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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...

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?

hahahahaha tabo is the key yess

Don't wipe your bum... Wash it!! And avoid wasting toilet paper... The bum-washer... A simple bit of plumbing can reduce the necessity for panic buying every time you think there may be a shortage of bog roll!?!! And, I would venture, it's a lot more hygienic.

Have you ever come across with a caricaturist on a party? It is fun isn't it? Drawing caricatures at an event is a real situation were you engage with the personality of a person and actually capture a moment of his life, however it is a different approach to every one.

Absolutely awesome...

One of the best sites... awesome.

Dear group my name is John Thomas Vaina and I have published a book about my father called Art Unseen. (Dead link removed by admin.) Please help me get the word out. Thanks, John Vaina

'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!!

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

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

Well, your work is very bright and colourful. I like it.

Thank you for the tips, I'll check out artfreaks and artwanted tomorrow. I haven't thought about downloads of my works so that is an area I haven't tried yet.

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(Boken link - removed by smb) This piece was inspired by several artists including J3Concepts and Kate McInnes, but it is actually the first painting I have ever created that I have not copied from somewhere else. I am quite proud of it, and plan on doing other pieces in a similar style in the future. However before I do, I would like some advice on what needs help and what I could improve. Anything and everything is helpful! (:

Occasionally I like to hang out late in the evening watching a good doco....here is a prose-poem about such an experience.-Ron Price, Australia -------------------------------------- Ronald Reagan(1911-2004) was a busy fellow from the beginning of the Baha

Just an introduction. I am an artist with over fifty years of professional experience. I am presently retired, but in the arts that really only means we become our priority customer at last. I am working on two primary tangents in my work but they are being worked to merge. One is a line of solar powered sculptures called SPAWN (in all capital letters). For example one of those is SPAWN ARSENAL. It is the one on my bench at this time. Along with that is the webart. It is in storyboard form right now, but can be viewed. Some elements of it will always be in storyboard, while some will be in text. Those portions are well over a thousand pages. Then an even larger segment still getting the lick and polish is in Flash interactive animation. The SPAWN launch from a compound here by the Neosho River in Burlington, Kansas. So the webart does have definite river motif in some areas. The sculptures are functioning work centers designed around wheelchairs and with a goal of inspiring and enabling the challenged to live fuller more creative lives.

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.

many musicians do not know the complexidy of sound. as much as i love the band "TOOL" they prefer to use a small more compact sound range. where Radiohead uses an aray of sounds that add to the song... here is "everything in its right place" by radiohead:

I've got a question for you admin.. I already have 10 posts. Is it ok for me to post my signature now? Would you ban me if I do so? I was just asking, because I've already encountered a lot of forum sites that if I post my signature with less than 10 posts made,they instantly banned me in their forum site. And I can do nothing about it.

That's totally terrific. It's alright to fart, 'cause if you won't let it go, you might get some illness.

what's BM?

why didn't I saw this on Bob Ong's books? plus. why is it in english? oh. ok. this is an old post

hello thanks for the advice I'll try to do that

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

Do you? How much? What do you think you can do for it's name?

SSDD...? Care to elaborate to a UK teen that can't seem to figure out why she should know what that stand for...?

I've taken a photography course at college and it's pretty awesome. You get to basically do anything you want (except eat or drink in the darkroom :roll: ). We were recently told to do some research on one of the greatest photographers of our time - Man Ray. He had a completely unique style and hated doing anything by the rule book. He was so against doing things how they apparently had to be done that in one of his most famous forms of photography - the Ray-o-gram - he completely removes the camera from the process all together. Here's the link for some of his work: http://www.manray-photo.com/catalog/rayo.p...0ae5c6e42ea20f9 This is also a great site. It hasn't got any Man Ray stuff in it bu it's awesome. Paul Politis is great. Not sure how big his work is, but I think it has a cool edge. http://www.paulpolitis.com

Actually, I forget to post a follow-up to this... I've updated the reank names and they are now as follows:- 0 - 19: Scribbler 20 - 49: Scrawler 50 - 99: Getting There! 100 - 199: A cool artist! 200 - 499: Already Famous! 500 Plus: Maestro / Maestra!