POG Community Thread
03-04-2009
, 07:11 PM
03-04-2009
, 08:15 PM
03-04-2009
, 08:19 PM
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grrrr...I just had written a longish post about Mahler and Beethoven and firefox ate it. 
I'll just have to try again.
Mahler: what you want to listen to depends on your mood. If you're wanting a big bombastic work to listen to, I'd go with the First, Second, or Eighth Symphonies (the Fifth isn't a bad alternative either). The Symphony No. 8 is actually subtitled the "Symphony of a Thousand" because it takes 1,000 musicians to perform it. If you're looking for a more contemplative work, I'd go with his Fourth or Ninth Symphonies. The ending of the Fourth Symphony is gorgeous, ending with soprano and orchestra. Really good stuff. You can't go wrong with Mahler, really.
With Beethoven, I'd recommend the Fifth Symphony because of its familiarity and its accessibility. Everyone knows the first movement and the bridge between the third and fourth movements is the birthplace of Romanticism. (/random useless musical trivia) My personal favorite is the Seventh Symphony. Hearing a performance of the Seventh Symphony just makes my day better, regardless of how bad the day is going. It's just got some awesome melodies that stick in your head and you can't help but like. (Well, maybe you can hate them, but then you'd have no soul.
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That was very longwinded, especially for try # 2. I could talk about classical music all day though.
I'll just have to try again.Mahler: what you want to listen to depends on your mood. If you're wanting a big bombastic work to listen to, I'd go with the First, Second, or Eighth Symphonies (the Fifth isn't a bad alternative either). The Symphony No. 8 is actually subtitled the "Symphony of a Thousand" because it takes 1,000 musicians to perform it. If you're looking for a more contemplative work, I'd go with his Fourth or Ninth Symphonies. The ending of the Fourth Symphony is gorgeous, ending with soprano and orchestra. Really good stuff. You can't go wrong with Mahler, really.
With Beethoven, I'd recommend the Fifth Symphony because of its familiarity and its accessibility. Everyone knows the first movement and the bridge between the third and fourth movements is the birthplace of Romanticism. (/random useless musical trivia) My personal favorite is the Seventh Symphony. Hearing a performance of the Seventh Symphony just makes my day better, regardless of how bad the day is going. It's just got some awesome melodies that stick in your head and you can't help but like. (Well, maybe you can hate them, but then you'd have no soul.
)That was very longwinded, especially for try # 2. I could talk about classical music all day though.
03-04-2009
, 08:49 PM
dude was an easier picture to alter - and his eyes were more messed up.
Step i) zoom into ~600% manually select around each eye with the lasso tool. - Set photoshop (I use GIMP but it's the same more or less) to only paint on the selected area and paint out the eyes in a neutral colour - like bright green.
Step ii) Find suitable replacement eyes from a n other photo (Google image search ftw!)
Step iii) cut around a replacement eye and Ctrl -C to select it as a brush
Step iv) back on the orginal pic - go to the layers menu and duplicate the first layer so you have two matching pics stacked on top of each other - each with eyes painted out in green, select the bottom layer to work on and make the top layer invisible.
v) ctrl-V to paste in your replacement eye from the other pic, using the "Transform" submenu scale and rotate the eye till it's a close match for the painted out area, and paste it down, I used the same eye for each socket, and squished the second one slightly differently so that it doesn't look *exactly* the same.
vi) use the colour picker to select a painting colour from the white of the eye, and using a fine airbrush paint white over any green areas still left after you pasted. Then use the blur tool to blur out and blocky looking areas (all still at 600% zoom) , don't worry about smudging up the face as we won't see this in the finished pic.
vii) In the layers menu select "add alpha channel" to the bottom layer. Now make the top layer visible and select that to work on. You shoule be back to seeing the face with greened out eye sockets, the new stuff is hidden underneath. Using the magic wand select the two greened out areas by shift clicking on them. Use the eraser tool with a big brush size to erase teh green - and the erased area will go transparent, and you can see through to the new eyes underneath.
viii) zoom out to 100% - then correct any thing that looks a bit odd with airbrush/blur etc working on the bottom layer only for corrections.
Once you are happy that the face isn't cross eyed etc etc merge all the layers into to one "flatten image"
ix) zoom in and lasso select the eyes including the whites once more and call up the colour balance menu - play with the colour sliders so that the palette from the eyes closely matches the palette of the face.
x) lasso select only the iris in each eye now - and you can play with the colour menu as well again to recolour the eyes any colour you want
xi) for coloured eyes and B&W everything else with the Irises selected, invert the selection so that everything else but the eyes is selected and choose "desaturate" from the colour menu.
03-04-2009
, 08:53 PM
Love THE GIMP
03-04-2009
, 08:55 PM
03-04-2009
, 10:00 PM
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, 10:05 PM
03-04-2009
, 10:21 PM
03-04-2009
, 11:03 PM
03-04-2009
, 11:08 PM
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The only one i liked watching was Jessye Norman.
how dare you post erlkonig not being sung by bryn terfel!!!! what if someone is hearing this for the first time?!?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH53KrOqiZo
jk, that is an amaaaazing video that i have never seen before, ty ty for posting
and the pianist should be given the most credit any time this is performed imo, right soah?
03-04-2009
, 11:11 PM
