Carl's Corner :)

LOL

I've a garden of weed which could withstand a nuclear blast, it is a bit strange the grass wasn't damaged

Political Site was that grass site yours - you seem to have a complex system before you even vote in an election - you don't have compulsory voting which is a shame, over the year I have decided it's actual a good thing to be made to vote [ can't quite believe I said that LOL ] it requires politician to consider everyone not just the wealthy and affluent

GEORGE W. BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY DESTROYED BY FLOOD Crawford, Texas (AP)

A tragic flood this morning destroyed the personal library of President George W. Bush. The flood began in the presidential bathroom where the books were kept. Both books have been lost.

A presidential spokesman said the president was devastated, as he had almost finished coloring the second one. The White House tried to call FEMA but there was no answer.

No, I don't like bush or anyone in his family, I don't like the clintons, mc cains, or any of the trash that is passing itself off as our government or soon to be government. They are all criminals.

I was thinking of sending the chimp a new coloringbook.

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maybe to widen his horizons you should send him a join the dots book instead

I don't think he is able to count yet.

I wanted to vote for my dog, but he died just before New Years. Guess now I will have to write in my bird.

I will email the link to you in a minute. I was adding a few more things.

Very interesting, all drugs have to be approved here before they can be sold, generic drugs are becoming more popular which is a good thing because it forces the large drug companies to be slightly more competitive. There has been many drugs over the year which have turned out to have detrimental side effect released by major drug companies - so what I'm saying is there is no guarantees with any source of drugs and unfortunately drug companies have a poor record of working for the good of humanity, rather a reputation for greed, withholding and exploitation. Don't get me wrong what your concerned about is completely legitimate and I agree with you, pharmaceutical companies are all not to be trusted

O sorry, but we are back to that problem of joining which we encounted earlier

Carl, Steve, ...

any reason your filters are being removed from the library ('Abstraction Painter > Arp' or 'StevieJ's Glass' for example)? And what about ron's 'Killer Clown'?

I read! I read! Don't let the lull fool you, my best filters are yet to come. I am a committed ffer. I just greatly underestimated the vast expanse that is the Maya rabbit hole.
I do not consider LUs failures, tear stained though the removal request may be, only bookmarks moved local that need review.

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Carl wrote: I do think of LU's as unsuccessful

Some of my filters were submitted just because I thought they looked pretty. No cover charge but the show has a limited run. Now if you want to gaze upon the graceful lines of Beacon you will have to look at my avatar. The filter forge users is a harsh mistress.

working on lipstick kiss mark using craigs arc - no where near right yet but here progresss

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Carl wrote: ok thats weird it had a kiss on a alph a background but its come out straight red Confused Question

I loaded it into PS. I was trying everything to find information buried somewhere in the image. I was trying to find a way to tell you in the nicest possible way that it looked a little even. On the other hand it has a very Valentines day look to it.

Well don't give up. I'm dying to see it now.
You must have an extremely efficient setup to make a mistake like that. My system is so screwed up I have about eleven times to catch something like missing lips.

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Carl wrote: I'll have another shot of posting after I cook dinner

I guess you'll be cooking for less since you had to give up the stolen babies. It made the news how you're all real sorry about stealing those babies. I could have told you that was not a good idea.

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Carl wrote: remember it's still in the works

I think you're on to a really good texture here. Maybe you could optionally seperate the top and bottom lips so they could be applied to wine glasses and such.
I have attempted fingerprints several times but I never got it right.

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Carl wrote: including our previous PM howard

I thought Howard was an embarrassment – spineless and short-sighted. You guys call him a liberal? You Aussies are tough – reminds me of Okies. I do not have a sense for Rudd yet. At least he's not Howard.

For some reason the kiss image is stalling on ff's server. One thought I had was to apply the kiss with large cells so it wasn't so even – or at least so the evenness could be adjusted. Another thought would be something like motion blur so it could be a smudged kiss like lipstick on a glass or shirt.
I would like to have another go at finger prints too but that will have to wait. I had a good idea for a new texture. It seems a little boring but I think it's possible and would be a sleeper HU. Want to hear it? Ok, wait for it...
Foam Rubber! You know, the cushy stuff, like on stereo headphones. People need that all the time. It seems like it some small cells and some sparklies could be used to create great foam rubber. I wish I had time to develop it.

The kiss is looking great!

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ronviers wrote: reminds me of Okies.

I'm less informed than you what are Okies

Wow that was some dust storm, your grandparents stuck it out they must have been a tough couple, were they farmers.... I have read Grapes of Wrath about thirty five years ago [ High School texts ] and I must admit I don't really remember it [ I know, shame on me as it is a classic ] and wasn't there a movie with Gregory Perkery [ as Frank Zappa called him ] in it, was that during the depression

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ronviers wrote: That *was* some dust storm

Ok sorry Aussie English LOL - That was a very bad dust storm. I remember back in the early 80's during yet another drought and I was living in Melbourne at the time - on the phone gazing out the window when a massive dust storm traveling at incredible speed rolled passed the window obliterating the sun I thought there had been some massive doomsday explosion.

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ronviers wrote: not counting the one that died at on his fifth birthday

That sounds tragic - accident or illness - sorry couldn't help my curiosity

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ronviers wrote: Farmers plus he was the milkman.

were they Dairy farmers or was it just to earn money

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ronviers wrote: I have seen dust devils

luckily we don't get tornados [ or rarely ] we do get cyclones up north, of course the weathers getting screwier, nth Queensland having floods half a meter [ about 2ft ] over night which is Melbourne rain for a year.


Did your folks work the land as well?

why, when i was a boy, we planted taters in 10 foot of dust. the taters hated the dust so much they'd grow downwards 'stead of up. to pick them we had to use a tractor digger and haul them up thru all that there dust and it'd mess em all up. and that's how mashed taters first came into being.