I thought you guys might be interested in the final result last night. The winners were Diversity, a tremendously original and inventive dance act. Youtube Video
Second, was Susan Boyle, reprising her first offering, seen at the start of this thread. Youtube Video
Third was Julian Smith; also reprising his original performance...but giving an unabridged version. Youtube Video
Sound about right, but I think I'd have switched 2 and 3 around.
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Tenor/Accoustic guitar/Blues Harp 😉
Well, even if it attracts tourists only (as also suggested in the article), good plan. They only have sand in that desert anyway so let's let them play in their sandbox.
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I wonder if this is the best solution for them for attracting tourists....i mean i don't know if ordinary people not jusr UFOlogists will go there, and i doubt that they are so many that millions if dollars are worth making that embassy.
A better sollution would have been making the opposite of where Dubai is doing, instead of making new islands in the sea, better make new seas or lakes in the desert (oasis) 😛 .
Man if you are good at truespace you must be a wizz kid at SU. Truespace was my first 3d app 25 years ago. I could built my whole truespace lifes work with SU in about two days.
Amen to that. I remember Caligari when first introduced on the Amiga -- way back when.
Dylan,
Possibly the easiest way would be to make a duplicate layer of the background photo, then sandwich the layer containing the canopy between the two identical layers, positioning the canopy correctly. I'd then use the magic wand (or colour range...as Jackson suggests) on the clouds in the top photo layer...set to a reasonable tolerance like 100....select then delete. That ought to leave just the tree showing in the sky area, with the canopy showing through the gaps. You could probably then just sample some of the vignetted leaves and copy them over the bits of canopy that fall in front of the buildings, but behind the tree.
Although I never actually entered the run, I did run down that hill quite a few times in my childhood. Oh, and rolled down it a few as well. Some aged relatives lived in a tiny cottage somewhere on the hill and I got to visit during summers spent with my grandparents- so long ago that it was even before anyone walked on the Moon.
My alternative approach using ASCII characters... : )
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Large, but 2116 characters
MonaLisaLarge.jpg
Medium, but 564 characters
MonaLisaMedium.jpg
Small, 140 characters - BUT you need to squint a bit...
MonaLisaSmall.jpg 😳
few sites I recently discovered.....soon I hope to gather the courage to post my work there.
http://virtualpaintout.blogspot.com/
Virtual paintouts using Google Street View as a resource for traveling the world to find interesting locations and subjects to paint.