Those Magnificent Men
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My aim was to create a comic book or cartoon look. I used the original picture, coloring the airplane and enhancing the color of the grass and sky. "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines" was a very funny movie and there is a song of the same name.
Make It Interesting, Challenge #2 ~ Airplane
Starter image with thanks to Cloudzilla
Face to face with Mr Butterfly 2
Image by NeeZhom Photomalaya
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A butterfly in my village. Like Fionn said, isn't his eyes look funny? A bit squinting and have lots of question in his mind :D
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Thanx for all comments and faves, all the best. Have a nice days ahead! We're all belong to each other and came from same father and mother (Adam and Eve), so peace and justice for all :)
"O God You do not create this to waste , The Exalted One please protect us from hellfire" SubhanAllah .......
Sketch
Image by EmoPrince23
This is a photo for the Boston Globe Photograph Contest.
The theme was "The Items We Carry"
I chose these items because they are very special to me in different ways, and they are things that I actually carry around with me everyday.
My ninja headband is a big part of my personality. I love the Japanese Anime "Naruto" and I wear this headband once in a while. However, if I am not wearing it, I keep it in my pocket.
My glasses are a big part of myself. Without them, I would not be able to see very well. However, if I have to take them off, I do carry them around in my pockets.
My keys are essential for me to get around town to work and to school. I thought it would be interesting to put them in the photograph because they define my interests as well as having transportation. My keys have many of my favorite cartoon and video game characters.
Another very important object I had to include was my sketchpad. I carry that around with me everywhere I go, in case I am struck with inspiration by my surroundings. The pen is added to symbolize what I use to create these sketches.
Lastly, my Ipod Touch. I carry this around in my pocket and with my hand. I use it very often.
These are the things I carry.
six_books
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Having been challenged to describe myself in six books I'm afraid I failed miserably. Instead I flitted round my shelves extracting books on subjects that have held my eclectic attention for more than the usual. The trouble is that there are so many other subjects - six just isn't enough. Note that the French book (cartoons of Brel's lyrics) has its spine printed in the opposite direction. Something to do with driving on the wrong side of the road I suspect. I also missed a trick in not putting Chomsky's On Language on top of the book on a programming language :(
1) Albert Camus was one of the most significant writers of the twentieth century. His philosophical works, as well as his novels, have an enduring influence. Oliver Todd, authorised by Camus' family, wrote the definitive life. The impoverished childhood in Algiers, conflict between sympathy for the working class Algerians and for the French colonials. Intimacy with the collaborationist Gallimard family; his involvement in the Satre - de Beauvoir conflict; his battles with the tuberculosis that had ended his role as goalkeeper for the university football team. Camus not only won the 57 nobel prize for literature, but was the second-youngest recipient after Rudyard Kipling, and the first African-born writer to receive the award.
www.ladepeche.fr/article/2009/12/18/747959-Olivier-Todd-C...
2) I taught myself Perl not long after installing my first version of Linux about ten years ago. It started as a way of writing scripts to do things on that system. I then discovered that I could do anything with the language. I wrote programs that took data exported from an accounts package, using Perl and the WriteExcel library created formatted spreadsheets that were 100% accurate owing to the process being automated rather than the transferral of figures manually. The company I worked for were so pleased that they bought me the camel (book in the photo) as a reward.
oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/perl/usage/
3) Having read many of Chomsky's political works I bought this as soon as it was published. Two of Chomsky's most famous works were back in print in one volume. It features some of his most informal and highly accessible work, making it an ideal introduction to the man. Part I - Language and Responsibility : presents a self-portrait of his political, moral, and linguistic thinking. Part II - Reflections on Language: explores the study of language and offers incisive analyses of modern controversies amongst experts.
www.chomsky.info/books.htm
4) One of the best birthday presents I ever got. The Blue Guide to the Museums & Galleries of London has opened my eyes to all sorts of new places to visit. One day I'll write my London on a shoestring book. There is just so much to see and do and it needn't cost a fortune.
5) The Brel book is one of a set of two that I bought in Nice. They were remaindered and cost me the grand sum of seventy francs each. That's about sixteen quid. This book I note also has a copy of the sheet music of Ne Me Quitte Pas tucked inside it's front cover. These two volumes are amongst the guilty pleasures of my book collection. Each contains a plethora of Brel's lyrics illustrated by some of the best cartoonists in Europe. There is even a smurf version of Rosa. My favourite however is probably Isabelle Busschaert's depiction of Marieke or possibly Jarry's depiction of Mon Pere Disait. Both remind me of the similarity between the flatlands of Belgium and the East Anglian countryside.
www.dailymotion.com/video/x1php0_jacques-brel-marieke-eng...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vge8qJZmyY
6) Pam Cook's The Cinema Book. This is now in its third edition and is recognised as the ultimate guide to cinema and film studies. The acquisition of this dates back to when a friend was doing a degree in media studies and raved about the book. I did some film studies courses around the same time and thought that this would be good reading. So I blew my expenses from doing a second channel 4 fifteen to one quiz show on this. Must keep an eye out for second and third editions at affordable prices :)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cinema_Book
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