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Published: 2005-03-15 08:32:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 1379; Favourites: 27; Downloads: 132
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Spoonbills!!and Cactus!!
Struggling with a few monster projects that are just not working for me; thought I'd have a little fun in the meantime.
Combination of photos taken at the San Diego Zoo.
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More Laughter?
Just giving you a hard time. Thanks for popping into my gallery, glad you were amused.
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ah-ah-ah! 
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That's an interesting title, I kind of go out of my way to exclude gore from my things - that is, gore in the blood, guts, brains 'vein' (pun intended). I'm not a fan of slasher films, but I'm really into creatures!
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Oh reeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllly? Sweeeeet!! We have something very important in common - loving animals! Thx for the 
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This is very cute. Adorable even. You really should start making everything plush.
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There's the "a" word again. If I didn't know any better, I'd think you were teasing me. And that's just silly.........
Wait until I drop my first "furry" deviation on DA. I'm working on the technology for it right now.............
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I think you understand fully just how much that idea excites me in a non-sexual manner.
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ooohhh .. this is very original .. i love how the heads look in different ways
really good work
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I think I will call you instead "younger bro", in your picture you look very tall and bad-ass. I'm definitely not "bigger" than you.
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really well done. It's hillarious too. Gives spoonbills a whole new attitude.
I wonder what a bird would do with those spines? Fishing might become a whole new game for the spoon bill, just roll in surf. Mating could be problematic though
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With a cloaca the size of a firehose.
Wait.....what was the question again?
Thx for the
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Fucking sweet.
Your photoshop skills blow me away. Everything looks so smooth and clean and natural... and so believable.
Speaking of strange, I have a drawing of a Jabberwocky I need to color. I just suck at inking and I've got all this other shit going on...
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I'm really not that skilled in photoshop. it's more about the pictures I start with. I shoot them, so I get to control direction and color of lighting, etc. So you see, I cheat. The American Way. When I got my photos off of the internet, I had a hell of a time matching things up
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See, I can't take photographs to save my life, so the only way I know how to manipualte pictures is by swiping stuff off the internet.
And I still suck.
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I would like to practice, but I'm stuck with my parents and I don't have photoshop.
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How about stock photos off of DA? Or have you decided that you suck and won't change your mind?
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Very cool love the way you blended them together, as always very unique.
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Thanks man, I don't think anything is as fun as blending for me - I still have never developed what I think is your strongest skill - texturing. Funny, huh? I guess I'm a tad lazy
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I'll exchange my texture knowledge for your blending knowledge
Texturing is way to easy if I quit procrastinating a tutorial I was supposed to write about a year ago I may do.
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wWoWw--that'a reallY smooTh tranSitioN bEtwEen BiRd anD caCtuS. dReamliKe seTTing. *ruBs eyes* anD This is uNlike anYthing i've seen--ASLeep oR awakE!!!
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So which are you right now? Asleep or Awake? How do you know for sure? From your descriptions in the past, your dreams can be mighty nice and satisfying. That would make me want to sleep all the time.
Thx for your enthusiasm and the
P.S. I know not all your dreams are pleasant, but I hope the ones you have tonight are
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hURrah foR SuBTLe tranSitioNs. 
the Dream about the painTingS was niCe. i RecoRd the onEs i can RememBer. Most ReCenTly i DreamT i Was StumBling Around Dead anD fuLL of water--Didn'T stop mE from Trying.
Thank y0u anD no pRobLem.
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Holy, crap...this is sorta freaky...but, I like it a lot.
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If you like Shel Silverstein, you can't be too allergic to freaky
Thanks for the
I like photographers.
Probably because that's kinda what I aspire to be.
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Haha, very true. Some of Shel Silverstein's stuff is a bit weird. You're welcome, and I'm glad you like me!
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like any good fan of some talented shmuck, I must fave this photo. You really are talented. I wouldn't know about the shmuck part, but talented... yes, by all means.
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Oh, I think shmuck is fairly accurate. Alternatively, you might use 'Rube', 'Pizan', etc. I respond to just about any epithet. But not as quickly as I respond to the rattling of my food dish 
Thx for the
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very cool! reminds me of this critter that i saw in a book of mythical animals i borrowed from my school library about 20 times as a kid. only instead of spoonbills and cati it was lambs and some sort of flowering plant. it was a rather tragic animal now that i think about it. it was suposed to give the world's softest wool but they were really hard to find due to the fact that they plant died of starvation after the lambs ate all of the vegitation around it. apparently lambs eat a lot.
but yes, the fuzzy cati match the fuzzy spoonbills wonderfully and the way you managed to get the lighting and the shadows so perfect is incredible! another great success!
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A beauteous plant that eats itself to death........... Hmmmmmmmmm...........*percolating sounds*
I'll have to file that away somewhere.....
As far as success, um.......meh. I really didn't invest more than 3 hours in this one, so I don't really think of it as a success. It's kinda like making something carefully from a recipe and having noone apreciate the taste versus throwing things together and getting raves.
God, I'm insane. Shoot me.
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Lock and Load!!
But seriously, people really do seem to appreciate your work be it a 3 hour photo manipulation of some suicide by appetite critters or a four day long project involving freeze dried rabbits.
I just happen to love the whimsy of the piece plus it reminds me of one of my favorite books when I was a little girl so in my mind's eye the work was a success.
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Careful, those long grey hairs hide sharp pricklies!! (sounds kinda like I'm referring to myself - 
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a Bear
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no Hair
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't Fuzzy, Was He?
That's about it, no more cheese from me today!
Thx for the
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I'm glad you took a closer look, I prefer to not always hit my viewers over the head to get their attention (but that sounds kinda fun once and a while).
What? a mind? i have.........
Hmmmmmmmmm.................
Thx for the
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Im sure you could sculpt that... i have no doubt!.. this is fantastic... youve blended them perfectly together!
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Oh stop it! You're embarrassing me
Stop it some more!!
Congrats on 2,000!!!
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heehee 
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You gotta have good photos for a good photomanip - conflicting light sources / tone wouldn't be very believeable now, would it?
Thankyou for your comment, you see more in my stuff than most; I value great photographers' input the most
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*Xbalanque's head explodes. Annoyed, he begins collecting the peices and reconstructs his head* Dammit, DON'T DO THAT!
Xbalanque
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YOu might wanna use silicone to reassemble that cranium (it's flexible), that was just a fluff piece between Heavies.
You flatter me, Sir.
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Don't need silicone, good old Mayan magic works just fine.
Xbalanque
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Better than Silicone, huh? How well does Mayan magic work on breasts?
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I'm talking about healing magic and necromancy. NOT breast augmentation. Though breast augmentation IS pretty cool from where I'm standing. We didn't have anything like that...
Xbalanque
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cool manipulation my friend, hey and I just saw your numero uno in the gfx shake down
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