It starts with a rush through the veins… / The perfect location is unwinding around the corner. / We get out of the car, my head spinning…
It starts with a rush through the veins… / The perfect location is unwinding around the corner. / We get out of the car, my head spinning with so many ideas from my previous visit the day before.. / Clouds part and allow the beautiful warmth of the sun to touch every being. / Light is peering through the trees, falling and reflecting from the glowing couple, contrasting with the vivid green moss.. / “Click” the blood rushes, my heart flutters as this wonderful thing called love is captured in my little black box awaiting my approval and tlc in my image software.. / “Click” My hands are almost shaking from the scene that is unfolding before my eyes Is this real..? / Could people really be paying me to do what I love….?
Interview with writer Sometimes by StacyLee Som…
Interview with writer Sometimes by StacyLee Sometimes’ writings have a way of captivating the reader. His words wrap around your heart, and you begin to feel yourself melt. Inspiring? Yes. But that word alone doesn’t do his work justice. I had the pleasure of interviewing the twenty-six year old in order to figure what goes on in this talented writer’s head. 1. When did you first start writing? / I can’t remember. I think it was in high school, I was a part of a band that I wrote music for. After we went our separate ways, I continued to write. 2. What or who inspires you to write? / I guess I am inspired by my environment, the feel of the moment, or whatever is current in my life. 3. How would you describe your writing? / I don’t think that I can really describe it at this point. It is still a work in progress, but I read somewhere a long time ago “know the rules, break the rules, make your own rules and break those.” That is kind of my motto when it comes to writing if that helps any. 4. Who are your favorite authors? / Saul Williams / Dr. Hunter S. Thompson / Ayn Rand / Toni Morrison / Ralph Ellison 5. Ever thought of trying to get a book published? / I have tried in the past to be published without any success. I plan to continue trying in the future but as of right now, I am more concerned with developing this style. 6. Where do you see your work headed in the future? / Hopefully, I will be published one day and once that happens I can focus on taking it further. 7. How has your experience been with RedBubble so far? / I love RedBubble. It’s like a million people baring their souls. I think it was Joseph Chilton Pearce that said that in order for us to live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong, and here no one offers any apologies for the way that they choose to express themselves. Everyone that I have come across has been warm, welcoming, and just awesome in general. 8. Is there anything else you’d like to share with the bubble? / I love to sketch and draw a little and as soon as I can get my scanner working right I hope to join the visual art community. We look forward to seeing what comes next from Sometimes. In the meantime, I’d urge all of you to check out some of the writings he has posted. He has a very unique style, and I promise you won’t regret it! StacyLee
I’ve had a lot of people bubblemail me the past week or two asking me how to do this. So, I thought I’d write a journal explaining how. ...
I’ve had a lot of people bubblemail me the past week or two asking me how to do this. So, I thought I’d write a journal explaining how. / Go under “Edit My Profile” in the “About Me” section and type in the code(s): To insert a picture that clicks to another website or page: / ! yourpictureURL.jpg !:yourwebsiteURL.com There are NO spaces in the above code. That is exclamation point, website URL to the picture that should end in .jpg for most of you, exclamation piont, colon, the website you are linking the picture to. To insert ONLY a picture without it linking to a website: / ! yourpictureURL.jpg ! Once again, there are NO spaces in the above code. Add an exclamation point at the very beginning and end of the picture URL address that most likely will end in .jpg. Also, Webgrrl has a great list of codes here Bubblemail me if you have any more questions!
IT’S MY ANNIVERSARY TODAY and to mark the grand ocassion I am making my first ever rb journal entry. It is exactly one week today that I …
IT’S MY ANNIVERSARY TODAY and to mark the grand ocassion I am making my first ever rb journal entry. It is exactly one week today that I discovered Red Bubble and it has changed my life. Thanks to the wonderful Billy Lee, who wrote a great letter to the editor of an Australian art magazine to which I subscibe, and touched my heart enough to make me look up Red Bubble. Me, who hates computers and has often chided my adult children for having strange and unnatural “virtual lives” and “talking to strangers” on the internet. Me, who has been known to be quite grumpy at my darling husband Dennis for spending too much time sitting at the computer. Me, who never thought I could paint. The minute I entered the rb site I felt, like Alice i Wonderland, that I had fallen into some magical place full of kindness and creativity. I joined immediately. My husband is now complaining that he is a “bubble orphan” when he wakes up in the morning and I have already been up and bubbling for hours, or he waits forlornly for me to come and cook dinner, but I am too busy bubbling. He gazes at me in a perplexed manner as I demonstrate my newly invented Bubble Jig – the happy little dance I do when I’ve been bubbling. I had almost given up on painting for lack of encouragement, though my dearest Dennis is always very supportive. But I had begun to wither in my endeavours. I only knew one artist, who told me that artists and “arty types” in art groups and the like are to be avoided because they are riddled with jealousies, nastiness, competitveness etc. Imagine my utter delight to find rb proves that theory dead wrong. Thanks to BillyLee and Ginnymac especially, who made me feel welcome, showed me how to get started and accepted me from the very first minute…even though I wasn’t a “real” artist…that was a week ago when I wasn’t a real artist…I am now. Did my painting change and suddenly get fantastic and professional looking to make me into a real artist in a single week? No…what changed was my perception of myself through all the wonderful, kind, helpful and caring people I have met here. I am an artist because I feel like one in my heart, and the fantasic people of rb have taught me that. Thank you each one of you. So…on my first week anniversary…a huge thank you to all…especially Billy…to whom I am eternally grateful! I look forward to seeing all of your wonderful art, learning something new from you every day, seeing my own art improve and hopefully returning some of the kindness and support I have found here to others. Redbubble is an amazing concept…whoever thought of it is a genius. / Estelle
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one last thing before i start packing :) Recently Johdie and tazzae...
one last thing before i start packing :) Recently Johdie and tazzae were kind enough to answer some questions on their creativity :) and here are there answers. If anyone else wants to answer these, then ask others, feel free to! How does being a creative person and pursuing your creativity affect other aspects of your life? I can’t concentrate on real life, I think about art almost constantly. Perhaps I shouldn’t drive.. If I wasn’t creative.. I think my life would be very boring. When I was fourteen I was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue, I spent so much time away from the world.. all I could do was draw. I became obsessively creative (not in a crazy way) and art stopped feeling like a hobby; it was something that defined me. I’m quite a shy person and have always been just a little bit weird. I don’t say much but I think I express myself through my art and it seems to help people connect with me. It’s nice to be known for something and for people to be proud of me, despite not even being able to finish school. I can’t believe I wanted to be some sort of medical professional, or something dumb like that.. art is so much more fun. I think paint looks better on me than a white coat ever could. Tell us about one person or moment that has made your time on redbubble particularly special or meaningful There’s not really one particular moment, but RedBubble is certainly an encouraging environment. It’s good to know it’s not just my grandmother that likes my work. Everytime I sell a t-shirt it’s a surprise.. people actually want to walk around in something I’ve made? I was just happy to find a place to easily try my hand at design. Of course I was over the moon when the “In The Moment” publication came out and I had a piece in it, but even more so when a few people picked it out and said it was one of their favourites. I think I may actually consider myself an “artist” these days with a little help from everyone here. How does being a creative person and pursuing your creativity affect other aspects of your life? Creativity is a part of my soul. It acts as a guide, pushing me to look at things differently – not just in art. It is always such an amazing feeling to know that you’ve had some sort of a break through or new idea which you can then use to help extend you as a person. Tell us about one person or moment that has made your time on redbubble particularly special or meaningful I always find it fantastic to see artists grow and develop their ideas and skills. I love to look back to the beginning of someone’s profile and watch the gradual changes in their work as they go through life. One particular artist I think of is Catherine Doherty who started off with a multitude of pictures, experimenting in her photography. As you go through her profile, you can see her refining her skills up to the present day where she shows spectacular shots and water images.
bubble Doll™ is Gwen Lee. She is a master of blanket web2.0 marketing practices that see all the bubbleDoll™ virtual portals on the web…
bubble Doll™ is Gwen Lee. She is a master of blanket web2.0 marketing practices that see all the bubbleDoll™ virtual portals on the web light up whenever thee is a new design added to her collection. The super-kawaii brand, bubbleDoll™ is a cute and controlled documentary of gwen’s world. How does being a creative person and pursuing your creativity affect other aspects of your life? I find creativity wherever I am through observing the elements and principles of design within my surroundings. Creativity is important to me in expressing who I am. Being creative helps me to communicate my thoughts, observations, and express my mental or emotional states. When my thoughts become cluttered, illustrating, sewing, listening to music or writing becomes my outlet for expressing or organising these cluttered thoughts. Creativity has always been a part of me from a very young age. I loved illustrating and music as a child. There was one point in time when I totally lost interest in illustrating and became more interested and involved in music. Over that timeframe I was a musician playing in a band and orchestras. After my ventures in music I became a Visual Merchandiser and Ticket Writer. I then explored fashion and had my Jewelry Designs filmed and featured on models on a fashion show runway in Melbourne. Now I am back to revisiting and pursuing my interest in Illustration and I love it! Currently, with BUBBLE DOLL™ my creative focus is on Illustration and Graphic Design. BUBBLE DOLL™ is my iconic identity that represents my creativity. With BUBBLE DOLL™, I work on producing my own projects as well as working on client projects. Tell us about one person or moment that has made your time on redbubble particularly special or meaningful RedBubble is an awesome online community. Although I have not met or liaised with any artists through RedBubble in real life, it has been wonderful connecting and building an online rapport with many artists through RedBubble and on other sites including Facebook and Myspace. Show & tell us about five works on redbubble that have moved or inspired you There are many works by RedBubble artists that have moved or inspired me. I would like to share with you groups of works by artists with their illustrative styles that I love! Mikoto / Neapolitan Ice Cream / mikoto’s umbrella / mikoto’s ladybug / - Emphasis on its own iconic branding creatively incorporated into a theme / - Portrayal of irony with the juxtaposition of cute and evil / - Shadowing and highlighting effect techniques / - Character designs Big Fat Robot / The prettiest Pretty from Planet Pretty / Big Fat Robot eats Melbourne – blue with logo / Tiki Time / - Radiation effects from the center of a character / - Stylised line work, shadowing and highlighting effect techniques / - Character designs Karin Taylor / Chinese Red Fan Girl / “Citrus Siesta”http://www.redbubble.com/people/karin/art/1001444-3-citrus-siesta / Funky Mermaid / - Textures created with the repetition of shapes / - The visual balance and within each piece of work / - Colour themes ScarlettCat / Paper Aeroplane / Two’s Company / Miss Penny / - Minimal colourisation with colour emphasising facial features / - Surrealistic themes / - Character designs Oksancia / Green eyes portrait / Girl – Day / Little Monkey / - Highlight and shading techniques / - Surrealistic themes / - Character designs
“Creativity” talks with Metronomad! / ...
“Creativity” talks with Metronomad! / How does being a creative person and pursuing your creativity affect other aspects of your life? / Coming from humble beginnings in a small province of Palawan , one naturally learns to devise things that help live life a bit easier. I eventually learned early in my life to discover the many uses of simple things that we normally just take for granted. My father was our small town photographer. I have watched him processing his films and it eventually got me fascinated with the pictures coming out of the paper immersed in water. Anyhow, I had fun tinkering with his camera then. I didn’t know that it somehow would affect my creative life later on. I still remember the time I was so proud showing my father a drawing I did of a little prince when I was about 6 years old. (and I can read already by then, my family made sure that we do). He was all praises. I think that is one of many reasons that sustained my early creative life. Creativity affects my daily life. It’s the energy that springs from the roots of my being. It’s not just about creating nifty little pictures or illustrations but most esp. the art of going through life. The creative impulse is there. But surely, there are times when one feel drained of all this hullabaloo of everyday living. That is called living. The same creativity helps one see things with a different eye. Tell us about one person or moment that has made your time on redbubble particularly special or meaningful / There are many creative people on RB that truly makes this exprience really beautiful. But I have to mention one for the time being. I’ve known Michael from other photosharing sites. He’s the one directed me to Redbubble, and for that, i’m very grateful. It took me a while to sign up for redbubble, I thought it’s just another photosharing site. He was my first contact here when I signed up and he is also the very first Redbubbler i’ve met in person. I should mention the fact that Redbubble is the best creative platform i’ve ever been with. Redbubble, I hope our love-affair will last. ;) Show & tell us about five works on redbubble that have moved or inspired you / I cannot mention only five. Maybe by taking a look at my favorite artworks (the ones i’ve discovered so far) you will see the variety of works that inspire me. Thank you very much Lee for your time! / Jo O’Brien ’s idea Mission Share The Love
Many thanks to Amy-Lee Foley / for purchasing a card of ‘Keep Our Planet Green’!!! You h…
Many thanks to Amy-Lee Foley / for purchasing a card of ‘Keep Our Planet Green’!!! You have made my day, my friend!!! This is one I drew a long time ago, so I am a bit surprised you even came across it in my gallery….. :-) I appreciate that you like it enough to buy it…I so adore your art, and to have you buy one of my pieces is truly a compliment!!! Thank you from my heart, / Jan
I had an exciting 3 days, made 5 sales, 3 from RB and 2 from Zazzle :D I am thrilled to find out 3 of my works from RB were purchased fro…
I had an exciting 3 days, made 5 sales, 3 from RB and 2 from Zazzle :D I am thrilled to find out 3 of my works from RB were purchased from artists whom works I adore, cant thank them enough for their purchases and support! Do visit their galleries to view their unique offerings :D I want to thank Anita for purchasing a Chill Out laminated print! Anita’s going to give it as a gift to her niece :D Here are some of Anita’s fabulous pen and ink artworks! Time For Tea- Victorianna Mad Hatters Tea Party Three Blind Mice I want to thank Amy-Lee Foley for purchasing a card of Life’s a Boomerang Here are some of Amy’s sweet and whimsical works! :D Love Is In The Air Toys I Love You I want to thank Karin for purchasing a card of Phoebe In Klimt :D Here are some of Karin’s amazing artworks, sure to put smiles on your faces and hearts! :D Love Is A Big Hug Nature Girl a la naturale Heart Of Gold Also 2 sales from my Zazzle Gallery :D First Owl In Space Poster Print Chill Out Postcard Thank you to all who have commented and faved these works, my big appreciation for you guys too! ^ _ ^
/ thanks to everyone who voted (())) wow thanks to Lee Wilde...
/ thanks to everyone who voted (())) wow thanks to Lee Wilde“ / made the top ten in Who let the Fauves Out“ Emily and her Red Shawl!
I can’t talk about these filters in any sort of technical way, but I can explain what I bought, and how good they are at allowing you to …
I can’t talk about these filters in any sort of technical way, but I can explain what I bought, and how good they are at allowing you to shoot dawn and sunset without losing all your sky detail. I started off with a set of Cokin P filters. The filters sit in a plastic holder, that attaches to the front of your lens by way of an adaptor ring. The ring needs to fit the front element of your main landscape lens. When I used the Canon 20D the Cokin P was fine, with no vignetting, but once I bought the full frame Canon 5D, my lens had to be closed down to 24mm wide. This was unacceptable to me, since I like wide landscapes. Looking into various other filters meant spending quite a bit more money, however, all the reviews showed Lee filters to be ideal. There are a couple of companies here in Oz that sell them, and after wasting time ordering and paying in advance to an overseas company, only to find that they were out of stock, with no idea of a delivery date, I asked for a refund and contacted Mediavision in Sydney. Geoff was very helpful, and gave me a quote for a foundation kit, wide angle adaptor ring, a set of 3 neutral density soft graduated filters, and a full 0.6 ND filter. Postage was only slightly extra, and I had them in my hot little hands within the week. Geoff also sent a Lee catalogue. / Mediavision Australia / Sydney Office:- 4 Monash Road,Gladesville NSW 2111 / Phone:(02) 9816 4055 Fax: (02) 9816 1661 / Melbourne Office :- 22 Yertchuk Avenue,Ashwood Victoria 3147 / Phone:- (03) 9807 5133 Fax:- (03) 9807 7814 When I go to the beach, I take a bag with just filters and holder. They all have their soft cloth or soft vinyl bags, and it’s easier to slip them in and out of there without having to take off my backpack. Before dawn I’ll generally just have the adaptor ring and holder on the lens, with no filter. As the sun gets closer to jumping up from under the horizon, the filters are brought into play. Usually I’ll add the 0.6 first, if there’s not much cloud around, and once the sun has risen, the 0.9 will be added on top. The soft graduation means that you can slide the filter up and down, even slightly below the horizon, and it doesn’t leave a solid line. I haven’t been in a situation where I think I’d need the hard grad, to be honest. The holder turns easily if you wish to switch to portrait mode, just remember to turn it back when you go back to landscape mode! Because I live in Queensland where the sun is especially bright, all year round, it’s important to have these filters to make the most of a good sky. It’s near impossible to capture sky detail AND foreground detail without them. I don’t shoot in the daytime if I can get away with it, usually we pack up and leave the beach within 30mins after sunrise. I believe that you can still make good use of the ND grads all through the day, but I don’t have any real experience of that. Even shooting waterfalls can be easier when using ND filters, because it cuts out some of the light that might otherwise over-expose your image if you’re trying for silky water. The only problems we’ve all had is when the sea mist is particularly bad. In that instance we are constantly looking for ways to clean the filters, and still haven’t come up with a satisfactory solution. If anyone can help, we’d be much obliged! I hope this helps, as I said, not techy, but may be helpful for anyone looking to know what to buy….. cheers This has also been added to the tips and advice forum of All Seascapes Group forum
Thank you to the Bits and Pieces Group for featuring my St Mary’s at Ratho shot. *Click o…
Thank you to the Bits and Pieces Group for featuring my St Mary’s at Ratho shot. Click on the photograph below to see the shot properly: Also, thank you to the Everyday Life Group for featuring my The Almond Aquaduct shot. Click on the photograph below to see the shot properly: Thank you so much to the hosts of both groups for recognising my work, I appreciate the honour and the exposure. If you have not discovered them yet, then please check out these great groups to find some outstanding work. Tom
AND USING IT! A couple of weeks ago I went out on a shoot with my buddy Nick, and managed to leave the holder for my Lee ND grad fil…
AND USING IT! A couple of weeks ago I went out on a shoot with my buddy Nick, and managed to leave the holder for my Lee ND grad filters in the back of his car. I didn’t get a chance to get it back before I left for the roadtrip, so being the lazy person I am, I decided I’d just hand hold the filter if I needed to use it. pffft… Both of these images are straight from the camera, since I shoot med jpg and raw. This is what happens when I get too lazy….handling camera bag, tripod, camera AND filter, on a rickety pier…..I decided it was just too hard…. / So here’s the image without the filter….and most of the other shots I took that evening were as useless as this….also because I’d upped the exposure to +0.67! Sheeesh….check your screen Mel!!! Since I managed to settle into one position for a few seconds, I grabbed the filter, since I knew it WOULD make a difference….and I STILL hadn’t realised I was shooting two thirds of a stop over-exposed…...sigh….the filter at least has managed to help capture some detail in the sky…. / The moral of the story, don’t pay any attention to the idea that I might know what I’m doing here…...LOL
the Geelong Cats held their Members Brunch on Saturday morning, and I was lucky enough to be asked to take photos for them…. these are …
the Geelong Cats held their Members Brunch on Saturday morning, and I was lucky enough to be asked to take photos for them…. these are just a few of the images I took… 1 / / / 2 / / / 3 / / / 4 / / / 5 / / / 6 / / / 7 / / / 8 / / / 9 / / / 10 / / / 11 / / / 12 / / / 13 / / / 14 / 15 / / / 16 / / / 17 / 18 / / / 19 /
Currently I’m using Cokin P series filters but with my 10-22mm lens on my 40D I can only get to about 13mm before the edges catch the fil…
Currently I’m using Cokin P series filters but with my 10-22mm lens on my 40D I can only get to about 13mm before the edges catch the filter holder and I get bad vignetting. Also with the 5D I borrow from mum with the 17-40L I can only get too about 22mm. I’ve heard Lee filters are good and I’m thinking about lashing out and getting some, the website seems comfusing with so many different bloody choices. Then there’s two types resin and polyester? Anyone got any recommendations on a filter system for 77mm ring wide angle lenses that won’t vignette at all even at 10mm or 14mm respectively? If anyone has alternatives to Lee I’d be glad to hear out they seem pretty pricey, although I don’t mind paying if it’s awesome, does anyone know what the cokin Z series are like too?
Two features for Flavia…In Realist Traditional Art and 1on 1..The Fine Art of Portraiture / !http://images-1.redbubble.net/img/art/fra…
Two features for Flavia…In Realist Traditional Art and 1on 1..The Fine Art of Portraiture / / Flavia..Phenomenal Woman In Landscape Painting / / Winter Yesterday Thank you so much
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Firstly thankyou for this weeks features…. / Featured in Old Things – 2 per Day / / Featured in Country Bumpkin Thank you muchly kind hosts!!! I bought some cards! / It was a hard choice chosing some cards. I wanted to spend my prize money (from RedBubble mini Challenge) on a few of my favs…so I chose these following…. First of was one of Trudi’s Images but I can’t seem to find the image now!! lol By a louisegreen / By dawndavies / and this one I drew when I was 7. I will be giving it to my mum for her birthday in a few weeks. I wonder if she’ll recognise it?? ha ha Newman Update / Newman is still sick. He is still on anti-biotics and it looks like he’ll be on them for a few more weeks…what do I do? He is still coughing but not as bad as he was a couple of weeks ago. The swelling under his chin is still there. The vet has me massaging it every day. Been Busy / I have been busy this week with animals and cleaning up around the place before summer. Today I did a bit of burning off. I also sat on Missy, my 3-y-o welsh filly for the first time. LOL…she moved around a bit but she was okay. Hopefully she will be broken in before summer. We also put a bridle on Tinker for the first time. She took to it straight away!!! Why can’t all horses be this easy!!! lol… I made a new junk garden. If you havent seen it check it out. Junk Garden I also made a new photo story about my silly goat Izzy ‘tis all / Di & gang….
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Sauasage dogs T-shirt Thanks muchly to the mystrey buyer!!!! :)) / woo hoo :))
Hey Bubble Lovers, iv got an image of my self that i really really love, but i took the photo with my camera phone and its very dodgy! I …
Hey Bubble Lovers, iv got an image of my self that i really really love, but i took the photo with my camera phone and its very dodgy! I have tried my self to fix it up a little with photoshop but i dont have some of the amazing talent and skills alot of you Bubblers do, So if anyone would like to please sketch it or vector, or what ever you like with my image, i would be very very very very very happy :o) and i would love to purchase it! This the pic :o) / It was taken when i was traveling around Australia with my boyfriend in our van, sounds kinda grose but i hadn’t washed or brushed my hair for nearly two weeks, the beach was our bath and that feeling of freedom was just amazing :o) This is the original photo, but i love the black and white one better haha
Just a quickie for now guys. Several people have asked me how I did the following shot of my son Lee and the one of me (if you can remem…
Just a quickie for now guys. Several people have asked me how I did the following shot of my son Lee and the one of me (if you can remember) as the six amigos (now taken off the bubble) It was originally just for a bit of fun as I wanted to try out a technique I’d seen in a photo magazine and to be honest, it is fairly easy really and you should be able to do it with two or more shots. For example; a landscape shot of rolling hills and add a photo of you in front of them. I used Photoshop Elements 7 for this. This shot is a combination of several shots I took of Lee in our back garden, * LOL The hardest part is working out the continuity and the scenes have to be spot on even though in my shot if you look really close you will see discrepancies. However, it was just for a bit of fun and in this shot it was only the third time I have tried it. It helps if you have a tripod to stop the camera from moving and it is YOUR subject which moves to different positions NOT the camera. The camera stays in the same position always, fixed on the tripod. So think of the final shot you want to achieve first and then work backwards taking several shots of what you feel you can use even if you don’t use them all. I think I took 12 or 15 shots and just used the five you see here. In Photoshop open one of the shots, preferably a copy. Now open another one from the sequence you want to use. It helps if you do the background ones first, you’ll see why as you go along. Go to Layers Duplicate Layer then OK Then go to Lasso Tool and drawer around what you want, ie, YOU. I am saying YOU as an example to make it easier as we go along, in my case it was LEE. Go to Edit and then Copy which copies YOU to the clipboard. Then Paste onto the first photo – the YOU clip you copied will be placed anywhere on the photo when it is pasted so to move it into place click onto the move tool. You will be able to slide the clip of you into place now. Go to Layers Flatten Layers Go to Layers again Duplicate Layer then OK Now close the photo you copied YOU from and open another one and go through the same process as you did before. It helps when you do the photo shoot especially if it is outside if you can do the photos all at the same time frame to keep the sky, lighting, shadows etc the same in each shot. After you have copied all the shots of you and saved it as one photo, you will want to check; Any discrepancies in the shot and tweak it if needed, then go to; Layers for a bit of extra Contrast if needed. Then Huh and Saturation. Flatten Layers. Save as usual and there you have it *A fantastic work of art Even if you never use the combined shots (which would be a shame) it really is a lot of fun. And it may seem hard here as I have explained it (and there may be other ways of doing it) but give it a go you’ll see your creativeness go up a notch. Thanks for reading and good luck and most of all remember, HAVE FUN.
Ok… so some of you already know that my Mr got back into skateboarding about 5 years ago after about 15 years and took to it with more …
Ok… so some of you already know that my Mr got back into skateboarding about 5 years ago after about 15 years and took to it with more passion I’ve ever seen him have before for something. During Luke’s re-ignition of his passion for skateboarding… I started getting intrigued and interested in the skate culture, especially that surrounding the old school 80s & early 90s pro skaters. We watched documentaries, read biographies, and slowly just got more and more interested and entertained by the culture of the sport. And then one day I came across this Tony Alva Inca Blanket new release deck online and just fell in love with the color and design and just had to have it! (It’s just so my style). It’s now hanging in my home office. / So that was the deck that started our little collecting obsession. I think we loved collecting and talking about it all most cause it was something we loved doing together. The Sean Cliver book Disposable became like a bible to us… we poured over the pages of colourful and cool designs talking about the decks, the designs, the companies, the politics and the skaters. (it’s really quite surprising when I think about how intrigued and entertained we were by it all!) So following is the rest of our little collection we managed to accrue in 2007 & 2008. It’s definitely not top range (couldn’t afford to pay a couple of thousand per deck… yet ;) and we didn’t focus on only certain companies, designers or skaters. All the purchases that I decided on were based pretty much purely on the graphic then on investment . Luke’s decisions were based either on emotional reasons… or investment. So most of these photo’s below were taken by the previous owners from which we purchased… there were just a few that I searched for on the internet to give an example cause I didnt want to unpack them out of storage and lug them all out for a quick photo shoot – although I will one day. Some are much more valuable in collectable terms than others. / To give you a quick rundown on terms I’ll use… NOS = New old stock (in this instance these are decks from the 80s or 90s that have never been ridden and are still classed as being in mint condition, unless otherwise stated) New Release – These were new releases to the market when we purchased… although today all are no longer available for sale. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Gator Fishlips – NOS (mint) / I completely fell in love with this design. I think it was the sleekness of it and the natural stain with the gorgeous colourway stripes behind a simple and cartooney 7 elevan cup (it reminds me of vector a lot). After I fell for the design… we then found out this was Anthony Rogowski’s (Gator’s) last ever pro deck, before he went to jail for murder. Actually, Gator helped design this deck around the time of the murder. It’s really frightening and quite sad… cause the deck & company really didn’t have a chance. Gator going to jail pretty much sent the new and potentially rising, Fishlips Skate Company down the gurgler. We were pretty shocked to see later too.. that our first purchase of the Fishlips made the infamous and very entertaining ebay watch list for Aug 2008 So turned out this deck is quite rare .. so much so, that when another in different colourway came up not long after from St Louis, USA, at a fabulous price, we just couldn’t help ourselves! / ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Powell Peralta Lance Mountain Family” – NOS (mint) Bought this mainly because it was at such a great price… and because at the time our son was only 4 and we liked the idea of Lance’s son doing the design for his Dad’s pro model. Turns out again… that our purchase stood out to the writer’s of ebay watch in Sept 2008 / ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Sims Eric Nash Bandito – NOS (mint) This purchase was completely emotional (later turned investment). Luke saved up when he was just 13 years old to purchase his first ever pro deck. Being a 13 year old… he found himself attracted to the Eric Nash Bandito and purchased it (we have photo’s of him, fresh faced, 13 years old doing pretend airs on his brand spanking new Eric Nash). That original deck of his sadly got ruined over the years by over use by Luke and his family… so he decided he just had to buy a NOS version of his first ever purchase… for sentimental reasons. When we read up on the Eric Nash designs we saw that there was the first Bandito print run that came out briefly and was removed from sale because many people believed the smoke on the deck read F&#k You instead of Eric Nash. It was promptly removed and printed over, with not many of the originals surviving. So to make the purchase more of an investment we decided to go for that one…. which we got in Sept 2008. Again.. this purchase made ebay watch much to the displeasure it seems of the guy that writes it :) / ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Bod Boyle Santa Cruz – NOS (mint)* / This purchase was completely all me… I just really liked the graphic pure and simple for the way the dragons came together to make the face as well as the stained glass effect (My Mum used to be a leadlight teacher and I admire anyone who has the patience and talent to do such an artform). Bought it from Pennsylvania, USA for a good price. / ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Vision Gator Swirls – NOS near mint / Luke had a thing for the Vision swirls for some reason. They would have to be one of the most famous and well known designs of the 80s… and collector wise… tend to hold their value. He has two of the early old school swirls, a natural and a green. He has a Gator Ank version too (not in red like below… but with a natural background). The first picture below is actually one of the Swirls he bought. He took off the horrid fluro pink protectors & the really crappy wheels & trucks and now has a good collectable deck. / (you’ll notice the graphic below is a little … off… Luke mucked around with it in photoshop one day and saved the changes by mistake.. it was the only image I had of the deck to use here… so just ignore the colouring in part) :) ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Jason Lee New Releases 2007/8 One of both my & Luke’s favourite shows is My Name is Earl and I love the film Almost Famous which he plays the lead singer. Many people actually don’t know Jason Lee (who plays Earl) is in fact an amazing pro skater from the early 90s! He was one of the first pro skaters for World Industries and then Blind. So when I found out there were new release Stereo decks that featured Jason’s own photography I hunted them down (cause I love photography… and because I hadn’t seen decks with photography printed on them at that time). This one is a limited edition 2002 release, signed and numbered by Jason Lee on the top of the deck (no. 89 of 241) It’s a photograph of Los Angeles.. and printed between the photo’s is his own words. / And I bought this full series of photographs that Jason Lee took on road trip. The tree is in Yosemite, the train is in Benicia, California and the other is Highway 58, California. All are in brand new mint condition in shrink and they too will be hanging in my office soon (problem I’m finding is though… two are vertical and one is horizontal… so might have to hang one seperate). ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Krooked Guest Deck. Jason Jessee New Release – Art by Gonz / My choice again. I think Jason Jessee is funny & I liked this deck even more too because the design was created by another old school skater, who is also an artist – Mark Gonzales (Gonz). Brand new in shrink, this one was a 2008 limited edition (200 printed) The artwork is based on Jason Jessee’s first Santa Cruz Neptune Deck. Purchased from New York. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Sean Cliver – Set of 2 Supreme Kermit Decks – New Releases Sean Cliver is the writer of the book I mentioned above. I do think he’s a very talented artist. These were Luke’s choice. He loves em. These came with matching stickers. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Mike Vallelly World Industries Barnyard. New Release We could never ever afford a legit NOS version of the Barnyard but Luke wanted a representation of this important old school deck. It’s a Cease & Desist 2008 new release re-issue. It’s an important and famous deck because famous freestyler, Rodney Mullen left Powell Peralta to start up his own skate company called World Industries with his best friend and fellow pro skater, Steve Rocco. / One of the most popular skaters at the time, Mike Vallely took a big gamble to leave the huge, well established and famous, Powell to become World Industries first pro skater. / And this deck’s shape was designed by Mullen who is not only a legendary skater but a bit of a genius. He uses physics to work out the amazing tricks he can do. He designed the double kick deck shape which had never been seen before and the Barnyard was the first product ever to be released in this new shape by World Industries. This deck revolutionised the skateboarding world. / ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ We have a few other more recent releases but I didn’t want list em cause I’ve already rambled on forever! So that’s the highlights of our collection (was alot of fun to do together… but also good to know that it’s an investment). And now that the sequal to Sean Cliver’s Collectors book is now out.. Luke and I are getting a little worried we may not be able to help ourselves from buying more! :) But it will have to be an amazing deal to suck us in or a very special deck… because we’re running out of storage space and bank account space for em :)
Came across a truly brilliant Aussie animator recently… James Lee! I highly reccomend watching all his short films on his website..
Came across a truly brilliant Aussie animator recently… James Lee! I highly reccomend watching all his short films on his website.. especially the fantastic Pop Star short. Definitely an artist to keep an eye on. Tar Boy is his latest dynamite short film. The soundtrack…the animation… the deeper meaning… everything just works beautifully!! (you can double click on the youtube film link below to be taken to youtube to watch it full screen for full effect, as well as to give him a rating, a favourite and a subscribe perhaps) www.tarboy.com
My Featured Work for 2009 / Thanks heaps peoples :)) !http://images-0.redbubble.net/img/art/cropped/size:xsmall/view:main/4376542-3-...
My Featured Work for 2009 / Thanks heaps peoples :)) Challenge Wins 2009 / /
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