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Imagecrafter

When Otarians learned not to trust wizards, the wizards learned to adapt.

Artist: Terese Nielsen TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

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[ID: Three pages from a Cosplay Special from the back of a Fruits Basket manga volume. The first page shows a black-and-white photo of a group of Fruits Basket cosplayers, captioned, "The members of the Zodiac gathered together (left to right) are: Matt as Haru, Yana as Momiji, Lacie as Rin, Stan as Yuki, Matt as Hatori, Justin as Shigure, Zach as Kyo, Jennifer as Ritsu, Deborah as Kagura, Stephanie as Risa, and Carolyn as Hiro. This picture was professionally taken by ImageCraft Studios."

The second page shows a black-and-white photo of a man leaning on upside-down crutches that have had clawed feet moulded around the top struts, captioned, "supports were needed inside each front leg. Why not aluminum, lightweight crutches? The structure proved to be perfect."

The third page shows a black-and-white photo of a completed cosplay of Kyo's monster form. The crutches are clearly the basis for the long, thick front legs. It's captioned, "the true--or monster--form of the cat was completed by Zach and worn to Anime Expo 2006." End ID.]

I think it's really sweet how they included a cosplay gallery in one manga volume, complete with a breakdown of how this really impressive monster suit was constructed. Cosplayers are cool as hell and whatever Zach's doing now, I hope it still involves making creative outfits.

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I'm gonna come back to imagecrafting after I make dinner and study Lojban if mun is done streaming then

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Relaxing tonight with a bit of Art Journaling. #imagecrafts #artjournal #artjournaling #decoart #decoartamericana #decoartamericanaacrylics #stazonpigment #tcw #tcwstencils #tcw202 #tcwlightandfluffymodingpaste #timholtzideaology #loriscardsandcreations https://www.instagram.com/p/B7SdsBTgdWx/?igshid=ravuwkk8sxu2

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unit 10 // imagecraft - reference

recently came across a psychedelic rock band called Causa Sui; not only do they have great music but their album covers and posters are extremely vibrant and unique. they really stand out and capture the essence of their music. I do like the way they've placed all the necessary text on the album cover and will take this layout in consideration when laying out my album cover.

[jonaled]

We are Coming!! Image Craft Photo Video Expo 2022 August 3, 4 and 5 Visit for latest LED Displays and Controllers from Jona LED and Novastar Booth No. B12 Venue - Netaji Indoor Stadium, Kolkata

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You should be playing #12 - Peer Pressure

So let me tell you about a game I got in this weekend.

I'm playing Derevi "Creature Types Matter" against mono red beats and Licia Vampire Tribal.

My board is full of useless dorks. A Spirit Mirror. A token from Irregular Cohort. Timin Youthful Geist and his buddy Rhoda. And a Vesuvan Doppleganger who'd been copying an Elenda the Dusk Rose for a handful of turns.

Licia had been attacking and growing since around turn four. Luckily I had a Spirit Mirror reflection to keep blocking with, but between all the attacks and blocks, Licia and Elenda were getting pretty scary.

I wasn't in a position to win the game, but until that point I at least had enough of a board presence to keep everything pretty even.

Then the mono red player suited up his commander with a Commander's Plate. And the vamp player dropped a Vona Butcher of Magan.

All of the sudden, I found myself in a position where I couldn't just sit back and grow. Vona could kill off any of my prison pieces, and Commander's Plate meant I could neither block nor tapdown 6+ points of commander damage each turn.

When the Licia player decided to kill off my Vesuvan Doppleganger/Elendra before it got too big, I took my shot and played Peer Pressure.

The 8 vampire tokens I got from my newly deceased Doppelganger trumped his 7 real (scary) vampires in play. It was better than a one sided board wipe. It was absolute devastation.

I passed the turn. Vamps did nothing relevant as he was low on cards in hand. Red attacked for minimal damage. And my turn I attacked with a dominant board state against nothing to win the game.

Folks. Play more Peer Pressure.

Pairs nicely with:

Unnatural Selection

Maskwood Nexus

Unnatural Selection

Imagecrafter

Irregular Cohort

Progenitor Mimic

Birthing Boughs

Mirror Entity

Shields of Velis Vel

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Just Pinned to Grafik: Anomie, from Metahaven, Disposable Imagecraft, 2012 https://ift.tt/2Df1XnJ

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Fernando Sanford and the "Kirlian effect"

Fernando Sanford and the "Kirlian effect"

Amelia Carolina Sparavigna Dipartimento di Fisica Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy In 1894 Fernando Sanford discussed in a paper published by the Physical Review an electric photography technique, which he developed starting from 1891. The images that he published in the paper are clearly showing some fringes about the objects he photographed. Several years after, the fringes appearing in the electric photography have been recognized as the “Kirlian effect”. Unlike Kirlian, Sanford did his best to reduce these fringes, improving the device but losing the “Sanford effect”.

Fernando Sanford and the Kirlian effect Fernando Sanford was professor at the Stanford University. He was born on a farm near Franklin Grove, Illinois, February 12, 1856 . After attaining his degree of Bachelor of Science, in 1879 he became Professor of Physical Science and then Superintendent of Schools in Illinois. To improve his knowledge of science, he went to Germany and studied for two years with one of the outstanding physicists of the time, Hermann Von Helmholtz. Though Von Helmholtz pressed him to stay in Berlin, Sanford came back in the United States, becoming one of the members of the group of scientists who came to Stanford to create its pioneer faculty in 1891. Precisely from this year, Sanford started to study and test the electric photography. This was a photographic technique, experimented in that period such as other photographic “lightless techniques”, by several researches. Reported on magazines, these researches stimulated also the popular culture and the literature . Sanford describes the technique in a paper published on Physical Review , after becoming aware of the announcement of a new device, the "Inductoscript", invented by F.J. Smith. Sanford tells that in the earlier experiments, he developed a negative image upon a piece of bromide paper, that he placed between two plane metallic electrodes, connected with the poles of two chromic acid cells. The negatives showed only the places of contact of the sensitized side of the paper and the corresponding electrode. After reading a paper by W.B. Crofts, in the Philosophical Magazine of August, 1892, Sanford prepares an experiment laying a coin upon the sensitized side of a glass plate, and connecting it with the terminal of a small induction coil, capable of giving a spark, while a tin foil under the opposite side of the photographic plate was connected with the other terminal of the coil. Sanford is telling that this is the same method used in the "Inductoscript". To demonstrate the effect of an electric photography, Sanford is accompanying the article with a photograph. Moreover, he tells that he did several negatives, and that, with only one exception, all show fringes around the photographed objects, fringes "due to the escape of the charge from the edge of the coin, which accounts for the formation of the dark ring observed around the breath figures made upon glass" (see Fig.1, left). An improvement of the set-up, obtained by using a dielectric insulation of the object, gives as a result the image on the right of Fig.1. In fact, Sanford wanted to remove the fringes from the image. The photographic plates obtained by Sanford and shown in his article, are quite similar to those obtained by means of the Kirlian photography (see Fig.2). This is an electric photography too, "named after Semyon Kirlian, who in 1939 accidentally discovered that if an object on a photographic plate is connected to a source of voltage an image is produced on the photographic plate" . According to these references, Kirlian independently rediscovered the electric photography, the underlying physics of which was explored as early as 1777 by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg and then by several researchers, including Nikola Tesla. What was enhancing the interest on electric photography was the Kirlian’s assertion that the images he was obtaining might be due to the "aura" of a living being. Of course, in addition to living material, inanimate objects, such as coins, produce images on the film in a Kirlian photograph setup (see Figure 2). Reference is reporting several studies on the Kirlian photography. Let me just cite the researches by K. Korotkov in St. Petersburg. He uses a Gas Discharge Visualization technique, parent of the Kirlian effect, where electrodes create a pulsed electric field perturbation that has a glowing effect. According to the researcher, this effect could be useful in some cases to detect the stress of biological structures. A Google search for “Kirlian photography” produces about 278,000 results. Searching for “Kirlian aura” gives about 215,000 results. It means that the fringe effect in an electric photography is able to raise a huge interest. I do not want to discuss any possible link between the fringes created by the electric field and the aura. The aim of the paper is simply that of discussing the researches by Fernando Sanford on electric photography, documented by images on a scientific journal. To the author’s knowledge, the picture of the left panel of Figure 1 is one of the early images of the Kirlian effect, that we can find in a journal accompanied by a clear discussion of the method used to have it. It was in 1894: after many years, the electric fringes are still considered as an effect of aura. Unlike Kirlian, Sanford did his best to reduce these fringes, improving the device but losing his “Sanford effect”. References 1. Memorial resolution, Fernando Sanford (1856 – 1948), Stanford Historical Society, at http://histsoc.stanford.edu/pdfmem/SanfordF.pdf 2. A.C. Sparavigna, Physics in Carnacki's investigations, arXiv:0711.4606, Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph), 28 Nov 2007, last revised 18 Jan 2008, http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.4606 3. Fernando Sanford, Some experiments in electric photography, Phys. Rev. (Series I), Vol.2, pp.59–61, 1894. 4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirlian_photography 5. Julie McCarron-Benson in Skeptical - a Handbook of Pseudoscience and the Paranormal, ed Donald Laycock, David Vernon, Colin Groves, Simon Brown, Imagecraft, Canberra, 1989, ISBN 0-7316-5794-2, p.11 6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kirlian_coins.jpg Full text: Fernando-Sanford-and-the-Kirlian-Effect Read the full article

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Round of 8192 - Batch 13

You can now vote in Batch 13!

Currently open batches:

Batch 13 Batch 12 Batch 11 Batch 10 Batch 9 Batch 8 Batch 7

Batch 6 results will be up shortly.

Feature card: Pyroclasm was the fourth highest scoring card in Round 1 - let’s see how it does in Round 2.

Full list of matchups:

Woodcutter's Grit vs Rhox War Monk Sigil of the Empty Throne vs Fomori Nomad Thrashing Wumpus vs Rugged Prairie Corpsejack Menace vs Psychic Trance Reiver Demon vs Rift Bolt Skill Borrower vs Aradara Express Rewind vs Aysen Bureaucrats Orzhov Basilica vs Demon of Death's Gate Cliffrunner Behemoth vs Pilfered Plans Imagecrafter vs Hunter's Prowess Scorching Lava vs Briber's Purse Mana Maze vs Tyrant's Familiar Cerebral Vortex vs Territorial Dispute Thought Gorger vs Sprouting Thrinax Goblin Gaveleer vs Dominus of Fealty Kor Chant vs Abu Ja'far Desolation Giant vs Nyx-Fleece Ram Kathari Bomber vs Accursed Spirit Lodestone Golem vs Breaking // Entering Revel of the Fallen God vs Glimmervoid Worm Harvest vs Tragic Arrogance Chromescale Drake vs Underworld Connections Artificial Evolution vs Izzet Boilerworks Colfenor's Plans vs Pyroclasm Famished Ghoul vs Biomantic Mastery Diversionary Tactics vs Grinning Totem Herald of War vs Fleshformer Opalescence vs Segovian Leviathan Transcendence vs Reckless Bushwhacker Chromatic Lantern vs Burning Earth Twincast vs Gloryscale Viashino Monstrous Carabid vs Sen Triplets

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Create monochromatic watercolor with Mboss Powder and VersaMagic

Hello all,

Today I am over on the Imagine Crafts Blog with a card that focuses on the use of monochromatic color. It’s a great technique with a lovely outcome; especially when framed with White MBoss Embossing powder. 

  Imagine Supplies:

Creative Artist Medium – Clear

StazOn Pigment Ink – Piano Black

Sheer SHIMMER Craft Spray – Sparkle

Fireworks! – Cottage Ivy

VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad

Versa…

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unit 10 // imagecraft - final (ish) poster

Redid one of the previous acrylic paintings bigger, and wrote the text digitally, taking inspiration from James Heiman's poster for the text placement.

I like the colours in this, however I'm not too sure about the text above the dogs, perhaps I'll experiment with different handwritten fonts.

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Schrödinger’s Coat https://ift.tt/2Kan3au

What gets obscured under Melania Trump's meme-happy outerwear.

"The most generous reading of Melania Trump’s trip to Texas is that the first lady, as a mother and a human, deeply cares about the plight of the families who have been separated because of the policies of her husband’s administration; the less generous is that she made the trip out of concern for imagecraft and/or soft power and/or spite. What Daniel Boorstin knew, and what becomes clearer every day, is that the effects of either interpretation will be precisely the same: She will perform empathy, and we will look at the pictures of the show. We’ll argue about the jacket, because it is easy and meme-able and arguable and there. It’s photo ops, all the way down."

SocioTech Tumblr @SliverDemon

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Imagecraft so far:

I chose to work on imagecraft as I know that developing images into a final piece is one of my weakest areas and I want to improve my realisation skills. This project gives me the perfect development opportunity, as it’s focused on context driven processing of a specific image. 

I have been working on these found-image posters and poems based around the topic of mountaineering and climbing, as it relates to my IPS work and dissertation research, as well as what I want to do when I graduate. 

The posters started when I went in search of postcards wth mountains on them in France, from antique shops. I have been collecting postcards from a particular ‘brocante’ (flea market) for many years now, and I wanted to get as many as I could this year. Once I had collected a considerable amount, I scanned them all in and played around with the idea of postcards and text, and what the postcards may have contained in their message to those who received them. I am fascinated by the fact that these postcards have been on such a long journey and that they now have ended up with me (and wherever they may go next!). 

The images all contained mountains as I was beginning to focus on the idea of the sublime that I started researching in second year in relation to the act of free solo rock climbing. This developed into a general interest in the philosophy behind hiking, mountaineering and climbing as there are certain emotions that these places elicit that are extremely profound and beautiful. With these postcards and the text I have paired with them I wanted to try and recreate that emotion of reacting to the sublime, and being overwhelmed by the beauty of nature.

I began developing these images by writing more poetry and finding new images online to make different images with, which led me to finding the blog ‘goclimbarock’ on tumblr, which is an archive of old images related to climbing and the mountains. From there I found lots of relevant material and began focusing on less specific images of mountains, now including people more and areas related to but not including mountains, to expand what I meant by this idea of the sublime. 

In terms of developing these images, my group tutorial with Nic really helped as he helped me realise where I could take these images next. I want to experiment with the images themselves instead of drawing them, and this can be done through print and etching. I want to see what I can do with them by distorting them and playing around with them through scanning and printing them. I would also like to talk to typography to see how I could incorporate that into the prints and distortions, ensuring the inclusion of the poetry and text in the image without having to do it by hand. I have always been meaning to go into typography, so this is the perfect time to do so. 

This distortion helps to represent the abstract emotions associated with the sublime, and the overwhelming nature of the scale of the mountains themselves. 

I also considered getting into painting, as I wanted to see if large scale abstract paintings could represent not only the sublime, but also the experience of what is known as ‘flows-state’, an almost transient experience where your mind and body are so focused on an activity that you become entirely absorbed and nothing else is entering your mind but the activity itself. Climbers and mountaineers frequently mention experiencing this state, and I feel that the current images in the sport do not do justice in explaining this state as they are too realistic, too solid. I want to experiment with the abstract to challenge and explore these emotions. 

Nic said to use this concept as a brief, and to focus on a context based around creating some sort of publication or series of prints appropriate for display in an appropriate area, like a gallery or climbing centre. This has helped me to focus my development and generate more specific content.