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  Circle of Friends
  by Clare McClelland

  this gang of Adelie penguins gave me a great opportunity for quite a series of entertaining photographs as they zoomed busily about their icy playground. This photo has become a symbol of connection and friendship among my own personal group of nearest and dearest friends.

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  Deep Communication
  by Catalin Soare

  My Friend and my dog are doing well together

• InternetLove or 'How we learned that you're the best community we could have hoped for, Anne van Alkemade in particular'
  by RedBubble

  2.14pm – Wednesday afternoon The keys on this plastic alphabet are sticky. The seat has no back and the minutes are expensive. The sub…

  2.14pm – Wednesday afternoon The keys on this plastic alphabet are sticky. The seat has no back and the minutes are expensive. The sub audible hum of ten thousand anxious people reverberate through the terminal floor. The timeless neon glow of Gates 31-40, Baggage Claim, Toilets and a Foodcourt burn into my pores. A voice informs me that Mr Nigel Sankey should really hurry along to Gate 36, because all the people already wedged onto the plane are getting seriously annoyed. In another life our original flight had not suffered the generic ‘engineering difficulties’ and we were already home, but in this life we were destined to spend half a day in Sydney airport at an internet cafe, so still in this life I wrench the keyboard from a neighbouring computer and walk resolutely towards the mannequins at the Virgin Service Desk, a blank look in my eye. / How did it come to this? 7.55am – Earlier that same day El Presidente and I burst into the breakfast room of the Shangri La hotel in Sydney, where NetGuide are holding the ceremony of their yearly internet awards. The room goes slightly quiet, the dog in the corner ceases playing the piano, and the 100% suited and booted occupants turn to look at these last minute arrivals, one in a vibrant red limited edition RedBubble tee, the other in a faux-Napoleonic military jacket. I wave my cane in the direction of some empty seats and we take our place between the MD of eBay and a man from the Bureau of Meteorology. A general air that we may be ‘chancers’ prevails. The ceremony begins, and decorum is held in fine corporate silence, broken by an intermittent golf clap as another nervous individual waddles up to claim their glass shard. The 14th prize is for Best New Site, and it is won by a company called Web Menu, but also has a Highly Commended Category, which RedBubble wins. None of the other categories really have second place awards, and so we still appear like we are here for the free breakfast. The final two awards, however, are a little more prestigious, and they begin with the ‘People’s Choice’ which NetGuide are very proud of, and after building it up to unprecendented heights they announce that RedBubble has conquered it without question. You can hear the room inhale in unison, then vigourously clap. Afterwards everyone was very friendly, coming over to congratulate and talk details, I was even accosted by one man in the gents but I requested he wait until I finish, I think he had something to do with the ceremony. We hand out some t-shirts and greetings cards and even some bubbles, which could be seen floating around the room towards the end of the event. 9.45am After a suitably cheesy photoshoot, we jump into a taxi and head for the airport and hopefully, a quick flight home. —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—— I’d just like to take this opportunity, on behalf of the whole team, to thank all of you, and not just all of you who managed to read this whole post, or even all of you who voted for us, but ALL of you. Because you really do make this site as vibrant as it is, without you we’re nothing, well, not nothing, we’d be a bunch of nerds in a room with some flashy computers and an endless biscuit supply, but I don’t think there’s an award for that. / So thanks and don’t stop now, we’re just getting warmed up. onetonshadow, and everybody else Oh and big up to NetGuide for the whole event, bacon and free mousemats, here’s what they have to say about it Addendum / I’d also like to thank the mighty Anne van Alkemade for stumbling across the competition in the first place and alerting our eager community. May your days be filled with fine wines and tasty cakes.

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  Che's Lovin' It.
  by James Lillis

  I think I’ll leave the interpretation open on this one. How do you interpret it…?

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  The Pinnacles
  by Anna Dillon

  The painting is based on a photo I took on Dartmoor a few years ago. The light was fantastic and I’ve expanded on that to create this vibrant landscape.

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  Headphones
  by MuscularTeeth

  Music is a great unifyer. / These headphones are networked. / Bring on the sound love. What it looks like; /

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  Dandylion Flight
  by zomboy

  silhouette art t-shirt design of mini men flying with the aid of the mighty dandelion! More zomboy shirts here: /

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  Mozart Men
  by zomboy

  Silouette art t-shirt design of men interacting with the infamous notes of Mozart. Sheet Music has been sourced from the second movement of Mozart’s Piano Sonata. More zomboy shirts here: /

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  Dandylion Flight - white silhouette
  by zomboy

  Silhouette art t-shirt design of mini men flying with the aid of the mighty dandelion More zomboy shirts here: /

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  The Domino Effect - Out of Order !!!!
  by Arrowman

  Kingston upon Thames – Surrey / One of the more unusual sights in Kingston is several disused red telephone boxes that have been tipped up to lean against one another in an arrangement resembling dominoes. This sculpture by David Mach was commissioned in 1988 as part of the landscaping for the new Relief Road, and is called Out of Order.

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  Horse Language
  by Elena Ray

• Inspiration: Painting with Light
  by community

  Light painting (otherwise known as light graffiti or light writing) is a photographic technique that involves slow shutter speeds, darkne…

  Light painting (otherwise known as light graffiti or light writing) is a photographic technique that involves slow shutter speeds, darkness and a little bit of practice and experimentation. And it’s not just some newfangled thing all the cool kids are doing. Check out this image of Picasso giving it a go back in 1949. Want to try it? If you’ve got the urge to scratch that creative itch or to try something new this week, why not set yourself a challenge? All you need is a camera, a tripod, a light source (flashlights, LED lights, matches and glowsticks all do the trick) and a dark location. These resources might also come in handy: Make Magazine’s Light Graffiti Tutorial Howcast’s Light Graffiti Tutorial (video) We’d love to see what you come up with so feel free to post your brand new creations in the comments below. For further inspiration, check out some of these talented light painting bubblers: / Holding Smoke by EricD / all the pieces by melidiaz / Hearts by Chris Richards / Haunted House by bensound And if you want to see more, head over to the Painting with Light Group ...

• Inspiration: Little Planets
  by community

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  When I first spotted Jódís Eiríksdóttir’s “A Little Planet” in the buyer’s booth I was mezmerised. I’d never seen anything quite like it. A little further investigation revealed that what I was staring at was a polar panorama. My next thought was “how did she do it?” I’ve managed to hunt down the following resources for those who would like to give it a try but you can find more online by searching “Polar Panorama Tutorial”. Basic ingredients include a digital camera to shoot your panorama and PhotoShop or Gimp to work the magic. If anyone’s had more experience making these then we’d love to see a tutorial or hear your hints and tips! Tutorial: Create Your Own Planets (PhotoShop and Gimp) How to make planet-like panoramas with photoshop Stereographic Projection is a similar technique which involves a bit more effort and a whole lot more maths but if you’re keen to find out more then try these resources: Stereographic Projection (wikipedia) Wee Planets Or you could just make yourself a cuppa, pull up a comfy chair and marvel at these wonderful images … / Lighthouse World by Digerati / Caloundra QLD Polar Panorama by Lars / Little Planet – Julianapark 01 Utrecht by mtths / Small world of Provincetown by Alyeska / Lonely Planet by Peter Marin And there are more over at the Polar Panorama Planets group …

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  Alone in the dark...
  by Hélène David-Cuny

  This was shot during a community assembly in a countryside village in Yemen. All the women were gathered (as were all the men in another part of the place) and discussing the problems of the community (water, school, hospital, road works, etc.), and a few little kids (pride of their mothers) were staying with the women, intimidated by the unusual crowd that day… Featured in Odd One Out / Featured in First Thing / Featured in The Human Condition Wins challenge Odd Person Out for group Odd One Out / Top 10 in challenge Odd One Out for group Odd One Out

• Inspiration: Tilt Shift Miniatures
  by community

  Remember the fun we had creating Little Planets? W…

  Remember the fun we had creating Little Planets? Well here’s another cool technique we think you might enjoy playing around with. Tilt shift miniature photography uses a technique where a tilt shift lens is used to make real life scenes appear as miniature scale models. / / The good news for those who don’t have the budget for an expensive lens is that this effect can easily be achieved using photo editing software like PhotoShop or Gimp (which is free). Below are some amazing tilt shift miniatures from around the web to get you inspired: / Keith Loutit’s time-lapse tilt-shift videos / Serpentine by Harald Kirr / Harvard Book Store by Azripal / Tiltshift, outside Waterloo station by Cloudsoup Keen to give this a try? The following links should help to get you started: Creating the tilt shift miniature effect in Photoshop or Gimp: Gimp tutorial PhotoShop tutorial by Alison Johnston Faking tilt-shift in PhotoShop by Martin Pot Using a tilt shift lens: Build a DIY Tilt-Shift Camera Lens Using a tilt shift lens Using a tilt shift lens (video) And just for fun … (purists – look away now): A website that will do it for you An app for your iphone that will allow you to achieve the miniature effect For more inspriation, look no further than these tilt shift miniatures from our very own talented bubblers: / US Open final … in minature by hazy / Sydney Opera House by Lorraine Creagh / Robin Hoods Bay, Tilt Shift by TallGuy / Monsal Head – The Peak District by Steven Lee / Minature Bangkok by David Goymer If you’d like to give this a go, please feel free to post your results below … and don’t forget to add them to the The Tilt-Shift Photography Gallery. Good luck!

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  Home Improvement
  by zomboy

  I have always been a fan of Escher – his sense of perspective and composition is just amazing. This design is based on his 1953 Lithograph called Relativity that depicts a paradoxical world in which the normal laws of gravity do not apply. I decided to put a twist on this, where the architectural structure is going through a ‘home improvement’ with the people giving it a once over with a coat of paint. Please note that the colour of the paint depends on the colour of shirt the design is placed on. The example below demonstrates what it would look like on a yellow shirt. More zomboy shirts here: /

• Mini Challenge: Typography Posters
  by community

  I’ve just spotted this wonderful poster (thanks to the decor8 blog) and it’s given me the itch to play with some…

  I’ve just spotted this wonderful poster (thanks to the decor8 blog) and it’s given me the itch to play with some type so I wondered if anyone else would like to join me in a very spur of the moment mini challenge? The task is to create your very own typography poster. You will need … Some great font resources: 40+ Excellent Free Fonts For Professional Design 30 Fonts You Want to Have DaFont 10 Great Free Fonts You Might Have Missed Some nice colour palettes: / palettes courtesy of colourlovers.com The file sizes for our posters: 2500×3500 pixels for the smallest print 3500×5000 pixels for the medium print 5000×7100 pixels for the large print And finally, some inspiration … / A selection from the Keep Calm Gallery / Keep it Simple by Seb Lester / Stop Destroying Our Planet from Make My Mood / a selection from ffffound And from our very own talented bubblers: / Birth of the bomb by Hingo, IPS Skylines by Ian Fleming, The Gift by Joey Wharton and I ReNted aN opiNion by Steve Leadbeater All you need now is a suitable collection of words and you’re away. Please post your results below so we can oooh and aaah over how wonderful they are. If you don’t have time to create one of your own, perhaps you can help us by posting some more inspiration. Good luck! / Nat

• Inspiration: Textures
  by community

  Another week, another creative project for you to get your teeth into. This time, the task is to create a work using textures. Wonderful …

  Another week, another creative project for you to get your teeth into. This time, the task is to create a work using textures. Wonderful effects can be achieved by adding a bit of texture to your works. From aged and worn looking photos to grunge typography and vintage and distressed t-shirt design, textures can be applied to nearly all types of art. Textures are added to images by creating extra layers in graphics programs like PhotoShop or Gimp and the best thing about the process is that there are no rules. You can experiment with multiple layers, colours and opacities to fine tune the results. You will need … Free textures and other resources: You can create your own textures by photographing textured surfaces such as wood or concrete. Alternatively, there are loads of websites with textures that are free for commercial use. These include: CG Textures Texture Warehouse There are also textures available from some very generous bubblers: Cameron Gray Johanne Brunet These links may also give you some ideas: 10 Quality and Free Grunge Brushes for PhotoShop and GIMP Five Free Hi-Res TTV Textures Vintage Scratch brush set / Tutorials: The following tutorials should help to get you started. Playing with textures (by Vanessa Pike-Russell) Grunge Text/Type (by Alison Johnston) Using textures in photoshop (by atrei) Add texture to a photo using Photoshop Adding texture using Gimp Adding textures to your photography (lots of great ideas) / More inspiration from RedBubblers: / There are more inspiring images over at the Layered with Texture group and the The Grunge Art Gallery. Please post your results below so we can marvel at how talented you are. If you don’t have time to create a work of your own, perhaps you can help us by posting some more inspiration or linking to your favourite examples of textured artwork. Good luck! Nat

• Inspiration: Split Images
  by community

  There’s something a little big magical about images that are divided into sections or frames. Often they contain imagery that fits togeth…

  There’s something a little big magical about images that are divided into sections or frames. Often they contain imagery that fits together to tell a story. There’s really no limit to how many times you can segment your images. Diptychs and Triptychs are images that have been divided into two or three frames but the style also extends to a whole bunch of other more inventive layouts including images shot with superssamplers. One of the biggest keys to making these images work lies in good composition. To help with this aspect, we’ve gathered together some basic resources which might be worth a read: The rule of thirds Design elements and principles Rule of Thirds Composition in Photography If you’d like to give this a go, here are some tutorials which should point you in the right direction. The technique is fairly straightforward so you should be able to apply these instructions to most software programs: Diptych and Triptych and a Tutorial Creating a Triptych in Lightroom Creating a Triptych in Photoshop And here’s a little inspiration from some talented bubblers: / There are more inspiring images over at the Diptychs and Triptychs group. Please post your results below so we can marvel at how talented you are. If you don’t have time to create a work of your own, perhaps you can help us by posting some more inspiration or linking to your favourite examples of split images. Good luck! Nat (pssst Mr Baxter has started a Picture of the Week feature over here)

• Helpful Journals
  by community

  Today we thought we’d feature some of the most popular, helpful journals from the history of the bubble. These journals have been comment…

  Today we thought we’d feature some of the most popular, helpful journals from the history of the bubble. These journals have been commented on and favourited by many artists and they contain great little nuggets of info that bubblers have found extremely useful. As a thanks to those who’ve taken the time to share these tips, we’ve featured some of their works in between the links. These bubblers are not only great teachers, they’re also very talented artists … / How to enhance your profile by Karin Taylor Format n found by accident by Webgrrl / Help for Redbubble members by Mel Brackstone Sixteen ways to increase your sales by Stephen Mitchell / Creating sets in your profile by Craig Shillington The easy guide to creating the Orton Effect using Photoshop by Peter Hill / How to do Infrared by Naomi Frost Exposure for beginners/ intermediate photographers by Mark German / Selective colouring – The cheat method by Julie Langford Vintage effect – simplified by Rosalie Dale Resolution, pixels, and DPI by davoid / / These journals come up when we type in our secret, magic formula for the most popular journals of all time. If there are any helpful journals you’ve bookmarked, we’d be grateful if you could share the links below. Or perhaps you’ll be inspired to share your wisdom in a journal of your own … Nat

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  Check
  by zomboy

  I have always admired the work of Escher. I have done a design based on relativity before. I always imagined what a game of chess would look like on this ‘board’ so here it is. See if you can find the check.

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  wall in your head
  by FritzSchumann

  this is really importan picture, made with the remnants of the berlin wall, at that place, where the first crack was done. I was born in east berlin, my parents were east. The wall fell when I was 3 years old, but my parents were still east. I grew up in east berlin, had eastern teachers and friends. For me, berlin and germany, was always one. but for them, it was always seperated. They tried to teach me that, but I didn’t listen. It was just annoying to me. I try to make all of mine frustration on that topic, and some critism, that this wall still exist in some heads 20 years after it fell, into a picture. during the time I made this picture, I was in love with a girl from westberlin – who rejected me. That’s probably one topic of this picture is love. / Those two people on the picture, my friends, were in love with each other at that time. Allthough they never got together. They never could confess their feelings. It’s just like there’s been this invisible wall beetween them. This was the first time, I could make one of my visions, my frustration, my feelings and other feelings into one picture. After that, I took photography more seriously. But at that shooting, I was just happy. I was finally able to say something, I always wanted to say.

• The Tent
  by RedBubble

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  I ran across this quote by a former Australian Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam. “A healthy artistic climate does not depend solely on the work of a handful of supremely gifted individuals. It demands the cultivation of talent and ability at all levels. It demands that everyday work, run-of-the-mill work, esoteric and unpopular work should be given a chance; not so much in the hope that genius may one day spring from it, but because, for those who make the arts their life and work, even modest accomplishment is an end in itself and a value worth encouraging. The pursuit of excellence is a proper goal, but it is not the race itself.” RedBubble has people with all levels of experience and talent. For me this is part of its richness. And in my experience many who start the creative journey discover gifts they did not know they had. I would put myself in this category. But what do people think? is there room in the creative tent for all who would want to enter? And what about work that is unpopular or uncomfortable, where does this fit? Pilgrim Attribution Jail Cell by MayYouThinkArt / Gough Whitlam by Valerie Sherwood / Rada 1 by Remus Grecu / Shy by Priscilla Rodriguez Quote is taken from The Obstacle Race by Germaine Greer (1979 edition). (And a bit of warning there will be s site upgrade for approx 1 hour from 00.00 1 October – GMT/UTC see here for your time.)

• The Vibe
  by RedBubble

  Hello! Today we’ve released our first ever ‘community guidelines’. The guidelines have been released to better communicate our think…

  Hello! Today we’ve released our first ever ‘community guidelines’. The guidelines have been released to better communicate our thinking on the nature of RedBubble. They provide guidance on the culture we’re fostering and the sort of behaviour that we want to encourage on RedBubble. Here’s the introduction: People are inherently creative. Deep down, most of us love to come up with new ideas, express who we are, or take a different perspective on the world around us. We see this in children. Remember chalk on the footpath, crayon on the walls, or a painting stuck proudly to the fridge with a magnet. Kids love stories, they love learning about new things, they ask obvious yet somehow overlooked questions. So why do so many of us lose this spark? Is there something about growing up that leads us to become wary of our creativity? Do we lose the creative ability? Or does it just get buried amidst the responsibilities, worries and priorities of adult life? Whatever the reason, RedBubble was founded with a burning desire to bring creative expression back to the forefront of our lives. The desire to nurture and encourage creativity permeates RedBubble – including the atmosphere and culture of the community. / / We’re firmly of the view that the best way to encourage creative exploration and expression is through positive reinforcement. A supportive and encouraging community can do wonderful things for someone who’s taking their first creative steps after a long hiatus. Or for someone trying out a new technique. Or for someone who’s shy with their work. / / RedBubble is also a place to be inspired, meet like minded folks, exchange ideas, learn, make friends and more. But the foundation of the community is it’s supportive and encouraging nature. / / And as you start, or continue, on you RedBubble journey please keep this in mind. / / Paul, Martin and Peter / RedBubble Founders The guidelines contain a lot of fine print (including details on the limits we place on behaviour and material). But the above quote provides a good sense of our overarching thinking. You can find the guidelines here I’d be interested in your feedback on the RedBubble community and culture. What does the community mean to you and how would you describe the culture? - Peter