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This is NOT a Photograph

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:57:33 GMT

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Painting of Tica by Dru Blair

This is a painting completed in February 2005. It was a Portrait Class project that I decided to finish in my spare time after the workshop. It probably took a total of around 65-75 hours to complete. The small images are step by step photographs taken during the painting process, and the large image is the final painting after detail and skin texture are added with an eraser and colored pencil.

~Dru Blair

Detail of final painting showing skin texture. Subtle nuances created by an xacto knife, an eraser, and some colored pencil can build convincing skin texture. The etcetera technique also helps the believability of the skin and hair texture. Fine hair is created using my shield-reveal technique, and my split frisket technique. Airbrush constitutes about 99% of the image.

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best homelesss sign ever!!!!

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 13:42:05 GMT

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Tags: humor, ninja, signs, homeless, bums

Ten Apartment Pets

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:05:45 GMT

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Ten Apartment Pets That Can Be Better Than Cats and Dogs

By: admin Posted: Fri, 12/21/2007 - 08:13

Generally all apartments that accept pets allow solely cats and small dogs. These animals, however generally wreak havoc on apartments. Following are animals that spend most of their time caged but may be more attractive to landlords than dogs that dig and cats that scratch. Perhaps your perfect pet is within.

1. Sugar Gliders

2. Chinchillas

3. Ferrets

4. Snakes

5. Guinea Pigs

6. Rats

The Others

(7) Birds, (8) frogs / turtles, (9) hamsters, and (10) fish are just a few

Prior to purchasing any pet perform your research and assess the size of your apartment with the animal's needs. Purchasing a pet that is too large or too noisy for your apartment will be a disaster to you and the pet. Once your research is complete and you have selected the right pet, you and your pet will be happy for many years to come!

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Pagan Weddings on the Rise

Sun, 04 May 2008 14:00:36 GMT

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Pagan weddings attract more than a cult following

A 2001 survey by the Graduate Center of the City University of New York found that the number of followers of Wicca, one of the many religions that fall beneath the pagan umbrella, increased from 8,000 in 1990 to 134,000 in 2001, making it the fastest-growing religion in America in terms of percentage increase.

Marty Laubach, a sociology professor at Marshall University, says the number of followers of pagan religions is even higher now, citing a 2008 U.S. Religious Landscape Survey that put the estimate at 1.2 million.

My suspicion is that the first number was way too low due to people not responding," Laubach said. "The 1990 study was conducted at the height of the 'satanic panic,' which kept many neopagans in the closet."

While some subsets don't believe in gods, others, like Wiccans, worship many gods and goddesses. Women, in fact, are revered as the bearers of life in Wicca.