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• Photographers - What are you paying for? (Part One)
  by Jo O'Brien

  ^Disclaimer: This is not legal advice or even professional advice. This is some stuff I’ve learned along this funny little thing called l…

  Disclaimer: This is not legal advice or even professional advice. This is some stuff I’ve learned along this funny little thing called life and may not apply in any way to your current situation. At worst, it’s my opinion, at best it’s some ideas for you to think about. If you need real proper advice, go see your solicitor. I’m of the opinion that photography should make me money, not cost me money. So far, I have been successful is making more from a photograph than it took me to create. Here is my list of not so secret tips and advice on covering your arse and saving your cash. When To Pay There are times where spending your hard earned money is the right choice. For example to obtain goods or services you can not find for less (or free) elsewhere. Or when you have done all the maths yourself and you feel you are buying into a good deal. But there are also some pit falls to watch out for. Art Direction, Ideas and Intellectual Property My rule of thumb, if I am paying to shoot, I should have full rights to everything I take. No ifs buts or maybes about it. If you shoot a commercial, the art direction team put together a shoot and then hire a photographer to take photos of what they and the crew have created. They pay for lighting design, they pay the models, they pay the hair stylist, they pay the guy who makes the coffees- and they pay the photographer. Some businesses operate under a similar model but suck money out of photographers in the process. As part of a ‘workshop’ or ‘event’, several photographers rock up with their cameras and take photos of a scene. Often they have little or no control of the setup, can’t communicate properly with the models and will walk out of it with similar images to everyone else who attended! In the worst cases they have restricted rights regarding how they use their images. So is essence, they have paid for something that out in the real world, would be making them money. Sorry if it sounds confusing, the concept completely baffles me. When you are shooting someone else’s ideas and have restricted publishing rights or have little influence over the set up, posing, lighting or set design, (in my opinion) you should be getting paid by them. After all, you are doing them a favor by taking images of their creative work. Classes or Tuition Wanting to improve you skills and knowledge is a great thing. And there are numerous classes, mentors and workshops available for you to choose from. If you are going to pay to attend these, make sure you are getting what you pay for. Before you hand over any cash there are a few details that you should have to help make your decision. Class Size: The more people attending, the cheaper the class should be. If there is a practical component, I usually wont accept a class bigger than 10-12 / Location & Time: no point signing up for an ‘on location’ workshop only to find it is out of your way. Also as a safety issue, you should always be able to tell a trusted person exactly where and when you will be shooting. / The Teacher: You should be able to find and contact the person facilitating the class to verify their experience and ask questions. It not always convenient for a facilitator to take calls from a whole class, but you should be able to send them an email and get a reply without going through a middle man. / Contracts: Ask if you will need to sign any contracts and insist upon receiving them before paying. / What do you get: do you get class notes to take home? Exactly what does the course entail? What can you hope to know and have learned at the end of the course? Contracts These are a great way to waste your money. They also happen to be very important. First and foremost contracts exists to make people money or stop people from making money. So before signing anything, read it a few times and make sure you are aware of what your actions are costing you. If you need to get images approved before sale or publication, you could be agreeing to never publishing or selling any images taken if none are ‘approved.’ It is completely reasonable to request changes to a contract or write your own and offer it instead. Don’t sign away potential income! You should always be able to take a contract away and show it to other people for advice before signing it, and especially before paying for anything. If you are not given this opportunity, my advice is to avoid it with a ten foot pole. And then there are the bazillion poorly written contracts that mean very little or nothing at all. It’s actually quite funny to me sometimes, what people will put on paper. Useful Links Australian Competition & Consumer Commission / Scam Watch Photographers – What are you paying for (part 2).

• Interested In Some FREE Online Classes???
  by deliriousgirl

  About a decade ago all major universities introduced online classes. Wellll, in a movement to make education more accessible to more peop…

  About a decade ago all major universities introduced online classes. Wellll, in a movement to make education more accessible to more people, some of the US’s top schools now have FREE online classes: MIT, yes, MIT (and I mean Massachusetts Institute of Technology, not M-effers In Trouble) offers around 2,000 of its classes online completely free. / Here Check out some free classes from Yale This is a particularly good one, I know, I took it! Intro To Human Nutrition, University of California at Berkeley, it also covers areas of our world food crisis and malnutrition and looks at doable solutions. Here I’m thinking about venturing into some of these literature classes next, at Notre Dame, completely free: Notre Dame And here’s another one sent to me by a friend: Online Classes These are by no means the only universities either, if you’re interested in a specific school’s free classes, you can either go to their website or call them to see if they offer the free online classes. If you are really interested in a certain school and have trouble finding out the information, please just shoot me a message and I’ll get right on searching down the needed links for you. And please contact me if you need registration or application help, too. Be forewarned though, most of the free classes are the introductory core classes and eventually you’d have to move on to more senior level classes for completion of a degree. They are exceptional for someone who wants to brush up on a few areas for a job or someone like me who is just interested in a lot of different subjects.

• TROLL 101
  by bchrisdesigns

  (Note: The following transcripts were taken from the Red Bubble School of Etiquette’s summer workshop entitled “Troll 101”. – Enjoy!) / ...

  (Note: The following transcripts were taken from the Red Bubble School of Etiquette’s summer workshop entitled “Troll 101”. – Enjoy!) [Begin transcript.] Attention class! Today we are going to talk about trolls and “trolling”. No, I am not referring to those horrible creatures that dwell under bridges and eat billy goats. No, the trolls I am talking about are not mythological. They are very real and they are among us. YOU could be one of them… Students, the first thing you must be aware of is that trolls may exhibit off-the-wall, abhorrent behavior that would seem, to the majority of us, as mean-spirited, off-the-cuff, and rude. Many trolls have anger issues or issues with ego and pride. You can read this Wikipedia entry for further clarification of classic troll behavior: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_ You can also find more information in this Red Bubble forum thread: http://www.redbubble.com/groups/redbubble/forums/4/topics/19793 As the Wiki states, a classic internet troll is some one who: ...posts controversial and usually irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum or chat room, with the intention of baiting other users into an emotional response or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion. But now that we have a better grasp of the common, classic troll, let’s put intentions aside, and focus on a more common and vicious threat to our very existence, students. That is right, I am talking about the elusive and very detestable Trollitis Egoramous, commonly referred to as the Ego Troll. Now, the Ego Troll can strike anywhere and at anytime. Beware that this is the most cunning and sly of all trolls, as it hides among us and takes on the ordinary, everyday appearance of an actual good person. These trolls will infest our community without so much as an iota of coldheartedness, until the day when they feel the need to bring us down, tell us like it is, and leave us withered and betrayed by the very people whom we’ve grown to admire. You, yourself, may even be an Ego Troll and not even know it! So, now students, can anyone tell me some signs that could possibly point to you or someone you know being an Ego Troll? Let’s all turn to page 222 and follow along as I read from the text: If you have done any of the following things, you may be an Ego Troll: Tell someone that they have grammatical problems in their short story? You troll!!!!! Tell someone that their composition could be a little better? YOU troll!!!!! Tell someone that their story confused you and maybe they should consider editing it a bit? You T-R-O-L-L!!!!!! Tell someone that their piece looks like…gasp!...a “snap shot”? You filthy troll!!! Tell someone that they could have been a bit more professional in their forum post? You good-for-nothing troll! Tell someone that you are not a fan of their design because it looked rushed. You lousy TROLL!!!!! Tell someone that you artwork is NOT porn but rather an artistic nude? Ugh, you troll bastard! TROLL! TROLL! TROLL! Now students, if you turn to page 716, you will find a brief example of troll-like behavior taken from one of our very own Bubble forums. Please, take a minute to read this excerpt silently to yourself… I am an overly blunt person and have been called a troll, even though what I said was (A) the truth and (B) constructive. Some people just do not like to be told anything because of inflated egos, pride, or for whatever reason that stems from their childhood. And, these people will take this definition of “troll” blow it out of proportion and use it against any person who happens to have an opinion different than thier own! I have seen it happen so many times to myself and others…who are, believe it or not, actually decent and loving people. I mean, it seems like a freakin’ troll hunt and any one who does not agree with everyone else and tell everyone else that their work is beautiful…omg! so cute…wow…amazing…you rock!... and that their forum posts are spot on…and that we agree…totally…omg, for sure… is tied to the stake and burned! Move over Salem, cause there is a new form of witch hunt abounding right here on the Bubble! Oh, and don’t disagree with anyone or have an opinion. Don’t post adult themed content – that is not art! Don’t talk about things no one else wants to talk about because it bruises their precious egos! Notice the ego maniacal approach here. Notice how the ego troll uses sarcasm, metaphor, and brutal honesty to make others feel wrong in their summations. Also notice how this troll uses terms like “truth” and “constructive” to mask its hidden agenda! Also evident here is the troll’s use of mocking and misogynistic undertones to cut down the opinions of those who may not feel the need to be so opinionated about such things. The identity of this particular troll is unknown, but, as you can see, students, you must be very cautious in your everyday dealings within the Bubble or you may one day become an Ego Troll. Just do what is expected of you and follow some of the core guidelines for Non-Troll Behavior that are outlined in your text and that I have taken the liberty of writing on the chalkboard. Let’s us now take a few minutes to commit these guidelines to memory. Guidelines to NOT be a troll: 1. Have no personal opinion. Just say what you think they want to hear. And, make sure it is all over-the-rainbow-nice! 2. Make sure the work you submit is rated R or less… none of this NC-17 or Rated X crap! That is not art…that is smut! Remember, even with an R Rating, you will be pushing the envelope. 3. Offer no constructive criticism. Constructive criticism is for workshops, college classrooms, and other websites that choose to belittle artists and writers and not put them on pedestals to worship…where they belong. Constructive criticism leads to the slitting of wrists and other body parts – remember that! 4. Join in on forum topics that have to do with movies from the 80’s, ice cream, puppy dogs, concerts, chocolate, and how much we love each other and each others’ work and how much we are all super-duper artists and writers! 5. Steer clear from taking part in forum threads that deal with anything about art, writing, society, politics, religion, and other themes that could lead to two adults firmly citing their opinions and debating the topic. Any forum thread having to do with why we are all really here should be avoided at all costs! 6. Wherever you go…BOOST egos! That is the best service we can all do for this community on a daily basis! Who cares if the photo is amateur, the story riddled with grammatical errors, the poem chliche, or that the art’s composition could be helped? These things may matter in the outside, real world, but not here in the Bubble where things are all roses and happy thoughts and fluffy-bunny-feelings. 7. Be sure to use and re-use words such as “wow”, “excellent”, “amazing”, “breathtaking”, and (my personal favorite) “awesome” when commenting on works in lieu of forthright and honest opinions, which may, in the long run, help the artist or writer. Use these words often and in abundance and you will surely be liked and voted for in challenges and competitions even if your art/writing is substandard at best. Remember, students, to NOT be a TROLL, takes patience, understanding, and marshmallow-y goodness. So, get out there and show them s’more love (well, except for the trolls, you can hate them because we all do because they are vile and disgusting and should be banished from the Bubble)! And, always be sure to call anyone who exhibits the behaviors of a troll a “Troll”, because that is what they are (by definition) and so that is what they need to be called. And, no, don’t worry calling someone a “Troll” does not make you a troll yourself because that person deserves it. Any further questions, my wonderfully talented pupils? No? Good. Class dismissed. [End transcript.]

• New Video of Me Painting
  by Samuel Durkin

  I Just edited together some bits of me painting my lasted work . I did this over the weekend I was having irregular heart palpitations, I…

  I Just edited together some bits of me painting my lasted work . I did this over the weekend I was having irregular heart palpitations, I just needed to do something to help me calm down. I’m not sure it helped while I was painting but the picture is now very relaxing to look at. See me demonstrating painting on canvas here oh yeah i also wrote the music. (not very good, but it saves having to steal someone elses)

• You Know All These Years I’ve Been Eating With The Wrong Fingers…!!
  by freebornman

  David, my ex-pat London lawyer friend had a visit from his parents this week….. …….Lord and Lady something or other…… ‘Loads-a-Money’ I …

  David, my ex-pat London lawyer friend had a visit from his parents this week….. …….Lord and Lady something or other…… ‘Loads-a-Money’ I think……man have they got serious cash ……I once visited their huge mansion in Bath, England…. monstrous place, even their chauffeur has a chauffeur. They’ve got glass hand bells for summoning servants and sporting trophies in a cabinet. / He says to me “my parents are here why don’t you come round Friday after dinner” …….We’re just worlds apart. He’s had a a long and successful career… I come from Dagenham in East London. People who live there don’t have careers they‘re well pleased just to have jobs. / It’s not twinned with anywhere that’s for sure. It hasn’t any strange attractions which must not be missed, or an information centre…… nobody wants to go there…. It has got an escape committee and a suicide pact with Stevenage. / Our house was really pokey….. two short strides and you were half way up the stairs. The walls were so thin if the television wasn’t switched on you could hear next door’s budgie talking to itself. Mind you these days the budgie would be more entertaining…..Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than look at each other. If I settle myself in front of the T.V. for, I don’t know, ten minutes. I am in serious danger of remaining there for ever!!……… I cannot drag myself away!!!. I sit there and watch the most crappiest movies into the wee small hours , eyes bulging out of my head. I know where the remote is …. It’s on top of the telly but I can’t be arsed getting up to get it!! / I was addicted as a kid……… / I loved the cowboys…..Hopalong Cassidy, Rin Tin Tin ,The Lone Ranger, The Cisco kid…………. I’d spend hours in the shed afterwards slapping me chaps…………………………………......as cowboys did !!!!!!!! / I arrived at David’s, knocked on the door he opened it wearing a dinner jacket and bow tie saying….” I thought I told you to come round ‘after’ dinner” …..I said “That’s what I have come round ‘after‘…… (know what I mean ….worlds apart.!)………. / Have you ever been for a stuffy tea in the house of the rich….they have fish knives and cruet sets. I’ve never seen a fish knife in my life. Come to think of it that’s not strictly true ….my old dad had one that he used to scrape out the chicken shit from the nesting boxes. …… I’d spot him a bit later spreading butter on his toast………… same knife!!!………………… / David’s mother said ”Do you mind if I sit on your right hand at dinner?” …(you’re ahead of me I’m sure..) I said…” I guess so………. But I might have to use it!……….( not a smile ..not a crack …. Not even a grimace.)… I thought some Friday night this is tuning out to be. I know the dying process starts the minute we’re born but somehow it accelerated this night. We started with consommé …. It tasted like someone had left a bowl of warm water and a piece of meat in the same room together….. and NOTHING is less important to me than what fork to use… / She said “ I have no concern for the common man other than he should not be so common”…. I said” Go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut!” and it was all down hill from there………..

• You Can't Have Everything ..............Where Would You Put It?
  by freebornman

  Having dinner with my rich English friends last month got me thinking again about the whole class structure I grew up in. New Zealand cer…

  Having dinner with my rich English friends last month got me thinking again about the whole class structure I grew up in. New Zealand certainly has one but unlike the U.K. it’s not directly in your face. At their home in Bath they had tables you couldn’t put things on and cushions you wouldn’t dare sit on. Expensive ornaments were placed in back lit alcoves. These people had shelves with just one item on!! They wore dinner jackets and polished shoes. / I was brought up on blazers and stay press trousers for best…. socks with open toe sandals. We had a cosy cover on the toilet seat and a musical lavatory roll. We had a shed with pigeons. Simple meals at home ….. The joy of golden syrup on white bread…………. / The neighbours ….related or not… were my aunts and uncles, each one of them a colourful cockney character. All decked out in cloth cap and work boots. Braces over collarless shirts worn thin from endless washing, looking for all the world like the entire cast of ‘My Fair Lady’……. “Oh wouldn’t it be luvely!!!” …… / As a boy I used to go to the local swimming pools. There was a whole class structure there……… based on suntans. Ranging from the bronze Adonis strutting their stuff by the poolside down to ……. well me! I used to go to the far corner with all the rubbish and the spilt ice cream. People would say…………. “Look at that skinny white kid he shouldn’t be allowed in”. / That’s how we’d end up swimming in the local duck pond…… and I use the word ‘pond’ loosely. Please put out of your head any image of a pristine pool with white fluffy ducks gliding across its surface. This was full of stuff that nobody wanted. Old tyres, old tins of paint …….. old people! / There’s a shopping centre now where that pond used to be and the pool closed down when people found out they could get a better class of verruca at the new leisure centre. Funny ……they talk about extra leisure time but if you go down to the local leisure centre they’re all doing something to keep fit! They’re lifting, squatting, sweating, running………. If I owned the place there would be nothing but rows of beds covered in Sunday newspapers……. / I’ve never been into keep fit myself not even the stretching type like Yoga….. There can be no more terrible sight than a man in his under pants locked in the lotus position with his feet stuck under his arm pits completely unable to move! When ever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes. / Even Mick Jagger jogs 30km a day… 30km!! And he’s started to look healthy! / I preferred him the old way…wasting away from drink and drugs. He was always a hero of mine…… / We would have just finished the Sunday roast, every week a winner….. / If you don’t eat roast beef you’ll never know the joys of Yorkshire pudding. You can hardly soak the gravy up with musselli. ….Meal over and everyone falls asleep. The only thing on the telly is one of those black and white English war films. You know the sort…… the sergeant takes this platoon of raw recruits and moulds them into a tough and fighting force and then hands them over to John Mills who gets them all killed. I could never stand it but the trouble was the only alternative was to go driving for the afternoon with the old man ……. And even the thought was scary! …I firmly believe the term Sunday driver was coined for my dad!! He’d say “ I don’t know what they’re rushing for they’re not going to get there any quicker”…. Oh yes they are dad, about a day quicker at the rate we go….. / I’d saunter over to the stereo and put on a Rolling Stones record. . My mum would grumble “ You can turn that off for a start!. .we don’t want to listen to all that Beatles rubbish”……… I could never understand how she could not tell the difference between the two groups ….because it was clear to me. / If the Beatles had knocked on the door they”d have been all polite and giggled a bit because they just had a joint down the road and then got all embarrassed.. ….. Paul would have blushed and they would have had tea and pulled mother’s leg a little, then a bit of a laugh again and “Thanks ”and “Ta’ra” and off down the road together. …..whereas the Stones…after dropping acid, would have come in tripping , swallowed the gold fish, knocked a few of the flying ducks off the wall, pissed on the rose beds and fucked off!!…….. / Sadly the Sunday roast is losing it’s grip in the 21st century with too many people working eighty hours a week to keep up their life style!…… . The newspaper adverts told us we could have it all. On the TV there’s always the happy smiling kids and parents laughing around the breakfast table together. We could be great dads and still go off skiing and earn lots of money and pop out of a business meeting to tell our children a bedtime story over the mobile phone……but it can’t be done…something has to give!………………… usually the sex life. / Now days we have milk that lasts and marriages that don’t! / I blame it on women’s magazines….most men dread them coming out … they never know what to do….each month something else from another expert… / She’s saying… “Oh look at this …. ’Ten Ways To Win Back Your Man’s Attention’ ……… this looks interesting……….ten ways…win back attention” I think put the magazine down would be a good number one don’t you? This month ‘Twenty Five Ways To Improve Your Sex Life’ ….. Sorry ….‘NEW’………. ‘Twenty Five NEW Ways To Improve Your Sex Life!’ ……….. I don’t know twenty five OLD ones!! / Last month in Cosmopolitan they suggested yoghurt!……… I don’t even like yoghurt on its own!!!…..

• About friendship ...
  by Diana Calvario

  Mugsy asked me some time ago – I won’t tell you exactly when because I am ashamed of the late response I am giving to his invitation… -...

  Mugsy asked me some time ago – I won’t tell you exactly when because I am ashamed of the late response I am giving to his invitation… – to present and describe one of my works and then to choose another one of the A Class of Its Own Group and talk about it too. I am not willing to talk about friends and friendship really but more about one of my photomanipulations I did some time ago. So, may I introduce mine first: FRIENDSHIP / No need to tell you that I am a dreamer but perhaps that I am not a good painter…I never really managed to draw or paint perhaps because I am a little perfectionnist when it comes to reproduce things on a piece of paper. When I discovered photoshop some 8 years ago I was far away of dreaming that one day I would be able to project my dreams and ideas on a jpeg format picture. This really made me see art with other eyes and gave me the chance to pic up pieces here and there and put them all together to form my own image. And the images almost looked like real! ;-) Friendship was made with the idea of projecting myself to a calm but warm place where I wouldn’t feel completely on my own and where I could feel the harmony between nature and humans, where the human part is not represented by the scarecrow itself but by the fact that is was made by humans … and the crows to represent the friendship … rather the geting used to the presence of a man made object. / The 4 images I used for this piece of art came from stock friends at deviant Art which I would like to present as well to give you an idea of the original photos and the final art: -> background sky / -> tree / -> scarecrow / -> crows For my chosen work from the group may I introduce: Road Less Travelled, by Heather Rivet / This black and white photograph is absolutely amazing! I love the path and the image really invites you to walk on it. I can smell the grass, I can feel the breeze and I even can see the wonderful colors of this scenary although it is a black and white photograph! I am not a photographer but for me the real capture is not the one that gives you the feeling you want to be there but the one that makes you feel as if you are there right now and this is exactly what I feel when I look at Heather’s photos. I invite you to check out her gallery , you wont be disapointed. Cherrs Heather and thank you for sharing so much wonderful pictures with us. Well, hope you enjoyed my little introduction and presentation :-) May you all have a great day, / Diana

• Life Drawing class
  by Damien Mason

  I’m two lessons into a four lesson life drawing class here in Adelaide. It’s run by the local adult education place. It’s been a great …

  I’m two lessons into a four lesson life drawing class here in Adelaide. It’s run by the local adult education place. It’s been a great experience, even if there are some people in the class with far too much talent for one human. Anyone else done life drawing? What do you think of it? You can see my first few pieces here

• I've started drawing again
  by Erin Lyall

  It’s fun and I’m happy about it and my graphic design tutor complimented me on it. I thought I’d forgotten how to draw. Yay confid…

  It’s fun and I’m happy about it and my graphic design tutor complimented me on it. I thought I’d forgotten how to draw. Yay confidence!

• Art class.
  by Ozcloggie

  Was back in the art class, at Hazelhurst, again, yesterday, after a small operation and a follow-up appointment with the doctor, stopped …

  Was back in the art class, at Hazelhurst, again, yesterday, after a small operation and a follow-up appointment with the doctor, stopped me, the last two weeks. / It IS good for me, to paint there. / I start paintings off, at home. I don’t really participate in Melissa’s lesson. I bring my own ‘project’ to work on and find her advice useful. / I always see the painting in ‘a different light’, if you’ll pardon the expression, there. / And I like the atmosphere. / Melissa ‘chats’ throughout much of the three hours and, after getting everyone started on something goes around advising and encouraging and, as she does so, happily tells us about things she’s done in the past. / Yesterday, at one stage, the topic rather fitted my previous journal entry. / The theme became wigi boards, philosophies, connectedness with spirits and the earth and someone explained that we are, after all connected to nature, made of carbon etc.. / Time always flies. Got a lot done too. (Previous term / and here)

• It started with a wave!
  by Ozcloggie

  / School holidays are over and so is the break from Art Class. Yes. I re-enr…

  / School holidays are over and so is the break from Art Class. Yes. I re-enrolled, last term and today it was back to class. Some familiar faces. Some new. Same teacher, to whom I turned, last year when the original teacher left and was replaced by someone whose approach simply did not suit mine. / Can happen! / First there was Gwen, whose first exercise she ever set her class, was to copy a piece of her art: A wave. That suited me fine. It got me started on, after copying hers, several other beach scenes. / / As explained above, unhappy with the replacement, I was enrolled in Melissa’s class, where I am perfectly content, not participating in her exercises but very much appreciating her advice and the manner in which she encourages the students (including me). / / For those who wish to be motivated by the exercises which she sets, there is an explanation of how famous artists, e.g., impressionists and Australians, approached their work and, for those of us who wish to do our own thing, she’ll come along; appreciate and advise. / / In spite of my daughter’s advice, to attempt one of Melissa’s exercises, I, very quickly, prepared some canvases, with charcoal sketches and took them along, together with the current ‘assignment’, still not completed: a portrait of the daughter of one of the people who attended one of Melissa’s classes, i.e., a young lady who, herself, is one of Melissa’s students. / / As a retired primary school teacher, also qualified to teach adults, (Grad. Dip. Ed. St., (Mult.Ed.) via UNE), I very much appreciate the way Melissa balances her enthusiasm, advice and approach to her adult students and having spent a few terms in her classes now, cannot help noticing how this is done. / / There are some new students. / / Funny, how it always happens but the returning students – particularly me – tend to go and work in the same locations, in the room. This was last term: / / By 3:15 p.m., it was time to tidy up and prepare to go home….. / / ....having happily worked on one of three canvases on which I had quickly sketched some outlines before coming to class. / / Worked on the painting, some more, at home…... /

• Another Sale for Mr. Frog!
  by Crockpot

  HUGE THANKS go out to Poyal in Australia for purchasing Mr. Frog’s I Wouldn’t Dissect You tee!! !http://images-1.redbubble.com/img…

  HUGE THANKS go out to Poyal in Australia for purchasing Mr. Frog’s I Wouldn’t Dissect You tee!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

• Job of a different sort
  by Sandra Chung

  I was asked by a adult education teacher to design a 10 week course on “Introduction to Digital Photography” for local college. My bigges…

  I was asked by a adult education teacher to design a 10 week course on “Introduction to Digital Photography” for local college. My biggest problem will be to not overwhelm with too many tech terms that a beginner, but to keep it interesting and yes amusing enough to engage the students. I have an outline,and am building it from there.

• FIRST SALE!!!
  by Perspective

  I got SOOOOOO excited this morning when I logged into redbubble… I GOT MY FIRST SALE!!! !http://images-3.redbubble.net/img/art/...

  I got SOOOOOO excited this morning when I logged into redbubble… I GOT MY FIRST SALE!!! A card of Choose Your Weapon was purchased by jayview / ... / Thanks, Jay! —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-— / This photo, along with others, is in a LOCAL CONTEST! / Click Here to Help it WIN! / -—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-——

• thanks hilary, you go to top of class
  by susan davies

  if you have seen my two recent images ?? and what?, thanks to hilary douigil, its a death head s hawk moth caterpillar, rare in this…

  if you have seen my two recent images ?? and what?, thanks to hilary douigil, its a death head s hawk moth caterpillar, rare in this country, the same moth as featured in silence of the lambs. Thanks hilary you cleared that up hugs sue

• If you were in one of my classes, during those 37 years, you
  by Ozcloggie

  ...may have been someone who posed or at least were asked to draw a fellow-pupil, at least twice or more during the year. / .. / I always …

  ...may have been someone who posed or at least were asked to draw a fellow-pupil, at least twice or more during the year. / .. / I always got one of the pupils to pose, on a desk, with hands on hips, feet a little apart and talked about how many heads there were in the whole body of the model. / About the spaces between the body and the elbows betwen the legs. Etc. / Later the finer details. Eyes, nose, mouth, hair, fingers, etc.. / ... / This must have been a later lesson. I even spuspect it was when we had clubs and the children could nominate a club (activity) that they wanted to join. / ... / I always sketched also and usually gave the finihed product to the child(ren) who posed. / Don’t know why I still have this one. / ... /

• Linking to Group Rules
  by Stephen Mitchell

  Message for Paul, Pilgrim, or any of the Coders at RB: start geek-speak \ This is the layer that wraps around the ‘Group Rul…

  Message for Paul, Pilgrim, or any of the Coders at RB: start geek-speak \ This is the layer that wraps around the ‘Group Rules’: / < div class=”module clearfix” > Can it please be given an ID so I can link to our group rules? Therefore / < div id=”grouprules” class=”module clearfix” > / would allow me to include this in Forum and Group Description / We encourage all new members to read the < a href=”http://www.redbubble.com/adelaide-art-writing#clubrules” >Adelaide/SA Group Rules. / written as ” Adelaide/SA Group Rules ” : http://www.redbubble.com/adelaide-art-writing#clubrules . / end geekspeak

• Featured Frog
  by Crockpot

  I Wouldn’t Dissect You! has been featured in the Reptiles and Amphibians...

  I Wouldn’t Dissect You! has been featured in the Reptiles and Amphibians group! Thanks Erin!!

• Featured Frog - Again!
  by Crockpot

  Mr. Frog is also featured in the Current Issues group!! This time, as …

  Mr. Frog is also featured in the Current Issues group!! This time, as a card. We’re so psyched!

• musing
  by mick8585

  Just uploaded more images and feeling fine. Probably the third glass of wine helps. Thank you to the RB community. You all have inspired …

  Just uploaded more images and feeling fine. Probably the third glass of wine helps. Thank you to the RB community. You all have inspired me to do better, be creative and glad to share. Be good or be careful.

• RESTRICTIONS & CENSORSHIP from Bubblegroups -High class Erotica
  by Sandy Viktor Nys

  Dear visitors. I am fed up with the restrictions of the Bubble groups against nudity. / I want to create a high class erotic group.Can som…

  Dear visitors. I am fed up with the restrictions of the Bubble groups against nudity. / I want to create a high class erotic group.Can somebody help me with this, because I can not find something: “to create a group” in the FAQ. / Best sandy

• Calling All Professional Photographers
  by RockyWalley

  I am an amateur photographer. I didn’t go to school for this profession. I am willing to take some classes but with a family of four and …

  I am an amateur photographer. I didn’t go to school for this profession. I am willing to take some classes but with a family of four and a wife I cannot afford anything really expensive. I know some of you Bubblers are pros by the photography that I’ve witnessed. I know a lot of the Bubblers on this website would love to enhance there skills in photography and editing. I love the contests that Redbubble runs in certain groups to help you get the exposure. But It would be nice to have a mentor as well as some information where to get some education on photography and editing. If anyone has any suggestions please let me know. Again thank you Redbubble for the opportunity to express my opinions and my form of art.

• "socialist economics distilled to its simplest terms"
  by Elaine Farmer

  Obama unveiled an emergency “RESCUE” of the middle class FROM capitalism THE PLAN...

  Obama unveiled an emergency “RESCUE” of the middle class FROM capitalism THE PLAN

• Field works is slowing down a bit and i aim to learn more about digital photography this winter
  by Dave Sandersfeld

  Redbubble has some mind-blowing examples of using digital images in ways I never imagined. Thank you all for what you all do so very well…

  Redbubble has some mind-blowing examples of using digital images in ways I never imagined. Thank you all for what you all do so very well! Your humble student, Dave Sandersfeld