My spouse has done stained glass; they did some really nice work for a novice. But no, I haven’t tried it.
There used to be an exhibit of stained glass at Navy Pier in Chicago; there were some fantastic examples there that combined color, the texture of the glass (including pieces up to 2" thick), and glaze to create incredible depth. If the exhibit is still there, it’s worth the trip when you’re in Chicago.
I’ve looked into this before. There are several ways of achieving this kind of effect. The first is simply using translucent paints. The second is to use a ‘glaze’ that has to be fired and forms a permanent bond with the glass.
The second gives less consistent, but more permanent results. And is very, very technically challenging.
I am fairly certainly that the large lines are the lead came, and the smaller black lines are an opaque glaze. So the head and hair, for instance, are a single piece that was probably a peach-colored glass that was then painted with glaze–the hair is a built-up color from the base–fired, and soldered into place. The garment appears to use a different color of glass as the base, with built up shadows, fine lines, and (I think?) a white glaze for highlights.
It’s an artform that requires a high degree of technical mastery over multiple different elements. It’s a pity that it’s so rare to see this kind of work anymore. Then again, I’d never be able to afford it, so…
Create a multi-part archive (…probably about 250 parts…) with a strong password, upload each part to whatever the current equivalent to Megaupload is, and let them download it at their leisure.
With no accounts on either end, should only take about three months for each to be complete.
Alternatively, you could put it on a thumb drive and drive it over if they live fairly close.
I’m not a novice, but I’m badly out of practice. Doing things like properly shaping sleeve caps for set-in sleeve is something you lose pretty quickly once you aren’t doing it every day.
[…]then the pattern is automatically adjusted to your actual measurements.
This is called grading. Except that it doesn’t actually work quite like that; you can’t just dump new numbers into an existing sloper (or block, depending on which term you were taught) and expect to be able to make it fit correctly without extensive edjustment. Grading works pretty okay when you’re talking about smaller sizes (for women, that would be commercial sizes 00-4 or so, roughly size 6-12 for true sizing), but does not work well when you’re just plugging in numbers past that very limited range.
I would be very, very suspicious of claims about this. Grading patterns and fitting them to a specific person is much harder than simply plugging numbers in to a program. You’re likely going to need to do significant fitting of the pattern. (Also, without getting too deep into the process, you’re going to need to either have a very wide format printer, or a pen plotter, in order to use the patterns. Which certainly isn’t the end of the world, but most people don’t have a 72" wide roll-to-roll printer at home.)
I’m saying this as someone that did their undergrad work in fashion design, and used to be pretty decent at pattern making before I switched industries.
I’ve used multiple flat patterning techniques from a range of authors; you can get some really weird results when you plug your own measurements in, versus the ‘ideal’ measurements. For instance, I always need to significantly pitch the back of jeans patterns for myself (like, 2-3" or more); some ways of creating a jeans sloper end up being so incorrect on me that they don’t work at all.
Technically not a still life, because the cat is still (represented as being) alive.
IIRC, it takes around 100 generations to see a significant shift in skin pigmentation due to evolution. For humans, that would work out to about 1700 years for people that were moved from the Nordic regions to sub-Saharan Africa to develop dark skins (assuming that there were no other factors in play).
Evolution can take what seems like a really long time.
It is, yes. They do a ton of really small updates all the fucking time now, sometimes breaking critical shit, sometimes fixing things. (I don’t remember which version it was that ended support for PANTONE; now you have to pay for a subscription to PANTONE also, and the plug-in is trash and buggy as hell.) Since it wants to be always connected to the internet now, it’s more of a pain in the ass to pirate, although it’s likely still possible.
I have to use it for my job, so my company pays for it. But TBH, if you’re an industry professional, there’s really not any viable options on the market. Half the stuff clients send to me are in proprietary formats.
So, to recap, you know nothing about my religion other than the name, and make assumptions about what I believe due to your prejudices, but you don’t believe that you have prejudices based on skin color. Is that correct?
Uh huh.
Would you judge a man based on the color of his skin rather than on his character?
::sigh::
So you tell me, since you know my religion so well; what do I believe?
Goodness. You don’t really know a lot about Satanism, do you?
I don’t oppose religion, as long as religion stays in it’s own lane. As long as religion is personal, and not forced on other people, I simply don’t care; it’s literally not my problem, nor is it my job to ‘convert’ other people. If you’re happy being e.g. Catholic, that’s fine.
…Until you try to force me to obey the dictates of your religion because you can’t tell the difference between civil society and your religion.
Sorry, are you talking about Christianity?
Or were you talking about Islam?
Oh, wait, no, probably Hinduism.
They do not define god, but they do constantly refer to God (capital G), and a requirement for faith. Faith ends up being extremely hard to define, but from the context in which it is used here, it strongly implies that faith requires a belief in an external deity.
The simple way to answer this question would be to simply ask; I can write to the Scout board, say that I’m an Eagle Scout–which is true–that I’ve had a change of faith since I was in Scouting, and that I now identify as an atheistic Satanist, and ask if I am eligible to work in adult leadership roles. Which I am doing right now.
720p? Pfffft. 240i. Rip them in ‘2014 YouTube over 2G’ quality.
I am a Satanist; although it’s religious, it’s also explicitly atheistic. Per your blog, “By signing the membership application, each leader has already acknowledged the Declaration of Religious Principle which affirms a belief in God […]”. While I could quite truthfully say that I acknowledge myself as my own god, I do not believe in God, and I can not honestly affirm that I believe a belief in any external god to be necessary in order to be a good person and citizen.
“A scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent”; I can’t be trustworthy without also being wholly honest, including that I don’t believe in an external god. “On my honor, I will do my best, to god and my country, to uphold the Scout law, and to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight”; how could I say this without being deceptive? I know that the ‘god’ they’re referring to is a deity outside of myself, and it wouldn’t be moral for me to swear to this without also believing in some form of external deity.
It’s a pity that I’m still ineligible to work with the Scouts. I have a lot of happy memories from my decade in Scouting, and still have a significant interest in many of the things that I did while I was in the organization. Unfortunately, my religion is, shall we say, disfavored within Scouting, and is not permitted for either youth or leaders.
I don’t see them where I am in Appalachia. I’m also in the woods though, an fireflies tend to congregate more in meadows and pastures. A lot of those are sprayed heavily with pesticides around here, which means not many fireflies.
I’m honestly not even sure how many different baptist churches there are around me…
Interesting. I’ve noticed that a lot of my text messages to my partner fail to send as well, and I also swear frequently and voluminously. I should test this and see if this is what is going on with my carrier.