Tips on Photography, Mouse's way!

There are so many so-called photographer got NO art. Only porn! All they want will be indecent sexual picture. There's a fine line between eroticism art & porn. This sorta guys will definitely lean towards the dirty side. No need to see what photography he can do. By the way he wrote & by his face, he is no photographer. All his picture are snapshots. If he is a photographer, than I am God! LOL Hell, and tried to cheapen every girls that he comes across? You can judge yourself. Below post is shared by my friend. Hope you all enjoy~

Tips on Photography: By buying a camera, no matter how expensive, you are just a camera owner. It DOES NOT make you a photographer! The camera DO NOT make the photographer. It can only TAKES the photos, but you are the one MAKING the photos... the art, if you have them.

1) Focusing ~ With an auto-focus camera, always depress the shutter button half-way & let the cam focus. You will see green hi-lighted box appearing in the view finder. The green box is the area where the cam is focusing. If the green box is not at the subject you want, most probably the image will be blur, out-of-focus. You can also check the sharpness on the view finder before pressing the button down all the way. If the view finder show a blur image, DO NOT press the button all the way. Release the button & depress it half-way again. Check again before shooting. Most people get blur image is cos of this, by not pressing the button half-way & check. Pushing the shutter button all the way down at 1 go is NOT the correct way of photography by auto camera!

2) Composition Focusing ~ Sometime when you want the main subject to be at the side of the frame, but the stupid auto cam refuse to focus at the side. In such case, the auto cam will focus at the center which most probably is the background & the main subject will be blur. What to do? No worry. The cam is stupid, but are you? Just shift the cam a little to put the main subject at the center of the frame, press & hold the shutter button half-way to let the cam focus on the main subject. When you see the main subject is sharp, shift the cam back to frame what you want to. The cam is stupid & you can trick it easily. =P

3) +/- Compensation For Light & Dark Background ~ To shoot against a very bright/back-lighted or white background, push +2 to compensate. To shoot against a dark or outdoor night background, push -2 to compensate. This way, the people or main subject in the pic won't be too dark(underexposed) or too white-out(overexposed).

4) Horizon ~ Always watch the horizon or the ground. Level it will the image or you will see a tilted pic. Best is to switch on the grid in the view finder of the camera. I'd seen so many tilted pics that I'm sick of them. For heaven sake, are you always drunk, groggy when shooting pics?

5) Background ~ Always, always watch the background of the subject you want to shoot. NOT noticing the background is forever the mistake of fools with camera! Imagine photographing a gorgeous girl & in sexcitement, you frame her with rubbish bins or a big dirty drain showing behind her?!? WTF? You just destroy a beauty! Move the subject if possible! If subject is not possible to move, MOVE YOURSELF! Move to find a better angle! Be flexible. If you are too fix, you will never be a photographer, not in a million years!

6) Angles ~ Almost everyone who have a camera tend to shoot it at eyes level. OMFG! What's wrong with your bloody brain?!? Robot? Take out cam, stand still, point with hand straight out & shoot? You called that photography?!? Certain subjects will appear better if you shoot it from a lower or higher angle. So, lower your cam or find a higher ground. Sigh... fat will still be fat, no help there, BUT many other subjects can appear better, nicer in photo by using the correct shooting angle. It's called 'optical illusion'. The camera lens DOES NOT operate or view the world like your eyes. What you see with your eyes might not be exactly what the camera will record. That's a mistake most people made. "I can see it, so my photo will turn out as according to what I saw" WRONG!

7) Night/Dark or Low Light Environment ~ How many times have you seen people taking pics at night or indoor/low-light condition without turning on their camera flash & without tripod? You wanna bet the pics will turns out good? In most cases, I will bet you my last dollar that the pics taken that way will be fuck-up lousy! Remember rule #6? What you see is not what you gets in the photo. Your eyes can adept to low light, but the camera has its limit. So, either you up the ISO/ASA known as film speed which most probably, you will gets grainy, blur pic or PLEASE, PLEASE turn on the bloody flash! If your flash is too small or the subject is too far, forgets it. In low light or night environment, try not to place the subject too far away, especially when you have a small flash. I always laughed whenever I see some idiot tries to photo a low-lite huge subject(might be a building or display) a hundred meters away at night. No flash in the world can do it! You need the sun. LOL!

8) Composition ~ How many times that you want a pic of a HUGE subject(a mall display, building, monument or landscape) & you want your friend(s) to be in the pic?... When you completed the shot, where is your friend in the pic? You mean that TINY speck is him/her?!? How the fuck to recognize whether that little dot in the photo is anything but just a dot?!? Idiot! Oh, be console that you are not the only idiot around. Many people make this stupid mistake. Please, for pete sake, MOVE your friend(s) AWAY from that HUGE thing & place them NEARER to you or rather, your camera. That means, first, frame the big subject you want in your cam. Then, place your friend(s) till you see them occupying about a quarter or a fifth of the frame. Full length or half-body portrait will be up to you to decide. STOP! DO NOT press the shutter button just yet. I know what mistake you are going to make... remember rule #2 above? Yeah... after all the arrangement & if you forgets about rule #2, all will be for nothing. So, after your placed the big X'mas tree & your friend(s) nicely in the frame, do rule #2 - means focus the cam on your friends, then shift the cam back to what you want to frame before fully pressing down the shutter button. There! If you did it correctly, what you will get is a pic with the big X'mas tree nicely in the background & your friends appearing recognizable with big smiling faces in the foreground.

P/S: Oh... in case if any1 ask why my language is so asshole fuck-up, tell them if they wanna be pamper by sweet words, go find their mommy to teach or pay for a photography course. LOL!

By: SiaoMouse Wong

When Art and Charity comes together

STRONG PLAY ETHIC" An exhibition and sale of photographs by Mark Teo

Too many useless pens at home? Try this

Pizza Cutter

Love pizza? Then you should check out these cool pizza cutter. Names are given according to the e-mail I received.

Phatboy

PF

Easy Rider

Psycho Pizza Cadillac

Black Thongs, Leather Pants, & Angel Wings

When you look at this picture, what do you see? Pride? You see an emaciated boy waving a rainbow flag. You see his meaty butt cheeks, strangely disproportional to his toothpick legs. You see a black thong shoved in his crack like a coin in a couch cushion.

Of course, that's not all you can see. It's only what you choose to see. It's what you choose to focus on. That's all anyone wants to focus on at a pride parade – the butts. The nakedness. The showiness. The feathers. The glitter. The surface.

Now look closer. In the background of the photo, to the immediate left of thongboy's head, stands a tiny Asian woman. She's staring at the boy's jiggling crotch-pouch, wearing a horrified expression – the bulge in his Speedo causing her eyes to bulge in shock. Her mouth is wide open, practically lock-jawed. A folded magazine rests atop her head, preventing exposure from the sun – and the shame.

When I finally discovered her in the picture, standing meek and unnoticed inthe background, I realized the tiny Asian woman … is me. Moreover, that tiny Asian woman represents an entire subset of the gay community, mortified and embarrassed by the lewdness of pride parades. Only instead of hiding a face of disapproval under a magazine, I've decided to expose it by writing in one.

The ultimate goal of the parades is to instill a definite sense of self-worth within the gay community, which continues to face oppression and inequality. And yet, many people participating in the parade itself seem to be working against this goal, pushing our progression backwards as the parade marches ahead.

The photo, which I took at a New York City pride parade this summer, illustrates this point. It's a perfect example of false pride. Though the bony boy is "proudly" waving the rainbow flag, a symbol of unity, his conceptualization of pride is deeply cracked – not unlike his own ass.

Not only is his nakedness and showiness pushing social conservatives further to the right, it's causing normal, non-diva gays to disassociate from the celebration.

There are thousands of people who march at the parades (fully-clothed) in support of marital freedom, adoption rights, and equality in the workplace. Unfortunately, because the media focus all of their attention on drag dressers and Harley-riding lesbians, the more conservative demonstrations at the parade are ignored. Their voices are muted by the loud colors and boisterous costumes of the dancing queens, who feel that egotism and whorishness are traits to be proud of.

"It's time to stop parading and start marching," gay columnist Roger Downey says in a June issue of Seattle Weekly. "Sure, let's say it loud: We're gay and proud. Now let's accomplish something we can be proud of."

In Christian theology, pride is said to be the deadliest of all the sins, a trait from which all of the other sins essentially spawn. At the parade in Manhattan, I was reminded of how figuratively fatal pride can be.

THE DEATH OF SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE
I'm on the corner of 50th Street and 5th Avenue – buying a bag of warm nuts from a guy who looks like the Indian version of Alec Baldwin. My friend Kate is across the street buying a hot dog. When she comes back, I notice that – together – it's like we're eating an entire crotch. Appropriate foods for a gay pride parade.

We've just finished shopping at a three-story H&M, and our legs are tired after squirming into countless ill-fitting pairs of skinny jeans. We sit on a bench and watch the floats.

One of the first to pass by is filled with "leather daddies." A group of old men sporting assless leather chaps and shiny dog collars are dancing in locked cages. They're shaking flaps of loose skin to the beat of Britney Spears' "Toxic."

"With a taste of a poison paradise. I'm addicted to you, don't you know that you're toxic?"…

In retrospect, the song seems strangely metaphorical. The leather-clad men in dog collars seemed to be completely unaware of their own toxicity, oblivious of the chemically dangerous effect their actions have on the public perception of the parade.

After all, if the parade is supposed to promote acceptance and equality for the gay community, how could these tacky displays of sexual depravity be thought of as anything other than "toxic?" Is this what we want straight people to see us as? Is this really what we're proud of?

IU senior Peter Hart went to a pride parade in Chicago this year. We discussed the embarrassment of leather daddies over a delicious Grand Slam Breakfast at Denny's.

"They're the reason straight people hate us," he said, balancing a jiggling piece of scrambled egg on his fork. "They're worried that we're all secretly like that – leather-bound, boawearing, sex-crazed freaks.

"I wish the parade were just a whole bunch of gay people dressed normally, nicely," he continued. "Like in suits and dresses and stuff . Nice shoes and cummerbunds … I know it might be really boring in comparison, but it would have such a good message."

At this point in the gay pride movement, the gay community should be focused on moving forward, charging ahead. The fact is if we spend our time dancing in cages, we're not really going anywhere – we're simply locking ourselves out of social acceptance.

MURDERING OUR OWN SELF-IMAGE
I crumble my empty sack o' nuts into a ball and toss it into a trashcan. After making the shot, I focus my attention on an incoming fl oat, which is filled with steroid-pumped men slathered with liquid glitter. They're wearing angel wings, which are strapped tightly to their broad, tanned backs.

Together, they flock towards us – rubbing their bodies sensually from nips to hips.
I'm always worried about how the straight community is affected by what they see at the parades – if it's just throwing more fuel on the Christian fundamentalists' fi re. It wasn't until this past summer, while watching the fallen angels, that I began to wonder about how the parade may be affecting how we see ourselves.

A study published last year in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology shows that gay men report high levels of "body dissatisfaction, body-related stress, eating disorders, and poor body image." Regale this fact to any gay man on campus, and he's bound to give you a hearty laugh. It's like telling Rosie O'Donnell that butter is awesome – the fact is pretty well understood.
Cut to Read Center, fourth floor, freshman year. I walk into the communal restroom to find a gay friend of mine hunched over the toilet, removing the recently eaten chicken dinner from his tummy.

"Are you sick?" I ask him, holding a cupped hand over my mouth.

"No," he says, flushing his purged poultry. "I'm just fat." A growing number of body-conscious gays are tossing their chicken wings to fit into their angel wings. In April, MSNBC published a study on eating disorders within the gay community. Th e results, which were compiled by Columbia University, showed that an estimated 15 percent of gay men suffer from an eating disorder – proving that, once again, this "sinful" obsession with bodily perfection can become deadly.

RESURRECTING OUR PRIDE
Kate and I are winding through a maze of tourists, trying to find an entrance to the subway system. As I'm doing this, I walk straight into a large sheet of pink poster board. On the board is a message that reads: "Together 50 Years, Still Not Married."

Holding it is an elderly man, dressed adorably in J. Crew slacks and a blue ball cap. I apologize to the man, who slightly tips his hat in acceptance. When I finally catch up to Kate, I swivel my head around to look back at the man. He's holding the sign with one hand and his partner's hand with the other. The two men are watching the fl oats together, smiling – the glossy number "50" glistening slightly in the sunlight.

Forget black thongs, leather pants, and angel wings.
"That," I think to myself, "is something to be proud of."

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COOOOOOL ICE CREAMS....

KODAK MOMENTS...........hilarious 18xs

When your dog steals your Kodak moment

Chicken Hanging with dripping blood @ Singapore

Article below was receive via e-mail, orginally from Stomp.

STOMPer Koh's neighbour hangs the chicken out on a bamboo pole to dry and the STOMPer said that it is so gross because it is dripping with blood.

The STOMPer snapped a picture of the chicken at Block 32 Old Airport Road which was hung out to dry for the fifth time on Sunday (Dec 21).

She sent in an MMS today (Dec 24) and told STOMP:

"I could not believe that my neighbour would hang a chicken out to dry until I saw it for myself. My family told me that it was done several times before.

"The last time my neighbour hung the chicken, it was dripping with blood and it soiled my sister-in-law's clothes.

"How inconsiderate can people get?"

WALL-E's encounters

WALL-E encounter a vacuum, a magnet, a Hula Hoop, headphones and bouncy balls. Disney has just provided us with an exclusive clip of WALL-E's encounter with a Fire Hydrant. Check it out below.

WALL-E Meets a Vacuum
http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/02/03...eets-a-vaccume/

WALL-E and the Magnet
http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/04/21...meets-a-magnet/

WALL-E Meets a Hula Hoop
http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/04/29...ts-a-hula-hoop/

WALL-E Meets Headphones
http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/05/05...ets-headphones/

WALL-E Meets Bouncy Balls
http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/05/30...s-bouncy-balls/

Recently everyone is having Wall-E fever. Some even got a pair of Eve and Wall-E ;p Enjoy this mini series~ Cute picture as well

:)

YEEVIA POTTERY STUDIO - CERAMICS HANDBUILD in Malaysia

This is an e-mail I got from my sifu Frankie Yee, he just came back from USA so I decided to promote this KACHING industry you may want to check out.

Here are the classes that I had typed. At least you know what classes I am planning to offer.

All classes can be drag into 6 months so just devide half the price. Most part time can only do once in a week. :)

YEEVIA POTTERY STUDIO

Intermediate level Ceramics 3 (combination techniques) and Advanced Ceramics Professional Development

Course Description:

Intermediate Level Ceramics 3 and Advanced Ceramics Professional Development is designed for the student with the experience and discipline to work independently in art. This course is to develop and expand understanding of the skills, values and history particular to the ceramics medium. The students are expected to interact with other advanced students and share their problems/discoveries in formal and informal settings. Importance is placed on individual research and productivity toward professionalism in the field.

Procedures:

A portion of each class period will be dedicated to one or more of the following:

Lectures

PowerPoint presentations

Glazes testing and clay bodies experiment

Group or individual discussions

Demonstrations individual or group

Individual / group critique

Course Goals:

To identify each student's style from define and refine personal expression into ceramics.

To encourage students to research and explore processes, materials, and techniques in order to accomplish aesthetic goals.

To provide students with more independent manner of exploring artistic problems, must as they will encounter after leaving the courses.

To promote student verbalized professionally through their esthetic ceramics artwork.

To acknowledge the esthetic of history and contemporary ceramics artists.

This course is a four months long period and it can be repeating over again depending each student progressions.

Each week will have two sessions and each session is 3 hours lecturing with additional 3 hours extra as total of 6 hours. Total of 8 sessions in a month. Date will be schedule available. The hour is between 10.00am to 5.00pm only.

Additional studio time is available when there is no class. Do check out the open studio schedule as first come first served by making appointment.

This intermediate and advanced courses cost (excluding ceramics material, glazing and firing pieces) for one month depends how many students are in a class section:

One student $750.00 MR each cost per month. Full payment is $3,000.00

Two students $650.00 MR each cost per month. Full payment per person is $2,600.00

Three students and up $600.00 MR each cost per month. Full payment per person is $2,400.00

YEEVIA POTTERY STUDIO

Ceramics 2 (throwing on the wheel)

Course Description:

Ceramics II focuses on wheel-forming techniques of ceramics production. After demonstrating wheel-forming proficiency, students are free to explore their choice of forming methods as they develop their own aesthetic ideas in clay.

Course Objectives:

Students will gain knowledge in:

1. Clay Manipulation – demonstrated by ability in wheel-forming clay.

2. Technical information – increased familiarity with glaze formulation, firing and modifications, demonstrated by systematic glaze experimentation.

3. Aesthetic growth – increased awareness of the variety of past and present ceramics forms; the indication of a personal search for a meaningful form as evidenced in pieces produced.

This course is a four months long period. You will learn step by step from throwing simple cylinders, close form, mug/cup, bowl, plates, pitcher, lidded jar and teapot. You will also learning how to pull handle.

Each week will have two sessions and each session is 3 hours long. Total of 8 sessions of lecturing in a month. You can choose weekend or weekday to match my schedule available. Usually the hour you can choose is between 10.00am to 5.00pm or 7.00pm to 10.00pm.

Additional practice time is available for throwing when there is no class. Do check out the open studio schedule as first come first served by making appointment.

Ceramics 2 lecturing course cost (excluding ceramics material, glazing and firing pieces) for one month is $800.00 MR. Full cost payment is $3,200.00 MR. This course is directly teaching one to one and using porcelain clay only.

Top white Yeevia porcelain clay (china bone clay). $6.00 MR per KG.

YEEVIA POTTERY STUDIO

For Advanced Professional Independent Ceramist that needs Consultant.

If you need any ceramics consultant regarding your artwork, I would be giving out my input, guidance and critiques at $100.00 per hour and minimum is 2 hours. Just make appointment with me.

YEEVIA POTTERY STUDIO

For Wall Hanging Sculpture or Landscape mural wall Ceramics Workshop.

This course is a three months long period.

Each week will have two sessions and each session is 3 hours lecturing with additional 3 hours extra as total 6 hours. Total of 8 sessions in a month. Date will be schedule available. The hour is between 10.00am to 5.00pm only.

Additional studio time is available when there is no class. Do check out the open studio schedule as first come first served by making appointment.

This course cost is (excluding ceramics material, glazing and firing pieces) for one month depends how many students:

1 student $750.00 MR per month. Full payment is $2,250.00

2 students $650.00 MR Each cost per month. Full payment is $1,950.00

3 students and up $600.00 MR Each cost per month. Full payment is $1,800.00

YEEVIA POTTERY STUDIO

BEGINNING CERAMICS HANDBUILD COURSE.

This course is an introduction to clay and ceramics technology as applied to the production of art/craft forms. You will learn hand-forming methods of pinch, coil and slab construction. Emphasis will be placed on vessel form. Study will include the nature and origin of clay, a basic overview of the entire ceramic process from raw material to fired form and an introduction to ceramic history.

Course Goals:

You will gain knowledge in three areas of ceramic art:

A. Technical: Proficiency in three (3) methods of hand-forming clay. This involves analyzing and solving construction problems by applying knowledge of the nature of clay.
B. Intellectual: Understanding the physical properties of clay from raw material to fired product and applying this information in the use of the material to effect expression.
C. Aesthetic: Develop an awareness of the unique, expressive qualities of clay through personal experience and study of historic and contemporary work. Exercise creativity in the completion of ceramic works, and verbalize about intent and content found in ceramic forms.

This course is basically a three months long period. Each month will be focusing on one technique. Each technique, there will have a few methods of pinching techniques to learn. So do the others techniques to be mastering.

Each week will have two sessions. Each session is 3 hours long lecturing with hands-on demo and a total 8 sessions in a month. You can choose either weekend or weekday to match my schedule available. Usually the hour you can choose is between 10.00am to 5.00pm or 7.00pm to 10.00pm.

In one session, I will only take one to three students.

The cost:

The beginning hand build ceramics course cost (excluding ceramics material, glazing and firing pieces):

For one independent student, one month is $700.00 MR. (Direct teaching one to one) Total 3 months cost is $2,100.00

If the class has two to three students, each student will be paying $600.00 MR per month. Total 3 months payment cost per person is $1,800.00

If you can find one or two more friends to join you in a group, you will have friends around to chat with while making ceramics.

Extra given Open studio for 6 hours per week without instructor guidance is given to each student and please do make the appointment each week.

Other cost that are not included in the course:

1) Ceramics set tools $30.00 or you can buy from store.

2) Top white Yeevia porcelain clay (china bone clay). $6.00 MR per KG.

Kiln firing price.

Electric kiln full load per bisque firing or one low firing is $35.00 MR

Gas kiln full load for firing to high firing cone 10 is $150.00. Usually it takes 14-16 hours labor of firing and watching the kiln.

Gas kiln full load for oxidation for cone 6 is $70.00 MR

Gas kiln full load for oxidation for Cone 10 is $100.00 MR

For coloring glazes, the price will be between $1.00 to $3.00 per piece.

If you have interest to take the ceramics course and maybe you would like to ask more questions, please don't hesitating to give me a call.

Thank you.

Sincerely
Frankie Yeevia

Malaysia International Ceramist
Master of Fine Art (MFA)
Lecturer & Workshop
Ceramics Art Consultant
Yeevia@gmail.com

Tel: 014-358-0388

Is there art in your morning coffee?

If you have a really really good camera, or if you could speed yourself up so much that everything around you happens in super slow motion, this is what a drop of milk falling into a cup of coffee would look like. Is that cool or what?