Studio on a Shoestring

Biggest Black Friday Sale EVER from Totally Rad

Save 35% on absolutely everything in the store.

Totally Rad usually has a fantastic Black Friday Sale every year.

But this year, they’re out doing themselves.

They’re offering 35% off on EVERYTHING in the store.

That is a PHENOMENAL offer and they’re pretty psyched about it!

Math Challenged? Percentages don’t mean a thing to you?

Let’s say you purchase RadLab, the completely radical, visual-based photo editing software. That puppy usually sells for $149. But this Friday ONLY it will be $97 dollars.

That is a savings of $52 DOLLARS.

Hello? You’re getting one of the most innovative photo editing software programs AND your walking around with 52 bucks still in your pocket.

Am I the only one who thinks that’s awesome?

Fence sitters listen up.

If you’re still hesitating about parting ways with your currency, these reviews might interest you:

RadLab is a Game Changer

New Lightroom Presets From Totally Rad Really Deliver

Out of town? Not to worry. Their store is smart phone friendly!

Hope all of you have a really wonderful, or at the very least a non-offensive Turkey Day!

iPhones, camera apps and Pop Art

I joined Flickr in October 2007. At the time it felt like I was a late comer.

As I have certain obsessive tendencies, I had resisted the urge to join for well over a year.

I was concerned I would go down that rabbit hole and not come up for air for….years. And that, folks, is why I’ve never tried meth and don’t have Angry Birds on my phone. Nopie nope. Can’t do it.

Ah, what wonders to behold.

But I did join and I’m glad I did. The dizzying scope and array of artistic talent and vision presented on Flickr is staggering.

One of the first people I noticed and marked as a contact on Flickr was Barky aka Mark Schreiner, and his was one of the first images I ‘favorited’.

http://www.medicalbillingandcoding.org/sitting-kills/

Mark’s work has a fantastic, shall we say lurid quality I find very appealing. It’s fun, bright, cheeky and dripping with slurpy color goodness.

It finally dawned on me that I would like to know a little bit more about this person whose work I’ve been following for 5 years.

Road trip![…]

At least according to The Huffington Post…

I found this interesting article about iPhone camera apps whilst stumbling about The Information Super Highway.

According to The Huffington Post, aside from Instagram, the following 10 camera apps are the best:

Hipstamatic
Camera+
IncrediBooth
CameraSharp
Fast Camera
Group Shot
CamWow
Pro HDR
Gif Boom
Flixel

Read the entire article and watch the video for Group Shot below:

The More They Stay the Same.

Woman. Girl. Female. Gal. Femme fatale. Saint. Slut. Virgin. Maiden. Tramp. Trollop. Whore. Strumpet. Slattern. Mother. Daughter. Dyke. Wife. Sister. Grandmother. Skinny bitch. Fat cow. Dog faced. Blubber butt. Thunder thighs. Pure as the driven snow. Fallen woman. Temptress. Sweet heart. Bride. Darling. Beloved. Chubby. Homely. Ugly. Plain Jane. Handsome. Bull dagger. Fatty. Sheela NaGig. Ingenue. Teen. Tween. Buxom. Busty. Prostitute. Starlet. Tart. Cunt. Witch. Hag. Call girl. Doll. Moll. Fish wife. Haridan. Vixen. Catty. Widow. Pubescent. Nubile. Crone. Old bag. Bag lady. Flirt. Tease. Prick tease. Frigid. Bitch. Party girl. Lesbian. Loose. Faithful. Long suffering. Harlot. Nag. Ball and chain. Old bat. Help mate. Bimbo. Good girl. Wicked. Black Widow. Delilah. Curvaceous. Plump. Fat. Pig. Porker. Sow. Lithesome. Lady. Madame. Mistress. Courtesan. Nurse Rached. Babe. Medusa. Goddess. Working girl. Street walker. Cougar. Lolita. Big boned. Girl friend. Fat ass. Little woman. Bad girl. Divorcee’. Queen. Princess. Dowager. Lover. Nurse maid. Old maid. Nymph.

What am I on about now? This.

Once you see, you can never not see.

As well as some awesome postcards and illustrations.

I love digital collaging and am always looking for sources of inspiration.

I have a library of old family photographs, and sometimes use those in my creations.

For example, here’s a piece I did entitled Storm Gatherer, using a photograph of my mother and her older sister, from way back in the day.

But sometimes we all want something new.

Or old, as the case may be.

While stumbling down various and sundry internet rabbit holes, I tripped up on Vintage Printable, a website that describes itself thusly:

“We provide free, public domain/out-of-copyright images for you to print or download. Most of the images are vintage naturalist or scientific illustration, but there are loads of other images, too.”

It’s an awesome site, with searchable galleries in all these different areas: