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"I believe this is known as molecular gastronomy. I also believe the restaurant WD~50 in Manhattan serves dishes that do this. Even if that's not exactly what they do, it's what I thought they did when I went there for the first time.
And now my..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by phatkitten
Last month
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"Great thread. I'm favoriting it already. Since you haven't found "rules" and I haven't either, I have to say that there isn't a book specifically with all the answers (although I thought that about Photoshop for years and then..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by LakesideOrion
Last month
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"Okay, I'm just poking my head in here...but didn't they have this on the Brian Lehrer show this morning?
And didn't the residents and somebody else agree that the solution had been to build a separate area for the drum circle and that this was..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by tehloki, loiseau, magstheaxe
2 months ago
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"On a closer rereading, here is are processes you could set up for a Photoshop Action. I use a very similar process in handing product photography shots.
Before you do this, open up curves and Alt-click or shift-click or whatever the shortcut is on..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by meta87
2 months ago
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"I was thinking bear spray attracted bears and that perhaps they sprayed to attack the guard to keep him occupied. I had all sorts of comical scenarios playing out in my head before I got to that paragraph in the article...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by DevilsAdvocate, Servo5678, parhamr, KokuRyu
4 months ago
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"what I found most amazing about this speech, which I only mention because I haven't seen it mentioned (enough) is this: Obama mentioned the racism of the southerners (forgive my paraphrasing) and then he did not dismiss or condemn them! I mean, I..." [
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favorited 47 times, recently by puddleglum, mammary16, ntartifex, jpdoane, betaray, johnasdf, ameca, heatherann, LobsterMitten, every_one_needs_a_hug_sometimes, feloniousmonk, nooneyouknow, kliuless, Snyder, eckeric, Richard Daly, Mick, turaho, Espoo2, hifiparasol, schyler523, borborygmi, thewittyname, lord_wolf, wires, vytae, Hot Like Your 12V Wire, notashroom, fantabulous timewaster, lumensimus, spiderwire, donnagirl, rtha, scrump, Miko, nev, teleri025, Faint of Butt, grubi, Molesome, drstupid, cashman, octothorpe, mothershock, hangingbyathread, Blazecock Pileon, ukdanae
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"At an impressionable age, my first girlfriend gave me a copy of The Fountainhead and spouted the same type of stuff. She dumped me and I kinda took up her point-of-view because it seemed to be the most well thought out one I'd ever known. If you've..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by kosher_jenny, poq, marble, inqb8tr, jmhodges, creasy boy, spock
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I want these to be so much or much more subtle.
Picasso (or somebody) once said "art is the lie, which tells the truth" These pictures are the truth that sounds like lies. See that's the thing about art. There's lossy compression..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Optimus Chyme, quintessencesluglord
5 months ago
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"You only need three minutes because I'm so intense. Three minutes in heaven is better than two minutes in heaven." [
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favorited 18 times, recently by Phire, Deathalicious, theiconoclast31, Pantengliopoli, djgh, unixrat, Meagan, Alvy Ampersand, moxiedoll, Mr.Encyclopedia, lumensimus, danb, gaspode, Wood, tehloki, Chrischris, JimmyJames, jb
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The fork-bunny ears made it all come together for me: it's clearly a continuation of Inland Empire" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by CitizenD
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Being in a band makes me hate the Shaggs songs in a special way. Having various band members over the years who don't understand the way music/rhythm/key signatures work has conditioned me to try and listen with an ear for "what do they actually..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ZachsMind, Horken Bazooka
8 months ago
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"I think many of these responses (i've just skimmed) are too specific, or too general (it doesn't make sense to listen to other songwriters if you don't know what to listen for)
Songwriting Syllabus - Marie Eaton
I recommend this syllabus. I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by freshwater_pr0n
9 months ago
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"I once heard this Lovephones exchange (shortened for impact):
Caller: "yeah, hi, I'm worried because my penis is kind of small"
Dr. Drew: "You feel unimportant. The best solution is to get a job where you make a difference...." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by fourstar, limeonaire, p3on, RobotHeart, waxbanks, jocelmeow, The Toad, koeselitz, Benjy, minervous, Rosie M. Banks
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm watching Vampyr now and at 32 minutes, when the old vampire just gets up from his victim and walks into the bushes...wow. Sometimes creepiness is all about normal things in an unnormal context.
I love Dreyer's quote "Imagine we are..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by vronsky
11 months ago
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"i damn sure know you can't learn it in a book. can you?
You damn sure can!
Go to Barnes & Noble and browse the Photoshop section. The only book I can recommend you get her (and please please do) is Professional Photoshop so that she can learn..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by desjardins
11 months ago
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"Since everybody has fantasies of living in a mall: here's mine. I went with a friend to visit one of their friends who worked at a mall cutlery store. Not knowing them, I didn't have much to say, just standing around while they caught up when all of..." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by snowleopard, BaxterG4, twistofrhyme, nooneyouknow, dantsea, Juggermatt, flibbertigibbet, quintessencesluglord, OolooKitty, Slarty Bartfast, agregoli, pantsrobot, puke & cry, aws17576, suedehead, lodurr
Last year
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"Here's Dan's 5 minute recipie for wedding shots. My notes are in parenthesis.
We make sure that the images don't all have a cast
enhance the highlights and shadows,
(I believe he means with the highlights/shadows command)
then apply the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mullingitover
Last year
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"STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP!
I feel like I've been waiting years for this question to be asked. I thought, like you probably do, that getting photos to look "better" was kind of a crap shoot. Nope, no way, nuh uh. It's just as much a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mullingitover
Last year
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"f I knew what I was going to do that far down the road, there’d be no point in doing it.”
favorited 10 times, recently by nax, craichead, flibbertigibbet, McLir, babybuns, spaceman_spiff, amberglow, maudlin, kittens for breakfast, ntartifex
Last year
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"Dan Margulis is the guy you're looking for.
There are LOTS of post-production fixes. The first thing to do would be to color correct it, setting proper range. That can be found in this pdf. This will often bring back a lot of saturation...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Dean King, Brandon Blatcher
Last year
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"I was a huge Young Ones fan a few years ago, back when it was on Comedy Central.
So my band got a chance to open for the Damned a year or two later. (We got to watch them soundcheck. They did Plan 9. I was giddy.)
They got off the stage and..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, Julnyes
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Didn't you people learn anything from Jaws 3D? Shark + Glass = Smash!
Haha, brownpau, that is possibly my favorite special effects sequence from any movie ever. It is so unbelievably, unimaginably, undeniably FAKE it blows my mind.
What is so..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by LeeJay
Last year
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"I realize First Person Shooters have a lot of other overhead, but damn, I want a big Nostromo level with just me, a weak flame thrower and a single Alien that can do all of these things and we just play cat-and-mouse for hours while I try and set the..." [
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Last year
MeFi comment:
"So if a that's your meal
Apparently, I have been playing too much Mario 64 on the Wii V.C. Stupid Lava level." [
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Last year
MeFi comment:
"1. Just because someone has an opinion means that the thread is swayed from interesting observations to defending a movie that doesn't need defending. So frustrating.
2. I loved the book and the movie and was always curious as to how the decision..." [
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Last year
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"Is this the only sax solo ever? As I thought it was this too. This should go in the FAQ, right next to "What's this font?" and "Should we break up?..." [
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Last year
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"What I find really interesting is srboisvert's POV of this. He says "This isn't a war"...and my first reaction was that "yes, it is. how can you not see that?" but then I took a step back...
Maybe he's right, maybe we're right...." [
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Last year
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"The best way to get rid of this is by using an "imaginary color"
• Switch to LAB mode (Image > Mode > LAB)
• Create a new empty layer and set the blending mode to "Color"
• Switch to the eyedropper and select a..." [
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Last year
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"CNN's link to video is kind of unusual. "Watch the orange flames ravage the apartment"
I am watching. The flames are indeed orange. I can only assume they are ravaging...." [
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