Bits of Peter

Thanks, Ryan.

“And if you can stand me sounding even crazier, here is this: making money from art is not a human right. It so happens that technological and societal blahbity bloos have conspired to create a situation where selling songs about monkeys and robots is a viable business, but for most of human history people have NOT paid for art. I don’t want this to happen again, and I would be very sad if this came to pass, but it’s not up to me to decide. We are constantly demonstrating through our actions what we believe to be the norms for acquiring and consuming content. Right now a lot of us think that it’s OK to download stuff through illegal sites under certain circumstances, and a lot of us think it’s totally fine to use those things to make videos and put them on YouTube even though YouTube profits from it. That’s not ME saying that, that’s US saying that – we’re a nation of pirates and infringers. Based on our behavior, you would not be wrong to deduce that some of us think funny videos on YouTube are more important than honoring intellectual property rights. This kind of thing has happened before. Entire industries rise and fall as the world changes and our priorities shift. Sorry.”

Jonathan Coulton on the MegaUpload takedown

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thiswayforeyeway:

so pretty and decorative!!

gothiccharmschool:

These are so lovely. Via lovelymasoka: Mucha Princess Series

Ariel-Rebirth

Snow White-Innocence

Jasmin-Passion

Belle-Ambition

Rapunzel-Freedom

Mulan- Warrior

Alice-Curiosity

violetsphinx:

I think I just found my new favourite fusion dance style. Gothic Belly Dance, you’re out. Make way for Gothic Clog Dancing!

(Source: americangothgirl)

Fuck. Yes.

How to use Aperture.

Frasier Speirs shares his Aperture workflow:

Once I’ve been through all the images and rated them One Star or Reject, I’ll do another pass asking myself “Does this image deserve to be a Two Star or stay a One Star?”. Having done that, I’ll be looking at some images rated One Star and some Two Star. What I do next is have Aperture hide all the One Star images by choosing ‘Two Stars or Better’ (Ctrl-2) in the search field, then I do another pass deciding if the image is Three-Star or just Two-Star. As an example of how quickly this can happen, I have a 297-image project in front of me right now that I’ve edited down to a set of 38 Two-Star photos in less time than it took to write this blog post.

This post is four years old, but this is the most useful bit of Aperture advice I’ve read so far. Aperture gives you a lot of rope to tie yourself in knots with. This feels like a technique that I can use as an amateur photographer and still use as I start to act more professional.