soaring crane

ha!

The posture GT posted is a combination of yin water and yin fire. Make of it what you will...

black boxes on commercial airlines don't monitor missile strikes.

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ok, this is getting fun now

haha I bought a $3 shareware cd out of the bargain bin at a big box electronics store, because it had CoolEdit Pro on it. When I installed it, a Warez splash screen popped up saying, "hacked for your enjoyment", or something like that. I figured I'd bought it fair and square and have used it ever since. It's a great program (and yet another example of the Adobe-Kraken-Borg absorbing and assimilating and sucking the life out of and pushing the price up on popular, less expensive software). PageMaker is a dtp/layout program, not related to Photoshop/PhotoStyler. But it was also assimilated.

uh oh ... BKA liked your post. You're in for it now.

Looks like it was posted by 'God' at Facebook, haha. "Behold! What shall I name it?"

Gaza?

It's not quite that clear: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoStyler. I guess it's possible that the PhotoStyler people had a graphics program ready before Thomas Knoll did (but I doubt it). Maybe the keyword in your statement is 'PC' i.e. Microsoft. You might be thinking of Aldus PageMaker (PageFaker) that Adobe really did buy outright, to compete with Quark (it was no competition, lol). They also developed Freehand, which was a LOT better than Adobe's Illustrator. Adobe was not a well-loed company among the rank-and-file of the DTP set. Now I'm trying to remember which program Adobe bought the filters from. Maybe that was PhotoStyler? Regardless -- PS 4.0, wow! That's, like, not easy to work with. Discovered something interesting. The German wikipedia entry on Photoshop mentions PhotoStyler, as a program that was being developed concurrently: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop The Enlgish wiki page doesn't mention it at all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_photoshop Corporate meddling?

me, just one peon, poor musician searching for something to play on.

haha I assume that was a typo, but a lovely one, and perhaps a subliminal message for you? Talk to your feet :-) Sore feet can come from anywhere in your posture. Some random thoughts in question form: Are you stiff in the hips by any chance? Lower back? Do you feel numbness (old fashioned nerve numbness, not happy qi tingling) anywhere at all in your body? What kind of surface do you generally stand on? What do you wear on your feet? Read through my post above regarding stance. Do you know the classic 'ankle circling' warm-up exercise? Do you do any warm-up, loosening exercises beforehand? Are your legs relaxed when you stand? Knees unlocked? Pelvis opened? Sacrum lowered like the keystone in a stone bridge? What's your foot massage routine?

Mang, dat's total bull! The black sheep's got three bags full! Dao so bountiful.

haha, you mean from like 1990 or thereabouts? What kind of Mac do you run? PS - I don't believe that's the way it went down. I think PhotoStyler was competetion for Photoshop. Adobe has bought up plenty of their competitors, of course, MacroMedia being the biggest victim. Goodbye my lovely Freehand!

And the King of the selection tools is the pen of course :-)

The magnetic lasso is good, and you can fine tune the sensitivity, and change a few other things. You use the backspace key to erase points. The most versatile selection tool in Photoshop is the layer mask. It pays off spending a few hours getting the hang of them. I'm a "professional", technically speaking. I worked in prepress for a few years, but my ps knowledge stops at version 7

The 'p' isn't silent

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This is so absolutely true! When you're barefoot, you really have to remain aware of your surroundings. I assume barefooters tend to use mp3 players less often than "shoddies", too. Contrary to most people's gut feeling, though, for the initial foray into barefoot running, the consensus in the community (and I'm with it 100%) is that a hard surface is best, with the most desireable being smooth blacktop/pavement. Running on a softer surface acts like a kind of ersatz-shoe, allowing you to continue making the same mistakes in running form e.g. heel striking and overstriding. The harder the surface, the less likely you are to land on your heels (OUCH!) and the natural springing action of the foot comes into play. This is where the arches start to become important, along with the Achilles tendons. But this is just for the beginning. Once things get settled, then it's a lot more fun to get off the roads and onto the meadows and trails hmmmm ... split to a thread about barefoot running?

+1 :-)

^^ Nice videos, I especially appreciate the yin/yang = five elements diagram. That's a very lucid way to view it, very inspirational :-)

haha But I was serious. There's yin and yang (as well as the complete Wuxing) in everything, every activity, great or small.

but it's perfectly feasible to be well-rooted while keeping the arches from collapsing at the same time. It's one of the few areas of the arts that I'm kind of adam-ant about. Besides, that small correction I described has to do with more than just the feet. It activates the outer/yang half of the legs while relaxing the inner/yin side likewise gently opening the kua area. At risk of sounding argumentive, I have to add that I don't view it as a option.

well, I do certainly of agree on the VFF's for daily life and physical activities that aren't running. (Athough, being a bit of a zealot, I think it's best to go barefoot whenever possiple and view shoes as a regretable necessity for certain situations). For running, it's much safer to chuck the footwear altogether, or just stick to your cushioned orthopedic boots aka 'running shoes'. The reasoning behind my opinion is that the thin bit of material under the feet of truly minimalist shoes masks just enough of the sensory feedback to allow you to overdo the activity, resulting in all kinds of damage to the foot. Bare skin on the road acts like a natural brake, forcing you to slow down to a pace appropriate to the condition of your feet, or to stop running and walk home. I write from experience (and from the collective experiences of the BF Running community at large) haha.