In the early days of century that was 21st
Links across the world became a buzz,
A fight against a deceiving church was the news,
The worlds voices rang out in unity,
“This deceit can not go on!”
People joined in masses, nameless faceless everyone,
The Anonymous in goal to topple the corrupt,
Thus a Legion came forth from the Internets.
“We do not forgive. We do not forget.
Expect us.” they chanted and they came.
Over 9000 strong they marched
for Lisa on the streets of 100 cities,
wielding weapons mightier than any seen before.
A shield of humor, named as LULZ,
Rickroll’s by the crowds sang in streets,
Silly chants of horse and cult,
Enturbulating fun against serious secrets.
For a weapon they had the information,
for if pen had beaten the sword,
The free information torrent of the internet
is surely mightier than a a gun or bomb.
Wielding cameras and fliers,
masks and picket signs,
they brought the worlds eyes on silent evil,
on 10th of February of 2008.
And again on Ides of March.
Peaceful, funny and mysterious,
The Anonymous Legion.

***

The Internets have awaken,
and for a just cause, should it come,
The Anonymous may be awakened again.
Beware, you who have abominable secrets,
internet will not be gaged.

There was this neat action by fallout75 for Photoshop. It made your photos look aged. But alas, I’m a Linux user and haven’t had the inclination to just buy Photoshop and mess with wine, when Gimp is freely available. But I wanted that action… So it came to pass that I wrote a Gimp script. I had never used the Gimps functional scripting language, Scheme, before and had had only a brief encounter with functional languages in school… Alas, life has shown me that programming is programming, you need documentation, some samples , syntax guide and a plan and it can be done. I admit, it took me a while to put it together working more like solving a puzzle than writing code, but I did it. I also wrote a second script to create LOMO effect. There are probably more configurable options out there… but I like it.

Heres a sample:

Download: death_effects.zip

NOTE: These actions are for Gimp 2.4(tested on RC-s and GIMP2.3, the dev version of 2.4), vintage is confirmed not to work in 2.2, rumors say that Lomo does.
Put the scripts into your scripts folder and run Gimp. They appear under “Filters->Photo Effects”. Have Fun .

Oh! I uploaded this one too, a sample of LOMO effect at work.

TWINS

My family went to Vitipalu hike trails for a little Saturday outing today and of course I logged all my photo gear with me. Landscape there was pretty but a bit boringly green since autumn has not fully come yet and painted it in interesting colors. Perhaps I will go back there a bit later in the year for the landscape. Now to the fun part. There were interesting bugs around. Some spiders, failed to get a good picture of those , some giant ants and and a bug I cannot name in English. Perhaps they are called ladybugs?

The ants were VERY offensive when I approached their nest. I tried to take pictures of some mushrooms near one of their heaps and had to take a hike, because they were literally trying to eat me. So I decided to try the buggers instead.

Thats what I got:

That aggressive little bugger just bit that twig of grass and would not let go… We took a hasty leave…

I haven’t posted here for a while. Somehow have not felt like it. But now, I think its time for a recap. Hmm, lets see what Ive been up to.

Art&Photo

Sometime in march I got myself an airbrush. Ive made altogether five canvas paintings so far, you can see pictures of them at my DeviantART page. Airbrush makes sense for me somehow. I can almost make it draw what I imagine. Ive actually SOLD one painting to a coworker of mine. Incredible
In photo, well, I sold my E-500 and the accessories. The lens prices were depressing me without end and lack of manual focus confirmation broke the camels back. Hello K10D! I had drooled over this camera for a LONG time, ever since it became available and now I owned it. I had to sell my soul to the bank for two whole years to get it, but by god got it And with my own choice of lenses too. I did not buy the kit lens, because I figured I would not need it. I had my Sigma 28-70 f2.8, truly a SWEET lens, and a Sigma 70-300 no APO version for my tele needs. Well, i figured wrong, soon I was itching for a wider angle for my architecture photos. So I bought the kit from after market. Next in order was a manulal focus vivitar macro lens. Another sweet addition to my set. The spider pictures in my photo gallery are taken with that one.