Althouse: Dark thoughts.

१० जून, २००८

Dark thoughts.

Oh... I'm mulling things over now....

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a swirling chocolate malt of angry liquid...

१६ टिप्पण्या:

TMink म्हणाले...: It is nice to see a monochrome, this one works very well that way.

Trey; १०/६/०८, ८:५६ AM
Ruth Anne Adams म्हणाले...: You and Rich Galen.; १०/६/०८, ९:०७ AM
Bob म्हणाले...: Ann Althouse: a swirling chocolate malt of angry liquid...

...on a dark and stormy night...; १०/६/०८, ९:१६ AM
Ann Althouse म्हणाले...: Bob... it refers back to the Gays Mills post. I didn't write that and I agree it's purple prose.; १०/६/०८, ९:१८ AM
Ann Althouse म्हणाले...: (did something to make that clearer); १०/६/०८, ९:१९ AM
bearbee म्हणाले...: Septia tone with texture, shapes, swirls and angles.

Very nice.; १०/६/०८, ९:२१ AM
Bob म्हणाले...: Yes, I know you didn't write it, Ann. :)

It seemed to fit here, though. I'm in a whimsical mood this morning, I guess.; १०/६/०८, ९:२२ AM
Ann Althouse म्हणाले...: Me too... but still touchy, I guess, about anyone thinking I wrote that...; १०/६/०८, ९:३८ AM
Robert Burnham म्हणाले...: Just curious -- did you use a prefab sepia duo/tri/quad tone from Photoshop? Or cook up one of your own?; १०/६/०८, १०:०३ AM
Ann Althouse म्हणाले...: Robert, I got to that by a lucky accident, using only iPhoto. In "effects," I switched to B&W, then, I did something that shouldn't have changed anything: I clicked "Boost Color." I was surprised to see things getting browner and I clicked it up to 6. Maybe I shouldn't reveal that secret!; १०/६/०८, १०:१६ AM
Chip Ahoy म्हणाले...: I'd rather open i-Photo than Photoshop.

It's 'sharpen' slide feature beats Photoshop, and I prefer its 'saturation' slide over the one in Photoshop. I also prefer i-Photo's 'exposure' slide. Plus it loads a lot faster.

I officially hate my phone. Its camera was a primary purchasing decision, but I found after buying it and locked into a two year deal, that it's impossible to connect directly to a computer, neither Mac, nor P.C. That feature is unreasonably costly through Sprint. They are second-rate photos, after all. They cannot be emailed to myself, without added expense, and there is no memory card, nor is there a handset manager for this model phone that manages photos. This has caused me to become deeply and lastingly annoyed with Sprint, and I'm uncertain to recover.

Angry liquid. A flood occurs, let the anthropomorphizing begin!; १०/६/०८, १०:४८ AM
rhhardin म्हणाले...: Roethke did poems to that photo.

Um...here, Kenneth Burke _Language as Symbolic Action_.; १०/६/०८, १०:५७ AM
Tituslovewilltearusapart..some day म्हणाले...: After watching Boston and LA in the NBA finals I am having some dark thoughts too.; १०/६/०८, ११:०३ AM
Chip Ahoy म्हणाले...: The thing about using poetic descriptions is they can be inadvertently offensive by comparing a devastating thing with a cute thing, as this chocolate malt comparison does. That's why I hate the phrase "it's a wake up call" to describe something like a tornado, hurricane Katrina, or a war. It conceptually reduces something huge to something small and that makes me think the person doing the comparing is stupid.; १०/६/०८, ११:१६ AM
Henry म्हणाले...: Robert, I got to that by a lucky accident, using only iPhoto. In "effects," I switched to B&W, then, I did something that shouldn't have changed anything: I clicked "Boost Color." I was surprised to see things getting browner and I clicked it up to 6. Maybe I shouldn't reveal that secret!

This reminds me of a trick a friend used to do with traditional print film. He would shoot with color film, but have it developed as black and white. The values would be right, but the hue was very undpredictable.; १०/६/०८, ११:४६ AM
KCFleming म्हणाले...: "Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man."
C.S. Lewis

Such devastation turns the strongest heart into a child's.; १०/६/०८, १२:०० PM