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PremiumThis is a small oil on canvas. I wanted to demonstrate a work in progress with one of the palette knife techniques that I use. I chose an autumn forest scene.
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This extreme detail is from Shelly Boyd's self portrait. Students in Dawn Black's 2D design class painted nine different values on separate pieces of paper, cut varied shapes and then assembled them into portraits. Shelly's whole piece is below. Click on it to see it at a larger size.
by day after everything is set up, it still doesn't look like much but a big stage Videographer
Aside from making films, doing corporate videowork and commercials...I work as an event videographer too at times. It was here I started...and well...I still do it for certain projects and it relieves me of the stresses of a filmshoot as it is a different stress...sometimes it's fun and I do get to meet alot of people(I met pixie,my girlfriend, click on Port Dickson and check out August 28th blog)...one yearly event which I have regularly served for years now as a videographer is RECHARGE REVELATION...I was there in Genting then Port Dickson then A FAMOSA resort.It still amazes me after all this time how an empty space is transformed into a huge rave party...
Mud...mud...mud...
Working against the organisers, gallons of rain has been falling and the field as a result was a really really muddy mess. I was having trouble negotiating the field as I was inspecting the grounds early in the day to better do my work.However, the organisers were still set on giving a great party and went on trying to fix things by filling the area with truckloads of sand and boards were used to create bridges across puddles.
By mid afternoon at 3pm...all sorts of revelers began to come in...The event slowly began to fill up manically. While the rest of my event videographers wore freshly acquired boots...I personally prefered my shoes still and jumped right in the mud with it,hey it's washable...and people pay for mud therapy don't they? the initially mud shy path following revellers also didn't quite care after the mud anymore and soon jumped right into it...some even told me...they knew it will be muddy as the one in the UK was too...but who cares...the mud is an extra feature to party!!!! and so...they essentially 'plowed' the field...membajak revelation style...the party was on...
was a little shy to jump in and just play....cause nobody yet was there...and I was working...but really wanted to....later in the night...the foam reached head level :PBigger than Ever
...the event this year is bigger than ever...
6 stages or arenas playing a mix of music from local acts to international DJs with three of them being huge main stages including an airconditioned indoor stage, a foam stage where a machine sphew up lots of foam into the dance floor,a retro charged skating ring where event songs like 1,2,3 from sesame street played while roller skates were available...and a freedom stage where bikers and skateboarders played around a live band...and there's also a chill out area where cold gas get spurted on you at a button...this year, there's also an anti gravity touch to the event in the form of the swing bungee and the G-MAX.The G-Max is like a bungee jump in reverse...the shoot you up instead of letting you fall while the swing bungee makes you superman pendulum style...
do note this is just a quickly put together series of video for this blog
I am not a weekly party goer...I am not a party goer period but the size and scope of revelation always surprise me...and it's quite something to see planners, technicians, sound engineers,video people, DJs and the crowd just coming together and maxing out senses loudly... I dare say it's something that you must experience to know...it's really physcedellic environment where everything is maxed out...everyone were screaming and partying to the music, head bangers, literally dirty dancing ...it was one of my videographer's first time at such an event and he said...next year, if he's not working he'll also come...and party...well no amount of writing, photos or videos can describe the atmosphere....next year live it for yourself...
after a screaming time membajak...the cows go home...dirty but throughly happy :P
Ferdrupt ...
The village has 900 inhabitants Ferdrupt and is located on the RN 66 in the edge of the Moselle at the intersection of Lorraine, Alsace and Franche-Comte .
Regional Nature Park of Ballons des Vosges, Ferdrupt offers a wide choice of hiking or biking. A cycle track (Green Lane Hautes-Vosges) also crosses the valley of the Upper Moselle. ( http://www.lavoieverte.com/ )
Bakery, coffee shop and farm house in the village.
Supermarkets Rupt sur Moselle (5 km) and Thillot (6 km).
The village has 900 inhabitants Ferdrupt and is located on the RN 66 in the edge of the Moselle at the intersection of Lorraine, Alsace and Franche-Comte .
Regional Nature Park of Ballons des Vosges, Ferdrupt offers a wide choice of hiking or biking. A cycle track (Green Lane Hautes-Vosges) also crosses the valley of the Upper Moselle. ( http://www.lavoieverte.com/ )
Bakery, coffee shop and farm house in the village.
Supermarkets Rupt sur Moselle (5 km) and Thillot (6 km).
Our house ...
It is located in the village but away from the RN66.
It is located at the bottom of a wooded, Baussottes the Garden, an area of 7500m ².
This garden is crossed by a mountain stream.
A body of water upstream, supplying a micro-hydro turbine attached to the house.
The place is quiet and picturesque.
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Our rental ...
The apartment is located on the ground floor of our house and has the following characteristics:
- F2 (adapted for a couple and two children)
- indoor area: 48m ²
- terrace of 9.5 m² with garden
- storey apartment so wheelchair accessible
- completeness of the private land of 7500 m² is available
- parking
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Description of the Apartments:
- a main entrance opening onto a corridor personal-hall
- a small kitchen, refrigerator Conservative Party with * microwave, no dishwasher
*: a place can be offered in our freezer personnel if necessary
- living room overlooking on the terrace, sofa bed (2 persons), TV 38cm
- a small room with 2 single beds (90cm)
- room with sink, shower and toilet
- washing machine available for two uses per week maximum
- ping-pong table available
NB: animals, even small ones, are not allowed. Thank you for your understanding.
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Rates
In July and August: € 295 / week
Weekend rates (June and September only): € 80 (including heating)
Provision and preparation of the coating sheet
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- Your reservation will be effective upon receipt of deposit equal to 25% of the rent in the form of a check (or postal)
- A deposit of 150 € will be tabled at the entrance (see contract)
- Holidays Cheques are not accepted
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Baussottes The Garden ...
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It takes its name from the locality, of the Chal Baussottes, where is located the house.
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Initially, a large meadow, crossed by a creek lined with bushes rebels and a large rock, prey brambles and gorse .
A good ten years of work have transformed the scene trying to derive maximum benefit from the natural advantages it has: a water, a small marshy area (pretend) , rock, stream and bumpy terrain.
The main difficulty was to achieve changes in vegetation structure of the place without falling into the artifice.
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Our taste for conifers, especially for dwarf cultivars explains their significant presence (about 180 taxa). By their shapes, colors and varied textures, they provide rich associations.
The acid soil of granitic Vosges Ferdrupt location, combined with proper humidity, specially suited for these plants. This garden was officially opened June 21, 2008.
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labeling was performed for the most interesting cultivars (both deciduous conifer).
Among these include:
- Abies amabilis 'Spreading Star'
- Abies concolor 'Compacta'
- Abies koreana 'Blue Emperor'
- Abies 'Silberlocke'
- nordmanniana Abies 'Golden Spreader'
- Abies pinsapo 'Hortsmann Nana'
- Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'Nana Lute'
- pice abies 'Frohburg'
- pizza Omorika 'Pimoko'
- pizza pungens 'Montgomery'
- Picea pungens 'William'
- Picea sitchensis 'Tenas'
- Pinus parviflora 'Adcock's Dwarf'
- Pinus sylvestris 'Sandringham'
- Pseudotsuga menziesii 'Fletcheri'
- Taxus baccata 'Standishii'
- Fagus sylvatica 'Mercedes'
- Gleditsia triacanthos 'Elegantissima'
- Ulmus × hollandica 'Jacqueline Hillier'
zD many pictures of this garden: http://picasaweb.google.com/renaudf54
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Bernard and Raymond FRANCOIS
3, road Grébiay
88360 FERDRUPT
Tel: 03 29 25 87 47
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by road, is Ferdrupt:
- 45 km from Epinal
- 115 km from Nancy (1:10)
- 65 km from Mulhouse (1h 05)
by train: TGV Paris-Remiremont (2:45) + shuttle bus
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Cameron Dreger made this self portrait as part of an assignment in his Photoshop class (ART 54). He used photos he shot and assembled them using lots of layer masks. He got the cool textures by photographing clouds and dirt.
He'll be getting an "A" but he doesn't know it yet, so don't tell.
Randy Hake made this photo "Reflections, Embarcadero Center" as part of an assignment in the "Survey of Digital Photography" (ART 72) class. It first place in its division at the Northern California Council of Camera Clubs competition. Pretty cool, huh?
But wait! There's more! This semester's photo class has a Flickr Photo Pool. Here's a slide show of the work students have uploaded to Flickr and sent to the LMC pool.
Ebodied, the curent show in the LMC gallery, runs through Nov. 2. It features some startling images by Jocelyn Shu, Alica Debrincat, and Karen Hass.
The Annual Faculty Art Show was the first show in the new LMC Art Gallery. Located in the new library, it's a wonderful space full of light, and now full of art. Lucy Snow, the latest addition to the department made cool stuff and hung it from the ceiling. The other faculty members didn't make anything as large, or that moved in the breeze. Still, her fellow instructors are still speaking to her.
Just the other day when my dad was visiting K.L., I decided to bring him to Gasing Hills for a run. A gazetted nature reserve and an important green lung of Kuala Lumpur, I frequent it quite often for a dose of intense oxygen therapy (otherwise huffing and puffing), good old sweat and just to relax my mind abit seeing greens instead of concrete all the time...much to my horror...the session was not one of immense relaxation or tranquility but of absolute horror! There was concrete in the middle of a nature reserve that plucking a leaf reputedly can land you in trouble with the law??? What's this?
The local park council has never failed to induce a slew of expletives from me ...if they go on a clearing campaign...say on the side of a stream, they clear everything in their path...whether good or bad...sometimes when a stream has a healthy just slightly overgrown of wild plants...trust them to come along and clear everything to a point of sterility...killing what could be a nestbed of little insects that keep the ecology in good balance and also being a good waste treatment plant...cleaning the water that pass by the roots. Yes, it's a wild fantasy of mine that every city council worker be an educated ecologist and love the environment to boot but come on...must they really be that stupid???
Anyway...as I was running in gasing....I found it weird...the normally mere soil path was boarded as if to construct something.Then I saw it...the horrors of horrors...they were building retention walls across the stream that flowed along the walking trail in gasing....how STUPID is that? Once...the banks where we walk would drop gently into the stream and between the path and the stream there'll be a rich mix of foliage and left litter that houses all sort of animals....now what you get is an ugly grey limestone cement retention wall...with no plants and the stream that once was a wonder with little pebbles and tadpoles become like any other longkang...sterile...robbed of life....I am so angry!!!! Why did they do it? Was it because there was uncontrolable soil erosion that could cost a jogger his life? I heard of building retention walls to avoid landslides but this is ridiculous....
See for yourself....in the pictures....
sadly....Gasing has become a rather unappealing place now...
Damn you stupid panda company...WWF....World Wildlife Fund for Nature...damn you...being 'supposed' custodians of the environment and having your badge at the entrance of the trail, shouldn't you be there to ensure that this doesn't happen?
Or are you too busy and understaff cause all your damn staff are opening little booths at shopping malls to collect money for administration expenses....
To cap it off...there was a pathetic sign...save nature...blah blah blah...empty rhetorics....
To any of you who feel as strongly....add to my comments and if I am not alone in this I will foward this blog and the comments to the bloody authorities...and of course...the stupid panda...if any of you support the stupid panda...feel free to counter me...
