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How can you make money with your body?
Friday, November 17th
Friday, November 17th
Your body is a gold mine of dollars. From selling stool to selling sperm, there are lots of ways you can make bank with your body. But are they worth it?
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Welcome to episode two of campaign from spare change for. The football without breaking the bank. Right right what's going on my name's Chris Evans and over there it is. Whitney Young daughter yourself you see your Mike I know I do that and I keep I'm I'm going to this phase recchi you know Michael my face. And oh I just move around too much when it docked. I don't know today's episode though is about selling your body for money for it not prostitution are talking about sex now while we cut. Mean it we won't know I'm so what does that mean your body's liquid gold mine. Of money and most of us don't really realize that so what exactly can he sell. You have our senior Heidi or maybe on your body on to make some money he can live with a Boller. Bodily by products. Like that yeah well we're talking little side hustle for everybody. Exactly so is it we produce the stuff to be re already produced street wanna make. Look at national I think you're really on spending its time exactly you know. So here's an overview of or gonna go over things you can sell on the first one is. They can sell your sex Ed and that. Well we'll explain all of that what we mean by that our world's gonna go over what's the easiest thing you can do the easiest you know thing for your buck here with the body. The weirdest things you can sell low and ultimately what's your biggest pay out the need to really look and get some some serious cash what can you sell. That is gonna take only the bank yes. And along the way were gonna also cover some of the risks because now risks there's no such thing as a free lunch your body. Exactly yeah a lot of risks on so again we should we should on. Clarify were not medical professionals early any kind of professionals now are so so that we tell you like no you you can do this it's based on research we've done but like don't don't sue us please. But we don't know what I like legally. OK so selling your sexson what does that mean about what. By the way that's a good term sex. Iger copyright sex Ed I want it copier and make millions up. What does that mean we're talking about selling your sperm and acts. Right which that I've talked about doing this for awhile. Really well because it seemed like a really easy way to make an extra bucks think about it like. You you spent a lot you know on the weekend and by just like donated sperm once a week secondly if from a drinks at the bar. You know I. It's like a lot more than goes into it than that. Yes there's a catch there's a big catch this just use saying hey I can do this once a week and that would cover you know XYZ. Costs and bills well. You can't just about once a week well how many times I have to do. I don't know how many times but I do know that if you end up having good sperm according to the powers that be. You end up actually having to sign a contract and maybe that's what did that in a second because I think we should talk about the qualifying factor experts do not even be qualified well okay by. What do I need it to have that what I need to be qualified. So what you need to have is high eight got to be at least 62 dollar and sixty top six to one and a half. They're done depends on what I've eaten in a good day bad day should stand up straight yet you gotta be in good shape. What do you say to think I'm gonna shape that I can via. I think so yeah also depends on the day exactly time of year exactly but you need a lot of like bananas I do love bananas are cheap now. You have to have a high school degree or better although Ph.D.s sperm makes the most money while doctorate sperm okay. So worth more do you have your high school degree I do you have a college degree. And it. And finally the tablet middle of the road sperm. Not Ph.D. I got you exactly. And you can't be a red head they don't want red heads its sole racist against redhead. And so I mean I like red hats there's red had a couple out there that. Can't have a baby and they're like able but we want our sperm donor to Everett here senator Manuel like us. Rare makes I had a rare Barack. So you hit leading up to your deposit as. Oracle audit you got cook should be celibate for today's. Okay so that's kind of one of us. And yeah I'm Trevor loans that's not could be a product as. Well usually singles. Here's the deal if you have standout sperm you could be brought on as. Like a regulator but that would mean you'd have to sign a contract saying you'll come in. Once a week for six months to a year and you can't bail out when she make that commitment to its kind that really is a commitment it is a commitment. See your ear you know you could make up to a thousand bucks a month by. You're looking like kind of cool worst on a weekly basis to produce. I was just felt like it was like frogs in the mood to you know like get extra couple bucks Mike Wallace popped on the clinic and I was at a bar right and and you know just do that you know make a deposit if you will and then you don't -- away with some action bar money. But it sounds like a pick a part time job it dust actually sounds the best part time job ever really I mean guys do that anyways. You save that now. But imagining her there. Okay you're at a clinic and your sitting in this likes steer role. Fluorescent Liu lit room on late and a hot doctor's office exam table and there's like you're yeah. You will they're not in the room know they're not they leave they leave but still there like okay go ahead like you've got about ten minutes to beat. There hasn't progressed what was the Olympics is on so gross I. The weird part though is my mind would not be able to not focus on the fact elect I'm not the only guy who's done this exact thing in this chair. Re like yeah now I know they give you the magazine's June same wall some other dude the did this met you know I mean like. Yet he touched the magazine and lord knows when he touched but that's exactly it's quite match her sticky and I don't. So I wanna do black as a that also I'm kind of afraid. Of finding out that I have bad sperm. Miguel I really I really wanna have kids someday I don't have kids now but someday that's the plan. And unassuming I mean if they eat they tested. Assuming that the first time if they find out like maybe you have really slow swimmers or there's something not quite there. I would know then and then that would kind of be part. Would be up but it doesn't mean you. Can't have children it just might mean you don't have like. Herculean sperm right rule what do I found out that it could have children and I thought I was sterile. Kind of don't wanna know that you know until maybe I'm trying to have a kid with my future wife and then we can't and then. Well I wanna wanna know that before even met the woman that I am. Gonna eventually married yeah. Because than it like sabotage that we you date because she's going to be down on yourself and your gonna be and yeah and you might end up with somebody who finds that out and they're like. Well I don't know if I can be acute because I don't. You know I wanna have my own right logical to parent. Yeah and that could be a deal breaker for someone and so I don't so weird so seed got that little insecurity there about just not wire little fear immediately you don't wanna find out bad news yes. Yes exactly right exactly so and then there's also obviously the whole thing about like. If you actually a child's. There. That's that's the weird thing to bomb. Yes I think power to do this. Dole with the whole have indicated other thing I would have to not think about it how to set to go in there and not think about it. Which is like totally not the right way you wanna go about how he kids my kids in the world that's don't think about it just do. No because he think about it that's what it's like locate. Prey on more so than me though I I've brought this up my mom before. I was like oh how would you feel I donated sperm you know for extra cash and she has been like absolutely not really that she is really freaked out by it. On for a bunch of reasons one I think there might be some may be religious reasons and it really now on. I would say she's she's very Catholic I don't know that necessarily goes against any kind of Catholic stuff on Catholic teachings but. I'm sure I don't I don't know it I don't I don't know pomp and also I think what you weird for her to know that. She has grand kids out there that she doesn't now. It can be anywhere you know she could go to. Wegmans right and her cashier Kabeer granted you know now and for that matter and that the same with me today to be my son. I know that guy I pulled RI you know content traffic. At UMass is not. Exact or daughter exactly and you'd always be paranoid. You know saying. Ten years down the line if I did this now you see somebody that. Maybe kind of looked like. Knew that you'd you'd never know and that would mess with my had so much and it's the same thing for women if you get into debt rating exactly. Which is which is the other thing we looked into obviously where. You can make 5000 to 141000 dollars. Right which is a lot of money and by the way Tom I don't know if we mentioned with the donating sperm you can make it to about a thousand dollars per month and mentioned that. Dollar amount and it's mainly because they make you so much right. But it's obviously a lot more francs at 50141000. There thousand dollars per call her bag. And edging out okay as. I don't hold doesn't like to. A dozen eggs a carton of no so that is actually the cost of the procedures so here's here's how it goes can I didn't know about where I get. Economic gap so it so what happens is. You for about three weeks leading up to the surgery certain. Read about three weeks leading up to the surgery. You have to have these hormone injections you. Let it you know it doesn't sound like on you to do on injections and those in and of themselves can give you side effects like moderate weight gain mood changes stomach. Pressure and pain and headaches all stuck. You actually have the surgery itself where they remove the eggs again and you get paid for that. The bushel or whatever it ought to do what else. Don't know what they Colin but you all these times today that the deposit. Go there produced in a bushel exactly exactly. Yes so it's so that's what you're getting paper you're not getting paid per NA OK and I. And I'm sorry and eight did you say how many tank came in a bushel how they take out. I. Didn't actually fine because I mean the difference to only forty. Forty it's crazy it's a great number how many eggs come with you. How Miley surprised how many eggs come with Peres added. Because her for me for guys it's cover there's not unlimited amount really bright millions. Ray and it can you can constantly you know. Churn out more right you have flag number of of goodies you know each month in the bushel in the bushel correctly. Any for your whole life my whole life yet. Right exactly. And then the other things so we've also got a requirements for the eggs okay. Just like with the sperm so according to egg donor America dot com between you gotta be between the ages of 21. And 31. Which is I think I can expire after thirty. Which is crazy because there are a lot of women out there that are having children at. Easily at 35 footers eight yen but I know it gets a bit more risky and after Sally well after selling but if if these are exit. People are kind of you know yeah. Think they have to pay to get your rag and elegant but see I wanna have a kid and my wife armed camps. Like the paper that bag probably rank only. Yeah you're paying yes paying for example like get the egg free to come by today a one and has less risk right you know right I want rotten market. Right arm and neck get a so like menu women have to be healthy after being nonsmokers. You can't be using any form of birth control obviously. And it's no current use of cycle active drugs or a history of substance abuse it gives me more rain and fair right jab right got to be boring. No family history of inherit able genetic disorders and a willingness to take these hormone injections which like sad have some. Some setbacks you have some gross side effects and one thing. One in ten women experience ovarian hyper stimulation syndrome after the egg removal which causes. And it. Really rough stuff like severe abdominal pain. A lot of fluid buildup which is why you have this abdominal pain the weight gain so. Now you're not it's not for not getting five to 141000 dollars for. That being said would you do it. I would have to be. In a catastrophic financial situation I think it's you. Under go the physical. Risks. Associated with us and also the psychological trauma do I have a child out there this like your plan B exactly red eye if I find myself in lake. Horrendous debt. We'll think about it we'll talk about it. But known Irena. Married out India it's nice and are you comforted by knowing the always have this like safety net teen years you know like body the college of sales again I'm not always a habit until closer. I want GAAP and clocks tick in Whitney got to sell yeah I now I now that's crazy I'm I'm just. One or read about in the middle of that rain Shia and between when the 31 rain soaked. Yet o'clock sticking. But it it's a lot C really have to wanna do this it is it's not I think both of these things you can't really do wanna win. Exact argument the planet out exactly but if you do do it just to. So this is the twelfth 121000 dollars a year. Fourteen but you can get 121000 dollars a year on if you if you consistently donate sperm. On because you get a thousand bucks a month but then one neck surgery fourteen grand so. So is it worth it yeah I mean basically it is it worked so I guess is it worth the psychological potential trauma of having a kid. Mom that you don't know what you can handle that share up on the same token I mean you're you're doing good because there's people out there cool can't have children right. Com and the immediate. Ready or not they wanna have their dreams come true yes. So you can kind of know look at it existing today any got hates it's kind of a win win so that's yet to yield huge huge payday but fortunately they're easier ways. They're they're are it's not just you know selling your sex Ed there's also no. Not the easiest way bomb would be selling your blood plasma blood Rasmus and not really you're exactly not just donate in what would you normally do but let a little bit up on. Actually don't make money off of regular old red blood that's Barak met yesterday it's the plasma. That's the monies that because plasma is used to create products that can help people. Blood clotting disorders and other diseases. And it takes it will take more time to so if you were donated blood we don't they bombed. So sometimes he donate blood you give double reds and I think that's when they take the plasma out to as you can donate plasma. Bomb but if you're to do that anyways. You know you might you might want it's money for right from what I've heard you know the Red Cross they do sell it. Yeah when you don't into the Red Cross they sell it to these hospitals and some of that but they're doing it to fund. The good things that they do like the lights on record I have any sort of income right arm what do you want to go around and saw yourself you can do that. And it's probably the easiest way it is on to make some money with her body. It is it takes about. Anywhere from thirty minutes to an hour it's not that and watch an episode of stranger things yeah exactly exactly. And then the pay is anywhere from twenty dollars to fifty dollars based on how much is given so well. If you're doing is twice a week this would add up to lake needs 400. Rendered a month twice a week and you get free juice and cookies usually do. Well every time I've given blood before they give me like a cookie. Don't think your watchers backup C this is funny I never I don't think I've ever donated blood I'm really really really bad with blood IE the makes me nauseous just thinking about it and everything it's a beautiful thing you can do about for me I feel light headed I feel. If feel woozy I don't like I don't. Do anymore and again I I agree it's a good thing to do the guys I don't do it. There was one time. Where I tried to give double reds which again I think that's where they give data to plasma yet and something happy and with the host. Arm where they you know they stuck the needle in my arm and starts coming out of will pose. I'm off the holes like changed upper something that she shot blood like Akamai armor and it happened. It's weird it is weird bloodstain on the whole for on time I went to my elbow. For a couple months on and I have I've given blood since then put that kind of put a bad taste I'm out and so I just haven't really. Much since then. Yeah years yeah com. That being said if I was getting to do it. It's it's different it's worth it's worked at ray and you can like brag about your blood mark can be like yet has he was pretty cool I give blood yeah you know this is this a seriously a conversation piece at a bar like some girls who don't like you and then you can say that. What else can view that little like thing you wraparound your aren't so public tourniquet and it. It's kind of a badge of honor did you Wear that sounds like gamma bad NASA gave blood today I try and stop me exactly. A lot of it says up honorable get paid for. You to tell anybody that that I mean that's extremely unethical what you don't have to tell anybody. On the other thing with donating plasma is yet to be between eighteen. And 69 years old and at least a 110 pound the tells a huge radio here strange one thing is though so if you are hand where you are there's a lot of these senators why would you do that so shocking to me right were in Rochester new York and optical swan us where you can actually sell your plasma is buffalo. That's about an hour hour yeah and your you don't really get Reebok's on twenty to fifty bucks. Yeah account for gas and that too in bright young maybe at a meal if you stop on the way. So the break even trust me you might say you might say end might make like twenty bucks if you get fifty dollars then maybe you're making some profit but it rhetoric that. Mean any other thing is you wanna make sure the places FDA approved that's a very important absolutely out these places. Can be sketchy yes don't just give your blood to random people exactly now. And there are some risks involved in this as well so according to health plan dot com the side effects. Are mostly mild spoke. A and then it's pretty much the same as when you just donate blood normally but the one thing you wanna be aware of his ace IH street reaction what is. Well it's pretty rare but it can lead to. Very serious medical issues on its left untreated including vomiting shock in cardiac arrest which is why I wanna make sure it's gonna tear through which every year where reared on yeah. Also it all this is necessarily a role but I remember from when I've donated blood that. Gospels drink alcohol like 24 hours after. No I think so cannot strike that. I'm out here he wouldn't do yeah I don't know bomb there's been times where on the building that were in bill. Bill parks the Red Cross our van out there under the donations. And if they do it on a night or right knowing I have a like a business dinner like Orkut to try to net and on I'm planning to go out and do it because I don't write dangerous. So good honest voice weakened as part of your team yet affected that end. For China day for trying to get. Champagne for spare change can you can't have champagne with your spare change exactly and now he's just a factor exactly. There's other easy things to sell them to this is one that I can't do. I'm not allowed to go and there were gone there. What is that breast milk and I don't. Have that so not everyone could qualify on what you know what the it says our research showed that you shouldn't do that anyways you should sell your breasts are real on. So mosque they can't it's legal to do that you get an average of two dollars and fifty cents per ounce. Which if you do you have a lot you can add up to be like 23 grand a year if you will. It's but the experts say don't do it because you sell on your own a lot of breast not people sell online gets contaminated with bacteria that it really know they're doing and oh so there might be some places that will like you know professionally. Take it from you I'm not sure how that would work but you're gonna do and Iran. On orchard actually each one of those people that's gonna buy it online be careful yeah you don't really know. What is in this stuff. You never ever meaning I'm not a mother yet but. I already have anxiety about my unborn children and like I already worry about them in theory somehow I can't imagine buying. Breast milk off the Internet. My child I just can't. Get it from a friend yeah exactly or is that weird that is actually that's very strange Carol. Struck the freezer. Carol you bring in some breast most army. But there's also. There's also this thing called sympathy lack stating that you brought up. I did bring us up one point yeah so if you. So yeah if your thumb if you're a woman. And in other female friend of yours has the child sometimes you could also start black team because. Cynthia lactation like the dog out of the hormones in the air are what it is but it can happen. So once again it could be like. Caroline lack dating again a day care a lot right yeah they still get attic you always are hormones always Carroll's fault though it's as well Carol. So donors also hair it and you can sell your hair but he has to be long break you really got to be committed to the style look at TO. Armed and to be fifteen to 35 inches riches I can't imagine a candid pictures that don't 35 inches that's three feet. Yes it's refute hair which is pretty long I think my hair has probably been that long red lake. It also has to be virgin ears he can't have ever died later at least will you can't like. I guess you could die years ago but it might be completely grown out event and it and the color. Is. What you're in the money for like Karen gray hair isn't worth much if you've got to really enviable hair color you're gonna do better. So all of these things they go to people making wigs for cancer patients and yeah is that the Opel purchase wigs. And makes sense if you're you know in your thirties right and you've lost your Harry pot you don't want a great way to you know. So does not make matters worse to have her I. There is there is one color that is more worth that then ours is more valuable than others. And so if you were founded earlier by the fact that we said if you are a redhead and no one wants your sperm they want your hair or make about yeah. Off the wire hair red hair is actually worth the most. So next time someone makes fun of you for being ginger just do a common shares worth more than yours exactly. And then they'll never body again you'll never get made fun of again gives every little bit like a low. Herr has so many secrets money had her head. The secrets and hair. Com and if you are interest and sign your hair hair cell on dot com is the spot. Where on that was the first one came up when I just typed in tell her hair and it seem like that's the people go yeah there's elements of it seemed legit. It seemed pretty legit are you gonna cite your hair. No one at a summer hair it's a really big that's a really big commitments for you for a guy like I'm not gonna go around looking like Fabio. I collection box you know you get your your beard hair. Fifteen to 35 inches of my hair. Shoot six centimeters obviously haven't overgrown scruffy as well. Yeah doubled aren't. And I are talking actually and I commencing next on pretty great I know I could actually see you having a really long wizard beard mean when I'm older although they don't want my gray beard there. Hats are doing now sees today and a look at and then the last thing you can go to clinical trial. Like spending seventy days in bed for NASA to stimulate. Or rather simulate. It slightly different meaning. The changes that happened to an astronaut body in space going to lay in bed for seventy days I would do but I've at that she's. It sounds awful it sounds like. Literally like torture like warfare torture it does and you make 181000 dollars for doing it so okay that that sways me a little bit still. Wouldn't I would never do that now you got to have. In panther that's 24 hours day yeah eighteen that's gonna that's gonna mess everybody yeah that's gonna say like doesn't atropine. Yeah something starts to happen to your muscles in your right and like you start to get like deeply. Your legs or discolored from not moving and like so and I imagine not move mean just lean and dead. From now until about the count Wednesday. Light it. Well what's that we'll take an ever know ideally these November 2 early January efforts then the number. December January February 2 in three months let's it's at seventy days so be about mountains there. Thinking ninety days seventy days would be January. I'm an idiot I've sticky night. Erect a January so villages so President's Day President's Day guest in bed. The next day I hear and read between now and New Year's you know when he tees when you say your feet on the ground no no. Nothing to listen I like it went to this can't go to the bathroom they have the tubes. Like he can't. It but cats that are city you know I mean like every all these things everywhere that's all there's probably a whole lake under your you know your bottom area that. That's the first steps that you make split up after you get up you were just halt to the ground. I can't move yet out mellow jello legs like like Leonardo DiCaprio on the laughable street which asks he's taken. Quickly it's quick embryos and he's just like will gel something you can't take it giver when I saw your bags no no we're gonna the table but I'm. I also do like less than that some drugs you can and take experimental drugs and I. That prescription X ray yeah right yeah I hit it right you're not just taken an illegal drugs but she's like you know. And the payment for the berries payment does vary annals you know we should note that according to the FDA quote. Clinical trials also known as clinical studies test potential treatments and human volunteers to see whether they should be approved for wider use in the general population so I'll. That's risk. In an office you don't know the show he's behind after ex called it was called testes. And I know. I know it came on after it's always sunny in Philadelphia and it was about these two dudes who do clinical trials and all these weird things happen them. And that kind of makes you think mom. With the stuff is they're testing it for reason right you're basically human Guinea pig so. That freaks me out so much because you're the re like when you've taken you medication or an antibiotic and it it has that little information packet an assembly cure all the possible symptoms and side effects and all that stuff yeah. It's from the people that did these studies and just try closely. They experience that's right when he says you might have diarrhea well that's because you know someone like that Carol had diarrhea Carroll had diary or Eumig and a shot that's because Caroline into shock Carol. And Carol Carol. Yeah I'm so yeah that's a no for me to Clinton. Did not want Phelan what's the what's the weirdest way you can make money with your body. You're asking me a mask on me to say and act that it is god okay so does speed it featured a guy in Tampa Florida. Though. Sells. His. Who. To a gastric neurologist for eagle transplants which is a process where. A small sample of healthy person's stool is deposited into the sick person and it's supposed to help them out and this guy apparently submits or six. Samples as we'll call them a week makes forty bucks per sample which adds up to a ten. Year too good side hustle to stewards of the have to do anyways. Oh me here's my thought though is. She's gotta have you know. Probably could die. Jacqui I watched the video and watch the video look at the course I mean like morbid curiosity gray skies light. He was like to begin or vegetarian but I know his diet was like. There's no fun he's in no fun he can't yeah that's gonna train can't eat now you know no hot pockets no opt out. I'm a good stuff I. It Sox yeah all whole grain probably. Yup and the five reps keep the move and keep things moving exactly like read it. Not had the red veggies I was gonna pay. Green veggies no red meat yeah. I don't think lots of grilled chicken and lots of yeah if he if he really. Depends on that side also money. He constipation can be his worst nightmares about. I just like you know the money's not falling right breaks that would suck. Actually completely so. That is Annika businesses and get these days why hasn't constipated at this this is backed up yeah. Almighty god yeah okay this most disturbing part about this whole segment for me as a German folk so he keeps his little stool samples. In the same. Like freeze on his food new sense. And that's disgusting. Makes my stomach turn thinking about it makes ten grand a year you think you would invest in the little mini cooler in public you know. The fridge that that's what I pray in Italy if you as a girl over he'd be like. It's not so that I screen play. Now. Herald on I think that's so so heinous so yeah I even though it's 101000 dollars a year now these. Are tougher than you think you really get a obvious. On a piece of content now we we come to what is the biggest payout if you really are like any cash now. If you get your your catastrophic financial bond failure that you were talking about earlier. On what did you do to really get yourself out of debt or. Earth you know honestly lecture cashier even if you're not that. First one for a woman. Your uterus you can become a surrogate yes rates begin at 43000 dollars according to conceive abilities dot com so that's. That's a lot and here's thing. If I we had a party had a child or TO and somebody wanted me to be there sir again and I knew that Alec if I had already been pregnant before and I knew that like. I was like pregnancy nicer guy did an eye on things for good is some women really struggled through that pregnant absolutely so that wasn't too bad. I actually consider this and is that is all lots. Of money I say I think actually if I could I probably would consider to yeah only because. If he got you don't. Not right means a lot OK yes a lot of changes happen your body but if I've gone through before and regarding what to expect you know this wasn't my first kid. And you know split worth it 43 grant. I think it's worth it I think again I would have to probably have ran into some kind of financial hardship but. I would also do it I'd I would consider ripped her friends or family member Alex I would originally I would not I would not for immediately if they ask you pay. You have if they asked me that's that's the weird part because. I wanna wants let's say my eight future wife and I can't have kids OK yeah and we're lake Whitney we want you to bear a child credit. So then. It's your probably almost gonna feel like this kid is yours and if you're still around because her friends. On you know like Christmas Thanksgiving like. This kid is always gonna be like oh that's kind of my second mommy you know I spent nine months in her belly they're always gonna be as weird bond. It's almost like we're sharing our kid with you. OK okay it is weird to bond I think it would be much more weird if you were the surrogate. Like if it was actually your baby he and lake. Though the husband. Had impregnated you you're carrying the baby and the baby was going to Savannah which people do that as well exactly they get paid to do that's it exactly so that and it's it really is your child biologically whereas if you're right. Simply the surrogate and it was like I. In vitro out of vitro fertilization then it's really not your baby. Right so something we about it I'd rather I'd rather not know this person have the beef from the other end of the country out. Bomb herb wherever you would you sell it testicle for 35000 dollar because that's the second. Two testicles that's like a down payment on how that could down payment on the house these had a huge turnaround is to down payment rate. You've already got one what do you need another one for cancer that is no it's a whole heart hard now we're. There's the apple. We did I do too much research in this but I don't know if that decreases your chances of having kids if you have one testicle. Does that and the value that that word your like you know I. Is that I don't know that decreases your fertility I I don't know armed but I would still be afraid that because what if what if I have one that works better than the other and I give away the good one. You know this is just my brain works maybe there's a way to move to tell us so much is better yet why would someone by the that one. You know not that maybe it's just not like you know. The vast gap now my great aid you know I was trying to think of some kind of a metaphor there but I couldn't it couldn't come fast enough yeah. OK now I've it's so hard now at this is because there's there's something just so like mail about. That's that this of them is part of it had to take given up part of your beer in your manhood on voluntarily. And a hell I'd get that I mean it would be like if I had to I gave up one of my ovaries which I don't know if that's even I don't think that's I don't know I don't know I gave up one ovary. Yeah I mean I think I would feel a little bit less of a woman only because they think it it affects your hormones right at the annual net as much of estrogen or they go to yeah that's I didn't think about that yeah. Hormones like you bit off Atlantic last you know in the tank time your voice might. The little higher array yeah way to work for radio and podcast now now probably well. Now I don't know. Alec Little Richard. That was it was. Michael Jackson that was that was his that was me if I was missing ma and a bomb. You know I don't know if people go through that and it's unfortunate to go through that they had concerns of that out Tom. So what does it does a Q I lessen the man well part of me that would feel that way you know. You wouldn't volunteer to do. I wouldn't want it I wouldn't want to volunteer to do that what did you use to do that right third and 35 grand is great that day goes quick yeah. You know you know like to be totally on so your question now. Which of these will actually do because we kind of sad note all of that. OK well now there's difference between a hard now and like a contextual. OK maybe like for me I. I would consider surrogacy. Really okay memories of that yet and I would consider. In a in a bad place financially I think she won just. Sorry now why I was is that why not just. 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The roundtable discussions at the beginnings of each day can be very fun, yet opinionionated! Whoopi, Barbara, Elisabeth, Sherri & Joy will entertain you from the beginning to the end of the hour! So, check out your local viewing time, you will be glad you did! After All, It's All In A Mom's Day, Right?
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WARNER ROBINS — A community meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. today about the closure of the North Davis Drive post office.
The meeting is at Agape Outreach Ministries at 259 N. Davis Drive, said JoAn Davis, chairman of Concerned Citizens for Warner Robins.
The full-service post office at 200 N. Davis Drive in Warner Robins is expected to close Feb. 12.
Michael Miles, a U.S. Postal Service spokesman based in Atlanta, said earlier this week that the office was closing because of a lease disagreement.
Postal customers are being directed to the 904 Russell Parkway location three miles away for all services. Post office boxes at the North Davis Drive location may be transferred to the Russell Parkway location.
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The days after…
I took the lower dose one day and forgot the next, taking the high dose again. And I felt it. My nervous system was itchy. The wart and boil felt like they were getting worse. So much for toggling! I'm staying at the lower dose. It's only 10K lower but makes a big difference to me.
I 'carry' the ms on my left side. That's where I felt the dose was too high. The weakness, drop foot, and hug are all worse on the left when they are bothering me. Some people carry ms above or below the waist and can't walk. My bad side is the left.
Am I sleeping more? Hard to tell as I still go to bed early and wake up early and sometimes take a long nap. Same, I think.
We're off to breakfast. Have a good day.
Everything I take – I have to watch the level and start low. Anything can induce weakness. MS loves it when we give it a chance to attack! 🙂


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At the speedo sex party a week or more ago Kip was pounded at the end of the party and took 7 cocks in his arse in about 15 minutes.
Kip thought it was amazing and has been talking about it a bit since it happened.
So with the Denver Boys up this weekend, they left about an hour ago and are probably stuck in I70 traffic still, I mentioned to them that before they left the three of us would tie Kip up and literally fuck the shit out of him.
We tied kip up bent over the kitchen table and since we had already cum multiple times today it took the three of us a while before we finally came. I went last and while the two Denver boys were pounding away at Kip's arse I had his mouth full of my cock keeping me hard for my turn.
When the three of us were done we kept Kip tied up as the Denver boys finished packing up and they left him with a kiss on the cheek and a slap on the ass.
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How do I setup Mandrill with Odoo for outbound email?
I'd like to use Mandrill for all Odoo communications, how is this done? Is there anyway to get tracking data back into Odoo?
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- Go to Settings => Email => Outbound Mail Server
- Edit the default mail server
- Fill in the following fields based on your web client, the following example is using mandrill.
- SMTP Server = smtp.mandrillapp.com
- Port = 587
- Connection Security = TLS (STARTTLS)
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There is a module to retrieve outbound message opening and click statistics, contact your administrator to install.
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Edit In Standard Mode (Press Q) shows selected areas inside an active selection outline.
Edit In Quick Mask Mode (Press Q) shows masked areas with a red overlay.
Quick Mask Options can be activated double-clicking it.
Quick Masks appear temporarily in the Channels palette.
Consider Photoshop's Quick Mask feature as an easy to access nexus point that allows you to make and modify selections by efficiently moving between all selection and brush tools.
In addition to being fast and flexible, Quick Mask makes it easy to see both the image and the mask at the same time – and this view can make it easier for you to make more precise selections and masks. When you're in mask mode, you'll see the mask as a transparent red overlaying the image. You can change the color of the overlay and its opacity with the window activated by double-clicking on the Quick Mask icon. This is particularly useful when masking images with red colors.
When you use Quick Mask you can start with either a selection or a mask.
To start with a brush tool, click on the Quick Mask icon and you'll see a temporary (It's title will be in italics.) alpha-channel appear in the Channels palette. Use a black brush and you'll see the masked areas appear over the image in a transparent color. When you're finished brushing, click once again on the Quick Mask icon and the mask will become a selection; the temporary alpha-channel will disappear, so if you want to save your work click the Save selection as channel icon or use the menu item Select > Save Selection; you can tell the resulting alpha-channel is permanent because its title is not italicized.
Or, you can start with a selection before clicking on the Quick Mask icon and using a brush to make modifications. When you're done click on the icon again to return to selection mode and save the results.
You can move back and forth as many times as you like between selection tools and brush tools to create any result you desire. That's the beauty of Quick Mask feature. When you hit the limits of one tool you can move to another.
Just remember, after you finish refining a selection, if you want to use it later, save it. And if you save many results along the way to a final solution, delete the ones you don't plan on using again, so that you don't get confused with too many choices.
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Category: Technique - Masking
Tags: mask, quick mask, selection, Software - Photoshop
May 11, 2018 | Leave a Comment |
When you want to make a selection based on hue, start with Photoshop's Color Range. (It's located in the Select menu.) It's an invaluable selection tool that's easy to master.
The heart of this tool is the default setting for the Select drop-down menu – Sampled Color. Once you learn to use it, you'll find you'll use it often. For Sampled Colors it's an oversight to activate the slider for Fuzziness (the number of related hues included) and not Range (targeting specific lightnesses). Hope, no request, that Adobe activates both Fuzziness and Range sliders for all drop down settings. For now, you can overcome this limitation to some extent and customize any range of color with surprising precision by using the icons on the right of the dialog box Eyedropper Tool, Add to Sample, and Subtract from Sample icons as well as the Invert checkbox. It is also the only setting that activates the Localized Color Clusters check box, which essentially adds a radial gradient around the point you sample a color from. You can master this tool in a few minutes.
You'll probably find that you'll use the other settings in Color Range's Select drop-down menu sparingly, some not at all.
Skip them. The color choices in the Color Range drop-down menu – Reds, Yellows, Greens, Cyans, Blues, Magentas – are almost useless. They're not as accurate as you'd like them to be and they don't offer Fuzziness or Range sliders to control them with. It's all or nothing, usually nothing.
Use them occasionally. The Highlights, Midtones, and Shadows options have improved by activating both Fuzziness and Range sliders. Curiously, if you Invert the Highlights setting you get a slightly different result than simply choosing Shadows setting and vice versa. But don't worry, the Fuzziness and Range sliders will give you all the control you need to compensate and much, much more. Color Range's selections of luminance yield different results than making luminance selections by loading channels as selections (See my article Masking Luminosity.); for better or for worse, they tend to produce fewer gray values and so they yield more generous selections with quicker less smooth transitions into surrounding values, as if you added contrast to a channel selection.
Consider it. While it offers only the control of the Fuzziness slider and not the Range slider but adds a Detect Faces feature, Skin Tones can be quiet useful – at times. It is clearly biased towards Caucasian skin tones as it picks up whites before darker browns but it does a good job of avoiding very saturated warm hues. If Skin Tones fails, use the default Sampled Colors instead and choose a custom base color you'd like to start with.
Forget about it. Be careful about the Out Of Gamut feature. It works based on the profile loaded for an output device, usually an offset press. It's designed to help you prepare files for printing by selecting and subsequently desaturating colors that are too saturated to be printed accurately. Using color management and good output profiles is a better way to control gamut compression.
Finally, if you want a larger preview of the selection/mask being generated, the Selection Preview drop-down menu offers four settings that will change the appearance of the image window Grayscale, Black Matte, White Matte, and Quick Mask. In most cases, the generously sized icon in the Color Range window will be all you need.
Photoshop's Color Range is an indispensable selection tool that continues to improve. When you want to make a selection based on hue, start here.
Category: Technique - Masking
Tags: Color, color range, hue, mask, selection, Software - Photoshop
June 14, 2017 | Leave a Comment |
A complex contour mask – made one minute.
Digital imaging offers the ability to define complex contours efficiently and precisely, enabling users to affect an image in very specific areas. What was once extremely tedious and challenging is now quick and easy. Once you learn a few essential selection and masking techniques, few contours will elude your grasp.
Before I continue, let me caution you against always defining contours precisely. Remember, contours in continuous tone images are often quite soft. What's more, many times, photographers simply need to define broad areas to work in with smooth transitions into surrounding areas. Just because you can define contours precisely, doesn't mean you should. But it's highly advantageous to have the option of doing so when you need to.
Besides defining an area by hand, either with a selection or brush tool, there are a number of more efficient and precise ways to isolate contours; the Magic Wand Tool, the Magnetic Lasso Tool, the Color Range feature, and deriving a contour mask from a contrast mask. Try these first.
Keep in mind that all of these techniques use contrast within an image to isolate a contour. Contrast in any one component of color can be used – luminosity (light and dark), hue (warm and cool), or saturation (intense or desaturated). If contrast helps define a contour then you can accentuate the contrast of any one component of color within an image to make it easier to define a contour, using an adjustment layer. Once the contour has been defined, you can throw away the adjustment layer that was only intended to be used to make selection easier.
The Magic Wand, found in the Tool Bar, is ideal for selections of broad areas of color. Two check boxes give you control over how the Magic Wand tool behaves; Tolerance (which defines the range of related values away from the sampled color that will be included in the selection – based on 256 levels) and Contiguous (which limits a selection to areas of similar color that abut one another). In the same location in Tools, the Quick Selection Tool offers fewer controls but does an even more intelligent job. Try it before you move on to other options. Many times it does a surprisingly quick good job with little or no fuss.
The Magnetic Lasso, also found in the Tool Bar, tool can be used for slightly more difficult contours. Using it, you can add an extra degree of discrimination manually. The tool will define the majority of the contour for you, if there is adequate contrast between it and surrounding areas. While the default settings often provide excellent results, Width (the distance from the path drawn where contours will be detected), Edge Contrast (the amount of contrast required for a contour to be detected), and Frequency (the number of points placed while defining the contour) can be used to modify the sensitivity of the tool. Drawing a contour too quickly will reduce the accuracy of the tool. While defining the contour, if points are placed that are undesirable you can hit the Delete key to eliminate previously placed points, one at a time. When using Lasso and Marquee tools, practice drawing selections in closed loops. If you define only part of a contour and then let go, a straight line will snap between your start and finish points. All selection tools can be used multiple times to define a selection and can be used in combination with one another; hold the Shift key to add to and the Option/Alt key to subtract from an existing selection.
The Color Range feature, found under the Select menu, is very useful for defining complex contours involving multiple areas. Color Range has predefined settings to automatically detect Reds, Greens, Blues, Cyans, Magentas, Yellows, Highlights, Midtones, and Shadows. In addition, it has a Sampled Colors feature that can be used to define a custom range of colors that can be increased or decreased by using the Add to Sample (+) and Subtract from Sample (-) droppers. Selections can be expanded and contracted using the Fuzziness and Range sliders –for Sampled Colors, Shadows, Midtones, and Highlights but not predefined hues. The selections Color Range makes are often more sophisticated than the previous tools mentioned, defining areas not just with black and white but also shades of gray.
Contrast masks can be turned into contrast masks, for the most challenging selections with very fine detail and/or transparency. Based on the luminance values of individual channels (R,G, or B), a contrast mask can be used to define a contour by accentuating it's contrast so dramatically that all shades of gray are eliminated leaving only black and white values. Duplicate the channel with the best contrast in the area you wish to isolate. Or, load it as a selection by dragging it to the selection icon in the Channels palette and then create a layer mask. Then, accentuate the contrast of the alphachannel or layer mask, using Curves. When accentuating contrast, pay particular attention to using increased contrast to define the contour you are concerned with. Avoid the temptation to use contrast to drive broad areas to white or black, if doing so will adversely affect defining the contour precisely. On occasion, you may want to select a specific area of an alphachannel or layer mask to accentuate contrast locally. Where unwanted values remain, select and fill or use a brush to paint an area with the appropriate value (black or white).
Using these tools and strategies few contours will elude your definition. You'll be able to define very complex contours efficiently and precisely.
Category: Technique - Masking
Tags: adobe, contour, contour mask, edge, masking, selection, Software - Photoshop
January 12, 2016 | Leave a Comment |
View my Top Images Of 2012 here.
Photographer Paul Strand said, "Your photography is a record of your living for anyone who really sees." How do you see your photography? Where? How often? What ways? Why?
Performing an annual review of your images is one way to see your photography over and through time. When you do this, it's useful to make a record of your observations. Consider both the selection of images and the observations you make about your selection a journal. It's one of many different kinds of journals I keep. Like a journal, to get the maximum benefit, you need to make multiple entries at different times. The frequency with which you do this is up to you. I find I get the most out of this exercise when I do it annually.
An annual review or your images is useful in so many ways. It brings you more clarity. It helps you see what you accomplished. It shows you what is missing or left undone. It reveals new possibilities. It gives you more choices. It helps you set goals for the future. It increases productivity. It leads to greater fulfillment. While it takes discipline and effort to do, the results it produces feel great.
Annual reviews are not a waste of time. Quite the opposite, annual reviews help you spend the limited time you have before you more effectively. Annual reviews can even drive you to greater productivity. Knowing that you've got one coming up you may start working earlier, chart your progress over time towards a goal, and/or make a last minute sprint to the finish line to achieve your vision of success.
Record Your Observations In The Right Form
What's the right form to record your observations in? The one you'll use the most often. You could use someone else's system or come up with a complex system of your own, but if it's not practical and meaningful you won't use it, so you might as well not have it. Remember what Albert Einstein said, "Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler."
You could keep this process as simple as making a selection of images. Create a collection in Lightroom for fast access and flexible updating. And/or print out thumbnails for durable record that can be displayed for as long as you like. If you want to share your selection with others consider making a blog post, an ebook, or a print on demand book. Giving these types of activities a social dimension can encourage us to maintain them. Sometimes we get valuable feedback when other people see our selections. When, where, and how much you share is entirely up to you.
This process becomes even more valuable when you use words to state the reasons for your selections (inclusion and exclusion) and your observations about your new collections on their own and in comparison to past collections. In this way, what starts intuitively becomes clearer and more actionable, something you can use not just feel.
There are many ways you can record your observations video, audio, and writing. It might be fascinating to look back at and hear your younger self at some future date. Still, for quick retrieval of information, I find nothing beats text, especially when it's flexible digital text. You can even use the search function to find an item quickly or to find connections between different items.
After you make your selections of and comments about new images, look back at your past selections and comments. The comparisons and contrasts you make between years can be very revealing. Doing this can reveal much more than a personal history of events. Looking back at past successes can reveal changes in level of skill, consistency of results, frequency of experimentation, clarity of vision, development of style, changes in subject matter and theme, shifts in goals and your definition of success, new opportunities, and so much more. In short, it can show you how your vision has developed, where you are now, and where you are most likely to go next.
Missed a few years? While your current perspective will never be the same as your past perspective, it's never to late to create these kinds of collections. You may find that you will want to revise past selections and make new comments. Keep your old selections and comments for comparison at a later date, either in the same or in a separate location.
Find The Right Images
Select only your best images. What's best? That depends on what you're trying to do with your images. While it can be useful to select images based on what gets a strong reaction from other people, that's only one kind of selection that offers specific kinds of insights. There are many others. Make time and space for yourself. Define what success means to you before you start your selection process. How you define success will change your results. Remember. It's your process. They're your images. You're doing this review for yourself.
The collections you create from annual reviews are often very different than the collections of images you make to develop a project. When performing annual reviews the images you select tends to be more varied and divergent, share fewer similarities, and contain little or no flow between them. You see core qualities but lose the narrative arc that drives your story forward or the connective tissue that makes it hang together. Subtler, more complex, sometimes contradictory or not fully resolved elements are often eliminated. Often, significant details are lost in this mix. The bigger picture may become clearer.
Select The Right Number Of Images
A very different kind of benefit is gained by looking at all of your images simultaneously. When you become more selective, you cut right to what's essential. Limitations become useful. I recommend you select your top image (The apex is the bottom.), your top two or three images (Create a generative tension.), and your top twelve images (Confirm your vision and style.). (Read more about this in The Benefits Of Selecting Your Top Images.) There's nothing special about the number twelve. With fewer than twelve images it becomes more challenging to fully see both the variety and the connections within images. If you choose more than twelve images make sure you don't set the number so high that you can no longer see the larger patterns at work in your images.
Ask The Right Questions
They say that ninety percent of a solution lies in asking the right questions in the right ways. Not sure where to start? Get the ball rolling with these questions. Are there frequent technical deficiencies you'd like to correct? Are there past technical deficiencies you have corrected? Of all the new skills you'd like to acquire, which would be the most beneficial to invest your time in now? What kinds of images were produced? What common qualities do they share? What would you like to do more of? What project(s) would benefit from more sustained attention? What's the easiest project to complete? What's the most important project to complete? What haven't you done yet? What missing? From these images, how many directions could you go in? How would you rate your overall progress? How would you rate your overall progress technically, compositionally, narratively, emotionally, and conceptually?
While there are some classic questions that we would all benefit from answering, only you can determine what the most useful questions are because only you know your true goals. It's a healthy sign when you find that you need to ask other questions that are unique to you and your images. Engage the process of asking useful questions fully and repeatedly you will be guaranteed to make important discoveries.
When it comes to answering the questions you ask, remember that in this arena your audience is you. Use the language that you think the most fluidly in and the words that mean the most to you. Do challenge yourself to go deeper and achieve greater clarity. (Exactly what does that mean – to me?) Don't censor yourself and don't change your answers to please someone else. How much you choose to share with others in completely up to you. Do it if it's useful. Don't do it if it's not.
Things change over time. So do we. And, so do our images. Nothing else records the change itself like a journal. Records of how our images change (and don't change) can offer us (and others) valuable insights into both our creative lives and ourselves. Most importantly, we can learn from our past to make our future more like the life we want to live.
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Category: Creativity - Planning
Tags: annual review, Creativity, Creativity - Storytelling, planning, selection
January 11, 2016 | 5 Comments |
View my Annual Top 12 Selections here.
When asked, "How many good images do you make in a year?", Ansel Adams replied, "Twelve good images in a year is a good crop." Imogene Cunningham responded, "One in a lifetime." Both perspectives are useful.
We all make a lot of photographs. Selecting the few that are worth developing and sharing is an essential skill. Choosing what to show and what not to show, we train our eye, connect with what's most important to us, and develop our visual voice.
We edit our images with increasing degrees of focus; generally for all the images we make, more specifically for certain spans of time, and even more particularly for a few chosen subjects or themes. From the thousands (sometimes tens or even hundreds of thousands) of images we make, we select hundreds and finally dozens to focus our attention on.
Reviewing what we have created offers us an opportunity to revisit the events of the past and see them from a new perspective, savoring all they have to offer us and possibly what we missed. Selecting only a chosen few of our creations to collect, highlight, and often share, offers us opportunities to reflect upon and interpret our experiences and gain the strength that comes from the discipline of courageously committing to our vision.
To gain the maximum benefits from this process of selection, we can choose to be even more selective and identify even fewer of our most important images. To do this, we must ask ourselves vital questions, which become rich wellsprings of personal insight.
Take it to an extreme. Identify your top one image, two images, and twelve images. Do this for a lifetime, each year, and specific projects. Make this a habit; revisit it annually.
While the order you answer these questions and the time period you give yourself to answer them will influence your outcome, ultimately it doesn't matter in what order you do this or how long you take, as long as you arrive at your personal answers. The vast majority of people never ask these questions, much less answer them. Be exceptional. Ask these essential questions and find your answers. In time, you will find that you will get better and more fulfilling results from all of your creative efforts.
Identify Your Best Image
Identify your best image – the one image that you feel is most successful at achieving what you want to achieve with your images. When you have finally selected this one most important image, ask yourself, "Why this image?" and, "Why not that one?" Doing this will help you identify your key core values and desired outcomes. There's usually so much richness in this one image that it's likely that you will need to ask this question many times over a significant span of time. Once you have begun to find your answers (Feedback from others can be helpful, just remember your answers count most.), ask a few follow up questions, "How many things can I do to make more images like this?" and "How many things can I do to make even better work?"
Finding this one image can be important for other people as well as yourself. When discussing the work of artists, people often ask "When you think of this artist, what one image do you think of?" Ask yourself, "What one image do you want to be remembered for?" "Which image is that now?" "What image would you like that to be in the future?" "If you were to create a new image that you would be most known for, what would you like that image to be?"
Your single best image for your lifetime is a guiding light that not only reveals your highest accomplishments but also coalesces core qualities that become the keys to unlocking your future successes and ultimate fulfillment.
Your single best image for a year is a touchstone that can be used to compare and contrast current successes with past successes and identify future directions.
Your single best image for a project communicates your vision and style most successfully. Often, it is used as the lead for a post, a cover for a book, and a card or poster for an exhibit.
Find Your Two Best Images
If you were to select a second image to go with your one best image, which image would that be? How is it similar? How is it different? Both the comparisons (reinforcement or confirmation) and contrasts are important. The comparisons are useful because they help you identify core qualities. There are so many things that can be said about one image and only a few of them are truly significant. When you see what two highly successful images share you can quickly cut through the noise and find what's essential. This provides both confirmation and reinforcement. The contrasts are useful because the unresolved tension it created can become generative. It can lead you to more ideas. How many images could connect the two? How many ways can you connect the two? What kinds of images could be created by combining their different qualities? If the two images you select are so similar that no generative tension is created, you may want to select a third that creates it.
Your best two images for a lifetime create a synergy where all that is implied between the similarities and differences becomes a fertile field of possibilities.
Your best two images for a year can display multiple directions – whether subject, theme, or style – whose tension can become generative. Caution, if the tension is never reconcile, either in whole or in part, it often produces confusion rather than richness and depth.
Your best two images for a project can show how both are multi-dimensional, telling more than one side of a story.
Select Your Twelve Best Images
Twelve images are more than enough to tell a complete story. If they're your images, the story your images tell is not only the story of the subject and themes you select, the story they tell is also your story. The curation you perform to create collections of your work speaks (and sometimes creates) volumes.
If your top twelve images display entirely different subjects, themes, and styles it's likely that you love your craft but have not developed significant depth in your vision. Jacks of all trades master none. Commitment is the key ingredient to achieving depth – the greater the commitment, the greater the depth. It's not that you can't do different things; variety can be energizing. It is that if you have a way of doing things that is your own and it informs everything you do then you are on your path. You may wander but you are not wandering aimlessly.
Ask a few key questions will help guide you on your journey of discovery. How are the insights you gain from looking at individual images different than the insights you gain from looking at groups of images? How does your perspective shift when you create different groups from the same material? Remember that outliers can be both revealing and generative.
For professional artists, a majority of the income from the sales of their works tends to come from their top twelve images. But be careful not to use sales as the criteria for selection here; to live the most fulfilling creative life determine what success means to you.
Your best twelve images for a lifetime confirm that you're much more than a one hit wonder and have a depth of vision that is supported by a well-crafted style.
Your best twelve images for a year can reveal many directions, potential projects, and overall levels of performance commenting usefully on growth both present and future. Look carefully for milestones, breakthroughs, and outliers.
Your best twelve images for a project provide a strong framework that supports and guides all the other images that are added to it serving as enticing introductions, setting and maintaining a course, and creating compelling conclusions.
If you can't see the benefits of selecting your best works by now, then trust me and just try it. Nothing teaches you more than direct experience. If you can, just do it. Talking about it will actually reveal much, but doing it will reveal more.
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Color to black and white conversions are radical transformations of an image. They establish the tonal foundations of a neutral image, creating tonal relationships by determining which areas of an image become light and which are dark. While this process can generate some localized effects (all blues become darker or lighter), this is quite different than selectively lightening and darkening an image to accentuate existing tonal relationships (only select blue areas become darker or lighter). Selectively enhance a tonal structure after conversion, rather than before. Selective enhancement may yield dramatic results.
Here are two ways.
Method 1
Create a new layer set to a blend mode of Overlay. Use an appropriately-sized soft-edged brush. Paint with black to darken and white to lighten. Vary the opacity of the brush to control the intensity of the effect – lower is less, higher is more. If you're not sure what percentage to use, it's very rare that you will be when you first begin enhancing an image, take this approach.
Paint areas with a single broad stroke and use the Fade command (Edit: Fade or Shift: Command/Control: F) to modify Opacity. (Ignore the option to change Blend Mode; this is rarely helpful and far too complex.) This allows you to determine opacity visually with a dynamic preview and generates a smoother effect. Additionally, opacity can be reduced to 0% to eliminate the effect. Note that you can only Fade the last stroke made, so until you determine a precise opacity, fade each stroke after making it. Once you know the opacity desired for a given area you can set the brush to that opacity and continue painting without fading.
If you find you'd like to reduce the effect use a soft-edged eraser, at any percentage. This way you can selectively reduce or eliminate the effect.
Use the opacity of the Brush and Eraser tools to control the opacity of the effect. If you use the Opacity of the layer to limit one part of the effect you'll limit the effect of all areas and won't be able to generate a stronger effect.
Method 2
Selectively lightening and darkening with an Overlay layer generates stronger or weaker variations of a simple contrast response. If you'd like to generate a more specific contrast response, use another method. Roughly select an area; create a Curves adjustment layer that generates a specific contrast response; blur the layer mask; refine the mask with a soft-edged brush. This will allow you to precisely modify brightness and contrast. Just as the effect can become more complex, so can your layer stack when you use this method. It will generate multiple adjustment layers. (File them in a Group.) For instance, you cannot lighten and darken with a single layer and you'll need two adjustment layers for different types of contrast. That said, no other method delivers the same precision.
Use the first method for basic moves (and industrial strength problems in dark shadows and bright highlights). Use the second method for very precise moves.
Periodically turn off these effect layers to monitor your progress. You'll be amazed at how quickly and dramatically you can enhance an image.
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Partnership Finance Business Partner, Oxted
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Contract type: Full Time
Contract term: Permanent
This role will be based predominately at Oxted School however flexibility will be required to work across The Howard Partnership Trust schools when required.
As our dynamic and thriving Multi-Academy Trust continues to expand and develop we have an opportunity for a talented finance individual to join us as a Finance Business Partner to be based at a Partnership School within The Howard Partnership Trust.
Reporting to THPT Head of Finance, the successful candidate will be responsible for financial management and reporting in this growing role. A CCAB qualified accountant with proven leadership and managerial qualities, you will provide commercial, technical and financial expertise as well as demonstrating a hands-on approach, to this developing organisation.
The Howard Partnership Trust (THPT) is a Multi-Academy Trust. It developed from a long-standing federation that was originally formed in 2007 at the request of the DfE and Surrey LA between Howard of Effingham, an outstanding 11-18 school and Thomas Knyvett College which had been in challenging circumstances. Both schools benefitted with improved student outcomes leading to Ofsted judging partnership working as 'Outstanding' in 2009.
The MAT was formed in November 2013, again at the request of the DfE and LA, to enable another school to join; Kenyngton Manor Primary, a Surrey 2-form entry primary school in Sunbury-on-Thames. Currently there are 9 schools in THPT, 4 secondaries, 4 primaries and 1 infant school, but we are a growing MAT with more schools likely to join us this year.
The distinctive feature of THPT is that the schools within our MAT all retain their own unique features in order to meet the needs of the communities which they serve. However, the vision and values that underpin the schools are rooted in the same guiding principles: namely to ensure that consistently high quality teaching facilitates excellent learning within an inclusive, caring, vibrant environment.
Closing Date: Sunday 25 March, 2018
1st Interview Date: Wednesday 28 March, 2018
2nd Interview Date: Thursday 29 March, 2018
Employment is subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
The Howard Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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