While reading posts on the photo forum I came to one by Ansel Rosewater; In trying to answer it, before I knew it, I was showing him examples of what I was talking about.

After I had posted it, it just occurred to me......I will have no earthly idea "who" looked at it, whether they had any idea what I was talking about, etc etc. So.......I copied the whole thing, drug it up to The Attic, and Now I have to dig up all of the files again so YOU'LL know what I'm talking about.

Now at least I'll know in anyone saw it.





Ansel Rosewater wrote:
I went to an art exhibit which included photography and something called iPad art, which I found interesting. I’d like to know how this is done.

I’ve searched and found many apps for doing art on an iPad. Most are ways of using a stylus or one’s finger to simulate oils or watercolor using various brushes.

None looked as if they would make an abstract such as the example, which I photographed. Any help would be appreciated... and thanks.



Ansel;

iPads are amazing things, but I'm having a hard time thinking that they would be very good for "creating" art; The reason I say this is, I have been using Apple computers for about 12 or 13 years now, and I became interested in "creating" art with software quite some time ago; most of what I have done, I refer to it as "gradient art", simply because I use gradients to do most (but not all ) of it.

Is this art? Created on I-Pad. AWESOME!

http://youtu.be/uEdRLlqdgA4



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You're a 19 year old kid.
You're critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam ..
It's November 11, 1967.
LZ (landing zone) X-ray.

Your unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense from 100 yards away, that your CO (commanding officer) has ordered the MedEvac helicopters to stop coming in.

You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns and you know you're not getting out.

Your family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you'll never see them again.

As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.
Then - over the machine gun noise - you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter. You look up to see a Huey coming in. But.. It doesn't seem real because no MedEvac markings are on it.

Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you.
He's not MedEvac so it's not his job, but he heard the radio call and decided he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire anyway.

Even after the MedEvacs were ordered not to come.He's coming anyway. And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 3 of you at a time on board. Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses
and safety.

And, he kept coming back!! 13 more times!! Until all the wounded were out. No one knew until the mission was over
that the Captain had been hit 4 times in the legs and left arm. He took 29 of you and your buddies out that day. Some would not have made it without the Captain and his Huey.

Medal of Honor Recipient, Captain Ed Freeman, United States Air Force, died last Wednesday at the age of 70, in Boise, Idaho

May God Bless and Rest His Soul.

I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we've sure seen a whole bunch  about Lindsay Lohan, Tiger Woods and the bickering of congress over Health Reform.


Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman
Shame on the media !!!

Now... YOU pass this along. Honor this real hero.

Please.

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a question about my 45 year old table saw motor konking out. Rather than getting a new motor, I found a refurbished Ryobi 10" table saw for $122 delivered. The original arrived broken, and I got the replacement yesterday.

The price was appropriate, but it will be a good second saw. I'm having a problem with the safety features. I cannot get the riving knife and safety cover attached. I am also unable to get the anti-kickback piece attached. If I follow the directions and put them in place, they are not secure enough to stay there, and I cannot lower the blade lower than about 1".

Unless you have this saw, you won't be able to help. As I said, it's a long shot.