February 6, 2007 | Category: Inspiration, Media | No Comments »

People keep asking me questions about life.

Summarized the questions are why, how and what?

And I always tell them. These are the top words in teenage poetry albums. But you have to face that teenagers like coffee and lets say the stock market are things which won’t stay hot forever. But speaking of forever, its obvious this takes some time. If you have time on one axis and the adventures you have taken on the other. With a mediocre amount of adventures, you will get a album full of pictures.

While a lesser amount only gives you a heart full of regret. A heart full of regret on the other hand may cause a serious quantity of pain, while leaving only little visible mark. Just compare it with a hickie, a gunshot or rejection.

Well you surely remember this rejection. The school party, where Mary was looking that pretty and that oversize suit from your brother that was when you thought thank you mom.

Mom also reminds me that hobbits, wizards and elves condemn you to not cross the borders of moms basement.

So you’re sitting at home, eating ice cream and you feel gross and you’re sitting at home but hey you can also drink beer gain some confidence, step into a socially awkward moment and feeling. I mean feelings mistakes and buts, these are things we dare to not bare in public. Thats life.

Life, Liberty, pursuit of happiness for this we have our 471 cable TV channels. These and Saccharine and pop ballads provide us with an unlimited source of artificial sweetness.

Dividing sweeteners into calories and tastiness would have chocolate here, a raw potato there, this is water and this would be her neck. But speaking of love which always needs maintenance. This would be Mary and this would be a puppy.

Interestingly puppy’s, goldfish and hamsters are a reliable source for where children actually learn the meaning of death. And you know death, taxes and Spam there’s just no way around it.

This is an obvious fact like the easter bunny’s, Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy are the first sources of religious doubt. Ah yes the Pope and also art and DVDs. Which have in common that reproduction is prohibited, but not impossible.

Reproduction is definitely impossible for all virgins. There are three types of virgins, A. Virgins by choice, B. Virgins by poor social skills and C. people who should be in group B, but claim otherwise for reasons of prestige.

Correlating prestige to time will give you a desired path and this is your actual career path. The difference is why you drink. But don’t worry there are two options regarding your relation between the actual content of the glass and the perceived content.

An interesting video by http://www.clemenskogler.net/

January 27, 2007 | Category: Inspiration, Media | 6 Comments »

The results are as follows, the standard original picture below left and the model after the digital makeover on the right.

A while ago I followed a Photoshop tutorial to smooth out skin on a photo image, you can check out the previous post photo-retouching-skin. My last attempt was pretty awful, poor girl looks like she has sunburn. So I had to have another try. Basically its a process which is not too dissimilar to the techniques used on photo’s for fashion ads and magazine layouts. Whereby certain parts of a photo are digitally modified or enhanced to make them appear more appealing to the target audience. Sometimes the modifications can be quite minor, they can also be pretty big with changes in shape to body parts, eyes, ears, nose basically once the image is digital there isn’t anything which cannot be modified and I’m fairly certain the average Joe isn’t quite aware of just how much every day images we see are modified in such a manner.

This time I followed this tutorial Mizuno’s Super Airbrush PP Tutorial which is a pretty darn kewl tut on airbrushing skin. I decided to use a different image for the tutorial and it is a stock image. Now I personally believe that both the woman in the tut and the image I have used did not need any PS help at all. Its just done for the sake of it and I’ll save my discussion on creating unrealistic beauty for a future post.

I did carry out a few extra processes on my version. One is the obvious St Tropez suntan (fake self tan lotion of course), the Dior eye liner and also the must have look for this fashion season, the hot rouge lipstick. For me its not a super polished end result maybe I’ll try a few others. Do remember regardless of whether beauty is on the inside or outside, beauty within fashion images is most definitely fake.

July 14, 2006 | Category: Funny, Inspiration, Life, Links | No Comments »

This is a tribute to the nice guys. The nice guys that finish last, that never become more than friends, that endure hours of whining and bitching about what assholes guys are, while disproving the very point. This is dedicated to those guys who always provide a shoulder to lean on but restrain themselves to tentative hugs, those guys who hold open doors and give reassuring pats on the back and sit patiently outside the changing room at department stores. This is in honor of the guys that obligingly reiterate how cute/beautiful/smart/funny/sexy their female friends are at the appropriate moment, because they know most girls need that litany of support. This is in honor of the guys with open minds, with laid-back attitudes, with honest concern. This is in honor of the guys who respect a girl’s every facet, from her privacy to her theology to her clothing style.

http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~jenf/writing/rant04.html

This is my tribute to the nice girls. To the nice girls who are overlooked, who become friends and nothing more, who spend hours fixating upon their looks and their personalities and their actions because it must be they that are doing something wrong. This is for the girls who don’t give it up on the first date, who don’t want to play mind games, who provide a comforting hug and a supportive audience for a story they’ve heard a thousand times. This is for the girls who understand that they aren’t perfect and that the guys they’re interested in aren’t either, for the girls who flirt and laugh and worry and obsess over the slightest glance, whisper, touch, because somehow they are able to keep alive that hope that maybe… maybe this time he’ll have understood. This is an homage to the girls who laugh loud and often, who are comfortable in skirts and sweats and combat boots, who care more than they should for guys who don’t deserve their attention. This is for those girls who have been in the trenches, who have watched other girls time and time again fake up and make up and fuck up the guys in their lives without saying a word. This is for the girls who have been there from the beginning and have heard the trite words of advice, from “there are plenty of fish in the sea,” to “time heals all wounds.” This is to honor those girls who know that guys are just as scared as they are, who know that they deserve better, who are seeking to find it.

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/phi/114087824.html