tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-264004962024-03-13T17:09:09.604-05:00Observations from the Sidelinesby One Ejected from the GameTauratinswehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10273045023254083987noreply@blogger.comBlogger1066125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26400496.post-5274662876301703302017-06-25T19:28:00.001-05:002017-06-25T19:28:33.446-05:00Variation on a PanosFX Photoshop Action<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Tauratinswehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10273045023254083987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26400496.post-13174423666249846542017-06-24T14:08:00.001-05:002017-06-24T14:08:43.517-05:00Continuing with the PanosFX.com Actions<br />
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<br />Tauratinswehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10273045023254083987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26400496.post-10700988284677646052017-06-24T12:17:00.001-05:002017-06-24T12:17:44.221-05:00Test of Another New PanosFX Photoshop Action<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Tauratinswehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10273045023254083987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26400496.post-6350209288417614962017-06-23T14:34:00.002-05:002017-06-23T14:34:34.666-05:00New Experiments with PanosFX Photoshop Actions<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Panos (panosfx.com) has some new Photoshop actions that create some interesting effects. I've just started playing with them. Here are a couple of things I've done so far. First, an antique design with a frilly edge for a photo with some folds visible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And using an old action to produce a tablet and a newer one to transform a photo into bars with the newest one to animate things, we get the following.</span><br />
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<br />Tauratinswehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10273045023254083987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26400496.post-31024408017748668212017-03-17T11:36:00.001-05:002017-03-17T11:36:30.056-05:00PanosFX Puzzles Actions for Photoshop<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">PanosFX.com has a new set of PS actions making all kinds of 3D puzzles. Here's a go at the spiral puzzle. Rather interesting, I think.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A new issue of books should have a brochure to advertise them. 👲</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Getting acquainted with a new set of Photoshop Actions from www.PanosFX.com Here are some of my first uses of some actions in the set.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Trying out a new Photoshop Action from Panosfx.com and testing the new version (6.0) of Filter Forge. A little light added from AutoFX. After a spell of no playing with Photoshop due to a major computer crash that took over 2 weeks to fix, I've gotten things working and enough programs loaded to enjoy life. So, here's a little experiment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I recently reread <b>In The Beginning</b> by Chaim Potok. [If you haven't read all of Potok's books, you're missing immeasurable treasures.] In the book one of the characters makes the following statement:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>People exist by virtue of the help they give to one another. That's what I believe. Helping people improves the helped person's life and keeps the helping person human. I know how much rottenness there is in people. If I though only of the ugliness inhuman beings, I would despair. So I try also to remind myself of the many people in this world who help one another.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's something we need to hear and heed in the messed up world we're experiencing these days. With the current election shenanigans we really need to remind ourselves of the many people who help one another. And we need to be among that cohort.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Tauratinswehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10273045023254083987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26400496.post-75934497139028225552015-12-01T09:42:00.001-06:002015-12-01T09:43:48.483-06:00The Road Worst Traveled<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jesus calls us to choose between His straight and narrow way or the broad path of the world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's difficult to walk while doing the splits.</span>Tauratinswehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10273045023254083987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26400496.post-84803492743806217142015-11-28T11:27:00.001-06:002015-11-28T11:27:33.759-06:00New Photoshop Action from PanosFX<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just playing with an action from the new Photoshop action set from panosfx.com. Couldn't resist a few bad puns in the final image.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #010101;">"Slowing Down to Take a Look" in Winslow , Arizona .. Included, of course, is "a girl, my lord, in a flat bed Ford slowing down to take a look at me."</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't know about you, but I'm impressed. I would love to see these in real life.</span>Tauratinswehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10273045023254083987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26400496.post-9827162286900973582015-09-05T13:52:00.000-05:002015-09-05T13:52:14.582-05:00New Action from Panos<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Panos has a new photoshop action set that makes vinyl records (45 rpm and 33 1/3 rpm) as well as CDs. Here is a CD example done as a test.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Tauratinswehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10273045023254083987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26400496.post-13367073632046375562015-05-15T17:29:00.001-05:002015-05-15T17:29:36.456-05:00New FREE Actions From PanosFX.com<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Panos over at PanosFX.com has a couple of new <span style="font-size: large;">FREE </span>Photoshop actions. I've just tested them quickly on a couple photos and they're rather interesting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Tauratinswehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10273045023254083987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26400496.post-21028478962146125402014-03-03T10:43:00.001-06:002014-03-03T10:43:50.789-06:00Experiment with Fractalius<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Experimenting with a Photoshop plug-in called Fractalius. It has more potential than the examples on the web site show (<a href="http://www.redfieldplugins.com/filterFractalius.htm">http://www.redfieldplugins.com/filterFractalius.htm</a>) but can be a bit tricky at first. Some good examples of what it can do are on the <a href="http://www.panosfx.com/forum/6-panosfx-products-for-photoshop/2070-color-with-old-paper" target="_blank">PanosFX Forum</a> together with a short tutorial showing how Fractalius is used with one of the PanosFX actions to create a very nice image.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was done using two versions of the image modified in Factalius that were blended together with the original image using layer blend modes. Interesting?</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Traditionally people take stock of their lives at New Year's day. This year I offer the following short story as a stimulus for evaluating what we are doing with our lives.</span></i> </div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THE TOOLMAKER</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The old man sat quietly looking at the intricate piece of equipment in his hand. A toolmaker.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"My life?" he said with shake of his head. "What can I tell you of my life?" He paused, lost in the thoughts and memories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"I guess you could say this life began when I got my job. I wanted a job I could devote a lifetime to. Something useful. Something I could find satisfaction in doing. Money wasn't that important.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"One day I saw a sign at the factory." His eyes glowed mistily at the memory. "It said 'Trainees wanted. Rewarding career and secure future.' That was just what I was looking for. A life of satisfying work. So I went into the office and filled out the forms. The competition for jobs must have been stiff because I saw a sign that said, 'Many are called but few are chosen.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"I guess I'm one of the few 'cause a week later I was 'called' and 'chosen' both." He snorted a laugh. "I still didn't know exactly what my job would be but I knew anything in the factory would suit me. I guess you could say I thought that working in the factory was a calling and that the particular job didn't matter much. Everything was a part of the factory's operation."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The old man sat lost in thought as if trying to sort out how everything fit together in the functioning of the factory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"I remember the first day I went to work. My supervisor wore a badge stuck proudly on the lapel of his work jacket. It was shaped like a strange piece of equipment. A tool of some kind. Underneath it was the word 'INSTRUCTOR.' He sure seemed proud of that pin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"He led me into the factory to my work station. There on the table was something that his badge must have been modeled after. He said, 'That's your toolmaker.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"At last I knew my job. I was to be a maker of tools. Tools. What would our world be without them? Everything's made with tools. Well, maybe not plants and babies. But farmers use tools for planting and doctors use tools for delivering. And I was to make tools for the factory. Why, what could the factory do without the tools I would make? My job was important. It was basic. It had meaning. And, the pay wasn't bad."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A smile broke through the moisture in the old man's eyes as a rainbow breaks through the mists of the air. And faded just as quickly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"My supervisor was patient with me. He taught me step by step how to use the piece of equipment I had been given to make the most extraordinary toolmakers. He told me how he had started by responding to a sign, just as I had. He, too, had started work in this very department making toolmakers. We laughed together when I made mistakes and he told stories about how he had done the same thing, or something more outrageous. He always showed me where to find help in the instruction manual so as to avoid repeating my mistakes or making other similar ones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"After my initial training I became my own supervisor. I was certified 'RESPONSIBLE AND COMPETENT.' I got a badge with those words written under what looked like one of my tools. I was so proud of that badge."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The old man absent-mindedly rubbed his sleeve against an imaginary badge on his lapel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"That badge was the beginning of my advancement at the factory. That badge created ambition in my life. It made me dissatisfied with only making tools. I wanted to understand the workings of the factory and wear one of the rarer badges.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"I worked extra hard making tools. I was always above quota even though I was extra careful to assemble them perfectly. I always told the folks in town what a good factory I worked at. I guess I bragged a bit about how good our tools were. I was really proud of my work. Other fellows came to work at the factory because of the things I had told them about it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"After a while my former supervisor asked me to help him train a new worker. It was easy for me to do. I just helped him like my instructor had helped me. I really enjoyed that. I gave this new guy on of the tools I had made. I felt like a grandpa watching him use a tool made by my tool to produce more tools. Sorta like the Bible with its 'begats' come to life. 'Some tool begat my tool. My tool begat his tool. His tool begat some other tool.'" A grin sneaked across the old man's face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Somebody must have liked the way I trained this guy 'cause I got called into the office and given a promotion. My new badge said 'INSTRUCTOR.' I guess that idea of the 'begats' did something to me. I'd think of that and find myself enjoying being an instructor even more than I enjoyed making tools. I got to thinkin' that someday one of the guys I had trained might become an instructor. I'd become not only an industrial grandpa but an instructional grandpa, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"I guess you can't expect only good times and success. One of my trainees walked off the job one day. He just threw down his tool and left. He said there weren't no point in makin' these darn fool tools! And he left.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"I never hurt so bad before. I hadn't ever imagined that anyone could just up and quit. I couldn't see why anyone would want to quit. I mean we were making good tools. The best tools. Our working conditions were good. Our tools created jobs. How could anyone say, "There weren't no point?'" The old man sat pondering that statement as if hearing it for the first time. He took a deep breath and continued talking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Somehow I got on with things. I tried not to think of my failure. That's what I called him. MY failure. He was a failure if he couldn't become a toolmaker under my instruction. I just worked a little harder and did a little better with my other trainees. I learned how to point them in the right direction. I helped them find satisfaction in a job well done. I showed them the joy of seeing their tools 'beget' more tools. "Even unto the third and fourth generation.'" The old man smiled at the phrase. "Most important I taught them to be content. Not to question their job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"The inevitable happened. I was called into the office again. I was made a plant manager. I was in charge of recruiting, training and production. The factory was expanding. I was contributing to that expansion. Success. That was the word I heard. I liked it. I worked hard and gave my best.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"And so that's the story of my life. It's been a good life. I worked hard. I did a satisfying, useful job. I contributed something. I made toolmakers. And taught others to use those toolmakers to make more toolmakers. And trained others to teach others to use those toolmakers to make more toolmakers. And recruited others to be trained by those I had trained to train others to train still others to use toolmakers to make more toolmakers to make more toolmakers to make more toolmakers . . .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"OH, my God!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The old man sat silently in the witness chair staring at the toolmaker in his hand as the Judge passed sentence.</span></div>
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Tauratinswehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10273045023254083987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26400496.post-18121836974667888032013-12-17T06:32:00.001-06:002013-12-17T06:38:17.871-06:00A Poem for Christmas<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For God so loved the world</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That He gave His only Son . . .</span> </blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How, then, can I sow hatred?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For God so loved the world</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That He gave His only Son . . .</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whom, then, can I not love?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For God so loved the world</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That He gave His only Son . . .</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What, then, can I withhold?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For God so loved the world</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That He gave His only Son . . .</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where, then, is His love not found?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For God so loved the world</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That He gave His only Son . . .</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When, then, will we understand?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For God so loved the world</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That He gave His only Son . . .</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why, then, do we not care?</span><br />
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Tauratinswehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10273045023254083987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26400496.post-55426047877817689592013-12-07T12:20:00.002-06:002013-12-07T12:20:53.048-06:00A Close Shave<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I recently had a rather unnerving experience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While ambling down a street in an unfamiliar part of town, I inadvertently bumped into a man who turned out to be a rather unsavory person. He took great offence at my carelessness and was aggrieved by the contact that ensued with my person.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"I don't like the look of your face!" he shouted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"I don't either," I replied, hoping to relieve the tension of the encounter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rather than being mollified by my agreeable response, he became more incensed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Don't get smart with me!" he bellowed, whipping a razor out of his pocket and waving it in my face.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At that point, I figured I should remove myself from the premises. I shall flee, I thought. Let us fly, tapped my feet in Morse Code as I flew down the street.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Close on my heels came the enraged ruffian waving his razor wildly as he pursued me with every intention of changing the looks of my face.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I zigged and zagged through streets and alleys gaining distance between us as I tried to find a way to my car and safety. At last I turned down an alley that I thought was a shortcut to where I was parked. It was a dead end.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I started toward the entrance of the alley, hoping that I could get out and away before the razor wielding maniac caught me. Alas, I met him at the entrance. I retreated, looking around for a door to enter or some place of refuge. I reached the end of the alley without finding an escape just as the man caught up with me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I would really have had a close shave if the battery in his razor hadn't died just as he caught me.</span><br />
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<br />Tauratinswehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10273045023254083987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26400496.post-71340372396760799412013-12-07T12:07:00.002-06:002013-12-07T12:25:24.276-06:00The Problem of Inclusive Language<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been pondering the trend toward inclusive language. And I've become a bit puzzled. It seems that things may be backfiring. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For example, it's OK to refer to someone as human. Why don't we use human and huwoman? We've taken human as a generic term that is inclusive rather than gender specific. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then we use chairman and chairwoman when we know the gender of the chairperson. But that final word presents a problem. We treat it as generic rather than distinguishing a person from a perdaughter. Why?
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maybe it would be easier to just define some words as generic and no longer gender specific. It seems that when we try to fight the way languages are structured, we're emphasizing gender specific issues rather than removing them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Which brings me to the old joke (best told orally but I'll attempt it in print): </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why do we sing AMEN at the end of the songs at church rather than AWOMEN?
Because they're HYMNS and not HYRS. (Hiss! Boo! Go away! NOW!)</span><br />
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<br />Tauratinswehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10273045023254083987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26400496.post-66291558210165046422013-11-22T19:30:00.002-06:002013-11-22T19:30:44.699-06:00Virtual Darkroom Capers<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I headed to my virtual darkroom (Photoshop) and processed this shot with Nik Analog Effects Pro and OnOne Suite 8 then washed the print with Panos' Water drops action and hung it on the line to dry. That's what you see below. Oh, yeah, I built the wall with Filter Forge.</span><br />
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