over the pen tool, my main squeeze when it comes to most selections. It's definitely my go-to selection tool because it's just so dang precise, but let's be real here ... it is NOT always called for. There are going to be many selections that don't require quite the amount of work and attention that goes into penning a path around something. Oftentimes when I know it's going to work quickly and efficiently, I just look no farther than the Magic Wand Tool ... I mean it's got "magic" in the name so it's got to be good for something, am I right?
We've all had them before, those moments when something goes "wrong" and yet somehow completely right at the same time. These are the things we can't really control and that you probably would never have thought to do, but the universe seems to align and sprinkle a little bit of extra magic onto your project. Well, I had that cosmic-accidental-magic-attack during one of my recent shoots and I couldn't be more excited about it!
I'm the first person to say that I totally LOVE studio lighting. I crave a few hours spent in a dark studio tinkering around with big-expensive-flash-photography-toys as much as the next guy. Probably more than half of my portfolio was shot in the studio with multiple huge flash banks and other fancy lighting tools and modifiers. I wonder if (slash secretly hope) some photographers out there see this image and think something like, "This is so cool, but I can't afford all of that snazzy flash lighting stuff." Or that some photographer who's stuck in their old ways, thinking you can only get good images with expensive lights, will see the image and say, "See look what a stunning image you can create with some good lighting equipment ..." Well, this image is a testament that with a little creativity, a good group of friends, a bag of candles, and .... some cell phone flashlights ... you can accomplish something truly magical!
As some of you may recall, one of my very first blog posts (my 4th to be exact), was about compositing. I talk about compositing constantly in many of my posts, because I guess it's sort of my "thing," but I figured it was about time to share another of my handy dandy tricks for pulling off convincing composites. So here goes nothing ... well I mean here goes something ... it's compositing tips and tricks for working with different colored lights! Or just faking the colors later. ;)
I know there are a lot people out there who want to be better at Photoshop - heck, I've been doing this for almost half of my life and I want to be better! Well, I was really thinking about it and it dawned on me that more often than any other tip, I'm telling people they really should master the pen tool. It is hands down the most advanced and precise selection tool and if you boil Photoshop down to its simplest form, it's a SELECTIVE photo editing software. So I thought to myself, "Hey self, why not really dive deep into selection tools - how to do them, when to use which one, and why they are so dang important?"
Hey guys it's me! ME ROBERT, remember me? Maybe not ... because this crazy thing happened where I haven't posted a new image in about three months. (I know eww WTF!) Well anyway, I'm here to tell you that I still exist (yay) and I'm still going to be churning out art and blogging about the process! (Extra yay!)
Dresses. We photographers love dresses. I know I've said it about a gazillion times before, but I'll say it again: Beautiful dresses make for beautiful pictures ... well at least they help a lot. I know that it's such a "thing" nowadays in the fine art photography world - more often than not, images that get a really great response probably have a beautiful girl in a beautiful dress. Sorry (not sorry), it's just the way it is. Obviously there are an unfathomable amount of other things you can have in your images, not have any dresses whatsoever, and still have an amazing outcome. However, I'm willing to guess that at least every once in a while you're going to want to shoot an image of a pretty girl in a pretty dress. I know I do!
Okay let's just start right off by saying this image is not just my baby. Anyone who has ever heard of the light painting extraordinaire Eric Paré would see this image and think, "Ummm Robert? You totally ripped off Eric's work." To which I would kindly respond, "Good job for knowing who Eric is and for being able to spot his work ... because this is his work!" Well, it's half his work anyway. You see, this new image is a collaboration Eric and I created together. If you aren't one of those people who knew right away Paré must have been involved (or at least have heard of him/seen his masterpieces), then you need to drop everything and check him out!!! Eric is an extremely talented, passionate, and creative photographer who specializes in light painting. Rather than trying to delve too deep into an explanation of his process, I'll just have you put your eyes on this brilliant video he recently released....