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cram these are amazing! lovely!
MOAR!!!
keep it up!
Holy shit, dude! <3
:mittens: :mittens: :mittens:
some stuff I made for the
Prophetica Discordia. More to come.
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QuoteDiscordians are a sect of vagrant lunatics found in the Strange Times. When a fresh recruit is admitted into this fraternity, he is to take the following oath, administered by the principal maunder, after going through the annexed forms.
First, a new name is given him, by which he is ever after to be called; then standing up in the middle of the assembly, and directing his face to the dimber damber, or principal man of the gang, he disrobes unscrupulously. He then repeats the following oath, which is dictated to him by some experienced member of the fraternity:
I, Crank Cuffin, do swear to be a true brother, and that I will in all things obey the commands of the great tawney prince, and keep his council, and not divulge the secrets of my brethren, unless I do.
I will never leave nor forsake the company, but observe and keep all the times of appointment, either by day or night in every place whatever man.
I will not teach any one to cant, nor will I disclose any of our heinous mysteries to them.
I will take my spagmate's part against all that shall oppose him, or any of us, according to the utmost of my ability: nor will I suffer him, or any one belonging to us, to be abused by any strange abrams, rufflers, hookers, pailliards, cones, swaddlers, Irish toyles, swigmen, whip jacks, jarkmen, bawdy baskets, spags, clapper dogeons, cabbages, or curtails; but will defend him or them, as much as I can, against all other outliers or whatever. I will not conceal aught I win out of libkins, or from the ruffmans, but I will preserve it for the use of the company. Lastly, I will cleave to my doxy-wap stiffly, and will bring her duds, margery praters, goblers, grunting cheats, or tibs of the buttery, or any thing else I can come at, as winnings for her wappings.
Before the Goddess Eris, I Crank Cuffin, do herewith declare myself a brother of the legion of dynamic discord, hail hail hail hail hail Eris Eris Eris Eris ALL HAIL DISCORDIA!
Then everybody else shouts: ALL HAIL DISCORDIA!
(that was an actual Gypsy initiation oath remixed with Discordian initiation)
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neat!
these are hit or miss, but were a lot of fun to make
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I can't beleive I missed these the first time!
Some of them do get more of the je ne sais quoi than others, but when they're ON they are ON.
I know, I came back in here to ask if I said I liked these yet, because I really really do. Also, they remind me of marriedtothesea.com
:lulz: :lulz:
HOLISHI!
Cram those are beautiful
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Those are marvelous and comely.
genius :mittens:
these are awesome
:mittens:
Simply gorgeous!
yoink!
Quote from: Cramulus on March 27, 2009, 04:36:55 PM
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:mittens:
All of these are amazing but I especially enjoy the windmill.
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Discordia
the more we talk of what it is
the more we know it is not
Discordia
that waits for you to make a good point
at the sky
with a sword
but guess whose face is up there, pops,
You
open the doors of the advent calendar
Discordia
is hidden in more ways than five
has revealed
in an alphabet soup you slurp
letter by letter
telling a story of hide and seek in your parent's bed
and finding a broken condom
in your head
Discordia
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"3, 2, 1, PULL!"
alternate version: http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb163/wompcabal/321pull.png
These are awesome, Cramulus!
Sort of reminds me of the book of the subgenius, except better.
thanks, bobby :lol:
Cram these fucking pwn.
Congratulations for singlehandedly illustrating most of intermittens 6 :D
actually, could I ask you not to use the recent B&W stuff?
I'm using it for something else
color stuff is fine though
Quote from: Cramulus on April 10, 2009, 02:47:29 PM
actually, could I ask you not to use the recent B&W stuff?
I'm using it for something else
color stuff is fine though
SHIT!!! I'd left out the ones you said were for Prophetica Discordia. But used the windmill and the eris is coming and a couple of other ones. Fine, I'll take them out but you now owe me 4 new pics :argh!:
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on April 10, 2009, 02:50:14 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on April 10, 2009, 02:47:29 PM
actually, could I ask you not to use the recent B&W stuff?
I'm using it for something else
color stuff is fine though
SHIT!!! I'd left out the ones you said were for Prophetica Discordia. But used the windmill and the eris is coming and a couple of other ones. Fine, I'll take them out but you now owe me 4 new pics :argh!:
Just trawl through the PICS thread and use anything I didn't use. Something like half of the images in issue #5 come from that thread.
I'm making some images for Cain's Interregnum series. X-posting them ITT
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(larger versions available upon request)
I'm still a novice at photoshop. Does anyone have any sick-ass filters they'd like to share?
(this applies to GIMP btw, but Photoshop has equivalent functions)
I'm having fun with the "unsharp mask" filter lately (set the treshold to 0 though, it only seems to make stuff ugly). You can make black/white images look real grainy like, that way. Sometimes it works better if you do a selective/edge preserving blur first, then sharpen, and subtly fade that onto the original layer.
Also, if you're layering stuff like that image, it usually works good to make the back layers a bit more blurry or darken them, or fade them slightly to some "far away colour" (greyish blue usually) (I use "Curves" to change the colours), it creates a wonderful sense of depth. See my "many yellow Rogers" image for an example.
It also works on existing images, you carefully select what you would consider "far away" with a poly lasso tool or something, copy that, paste as new layer, make sure you keep the selection and then apply the blur and/or colour curves. This is a great way to create focus on a single part of a busy image. It works better if you copy/paste the background as a selected layer on top, because if you blur, it won't blur the edges of the foreground with it.
Another fun trick I did a while ago was to take the Red channel of some image, used that as a mask/selection and apply a strong blur to all channels. That way only the parts of the image with a strong Red component got blurred. It was an interesting effect.
Also, play with the Channel Mixer, to mix red into green or blue, or to create a compelling grayscale version of an image. You can play with the colours in more subtle and natural-looking ways than you would do by shifting hues. Also, remember that with cheaper digital cameras, usually the Green channel has the least noise, the Red channel has the most interesting/contrast-rich image, and the Blue is generally worthless and noisy.
that's some stuff I've been doing lately. if you got tricks, share them too :)
thanks for the tips, zilch!
The biggest thing I can think of is to have as clear a vision as you can about what it is you want Photoshop to achieve. Then, you WILL find a way, because there are about 100 ways to do almost anything in the behemoth that is the 'shop. Yes, there may be the "correct" way which is quite easy and fast, but along the way you're likely to run into interesting dead-ends.
That said, in order to access the duotone and halftone options (under Image on the top menu bar), you must grayscale first.
Also, posterize is a useful tool in making stencils from photographic tones AKA "continuous tone"). It breaks your image down into flat areas of pure black and white -or- black and 1 grey and white -or- black and 2 greys and white and so on. The "Hope" Obama poster was done based on this idea in order to produce a poster with a limited number of inks.
Select something then:
Edit > Define Brush, then check your brush palette for what you selected. This will be a monotone when you go to use it.
Select something then:
Edit > Define Pattern, select the paint bucket tool, find the toolbar just underneath the top one, change the pulldown menu from "Foreground" to "Pattern", find the pulldown menu with the pattern it will apply (should be next to the previous pulldown menu I mentioned but I don't know if this has changed from version to version), your new pattern will be at the bottom. Your pattern will be in the same colors as your selection.
ooh, more great tips. Thanks net, that's very helpful.
When you throw a rock into the water, it will speed on the fastest course to the bottom of the water. Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.
A true seeker cannot not accept any teachings, not if he sincerely wishes to find something. I hid in the grapevines, digging it all. I felt like a million dollars; I was adventuring in the crazy American night. The potential Buddha already exists in the sinner; his future is already there.
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess — across the night, eastward over the Plains.
During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman. We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.
Here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me that Love is the most important thing in the world. We were already almost out of America and yet definitely in it and in the middle of where it's maddest. I think it is only important to love the world, to explain and despise it. But we should regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect. Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk — real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.
I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world, and no longer compare it with some kind of desired imaginary world, some imaginary vision of perfection, but to leave it as it is, to love it and be glad to belong to it. Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
words by Hesse & Kerouac
arranged by Cramulus
Ah! I already thought I recognized Siddharta in there :) Good stuff, Cram.
It's from the chapter about Kamala, right? I have that quote about the stone and the water in my very old "good quotes" textfile. Btw for some reason I always associate Kamala with the 9 of Pentacles: http://www.learntarot.com/p9.htm
Quote from: Cramulus on April 17, 2010, 02:33:23 AM
When you throw a rock into the water, it will speed on the fastest course to the bottom of the water. Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.
A true seeker cannot not accept any teachings, not if he sincerely wishes to find something. I hid in the grapevines, digging it all. I felt like a million dollars; I was adventuring in the crazy American night. The potential Buddha already exists in the sinner; his future is already there.
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess — across the night, eastward over the Plains.
During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman. We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.
Here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me that Love is the most important thing in the world. We were already almost out of America and yet definitely in it and in the middle of where it's maddest. I think it is only important to love the world, to explain and despise it. But we should regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect. Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk — real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.
I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world, and no longer compare it with some kind of desired imaginary world, some imaginary vision of perfection, but to leave it as it is, to love it and be glad to belong to it. Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
words by Hesse & Kerouac
arranged by Cramulus
:mittens: That was a nice thing to wake up to.
related:cutups made from various quotes
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=17928
Quote"What makes the desert beautiful," says the little prince, "is that I'm just going through a phase right now. Everybody goes through phases and all, don't they?"
QuoteMan is free at the instant he escapes from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.
QuoteIt is the stillest words that bring on the bullet. Between the eyes of every endangered panda, static comes on doves' feet.
I thought it clever to represent theocracy (I presume) with a King Tut mask behind a presidential podium. The image stays with you.
In any case, I will be voting for write-in candidate "King Tut Mask" come next election. I think it has a good chance of winning.
Keep up the collages! I browsed a lot of art posts in this forum tonight, but I liked yours best.
This is a proof-of-concept image. Just a draft. At some point I want to sit down and make a more detailed one:
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nice mandelburb!
:aaa:
cram does your software map an image aerial photograph to the inside of the mandelbrot set or did you make this with very careful smudging and cloning and bending?
Quote from: Triple Zero on August 29, 2010, 11:15:11 PM
cram does your software map an image aerial photograph to the inside of the mandelbrot set or did you make this with very careful smudging and cloning and bending?
Actually very little cloning/smudging/bending, mostly just transform/rotating, and blending layers using transparency.
I've got a bunch of ideas for directions to go with this. The next one will focus on using the mandlebrot's empty interior space. I may do something with the nervous system too.
Yeah I can now see it, the way you turned the dendrites into roads ... Incredible that you done it all by hand, looks awesome!!
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:mittens:
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NICE!
constructive: you should try to use higher resolution pictures maybe. you touched them up very well, but if they're crisp, it gives the image so much more depth.
also, any idea where the occasional shard-like rough/irregular edges in the fractal bands come from? knowing this sort of fractal they would be perfectly round and smooth. It looks very cool btw, I'm just wondering how you got that effect. it looks a littlebit like it's been vector-traced, especially in the high-detail areas, is that maybe it?
thanks trip! :) I actually started with really big photos and filtered them down that way- I wanted more of a cartoony look than a photograph look.
the little shard-edges are from other little fractal dendrites in the non-filtered version of the background image
belated :mittens:
This would look cool on a t-shirt.
i saw eternal sunshine of dental bills, and have looked better.
on xmas, spending the day with a cold semen farmer
and i wanna stick ye wee hours, i want to once
i accomplished by a severed foot with something, who makes terrible bedtime reading-- i am so close to it?
alright, quitting time!
buying means, on some reason they're revaluing it on campus saying it's a long enough timeline, there'll be bisexual, it would double dose that doublequick
her name by targeting men's nuts with fire at lunch
hahah that's partially true, partially false
i have to worry about anything government related there
would make an ipad which also election day!
at the wire
''the shadow of yesterday''
i cram'd his gram
so i'm left with a half-ass excuse me son, i'm looking for an ''adult indigo''?
because everybody has 1000 words don't happen
_______________________
there is that
they're worthless cunts of vacation we can smell
anyway
in the last week
even willing to make a donation to be dating chloe
i had to think about that game
puking
fucking up and
hiding from us
to break away
and forgetting where i used to race war
how do you come in trying
to research how
how simply it could...
both compete.
save every 19 seconds .
this time i talk trash
if you love a flute
but now nobody worships him
_______________________
and i am in the daytime
for a change
the ink in the color, my theme -- isn't as entertaining as a ringtone
chloe and i have a hit on the traditional model.
she'd forego sleep all you mother fuckers out
my day is going to do coke or heroin
yeah, it would be spent requesting isbns and trying to ''redefine'' my buddy had a sign that thread to tell you this story from another x hours, then do about to start producing sparkly bees bees bees bees
ripping someone's lungs out of this science experiment except with bees on lsd
jesus / pizza hut / naked royalty'
no magic, combat, violence, but secretly want to be deceptive or treacherous about this place anyway
and it's doubly ironic because it's not
it was so goddamn weird!
yess far in are so they talked about seeing things i saw on moosemas eve
pair that with images are stuff squared up like 40 moosemas
i want to wear face makeup and a land of asians for this
gnostic acid
and no offense, but you're on the copyright on there later that day, you are a fish...
...if nobody outbids me, i got some kinky shit,
and breathe into the internet
i had to one sign of memetics and they're like, back to my cats
i support anal terrorism.
apparently aliester crowley used to invest energy in pd
i pay for police work, sippin tea
"Eve killed in capitalist feeding frenzy"
i must be an irresponsible oil company, but also a teabagger
caps like they're made about 28 and lives in the window disappears or if it's any constellation, you are a retarded impulse!
my brain just sold her drugs so easy to read my cock
It's poop you encounter. A lion answers, ''that loser makes me shit''
that's not sure what's crackalackin need right on the fuck those guys because they're talking about you
how many oranges are you joyously rotating on?
six oranges in question
stuff in my office is only one big orgy
still the middle school have blossomed into chicks who have only banged in three+ years
jesus [dildo icon]s dildoes
bring and brag is an oft overlooked chest full of people in ohio
hey pang hates moon light, having a half dozen of his blog
two modes: compromise, and dictate.
but what is a reptile podling sex slave or something
sure, they're a bunch of the challenge, you get a mission which were just people worship anything awesome this game called ''from clowns both had a bedroom
and while talking on principiadiscordia.com or the chance to kill the evil wine drinking british press won't publish it, but we need somebody moralizing about my food safety protocols'' is a protest to a long haired butt monglers
hoboner
anyway, how others have gone apeshit about morrowind is how we bangin badge against that target
2/19/11
yeah i found it to kill me, my dreams are created by time. right? and yet i'm like goddd, why democracy?
and the closeup clearly need to be dreams
she wants us that i'm really into the parking lot of my dreams
you should be replaced by different interpreations of the window of the elder eye expects each prayer to realize how to read a letter saying lol
i am trying to that site for putting up danger: ninja signs won't stop smiling faces at strangers, talking to yourself, whatever i want!
What was your method here? I like some of the effect it produces.
I kept trying to figure out what sources you used for this--but I guess that's not the point.
And you're right, I've had 1000 words not happen either.
Speaking of numbers, Friday, May 11, 2012, 4:20pm (NY timezone) I'm going to be A BILLION SECONDS OLD, please to make a note of this, thanks.
Quote from: Placid Dingo on February 06, 2012, 12:54:41 PM
What was your method here? I like some of the effect it produces.
The above post was generated by a markov bot. Enki wrote the bot and fed it everything I said in #discord between 2009-2010. The bot assembles sentences based on probability. So if the bot has the word "kill", it makes a guess about what word I tend to say after "kill", and you end up with "kill it" or "kill you" or whatever it thinks I would say.
I've selected my favorite output from the bot for the above collection. It's all very surreal.
I think my favorite line is:
It's poop you encounter. A lion answers, ''that loser makes me shit''
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These are seriously awesome, Cramulus!!
Outstanding work :fnord:
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a dream
There's something sorta sexy about that last one... pink mountaintops...
Very nice Cram! How did you make that? (I mean what medium is it in. I've seen stuff like that with paint and it's awesome)
It was originally a jpg I found on the net, which was actually a bad photograph OF a photograph in a magazine. The image really hit me, I don't know why, it felt kind of like a memory of something I hadn't experienced yet -- I re-colored and layered it onto itself in a collage, aiming to create a sort of visual déjà vu.
(https://31.media.tumblr.com/d9a431922b6e126c94327dbf7b8a7b67/tumblr_n7uocjLA9Q1rhegcjo1_500.png)
Wow, nicely done.