Chilligavva

Source:Krish Asok's very interesting blogCaution! You need to know your indian mythology really well..

What cracked me up absolutely was the entry "Click here to listen to Yudhisthra's podcast 'Aswatthama is dead' "

Yesterday, as per usual, i attempted a poster without sketches. So I started with a noisy background, added a layer of vines, bevelled the same, drew a lady's profile using my wacom tablet, and found something lacking. So i added another layer of bluerays [no pun intended!].

Childhood consisted of celebrating Sankranti with much awaited pomp and fervour. It all began with washing the house with water, and wiping the floors with a rag, the night before "bhogie" (2 days before Sankranti). It would then be followed by drawing of muggus with ground rice paste at every threshold and room corners. We children were scolded and asked not to step on any of the house "muggus" till it was dry.

Human Statue of Liberty at camp Dodge, Iowa. I happened to Stumble onto it..

For whatever reason, an 89 year old photo taken in Iowa is making its way around the internet. Many people who see the picture find it hard to believe it’s real. Mike Vogt, curator for the Gold Star Military Museum at Camp Dodge, says they received dozens of e-mails last week questioning if it’s a doctored image. Vogt says, in fact, it’s a real photo called "The Human Statue of Liberty." The photo was taken in August 1918 by Arthur Mole. Vogt says Mole and another photographer, John D. Thomas, traveled the country taking photos of soldiers who were grouped together to form various "patriotic" patterns. Over 18,000 soldiers were used in the Camp Dodge photo that was taken from an 80 foot high tower. Mole and Thomas went to great lengths to make sure the human statue was proportionally correct. "It’s an interesting exercise in survey and mathematic techniques to have the photographer perched in an 80 foot high tower and have all the soldiers fall in exactly where they needed to be,"

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This is quite a simple effect actually.. I took a photo, and pasted it on 2 layers using Serif photo Plus 6.0, my image editing tool. One layer i selected an irregular path and feathered to a 100, and masked it. The layer below, i applied a radial motion blur. And hey presto, a neat effect resulted. Dont you think so?