This is a portrait I drew using graphite pencils. I then scanned it into my computer and made a few additional touch-ups on the PC. My boyfriend does Aikido, so he loves it!
Gediminas, the founder of Vilnius, the Capital of Lithuania. He was a cosmopolitan who opened the gates of the city to everybody, regardless of nationality, race or religion. In the 14th century, Vilnius was one of the most developed cities in Europe. It had one of the first universities in Europe. Story tells that Gediminas decided to establish the city after seeing in his dream a wolf howling at the top of a hill. I have not read any explanation for this story, but my guess is that Gediminas interpreted his dream as a sign to call all kinds of people to develop a better city. In the same way as a wolf howls to gather his pack.
This is one of my dogs. His name is Humphrey. Our mission here is to provide smiles to each person who looks at the pictures in this bubble,a service in the name of dignity,empowerment and self reliance to the non drug addicted. Did I mention quality of life and socioeconomic equality to those dependeant on welfare programs. here you will find a series of dogs, cats, flowers,experimental stuff,friends,family,strangers,events,whimsycal,spiritual and quayzai erotic and anything else That floats my boat. hopefully your boat will be floated along with mine. my heart is to abandoned peopleand animals alike. Ten cents will go to livingwaterslowell.org. It is also my pleasure to say another ten cents will go to a missionary to cambodia. she an Assembly of god associate named sandy adamson. In closing please make requests.I welcome critiques. this keeps me on a constant scavenger hunt and improves my knowledge / skills.
So everyone knows a little more where we stand, and what is happening with “the polyvore affair”, I will post here the “communication” th…
So everyone knows a little more where we stand, and what is happening with “the polyvore affair”, I will post here the “communication” that has happened between “them” and I. I personally am not done with this. I want Polyvore to respect ALL Artists’ copyrights. Here is a collection of what was said and done, at the end of this writing, I will explain what remains. It is not over yet. / _____ @Polyvore, I am really concerned about the fact that you have dissabeld your own tags, and thereof, you can no longer find new works that are being directed to your site. / I can proove very well that I can still upload pictures form redbubble to your site. / I just did it once again… / I chalenge you to take your own responsibility and find the works that I have uploaded… (as you would have to find lost works that are just still around on your site.) you are the one(s) in charge of your own network, it is for you to fix the mistakes that you have allowed to be produced here. / Perhaps you should also think about removing all works from other similar sites (but I think that it would be much easier on you to tell your members to upload their own products from their computer… If they have copyrights (like we do here) they must have it on their own computers. When I started to be a photographer, I did it on my own time… I did not “steal” any equipment nor copyrighted materials from more experienced people. How can we teach our children to be their own selves if we can’t even let them produce their own works? What is the message you want to carry? But let me tell you that if you can find my work, and you do remove it as soon as you do, that means that you can do the same with ALL of our works… this is YOUR responsibility. It is disgraceful to see that you allow young people to upload “anything” to your site, and then wash your hands clean of it for letting the whole world use it. I am very deceived. and I demand that you do no longer allow ANY directing from other copyrighted sites… I am watching you, and there are a few people that are too… you just won’t always know who we are… nor which site we come from… deviantart, redbubble, photobucket… or any other sites… theft is theft, and it is not acceptable to profit (in any forms, and you sure do profit from getting original works to be played with to attract your clients.) Please do not sing me a sweet song, for you haven’t even replied to half of us through our complaints… I want to be kept updated here as to know what it is you are doing to ensure our rights. Crokus Label, creator of the petition to which you didn’t really reply but to cut and paste your message from here to there. We have a petition of 181 + yourself there, that states that WE want it all removed. It was your mistake in the first place. Fix it. Show the young ones on your site that one must take responsibilities for their own actions. It might help them trust adults, and learn to accept their responsibilities too. Work on changing how your images are getting on your site(get them to upload from their own computers), because I promise to not give up the fight, and I am willing to go to any length to achieve the respect of our copyrights. Our copyrights MUST be respected anywhere. Redbubble memebers or not. Copyrights are OUR rights as artists, anywhere we be. Regards, Crokus Label Photography, creator of the petition to which you should probably look at carefully, for we are many to ask you to remove our works, and not allow it to be posted on your site. So I leave you to the cleaning up of your infringement mess, and I will be back in the morning to see if our petition was well understood. (I too will be copying and pasting this elsewhere so everyone knows where all this is at now.) __ Polyvore, I am somehow deceived as how you have been avoiding me. My account was deleted yesterday and reinstated today (I never have been abusive in my journey to copyright assertion. So I assume this is why you reinstated my account on your site.) Now, I would have thought that you would have got something to reply at least in one of my messages/requests. But even after sending you messages to your site, messages here and on the other thread here at RedBubble, and a link in your Bubblemail to let you know I had left you a message in both threads, you never respond to ANY of my writings… And that either in private. I am still looking for explanations of how things will be handled from your site to stop this violation of copyrights. Still waiting for you to give me a sign of life. Crokus Label Photography. Crokus: i just replied to your bubblemail. As of last night, we have blocked imports from redbubble.com (because redbubble.com staff requested that we do so). You managed to import your image before our site software was updated with that change. We have taken down your image and sets that you mentioned in your message. (Although, we did not understand why you uploaded something only to request to have it removed a few hours later). As we have mentioned several times: we would be happy to comply with take down notices as long as they come from the person who owns the rights to the image and lists which URLs need to be removed. Please allow a reasonable amount of time for us to respond to your request (we usually respond in a few hours, but please allow 24 hours before you hit the panic button). Also, please note that different people have different opinions about how their images should or should not be used online. We would be happy to service group take down requests as we did with RedBubble.com but please don’t send us request to take down all image from site X unless you are sure everyone affected shares your views. I hope this is not construed as lack of cooperation or respect on our part. I hope I answered your questions. _ Polyvore, I have uploaded these to see how your site was “working,” and what will happen with my images, so I precisely know what and how to make sure copyrighted images are not still being used. As for standing up for all artist that have their rights to copyrights of their own material, I can not stay there and do nothing about it, for copyrights are made to be respected, and the very big majority of your images were taken on the net “randomly” by users that do not have them rights; Therefore, I will maintain my position at asking that everybody’s copyrights be respected. If you do not remove them you might have to deal with the consequences of your “inactions”… Most people form other sites can’t ask you to have their works removed, for they are not even aware that they have been imported there. It would only be fair to refuse to respect their copyrights because you believe that they should all come and warn you to remove stuff that they do not even know is on your site. Copyrights are made for EVERYONE to be respected, and I do not believe that when you say that everybody has a different opinion on the issue, you seem to forget that copyrights are the same for everyone, and that includes your site. By refusing today to take care of the real problem, you expose yourself to lawsuits in a near or far future. I must say that you have made some great efforts to remove to remove redbubble’s member’s works, and I appreciate this. I would really appreciate if you would let us know how you will make your best so your members really understand what are copyrights, what consequences there might be to infringe them, and what changes you will/might make in a near future so all artists/photographers works be protect as best as you can. Thank you for this first reply, I appreciate that you finally found time to respond to part of my concerns. Crokus Label _ What do you think? I am not done… but let’s keep pealing the onion… ;) (here are some key words so people can find this form a search engine: polyvore.com, polyvore, action, copyrights, rights, copyright, internet, infringement,Pasha Sadri, violation, fraud, theft, thief, mission, respect, honor, ceo, founder, community, innovator, thieves, scandal,blog, concern, concerned, Unite, unity, help, violator, law, trust, refuse, refusal, blame, )
Macro of Washington’s face with a tear falling down his cheek.
...WHO IS HE? portraits
Jigoro Kano – Judo founder
Namibian Adventures with Wild at Heart Adventures © Mark Hannaford
Founders Theater Fountains Hamilton New Zealand
The principal photographer for Anarchist Athlete Sports Photogrpahy and Anarchist Athlete founder Jason Harding captured in the park at Perisher Blue. 2007.
I’m considering sending in an application to start a group for Point and Shooters – Photos taken with digital point and shoot cameras onl…
I’m considering sending in an application to start a group for Point and Shooters – Photos taken with digital point and shoot cameras only. There’s only one group similar that I can find and it’s for compact/small cameras and film cameras. I think the P&S would be a little different since not all P&S cameras are small and compact and this would be for digital only. Sooo, I’m looking for someone to be a co-founder to help with the group, providing it goes through and gets accepted. :) Sooo, this is an ad…lol. Anyone who might be interested, let me know!! :)
Founders Lodge at Sky Lake United Methodist Camp and Retreat Center.
According to the ancient legend, Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, was founded by three brothers, Kyi, Schek and Khoryv, and their sister Lybed, at the end of the 5th-beginning of the 6th centuries. The city was named after the eldest brother Kyi. Kyiv means the city of Kyi. / /
Good old summers, when love stories didn’t need to be censored, and ‘peak oil’ was an oxymoron.
Shot in Adelaide on North Terrace. One of the founders of the University, and its first donor. / Nikon D300, 80 – 400mm at 105mm, f/5.6, 1/200 sec, ISO 500. /
Siddhārtha Gautama (Sanskrit; Pali: Siddhattha Gotama) was a spiritual teacher in the northern region of the Indian subcontinent who founded Buddhism. He is generally seen by Buddhists as the Supreme Buddha (Sammāsambuddha) of our age. The time of his birth and death are uncertain: most early 20th-century historians date his lifetime from c. 563 BCE to 483 BCE; more recently, however, at a specialist symposium on this question, the majority of those scholars who presented definite opinions gave dates within 20 years either side of 400 BCE for the Buddha’s death, with others supporting earlier or later dates. Gautama, also known as Śākyamuni or Shakyamuni (“sage of the Shakyas”), is the key figure in Buddhism, and accounts of his life, discourses, and monastic rules are believed by Buddhists to have been summarized after his death and memorized by his followers. Various collections of teachings attributed to Gautama were passed down by oral tradition, and first committed to writing about 400 years later. Early Western scholarship tended to accept the biography of the Buddha presented in the Buddhist scriptures as largely historical, but currently “scholars are increasingly reluctant to make unqualified claims about the historical facts of the Buddha’s life and teachings.” /
Copyright © Colleen G. Drew John Neely Bryan, the founder of Dallas. His cabin is located in Founder’s Square in the city of Dallas, Texas.
Okay – enough. This is not a balanced or constructive discussion. When one contributor tries to present alternative perspective s…
Okay – enough. This is not a balanced or constructive discussion. When one contributor tries to present alternative perspective she gets told she’s got an awful mean streak. The discussion is more akin for a mob baying for it’s perspective to be heard and there’s little attempt to listen. We have made a decision – we’re not reversing that decision. We think the issue here was black and white – many of the contributors to this discussion disagree. I don’t think we’re ever going to agree. I have done the posters in the thread the courtesy of reading ever post and we will reflect on how we can better communicate our decisions and policies in the future to improve the sense that things are fair on RedBubble. RedBubble is free and you are free to leave if you don’t like the way we’re running the site. We’re human and if you view this decision as a mistake I can guarantee you that we will make more mistakes in the future. I’m actually surprised that more of the serial complainers don’t leave. There are lots of other places out there on the interweb similar to RedBubble. Find one that suits you. I’ll list the ones that I know about: Zazzle, CafePress, ImageKind, etsy, DeviantArt and I’m sure there are many more. RedBubble should be fun and enjoyable. If it’s not fun have a think about why you are here. And finally let’s keep thing in perspective. Some of the posts here were written like Helen died … no one has died. A decision was made to close an account – Helen is still around in life. You can still contact her. The views she espoused will still be found on RedBubble. There will still be debate and controversy on RedBubble.
A pencil tribute to the Masters and Founders of the Martial Arts by Allan Youl of www.alleycatsgarden.com
Masters and Founders of Martial Arts calendar
I don’t really know how one promotes a calendar on redbubble, This seems to be one possible way. Please have a look, it has been a v…
I don’t really know how one promotes a calendar on redbubble, This seems to be one possible way. Please have a look, it has been a very very long project. But lots of fun. / Masters and Founders of the Martial Arts / thanks / Allan (Alley Cat)
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