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Galeria de A.V. Phibes:

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A.V. Phibes is an artist, designer and retired sideshow performer based in New York.

Phibes has been doing comic strips off and on since 1995, with her comics appearing in various small publications. After moving to New York, she eventually parlayed the cartooning into a career in illustration and then parlayed the career in illustration into a career in designing graphic properties for merchandising. Since then, the doodles of A.V. Phibes have been spotted in Hot Topic, Spencer Gifts, Urban outfitters, Claire’s Boutique and more.

In 2003, Evilkid.com was completed as a one-stop shop for all of A.V. Phibes’ comics, art ,merchandise and other shenannigans.

Evilkid Productions: Art by A.V. Phibes

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que esta en sueco (I think) pero no por eso deja de estar buena.

28 Apr 2005

Evilkid Productions

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el 60% no los habia visto en mi vida (Waaay before my time) pero hay algunos que estoy de acuerdo… y obvias excepciones (Ninguna portada de Dave McKean?)

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THE 25 ALL-TIME GREATEST COVERS OF AMERICAN COMIC BOOKS

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Si funciona para vender cerveza, autos, etc… por qué no ataudes?

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el resto estan en la “Fashion line” el último solo muerto entraría en él…

COFANIFUNEBRI.COM

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28 Apr 2005

COFANIFUNEBRI.COM

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La galeria del fotoperiodista Androniki Christodoulou que trabaja en Japón.

Esta foto es de Shibuya 109. LA TIENDA. Si eres mujer joven. Si eres hombre el ambiente se torna tan hormonal que tienes que abandonar el edificio. (just kidding L. ) (No I am not, fuimos en un dia feriado… I still have nightmares about it…)

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109 department store in Shibuya. A swarming district of fashion boutiques, restaurants and clubs built around the Western hub of Tokyo’s major train lines, Shibuya hosts millions of youngsters each year, who come to shop, eat and play. Lingerie and cosmetics for pre-pubescents are worrying enough for many parents, but the surrounding district also incubates hundreds of massage parlors, flesh joints and porno companies, part of a booming sex industry that is always hungry for young flesh.

Existen muchas galerias y artículos en el sitio. Casi garantizado a que hay algo para todo el mundo.

Living Zen – JAPAN

Kimono Revival – Tokyo

tambien: (transexuales, homeless, dogs, cosplay)

ANDRONIKI CHRISTODOULOU – photojournalist based in Tokyo

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28 Apr 2005

Living Zen – JAPAN

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Rene Descartes

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”

Lily Tomlin

“We’re all in this alone.”

28 Apr 2005

Citas del día

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Solía leer WaiWai diario, pero me saturé de información amarillista y absurda de Japón ( I know… pero no critiquen hasta que no les pase) lo bueno de alejarme, es que cada que regreso lo encuentro cada vez mejor.

La nota de hoy es bizarra. Estan acusando a un dibujante de Manga SM de… basarse en la vida real:

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On April 7, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police arrested Hideka Tada, age 38, who, writing for Dojinsha Co. under the pen name “Hideki Nonomura” has been acclaimed for his famous SM cartoons in which adolescent females with enormous breasts undergo acts of humiliation similar to the one above. Tada, it seems, wasn’t content merely to imagine such activities, but wanted to experience the real thing before turning to his sketchpad.

Miss A, whose testimony appears above, stands a petite 155 centimeters in height and is described as a “beauty.” She had worked as an assistant in Nonomura’s studio from about 18 months ago.

“It was the night of August 22,” she recalls. “I got to my apartment around 11:30 PM, and on my way into my room, I heard this man’s voice.”

As she trembled with fear, the man stuck duct tape over her mouth and covered her eyes with a mask. He then slapped a pair of handcuffs on her wrists and bound her knees and ankles with ropes. She then overheard him making a telephone call, in which he said, “I’ve got the woman secured The position of moles on her body match what you told me.” He also said, “You’ve got her parents’ house surrounded? Good.”

“I’ve got the woman secured The position of moles on her body match what you told me.” Un clásico, me recuerda los dialogos de canciones de At the Drive in… totalmente incoherentes.

“After that, he demanded that I fondle myself, and then suck his thing…, and then he demanded I have sex with him. I didn’t do everything he wanted though.”

aqui entra el CSI y con métodos científicos se encuentra al culpable…

The man’s threats to Miss A via telephone and in person continued at the rate of two to three times a week for the next seven months. But one day she noticed that a December 2002 cartoon story entitled “Humiliation” told a tale that matched her own terrifying experiences to a “T.”

Primera prueba. Su historia es similar a una, que hace su jefe. Pero el fiscal no podrá hacer nada con esta información. We need proof!

Her suspicions hardened and in January of this year she confirmed that Nonomura was her tormentor when she went to bed with him and observed that the penises of the man in the mask and her employer were a perfect match

penis match? Only in Japan. No hubiera sido necesario escuchar la voz del maleante hablantin, y de su jefe pidiendole un cafe, o un borrador?? Not in Japan it seems. You need to go undercover.

Y por supuesto que no le creo nada al escritor de la nota. Si es que arrestaron al dibujante de manga… el se inventó el resto. Welcome to WaiWai.

MDN: WaiWai

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27 Apr 2005

MDN: WaiWai

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La idea es esta, hay gente que le fascina todo lo cromado. Todo. Este tipo es uno de esos:

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27 Apr 2005

chromem3.com

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Dorothy Nevill

“The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”

27 Apr 2005

Cita del día

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En este post quiero recolectar la mayoría de las ligas que no he publicado que tengan que ver con fotografía, ya sea digital o tradicional:

Photo.net tiene buenos tutoriales para principiantes en adelante. El estilo de los tutoriales es personal y se basa mucho en la observación de como su compañera de estudio Elsa Dorfman hace su trabajo :

Un ejemplo de photo.net de que lentes utilizar para retratos:

Lens.
If you want to flatter your subject, you’ll probably want to deemphasize his nose. That means you want to stand at 10 or 15 feet away from him so that his nose isn’t significantly closer to you than the rest of his face. However, at such a large distance from the camera, if you want to fill the frame with just your subject’s face, then you need a high magnification (i.e., telephoto) lens. Typical “portrait” lenses are therefore between 90 and 135 millimeters long (for 35mm cameras). Many professional fashion photographers use 300mm or 600mm lenses, resorting to using a walkie-talkie or bullhorn to communicate with the model!

photo.net Learn Photography

Morguefile es una buena fuente de imagenes libres de copyright, no de derechos (con su licencia Creative Commons)

morguefile :: archive

que también tiene unos tutoriales muy buenos con tareas y areas de discusión. Ejemplo de la lección uno:

Number one: Get in close. No, closer. Nope, still closer. There! You’ve got it!

The first, and most important, rule: Simplify. The more you simplify a photo, the more attention you draw to your subject. The more attention you draw to your subject, the more successful you are in communicating your message to the viewer. There are roughly a million and two ways to do this, so I’ll keep it simple and stick to my favorite technique here, and that’s to get in as close as possible, thereby eliminating anything in the background that may detract from your subject.
Morguefile :: free stock photos

Ken Rockwell y su ambiciosa pero merecida página “How to do Anything Photographic” tiene desde reseñas de equipo hasta tutoriales diversos.

ejemplo del ISO en fotografía de deportes:

ISO

Use whatever ISO you need with digital cameras. Don’t be afraid to pump it up to get shorter shutter speeds and smaller apertures since digital SLRs look great at ISO 400 and 800.

Of course if you’re in daylight and have an f/2.8 lens then keep the ISO as low as you can, but if you’ve got an f/5.6 telephoto zoom crank it up.

Indoors and at night feel free to crank it all the way up, even to ISO 1,600 or 3,200. It’s far better to have a sharp, grainy picture than a noiseless soft blurry one. Nikons look fine even at the +1 push setting if you need it and look really nasty at the +2 push setting.

No need for ISO Auto, although feel free to use it and set the shutter speed below which it operates to 1/500 or your slowest desired shutter. The D70’s default of 1/30 is obviously too slow for sports. You set these in the menus.

aunque es un poco Nikon centrico (si también lo invente) aclara que lo mismo aplica para Canon, Minolta, etc.

How to Do Anything Photographic 2005 Ken Rockwell

Guía para fotografiar cascadas:

USE SLOW SHUTTER SPEEDS to create a soft, artistic portrait of water. This is what some call the “Angel Hair” effect. Generally, shutter speeds that are 1/8 of a second and slower will yield the best results. A majority of my waterfall photographs fall between 1/4 second and 3 seconds of exposure. The key here is to dare to experiment and not be afraid to shoot a lot of film. You never know what shutter speed is going to render the waterfall the way you see it in your mind’s eye. Needless to say, you’ll need your tripod when making these long exposures. One more reason to save your money and buy a good quality, full-featured tripod! I also recommend a cable release or self timer on the camera to reduce the possibility of camera shake. A mirror lock up or bean bags can be handy too. Shutter speeds that are too slow may over emphasize the image’s special effects. Be selective and do not overdo the “Angel Hair” effect. Leave the natural beauty in the image to power it to the viewer.

Photographing Waterfalls

Pequeña guía para fotos digitales nocturnas:

AnandTech: AnandTech Guide to Better Photos: Night Photography

Imagenes de stock gratuitas:

free stock images

Como hacer mosaicos con otras fotografías:

hay opciones para mac y pc

How-To: Make your own photo mosaics – Engadget – www.engadget.com

Pequeña guia de fotografía submarina:

Underwater photography 101
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y en los Foros de Diseño ~ de isopixel vi esta liga:

Como encontrar buenas fotograf as y otros materiales graficos gratuitos – alzado.org via .oc

26 Apr 2005

The Photo post

Author: poncho | Filed under: bizarro, cine, diseño, fotografía, internet, tecnología

Una pequeña traducción de lo que dijo Adobe oficialmente de la compra de Macromedia, de relaciono publico (el idioma de los relacionistas públicas (sí doble parentesis, y sí acabo de inventar el termino)) al inglés:

What is the mission of the combined company?

Adobe’s mission remains the same — to help people and businesses communicate better. With the acquisition of Macromedia, Adobe strengthens its mission through the combination of leading-edge development, authoring and collaboration tools — and the complementary functionality of PDF and Flash.

Where by “complementary” we mean “the two leading technologies that irritate people when they’re used in lieu of regular web pages.” Note that we’re using PDF to serve this very FAQ — in our synergistic future, perhaps we’ll serve our FAQs in a hybrid PDF/Flash format. One can dream.

Daring Fireball: Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Adobe’s ‘FAQ’ Regarding Their Acquisition of Macromedia

26 Apr 2005

Translation From PR-Speak to English

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