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clo_againHello! I was supposed to do a 'hai I've moved in this is my pretty view yay' post and haven't. Yet. I will, probably, if only to collect all the random pictures I've taken over the last two weeks. There'll be more random pictures on Monday though; we're picnicking our way through a local horse-racing meet in the next village so I'm sure there'll be some pretty pictures from that. If it doesn't rain. Which judging from today is doubtful. What the hell British weather? Did you just decide to make us suffer on a whim last weekend?
Anyway, because I currently am working hard at being the least productive person on the planet I spentall most of today following the trend of remaking A Softer World strips using figure skating or tennis pictures (possibly there've been remakes using other pictures but I haven't seen them. If you have, please point them out! I love these remakes!)
Originally this started because I love some of the remake versions but they've been designed to be quite fuzzy and the print quality wouldn't have been very good, so I wanted to make some versions without the fuzz so I could print them out. I... mostly stuck to this. Sometimes a little fuzz makes things prettier. Also I wasn't sure how much I cheated with using multiple pictures... then I decided some of the orignals do and therefore I didn't care. ;-) Some worked better than others but there's only a couple I actually like. It's more difficult than I thought it'd be to pick the right pictures! But it's fun trying. :D
So
Tennis:
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Figure Skating:
And this because it made me laugh more than it probably deserved ^_^
And some icons made from them (I tried to keep the text readable. It almost worked). Feel free to snag or whatever; credit is nice but please also credit the Softer World site at http://www.asofterworld.com/. eta: Uh, the second icon would also need a credit tokindoftrouble for taking the beautiful picture.
That was a marvellously fun waste of a day. I shouldn't do it too often but I would like to practise to get better at them. Choices choices! To waste time or not. At least messing in Photoshop is better than aimless surfing. I could almost call it productive. *cough*
I would comment on tonight's Doctor Who but I found it pretty disappointing so I can't really be bothered. It mostly wasn't bad, just...dull. And kind of depressing. Blah. It's a sad state of affairs when Spartacus: Blood and Sand is the best thing you've watched all week (not that Spartacus isn't worth watching! It's full of wonderful lulz and stylised violenceand mostly-naked people! It's just not the most tightly scripted show on television, you know?)
Going to watch the final scores of Eurovision now. Lots of hilarity this year, nearly all due to Graham Norton's commentary. Twelve points to him!
Anyway, because I currently am working hard at being the least productive person on the planet I spent
Originally this started because I love some of the remake versions but they've been designed to be quite fuzzy and the print quality wouldn't have been very good, so I wanted to make some versions without the fuzz so I could print them out. I... mostly stuck to this. Sometimes a little fuzz makes things prettier. Also I wasn't sure how much I cheated with using multiple pictures... then I decided some of the orignals do and therefore I didn't care. ;-) Some worked better than others but there's only a couple I actually like. It's more difficult than I thought it'd be to pick the right pictures! But it's fun trying. :D
So
Tennis:
First picture here taken by
kindoftrouble and used with kind (and um, retroactive *headdesk*)permission:Figure Skating:
And this because it made me laugh more than it probably deserved ^_^
And some icons made from them (I tried to keep the text readable. It almost worked). Feel free to snag or whatever; credit is nice but please also credit the Softer World site at http://www.asofterworld.com/. eta: Uh, the second icon would also need a credit to
kindoftrouble for taking the beautiful picture. That was a marvellously fun waste of a day. I shouldn't do it too often but I would like to practise to get better at them. Choices choices! To waste time or not. At least messing in Photoshop is better than aimless surfing. I could almost call it productive. *cough*
I would comment on tonight's Doctor Who but I found it pretty disappointing so I can't really be bothered. It mostly wasn't bad, just...dull. And kind of depressing. Blah. It's a sad state of affairs when Spartacus: Blood and Sand is the best thing you've watched all week (not that Spartacus isn't worth watching! It's full of wonderful lulz and stylised violence
Going to watch the final scores of Eurovision now. Lots of hilarity this year, nearly all due to Graham Norton's commentary. Twelve points to him!
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Date: 2010-05-29 10:16 pm (UTC)AND THE THREESOME.
YES THIS IS IN ALL CAPS I AM EXCITED OKAY.
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Date: 2010-05-29 10:33 pm (UTC)The threesome one makes me laugh WAY too much, only I wish I'd been able to find a pic where it worked for Marat to be the one asking. It's totally a Marat thing to ask. ^__^
I'M HAPPY YOU'RE EXCITED. I MAKES ALL THE HTML FOR THIS POST WORTHWHILE. :D
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Date: 2010-05-29 10:42 pm (UTC)The threesome one is too funny. I am trying to think if I have any pictures where it looks like Marat is asking but I don't think I have a good quality one. I miss those press conferences.
I AM EXCITED AS THEY ARE EPIC. MAKE MORE! How did you do the frames, btw? Erase the original bits with photoshop?
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Date: 2010-05-29 10:52 pm (UTC)I was looking for a skating picture for that strip and then I rediscovered that picture almost by accident and it was so perfect. The world needs more of those press conferences. Damn, this just reminded me that I meant to make one for the pic of Andy & Roger where it looks like Roger's just said something scandalous and Andy is shocked!laughing. Next time!
I'M GLAD THEY'RE EPIC. IT GIVES ME AN EXCUSE TO MAKE MORE. :D I did selection boxes around the original picture and did another box to deselect the text, then copy -> paste into. It might be easier to copypaste the text box out, just paste into the box and put it back on after, I can't decide. This way makes it easier to keep the text box in exactly the original place though.
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Date: 2010-05-30 07:27 pm (UTC)Can I have the original of the Mirka/Roger picture? I have it somewhere but cannot locate it.
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Date: 2010-05-30 08:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-29 10:42 pm (UTC)But I kept looking at the first Stephane Lambiel picture confused, because he reminded me of someone in that picture. And it FINALLY hit me. He looks like Andrew Lee-Potts. Or Andrew looks like him... whichever. Had me confused for a moment. :-)
Anyhow, these are lovely.
eta: if you kept and/or have the original of the just marat one, please hook me up? In nearly 2000 marat pictures, I cannot find it!
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Date: 2010-05-29 11:05 pm (UTC)YES! I THOUGHT THAT THE OTHER DAY AND WONDERED IF I WAS CRAZY; I'M SO GLAD IT'S NOT JUST ME. They really do look alike! I'd love to see them standing next to each other. I think it helps when Stephane wears scarves because ALP wears them so much but there's definitely a resemblance.
Thank you! They were so much fun to make. :)
*points up* Done! You did mean the motorcycle one yeah?
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Date: 2010-05-29 11:20 pm (UTC)Okay, so I'm not going completely nuts! Andrew is completely adorable and so is Stephane and the resemblance is kind of scary in a way.
You should make more. More tennis ones. ;-)
THOSE ARE THE ONES!!!! HEEEE.