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In a full Stewart Clan Tarton Kilt, "Amazing Grace" on bagpipes, Memorial at RAF Lakenheath
york photo
Image by Beverly & Pack
In a full Stewart Clan Tartan Kilt, Norm Taflinger, 3rd Air Force, RAF Mildenhall, plays "Amazing Grace" on the bagpipes as part of a memorial held at RAF Lakenheath. The memorial is in memory to the victims of the September 11th terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in New York and at the Pentagon. Hijackers deliberately flew civilian airliners into the buildings, killing themselves, the passengers and thousands on the ground.

II Divo, "Amazing Grace" This video always tears me up when the bagpiper begins to plays. I hope you enjoy it.

A wonderful history to "Amazing Grace" can be found on Wikipedia.

Lyrics to "Amazing Grace"
by Englishman John Newton
(1725-1807)

"Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me....
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now, I see.


T'was Grace that taught...
my heart to fear.
And Grace, my fears relieved.
How precious did that Grace appear...
the hour I first believed.


Through many dangers, toils and snares...
I have already come.
T'was Grace that brought me safe thus far...
and Grace will lead me home.


The Lord has promised good to me...
His word my hope secures.
He will my shield and portion be...
as long as life endures.


When we've been here ten thousand years...
bright shining as the sun.
We've no less days to sing God's praise...
then when we've first begun.


"Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me....
I once was lost but now I’m found,
Was blind, but now, I see.

Thumbnail Alice

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Thumbnail Alice
photo albums
Image by Thomas Hawk

Cool American Photo images

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White Pelican - White Rock Lake
american photo
Image by TexasEagle
An American White Pelican in flight over White Rock Lake in Dallas on October 24, 2010. Large Size

In the DFW area we are having very cold temps in the teens and wind chills hovering around zero. It will likely continue until about Saturday. There is still a lot of ice on the roadways and the possibility of a little more snow on Thursday night. The high demand for electricity has resulted in rolling power outages of about 20 minutes at at time every five hours or so.


Modern Mechanix - Wife Swapping (Jan, 1959) ...item 2..Sin in the suburbs (1964 Joseph W. Sarno) - "Number 305" ...
american photo
Image by marsmet551
But what of our American society, with its ideal of monogamy and fidelity in marriage? How common is the exchanging and loaning of wives among us? And why?

For one thing, it is more common than most people seem to think. Nor is it limited to men who seek a change of bedfellows. There are women, too, who desire such “swaps” and who take the initiative in arranging them.
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Yesterday's Tomorrow Today ...

WIFE SWAPPING (Jan, 1959) ...

blog.modernmechanix.com/wife-swapping/

WIFE SWAPPING

Is it possible to combine desire for variety in sexual relations with the maintenance of a stable, happy marriage?

by Edward Dengrove, M.D.

FROM time to time one reads in the newspapers reports of cases such as that of the Percy Radfords and the George Hauses, of St. Louis, Missouri. These two couples, after a friendship of four months, decided they’d be happier married to each other’s partners. At the time the swap was made, one couple had been wed for some seventeen years, and the other for almost five.

Accomplished as it was, through divorce and remarriage, this trade of spouses had legal sanction, as well as the attention of the press. But there is a lot more such swapping than the newspapers ever discover, because most of it exists on a sporadic basis and does not end in divorce and the remarriage of the alternate couples.

Just recently, for example, I learned of two young men, instructors at a large university, who lived quite circumspectly, each with his own wife, during the academic year. The two couples spent summers together in a cottage they rented jointly, where they split up, each man spending the vacation with the wife of the other.

When this unconventional arrangement was brought to the attention of the university officials they responded with about the degree of enthusiasm you’d expect, and both men were hastily fired.

Had the two young couples been members of the Banyankole tribe of Central Africa their exchange of mates would have inspired neither comment nor disapproval. Among this people, as among the natives of the Hawaiian Islands, it was the custom, when a man and his wife visited a friend, for the couples to exchange wives for the duration of the visit.

William J. Fielding, in Strange Customs of Courtship and Marriage, tells us also that, when the Himalayan mountaineers became disgusted with their mates, they would exchange wives, in the hope that this would improve their domestic lives.

But what of our American society, with its ideal of monogamy and fidelity in marriage? How common is the exchanging and loaning of wives among us? And why?

For one thing, it is more common than most people seem to think. Nor is it limited to men who seek a change of bedfellows. There are women, too, who desire such “swaps” and who take the initiative in arranging them.

The temporary exchange of mates is sometimes merely a device to provide variety in the sexual life. We have been somewhat acceptant of the idea that desire for change is a natural desire among men—perhaps no one was too surprised when Dr. Kinsey revealed that three-quarters of the men interviewed for The Sexual Behavior Of The Human Male said they sometimes wished to have relations with women other than their wives. And the Kinsey report disclosed that at least one-half of all married men realize that wish.

As the Kinsey report on women showed, that wish is not solely a male one. One of every four women interviewed had at least one extramarital affair by the time she reached her fortieth birthday. And all the evidence would indicate that there are many more who sometimes hanker for a husband other than their own.

Often, the desire for another person’s mate, and the willingness to trade one’s own, arises from far more complicated motives than the simple longing to add some “spice” to a marital routine grown dull.

There are many men and women who are unsure of their own worth as human beings, and who need constant reassurance and approval from others. Such people frequently lend themselves to this kind of arrangement.

Just the other day, a woman was complaining to me that at gatherings of the social group to which she belonged, men would invariably make sexual “passes” at every attractive woman.

“What I can’t understand is the attitude of their wives,” she said.

“They are actually angry if any woman rejects their husbands’ advances !”

These are the wives who doubt their own attractiveness as women, and their husbands’ worth as men. If other women find her mate attractive, such a wife feels reassured that she has made a wise marriage choice, and she also feels that she must be pretty “special,” too, to have first claim on so desirable a man. On the other hand, if no other woman wants her husband then her ego is deflated— she sees herself as a rather worthless creature, capable of marrying only the kind of man other women spurn.

Sometimes, the reasons for this type of attitude on the part of the marriage partner reach hack into childhood experiences. Mary A., an attractive young wife, complained that her husband never objected when other men made advances to her, and even encouraged her to invite them.

Her husband, Bill, was the younger of two sons. His brother had been the family pet, and Bill had always been extremely jealous of the favoritism shown the older boy. Although he could not help admiring his brother, he had early vowed, “Some day, I’ll show him up!”

Although Bill did not realize it, that little-boy rivalry played a part in his choice of Mary as a wife. She was an exceptionally pretty girl, and when other men gave signs of their interest in her, Bill felt that in one respect he had managed to outshine his brother. He had a far more desirable wife, and for the first time could make other men — and, he fondly imagined, his brother—envy him!

Not too long ago, I was consulted by a couple trying desperately to save their floundering marriage. The husband was particularly disturbed by his wife’s erratic sexual behavior.

“She lives at extremes,” he said. “Either she wants sex all the time, or else she refuses to have relations with me entirely.”

In consultation with his wife, I learned that she felt herself physically attracted to one of her husband’s friends. She had even suggested to her husband that he and his friend arrange a temporary “trade”—giving her to the other man and the friend’s wife to her husband. Flabbergasted, he refused to discuss the idea. But she did date other men without his knowledge, and they were always married men.

“It makes me feel young again,” she said. It also increased her desire for her husband. After such an affair she regained her interest in the marital union. Without these temporary liaisons, she was quite frigid.

Her father had died when she was young, and her mother had remarried. She had always felt a great attraction towards her stepfather, and when she was nine years old he had seduced her, an experience she found exciting. Her promiscuity was an attempt to recreate her image of herself as the young, desirable girl—and the men were always married, as her stepfather had been.

There may be some hidden homosexual desires latent in such situations, too. I am thinking, for example, of the man who insisted that his wife have sexual relations with his “best friend.”

Among the Polynesians this would have been accepted social behavior, but he was not a product of Polynesian culture. Actually, this husband had latent homosexual desires, and though he was not fully aware of it, he was having vicarious sexual relations with his friend every time he sent his wife to sleep with him.

And latent homosexual desires may also account for the willingness with which some women permit their husbands to indulge in similar affairs. Sometimes, a wife will agree to a swap of mates more to gain the vicarious thrill which comes with knowing her husband is having relations with a woman she is attracted to, than for any desire she feels for the other man.

The editor of Sexology recently received a letter from a reader who explained that his wife insisted that he have relations with a young woman who boarded at their home. This despite the fact that they had been married for eight years, and seemed to be well adjusted sexually.

“I noticed one thing,” he wrote. “Ever since my wife started to loan me to this woman, she became more aggressive in our sex relations and more demanding.”

And, he added, “we personally know of two young couples. These young couples swap wives once a week, from which they claim they derive sex stimulation and greater sexual satisfaction in marital relations later with their wives.”

“Where,” this reader wanted to know, “will such a practice of Swapping lead?”

In his own case, such a practice can lead only to a more and more distorted sexual relationship, which might very well result in his wife’s becoming completely frigid.

The sooner he finds competent help for her and persuades his wife to accept it, the better. Unless she can be made to understand the reasons for her behavior and can be helped to overcome it, her sexual life and her marriage will only grow increasingly disturbed.

Dr. Kinsey noted that among the “not inconsiderable group of cases” studied in which the husbands had encouraged their wives to engage in extra-marital activities, there were a number of deviations involved. These included homosexuality, desire to “peep,” and sadistic satisfaction obtained from forcing a wife into such a relationship.

But he emphasized that most often wife swapping represented a deliberate effort to extend the wife’s opportunity to find satisfaction in sexual relations or a desire of the husband to find an excuse for his own extra-marital activity.

Dr. Kinsey also pointed out that his investigators had seen instances where husbands and wives appeared to accept their partners’ extra-marital activity frankly and whole-heartedly at the beginning. Years later, however, the old extra-marital relationship cropped up to become a source of considerable conflict. This often resulted from the development of some insecurity on the part of the other spouse. or changed circumstances in the couple’s life.

The Kinsey investigators drew this conclusion from their data?: that reconciling the individual’s desire for coitus with a variety of sexual partners and the maintenance of a stable marriage, presents a problem which has not beer) satisfactorily resolved in our culture.

“Can marital stability be maintained in the face of extra-marital relations on the part of the husband or wife?” asks Dr. Abraham Stone, one of America’s most noted marriage consultants.

“It has been our experience in marriage counseling,” he Replies, “that extra-marital relations are disruptive of marital harmony. A relation which may begin as a contact on a purely physical level, may soon develop into a strong emo-tional attachment. Not many marriages can long withstand the strain of divided loyalties and attention. Of all the angles in a marriage, the triangle creates the most acute problems.”
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Related posts:

... Drive-in Market 1959? (May, 1956)
... How I Got My Wife to Use a Seat Belt (Jun, 1960)
... Ad: I’D RATHER BE YOUR WIFE THAN YOUR WIDOW (Nov, 1937)


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www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVnK1dv-7fg

TrashDivine

Uploaded on Mar 5, 2010
Joe Sarno's crazy story of bored housewives who are lured into a sexual cult at the local Holiday Inn. This was 30 years before Eyes Wide Shut. Also seems that Daniel Clowes has seen this a few times as well.

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Film & Animation

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Nice Christmas Photo Cards photos

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Happy Holidays, Everyone!
christmas photo cards
Image by jgarber
Carbomb and Mary sent me this wonderful holiday card last week. It was illustrated by Mr. Carbaugh himself.

Is there anything that guy can't do?

Cool Photo Websites images

A few nice photo websites images I found:


Hey Cupcake!, Austin Texas
photo websites
Image by Visualist Images
Austin Photographer John R. Rogers shot this photograph. Check out the website JohnRRogers.com for more information & please make a comment .

One of the standards of Austin's South Congress or SoCo area is the old Air Stream 'Hey Cupcake' trailer serving up outrageously yummy cupcakes. (No they are not paying me to say that.) This was actually shot as a test for an upcoming photo shoot. More details (and photos!) regarding that soon.

From my blog at: www.JohnRRogers.com

A note about my Creative Commons - Non Commercial Licensing.
If you derive any income from your website through sales of products or services or receive revenue from advertising placed on your site then you do not qualify to use my images under my creative commons license. If your are a not for profit corporation or political campaign, you also do not qualify under my Non Commercial license. I do license my images to commercial enterprises for a very reasonable fee. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
If you are truly a non-commercial site and would like a copy of this image without my watermark, feel free to contact me with the details of your intended use.


Yongsan Garrison - US Army Korea - IMCOM Image Archive - USAG-Yongsan 2006-2008
photo websites
Image by U.S. Army Korea (Historical Image Archive)
To learn more about the US Army in Korea visit our official website at: imcom.korea.army.mil

For specific information and news related to US Army Garrison Yongsan visit yongsan.korea.army.mil

Videos from the US Army in Korea can be viewed at www.youtube.com/imcomkorearegion

The Morning Calm Weekly command information newspaper is available at imcom.korea.army.mil

This image is cleared for release and considered in the public domain. Request photo credit be given the US Army. To learn more about the US Army in Korea visit our official website at: imcom.korea.army.mil

For specific information and news related to US Army Garrison Yongsan visit yongsan.korea.army.mil

Videos from the US Army in Korea can be viewed at www.youtube.com/imcomkorearegion

The Morning Calm Weekly command information newspaper is available at imcom.korea.army.mil

This image is cleared for release and considered in the public domain. Request photo credit be given to the US Army.

Nice Picture photos

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53/365 Memories laid out
picture
Image by martinak15
I love looking at old pictures! :)
Hey! Guess what? I can't wait for Christmas! I'm finally getting my tripod!!!!!!!!! :D It's really hard taking self portraits and other things without one! Also, I asked for lenses! I've never used any before.... so wooo! :) Also, I'm thinking it's a really great time to take pictures <3 This will be the first time I will have my camera for the Holiday Season! :) I'm so excited, I want to explode! :D I must have told my friends this so many times.... hope they're not annoyed...haha:)

*** Just started a blog!!***
Please check it out and follow! <3
www.magnoliaeyes.blogspot.com


Signage Shop at Utah State Fair, '09, with Lame Owners
picture
Image by MaxxFordham
I was taking a picture of this shop because I thought the signs looked cool, but then the jerk guy at the register thought it was his business to tell me to take my pictures elsewhere.

Uhh, problem is, "sir," I'm on a public space, so you can't stop me from taking pictures of your "ohh-so precious booth" there! So uh... you'd better take your complaints elsewhere!

I verified that fact with a cop.


Oh, and, haha, he tried flipping me a nasty finger gesture, but he wasn't quick enough on the draw to make it into the pic. that way! I shouted, "Haha, ya missed! Ya MISSED!" Geeze, what a LOSER!

Cool Photo Upload images

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I fit the profile Am I next? #IamTrayvonMartin #oakland #trayvonmartin #j4tm #hoodiesup #justice4trayvon
photo upload
Image by Steve Rhodes
More July 20 Oakland photos

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www.demotix.com/news/2275390/justice-trayvon-martin-rally...

www.demotix.com/news/2275529/rally-and-march-marissa-alex...

photos from Sunday July 14

Oakland

www.demotix.com/news/2257828/protest-trayvon-martin-oakla...

www.demotix.com/news/2257719/windows-used-reflect-feeling...

San Francisco

www.demotix.com/news/2257669/san-francisco-protest-trayvo...


#obama cap & #IamTrayvonMartin shirt #oakland #trayvonmartin #j4tm #hoodiesup #justice4trayvon
photo upload
Image by Steve Rhodes
More July 20 Oakland photos

www.demotix.com/news/2275489/trayvon-martin-mural-over-br...

www.demotix.com/news/2275390/justice-trayvon-martin-rally...

www.demotix.com/news/2275529/rally-and-march-marissa-alex...

Cool Fun Photos images

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Pratt Library Wordle 2: books and shapes and more
fun photos
Image by Enoch Pratt Free Library
Just for fun: we edited our original Wordle uploaded to Flickr in Flickr to add some free image shapes and rounded edges.

See it BIG!

Wordle image made at www.wordle.net/ using some of our Flickr tags.

Images of Wordles are licensed with Creative Commons License Attribution 3.0 United States, "Approved for Free Cultural Works"

OK, now go to the library!


Surreal Bulk
fun photos
Image by cobalt123
This was a really fun shot to try for, as I gave up trying to get a straightforward image of this gigantic black sculpture at the Phoenix Art Museum. See small versions of good photos by danielgreene and lilbtch in the first comment below this image. BTW, that is lilbtch over on the far right, likely taking one of her excellent shots.

Nice Free Photo Software photos

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Faking It - or Pretending to Be What You Are Not
free photo software
Image by Boogies with Fish
www.messersmith.name/wordpress/2011/02/11/faking-it-or-pr...
I'll do something a bit different today. This post is actually a magazine article which has not yet been published. I submitted it nearly a year ago, so I don't think it will find ink. So that it doesn't go to waste, I'll use it to bore you today.
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Sea people are adventurers and poets. Sea people are those who paint their lives boldly and joyously stroke by stroke on the vast canvas of Earth’s oceans and fresh waters. Fishermen, sailors, divers and snorkelers, surfers, sailors, merchantmen and marine warriors are all of a breed. They are bound by their love of and respect for the sea. How much great literature and visual art has been born of the relationship between humans and the sea? How can those who share this love of the sea not be inspired to and desirous of expressing their sentiments by the creative work of their minds and hands?

This is all very well and good, providing that one possesses the tiniest quantity of artistic talent. Being able to write a complete sentence and snap a decent photograph are largely demonstrations of technical skills. True artistry, however, mystifies the untalented. One might be capable of drawing water, but little else. Therefore we, the great ungifted masses, have forever been awed by those who are competent to pick up a pencil or brush and create from their mind’s eye a unique vision of the world. It’s a gift which few of us possess.

Therefore, out of sheer jealousy, we are inclined to mimic it. Since the arrival of the digital age, wretches such as us can aspire to play monkey-see-monkey-do and create images which, though utterly bogus, are pretty in a chintzy sort of manner.





Most folk today are familiar with basic image manipulation software. Nearly everybody can download pictures from their camera and play with them. Some of the software which comes with cameras even allows a bit of expression in the way of filters which apply special effects to the images. These are worth playing with to get one’s feet wet.



However, if one is serious about faking it, one must be prepared to step out a bit and trudge up a slight learning curve. I use Photoshop CS4 for all of my work. This is primarily because I work for someone else who wields enough financial clout to purchase it. It is absurdly expensive. One might liken it to the Rolls Royce of photo software. Adobe, the producer of Photoshop clearly states, “If you have to ask how much it costs, then you can’t afford it.” I’m absolutely certain that there must be ten pirate copies of Photoshop running on computers around the world for every copy which has been purchased.



Fortunately, there is an alternative. The GNU Image Manipulation Program, cutely nicknamed GIMP, is very capable and free software which strives to provide much the same power as Photoshop.

No matter which program one is using, the process details will be similar. We won’t go into details here, because our purpose is to show what one can learn to do in a couple of evenings. There are thousands of excellent tutorials available on the World Wide Web without payment which provides step by step instructions for the use of the tools in the software. Much of is learned feels very intuitive and quickly becomes habitual so that one can concentrate on the creative experience instead of the technical details.

Aside from the familiar controls with which most of us are familiar when working with our snapshots; brightness, contrast, colour saturation, hue, there are very many filters available to create effects which provide an almost endless range of possibilities for artistic interpretation of an image. A filter is a bit of software which examines the pixels of an image and then applies a complex mathematical formula to it to modify its appearance. Fortunately, one needs to know absolutely nothing concerning what is going on inside the complexity. There are simple slider controls which provide a way to adjust the actions of each filter. Simple filters can deal with elementary things such as noise (unwanted “static” in the image making it appear as if it were a miss-tuned TV), sharpening edges to make an image appear more focused, and corrections of distortions, such as correcting camera tilt by making the horizon level or correcting the apparent tilt or leaning of buildings.

The real beauty begins to glow when one begins to apply the artistic filters. There are dozens of them with names such as watercolour, poster edges, dry brush, fresco, paint daubs and palette knife. One can even apply filters upon filters to achieve genuinely wild effects. The trick is to learn when the fiddling has gone too far. Both programs mentioned above allow one get in the time machine and go back to an earlier stage of the process if sudden nausea occurs while examining the resulting image.

Though we concentrate on the sea and especially on creatures under the sea, there is no limit to the type of image with which one might begin. It can be anything. A carrot, if it seems particularly handsome.





One might ask of what use are these creations? Are they really art? My response is that neither question is pertinent. Unless one is obliged to make a living from artistic endeavours, then the exercise need only be purely for enjoyment.

Personally, I find such pursuits a pleasant alternative to sitting in front of the TV absorbing what currently passes for entertainment. This seems to me to be entirely passive. If you seek to create instead of consume, try your hand at Faking It. You might be amazed by what you can do.

You’ll find a variety of images here, some of them fishy and some not.

Scratch the last sentence. All of them are fishy.


"Inside Windsor Castle 1953"
free photo software
Image by Rob Ketcherside
Taken within a few days of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth. June, 1953.

Requires red and blue 3D glasses.

Photo by my distant relative Byron Bird. Scanned from a stereoview Kodachrome transparency. The 3D image was made from scans of those two transparencies using Stereo Photo Maker, a great piece of free software.

The images were all water damaged, creating interesting stress effects. In this case, both were clear enough to make a 3D image from them. See more of his images. Here are just the 3d images.


"Entrance Douglas Native Campground" 1953
free photo software
Image by Rob Ketcherside
Taken at Douglas Colliery near Johannesburg, South Africa. Undated but presumably 1953.

Requires red and blue 3D glasses.

Photo by my distant relative Byron Bird. Scanned from a stereoview Kodachrome transparency. The 3D image was made from scans of those two transparencies using Stereo Photo Maker, a great piece of free software.

The images were all water damaged, creating interesting stress effects. In this case, both were clear enough to make a 3D image from them. See more of his images. Here are just the 3d images.

Fotografías de ciudades famosas y Parazz





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Metal Grate and Red Bricks

A few nice free photo downloads images I found:


Metal Grate and Red Bricks
free photo downloads
Image by shaire productions
By Sherrie Thai of ShaireProductions.com

Feel free to download and use these as a background for commercial or noncommercial projects. If you decide to use them, please let me know how it goes by sending a link or an image. Enjoy!


Brown and Orange Rust
free photo downloads
Image by shaire productions
By Sherrie Thai of ShaireProductions.com

Feel free to download and use these as a background for commercial or noncommercial projects. If you decide to use them, please let me know how it goes by sending a link or an image. Enjoy!

Nice Upload Photos photos

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Still Got The Ammo (B&W)
upload photos
Image by Alex Abian (Also on flickr.com/alexabian)
I had uploaded this picture as a colour portrait, but after some hours I thought it'll be stronger in black and white. I deleted by mistake the colour one, so now it's just this. I love black and white :D

Había subido esta como un retrato a color, pero después de unas horas he pensado que sería mas potente en blanco y negro. Como he borrado la otra, ahora solo queda esta. Me encanta el blanco y negro :D

Model : Gerom

Inside Urban Photography.
More Urban Portraits.


diagonal-gradient-level-1-menger-sponge.2
upload photos
Image by Ardonik
I haven't uploaded in a while, so here is an image from my queue.

It's another level 1 Menger Sponge colored in a special way. This is the first time I've managed to color any origami with a gradient that was neither horizontal nor vertical.

As usual, there are 144 units in the construct. However, the number of individual units of each color was difficult for me to predict and didn't follow any interesting pattern (so much for my Pascal Triangle theory!) I miscalculated the number of colors needed to color the unit, so I ended up filling in the missing colors with pink and white. I think it turned out okay.


Group
upload photos
Image by Supersentido
I'm just uploading all the entries for my art project, into a flickr page:

www.flickr.com/photos/byodp/

The pics are in a very good size.

Feel free to go to www.byodp.tk and download the boxes, they are free!

I was thinking that people from my flickr contact should support on a more strong way this project, but you're not too late yet! Here is a direct link to download the template. Add your graphics and send me the file back.

www.irreal.cl/download/template.pdf

To You

Some cool fun photos images:


To You
fun photos
Image by André Assumpção
É proibida reprodução, alteração e uso sem minha autorização.
Is prohibited reproduction/use/manipulation without my permission.


Maria
fun photos
Image by André Assumpção


Danni Ribeiro
fun photos
Image by André Assumpção
É proibida reprodução, alteração e uso sem minha autorização. Uso comercial necessita de prévia autorização.

Is prohibited reproduction/use/manipulation without my permission.

liebe.2.17112009282

A few nice photo for sale images I found:


liebe.2.17112009282
photo for sale
Image by madle-fotowelt.de


Schwebfliege auf einer Blüte P8171384
photo for sale
Image by madle-fotowelt.de

Teléfono Celular; ¿Lujo o Necesidad?

EN DÍAS PASADOS, escribí un artículo relacionado con los lujos y las necesidades.
En esta ocasión y continuando con esta serie tan interesante, hablaré sobre un accesorio que se ha convertido en una necesidad cuando en algún momento sólo fue un lujo de pocos y necesidad de muchos...

LA NECESIDAD de comunicarnos con los demás, ha hecho que en la actualidad millones de personas tengamos un teléfono móvil.
Para ser más exacto, más de 2 000 millones de personas en el mundo utilizamos un teléfono celular y se estima que para el 2010 seamos casi 3 000 millones.

PARA LLAMARLE a nuestra familia, al novio, a la novia, al mecánico, a nuestro agente de viajes, al abogado, a la policía, etc., el celular juega hoy por hoy un papel muy importante en nuestra sociedad.

HASTA AQUÍ, todo suena lógico.

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SIN EMBARGO, en la actualidad existen en el mercado miles de dispositivos con muy variadas funciones, de diversas marcas y de costos bastante diferentes.

EN LO PERSONAL, he tenido en los últimos 6 meses más de 20 celulares distintos.

NO PUEDO NEGAR que fui contagiado por la moda de poseer uno de los mejores móviles disponibles en mi país.

Últimos 6 meses; «Samsung Single», «Samsung e316», «Pantech GB210», «Motorola V300», «Motorola v600» todos con características muy similares entre sí, pero con algunas funciones que nunca llegué a utilizar.

Pareciá yo un loco hablando “aparentemente“ solo en la calle con mi tecnología bluetooth del v600, filmando un miniVIDEO con el Pantech y tomándoles fotos a mis amigas con el Samsung E316.

Todos me miraban como diciendo… ¿y este wey qué onda?

Sólo mencioné los más conocidos, pero tuve otros tantos modelos de marcas como Sony-Ericcson, Nokia Digitales y GSM, Etc.

Todo este proceso de tener uno y otro modelo de teléfono, me sirvió para darme cuenta de muchas cosas.

1.- El teléfono móvil, por supuesto que es una necesidad, pero NO ES NECESARIO contar con uno de los modelos más actuales del mercado.
2.- Los teléfonos más modernos y por ende caros, tienen funciones que en la mayoría de los casos no utilizamos. (¡Analízalo!)
3.- La función principal de un teléfono celular es comunicarnos acortando las distancias.
4.- Un teléfono funcional, es aquél que nos ofrece hacer y recibir llamadas, enviar y recibir mensajes (SMS; Sólo Texto) y un reloj integrado es MÁS que suficiente.

Hasta ahí es necesario un teléfono móvil.

Pero cuando nuestro afán de ser mejor que los demás, realzar nuestro ego mediante la adquisición de artículos novedosos, pero poco funcionales llega a nuestro coco, el teléfono celular se convierte en un lujo INNECESARIO.

Esa terrible necesidad de presumirle a nuestros amigos que tenemos lo mejor nos lleva a convertirnos en seres más amargos y vacíos.

Materialistas y fieles a nuestro Dios (EL DINERO)

Varios de mis amigos, están locos por tener ese teléfono sony walkman o ese Nokia con TV integrada, o el motorola con iRadio, o ese famoso Rockr con iTunes, o ese nuevo con cámara de 6 mpx, qué tal ese smartphone treo 700 con windows, o ese otro con MSN Mesenger, el iPhone 3G S o el HTC Dream o HTC Magic con Android o qué tal el Palm Curve o el Dell Mini One, El Nexus One de Google, El iPhone 4S, el iPhone 5, Etc.
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Y mientras tú posees la nueva iPad 3 (Retina Display) de Apple o el mejor teléfono con Cámara digital de 10Mpx, Vídeo, TV, Radio FM, PDA, Messenger Integrado, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Fancy, Bluetooth, Internet, WiFi, Repreductor de Mp3, pantalla multi táctil, ranura para tarjetas de 32 gigas, Etc., un niño de Africa quisiera tener una tortilla para comer.

"Y para colmo, he visto algunos tipos tan tontos que le preguntan a sus amigas…
Oye Sandra, te llegó ayer el mensaje que te mandé de una poesía con 3 fotos y la canción en Mp3 de Rihana?

Y yo disimuladamente volteó a ver a Sandra y tiene en sus manos un Nokia Digital de los primeros que salieron.

No, pos así cuándo…"


ESO ES LUJO Y PRESUNCIÓN Womans and Gentlemans…

Quieres filmar a tus amigos, no te hace falta un celular con esa característica, necesitas una video cámara que grabe en DVD con la que obtendrás videos de muy alta calidad para conservar esos recuerdos para siempre.
Quieres tomar bellas fotografías, cómprate una buena cámara digital de 16 Mpx y déjate de tonterías.

Quieres pasar momentos muy divertidos, no compres un móvil con juegos incluídos, cómprate un disposito portátil especial para eso y punto. Un ejemplo, sería el Nintendo Wii o la Play Station Vita.

Quieres ver TV mientras viajas, no necesitas un teléfono para eso, necesitas comprarte una televisión portátil (Casio) de alta definición.

Quieres enviar a tus amigos un MMS (Mensaje Multimedia que incluye texto, imágenes y sonido), usa el correo electrónico porque no todos tienen un teléfono igual al tuyo para recibir tus genialidades.

Y antes de comprar cualquier artículo de los mencionados, POR FAVOR hazte una sola pregunta.
¿REALMENTE LO NECESITO?

EN RESUMEN, el teléfono celular es una necesidad siempre y cuando no busques en él funciones que NO vas a utilizar y que sólo encarecen al dispositivo.

Además un teléfono de última generación es más cotizado para los amantes de lo ajeno y podría durarte muy poco el gusto de tu octava maravilla.

Si me preguntas qué teléfono tengo ahora mismo, te contestaré que tengo un «Nokia» activado con «Unefon» ya que estoy en contra del monopolio del Sr. Slim y su telcel.

Por cierto, me ha resultado ser un excelente teléfono celular y su precio oscila entre 250 y 300 pesos con 300 de tiempo aire.

Y alguien sabe ¿Porque ya no venden recargas Telcel en Elektra?

Será que el Señor Ricardo Salinas Priego dueño de TV Azteca ya se siente lo suficientemente listo para declararle la guerra al corporativo CARSO con su compañía Iusacell y Unefon?

Estará de moda muy pronto el hacerse competencia uno mismo mediante la creación de empresas del mismo ramo. Yo le he hecho con mis empresas y funciona muy bien.
Ejemplo claro y público es el de BIMBO Y WONDER.

Idea Original y Redacción: José Luis Ávila Herrera
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Nice Christmas Cards Photo photos

A few nice christmas cards photo images I found:


25.12.2006
christmas cards photo
Image by loomy
I woke up at 6 and couldn't fall asleep again, so I wandered about taking pictures.

Long day.

For the record:

MONEY:
0
Target gift card
Visa gift card
Barnes and Noble gift card
Quiktrip gift card
Target gift card
Walmart gift card
Lawrence Photo gift card
Barnes and Noble gift card
Von Maur gift card
Quiktrip gift card
or Starbucks gift card
Barnes and Noble gift card
$ ? Barnes and Noble gift card (probably -30)
$ ? Target gift card (probably -30)

CLOTHES:
Hello Kitty hoodie
Hello Kitty pajama pants with Japanese writing on them ;p
Fleece pajamas
Lots of fun socks (hearts, stripes, penguins, fuzzy, etc.)... 5-6 pairs?
Hello Kitty pajama set
Cashmere scarf
Hand painted penguin sweatshirt

HOUSEWARES:
Crème brûlée torch
Tea pot
Penguin bowls
Penguin towel
Handmade fleece blanket
Tall penguin mug and hot chocolate
Stuffed penguin that plays my iPod
Penguin mug
Fleece penguin pillow

FOOD:
Illy espresso
Chocolate wrapped in varying denominations of (fake) euros
Cocoa Dolce artisan hot cocoa
Cocoa Dolce artisan chocolates (handmade, handpicked, handpackaged -- 3797235x better and more expensive than Godiva)
A ton more random candy

MISC:
Chapstick set
A ton of penguin things -- candy, stuffed animals, etc.
Toothbrush
Random stocking stuffers
Redken shampoo and conditioner
Flashlight
Candle/massage oil
Lots of random makeup, bath stuff, etc.

(Items that appear twice are from different people. I celebrated Christmas at six different houses... yeah.)



confetti-glitter-lets-celebrate-new-years-eve-party-invitation-countdown-pink-coral-gold
christmas cards photo
Image by blush printables
www.blushprintables.com
www.blushprintables.blogspot.com
www.blushprintables.etsy.com

Selena Gomez | 2011 MMVA Much Music Video Awards 1

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Selena Gomez | 2011 MMVA Much Music Video Awards 1
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2011 Much Music Video Awards Awards & Performances

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Imágenes gratuitas de Iglesias, Capillas y Oratorios

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