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wooh! den-o fiighting sasword?? also.. wooh, kuuga is making a new appearance this is a good thing. I ws wondering when yuusuke was gonna get some action again.

ha ha, I like what you're saying here mike! very nice. I think we need more discussion like this

that's really nice work. perhaps the presentation of the news article could have been changed?

nicely worded zeo. I think what we can say is that there is evidence that strongly suggests evolutiion. this evidence is not evidence 'of' evolution because this statement is worded such that evolution is a fact and that the evidence was found because it is true, whereas if we simply provide teh evidence and say that most people conclude that evolutioon works in such a way because of how teh evidence looks, I think this makes sense? I think what mirabilis is getting at here is the fact that this evidence supports evolution, but it doesn't prove it. it's not evidence of evolution, it's evidence of different creature types over time that are very similar and seem to change following certain patterns. but then, saying that... viruses and other microorganisms do offer startlingly strong support for evolution. I think though.. the aguments for and against creationism... and intelligent design etc. it is not really somethig you can argue over since it just relies on your perspective. after all, there is also the argument as to wether or not WE have free will. some people may say that our choice is simply an illusion and that we are all simply following an elaborate pattern. that our choices are simple cause and effect? how exactly would you prove otherwise. it's not really something you can say for definite.

I don't think i'm making things especially awkward. I'm not being especially picky about things, I mean, I adjust some of my photos in order to get what i saw, I lighten some areas and darken other areas etc. those two images you posted are most certainly photography in my view. there is no reason to say they aren't. also, using infrared filme etc is certainly photography. even in the film industry you see the definition used. the person who controls teh camera and lighting is called the director of photography. anything done afterwards is referred to as compositing and effects. this following image for example, is not an example of photography in my view the artist may have taken hte original images, but the resultant product is not a photograph. it is a manipulated image. it is a fabrication. you got to draw teh line somewhere and this image has gone way past that line. even if the line was quite vague, this is clearly past that line.

do you think the budget has decresed? or has it merely been displaced? I mean, let's look at the elements in earlier kamen rider series. monsters in costumes, rider system with transformation and the special effects of teh attacks. then we get to den-o and we have fully CG elements being featured regularly. denliner and the other train, the giant monsters they had him fighting... this seems to be a feature that has taken a stronghold. giant monsters. it is true that we had this kind of thing in ryuki and we had transforming motorcycles in faizu, but they did not seem so prominent..

that's a good idea. like a magnet.

yes. most certainly. there was something about den-o that has stuck with kamen rider. it's hard to describe exactly what this is, but i will give it some thought and write more tomorow.

well let me say this, anyone can take a photo of an installation that has been set up. if i go to an art show, and take a picture from front, does that make me the creator of the art piece? what if i take somebodies photo and manipulate with other photos, who is teh artist then? what are we looking at here, the photo or the manipulation? what is left of teh original photo that we might appreciate the work that went into hte use of the camera and the light? the comparison of the sculptor. if both artists are sculpting teh material and present the fiished piece, then they are both indeed sculptors. however, if one of teh artists paints a still life that happens to have a bust in it that they sculpted, then is the resultant piece to be considered a painting or a sculpture? but i can bottom line it if we're still not clear... if i want to look at a photograph on deviant art , i go into hte photography gallery and i get exactly what i consider to be photography. if i want to look at what i am describing as photo manipulation (not photography) i go into hte photo manipulation gallery, and so on.

thanks for posting though

I'm glad you said 'close to'. IMO close to in tune is not good enough and hurts my ears. this is what i prefer -

we definately need pics!!!!

that guy playing megaman really needs to tune his guitar. that's painful.

i consider anyone a photographer if they want to be, no matter what their skill level is, but the question is about photography as an art from. the focus on hte camera and taking the photo. retouching is a technique to bring thephoto to what you originally saw. not the same as manipulation. i never saw manipulation of any kind to be pure photography. it's manipulation. once it has been manipulated, you cannot appreciate the original shot. so it ceases being photography. to call somebody a phtotographer, I think that you ought to be considering how they can capture an image. what perspective they used, combined with how they reproduced that image with their equipment. if they aren't reproducing what they saw, how can you judge their perspective and reproduction technique? how can you judge their photographic skill? instead, the emphasis is on the arrangement of the installation, or how they can collage.

I'm a bit dismayed with hte so-called photographer list... I don't consider image compositing to be a form of photography. photography is the art of capturing an image that you see with your eyes. it's about framing, and colour balance tone etc. compositing is not photography. it's digital art of another type. called photo manipulation. and i hate those ones where they set up a scene. this also is not what i consider photography. this is installation making. yes it is taken with a camera, but a lot of the work has gone into hte set up of the scene. you would not be able to go out and see this.

just watching ep 8... now these poses after they transform outside the house.. this is familiar! is this a parody of something? it makes me think of onimusha.

i'm glad these episodes are coming out subtitled. I have decided not to watch shinkenger without subs because the character development is very important in this series. from what i have seen, I know that if you are not 100% clear what they are saying, you can miss the entire point. it's very different from decade in that respect. the characters have got a LOT of depth up til now. far more than the cardboard cutouts in gekiranger.

thanks lost unit, I've reviewed the sizes of all the pages and made them 1500 tall instead of 1100. all text should be clear now. still jpg images so file size has not increased by a crazy amount.

I agree, I think the most important feature on a woman is good skin. I'm not too worried about her shape but if she has good skin then I am very happy. also, I like a woman who has a lot of self respect, hence why i prefer with more clothes on. she is less likely to have some STI and also her attitude would be nicer. you can tell by her smile too. I would post pictures here, but i don't collect them.

OMG!!! that is teh coolest thing ever!! is that real though? or is it just some kids mucking about in photoshop?

lost unit, if you have them, is there any chance you can send me the following pages? vdf-061.png vdf-062.png vdf-063.png thanks. I discovered that when i resized them, I didn't have a backup and i made them too small. some of the text is very hard to read. i have backups of all the others.

anyone notice how very wordy those bad guys are?? they use so many words!! is that some way of talking posh? or perhaps it is old fashioned?

>Kamen Rider Ryuki 34 is available subbed at TVN

why not give it a go and post your results in this thread? I'd be interested to see how well people do based on what i wrote.

i have been using photoshops pen tool for a while. here is how i use it. look at the image. look at how it is curved. i use teh tool that is in the inset box. I use only this tool. i click on one end of the line (shoulder) and then click on the other end of teh line. you have a very simple line. now with the same tool selected, don't press anything, but just click in the middle of teh line. it makes a point. hold teh CTRL key and grab that point. pull it out to where you want it. you have a nice curve. now you see how that came out. you get the general curve first and refine later. watch how i further refine the line that i just made. the only thing i need to do is click, ctrl+click. if you want to adjust any part of the curve, you can grab the point while holding ctrl, or you can grab teh handles that are sticking out of th point. move the hand;es and it changes how the curve reacts.