More photoshopping

So my plan is to learn a new Photshop trick (most) every day. (I say most to be realistic). Here is one that uses another masking technique to make it look all fuzzy. Just like the original Star Trek shows did when the camera was on any women in the show. If you don't believe me check for yourself. By the way we are at a little town right on the Mediterranean on the beach really and that is my bathing suit. I'm not just wearing any old thing that low cut.

Sicily - My Italian sisters - Francesca, Me, and Rosella

Bee gripes

So my boss just told me that he had someone else do the poster to advertise the bee class. Isn't that my job? What am I here for?
Does it seem insulting or am I being "overly sensitive"?

Another "model" photo and more

Here is a link to an outrageous 1960's motel and supper club-"The Gobbler".
"It's going to be a futuristic, state-of-the-art motel with every modern convenience from water beds to 8-tracks. The entire dining area will be covered in deep-pile pink and purple carpet. But wait - here's the best part. It will look like an abstract sculpture of a giant turkey. We'll bill it as a romantic getaway - and call it The Gobbler!"

Photoshopping

I've been learning and trying some new techniques in Photoshop. One I read about here. It's supposed to make a picture look like it's a model. I don't think that this one looks like that without people but I do think that it looks really lovely. Later I will try to find some people to put in it. I took this photo of a coutyard in Rome. I love the colors.

The hat - minus the mullet

Not so good of a pic but the best for now. The "mullet" flap in the back HAD to be ripped out. I just couldn't deal with how that looked AND the ears. For those of you who need to see some guys with "mullets" you can go here. I was surprised, but there are people who don't know what I'm talking about when I make comments about "mullets".

My Special Valentine

Items that might be of interest to others besides me

Here is a nostalgic web site: Food Timeline-- history notes: popular American foods by decade(1920-1980). Verry Inkterestting! It's amazing what people ate changed so much each decade especially in the 50's onward. Check out the 1960's SIGNATURE DISHES & POPULAR TRENDS.
Lots of fascinating explanations about the origins of recipes: examples: devil's food cake, chicken wings, Tang, and on and on. Just keep searching you'll find it.

At the 1964 World's Fair I am wondering what the designer for the food pavilion was thinking when he named it the "Festival of Gas" ?

Rhinestone Room Inspiration

An old man spent all his time decorating every spot of his house. This has been salvaged from the house when it was condemned/torn down and is now in a museum. And dang if I can't remember where I saw it. Maybe I came across it when I was trying to find N.C. Wyeth illustrations?

Other blogs and so on...

Valentine's Day card from a collage that I made for a South American Explorer Magazine cover:
(My permission to download and use as a card) I have found some pretty unusual blogs:
The Daily Mumps
A Softer World

And this one is fun:
my house is cuter than yours

Bet you're wondering what the saying for the week is aren't you?

Saying for the end of the week:
Help pick out a saying. It's your turn! Go on.......I know you want to......

What's happening

New knitting project to start today. Can't wait to get home. I don't know-I just saw this hat and for some unknown reason I felt that I had to own it.
I know call me crazy. I wanted the yarn in a charcoal grey heather but that wasn't possible. I don't even like cats. Maybe I can knit the ears bigger like big dog ears.

Frantic (Is this the name of an Alfred Hitchcock movie?)

I'm going to have to cut back on my Martha Stewart OD-ing (pronunciation: o - dee - ing). Over the Holidays I went crazy gathering recipes, planning, baking, making, buying groceries, cooking, and on and on. Except for one other person, twice, I was the only one sitting around looking at all of it. Very depressing and fattening. And I'm still eating the stuff from the week before Christmas.

Finally a Posting

You know how quite often you see baby boomer men with little tiny thin pony tails and bald every place else? I wonder what the Vikings looked like when they started getting bald?



I thought that I'd do some research into Christmas starting from a pagan holiday and this is the first thing I came across here. It is pretty funny.

Saying for the rest of the week:
That guy has wiener written all over him.

Baby talk

I would like to knit my friends some baby presents so I have been looking for, not just cute, but unique and somewhat "elfish" baby knitting patterns. So far I have had very limited luck. I love the knitting designs by Kate Gilbert. They are unique and beautiful and some are even "elfish!". Unfortunately I will have to wait for the patterns to be written.

I've just remembered that I have photos froom the Rennaissnce Faire on Flickr.

Headline in the news

This is one of Reuters: World News top headlines:
Sunnis demand probe of torture Does this sound right to you?

Untitled

I came to a conclusion. No one cares about my feelings except me.

In the news

Misha

News:

My interface design for the Cornell University Entomology web site redesign won! See it here and here.
Some notes about the design: 1. The menus are not hyperlinked to any pages (because only a design!) 2. The photograph next to the writing about the Entomology Dept. would change each time the page is refreshed. The photos would be of people in Entomology 3. Writing on the page is just "filler" to designate content areas 4. Since this is a design (versus an actual web page), it will download slowly from a slower speed connection than our high speed connection at Cornell

Now we'll see how badly our "computer support" geek can ruin it. I was excited because I could have it in my portfolio but who knows what he will do to it since he is so lame. Maybe I won't want my name on it.

Saying for the week: Better do it while you can.

Knitting update:
I am half finished with the back. It's been very hard to keep the pattern correct. I could have knitted the whole thing a couple of times over if I didn't have to keep taking it out and figure out what stitches I had dropped and messed up. Oh well, it's only a bus project.

Coming up next: Food and recipes. Feta / spinach strata. Hot fudge pudding cake. Post a comment for recipes. Later.

Blast From the Past

New York Dolls
New York Doll (a movie)

Watch it at ifilm.

Jab me in the rear with a pointy thing (?)

I read this and thought that it was a pretty accurate description of how my week is starting off so I'm going to make it my saying for the week. This is quite the same idea as my usual saying about the ole hot poker in the eye....

Saying for the week:

Just jab me in the rear with a pointy thing.

Squishy eyeballs

It's been so much fun having TV cable especially after not having TV for years. There are so many home and craft shows on now. And they are on all the time. I am completely in love with this one called "While you were out".
I watched the new Martha show yesterevening for the first time.They made pumpkin raviolis (which are very good with a smoked tomato cream sauce) and this very good looking wreath although the web site photo just does not do it justice because on the show it was awesome. You just jam the twigs through the eye balls. Martha was pretty funny about doing that and described it as if they were the way real eye balls would be and then seemed to gross herself out and added that but of course she doesn't really know what it would be like never having done that.
They had small bags of those eye balls at Target. Should have gotten some along with the tiny rubber rats.

Just another rainy Tuesday

So there's this band that's going to be playing this week. I can't seem to be able to figure out what their name is from what is written about them...but they are (quote) "superstars of Bulgarian "wedding music," a kinetic, rhythmbending cultural force that ricocheted across Southeastern Europe in the 1970s and '80s." (unquote) You can view their album here. You will see that they are four manly type guys. (Click on the photo of the record cover to go where you can hear the song samples)

This is how their music is described:
"Built upon virtuosic technique, inventive improvisation, rapid tempos and daring key changes, “wedding music” is based in Balkan folk music and infused with a riveting mix of jazz and rock, Gypsy, Turkish and Indian music, and pure testosterone. " (me laughing-"Ha! Ha! Ha!")

Well, after reading all that, I was surprised when the first song sample started to play! Click on Lenorije Chaje and listen to the whole snippet... (another me laughing-"Ha! Ha! Ha!")

Testosterone my butt.

Photos

I'm about to figure out how to be able to access my photos on Flickr from the web site but for now here they are http://www.flickr.com/photos/grinzadayglo/