| The message is clear |
| June 22, 2008 |
The message is clear
in this movie...
Like that,
anything can be reversed, and be seen in a completely different light. I definitely
believe in this:
Only think about yourself and only value your own opinions.
It is idiotic to
listen.
If you don't know why,
I think like this..
Click this.Labels: musings |
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| Random Photoshopness |
| June 02, 2008 |
Did these while being bored in school.. enjoy!
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| Written by Stina @ 12:29 |
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| And the winner is... |
| June 01, 2008 |
The actual amount of crowns in the picture above is 630 swedish crowns! And yeah, I know it doesn't look that much, but I have a pic with all the coins stacked in neat little piles if you want proof. ;D
So who won then?..
*drumroll*
...Adi-ilythiiri! With his guess on 613 crowns, he was only 17 crowns away from the real amount... Kongradulations! :D
The runner-ups, who were close but not quite there, are these awesome people:
Vilore 666 crowns
Tiuni 681 crowns
Cappocat 567 crowns
Kladdpapper 700 crowns
And finally the sucke-- I mean, the rest of the awesome people:
Alopec 710 crowns
91 526 crowns
Fjenk 525,50 crowns
Indoglam 735 crowns
Eltaria 511 crowns
Zhoushijie 486 crowns
Serulene 463 crowns
And that should be everyone! Please tell me if I've missed anything, or if I've counted wrong somewhere. Don't anyone dare to claim they guessed something else than what they did. ;D
Prizeeees
Adi will get the grand prize of comic or nice CG image! If he chooses the image, the option to get a comic as a prize will go to the second closest guesser (Vilore in this case), and so on.
The runner-ups will get pwetty images. (for more details, see my last journal)
The suc-- I mean, rest of the guessers will get something fun from me. :D (what it'll be will depend on my mood and inspiration for that day I guess..)
Adi and runner-ups, message me/comment with your requests! No hurry with this, I probably won't start drawing on this until Monday 9th, so you have plenty of time to figure out what you want.
Thank you so much for the guesses everyone!! I'm happy and grateful that so many joined. ^^
(((in case anyone's wondering, I held this contest on my deviantart too! ))) |
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| Contest! Win a comic! |
| May 25, 2008 |
See the coins? I emptied my box of muneh the other day (savings-box? joakim von anka?), and this is what came out.. a loooot of swedish crowns.
The contest is about you guessing how many swedish crowns there are! Non-swedes can guess too! Each of the silvery coins are worth one swedish crown, the larger silvery ones in the upper right corner are worth five. The yellow coins are worth 10 crowns, and the very tiny, rust-colored coins are worth one half of a crown.
I'll give you this clue: It's more than 300 crowns, less than 800.
Now for the prizes! Yaay!
The winner (meaning the one who got the closest to the actual amount of crowns) will get either a 2-3 pages long comic, or a pic with Photoshop magic and all.
Four runner-ups will get sketchy images a la this or this.
The rest of the guessers will get something fun. >:D
If the winner don't want the comic, the offer will go to the second closest, then third closest, and so on.. 'cause I really want to do a comic.
If you decide that you'd like a comic, the script should be around half a page in Word, with character and environment descriptions in a separate file. If you know me IRL you can meet me IRL and tell me IRL what you want. :D
Otherwise.. I'm also looking for practice on portraits. So any requests for portraits will be loved.
The DEADLINE will be next weekend sometime. Whenever I feel that there's been enough guesses.
Start guessing! ^____^Labels: art, contest |
| Written by Stina @ 23:02 |
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| Dreading summer.. |
| May 01, 2008 |
..and is generally irritated at my inability to get myself a summerjob, thinking it will solve itself somehow. You have to create opportunities yourself!
Mom jokingly suggested the other day that I could go downtown and draw portraits, and now I'm thinking "Why not?", seriously, I get to do something fun, I get to practice, and I get paid for it! Whoo! The only question is if it's allowed.. hmm.. and I would have to practice as hell for it considering I've done about.. two real portraits so far?
With some inspiration from the awesome Yokaj Studio, I'm thinking I could do portraits in different styles, from realistic to manga to anime. People could bring something to show the style they would like me to draw them in, and stuff. If I get that good that is. Awghwghwgh~~ Anyone up for being my lab rat??..
Would you pay to have someone draw you?Labels: musings |
| Written by Stina @ 19:38 |
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| Orphan Works Bill |
| April 13, 2008 |
I'm not sure what to think about this, so you'll find a couple of different views on it in this journal.
It seems there's already a similar system in Canada, but I guess that means I'll go right ahead and watermark all my pics even more because I sure as hell don't want my pics to be used without my knowledge.
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"The U.S. Copyright Office issued its report on Orphan Works only a couple of weeks ago. The end of that report contained proposed language for an amendment to the Copyright Act. That proposal is now being fast-tracked in Washington with a good chance of passage before the end of this Session (summer). In the opinion of MANY legislation critics, if that language is enacted in its current form, it will be the worst thing that has happened to independent photographers and other independent visual artists since Work Made for Hire contracts.
Orphan works are basically works whose copyright owners cannot be located. The term "Orphan Works" is really a dangerously misleading phrase. It makes it sound as if it includes only a few works that are not valued enough by their creators to warrant taking care of them. That may be true for owners of many kinds of copyrights. However, the reality is that for independent photographers and illustrators, the majority of your published photographs may well become Orphan Works. The reason for that is that, unlike just about every other category of copyrighted works, photographs and illustrations are typically published without any copyright notice or credit to the photographer or illustrator. The one exception to that has traditionally been editorial uses, but even there the trend seems to be away from providing credit lines. As more and more photographs are published on the Internet, credits become even rarer. Worse, even if you registered your photographs at the Copyright Office, there is no mechanism for identifying you or your photograph or for locating you through those records, if the user does not know your name."
"We’re not worried about the motion picture archive that wants to preserve a deteriorating celluloid silent film or the library that wants to scan an out-of-print book to make it available for academic research. What should concern us as creators who earn income from our work are the commercial users who will produce many copies or pieces for the retail market. Everything from greeting cards, spot illustrations on packaging, textile prints, ceramic tableware, jewelry, to furniture, and so on. As the current Orphan Works Bill is written, the same provisions that would permit non-profits to use an allegedly orphan work would also open the door for commercial, for-profit use. Why would a publisher, manufacturer, or other type of client commission one of us to create a new work for them or license one of our existing works when they could use an orphaned work for free?"
Source:
Orphaned Work: Serious Copyright Issues?
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"In the United States, on 1 March 1989, copyright law stopped requiring a Notice of Copyright to be stamped on every work.
A Notice of Copyright would consist of the exact phrase such as © 2008 Daniel A Sowers Jr.
Prior to this all sorts of notifications were required to be printed directly on the work. Between 1978 and 1989 if you didn't print your notice correctly you could lose your protection and prior to 1978 if you didn't provide a notice you received no protection whatsoever.
Understandably in the copyright climate prior to 1989 you could barely find a work that didn't contain a notice somewhere on it and it was really clear just by looking at the picture or the book who owned the rights to what.
Nowadays it's a different story. If you just look around deviantART for example how many works actually have a copyright notice written on them? Hell, how many are even signed? How many contain watermarks?"
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The Orphan Works Act
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"We heard from average citizens who wished to have old photographs retouched or repaired but were denied service by the photo shops. Unfortunately, if those photographs were taken by professionals (for example, wedding photos), the photo shops' actions make sense under the current law: they know that the photographer, not the customer, probably holds the copyright in the photograph. They ask the customer to produce evidence that the photographer has agreed to allow the reproduction of the photo (which will be necessary to retouch or repair the photo). But of course the customer has no idea who the photographer at his parents' wedding was, or quickly hits a brick wall when attempting to track that person down. Many other examples were presented to us as well, from museums that want to use images in their archival collections to documentary filmmakers who want to use old footage."
"More than one phenomenon has contributed to the orphan works problem. Digital technology has made it easier for a work or part of a work (such as a sound recording or a “sample”) to become separated from ownership or permissions information, whether by accident or through deeds of bad faith actors. Business practices have furthered the publication of works without any credit of authorship or copyright ownership, as in the publication of photographs in some advertising contexts."
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U.S. Copyright Office
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"These orphaned works are still, however, works that some would like to use and they would like to use them without fear of the huge penalties that are available for infringement and would be available to any author rising from his or her own ashes to claim the infringement of the work. Proposals for orphaned works legislation focus on what the price should be for using one of these works after a diligent search was conducted and failed to find the author/owner. The legislation is not an attempt to “take away the copyright.” All such proposed legislation provides for and even encourages the reclamation of the work and its copyright by the author/owner (and their respective successors)."
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Orphan Works
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Petition against the Orphaned Works Bill
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As said I have no clue what to think about this.Labels: art, musings |
| Written by Stina @ 00:00 |
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| Tree Theory |
| March 22, 2008 |
Stories are sort of like trees to me. The trunk would be the basic things in your story, like message, values, beliefs, important things - things you rarely actually write. The branches would be your main characters and intrigues, the things that define your story. The leaves would be all the small things that doesn't really matter, but still makes your story unique, like sub-plots, bi-characters, material things, and so on. The roots of the tree would be the author, and where the author has gotten his/her inspiration from.
For example, let's say JK Rowling never included the Weasley twins in Harry Potter. We would lose some awesome humor, but it'd still be the same story! Harry would still rescue the world, he would be somewhat richer, he would probably have to get the Marauder's map from somewhere else, but in the end the twins are like the leaves on the tree. If you removed them, HP wouldn't be as interesting or fun to read, but it would still work.
Say JK Rowling removed Hermione Granger instead, now that would make a pretty significant difference. Who would Harry and Ron turn to for help with homework? Who would come up with all the smart ideas? Who would punch Draco Malfoy? Hermoine's like a branch on the tree, we could remove it, but it would affect the other branches and the tree would look a lot different.
What if the intention from the beginning had been that Harry would lose, and Lord Voldy win? That's one of those things you don't write. Somehow, you just know from the beginning if the hero is going to make justice in the end, or that evil will take over in the end, and it affects everything that happens in the story. This would be the trunk of the tree, if we change that, we also change the branches and leaves completely.
As for the roots of this tree, if you were to change JK Rowling's inspiration, who knows how Harry Potter could have ended up?.. Would he even have existed?
Uhm, I know it might sound a bit weird to compare stories to trees, but it's a pretty good way to visualise a story, and see how the different parts affect each other. If you would draw all stories as trees, a lot of stories would have the same trunks and branches, some would be very similar *coughactionmoviescough*. Some trees would be original with leaves in exotic colors, some would have long trunks and almost no branches, some would be the opposite. Some roots would be long, and others not as long. And some would be...
To put it simply, like trees, stories can be very different, but also very similar. And every tree, no matter if it's the leaves, branches, the trunk or the roots, is unique. But enough about trees. Here's a Dobby-inspired sketch!
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| Written by Stina @ 15:35 |
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| Let there be light! |
| February 29, 2008 |
And so, the Cliche Galleries are finally finished. Well. Sorta. There's always something to work on, right?
This blog isn't going to so much about me, but somewhere where I can post sketches, ideas and sometimes rants! I don't have much else to say at the moment, just that I hope you enjoy this site, and look in from time to time! |
| Written by Stina @ 17:38 |
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| About this blog |
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When watching movies, or reading comics and books, I tend to dwell more on how the story is told rather than the story itself. My head's often filled with questions like "What is a good cliche?", "Why is it that you always fall in love with the evil guy?" and "Why aren't there more anti-heroes like Rincewind?"
And that's more or less why this blog was created, to let me ramble about ideas and clichees and what not.
I'll also use this blog as a sketch diary, to post recent sketches and perhaps on-going projects. All criticism is very much welcome, even on the simple sketches!
Blogger seems to have problems with certain kinds of letters, so if there's a missing acute accent somewhere you know why..
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