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Grass Lawn – iPhone Background


Image by Patrick Hoesly
If you like this image, make your personal computer wallpaper match your iphone wallpaper. Download my seamless version of the grass right here: www.flickr.com/photos/zooboing/5472515178/

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This iPhone Background (640×960 wallpaper) is released below a Creative Commons Attribution License.
If you like this image, please leave a comment. Thanks!

How do I get this onto my iPhone?
There are a number of methods to do this, however I think the easiest and fastest way is to download Flickr’s free of charge app. Within the Flickr app you surf more than to my photo feed to view the photos (if you make me a get in touch with then I’ll appear in the flickr make contact with list). When you find 1 you like, just click the download button and save the image directly to your phone. Quick &amp Simple!

I don’t have an iPhone. Can I still use it on my telephone?
As of this writing this image (960 x 640) must be big adequate to be utilized as wallpaper with the Droid / Android, BlackBerry, Windows 7, and iPhone.

How did you make it?
This background was made using graphic style computer software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Filter Forge, Genetica, Wacom, Alien Skin, Topaz Labs, as well as many other programs.

About Patrick Hoesly
I’m a graphic illustrator, specializing in architectural illustrations and graphic design. I work with Architects, Interior Designers, and Landscape Architects, to aid them visualize and sell their designs …Or in other words… I make the exciting/cool pictures!
Check out my Blog at ZooBoingReview.blogspot.com
Also take a appear at my site at www.ZooBoing.com

Tricia as Modiglianai – making use of The Face Transfomer


Image by Tricia Wang 王圣捷

I just watched Epic Fu’s wonderful episode, which integrated a piece on The Face Transfomer. Beyond pondering that the Face Transfomer is cool, I began thinking about the social which means behind this workout.

Right here I am pretending to be an “Afro-Carriabean” – wtf? I imply cool yes, confident, I want to see what I appear like as a manga character and am curious to see what I look like as a black person, but there was one thing odd about attempting on distinct races. Literally.

What does it mean for race relations and conceptions when we feel that we can freely attempt on different races? Have we turn out to be so comfortable with race that we can play around with it like shopping for clothing?

I am constantly really sensitive when men and women say that a individual acts like a particular race or culture. It’s nearly akin to imaginatively being an additional race – kinda like what we are doing with Face Transfomer. And you know I in fact hear this verbal exchange most typically amongst my white and black or latino friends. I’ve heard a black particular person say to a white person, “you know so considerably about black culture that you are black or at least should have been black in a past life.” Now I find that on 1 end to be a compliment, that the white individual is accepted as component of the black community, but on the other finish I locate it hard to swallow as a kind of compliment since most frequently it is white folks who have the most latitude to be absorbed into another race or cultural group. You don’t generally hear the reverse, that a white person will say to a black individual, “wow you know so a lot about black culture that you are in fact white!” It’s like you hear in the films where they say to white individuals, you can always come into our component of town, but we will by no means be allowed to come into yours.

For dominant groups, like Caucasians in the US, race can be an after believed so it’s almost like a novelty to pretend for a moment that one is another race or ethnicity. For people who appear something other than white in Western nations, there isn’t as a lot freedom to neglect one’s skin colour simply because they are reminded of it (generally negatively) in their day-to-day interactions with institutions and people.

In distinct, for non-whites, getting a particular race or ethnicity can be a complex procedure of accepting ones skin colour and coming to terms with the common (mis)conceptions of one’s race or ethnic group. A lot of instances, this entails the imagination of being white prior to a complete embracement of one’s race or heritage. For a time period when I was a teenager raised in an all white upper-class community, I wished I was white so badly so that I wouldn’t have to deal with the racist jaunts by my classmates. And so here I am, attempting on a &quotWest-Indian&quot face. Kinda surreal. Now do I actually want to picture what it is like to look like an Indian female, let’s say in the US? or in India? and from what class? what is my migration history? or was I born here? My point is that becoming an additional race is a lot more than just attempting it on for a handful of seconds digitally, but some how we’ve lowered it down to just that and I wonder if this novelty is an indicator of that we’re comfortable with race or that we’re just dealing with race in a much more post-modern removed and techno-mediated way.

And you know it really is normally individuals who are far more affluent who have the chance turn out to be the &quotother,&quot to learn about another culture and to transplant themselves into another ethnic group’s cultural planet. So jokes produced to white folks like “wow you know so much about my culture, you should be Mexican” just make me uncomfortable since there’s a particular level of privilege that comes with understanding about another “culture.” The reality that I make time and spend funds to discover Spanish simply because I locate the language beautiful and helpful for my academic interests in Mexican migration is a privilege. Now it is a privilege that I embrace and am not embarrassed of and make no apologies for, but at the identical time I am very aware of my social position to even be able to learn another language much more out of interest and less out of need.

So back to Face Transformer – does this mean America is comfortable with race (and manga, chimps and euro painters j/k) if we can freely try on distinct races? And what does this say about race when we can collapse massive groups of folks with each other into general categories? In Face Transformers all the blacks, Caribbeans and Africans are grouped into the afro-caribbean category, and all Asians are collapsed into the East-Asian category and I feel the West Indian group is not referring to individuals from the West Indies but Indians and Middle-Easterners. This is an odd type of racial reductionism. And exactly where are the Latinos – where do they fit in this? And Inuits?

I’ve always kept a tab on these Face Transformer-like internet sites and I believe the enjoyable in attempting these on the internet web sites out is an expression of an underlying wish to temporarily picture an additional physical physique with out fully committing to that physique/face. And the sorts of adjustments rendered by these online websites point to a greater cultural obsession or let’s say anxiety with that rendering. So for Face Transfomers we could say this is an obsession with race and euro paintings:) Oh and with age also – you can chose to be a young adult, child, teenager and old person.

One particular of the predecessors to Face Transformers was My Heritage and I wrote about the social meaning behind that also two years ago when it launched. So as an alternative of transforming into a race or chimp, like Face Transformer, you can transform yourself into a celebrity and see which a single you most closely resemble. So this points to an obsession with celebrities.

Properly soon after my social diagnosis I consider I will upload one more image on Face Transformer and see what I look like as a Male. Hmmm perhaps I have an underlying anxiousness with switching genders? Nicely did anybody have these thoughts when they uploaded a face on Face Transfomer?

oh and a single factor that I definitely discovered is that I don’t like great as a Caucasian! Excellent issue that I embrace my Chinese face!

you can do your own face at their website at The Face Transfomer

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