[+230 | Slideshow] uncelestial had a pretty epic birthday party at his new home last night. The best addition (which I'm totally going to gank for my next theme party) was a greenscreen photobooth with 20+ backgrounds. Of course, the 9/11 background was the most popular - you just can't go wrong with exploding planes. I was in a quiet mood last night and took quite a few photos, although my camera managed to make the rounds so I'm looking forward to what debauchery found its way onto my memory card. Of course, I still haven't posted photos from my halloween party yet so we'll see if I ever get around to going through them.

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caseyplusplus

• BeeBug Link


• dsus4dsus2


• Ithaeland (mine)


• Khalsa


• madden net


• NETGEAR


• magnisonu


• TUX

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I actually took this photo a long time ago, but I think I forgot to post it. This sign found near goldfischegirl's house on an abandoned factory.

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jeremycaneydev

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02:20 pm - Blind Date (via popcultureicon)

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Set during the Inquisition, this erotic horror flick tells the story of a depraved abbess and her young novices, who dive into the murky waters of mental illness and carnal lust. The sisters are exposed when a young lover tries to kidnap his bride from the convent and witnesses their outrageous behavior. If the young man doesn't save his love from the insanity before the Inquisitors arrive, everyone will be executed!

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sarevilo

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At Katie's department's white elephant exchange, I won a new laptop. The most impressive features: it's less than a pound, it comes preinstalled with several games and runs on standard batteries without a dependency on an electrical outlet. I love it.

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The following is a quick review of the most popular four RAW workflow applications:

• ( Adobe CS2 Bridge and Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) 3.2 )
• ( Apple Aperture )
• ( Phase One Capture One )
• ( Pixmantex RAWShooter )

Ultimately, I think that Apple Aperture shows a lot of potential but isn't even close to living up to Apple's marketing hype (especially on the performance front). I am tempted to move over to Aperture for weddings simply because of the versioning feature (which is helpful when producing, say, both a color and black and white set of the same images). If you own Photoshop and do a lot of Photoshop work on your images then I think Bridge is a good product with really valuable integration into other products; it will take some getting used to, though, as it's not as streamlined. If you are on the PC, definitely download the trial or free version of RAWShooter; if you are on a slow machine, don't have Photoshop or don't need Photoshop for most of your editing this is an exceptional tool. And last, while Capture One is popular software I think it is overpriced and hardly a pleasure to work with; check out the free trial if you're curious, but I'm unsure why it's so highly praised.

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( What I like better about Mac )
( What I like better about Windows )
( Must-Have software for the Mac )
( How it compares to my Toshiba Portege )

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It is a composition and performance instrument for electronic music which tracks the positions of objects on a tabletop surface and converts their motion into music. One can pull sounds from a giant set of samples, juxtapose archived recordings against warm synthetic melodies, cut between drum loops to create new beats, and apply digital processing all at the same time on the same table. Audiopad not only allows for spontaneous reinterpretation of musical compositions, but also creates a visual and tactile dialogue between itself, the performer, and the audience.

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