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03-04-2009 , 07:01 PM
and then if you want to listen to Mahler, but you've already listened to everything recently, there's Bruckner!
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03-04-2009 , 07:06 PM
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Are they as douchy as one would think?
I'm not sure how douchey one would think they are, so I'll just go with "no"
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03-04-2009 , 07:09 PM
they commented on the anomalous surge in posts in POG lately
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03-04-2009 , 07:11 PM
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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 ... Wagner.
FYP
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03-04-2009 , 07:17 PM
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Originally Posted by soah
they commented on the anomalous surge in posts in POG lately
And on that note... Where the heck is Antidan???

MAYBE HE FOUND.... One time dealer!

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03-04-2009 , 07:19 PM
speaking of Bruckner, Fourth Symphony is the way to go imo
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03-04-2009 , 08:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Swiitch
Anna is really good, but I hate her facial expressions when they do a closeup on her.
many of her facial expressions are a mixture of vocal limitations and vocal demands. ie- she cant lower her eyebrows too much on a certain note or her soft-palette will lose a bit of its height too; her mouth can only be opened a certain amount of horizontal vs vertical depending on which note and vowel she is singing at the time, etc etc.

my point is, opera isnt meant for close ups, lol, we have to do some pretty ****ed up **** with our faces to make it sound that good, and every opera singer is anatomically different obv so to each their own. anna is in my opinion the greatest living soprano in the world at the moment, its so damned unfair for her to be so beautiful too!!!!
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03-04-2009 , 08:15 PM
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(03/05/2009 12:05:45 AM) clowntable: so uhm i'm not gonna lie i asked satanist chick out mostly because i expected her to be kinky in bed
(12:06:22 AM) clowntable: and possibly have some lesban/bisexual girlfriends
Forgot this.
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03-04-2009 , 08:19 PM
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Originally Posted by CPFB
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. )

That was very longwinded, especially for try # 2. I could talk about classical music all day though.


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03-04-2009 , 08:49 PM
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Originally Posted by OrangeRake
Funny how you picked the dude to alter

Also, how did you do that?


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.
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03-04-2009 , 08:53 PM
Love THE GIMP
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03-04-2009 , 08:55 PM
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Originally Posted by soah

If I'm lucky maybe I got a cold as well.
why? did you guys kiss?
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03-04-2009 , 09:01 PM
libera me from verdi's requiem with angela gheorghiu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIEaj...eature=related
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03-04-2009 , 09:16 PM
omg Jenn ur too late 3 yrs to be exact

music masons for sure though.
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03-04-2009 , 09:42 PM
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Originally Posted by JennFox
my point is, opera isnt meant for close ups, lol, we have to do some pretty ****ed up **** with our faces to make it sound that good, and every opera singer is anatomically different obv so to each their own. anna is in my opinion the greatest living soprano in the world at the moment, its so damned unfair for her to be so beautiful too!!!!
so true. I paid damn good money for the James Levine Ring Cycle DVDs and basically found myself watching spit, sweat and wretched facial distortions. I sold it. I'd love if someone animated the Ring Cycle.

The only one i liked watching was Jessye Norman.
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03-04-2009 , 10:00 PM
lie to me is coming on now
everybody keep quiet
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03-04-2009 , 10:05 PM
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Love THE GIMP
wow, she really is kinky
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03-04-2009 , 10:21 PM
nh
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03-04-2009 , 11:01 PM
an animated Ring cycle would be the bomb! especially considering the story. That'd be the bomb and I wouldn't be surprised if it happened in the next couple of years. There's got to be some innovative musicians with the pull and know-how to get it done.
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03-04-2009 , 11:03 PM
Should I have gone to the Wagner thingy that is held here in the south each year when I had the chance? Pretty expensive but like impossible to get the tikets normally.
Figured Opera is boring and didn't feel like meeting a bunch of old time Nazis.
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03-04-2009 , 11:08 PM
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Originally Posted by amplify
The only one i liked watching was Jessye Norman.
BLASPHEMY!!!!!!!

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?
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03-04-2009 , 11:09 PM
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Originally Posted by clowntable
Should I have gone to the Wagner thingy that is held here in the south each year when I had the chance? Pretty expensive but like impossible to get the tikets normally.
Figured Opera is boring and didn't feel like meeting a bunch of old time Nazis.
listen to too much wagner -------> invade poland -------> make trip report
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03-04-2009 , 11:11 PM
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Originally Posted by JennFox
listen to too much wagner -------> invade poland -------> make trip report
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03-04-2009 , 11:13 PM
clown, are you talking about the Bayreuth Festival?

i would pay a lot.

and sry, jenn, I'm just getting into the whole lieder thing, was unaware of the Erlkönig protocol

Last edited by amplify; 03-04-2009 at 11:19 PM.
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03-04-2009 , 11:14 PM
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Originally Posted by clowntable
Love THE GIMP
does almost everything photoshop does and it's free
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