#I changed the pic and managed to get a decent print

[emily-mooon]

Update: blorbo has officially been placed in my art project 😌

[lou-is-creative]

Unpredictable (pt11)

ꜰᴀɴᴅᴏᴍ: 6 Underground

ᴍᴀɪɴ ᴄʜᴀʀᴀᴄᴛᴇʀꜱ: Four/Billy // Eight/???

ꜱʜɪᴘᴘɪɴɢ: Four/Billy x male!Oc

ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 10: Play by the rules

ꜱᴏɴɢ:   Bishop briggs - white flag

𝔹𝕖𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕖 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤, 𝕡𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕖 𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕧𝕚𝕠𝕦𝕤 𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕡𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕤. 𝕐𝕠𝕦 𝕔𝕒𝕟 𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕞 𝕠𝕟 𝕞𝕪 𝕞𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕥!

AN: Pic isn’t mine

Crinkled bedsheets, head buried in his pillow. Bare skin against soft fabric and the faint scent of him. It was peace and it was safety, and it was comfort.

Eight twisted slightly. He titled his head to the side, eyes still closed. He was awake for a while now. But he refused to open his eyes. His abdomen rested on the mattress while his arms were crossed under the pillow he was holding. Only his lower body was covered by the white blanket, but he was too lazy to pull it up.

The room next door seemed just as peaceful as his. Seemed, because within one of the two persons laying on the bed, there was no peace at all. Fours eyes were opened. He was staring at the ceiling. His thoughts were rambling through his head.

There he was, laying right next to a beautiful woman who rested her head on his chest, peacefully sleeping, and still, he couldn't stop thinking about the boy next door. The boy whom he went outside with in the night, the boy who made him laugh all the time. The boy who became his best friend, although they didn't know each other for long yet.

Thinking about it, about him, Four got awfully aware of the fact that he actually didn't know his friend at all. And he didn't know him. They didn't know each other’s names and they didn't know the shit they've been through. Why was Eight this good with knives? Why did One call him a good driver? Why did he choose this car? Why did he live with his grandparents? And why was he so encouraged to end this mission so fast?  Was it something personal?

"Billy?"

Amelia's voice was soft but it struck him out of nowhere. He blinked and turned his head to her so he could face her.

"Since when are you wearing that?"

She asked confused and Billy looked down on himself, realizing that he hadn't undressed as he came back inside. He was still wearing Eights Hoodie which was a little tight for his taste and height. And he was still in his boxershorts.

"I went to the bathroom in the night and fell asleep like this again."

He lied as he looked down on himself. Amelia stroked over the fabric, thinking a little.

"I've never seen this one on you. It looks quite new as well."

She played with the rim of the pullover, revealing a little bit of Billy’s stomach.

"It's uhm, I just grabbed it, I guess. Maybe it's Eights and it fell out of his bag. I should return it."

The girl looked at him, a brow raised.

"Why would it be in your wardrobe then?"

"I... threw all the clothes I had into the wardrobe again so my room would be clean. This must have been a mistake. Must have grabbed it along with other stuff and just threw it inside the wardrobe."

He mumbled and sat up, rubbing his eyes a little and yawning.

Amelia scanned him and sat up too, holding the blanket up to cover her body.

"Where are my clothes?"

She asked and Billy blinked shortly before he realized that she wanted him to search for them. And so he did, collecting all the items he could find.

While Amelia got dressed, the blonde man grabbed a shirt, fresh boxers and pants to do the same.

It was quiet between them. At least until Five stood up.

"So... What are we?"

She asked unsurely while she fixed her hair. Four turned around, one brow raised.

"Human?"

He asked back and Five scoffed while shaking her head.

"No, I mean, what's between us, what... are... we?

"Ah that's what you mean."

Four said, turning back to face his wardrobe. His heart sank right into his pants as he bit his lip. What could possibly be the correct answer? The one where both of them were happy?

"We are friends, right?"

He paused for a second.

"I don't want this to change anything between us."

Unsurely, he turned around to face her again. Just to realize, that whatever the right answer would have been, it wasn't his. Amelia looked a little hurt. She definitely wasn't happy. But before Billy had to come up with something to fix it, someone knocked on the door.

"Hey Four, you wanna go get groceries with me?"

It was Eight. Fours eyes lit up. Never had someone opened a door faster than the blonde in that particular moment.

"Groceries?"

He asked and grinned at Eight. He looked at him for a while, taking everything in, every detail about the small boy with the slim but yet muscular figure. He was wearing a pullover today. A dark blue pullover with a small rose printed on the left side of his chest.

"Yeah, I just wanted to grab some food to realize that there was no food to grab. I asked One about it and he told me to get some, so that's kinda what I'm doing now."

Eights left hand nervously fumbled on the skin on his neck.

"And I was curious whether you'd accompany me?"

His soft voice was different today. He sounded a little more... how do I describe it? Tender? But Four didn't mind the sudden change of sound. He just nodded.

"Of course, I'm totally in!"

It still is a mystery to everyone, why Four never really noticed how relieved Eight looked. A cheeky smile spread over his lips, not paying enough attention to notice how Amelia was watching every second of their interaction. To be fair, Four had already forgotten about her.

"Great, meet me at the car, I'll be installing the new licence plate."

The moment ended as fast as it had begun and Four was pulled back into reality by the hand of a woman on his shoulder.

"Seems like your definition of friendship isn't a very common one, isn't it?"

Amelia’s eyes focused on his, pinning him down in the moment, making him weak. He hadn't experienced a glare like this ever since he joked about Eights height as he first met him. It was quite funny how he still remembered his stare more clearly than anything else. How his amber eyes had him pinned against the wall, losing his breath for as long as their eyes locked. All of the sudden, Four had this warm feeling inside of his chest, his hands were tingling.

Must be her, he thought to himself before grinning and pulling her close.

"I said I didn't want us to change. But Friends and... close Friends is something different, isn't it?"

Amelia held her breath for a second.

"I'll be back."

Four winked at her and walked out happily, leaving his 'close friend' alone in his room.

Eight was walking around in the kitchen with Two. Together they both seemed to figure out what to buy.

"Oh, what about alcohol? I think we could use some?"

"Eight, we do have enough alcohol here. Focus on what we have written down and don't buy any more or less than that."

"But it already looks like we have to buy enough stuff to survive an apocalypse? Why not get a little alcohol as well?"

Eight asked, leaning on the kitchen counter.

"I agree."

Four contributed as he was walking into the room, smirking a little. Eight turned around slightly, throwing his friend a cocky smirk back.

"Buy what we need, not more, not less. Understood?"

Two, who held the money they required in her hands, looked at the two younger men with the glare she was well known for. Eight sighed and stretched a little before he gave in.

"Understood."

As soon as Two handed the money to him, she already saw this going downhill. She had had her doubts about the two of them going without supervision and the smile on Fours face just proved her right.

"Play by the rules. We have a lot to lose."

She warned them before they walked out of the door. The half-hearted 'Yeah' from both of them worried her, but not to the point where she would have stopped them.

Three, who had been watching her handle the two young ghosts, wrapped his arms around her from behind and kissed her cheek softly.

"You'd make a decent mother."

He said and Two scoffed, not knowing whether she'd like to kill him or to kiss him. But she often struggled with this particular question if she was being honest.

Eight and Four were already sitting in the car.

"It's even nice from the inside!"

Four exclaimed excitedly while brushing his fingers over the leather seat. Eight smirked proudly.

"Yeah, it's pretty cool, isn't it? It costed me a lot of money but it was so worth it."

The younger put the keys down and buckled his seatbelt before he started the car and made a sharp U-turn to rush off into the city. Four laughed, adrenaline rushing through his veins as Eight sped up more and more. The music blasting over the speakers was only increasing their feeling of absolute power. They felt unstoppable, mighty and free. They felt like two teens who finally managed to get away from their toxic households.

As soon as a street was remotely visible, Eight had to reduce the speed drastically. They didn't want to get caught. Four turned down the volume of the music, grinning at Eight and Eight grinned back. They might be two adult men, but they were as lost in the moment as two teenage boys who finally found their freedom.

"That was so fucking cool!"

Four exclaimed as he looked at his new best friend.

"That was nothing!"

Eight started laughing a little before he turned his head to face the street. His navigation system was on mute, he only looked at it from time to time to take the right road.

"What do you mean, nothing?"

Four asked interested and leaned back while looking at Eight.

"Can you go faster?"

Eight nodded and smiled. He seemed to be remembering something.

"I don't know if I am allowed to tell you, so we are going to exchange some information. I will know something about you and you about me, deal?"

Fours smile turned into a big grin much faster than he could comprehend the complete meaning of the sentence.

"Okay, you go first!"

The words spilled from Eights lips quickly. Probably because he was still unsure whether this was a good idea to begin with. Four let out a soft hum while thinking about the information he was about to give to his friend. The low voice of his combined with the vibrations caused by the hum itself had Eights body shiver of a second. He enjoyed the feeling a lot. Maybe even a little too much for his own taste. Shallowly, he stroked over his arm to calm his nervous skin.

"As I was about sixteen, I had started with parkour running and I had been skateboarding for more than ten years by then."

Eight nodded shortly before he started to grin slightly.

"I have never seen you skateboarding but judging from the number of years you have been doing it, I assume that you are really good..."

"How old do you think I am?"

"About twenty-two? How old do you think I am?"

"I honestly don't know. I would say about nineteen or twenty, not older."

Silence spread, neither of them knew whether they should reveal their age or not.

"I'm nineteen, but I'll be twenty soon."

Eight started as he took a deep breath. It felt right to open up a little. To allow the bond that was between them to grow. For most of his life, Eight had been lying about almost everything to almost everyone. He had never been the kind of person someone would like to be friends with. Simply because he didn't want to be that person. He had always been an asshole to everyone he met, ever since he was little. Afraid of losing people who treated him well.

Four looked at his friend for a while, not really knowing why he felt so special to be the one receiving this information. Maybe it was because the boy didn't seem to be a person who was bluntly nice and trusting to everyone he had ever met. Maybe it came from Fours inner desire to get to know the man- or boy, as it was now confirmed- better than anyone else.

"I'm twenty-three by now."

As the blonde eyed his friend and driver, he could swear that he saw those amber eyes light up a little. And it felt right. It felt right to tell him.

"You owe me a childhood story."

He then exclaimed and chuckled as he turned away, looking out the window.

"Ah right, nearly forgot about that. Uhm I have been driving since I was little. My grandpa taught me as I was ten and signed me up for child races. I quickly developed good driving skills and found joy in doing what I was doing. Especially since I could earn some money at a young age. Oh, look at that. A supermarket!"

It ended as quickly as it began and Four knew he had no chance to ask for more information. It was more than he expected to get anyways, although he wished it would have been more than that. But Eight was pulling the car over to park and the blonde unbuckled his seatbelt before getting out as soon as the car had stopped. The raven haired quickly followed and got the money and the list from the backseat. Doing the groceries for seven adult people was weird to say the least. Both of the boys grabbed a shopping cart and walked into the store.

"Are we being responsible or not?"

Four asked curiously as Eight pulled his hood over his head.  The other just shrugged, a slight smirk forming on his lips.

"Do you want to be responsible?"

He asked before he started putting stuff in the cart that they would need. Four just laughed a little, pushing his hand in his pocket.

"I never liked being responsible."

"Good. I see we think alike."

Although the two of them had agreed on not being responsible, they managed to buy everything they needed. And stuff they didn't necessarily need. Like Energy drinks, Alcohol and cigarettes. And pudding of course.  The cashier was looking at them as if they were crazy. She jokingly even asked what they were buying this much food for.

"See, our parents think that the apocalypse is close. We are just trying to survive."

Eight answered and Four had to hold back a laugh while putting all of the stuff back in the two shopping carts. The cashier, who now looked even more disturbed than before, just silently continued doing her job. It's needless to say that she was visibly relieved as the two guys left her store.

As soon as they were outside, Four and Eight started laughing loudly.

"That was brilliant!"

Four exclaimed while wiping a tear of laughter out of his face. Eight shook his head as he unlocked his car.

"Have you seen the look on her face?"

He asked and they broke out in laughter again while putting all of the stuff they had in the back of the car.

"Dude, she legitimately looked like we were about to sacrifice her to Satan."

"Well maybe that would have stopped the apocalypse?"

Eight placed the last bag of food in the car and made sure that nothing would break. He didn't want to risk dirtying his car.

Four was returning the shopping carts to their place before taking his next to the raven haired in the car. He closed the door and looked at him.

"What are we going to do now?"

He asked, and his voice was a mixture of disappointment and sadness. He didn't want this little journey to end just there. Eight on the other hand didn't look remotely sad. More like he was up to something.

"Trust me."

He said as he started the car and drove off. A million questions popped up in Fours head but before he decided which to ask, Eight had already stopped the car again.

"You wait here."

The blonde couldn’t even start to complain because the raven haired had already left. They were standing in front of a huge electronic store and it took about half an hour until he saw his friend again. Eight was carrying a huge bag and he was smiling like a complete idiot.

And while Four desperately tried to figure out what the other was carrying, the bag was already on the backseat and Eight on the driver’s seat again.

"What did you buy?"

"A PlayStation."

Fours eyes grew bigger and bigger.

"You must be joking!"

But the other just grinned while looking at him. Without wasting time on thinking his actions through, the blonde pulled him into a hug while mumbling an endless row of thank you's. Eight hesitated shortly, but gave in and wrapped his arms around the taller and laid his head on his shoulder, breathing in the familiar scent of comfort.

The moment ended quickly and as Four let go, he was still smiling. This time it were his eyes that were all lit up.

"Let's get home fast from now on so we can get started, hm?"

Eight grinned and his friend couldn't have agreed more.

It was somewhat evening as they arrived at home. One was already waiting for them in front of the headquarter. His arms were crossed, and his facial expression told them about everything.

"Hurry inside. bring the groceries with you."

Four and Eight exchanged looks but obeyed. One probably finished the planning for their next mission and wanted to make sure that everyone would be ready to listen. Including the two boys who'd rather be playing PlayStation than do just that.

Standing all together, Eight couldn’t help but notice the nasty look of Five, who was -according to the hate in her eyes- trying to kill him with her stare.

“Hey Four,”

Eight whispered, nudging his friend’s shoulder softly.

“Hm?”

Four hummed back and gave the other a questioning look.

“I think Five wants me dead.”

The moment the blonde turned around to face Five, he could only agree. Never had he seen the tender woman throw anyone a look like that. It was almost like he could feel the anger pierce his heart. Eight must feel horrible.

“Why does she look at you like that?”

“Four, Eight, you’ve had your play time for today. Shut up and pay attention!”

One’s voice was firm, almost angry which made both of them stop talking and pay attention to the important things. The pinboard, for example.

“Our next mission…”

The leader tapped on a name on the board.

“is James Thomson.”

[sonipanda]

Let’s tone the legs down with a semi-statement pair today. I was toying between a heavy print and these for a while with this outfit, but I went with the more subtle pair so I could add in some textures and play around with my outfit.

I was heading into town today so I needed something that wasn’t too casual and not over-smart like I was going into work, so I went with the following…

The Spec

Colour: Black

Size: Small

Denier: 20

Materials: 85% polyamide, 15% elastane

Price: £4.72 / Sale £4.25

Website: More Tights – Gabriella Emily code 495 20 den

My Outfit

Now let’s get slightly dressy to go shopping in town. I couldn’t decide if I do pumps or heels, and then opted for my boots in the end to keep it smart casual. I wore my white t-shirt paired with my lace trim skirt, subtle jeans belt and added a fedora hat for some serious statement.

My Deets

T-Shirt: Dorothy Perkins

Skirt: New Look

Belt: H&M

Hat: Accessorize

Tights: Gabriella

Boots: Simmi

    The Review

From The Website: Gabriella Emily is exclusive fancy tights, 20 den, manufactured from Lycra fibres double braided with polyamide. Without marked panties part, with cotton gusset, sewed with flat seam. Small heart pattern.

panty area: none marked area / transparent pattern: spots transparency: transparency toe: transparent toes / invisibly reinforced toes occasion: party / christmas / dating / daywear / summer matt: matt fabric: lycra Colour: black / beige / natural gusset: small gusset / cotton gusset Denier: 20 den

  The Packaging: I’m not gonna say much as a lot of the Gabriella packaging is almost identical, so I shall show you in pictures instead once I got inside.

  Getting Them On: I took my time getting these on the feet and over my anklets, as they are pretty delicate. They were fine as long as you take care rolling them on (maybe use gloves if you’re not too confident)

  On The Legs: well all I can say is they are such a cute pair, which can make anything you wear look good. As these are little hearts instead of polka dots, it adds a nice little twist to the concept which can be worn with any outfit you choose. I could have easily gone for plain or a statement pair, but I went with these so I could add lace texture to my outfit.

The quality is alright to begin with, but I did manage to snag these quite a fair bit today as I was out and about.

So note to self: really take care with shopping bags and hosiery!

The fit of these were true to size and there was enough stretch for my legs to be hugged rather than strangled. The feel of them are silky soft, but that can also snag and rip if you’re not careful! The denier is only 20, but it feels like they are a 10 on the legs!

  The Toes & Ankle: as you can see I had no issues around the toes and ankle area.I do apologise for not showing my nails in the pic; they were not done! These had plenty of room around the toes for the to wiggle and breathe.

Around the feet and ankles, it was a lovely smooth fitted finish.

  The Waistband & Gusset: now I need to apologise as I forgot to take my waistband and gusset image for the blog. I was rushing to get changed and completely forgot once I was out the door!

The waistband on these I have to say were great. They did their job well and held these up the whole day without an issues. They sit around my waist (belly button) and don’t really budge to be honest. They have a nice amount of elasticity in them as well so you don’t feel like they’re about to squeeze you during the day!

The gusset is a small palm-sized patch of cotton which was nicely sewn into the middle, letting you breathe.

    My Thoughts?

I gotta say for the price you pay, these are half decent. Apart from the issue with the snagging, these have been fab on the legs and a good pair to have in the wardrobe for a few wears (as long as you look after them well)

Gabriella Emily Tights Let's tone the legs down with a semi-statement pair today. I was toying between a heavy print and these for a while with this outfit, but I went with the more subtle pair so I could add in some textures and play around with my outfit.

[prydon]

a ( VERY LONG) long island geek rundown

aka me just rambling on about paul for paragraphs upon paragraphs, complete with pictures.

so i went to the con with the lovely @haiileyrutledge aka maggie who drove me all the way there from the philly bus station (god bless), it was our first time meeting in person and i still can’t really believe we did this just a few months after we were just kinda joking about going together on twitter when we hardly knew each other

literally the first second we walked into the con, before we’d even gotten our badges, paul mcgann was sitting RIGHT THERE at his autograph table and i may or may not have started aggressively hitting maggie in the shoulder and freaking out and hissing “he’s there, HE’S THERE” and she had to drag me past him so we could get our badges

then we sat in on the panel before his to make sure we got good seats for his. it was a panel with wendy padbury and frazer hines and they were adorable!! by the end of their panel we were literally buzzing tho bc we knew what was next

when paul came in the first thing he did was squint up at the ceiling and complain about the brightness of the lights, like “oh this is quite harsh isn’t it” so they turned them down for him, much to maggie’s chagrin bc she’s a photographer and it made it very hard to take nice photos (look forward to her uploading her photos btw, she got some GREAT shots regardless of lighting)

then we all sang happy birthday to paul, per the interviewer’s instructions! it was v cute. someone uploaded a video of it on youtube. (i took one too, but it was much worse quality)

first question the interviewer asked was what the secret to paul’s eternal youth was, which paul took a SUSPICIOUSLY long time thinking about before finally just claiming it was his insomnia. how not sleeping is supposed to make you look better i have no idea, but it’s clearly not hurting paul’s appearance, despite him “not having slept since the nineties” (his words)

and so on went the panel. it was quite fun, and though i’d heard almost all the anecdotes paul told before, they weren’t ones he’d told a million times and the interviewer asked interesting questions about his brothers and some of his earlier roles.

he also asked him about holby- the most recent episode, even- which i was not expecting lol. he asked paul if gaskell was really dead, and paul was just like “lol it’s a soap, who knows what could happen” and joked about another soap character whose death had turned out to be a dream. 

also of note is that paul never called gaskell by name once and exclusively referred to him as “doctor death” lmaooo. i actually know why this is- he mentioned on a radio show a week or so ago that a holby city fan yelled “doctor death!” at him in the street once- but he didn’t....explain this background to the panel audience, so i’m sure many were baffled by it :”D the interviewer was like “so your most recent role, professor john gaskell-” and paul was literally like “ah, yes. doctor death!” asoifjsaij what a dork

^ this pic is actually from the sunday panel but god, actual dork with a heart of gold paul mcgann being juxtaposed next to menacing shots of “doctor death” was never not hilarious 

speaking of holby, I GOT TO ASK HIM A QUESTION DURING THE Q & A, and i asked him what it was like working with guy henry! he said working with old friends is tough bc they know all your acting tricks lol. he went on gently roast guy and say he’s looked like he was 40 since they were at rada and that one of their professors told guy that he was the kind of person who wouldn’t find real success until he WAS like 40 bc he just had one of those faces, and lo and behold, that was case. notably, paul said all of this while holding eye contact with me since it was my question, and i was literally trembling by the end of his response bc i can barely hold eye contact with my family members let along PAUL JOHN MCGANN

he also said “fuck” at one point. at another he pulled the cap off his water bottle with his teeth and maggie and i were both like...*sweating*

after that we got our photo ops! then managed to get some food in us, and then i went to get paul’s autograph and give him his bday gift, which i already detailed here [x] so i won’t get into that. notably he also called maggie photogenic and said their photo op looked like a housewarming photo of a couple just moving in. we were both dying afterwards.

theeeen that evening i attended a dinner party for fans with vip passes that the stars also attended! the food was v yummy. there was ice cream too.

unfortunately i didn’t end up at paul’s table, but i was at the table next to him so i may have eavesdropped. my table had jon davey, who plays cybermen and daleks and ood etc, and who was very funny and decidedly attractive, and who at one point pulled out his phone and showed me this video while nearly dying of laughter over it

paul was actually late to the dinner because he crashed a painting panel!!

^ here’s him painting his tardis picture with his dorky ass reading glasses on. what an old man. i love him

he did show up eventually, and ended up drinking a decent amount of red wine and i’m pretty sure got tipsy and at one point misheard the person next to him as saying “penis hands” and was like “penis hands???? PENIS HANDS???”

all my table ended up leaving early but paul’s all stayed hanging on his every word bc that’s the effect he has on people :’)) so i ended up scooting over there just to listen. at one point his assistant came over and whispered to me that paul HAD gotten the letter i gave him with his gift and he WOULD read it tonight and i was like “omg no it’s ok, i didn’t need him to reply asap or anything, i just wanted him to have it!!”

i left the dinner when paul left- his table were the last ones out- and maggie was outside the dinner waiting for me and may have collapsed into a fit of giggles when she saw paul. then we went to our airbnb and fuckin CRASHED because we were so damn exhausted

on to SUNDAY

i started placing bets on what paul would be wearing that day on sunday morning, since i know he only has like three different con outfits that he wears. lo and behold we get to the con and he’s wearing THE EXACT SAME CLOTHES AS SATURDAY. like, down to the scarf and shoes. they were 100% the same.

idk why he was, but he must have washed them, or he must be an ethereal being incapable of sweating because he was just as nice and fresh as the previous day [shrug]

we wandered around the dealer’s room for a bit, maggie bought a vinyl from a charity sale booth and i bought a couple dwms with bb eight on them bc why not

my lovely internet friends and fellow paul superfans @savageinkspillage and @paulmcgannlesbian both paid me to buy them autographs, and i was happy to oblige because it meant i got to talk to paul again

i went up to his booth and he said “good to see you again!!” and told me he was so touched by the birthday card :”0 and thanked me again for the drawing!

i told him what names to sign to for the autographs and there was an incredible moment where i told him to address one to “brittany” and his brain like. short-circuited and he tried to spell it out to me except he spelled it some ridiculous white mom way like “B-R-I-T-N-I-Y” or something and i just stared at him for a moment not sure if he was fucking with me before being like “.....no?”

once i told him “two t’s” he got it and said “like the place!!” and asked me if i knew where brittany was in a stern teacher voice and i was p sure it was france but not 100% so i was just like “d-don’t quiz me”

he also let me take pictures of him holding the autographs that i could send to my friends, which was very sweet!! here’s him with @savageinkspillage‘s.

he was very determined that we let them dry before taking them because he didn’t want them to be smudged, and blew gently on them himself like a dork.

before we could go, he also fully just was like “give me a hug” and got up and hugged me AGAIN. THREE PAUL MCGANN HUGS IN ONE WEEKEND. T H R E E.

then after he hugged me he noticed the bowie vinyl that maggie had just bought in the dealer’s room and was like “!!!!!! is that a vinyl!!!! can i see!!!”

maggie was like “of course” and handed it over and he was FAWNING over the thing and promptly informed us that it was definitely an original print bc it was made of a special sort of material only used to make records in the 70s, and that it had never been played. maggie said she got it for $10 and he was like “TEN BUCKS??”

he also sniffed it because apparently “that’s what you did with vinyls” and took it out of its sleeve (with maggie’s permission) and freakin’ messed with it to show us how bendy the materal was before giving it back to maggie and emphatically telling her to “treasure that”.

he asked us where we got it and i said it was at a table in the dealer’s room, next to where they were keeping his painting from the night before. upon hearing about the painting he was immediately like “noooo don’t remind me of that!! i’m so ashamed!!” and i was like “WTH PAUL NO IT WAS SO GOOD”

here’s paul’s painting!! it’s lovely!!

also at one point maggie’s hoop earring fell out and full on, like, made a break for paul mcgann and rolled behind his chair. she was embarrassed but he just picked it up and messed with it, feigning putting it on his ear and saying he wished he was a girl so he could wear earrings like that and i was like “you should get your ears pierced!” because he SHOULD. he just laughed.

we literally had a whole, like, probably 10 minute conversation with him and he was just so lovely and funny and warm and thanked me one last time for the drawing before we walked away soasifjsaoifj 

THEN it was time for his sunday panel!! it was a great change of pace from usual panels, it was called “doctor’s orders” and run by a podcaster who’d based it on advice columns- basically, he asks paul a bunch of questions looking for advice that he’d gathered from fans and paul had to impart his wisdom.

here are just a few choice tidbits from the panel:

q: what do i do if my boyfriend never puts the toilet seat down? paul: get rid of him

q: there are beehives in my house, what do i do?? paul: don’t kill them!! bees are our friends. move out. let the bees have the house instead

q: boxers or briefs? paul: briefs. *pointed look at audience* some of us need the support.

he was asked the trolley problem and said without hesitation that he would move the trolley to kill the one instead of the five. he also endorsed stealing from businesses to feed the hungry (unsurprising because *cough* he’s a socialist). he revealed that he shoplifted all the time as a kid as a right of passage in working class liverpool and asked the audience to raise their hands if they’d ever shoplifted. when a decent amount did, he called it a sign of a healthy society. he doted on his sons quite a bit which was adorable, and said he was the “soft touch” when they were growing up while mum was bad cop.

at one point he said if liverpool won the premiere league he’d “sit naked here in front of you” and then immediately was like “...i don’t know why i said that.” the audience was roaring with laughter the entire time. it was legitimately the funnest panel i’ve ever been too :’0 and we had front row seats!!

at the end, the host opened the panel up to the audience to ask their advice questions, and maggie asked one about how to survive while studying abroad in london next year. paul gently ribbed her at first being like “well, remember to sleep and eat” but then reassured her “you’ll be fine” and i could physically feel her melting beside me.

after the panel he chatted a bit with the women next to us, who i know to be old guards of paul mcgann fandom. i didn’t hear much but i did hear paul refer to “that brexit shit” lol.

the last time maggie and i saw paul, he seemed to be leaving the con and nearly tripped over a remote control cybermat on the way out, which was cute.

all in all...i really don’t have words for how amazing this was. i couldn’t have asked for a better environment to meet my favorite actor in, and i have gained so many wonderful memories that i can’t even keep track of them all, and i can’t wait to do it again.

[prorevenge]

I was doing you a favor by playing the long game...

I too was playing yet another long game by holding on to this for so long.

SO I had read earlier today the owner of a previous job of mine passed away. This was a place that tried to screw me pretty hard and I took some pro revenge on. It drug up some angry old feelings, so why not take an equal dose of catharsis?

WARNING: This is a doozy so strap in if you dare, no TL;DR it wouldn't do justice.

So this takes place almost a decade ago. I was working as a department manager for a fairly large privately owned pest control company. Their color scheme was black and yellow, much like the taxi's the owner's dad used to drive. Since the taxi industry would be around for ever(hello Uber/Lyft) so would this pest control company, (this is important later) or so the owner used to parrot constantly. My job was to over see the techs doing treatments and set their stops and generally manage assorted insect control services, inventory, payroll for that dept, etc etc. I had taken the job from the owners son who took it from the previous manager who they demoted and yet stayed in the dept...this is important later. The owners son was a late 30's early 40's man child. I mean if he had dialed it back a few degrees he would have been an awesome guy, but anytime booze was involved he was a mess. If it was weed, he turned into the stereo typical obnoxious stoner making nothing but bad Jamaican accented jokes. He also hit on anything younger than him that moved...while being married w a pregnant wife. But I digress, the owner was a piece of work too, old Jewish guy who was as racist as he was old, not with any kind of seething hatred. Just a "this is the way it is" type attitude. My fave line of his, "The sky is blue, Ch#@ks know math, N@&ers are lazy, Jews know gold. What else is new" Like it was the most clever thing of all time. Finally now on to the revenge and need for such.

I had been at said job for about two and a half years, while there I had gotten engaged about 6 month earlier. Due to the awesomeness of my staff I invited about 10 employees to my wedding(it was going to be big due to the wife's family and mine's tiny so..) including the owner his son and the previous manager. I should have felt the ripples in the water when I had planned the trip to propose. The day before I go the owner comes in to do something with a big job and I tell him of my vacation plans as he is looking at the schedule. After I tell him of the somewhat expensive accommodations (I was proposing to my then gf), he literally says, "that's a great idea I haven't been there in years, I think I'll go tomorrow too!" I think he is joking, but he immediately tells his son who was taking over my work that he needs to take over for him and be a presence at the job site. Then tries to demand I clear a day out of my booked vacation schedule for us to meet up with him so he can take us out to some expensive place or some crap. On that one day during the trip he ended up no call no show-ing after we invited him to meet and hang with our family. We spent about an hour trying to call/message/email the guy and he never responded the entire trip. I get back he starts cracking lame jokes about how I ditched him to get engaged...that really pissed me off.

It gets better. Over the course of the next few months strange shit starts happening. I am forced to let go of a few of my techs for BS reasons like the 3 strike rule of attendance randomly being enforced without writ-ups or even verbal warnings. One guy had a 3 month old kid with his GF and I had to let the guy go because of a 3rd lateness of over 5 min from almost 90 days earlier and the previous two being almost 2 years old with the notes of in-climate weather and no routes that day (they also denied him unemployment and tried to enforce a 90 day no compete clause that would have stopped him form getting a job w the competition). Then I get a high priority job of going through back logs of unpaid services and start trying to preform collections with me receiving a % of what I collect(that I was never paid). Over the next month or two I keep getting odd things thrown at me to make money which don't have much to do with my regular job. Till one week where the entire office gets the flu. The owners son, previous manager(now just an officer worker), my assistant and about half the techs call out over the course of the week. I still come in with a 102 fever and goddamn doctors note in case I need to bail, just to get everyone set up and do as much as I can before almost passing out 3 days in a row. I get the entire day's work done by 1pm and leave all with the boss's son's approval. He was thrilled things were still working while the plague rampaged on. But not the owner apparently. I got pulled into the office and yelled at about not taking initiative and calling out all these days...he sounds like he is about to fire me before he asks me if I have anything to say for my self. So I correct him and he looks really shaken and then tells me some BS about the EPA stepping in and making us reduce the number of services we are allowed to do from quarterly (4x a yr) to a trimester schedule (3x) all while paying the same price. Guess who got to call almost every paying customer and try to get them to swallow that? ::raises hand::. So I take care of that over another two weeks and once again get called in to the office. Saying we cannot have this anymore and the EPA is crashing down hard on us and I just keep giving out too many services because the EPA really said we are not allowed to treat more than 2x a year and they lied to me throwing me under the bus(turns out that was a lie too they were trying to get up to stop treatments all together). Knowing I never had the power to authorize a single extra service without consent from the owners. So they had to let me go...only 4 month before I was going to get married. It got a bit intense as emotions ran high, the asshole of a son tells, "My dad told me to fire you a while ago for attendance but I knew you were getting married and I didn't want to mess that up so I played the long game for you man...." In an office with no strict punch schedule for the office workers as we were salary and constantly did things like get food for the office or have to run errands for the business and get stock from another location. Along w/ the EPA bullshit he tells me he just couldn't have a dept with two other managers in it who made less than I do doing the same job. They also tried to block my unemployment with falsified paperwork, claiming unsatisfactory attendance. Tons of bullshit and I never got a strait answer as to why I was let go till I did some investigating. Turns out the old manager who was just an office hand was being put back in the spot she was fired form because she offered to take a 33% pay cut form her old salary and the son just didn't want the extra work.....So they tried to scapegoat me for EPA violations and tried to tell the rest of the office my fuckups were the reason people were let go and the department was going to close.

So now that you've read all that you may have a bit of a feel for why I took my revenge so far and for so long. Luckily I had snapped a few pics of the paperwork I signed upon leaving stating it was due to the EPA infractions. That gets printed out and sent to the department of labor with the rest of their awesome tactics(shorting over time and flat out not paying for paid vacations, time card edits). That lead to tens of thousands of dollars lost in pack pay and fines being levied. The guy w/ the 3 month kid I had to let go told me he eventually settled for almost 35k in back pay... My next stop was the EPA, who much to their surprise didn't even know the company had kept doing the treatments at all as it was supposed to be stopped altogether. Luckily they knew the deal and that it wasn't just me making treatments all willy nilly like. More fines, for each and every treatment performed by them from about 3 months before they fired me. That had to be in the 6 figure range as there was well over 1.5k treatments done in the time and the fine was supposed to be over 1k each. The problem with the treatments were they were too effective, and were wiping out the type of insect that has beneficial and necessary environmental roles. So the mfers were actually hurting the ecology of our goddamn state for their own profit. I created a few fake FB profiles to still be able to follow the owner and his son on FB and find out not 30 days after their EPA issues my department closed down.

Okay so that was 2006ish, two years pass and I keep seeing my POS old boss, speeding around the area (I lived near the place) in his old ass little red Mercedes. Guess who called the cops worrying about the safety of those on the road around this dangerous car? Guess who eventually got caught for DUI at 2pm in the afternoon?

Fast forward a few years to 2011. Mr Whiz Kahlifa drops the song Black and yellow. Decent track. But remember how my old boss was a super racist fellow? Remember the business' color scheme? So I spent about a month sending him different youtube links to that song, from random email accounts. And finally one of a commercial for the company with Whiz's song over it vs the lame jingle they used. Not two weeks after I stop they change the goddamn color scheme of the place to a horrible red white and blue one. But not exactly red white and blue like the American flag more like the Blue white red of the French one. I wait about a month after the Black and Yellow attack and send him a vid of the French national anthem while a the flag is waving in the background. The next goddamn day the place is covered in that cheesy car dealer red white and blue American bunting and American flags everywhere.

Fast forward again to about 2014 and fuck me if I am not out for a walk, and see that company's sign in a lawn advertising that same old treatment on the same old signs from 06'...guess who got sent yet another email to the EPA w pictures? That one got them in major and local news as being "no friend to the environment".

Last time I went by their place they seemingly had half fleet of what are now used blue white and red covered mini trucks. Plus their call center building was emptied of furniture. Unfortunately they are still in business but are sitting at about a 3 star rating on Yelp and that was after they did the damage control to get it back from 1.5 stars.

Sorry(not sorry) guys, I was just playing the long game for you....

(source) (story by StendhalSyndrome)

[johnnymundano]

A Blade in the Dark (1983) (AKA La casa con la scala nel buio)

Directed by Lamberto Bava

Screenplay by Elisa Briganti and Dardano Sacchetti

Music by Guido & Maurizio De Angelis

Country: Italy

Running Time: 101 minutes

CAST

Andrea Occhipinti as Bruno

Lara Lamberti as Julia (as Lara Naszinski)

Fabiola Toledo as Angela

Anny Papa as Sandra

Stanko Molnar as Giovanni

Valeria Cavalli as Katia

Michele Soavi as Tony Rendina

Giovanni Frezza as young boy in film clip

Lamberto Bava (cameo in editing room)

(Apology: the pics aren’t too hot because the print wasn’t too hot. Probably something to do with A Blade in the Dark being shot on 35mm (for TV) then blown up for 70mm (cinema). Or just the usual pot luck of Blu-Ray transfers.)

A Blade in the Dark is a 1983 giallo by Lamberto Bava which doesn’t exactly disgrace itself, but nor is it as flamboyantly trashy as you might expect from the director of the nonsense classic Delirium (1987). It’s like Delirium’s better behaved but far duller cousin. While A Blade in the Dark doesn’t make you want to run around without your trousers on, nor does it make you want to take up golf. It’s…okay. Much like the house most  of the movie is set in, A Blade in the Dark possesses too many vacant stretches for comfort, but every now and again there’s an item of interest that makes you glad you bothered. Sometimes it’s a gruesome kill, sometimes it’s something agreeably ridiculous like a small kid in a bad wig, sometimes it’s something heart swellingly surreal like an indoor rain of tennis balls, sometimes it’s just the hope that Bruno will change his jumper, but there’s usually something to keep you awake before too long. True, the movie title does fib about the dark; it’s not actually very dark, even at night; but there is definitely a blade or two, and that’s’ what matters in a giallo. Well, it’s hardly nut-tight plotting and believable characters that matters, is it now? C’mon.

So, in case you were wondering what the set-up is…Bruno (Andrea Occhipinti), a somewhat dull witted composer with bad taste in jumpers, rents a large house from twitchy Tony Rendina (Michele Soavi) in order to work on the score to a giallo, but soon finds his work rate impaired by a series of bizarre occurrences. Occurrences which strongly suggest someone is bumping off young women in the house whenever his back is turned. With a singular lack of bodies and only a slashed up spank mag and a bunch of suggestive blood stains to back him up, Bruno decides not to contact the police but instead raises his concerns with the two people he knows and the gardener, who all basically tell him he’s soft in the head. Bruno might not be a very exciting person but he could have a point. Why do female visitors mysteriously disappear? Why is there blood on the bushes and in the bathroom? Who is the mysterious Linda? What’s that stink coming out of the pool filter? Why would anyone keep a suitcase full of tennis balls? Who rents out a house this badly furnished? Is Bruno just a morbid bugger or is there (da-da-DA!!) really a killer in the house? [Spoiler: there’s really a killer in the house.]

In my defence, it’s not much of a spoiler as we see the murders in all their gory glory. Bruno is a singularly unimaginative man so it’s never in doubt that this is really happening; this isn’t one of those tricksy movies where it’s all going on in someone’s mad head. No, A Blade in the Dark is not exactly unpredictable plot-wise. You will probably guess who the killer is, but you will fail to guess why, as the explanation is as rewardingly “say what now?!?” as in any giallo worth its ketchup. A Blade in the Dark might have a noticeable tension deficiency, but it sure has some murders in it. Without wishing to sound like a thoroughly reprehensible individual, they are quite good murders too; even if the build ups are a bit too long-winded. There’s only so much panicked running away you can watch without starting to suspect the victim’s heart really isn’t in this getting away lark. Eventually, though, the killer corners them and gets stuck in, usually with a craft-knife. This is the killer’s preferred weapon, mainly because it’s available; like many composers Bruno has one lying about along with his spank mags on his work desk. (Oscar® winning movie score composer John Williams never starts a score without a copy of Juggly Wugglies and a craft-knife to hand.) But the killer isn’t too fussy and if a massive kitchen knife, a wrench or a spool of film is at hand then that’ll do. A good giallo killer should always be adaptable.

A Blade in the Dark was originally made for Italian TV so I was a bit taken aback by the levels of violence on show. Nowadays, sure, anything goes. “Won’t anyone think of the children!”; it’s the end of decency and humanity, blah, blah,  and all that. But back in 1983 I’m not sure television was ready for a scene where a woman’s hair washing is interrupted by a knife through the hand, a bag over her face and a repeated and very determined face-sink interaction. Turns out, television wasn’t ready for that, so I win that one. Originally filmed as four half-hour parts of a TV mystery series (Brutal Lady Murder Mystery Half Hour?), with each part ending with a murder, A Blade in the Dark logistically requires a minimum of 4 murders. But Bruno only knows 2 women - his scatty actress girlfriend Julia (Lara Lamberti) and the oddball director of the giallo he’s working on, Angela (Fabiola Toledo).

Julia likes to show up unannounced, sex Bruno up and tell lies, while Angela, like many movie directors no doubt, thinks ringing Bruno up and threatening to kill him in a creepy voice is a real thighslapper of a joke. Obviously both these ladies are a bit freak-ay and thus squarely in the frame as the craft-knife wielding killer, so to maintain the suspense someone else has to get slaughtered upfront. Luckily the house has a swimming pool. As we all know swimming pools attract young women like inappropriate internet content attracts men. And you never know when a young woman might fall out of  a cupboard, for reasons even she seems unsure of. By hook or by crook A Blade in the Dark gets its murders in. Basically, it’s the kills that lift A Blade in the Dark out of mediocrity. Well, the kills and one other thing. Surprisingly this thing turns out to be a lively, self-deprecating intelligence.

While A Blade in the Dark’s TV origins might lead you to expect an approach as dull as Bruno’s jumper, that’s misleading. It certainly caught me quite off guard with the first trick it plays (no spoilers), but that isn’t the only trick this cheeky monkey plays; which is even more surprising. Because, for reasons known only to itself, A Blade in the Dark gets a bit meta, which is fun; it’s even more fun because it just can’t quite manage to pull it off. That’s okay, when meta works it always feels a bit smug; wonky meta is way better. I like my meta a bit rough round the edges, but that could just be me. The crux of the meta is the movie within the movie. Crucially, the movie Bruno is scoring and Angela is directing may contain the key to the mystery. It definitely contains Giovanni Frezza, who has now appeared in so many movies I’ve watched recently (Demons, The House by the Cemetery and this one) I fear he may be haunting me, like that guy in Wes Craven’s Shocker (1986).

But I digress, the line between that in-movie movie and the movie you are watching is blurred occasionally to enjoyably disquieting effect.  Mostly A Blade in the Dark does this by having a bit of fun via Bruno’s music, with that diegetic and non-diegetic business people like to go on about to look smart, and then they wonder why no one invites them to parties. There’s no consistency or real point to A Blade in the Dark’s metatastic boondogglery, but it is fun. Basically, its reach exceeds its grasp, but, hey, points for trying. (NB: If you want to watch a meta-(neo) giallo where the meta actually works (and without any smuggery) then see Berberian Sound Studio (2012)). As TV shows rejigged into movies go, A Blade in the Dark is no Mullholland Drive (2001) but it is just luridly nonsensical enough to be a decent giallo. And there ain’t no harm in that.

[cashtrji754]

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[usetechsmartga-blog]

Hands-on: almost moment photofinishing direct from your cell phone Walgreens and Fujifilm are putting forth APIs that permit printing from photograph apps.

Walgreens and Fujifilm are focusing on cell phone clients with new frameworks that enable clients to request genuine photographic prints straightforwardly from an iOS or Android gadget. Both organizations propelled APIs this week that permit application designers to incorporate print requesting specifically from their photograph related applications. Fuji is designed to mail completed items to clients from a brought together lab, while Walgreens permits pickup from the closest of its 7,900+ Walgreens stores.

Camera-prepared cell phones have to a great extent supplanted smaller cameras for a wide assortment of clients, bringing about 10-20 percent yearly decreases in reduced camera deals for the most recent few years. While cell phones enable clients to effortlessly share photographs through interpersonal interaction locales like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Flickr, getting photograph quality prints is normally the keep going thing on many clients' psyches.

That is a circumstance that Walgreens and Fujifilm would like to change. The APIs enable versatile designers to tap into each organization's photofinishing administrations, making it practically as simple as clicking a catch to get prints from your most recent "iPhoneography" gem.

"Something we see is that there are many altering applications out there for pictures that are on your cell phone," Pierre Blanchette, an item administrator with Fujifilm North America, told Ars. "Clients are investing a considerable measure of energy altering those pictures, so it's reasonable they are imperative to them. We think those pictures ought to be printed; we believe there's something about that substantial perspective that survey on a cell phone screen can't coordinate."

Fuji formally propelled its API this week, which binds into its discount photofinishing administrations. It has two modern style labs situated in Greenwood, South Carolina and Portland, Oregon, which until further notice handle all the versatile requests. Completed prints, and in addition photograph mugs, T-shirts, and different items, are delivered to the client straightforwardly. Blanchette disclosed to Ars that some of its retail accomplices are equipping to offer get benefits later on, however it's not here yet.

Walgreens likewise propelled an API for iOS and Android designers, which as of now is restricted to standard 4x6 prints and also 5x7 and 8x10 growths—what it calls "Snappy Prints." Approximately 50% of all Walgreens stores offer extra computerized photograph items like extended canvas prints and timetables, however those items aren't yet accessible to portable clients.

Walgreens' framework is as of now coordinated in a few applications in the iOS App Store, so I took a couple for a test drive. General I was satisfied with the outcomes, yet there are a couple points of interest that make the experience under ideal.One of the main applications to incorporate Walgreens' Quick Print administration is, obviously, the Walgreens application. The application incorporates things like versatile coupons, remedy refills, and access to photographs. Walgreens has since quite a while ago offered a "photograph collection" include by means of its site, and clients with a Walgreens record can choose those collections under the Photo tab. Be that as it may, clients can likewise get to their iOS camera roll and collections as well.Simply select in the vicinity of one and five photographs, and hit "Print." Those photographs will be transferred to Walgreens' servers. You can picked up to 100 photographs add up to, however just five at once. Walgreens Mobile Product Manager Joe Rago told Ars the "five pictures at any given moment" restrict makes the experience smoother, particularly for clients on 3G information associations. I need to concur; with most cell phones shooting pictures at 5MP or higher, transfer times more than 3G were frustratingly long.Once you've picked the pictures you need to print, the API enacts a standard Walgreens Quick Print interface that is indistinguishable for all applications (even on Android). Here you pick print measure (4x6, 5x7, or 8x10) and quality, up to 20 each. At that point you pick the closest Walgreens area, or you can on the other hand look by city, state, or postal district. At that point you enter your name, telephone number, and email address, and your request is rushed off to your Walgreens store of decision.

Evaluating for Walgreens administrations are institutionalized, with designers getting a little rate of the income that their applications produce. 4x6 prints are 29¢ each—a quite normal cost—while 5x7 extensions are $1.99 and 8x10 prints cost $3.99. You could most likely make prints somewhat less expensive at home, however you won't accomplish comparative outcomes unless you're utilizing the best inks and papers. (Fuji's API framework works a little in an unexpected way, since it works as a distributer—engineers are allowed to set their own particular costs, however Fuji has a "recommended" retail cost.)

One decent component is that you don't need to enter or store any Mastercard data to put in a request; you basically pay when you get your prints. That breaking points potential security issues and makes the requesting procedure brisk and easy.You'll get an email affirming your request, and additionally an estimated pickup time. Requests are typically finished inside a hour relying upon how bustling a specific store is. Rago said that circumstances can keep running as much as a couple of hours on overwhelming days, especially around occasions like Christmas. You'll likewise get an email ready when your request is prepared.

When I tried the administration amidst the day on a weekday, my request was done in around 30 minutes from the time I hit "Submit" until the alarm touched base in my iCloud inbox. The closest Walgreens is around a 10 minute stroll from my loft, making the administration particularly advantageous. (The same is valid all through a large portion of Chicago, however even my little Indiana main residence has different Walgreens areas to browse.)

I requested a few 4x6 prints, and in addition a modest bunch of 5x7 and 8x10 augmentations for examination. The greater part of the prints returned sharp and bright. My neighborhood store utilizes a Fuji Frontier computerized minilab machine, which prints on Fuji Crystal Archive paper—thought to be a portion of the best materials for "conventional" wet photograph handle printing. In case you're a stickler for quality, however, you might need to check with your nearby store and see what sort of hardware they are utilizing; a few labs are utilizing more up to date "dry process" gear, which is essentially a modern inkjet printer.Overall, I was satisfied with the prints. The requesting procedure leaves a bit to be wanted, however. You can just pick one print measure for every one of the pictures in a request, so in the event that you need various print sizes of a solitary picture, you need to make numerous requests. Trimming is done naturally, so there's very little control over the creation of the last print. This is somewhat of a nitpick, however entering your contact data over and again can get somewhat irritating; fortunately that information can be put away in an application and sent by means of the API.

One other proviso for Instagram clients—and I know there are a large number of you out there—is that square pictures presently are not upheld. Rago disclosed to us that Walgreens is working out the coordinations of setting up its lab gear to deal with 4x4" prints, be that as it may, so support will come soon. Meanwhile, square pictures are simply auto-edited to fit.

I additionally attempted one other application with Quick Prints bolster, called Pic Stitch. This application offers an assortment of multi-picture montage formats which you can load with your pictures. There are others like it that have a similar fundamental idea, so we won't get into particular elements here. Suffice it to state that you can browse 4x6, 5x7, and 8x10 sizes with an assortment of styles of montage. Include and orchestrate your photographs, look over some altering alternatives, and after that you can share your picture to informal communities or different photographs administrations. Or, on the other hand you can have your nearby Walgreens print the image.I made a basic three-picture montage at 4x6 size to test the coordination. Much the same as with Walgreens' own particular application, you pick your size, quality, closest store, and enter your contact information. Pic Stitch has a couple of supportive coordination highlights, which caution you in the event that you've picked a format that doesn't fit the proposed picture print estimate. What's more, it can alternatively store your name, telephone, and email information in the application to go alongside your requests, sparing a touch of typing.Overall, this gives off an impression of being a savvy proceed onward Walgreens' and Fuji's part. There is something instinctive about having a physical print of an advanced photograph that is not the same as review it on a screen, regardless of how acclimated to the practice we have all moved toward becoming. What's more, to be honest, the prints are superior to anything I can oversee on my generally great Epson multifunction printer at home. I couldn't test Fuji's administrations right now, however I do have related knowledge with its discount photofinishing items and expect the quality will be comparable. The comfort of requesting appropriate from a cell phone, in any case, makes me presume that I may print significantly a greater number of pictures later on than I have in the course of the most recent couple of years.

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Hands-on: iPics2Go rapidly, effectively gets simple photographs into your iPhone A decent purchase for easygoing sharing of more seasoned photographs by means of your iPhone 4/4S.

Ion, an organization surely understood for its USB turntables and iCade arcade bureau for iPad, as of late discharged a photograph and film "scanner" frill for the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S called the iPics2Go. The $50 gadget is minimal more than a dark plastic box with a few LEDs inside, a space for 4x6" photographs, and a transporter for 35mm negatives and slides, yet together with a free buddy application, iPics2Go makes it easy to get old photographs onto your iPhone for simple control, altering, and posting on the web.

We got a specimen of the iPics2Go to try out, and found that while its straightforward plan has a few defects, it is anything but difficult to utilize and makes working old simple photographs into our advanced informal community a breeze.iPhone: where my photos live

I uninhibitedly concede I'm an "iPhoneography" savage. I have an accumulation of DSLR gear I can utilize at whatever point I need, yet nowadays I seldom have the requirement for the picture quality and determination they give at the cost of mass and weight. I quit utilizing my since quite a while ago appreciated Canon advanced point-n-shoot subsequent to overhauling from an iPhone 3G to an iPhone 4 well more than two years prior. Regardless I take several photos a month, as I did with my trusty Canon, however most by far are brought with my iPhone.

Before going advanced in 2003, however, I had a huge range of simple 35mm and medium organization outfit. I might not have been very as gigantic then as I am currently—all things considered, each shade squeeze cost genuine cash as far as film, handling, printing, examining, and capacity—yet I do have a sizable gathering of pictures taken generally in the vicinity of 1992 and 2003 that exclusive exist as heaps of 4" prints or pieces of acetic acid derivation. I could utilize an expert flatbed scanner to get top notch, high-determination sweeps of the prints, negatives, or slides, yet for the sort of fast and easygoing sharing I do with a great deal of snaps, that can some of the time be more inconvenience than it's worth.

Rather, I've regularly wished there was a decent approach to simply snap a photo of a current print with my iPhone and afterward share it by means of Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or Flickr. That is to say, you can lay a print on a level surface and float your iPhone over it, yet it's a genuine test to get notwithstanding lighting, keep away from glare, and in the meantime hold the iPhone impeccably parallel to limit twisting. Doing likewise with negatives or slides is, the extent that I can tell, unfeasible to the point of difficulty.

Particle to the protect

In this way, at CES 2012 in January, I was flabbergasted when I saw a model of Ion's iPics2Go contraption. It's a substitute interpretation of the organization's Pics2PC scanners, which utilize settled computerized camera sensors to output old photographs and film and rapidly exchange them to a Mac or PC. Be that as it may, rather than including camera equipment, iPics2Go substitutes a client's iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S. Your iPhone's inherent camera equipment does all the "checking," and from that point you can do anything you would do with some other photograph: alter in applications like Camera Plus Pro or SnapSeed, make collections with Diptic or Pic Stitch, or transfer to informal communities like Facebook or Twitter.Using the iPics2Go is genuinely simple. Embed a 4x6" print into the print plate and slide it into the space at the base. Push the power catch, which illuminates a variety of 6 brilliant white LEDs, controlled by 4 included AA batteries. At that point lay your iPhone into the opening at the top, dispatch the iPics2Go application, select "4x6," tap the shade catch, and voila! You've recently checked an old photograph into your iPhone.

The iPics2Go application isn't entirely essential in case you're simply snapping 4x6" prints. The shape and configuration puts the iPhone camera at simply the correct position and separation to completely catch a 4x6" print. In any case, in the event that you flip over the print plate, the gadget now works with the littler 3x5" prints that were more prevalent in the 80s. The iPics2Go application can naturally edit for 3x5" prints when chosen.

The iPics2Go additionally accompanies a 35mm film transporter, which can take a 4-5 outline segment of negatives, or a mounted 35mm slide. Choosing both of these alternatives in iPics2Go crops the ostensible 24x36mm 35mm casing zone, and for negative film consequently turns around the picture into a positive on capture.Additionally, the iPics2Go application applies a touch of programmed picture advancement, and afterward gives you the chance to change the picture facilitate. I found that it reliably delivered low difference pictures from negatives, added excessively complexity to pictures from slides, and gave pictures from prints a yellow tint. Since the impacts were steady, after a touch of experience I could undoubtedly redress these "improvements" utilizing iPics2Go's basic sliders. Additional demanding photogs will probably need to go the pictures through an editorial manager, for example, Snapseed, Photoshop Touch, or whatever other application fits their workflow.iPics2Go gives you a chance to spare the picture to your iPhone's photograph roll, however can likewise email photographs or transfer them to Facebook straightforwardly. These capacities work precisely not surprisingly, however I like to spare the pictures and offer them through different means. This has the additional advantage of keeping the first catch around for sometime later, and the pictures get chronicled on my Mac at whatever point I match up the gadget (a similar will be valid on the off chance that you utilize PhotoStream alongside iPhoto over iCloud).

By and large, the iPics2Go gadget and the iPics2Go application for the most part function admirably. The gadget's plastic feels somewhat modest, however it additionally feels strong—there truly isn't a lot of anything to break. I had a ton of fun uncovering some old photographs to give it a shot. In any case, it has a few issues that are important. For one, the LEDs are orchestrated with three on the left and three on the right, which makes a territory amidst prints that can be unmistakably darker than the edges. This was just perceptible in one of the pictures I checked, however it truly irritated me. Getting all the more notwithstanding lighting may have required more LEDs or an adjustment in the interior outline, yet for $50, it would have been nice.Another issue is that the casing arrangement of the film bearer was off—not by a great deal, but rather it was annoying. I took a stab at embeddings the bearer diverse approaches to balance the issue, yet the transporter is intended to just embed one way. Given this, it feels just as more outline time could have been spent guaranteeing the casing adjusted better to the yield stamps in the application. Indeed, it appears like permitting the trimming manual for be moved around in the iPics2Go application would be a quite simple settle (imply hint!).Finally, the film bearer is intended for both negatives and prints, however the way that negatives are embedded and the transporter's outline abandoned me apprehensive that the fragile film could wind up scratched. I didn't see any scratches in the wake of utilizing it, yet I was to a great degree cautious to abstain from doing as such. I've seen film bearers for different scanners that utilized a delicate felt or velvet inside; once more, at the $50 asking cost, that little additional touch would have been nice.I at last had a great deal of fun uncovering old band photographs from Warped Tour, secondary school move photographs, a brisk representation I snapped of a companion when his now 16-year-old child was only a baby, and even a noteworthy senior picture of yours really (the mid '90s were a supernatural time, were they not?).Using the iPics2Go is significantly less bother than starting up a flatbed scanner. It works practically anyplace—you can take it to mother's home and experience old collections!— and you can utilize your own agreeable or helpful exhibit of "iPhoneography" applications with every one of your sweeps. We likewise realize that a lot of individuals don't have general access to a desktop or tablet phone, that occasionally an iOS or Android gadget may be their exclusive processing gadget. On the off chance that this is valid for you, and you have an iPhone 4 or 4S, then the iPics2Go may be the main advantageous approach to spare old photographs.

Proposed retail for the iPics2Go is a lofty $59.99, however Ion astutely offers it coordinate for $49.99. We discovered it on Amazon for $41.99, and at that value we think it will pay for itself before long as far as fun and comfort. Do take note of that it just works with the iPhone 4 and 4S. Those are by a long shot the most ample iPhone models sold to date, however there are a lot of 3GS proprietors out there who are getting forgotten.