Running withered old fingers through his rapidly thinning hair, the invisible man decided it was time to retire. Having wasted all of his…
Running withered old fingers through his rapidly thinning hair, the invisible man decided it was time to retire. Having wasted all of his youth searching for a cure to his invisibility, he finally accepted his fate, and resigned to live out the rest of his years as invisible. But life for an elderly invisible man was not easy. / Too slow now to dodge around people walking in the busy street. Too feeble to slip past a maid into a vacant hotel room to spend the night. So he found a nice house occupied by an elderly couple, and one sunny day when they where both outside in the garden, he quietly crept through the back door and moved in. He started sleeping in the spare room where no one usually ventured. And in the evenings when the husband and wife sat around the dining table he would creep past them into the kitchen to help himself to his own meal, only taking enough to remain unnoticed. As he got older his hip started to give him trouble and he found it much easier to walk around with a walking stick. This was a huge dilemma for an invisible man. It meant he could only use the stick when there was no one else in the room. / Eventually his eyesight also began to fail. But luckily he found a pair of contact lenses that worked perfectly. This of course meant that two small glass circles would appear to float around the house as he walked about. So he had to close his invisible eyelids over the lenses whenever someone was looking in his direction. One day the invisible man happened to be walking quietly across the lounge room, right between the television set and the old couple watching it. His eyes closed tight to hide his contact lenses. Suddenly a sharp scream erupted from the old woman. He froze for an instant wondering what had frightened her so much. Then he shuffled quickly and quietly out of the room. Of course as he had gotten older the invisible man began to be forgetful. All the couple could see was a wooden walking stick standing upright, walking slowly through the room by itself. The following day the couple moved out and sold the house in a hurry. And before long a bunch of university students moved in. Life isn’t easy for an elderly invisible man.
SO excitement, as today [the] thickblackoutline, has made it to The Age Homepage...
SO excitement, as today [the] thickblackoutline, has made it to The Age Homepage Thank you SO MUCH once again, it was all apart of Creativity Corner, which you can check out here. / ... and while I’m here, pretty please vote for me in the Song Comp ;) Voting starts 8th July. See more details here. :) ps: extra special thanks to Webgrrl for pushing me in the right direction as always!
It was a wonderful surprise and a joy to find my words and an image in this weeks Creativity Corner...
It was a wonderful surprise and a joy to find my words and an image in this weeks Creativity Corner / Thanks again to Anneli for making all of us aware of this online forum! :D Well done to all the other people acknowledged this week too!!! :D / Damian Mason / Thickblackoutline / Kalb Severin / Helen McLean / Matt Mawson / Lance Peters The poem The Beauty Of You comes printed on cards in these styles… 1 2 3 4
AGE OLD SUBJECT – “WHAT IS ART?” – 10 WORDS OR LESS BEAUTY AROUND US AN IN US, ART IS HOW WE EXPERIENCE THE WORLD AND TELL OTHER ABOUT…
AGE OLD SUBJECT – “WHAT IS ART?” – 10 WORDS OR LESS BEAUTY AROUND US AN IN US, ART IS HOW WE EXPERIENCE THE WORLD AND TELL OTHER ABOUT IT.
Congratulations to Mark (Ingo) Ingram for being published with two photographs on the front page…
Congratulations to Mark (Ingo) Ingram for being published with two photographs on the front page of the Wednesday 31 October 2007 edition of the Cobar Age. Here’s a link to the PDF copy where Mark’s photographs appear. He covered the celebrations which marked the centenary of services at Cobar’s St Laurence O’Tooles Catholic Church. Copy and paste this if you like. / http://covers.ruralpress.com/frontpages/19.pdf Well done Ingo! Here’s a link to Mark’s web site. Mark Ingram Photography Cheers, / Darren / Mark’s photos are; top right and central page left.
The walk may be less brisk. The talk slower flowing. Bones arguing whose / turn it is. GOD and all body parts, / forever knowing.
The walk may be less brisk. The talk slower flowing. Bones arguing whose / turn it is. GOD and all body parts, / forever knowing.
Collaborations are possibly the most wonderful things ever. Rather than running around like a chicken with it’s head chopped off, you have a second person to back you up, share the load, carry the props and share in the sense of accomplishment when things go well. Today one of our shots got a mention and short write up in The Age Newspaper. Here we see our hard work paying off. For that shoot, Helen made an apron, scouted a location and photographed. I scouted costume, decorated shoes, orgainsed hair and make up and modeled. I’ve been lucky enough to collaborate with Helen on an ongoing basis. We take turns modeling for each other and every shoot is a nice blend of both our hard work and you can see both of our tastes and influences. It’s like a happy marriage. Go Us!
A couple of month’s ago i sent an email to the e…
A couple of month’s ago i sent an email to the editor of Livewire about Redbubble and they have published a review today. It is a page of reviews and snippets of the latest technology, websites and blogs and It is in the Green Guide section of the “Age” newspaper in Melbourne.
Can you imagine stone age technology? You know, caveman stuff. I wonder what a contact lens would have looked like then – just a big b…
Can you imagine stone age technology? You know, caveman stuff. I wonder what a contact lens would have looked like then – just a big bit of rock in your eye. I want somene who can draw properly, to draw a caveman with his contact lenses in. it should be hilarious.
feel free to visit and to check the new lost&found section in my bubblesite.. / lots of …
feel free to visit and to check the new lost&found section in my bubblesite.. / lots of old things. May be for on of them is what you’re long time looking for… :-)
Hey there gang! Celadore is now live on Zuda, updating every tu…
Hey there gang! Celadore is now live on Zuda, updating every tuesday with four new screens. They update late in the day usually, so if you prefer your comics with breakfast – wait til wednesday. ;o) Also, this month sees the return of Steve Steiner with his THIRD shot at the Zuda trophy with his best entry yet, Middle-Aged Monster. This man is the real deal. He has a unique style all his own, yet his three entries have all been wildly different. A true talent is on display here and it’s about time we helped him seal the deal. Plus, Middle-Aged Monster, in its all-vector glory, is just damned hilarious. I whipped up this little ad for him which I’m popping around a few places, as I noticed I still had some leftover Project Wonderful funds. What better way to use them? If you registered to vote for me, head on back and use it again! :oD Thank you thank you thank you! Hope you enjoy Celadore. Caanan.
‘Cause if you are – then have I got the group for you!! Yes, that’s right! 800+ groups on RedBubble, and now, finally a group for th…
‘Cause if you are – then have I got the group for you!! Yes, that’s right! 800+ groups on RedBubble, and now, finally a group for those amongst us whole like their art disambiguated)! OMG – what do you mean, you don’t know what it is? looks around to see if anyone’s watching or listening Well, do you like to add a vintage aged, texture, grunge feel to your art? Then – BINGO – this is the group for you! Come and join the group – heck, we’ll take images of all sorts of things, as long as they’ve been disambiguated) Wanna see more examples of the sorts of images that fit this group? Well, then looky here – and hope to see your art over there!
This is a ‘how to’ do the through the viewfinder or ttv technique written for all of you that have expressed interest recently. It is…
This is a ‘how to’ do the through the viewfinder or ttv technique written for all of you that have expressed interest recently. It is by no means a rule book because I think each person would approach it differently but this is how I manage it..and remember with ttv really there ARE NO RULES :) It will require you to use that creative imagination but this is honestly half the fun of it!! I should give you some background info firstly, it is rumored to have first been thought of by Mr E on Flickr back in 2005 but there are is no hard proof of this just speculation on my behalf. TTV is still really huge on flickr with hundreds of groups dedicated to the different styles and subjects of ttv eg nature, black&white, manipulated, ferriswheels, self-portraits, etc etc So firstly ..what you are going to need, the essentials; / 1- a twin reflex camera eg. Kodak Duaflex, Argus75, or any other camera that has a large viewfinder. NB Most can be picked up from flea markets or ebay for as little as $5. Most take 620 film that is no longer made/available so this is why they are so cheap plus they are a dime a dozen as they were mass produced in the 1950s & 60’s. / 2- a digital camera with a pretty good macro so you are able to zoom in nice and close to the viewfinder / 3- a tripod certainly helps but isn’t essential / 4- something to block out excess light from above that shines onto your viewfinder glass, this can be a specially made box, a round piece of cardboard, or anything else that will do the job that you have laying about. / 5- a good sense of humor and a healthy dose of patience!! Here’s some of my twin reflex kids / This is the argoflex 75 and the kodak duaflex / This is an ansco and not my gun shells there ..its goose shooting season here and I have included them for size comparison. I wouldn’t recommend the ansco to start with as its really fiddley!! / This is looking down at the ansco’s viewfinder. / This is zooming in as tight as possible with my macro lens. / This is the image that has been cropped and is now ready for what ever colour adjustments or processing you wish to do. / OK so this isn’t my image of choice here but you get the general idea.. / This is a random piece of cardboard tube that I now use to block out excess light reflecting on the viewfinder glass. / Here is the side view..if you insist on being really anal about it you get some ideas for building the exact fit to your camera from flickr here If you would like a really indepth tutorial I can recommend Russ Morris’s here A few other points I’d like to add….some may wonder why go to all this trouble when you can do all of this with photoshop (fake ttvs) well my answer to that is I really like being able to see what image I want to create in the field and quite frankly it is so much more fun and creative to be actually ‘out there’ doing it! Secondly I don’t think all images or concepts are suited to the ttv style so this will be a matter of trial and error to see what fits for you. Lastly -the ttv style is all about embracing age and the antique-look of an image so think carefully about your post processing. Alot of ttv actually looks wonderful all on its own and I think many would be shocked at how little I actually do to some ttvs. Please use this link if you wish to find out more about the different processes and for free photoshop downloads here / that help achieve the vintage, grungey look. A great one to start with is urban acid :) Here’s a few more … / An urban acid ttv There you go…I think thats it?? Let me know if you need to know more or perhaps I’ve left something out…and don’t forget there is a Through the Viewfinder / group for ‘real’ ttvs when you are all ready to go!! Cheers Everyone!! Jules :)
In the 1920’s a small German company started to produce camera that was the first to utilise off-cuts of 35mm motion picture film – it ga…
In the 1920’s a small German company started to produce camera that was the first to utilise off-cuts of 35mm motion picture film – it gave the world a camera with a film frame size of 24×36mm – what we’ve now come to know as full frame. The company was Leitz and the first of the cameras was called the Leica. A decade or so after the first Leica appeared the design had evolved to the IIIa. The IIIa you see here dates from the mid 30’s and was originally owned by my grandfather and before him a British fighter pilot during World War II. It’s not in the most pristine condition but I find that somewhat comforting – to me it’s a working camera rather than an exhibit. At this point in the review you’re probably going to start thinking that because of its age using the Leica would be a simple thing akin to a box brownie (or other simple cameras like the Holga) – you’d be wrong. Put it this way: the box brownie is instant coffee – you can’t control the destiny of how your picture will appear so you can only accept the average or ugly. The IIIa is like a full on espresso machine – the quality can be spectacularly good or can be shockingly bad – it’s the operators skill that the difference. To stretch the analogy, modern digital is like a Nesspreso coffee machine – depressingly good every time but somehow not as involving. The picture below shows the shutter release, the film advance knob (incorporating the frame number dial), the film rewind lever and one of the shutter speed dials – for exposures below 1/20 you use the other dial on the front of the camera body. This example is equipped with a 50mm f/2 lens – the more expensive of the options available at the time. The lens is on a screw mount and the front element can be slid backward into the body for compact storage. The aperture is adjusted via the control on the front of the lens. Focus adjustment – now the fun begins…….. To focus the Leica of this generation you look through the left most of the two viewfinders and rotate the focus ring until the two ghostly images in the viewfinder align in a vertical orientation. This split focussing is achieved by taking a view from two viewfinders at the front of the camera body. The focus viewfinder also has its own focus control – so you first focus the focus mechanism then you focus the camera – get it??? Perhaps it pays to fix the focus and just use a big depth of field and for this there is a scale on the rear of the lens barrel for that purpose. The main “framing” viewfinder is on the right and sits as close as possible to the lens to reduce the parallax errors with it being off centre and away from the lens axis. With both viewfinders you have to work hard – the vision they provide is pretty bad in comparison with modern units even in compact digital cameras. The rest of the controls are straight forward including the film advance and rewind controls. This is a product of a pre-plastic age – everything is solid metal. The result when handling the camera is something that is the size of a point and shoot but with the weight of a large DSLR. It’s and eminently pocketable device but make sure the pocket fabric is well stitched. Some Figures: Canon Powershot G9: – 360g / Canon EOS 450D body:- 475g / Leica IIIa:- 640g / Canon EOS 40D body:- 822g Reliability wise the model III’s biggest weakness was the horizontal focal plane shutter. The early ones were a cloth only affair and can tear. To alleviate this problem this unit gets a few dummy exposures every few months to avoid things sticking and a carefully custom cut long film leader that won’t foul the shutter when it’s loaded. Just recently I took the camera out for a roll of film after a long time on the shelf and one of the images that caught my eye I posted on the bubble. / . / . / It may 3/4 of a century old but when you get an image right it feels like the Leica IIIa was made yesterday. / . / .
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“Little Girls Fishing” Is being featured in the group That’s Entertainment!: “My Daddy at Age 1” is being featured in the group ImageWriting: I am so appreciative to these two groups – That’s Entertainment and ImageWriting for this wonderful opportunity! Thank you! / Glenna
I am a little late noticing, but I am a featured member in the Remember When / group. I g…
I am a little late noticing, but I am a featured member in the Remember When / group. I got 167 bubblemails behind while my internet was down for a week, still catching up, LOL! Also, my image of “My Daddy At Age 1” was invited to be the group’savatar for a while, of course I said yes (smile): Thank you barnsis and Enivea for making me a featured member and also the wonderful honor of making one of my artworks as your avatar! Huggz, / Glenna
My dear friend rasnidreamer bought this card yesterday! It seems to have been `love at fir…
My dear friend rasnidreamer bought this card yesterday! It seems to have been `love at first sight´, because I had only just posted it! I feel really happy and honoured, Sue!!! This is the image: / Klick the card to see the image larger!
Having your photograph used as a CD cover by one of the biggest bands in the history of contemporary music, with no cash transaction? / ...
Having your photograph used as a CD cover by one of the biggest bands in the history of contemporary music, with no cash transaction? Hiroshi Sugimoto did it with U2 in a slightly more unorthodox arangement. Here’s the story
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/ Seraphina But Seraphina’s eyes dispense / A mild and gracious influence: / Such as in visions angels shed / Around the heaven-illumined head. / To love thee, Seraphina, sure, / Is to be tender, happy, pure..excerpt..James Thompson. Thank you so much
It is fairly well known that some of the world’s most accomplished photographers carried out their finest work when they were well into t…
It is fairly well known that some of the world’s most accomplished photographers carried out their finest work when they were well into their dotage. That may well have been the case for them but, for the rest of us, age makes its presence felt on an almost daily basis, and particularly when it comes to photography. Now, I can hear all you youngsters (and to people my age, a youngster is anyone under 40) asking what all this has to do with you. Well, let me tell you that the deficiencies of age are something which you all have to look forward to .. so take note now so that it doesn’t catch you unprepared and kick you in the bum when you least expect it. There are four basic problems which come with age: failing eyesight, short term memory loss, failing hearing, reduced bladder capacity and, of course, short term memory loss. The first problem means that you have to wear specs. OK, my eyesight is not so bad I have to wear them full time (yet), but, since I can’t see anything in detail smaller than a baby elephant closer than about 3ft, I have to wear reading specs. Unfortunately, the focus of the specs is so tight that I can’t see anything further away than about 3ft with them on. That’s right .. you’ve got it .. looking at the view, or through the viewfinder: specs off; looking to see which buttons to press on the camera, or looking at the LCD screen: specs on. Not a great problem, I hear you say. Oh yeah?? That’s when the problem of short term memory loss rears its ugly head: you’ve taken your specs off but can’t remember where you’ve put them! I got over that by buying a chord to hang them round my neck. All fine and dandy until you’ve got the camera set up on the tripod (specs on), you’ve looked through the viewfinder to compose (specs off and hanging from your neck) and, when you straighten up, the bloody things catch on the tripod, pulling the chord off the specs and nearly knocking the tripod over. Bright idea: throw the chord away and use the tried and tested technique of pushing the specs onto the top of your head when not in use .. which is OK until you forget they’re on top of your head (short term memory loss again) and only find that fact out when you bend down to look for them in your camera bag and the buggers fall off. Since they inevitably fall into something unspeakable, they require cleaning and that’s when you find out that you’ve forgotten to pick up a hankie before leaving the house (because you were distracted by having to hunt high and low for the bloody car keys which, to your perfectly certain knowledge, you left on the mantelpiece but which transpire to have grown legs overnight and to have walked to the hall table and hidden themselves under a pile of newspapers which you’ve put there ready for the dustbin but have forgotten to throw out). By the time you’ve got all this sorted out, and are ready to shoot, the four cups of tea you’ve had before leaving the house are starting to make their presence felt. Needless to say, the nearest bush of any substance is somewhere near the horizon so you take a quick look around to see if there’s anyone around. There isn’t .. so you take a chance .. and the point of .. shall we say .. “mid flow” is precisely the moment when the lady dog walker comes strolling round the bend from behind the wee hillock ….. So, I hear you say, when do we get to the “deafness” bit? Well, we’re here now. As many of you know, I regularly use the NDx1000 filter to take long exposures of water and suchlike. Since this is as black as the hobs of hell, with all the “seethroughability” of the average lens cap, all composing and exposure measurements have to be done before the filter is put on, with a brief “multiply by 1000” calculation to set the shutter speed when the filter is on. Now, I don’t know about you, but, whilst I can easily multiply simple number by 1000, I’m pretty-well buggered when it comes to doing it with 1/125 and suchlike,. so I carry a piece of paper with various shutter speeds multiplied by 1000 .. if only I could remember where I put it. Anyway, this is the point at which deafness and short term memory loss combine to make life difficult: You do your composing etc., you put the filter on, you set the shutter to “BULB”, you press the cable release .. and nothing happens; so you press it again .. and still nothing happens; so you apply a bit of “percussive maintenance” .. and still not a peep out of it. So .. it’s “alt+ctrl+del” time: out comes the battery and the card, let the camera get its act together, replace the battery and the card, switch the camera on and let it “reboot” … STILL no joy … zilch .. zippo .. no error messages saying “don’t be a dickhead” or suchlike .. no nothing. That’s the point at which you hear this faint humming sound which you hadn’t noticed before .. which is the sound of the autofocus going backwards and forwards trying to find something to focus on .. which, of course, it can’t do because it can’t see through the bloody “view the eclipse safely through this” filter on the front of the bloody lens. Why? Because you’ve forgotten to click the button on the lens to set it to “manual focus”. Why? Because you were hunting for the piece of paper with the exposure calculations on it. Why? Because .. etc. etc. etc. Meanwhile, the light .. the light which you dream about .. has come and gone .. and it’s started to rain .. and you can’t remember where you left your goddamned hat … I tell you, it ain’t easy being old ..
Alright since alot of you like the video for “Coming Straight from the Heart” / I did a piece for “Chilling” / I was wondering what piece I…
Alright since alot of you like the video for “Coming Straight from the Heart” / I did a piece for “Chilling” / I was wondering what piece I should do next and out of no wheres a good friend b-mailed me and she suggested that Chilling would probably make a nice video and to hear it spoken / So I have posted it on my poem and you all are able to hear, view, comment, critique, have your say so, fav, spread the word, lol whatever …LOL / Just as long as you let me honestly know if I need to switch something up or it is okay as is - oh yea i added a little music for the background…. So here it is / Chilling
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This is a marvelous site. / It’s a bit overwelming with the way Pappy has posted his journals but anyone with a love of comic book art that was before the McFarlane era will adore this. / Pappy’s idea of Goldern Age seems to be between 1910 and 1980 so if you ‘re patient you’ll uncover a treasure trove of lovingly scanned stories and covers with a bit of a brief to keep you informed. / Judging by the posts he has done his collection must be massive. / So if you’re a fan of post Comic Code comics. Underground or early main stream comics this is a great place to look around. / If these names excite you you’ll never leave: / Will Elder, Wally Wood, Rick Griffin, Basil Woolverton, Gilbert Shelton, Walt Kelly, John Severin, Jack Davis, Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby, Will Eisner, Tales from the Crypt, Mad, Teo Fisted War Stories, The Spirit….. I could go on but I won’t …This is what you have been missing in your life, / ENJOY and comment if you wish by all means. /
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