a day in the life 11 - at the Apple Store
Image by Thom Watson
[ Map it: Google Earth | Street | Satellite | Hybrid ]
Checking out one of the iPod Photos; I already have a 40Gb iPod, and a 1Gb card for my digital camera, so I don't even need one of these. Yet I want, don't I?
Fortune Cookie Class Valentines
Image by Bunches and Bits {Karina}
Packaged for delivery to her Classmates.
Total credit for the idea came from here - although I also read Martha Stewart did the original version (made out of felt).
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How to PoIC on Leopard
Image by hawkexpress
PoIC is a life tracking analog system I made. Here is an idea to apply it to new Mac OS X Leopard. Cover Flow feature realize analog feeling. Digital is approaching to analog. It's more like flipping index cards. :)
Basic idea of PoIC can be applied. What we need is three folders correspond to
1. Chronological Order (i.e. PoIC's Dock): Use "Cover Flow" view. Collection phase.
2. Task Force: Organize a bundle of files for a project. Use "Icon" view. Processing phase.
3. Ex-service: Get Things Done! Finished projects go to this folder. Use "List" view.
See original analog version here.
There are still some consideration. For example, index cards and files are different in information size. So I think some PoIC's rule must be loosen for the file system. Also time stamp of a downloaded file is not "mine". I'm thinking how to change it... Do you have any idea?
# Vertical flip in Cover Flow, which is not yet available, would be also nice in future ;)
Ref. : @blog, How to PoIC on Leopard
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Image by Ross Elliott
This photo is used here www.thedailybuzz.com.au/2012/11/10-creative-date-night-id...
EXTREMELY FINE JAPANESE COLORISTS' BRUSH on a FINISHED STEREOVIEW
Image by Okinawa Soba
100/0 grade brush-tip in RED CIRCLE. Place cursor on the photo and click for a larger view on black.
The black mount is 3 1/2 inches x 7 inches (about 9 cm x 18 cm). The length of the "hair bundle" coming out of the brush handle is 5 mm. The bundle tapers down to 3-5 hairs at the tip. (rat hairs?)
Those wanting only one or two hairs for special purpose work simply trim these 100/0 grade brushes.
The stereoview above (photographed in 1905 by Herbert Ponting) was hand-colored in the USA over 100 years ago, supposedly by Japanese immigrants hired for the purpose. If it had been colored at T. Enami's Yokohama studio in Japan, the detailing would probably have been a bit more intricate.
I have often mentioned that the old-time colorists used brushes that were sometimes as fine as a single hair. Back in the19th and early 20th Century, using various grades of fine brushes was the only way to make a beautiful and detailed "color photo" out of a black-and-white print or lantern slide.
Although unsuccessful in finding a modern-day commercial example of a "single hair brush", I did read that three-haired brushes (made from rats hair) were available at one time --- specifically for micro-calligraphy work. Obviously, a single-haired brush could be easily made by cutting off the extra hairs.
In any case, in order to show you what's still commercially available in Japan in the 21st Century --- even on the little island of Okinawa --- here is a standard run of brushes for artists and colorists that go down to the 100/0 grade :
♥ www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/7268536526/
At this link, you will see the 100/0 grade on the very RIGHT that tapers down to an extremely fine 3 to 5 hairs --- and they look like RAT HAIRS to me !
Two other photos posted along with this show the 100/0 brush against a millimeter scale, and with other brushes of a larger size.
So, at least we can get some idea of what the old-time colorists were using under a magnifying glass as they applied their colors as realistically as possible to the old glass and paper prints of the smallest size.
EXAMPLES OF IMAGES THAT WERE COLORED WITH EXTREMELY FINE BRUSHES :
♥ GLASS SLIDES : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/sets/72157604145302649/
♥ STEREOVIEWS : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/sets/72157613345072080/
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