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GOOGLE-MICROSOFT In the first year after I retired from FT work, July 1999 to July 2000, Google officially became the world's largest search engine. With its introduction of a billion-page index by June 2000 much of the internet's content became available in a searchable format at one search engine. In the next several years, 2000-2005, as I was retiring from PT work as well as casual and most volunteer activity that had occupied me for decades, Google entered into a series of partnerships and made a series of innovations that brought their vast internet enterprize billions of users in the international marketplace. Not only did Google have billions of users, but internet users like myself throughout the world gained access to billions of web documents in Google

Thank you, Vic, for the membership. I couldn't see anywhere to post an intro. so I thought I'd do it here with an odd rag bag of pics. I chose the image server because of the large thumbnails and wouldn't invite anyone without a pop-up blocker to click on them - it's not an attempt at spamming, it's just that any decent image server tends to ban me.

For some people no sense is common sense.

We were born with "common sense", but over-education ruined it. Specialisation furthered its death. And now, the decomposition is starting.

Naalala ko yung hotel sa Ilocos No bidet or tabo sa cr, kasi most of the visitors foreigner. 12midnight tumawag pa kami sa lobby para lang sa tabo 😂

Definitely more Hygienic than toilet paper. I'm glad that I am Asian, because I grow up using "Tabo" not just for washing but you can also use it for bath.😂

Hello everyone I am just taking a minute to send a greeting out and let you know I am making this my new home. I had some bad vibrations over at myshippassion.com and am now making this my comfortable new home. I like the way well, I'll say one member here makes you feel.......WELCOME. I hope some more of you will reach out to make me feel at home here as well as most of you are very silent, I find. And it seems hard to get you out of the woodwork. Vic has a very good thing going here and I hope no one spoils it for him as what is happening to the other site. It only takes one bad apple to spoil the whole barrel I find. I hope Vic you can keep the rules strictly enforced here. As things were really going down hill elsewhere and no one was stepping up to the plate to make any enforcement. Again I hope to see more than Vic on here. So a big warm hello from your friend from Canada and I hope everyone gets to see and enjoy my work here and over at custom freaks.

I have been working on a MA and these works show my current interests.

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Here is a little bit of fruit art and a poll on which appeals to most people. Go ahead, and vote! I used the Flemish technique in painting these. They are all 8" X 10" oils on masonite board. Apple 1 Apple 2 Apple 3 So which will it be? Go ahead and click on a thumbnail, this forum is fantastic in that it will blow the picture up for you to see all the details! WOW! Great hoogly moogly! I wish my site had this capability! Interested in learning this technique?

It is pretty easy once you get the technique...

Blooms in Water Color for Mommies & Grannies Paint pretty flowers you can display in your home using water color. In this class moms will learn the various techniques in water color painting, de-stress, relax, and let their creativity and imagination loose. Projects will be various blooms and vibrant colors to soothe and please the eyes and the heart. With Teacher Marcial Pontillas Landscape Wonders for Daddies and Grand Daddies Be an expert Landscape painter using watercolors and make the ordinary landscapes come alive. Awaken the artist child in you with this water color class that will teach the basics of watercolor landscape painting. Get away from the busyness of the day and relax as you let the paint and the brush clear your mind. With Teacher Marcial Pontillas Arts & Crafts for KIDS (4-8 Years Old), Tweens (9-12 Years Old) & Teens (13 & up) Theme: Earth Avengers Educate, empower and impassion kids to care and preserve the environment. Each session is filled with stories, discussions, and arts & crafts activities that will spark environmental awareness and enhance your child's skills and artistic prowess. With Teacher Rigette Gutierrez Drawing & Painting for KIDS (4-8 Years Old), Tweens (9-12 Years Old) & Teens (13 & up) Learn the basic elements of design such as Art Materials, Colors, Lines, Shapes, Form, & Texture in a fun and exciting way! Kids will experience using different mediums such as pencil, oil pastel, water color, acrylic paint and sometimes they could even mix them all together! With Teacher Ryan Ladyong Fun Photography 8 Years Old & Above Learn to see in a more creative way and shoot away! Learn to use available light, shadows, form and texture to take stunningly beautiful pictures. Become more familiar with your camera and its functions. Other Art Workshops Available: Oil Pastel Pen & Ink Anime & Comic Strip Sculpture Oil & Acrylic Painting Air Brush Happy Yoga Photography Photo Manipulation My Little Art Place 409.4122 • 0915.939.5723 222 Wilson Street, Greenhills, San Juan City, Philippines • facebook.com/mylittleartplace

Hi Artfreak Peeps! Kamusta and Mabuhay! I am Rodny and I am a Product Designer and professional Illustrator. I am new here and would like to share some know-how about digital painting in Photoshop. Below images show the process of my painting in photoshop. I would love to share more techniques about digital painting using photoshop or painter with you all and some advice to get into the business, I know it's hard I was struggling designer when I started too. Here's another digital art I finished already using photoshop. Hong Mei Li is a red assassin, clean-up after a kill painting. Would love to hear your messages. I have more digital arts and 3D in my website, feel free to browse the gallery if u have any questions about the technique I did u can email or send me a message on my website. Cheers! Rodny Mella

i am a huge fan of the batman comics... i have to say i was very skeptical of (RIP) Heath Ledgers roll as the joker... but I dont think it could have been played better by anyone else. Too be honest... Jack Nickolson did not cut it... so i pose this question... what if batman (Cristian Bale) and the JOker (Heath Ledger)???? i dootled this earlier... ?

Hey all. I'm a struggling amature comic arist, I LOVE producing comics but struggle to make interesting and dynamic pannels. That and I can't seem to be able to keep my drive long enough to maintain constant production. SO! Anyone got an ideas, hits or tips that may help? Cheers.

There is noting wrong with an "older art". This painting is great. There is much older paintings then that one. Lets see the renaissance paintings. Do you know haw they were painted?

That is a very nice painting, the dew on the petals and leaves look so realistic. I can see how you work with the colors and it really catches the emotion of the person looking at the painting.

Whatever happened to uncommon sense? Don't give up on the human race just yet unless you and I are the only ones left who are perfect. Ask yourself what you do which might well fall outside the concept of 'sense', common or not. Do you believe in fairies, santa or god? How often do you thank 'luck' for your good fortune or blame someone else for your misfotunes? When was the last time you drank to excss or had a cigarette or ate too much, or self-medicated. How often do you believe what you hear without question, especially if its from a friend? When did you last have a premonition or deja voi? Do you read your stars, or have your fortune read or talk to the dead or not listen to the living? Sense isn't always common and common isn't always sense. Education provides the basis for good sense. Those who assume they know it all might well do with a lesson or 2 in the basics.

Yes, such a beautiful painting -- so alive!

This is a wonderful artwork. I think the dew on the petals are alright. Perhaps, you could put some more on the leaves as well as the other parts of the rose. Thanks for sharing!

These Flowers are beautiful you are so talented.

That sounds like a classic idea! I approve. Keep me informed of all the details mate! Keep up the good work my man.

Awesome, if you want we can get this moved to there? if it would make things easier?

capturing the velvety dew on the pedals is tough. Did it work? The grey's attempt it, but I just don't know. Interested in the technique?

And they keep slipping in little things here and there to almost MAKE you use their flippin cloud services AI and all the rest of that bullshit! Not so long ago, we used to opt in or decide to subscribe to extra functionality. IF we wanted it. Now? You almost have to fight your way out if it! I tried deleting Microsoft Edge and OneDrive altogether - just to save me from having to disable these programs from automatically starting up, every time I rebooted my laptop. Then my Windows wouldn't work until the laptop had gone through all it's "undo changes" - and all the rest of that routine. I was quite busy that day... 'Just as well I had another machine up and running at the time, so I could get on with some work! Talking of which...

Microsoft are a pain in the arse, the way they keep changing everything, just for the sake of change. No useful improvements - just unnecessary changes to make it look like they are doing something for their money. If it ain't broke - DON'T FIX IT!! Microsoft Word... The version I had up to a few days ago was absolutely fine... Then here comes another one of their endless updates - and now I have to look around all over the place - just to perform the simple, routine tasks that were second nature to me - until the other day!

hahahahaha tabo is the key yess

Seems legit!

As this has now popped up again, I would take the opportunity to ask is it only text based sig's that we can use or is there like a facility to get banners or images instead?

'Any update on those courses? Please let me know if you are planning to run a workshop or art course for soft pastels? Thanks! And keep up the good work!!

check and see my Artworks in my blog at http://steptomydreams.blogspot.com/ and i'm accepting suggestion and comments I'm an amateur artist God bless and take care

This is a test post. I just need to make sure that Full Members can post their links without any problems... http://www.picarto.tv

This is another really useful trick that I learned from a book called "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" by: Betty Edwards Tip: (From the book...) Instead of drawing, for example, a man's arm with his hand resting on his hip - look at the space between his arm and his body. Do not look at his arm and do not look at his body. Look only at the space in between his arm and his body... Then draw that space! The same thing applies when it comes to drawing the outside edge of the man's arm... Look at the nearest object to his arm and draw the space between that object and the man's arm! That way, you overcome the tendency of the left side of your brain to make you draw things in the simplified symbol-like images, with which that part of your brain rationalizes the world around you. Then, having overcome this annoying tendency of the left-side of your brain to continually butt-in and interfere with your art - (which is, essentially, a job for the right side of the brain) - you end up easily being able to draw what is actually there - rather than what the left side of your brain would very much like you to draw...!! Try it - you'll be amazed!!

In san diego believe me theres not much.........but im still looking

When you draw a live caricature on a party there is no rubber to help. Most of the time you have to improvise in order to achieve the demanding result.

i am just starting with my feeble attempts at painting. but it's not too soon to blog about wat i do. if u guyz ever have the patience, take a look at www.ashikaprabakar.tumblr.com. leave your comments and criticism. you'll find link to my fb page Di! Di is what i hope wud be a successful brand waaaaaaaaaay in the future.

IMAGINATION, CREATION & PSYCHIC INTEGRATION “Man may be, in a figurative sense, in prison, but he has also been given a large bunch of keys and several files. The fundamental and undeniable fact about the imagination is that its purpose is to intensify the life in man.” So wrote the prolific English writer Colin Wilson(1931-).1 His book is, he says, “a study of the inaccuracies of the imagination, because the inaccuracies of different imaginations tend to cancel one another out, and what is left is a perception of the general laws of imagination. Hence this book could be called an attempt at a classification of unrealities, with a view to defining the concept of reality.” –Ron Price with thanks to 1Colin Wilson, The Strength to Dream, 1962. You published this book when I was getting ready to write my university entrance examinations and beginning my travel-pioneering for the Canadian Baha’i community. I did not read and begin to enjoy this book until I was teaching literature to another set of university entrance kids. Imagination is a great power of my soul but stands in need of guidance&control to be part of an eternal act of creation for this world is all one continued vision of fancy, imagination, psychic integration.1 1 William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, Oxford UP, London, 1954, chapter 13 quoted in Dimensions of Spirituality, J.A. McLean, George Ronald, Oxford, 1994, pp. 194-5. Ron Price 5 November 2011

Thanks:)

Thanks alot for that Artwanted.com site SMB, maybe I'll start getting some work sold! ^^

Speaking of primates ~ you ever notice how the macaque throughout Southeast Asia tend to have characteristics like the indigenous human populations? For example, the Cambodian stubs tend to be male and aggression dominated while the Japanese snows tend to be more female and intelligence directed. I find those species especially fascinating for that and their tendency to

I do everything that way, really. Cowboyed for a spell. Was out there on horseback with the same enthusiasm. Did primate behavioral research on everything from canopy dwellers to the macaque and gibbon in your neck of the woods. Lived for over two decades among macaque and chimps. Then with robotics, it has been everything from the cute little ones pictured on my website to giant web press complexes that print lottery tickets. I would dance inside robots that had literally lost their mind puzzling out why they had gone crazy while giant steel arms weighing tons song by without a clue. I love that stuff ~ finding that perfect harmony in the chaos, and dancing to it with intensity.

Well, don't know if you would call anything I do a cause... but some would say I do art as though a cause. I think it breaths a bit of fire into it.

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In Philipin now.

There are also other planet who have chocolates... They're just not yet been found..

IAFT is a film school that offers courses which combine theory, practice, and application. We offer our students the experience of hands-on-training with Hollywood professionals who serve as our faculty mentors. We also offer our students the opportunity to have applied industry experience with our sister company Bigfoot Entertainment. Our expectation is to train quality industry professionals who can then be recruited to work in Bigfoot Entertainment or other industry-related businesses.

NICE ONE! I'm sure that is an opinion MANY people can relate to. Those that can't are.... questionable people. Robert Anton Wilson has a VERY interesting take on the whole war situation... Taken from his official website: www.rawilson.com [CHECK IT OUT] "Thought for the Month Just as a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day, even a Christian Fundamentalist gets a savvy notion every now and then. I think rev. Robertson had a good idea when he suggested replacing war with assassination in one case, on economic grounds. He merely didn't carry the concept far enough. I suggest that we should abolish war utterly and replace it entirely with selective assassination. Think about the savings this would mean, in this age when even our ?little? wars cost billions of dollars a year, and remember the cogent observation of the late Senator Dirkson: "A billion here, a billion there - pretty soon you're talking about REAL Money." We've already gotten our national debt so high that our posterity "unto the seventh generation" will never pay it off; do we really need to enslave the whole future to the international bankers? On the moral side, killing a few dozen foreigners a year instead of a few hundred thousand should seem less messy, to say the least of it, especially when you consider the collateral damage to our own side. How much blood and death do we need? Reversing a sentimental error of the '60s, the new anti-war slogan should be MAKE ASSASSINATIONS, NOT WARS. And, best of all, if this idea catches on internationally we can expect at least 50 contracts on George Bush the first week. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------" http://www.rawilson.com/thoughts.shtml

ice cold :supz:

why not use "master" alone for the "master of art"? hehe... just suggesting...