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Portland, OR - ea - Thursday, June 16th, 2005 : goo
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The intellect so ravenous to know
And in its knowing hold the very light,
Disclosing what is so and what not so,
Must finally know the dark, which is its right
And liberty; it's blind in what it sees.
Bend down, go in by this low door, despite
The thorn and briar that bar the way. The trees
Are young here in the heavy undergrowth
Upon an old field worn out by disease
Of human understanding; greed and sloth
Did bad work that this thicket now conceals,
Work lost to rain or ignorance or both.
The young trees make a darkness here that heals,
And here the forms of human thought dissolve
Into the living shadow that reveals
All orders made by mortal hand or love
Or thought come to a margin of their kind,
Are lost in order we are ignorant of,
Which stirs great fear and sorrow in the mind.
The field, if it will thrive, must do so by
Exactitude of thought, by skill of hand,
And by the clouded mercy of the sky;
It is a mortal clarity between
Two darks, of Heaven and of earth. The why
Of it is our measure. Seen and unseen,
Its causes shape it as it is, a while.
O bent by fear and sorrow, now bend down,
Leave word and argument, be dark and still,
And come into the joy of healing shade.
Rest from your work. Be still and dark until
You grow as unopposing, unafraid
As the young trees, without thought or belief;
Until the shadow Sabbath light has made
Shudders, breaks open, shines in every leaf.
Wendell Berry
taken from Sabbaths
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Peter: wow, now ##this## is cool. love it. thanks!
GGP: 16th Jun 2005 - 18:09 GMT
Oh, my God. Wendell Berry--my hero! I'm in the midst of reading his book, Life Is A Miracle, right now! Great poem, great poet, beautiful fractured image.
elaine: 16th Jun 2005 - 19:11 GMT
'a place not natural but wild' is i think very citynoise sentiment
kobe: 16th Jun 2005 - 19:11 GMT
cool. how do you guys do the photo-montage thing? just paste em together in photoshop or what?
elaine: 16th Jun 2005 - 19:18 GMT
i like a scalpel and a cutting mat myself, but i have used photoshoppe for montage, and the key, as far as i have used it, is managing layers well and using the transform tool. a bit of lighting comes in handy too.
anyone else?
jeeff: 16th Jun 2005 - 19:44 GMT
there are photoshop packages you can get that will auto-stitch panoramic images. i've never used 'em, although i worked for a while at a company doing this. they had their own proprietary software. it was pretty cool until the company went out of business.
if i'm doing this by hand in photoshop, i put each photo on a different layer and make only the arranged layers visible. i make my working layer 50% visible and match it up to whatever's underneath. i use the transform tools (particularly skew and distort) to tweak it. repeating this, i work my way up through the layers until they're all arranged. also, the colour/hue/contrast adjustment tools can make the result much more smooth.
kobe: 16th Jun 2005 - 19:54 GMT
jeeff: wow m8y, thanks for the top-notch tutorial- thats exactly what i was looking for! i figured as much, but would never have reasoned out the transparency and layers deets without a pointer in the right direction. cheers!
GGP: 16th Jun 2005 - 20:05 GMT
ea, i know the window poems well. But you've inspired me to re-read them!
elaine: 16th Jun 2005 - 20:06 GMT
good call jeeff. plus you can use merge visible periodically to stop the whole thing being so unwieldy, and i find it important, in general, for me, to name the layers. final general point about the photoshop, is although lighting and other effects can be useful in moderation, a lot of what you can do in photoshop is essentially taking out information, so less is more
jeeff: 16th Jun 2005 - 22:44 GMT
kobe - no problem. photoshop is the main program i work with, so i know most of the tricks. if you have any other questions, feel free to ask.
elaine - i agree. people need to go easy on the filters. ;)
fuzzytank: 16th Jun 2005 - 23:40 GMT
in the latest 2 versions of photoshop....
file -> automate -> photomerge
or at least thats where it is on anything that dosent start with Apple
its commin standard these days, if you have a lot of images it wont work well by itself, but it makes it really easy for you to move things around and get it setup
if you have older pshop you gotta go finda add on...
elaine: 17th Jun 2005 - 05:08 GMT
ta fuzzytank, i just got the new photoshop, so i don't know what it's got up it's sleeve yet...
Lili: Have you ever used Gimp ?
elaine: no, i meant to try it, is it any good?
Lili: Yes, it's excellent and free. Google it.
Lili: 17th Jun 2005 - 07:44 GMT
Also, Elaine, it's easy to install. I have not used photoshop much but
it appears to me that one can do anything that can be done in photoshop
and more. Very nice app. Go to http://www.gimp.org/ .
Anonymous (pool-71-106-177-190.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net): 17th Jun 2005 - 07:51 GMT
It is very good. So you don't have to hunt at the gimp.org site go directly to http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/ and (for windows) download
2 files and unzip them: GTK+ 2 for Windows (version 2.6.7) [updated installer] and The Gimp for Windows (version 2.2.7). Run the GTK file first. Then run the Gimp install. All should work fine.
Lili: 17th Jun 2005 - 07:56 GMT
That last message was me.. Gimp looks complicated on first look but it is
easy to use. Start with openning an image file and choose something that
you typically do with an image and do it. You can right click on the image
and a menu will appear. For example to adjust color or bright or contrast,
right click and select tools and then select color and then bright/contrast .
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