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121 creative works found
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Playing with shadows here.
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Ink and tea stain on Fabriano Rosapina paper
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Love can be found in unexpected places! Also available in a horizontal format:
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My wife speaks Japanese, but I don’t. I hope she appreciates how much time it took me to find this in her Kanji dictionary. It must be love …
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Love can be found in unexpected places! Also available in a vertical format:
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Quote by William Wordsworth. Featured on The Woman Photographer group in May 2009
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Articles of Interest
by Stephen MitchellThere are so many tips’n’tricks, tutorials, enhancements and various other interesting articles listed around Redbubble. I’ve decided it …
There are so many tips’n’tricks, tutorials, enhancements and various other interesting articles listed around Redbubble. I’ve decided it is time to revitalise the articles I have written. / Why? Because so many writers are long-winded, overly-descriptive and their instructions are near impossible to navigate. I believe my documents cover the many issues necessary to run a successful redbubble gallery, allowing artists to successfully present their portfolio to all clientele. Linking Text and Images Advantage of Tagging your Uploads / ASCII Characters in your RedBubble Journal / Coding your RedBubble Journal / Embedding a Profile Banner / Linking Images in Series, Columns and Rows / Linking Photographs / Naming Your Art / Using Favicons in Your Profile Exhibitions, Marketing & Sales Add This To Your Cart / Making a Profit Because of Redbubble / Marketing and Sales / Running Sheet for Exhibitions / Sell, Give, Donate and Use Your Skills / Selling Your Art Successfully Photography DPI – Myth, Mania, or Massive? / DPI – Myth, Mania, or Massive? v.2 / Knowledge is Power / Two Crafty Ways to Become a High Profile Photographer Interesting Reading Consent for Photography Not Required in Australia / Correct Spelling on Mozilla Firefox / DPI Determines Resolution, Not Quality / Online Purchasing : Safe or Scary? / Playing the Popularity Game Without Caring if You Win or Lose / Tip for Answering Comments About Redbubble Advantage of Choosing RedBubble / My Redbubble Dictionary / Ode to Redbubble / Redbubble Breeds Winners This will be updated as I write more interesting articles and tutorials for your reading-pleasure.
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The Ring – a symbol of the eternity of Love with no beginning, and no end.
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My entry for the Quick Challenge at A T-shirt Revolution. The closest book I had to hand was the Collins Concise Dictionary – you did say “any book…”! / I flicked opened the book (at page 1199!). I’d opened it in the ’s’ section; I looked at the words and saw ‘Scalpel’ / The paragraph I chose: Scalpel (‘skælpel) n. a surgical knife with a short thin blade. [C18: from L scalpellum, from scalper a knife, from scalpere to scrape] Thought it was fairly apt for a couple of reasons really: / A) it goes well with the other Cut and Paste challenge at A T-shirt Revolution at the moment. And B) Scalpels and the blades are both made in Sheffield and I drive past the factory to and from work everyday. Detail /
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Mask (noun). / 1. Covering for all or part of the face as a disguise or for protection. / 2. Some kind of behaviour for pretension to be, passing oneself of as, impersonating, simulating or posing as. As long time Japanese antique collector I took masks of old Japanese theatre Noh and Kyogen for definition of this word… The date of man’s invention of masks is unknown, their use is certainly several thousands years old. It’s a fact that masks in one form or another have made their appearance in every culture shows how important role they have played in a human life. With the development of dance and true drama, masks became less primitive and more artistic. Immobility of a mask, which seems such a disadvantage when compared with the living human face, makes about it a certain air of the supernatural and fantastic, that’s why masks are widely used up to the present day. Among the people of the world who still actively use masks, the Japanese are in many ways outstanding. Let’s go back to 14th century when theatre No and Kyogen begins his history and the masks of this show became one of the finest dramatic masks the world has ever seen. I try briefly summarize the characteristics of the Noh and Kyogen masks. Mask of Noh is a mask of tragedy, mask of the Kyogen is the mask of comedy. A typical present-day No performance consists of five Noh plays, divided of three comic interludes of Kyogen, both the tragic and the comic elements being heightened in effect for the best contrasting result. Good and evil in Noh drama reflects these both sides of real life… In real life you also making choice between good and evil. Many people wearing masks covering their real personality, as a artists playing roles not really belonging to them and as final result ruining the life of themselves or others. Make a right choice between good and evil, take a right mask or even take it off, throw it away and be yourself.
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WORLD (noun) / 1. the universe or all that exists; everything. / 2. the earth, or a planetary body like it. / 3. secular interests and affairs. / 4. the earth, it’s countries and their inhabitants, all people. / 5. the earth as known or in some political respect. Some ancient beliefs that the world is born through the universe on the back of one or more enormous animals (such as a turtle in Native American creation myth), though these myths do not necessarily include an infinity aspect or multiple/endless layers of animals. In Asian religious mythology, the Earth was born by three elephants / which stood on the back of a giant turtle, symbol of the primitive oceans. In Hindu myth, the tortoise Chukwa supports the elephant Maha-pudma, which in its turn supports the world. In Chinese myth the tortoise also supports the world, its four feet being the four corners of the earth. Here is my modification of that old legends. World is all around us, around me. It’s my country and my beloved city. / So… it’s my world.
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Addiction (noun) / 1. The state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma. / 2. The condition of being habitually or compulsively occupied with or or involved in something. It’s about my addiction, addiction to collecting antiques. As any other addiction it takes you all, you don’t see anything around except antiques. You live in your own world and recognize only your treasures or things you need. / Like a mollusk you live in your shell, getting out just for short time, to catch something and get back to your habitation. When you, shell-fish, staying alone, you as The Merchant of Venice, Shylock can look at your treasures again and again, count them through the hours. So… addiction to collecting is a sickness, some kind of disease… but so pleasant disease. Thanks to: / skydancer_stock from deviantart.com for the “collector” / pacsaman from deviantart.com for the beautiful female image; / Lorivintage55stock from deviantart.com for the “jeweled elephant”;
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Score (noun). / 1. A usually numerical record of a competitive event; / 2. The act of securing an advantage, especially a surprising or significant gain; / 3. A grievance that is harbored and requires satisfaction; / 4. The written form of the composition for orchestral or vocal parts; / 5. The music written for a movie or a play; / And many other definitions in our life… Life is a competition. And in this competition, in this game with a name LIFE everyone has a SCORE. Sometimes your score is even more important than you. For some individuals your score is only a characteristic of your personality… Look around and you see what’s going on… Here is the mirror. It doesn’t like you and says: Get out, don’t look at me! Here are the people. They don’t like you and say: Get away, you’re damaging our landscape! Here is the person. He doesn’t know you and not talking to you. He has no any interest to you because he doesn’t know your LIFE SCORE… But somewhere are different mirrors, and different people, and different person. They will be able to see the most important things in your personality. And they will say: How wonderful are you, stay with us… Just find these people – it’s not so difficult… Life… competition… game… numbers… score… What’s more important than you, yourself, for yourself, and all around you… Thanks to: / 57mannequins from deviantart.com for this “little man” / thatestock from deviantart.com for the “torso mannequin”; / Falln_Stock from deviantart.com for the antique piano from the Texas museum. / The middle mannequin – from last Christmas window decoration of Bergdorf & Goodman store in New York
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Mannequin (noun). / Dummy, lay figure, manikin, artificial person, model of the body, “little man”. The word comes from the Dutch/German word “manneken” , literally meaning “little man”. “Mannequin” is the French form… I always knew that artificial people have their own secret life, hidden from our eyes. Like among us their life is a challenge. Everyone wants to achieve something, get a first place in life competition… But it’s a long line of competitors on that way and only one wins the first prize – the place in shop-window. May be it will be the best in line… may be not… Thanks to 57mannequins from deviantart.com for this “little man”. / The middle mannequin – from last Christmas window decoration of Bergdorf & Goodman store in New York.
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Magnification (noun) / 1. Enlargement, / 2. Increase. / 3. Amplification. / 4. Enhancement. / 5. Buildup. / 6. Strengthening. So many definitions just for looking inside yourself… May be it helps to find something interesting under upper layer… your skin.
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Featured in Graphic Editing 101 – Thank You / I am trying my hand at ‘text’ ural images LOL. I have just joined a lovely group known as The Visual Dictionary / The art work in the gallery there is stunning! Please go and check it out. It is hosted by Lydia Marano and Jill Ferry / Fantastic!!! This is my first attempt at this style, so pls feel free to give me a good old fashioned critique. Perhaps the text area is too big. That is one of my thoughts anyway. Thanks for looking! / /
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so the alphabet snakes can write on my skin
by bellmuskerMy dictionary woke me this morning.
Spoonerisms: a form of metathesis where consonants, vowels or morphemes are switched around. • “The Lord is a shoving leopard.” (a loving shepherd) / • “A blushing crow.” (crushing blow) / • “A well-boiled icicle” (well-oiled bicycle) / • “You were fighting a liar in the quadrangle.” (lighting a fire) / • “Is the bean dizzy?” (dean busy) / • “You have hissed all my mystery lectures. You have tasted a whole worm” (missed….history, wasted…..term). This piece was inspired by my profile page, and my ever present obsession with language, in all its spellbinding glory.
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Featured on a card… in a toaster… in the buyers booth This toaster object is now the winner of the Biblio Art competition run in Port Fairy Australia by Blarney Books and Art / read more here Artwork Description The interior mechanism of a vintage toaster has had a short, fake electrical cord attached complete with plug. Tied to the end of the cord near the plug are two folded paper pieces (a paper plane and a game of chance) made from pages of the German Dictionary. The Dictionary itself has been split in two and each half bound with nylon filament to keep the pages and covers together (creating two discrete blocks or pieces of “toast”). These have been inserted in the toast slots. Also in one of the toast slots is a booklet made from five original pages torn from the Dictionary which have German words written on them in pen and ink. The cover of this booklet is made from a scan of the real cover. This booklet has been duplicated in the form of a miniature zine which hangs from the exterior of the toaster as a swing tag. The zine represents a puzzle game in which all information is present to translate the German pen and ink writing (with some effort from the observer). Artist’s Statement A foreign language may be remote and weird to us while being normal and everyday in its native setting. We can laugh about, and talk in, silly accents, use “pretend” foreign language or be tortured by strict procedures in old school teaching fashion. The toaster transcends cultural differences and lives in every kitchen, yet retains a sweet attraction…a toy toaster is an appealing thing and retro toasters become objects of desire. Of course, the search for the perfect toaster-of-long-life is never ending…. In combining the everyday retro kitchen object (albeit in an unusual presentation) with foreign language the stage is set for investigation by the curious and playful. Combining graphic techniques old and new (pen and ink writing and scans of a 3 dimensional book) the object arrangement is completed – the addition of the resulting puzzle zine as a swing tag adds to the consumable image of the everyday kitchen appliance and allows the observer to participate in a timely word finding game.
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These are a few of the antique books I’ve come across rummaging around second hand stores. I have wanted to capture them properly, and what better way than with the viewfinder! “History 101”: is the inside pages of the red book at the bottom of this shot. Tweaking of levels and curves in this one, and crop of original image to a square. See here for instructions on how to create this image. Canon 50D / 18 – 55, 58mm / Macro filter / f3.5, 1/4, ISO 1600 / Ansco Rediflex / Home Made Darkbox Edited 11pm MCN: CQL3S-4RC7E-D3RGQ
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