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creepyinfant  ·  3460 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Reddit has done it again

Hubski has kind of a cult-y culture, and vote is fairly right wing, so IDK, personally I'd like to see some serious innovation. There are myriad new things a website could try.

creepyinfant  ·  3911 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Psy Macro Photography [April, 2014]

more here http://creepyinfant.imgur.com/all/ let me know if you need one uncompressed for yourself (6MP)

creepyinfant  ·  3952 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Can someone give me primer on developing photos for print?

What are you talking about?

creepyinfant  ·  3952 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Can someone give me primer on developing photos for print?

Well, test prints aren't an issue either. I need to know about the actual procedure of applying profiles for professional printing and how to correct for printer limitations.

I don't even know what to look for, though, because I never went to school for photography--even if I have to read a textbook, that's fine, but I don't know what the field is called, but I do know that I know absolutely nothing about the subject.

When I actually apply the necessary profile, the color goes flat. I don't know which mode to use, perceptive, relative or what have you and I don't know what other procedures are necessary.

creepyinfant  ·  3952 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Can someone give me primer on developing photos for print?

It's not like I'm printing this at home from a dinky inkjet. I'm paying for large prints.

Of course the profile is important, because if I don't consider it, the printer will throw out a swath of colors. Calibration isn't the issue.

creepyinfant  ·  3955 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Lurker roll call

Is it known about how many users are at Hubski?

creepyinfant  ·  3955 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How can a trait like male homosexuality persist over evolutionary time ?

I've hypothesized for a long time that it is a mechanism to stabilize population growth, as population becomes too high, the gene manifests itself more frequently.

I don't have anything to back this up, but it's not mentioned in the article.

creepyinfant  ·  3991 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What music do you know that fits the description of this quote....

A lot of the romatic pianists seem to fit that description well, imo.

Franz Liszt and Vivaldi come to mind.

creepyinfant  ·  4001 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Show me a new idea

Perhaps if you take a slightly different perspective. I'm gonna use 12 tone to describe it, since I don't know any music theory.

do-mi-sol is 1-5-8. to transpose it, you add one 2-6-9. And so forth. That is why you are not discriminating much between white keys and black keys in your memory. Instead, you memorize simple patterns. Only six patterns to memorize all of the major and minor scales--not counting one additional memory factoid to distinguish how major and minor differ (+6)

Does that make sense?

creepyinfant  ·  4002 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Show me a new idea

The modern piano is asymmetrical. Make it symmetrical, you make learning scales and playing patterns easier. You shorten the length of the keyboard and increase the amount of keys you can reach by 2.

Pic Related.

creepyinfant  ·  4002 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Will we ever discover new emotions?

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xl7eh1_horizon-do-you-see-w...

Terence Mckenna posited something similar to the idea that we are evolving to greater abilities for imagination due to ever increasing levels of neurotransmitters/dmt. It's worth a ponder.

To answer your question with another question: Can conscious beings who do not have emotions exist?

creepyinfant  ·  4002 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Weekly photo challenge: Sun

Oh, it's just a snapshot from my tourist excursion to an alien planet.

creepyinfant  ·  4002 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Weekly photo challenge: Sun

The image of the sun is on a Tarot card from Thoth. (sun is 3/4ths inch)

creepyinfant  ·  4002 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: [macro photos] Elements [album]

Thanks. Yeah, I'm still gauging how people are reacting to them. I'm not sure what the initial thoughts are, but if it's "wtf is that?" then I'm doing pretty good.

It's a lot of materials. Acrylic paint is the color foundation, mainly. Salt, sugar, sand, glass shards, etc.

Thanks for the eyes.

Cheap/jury rigged equipment, lighting. But I'm not buying any more equipment because a. no money and b. This is good enough. Yeah, it would look amazing at 18MP, but it is a good enough proof of concept.

I literally have no frame of reference for this stuff because it just seems like it's too far out to have been done before. It's still life, it's painting, it's photography, it's alchemy.

I have plenty of ideas, but I feel like I might be burning out for the time being after hundreds of images--most still unprocessed--which I don't know what to do with. --actually, any general suggestions are welcome. Besides making images of another dimension, I have no idea what I'm doing.

creepyinfant  ·  4002 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: [macro photos] Elements [album]

Hm. Never had the opportunity to use bellows.

creepyinfant  ·  4002 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Weekly photo challenge: Sun

:\ the sun doesn't come out lately...

creepyinfant  ·  4002 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Weekly photo challenge: Sun

Nice. Looks like a structure of bricks?

creepyinfant  ·  4002 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: [macro photos] Elements [album]

Thanks for the tip :p

creepyinfant  ·  4002 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: [macro photos] Elements [album]

Yes. Yes, a large part is acrylic paint. Thanks. There are various materials used. Sugar, glass. Various application techniques, etc.