This is one of my Ambient Noise tracks. It's called "Haunting Wind", & it's from my Album "Afraid Of Silence". The music is inspired by the Artist Tim Hecker. Although the track is from 2006, I wanted to post it here on FriendFeed too
Thank you! :) I will post some other tracks later :)
- Svartling
Perfect background track for the 3D space scene I'm modeling right now, excellent work Svartling
- Mo Kargas
You can use it if you tell the world it's me who made the music :)
- Svartling
Of course, I will :) ( I mean - I will try to tell my friends of your music :)
- Hanna Wiszniewska
The sonic structure of my sound is somewhat destroyed by the low compression though (128 kbit/s). It sounds a lot better uncompressed.
- Svartling
But don't get me wrong, the noise should be there :)
- Svartling
To hear all the sonic noise I want you to hear you must use headphones. My music is headphones essential! :)
- Svartling
I made this track with audio only in Ableton Live. I have not used any MIDI at all.
- Svartling
I worked with the envelopes for weeks. I wanted every mili-second to sound exactly as I wanted.
- Svartling
I've released all my tracks for free to download. You can use it or play it on some radio channel if you want, but you must always refer to me when you do. I will post more tracks here on friendfeed from time to time.
- Svartling
This picture (album cover) for my album "Afraid of silence", is actually made for my track called "Black Rain", but I thought it would fit for my music style on this album too.
- Svartling
I'm sorry but this is unbelievable:) I'll give credit to the artist upon more convincing proof! The photogenic look of the tiger and lion really helps the artist's case though:)
- Roney Smith
I'm with Roney... I find this hard to believe... or maybe I'm just jealous that I can't even get stick people right!
- Jasmin Smith
I'm really happy everyone liked these. They're my most liked entry to date, Thanks! There also seems to be some question about whether these are actually Pencil Drawings.I can assure you that they are.When I get home, I should have the links. I have more drawings, too.
- Michael Fidler
from fftogo
Thanks Enrique, I'll post some more soon. They are a little more obvious than these ones. As Luke points out; without being able to look closely it's impossible to tell. He's right; but up close it's more obvious. I'll upload the originals to Picasa later, and then you'll be able to zoom in with any photo viewer and see for yourselves. I can't believe how many people liked these. A few people have reposted them already. Thanks!
- Michael Fidler
Absolutely awesome, Michael. You are extremely talented. Everyone should repost these pix and help to make you famous. You should be doing this full time - you obviously have some passion for this. Bravo.
- Chris Loft
These are really beautiful, Michael. Do you sell them?
- Shannon Jiménez
Chris, I would love to say they're mine, but it's not true. I've had them for a while, but I'll find the artists names. It will just require a little backtracking. Besides, they deserve the credit; all I did was find them:-)
- Michael Fidler
Cut the bullshit! :) Photos are very good.
- Burçak Çubukçu
I draw alot in pencil, but they are amazing, the best for me is the girl, that is the most photo-like one. :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
I agree Rob, the girl is amazing. My favorite by far! Wait until you see it close up! It's really had to tell, even up close!
- Michael Fidler
Burçak Çubukçu If these were photographs, they would be very good. As Pencil Drawings,(which they are), they're amazing.
- Michael Fidler
@Burçak Çubukçu I can't tell if your serious now or just kidding around. I hope your just having fun! If you are serious, I've never given you a reason to question my integrity, nor do I ever intend to. However, the second set is up now, so judge them for yourself, but don't judge me! http://ff.im/1BJh5 BTW, I messed up and reposted the shot of the women again. Oh well. Hope you like them:-)
- Michael Fidler
@Michael: try deviantART, not Picasa, to submit your artworks
- LouCypher
LouCypher, I know it well, but I don't see why I would want to do that. I hope everyone knows by now that they're not mine? I'm sorry, but I can't say it any clearer than that.
- Michael Fidler
nah, i don't believe it is done in pencil. i am sure it is photoshopped :)
- hasin hayder
I'm finding this both interesting and humorous at the same time. There's a separate message board where this post is being discussed and it has another forty comments on it already. I think its great how this has created some lively discussion, considering that when I posted this I was doubtful if anyone would even like it. When I went to sleep last night there was only had 3 or 4 likes...
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- Michael Fidler
Very interesting. I would like to see them up close and in person...just to make sure. Bill said it's real and possible. Your 2nd set of picts look like pencil. Nice work in finding these!
- LaFern Cusack
Kol, I can't thank you enough! Kol found another post which helps to prove that these are done in pencil. I had my doubts about a few of them because I collected them from several different sites over time, but the site Kol found has done a great job pulling together an impressive collection of these drawings and more. Take a look - http://www.flickzzz.com/2009...
- Michael Fidler
Actually there are more than what this site shows. There's an entire set with the cats(little cats), which I have, and there's a new portrait set.
- Michael Fidler
Found your post here, Michael. :-) I tried my best to find the artists.
- Kol Tregaskes
Amazing and very very very good.... Very impressive ...
- Linda Zeek-Bobinski
Yeah we know, thanks though, James. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Excellent pictures - how long did it take you to scan the photographs into Photoshop and then edit them? The only pencil that has come into contact with these "drawings" is the Photoshop pencil. A tip - stop trying to fool people into thinking you are a "real" artist, because all you are doing is cheapening proper artist's works whom have spent hours creating real pictures as opposed to a few minutes on a graphics editing package.
- The Wimp
A bell does ring here. And I am remembering why I was so attracted to the tiger...and the lion for that matter. These are exact replicas of prints I had in our bedroom when I lived in Dallas. I had bought the prints (in color) at a department store,
- Melanie Reed
Actually, I have learned quite a bit about these drawing since I made this post. Not only have I discovered all of the artists, but I've learned more about how they are created. They are always copied from a photograph or painting, but usually a photograph. It is extremely time consuming and detail orientated work. There are many other artists besides the ones featured here who practice...
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- Michael Fidler
Most of them have portfolio's on deviantart.com and their work is truly amazing even if they are copies of other artists work. I suppose with this level of detail, they have to start with something. Nevertheless, I'm still in awe of their talent. Melanie, the animal prints you refer to are from a very well renowned photographer. The originals are B&W I'll look it up later but I do have...
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- Michael Fidler
Has anyone ever corrected the record and pointed out, with the exception of the Charlize Theron drawing, that these are indeed photos by Alexander Von Reiswitz?
- erik weisz
Erik, thank you for bringing this up again, but I think I already mentioned something about this in my prior comment. However, since it appears that you only signed up to friendfeed to leave a single comment, (ok, why?) I will try to summarize what I wrote previously. In brief, I learned after doing a little research that all photo-realistic drawings like the ones that I shared here,...
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- Michael Fidler
I can assure you that what are claimed to be drawings of animals, in your post here, are photos. I used a website to that allows you to do an comparison of the Von Reiswitz photos and the images you have posted here. There are no differences. Every hair matches up. As a pencil artist myself I can tell you that it's pretty much impossible to get that kind of accuracy and have it look...
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- erik weisz
but... it has to be real, i saw it on the internet
- Iphigenie
Eric, it doesn't matter to me if you just joined, and I apologize if I made you think otherwise. If you have any questions regarding friendfeed, please feel free to ask and I will do my best to answer them. At this point, I would be happy if we could find someone who is an image analysis expert, and finally point this thing to rest. Every time that I look into this, all I find is a...
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- Michael Fidler
the site spammed above must all be done in pencil too, right, thats why you posted it?
- Iphigenie
I'm amazed that people are still posting these photographs of animals and calling them pencil drawings. This is at least the third case I can remember (and there are probably more) of this happening. The myth about them being drawings was debunked long ago. It's also funny that whenever they get posted the person posting them doesn't make it clear that they aren't the artist, exactly as you have done.
- canadianmaple09
@canadianmaple09 I posted these back in March, 2009 when I was beginning to use FF regularly. I ran them through TinEye hoping to find their source, but it returned no results. When I ran through again yesterday, TinEye returned over four pages of results. If I had it to do over again, would I? Yes
- Michael Fidler
The people you refer do don't join "just to slam" someone, they are concerned members of the online art community that want to see real art appreciated and fake art or photos being passed off as drawings revealed for what they really are. Artists such as Brian Duey, Armin Mersmann, Paul Lung, Zindy Nielsen,and many others do not receive the appreciation they deserve because of scams like this.
- canadianmaple09
canadianmaple09, the worthiness of your motives notwithstanding (and they are worthy, definitely) you could definitely have approached Michael completely differently by say, giving him the benefit of the doubt rather than attacking in a highly accusatory tone.
- Chieze Okoye
When you've seen these same pictures posted multiple times by people that just find them on the internet and claim they are pencil drawings, when it has already been established on multiple occasions that they are not, the "benefit of the doubt" approach seems a little too generous. People post these images and claim they're drawings to get views for their own site or blog or page or whatever it is they post it on. It's wrong and it needs to be stopped.
- canadianmaple09
I can understand that, but you should also keep in mind that everyone is not as well-versed in the issue as you are. All I'm saying is that you would probably be more effective in this case if you weren't setting this up as a us-vs.-them, "must destroy with the validity my argument!" attitude when talking to a guy who's been actively having a discussion on the issue in what seems to me (having been around when he first posted the images and the follow up thread and what not) to be good faith.
- Chieze Okoye
Look at his first comment here. People clearly thought he drew them. He doesn't set the record straight. He also claims that they "are actually pencil drawings" and that "I have more drawings too." Later he claims that you need to look at them closer to see they are drawings and that he will "post the originals". Once again, this makes it sound like they are his. This follows the same...
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- canadianmaple09
Greg and Chieze, thanks for your support. I really appreciate it. @canadianmaoles09, for what it’s worth, I share your concerns about giving proper attribution when sharing also. However, I admit that I'm more conscious of it now than I was at the time of this post. Nevertheless, I have never taken credit for anybody's work here other than my own!
- Michael Fidler
BTW, I didn't realize it before, but I just noticed that you're new here too. I hope you like it so far and spend more time here. IMO, friendfeed is still the best thing around!
- Michael Fidler
I would probably qualify as an image analysis expert, but there's no way to prove that online. One thing we can do is look at color. Even though the images are black and white,they're actually RGB images, meaning they contain cyan magenta and yellow. If you look at the image of the rhino you have posted then look at the photo of the rhino at the photographer's site you can see they both...
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- erik weisz
I just love how some people have joined, completely ignoring the description of the group and showing the type of people they really are. I don't *love* the changes, but I will get used to them and someday soon I will not even remember the old way it was done. Change is good... long live change!
- travispuk
my only problem with this is that solo gets to play bass while vader looks like he's playing a synth axe (via bella fleck & the flecktones). every ounce of me shouts "vader on bass, vader on bass," ;)
- chaz2b
"Internet Explorer dropped 1.1 percentage points last month, to 66.6 percent. The slide was the browser’s steepest since last November, when it dropped by 2 percentage points, according to Net Applications. In the last 12 months, IE has lost 8.6 points of browser share."
- Matt Cutts
from Bookmarklet
Web, Internet, Mobile, SocialMedia, Médias, Politique > j'essaie de compiler et de publier les vidéos essentielles, souvent des archives des ces derniers mois, qui permettent d'expliquer de façon pédagogique les mutation en cours... Petit exercice collaboratif : vous avez des vidéos à proposer ? des liens ?
Ha... sorry, j'ai peur d'avoir trusté Soudoplatoff... ceci dit, faut mettre ca sur Owni dans la linktv (et donc transférer ca sur DM) - t'as pas une compte pro qui te permet d'y uploader de gros trucs ?
- Fabrice Epelboin
Merci ! Guillaume est en train de compiler ça : à suivre jusqu'en septembre sur Owni Tv > http://owni.fr/ - continuez d'en proposer /-)
- Nicolas Voisin
Bonne bonne idée - si il était possible de retrouver toute cette documentation au même endroit et de mettre tout ceci à jour par la suite. On ne peut pas se grouper pour financer ça ?
- Desirade
@Desirade : tout va être sur Owni visiblement ;-)
- stanjourdan
I love Vernazza. My profile photo (on FriendFeed and Facebook) was shot here in Nov 2005 (Super sale $208 RT SFO-MIL (Milan)) near the SE corner of the building lights (a little bit right of dead-center in this photo), sitting on the rocks during sunset. It was someone else's camera. The amazing photos in Cinque Terre - two friends downloaded their pics onto my computer to have space to shoot more pics - convinced me to buy my first camera on my return home. Now it's 130,000+ pics later...
- Mitchell Tsai
The waves on the right, and the street lights are fave. Mostly it's the memories of my last trip here. :-) Have to return to Cinque Terre and Florence soon!
- Mitchell Tsai
Les discussions Friendfeed francophone qui "prennent" parlent bien souvent de... Friendfeed. Les enthousiastes sont là, mais il manque du monde. Pour avancer, je vous propose de la controverse grand public. Politique, Religion, et technologies. Let's Get some Fight
je vote Nouveau Centre. Et j'ai pas honte
- Genaro Bardy
J'ai utilisé des pc jusqu'à Winblows 98, depuis je suis Mac, et je comprends pas les autres
- Genaro Bardy
PS3 Rules. La Wii c'est pour les filles
- Genaro Bardy
L'iPhone est le meilleur smartphone au monde.
- jsguillermou
from iPhone
Sarkozy est le meilleur président francais de tous les temps
- Geoffrey
Et sa meuf est canon et chante hyper bien doucement
- Genaro Bardy
J'ai toujours cru en FriendFeed. Mais, en plus, j'ai toujours beaucoup tenu en Twitter.
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Linux ne sert à rien. On peut l'arreter. Donc tout Internet aussi.
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Pour la paix à Madagascar, il fallait passer de 2 factions à 4. Vont passer à 8 bientôt. Pour la paix. Et je suis sur que tout le monde applaudira, tant qu'on dise du mal de leurs bêtes noires.
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Crackers ou hackers, c'est devenu la même chose apparement. Même les crackers semblent être fiers d'être appelés hackers. C'est les hackers qui le sont moins!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Les francophones sont plus intelligents: hackers ou crackers, ils mettent tout cà dans le même sac 'pirate'. Donc même les simples codeurs (= hackers) aussi donc. De toutes façons c'est surement la même chose: mauvaise graine pro-Logiciels Libres, c'est tout!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Allez, je reviens hehe j'adore cà en fait ;-)) : La religion est indispensable à la société donc à la politique aussi. Même Napoléon Bonaparte l'a compris et a rectifié son tir.
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Thierry t'as tout compris. Je vais bientôt lancer une opération Troll, je compte sur toi camarade. Mais tu voudrais pas écrire correctement stp ? C'est pénible et tu as l'air stupide
- Genaro Bardy
Napoléon est le plus grand dictateur que l'histoire militaire ait portée au pouvoir. Nous lui devons tellement de génie, surtout d'avoir niqué les Anglais
- Genaro Bardy
@vrbjn n'importe quoi. Michael Jackson s'est petit-suicidé, c'est une évidence
- Genaro Bardy
Non moi je dis qu'il est pas mort,il l'a fait croire pour qu'on oublie les histoires de pédophilie.A l'heure qu'il est il se la coule douce sur une île avec plein de p'tits n'enfants!
- zooz
Genardo, fais gaffe de ne pas commencer une controverse en disant que j'ai seulement "l'air" stupide!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Non, Genaro: Napoléon n'était pas qu'un dictateur militaire: il a aussi sauvé la Révolution, donc l'Humanité. Introduit jusqu'à la préservation de l'Art et autres principes/systèmes adoptés heureusement par la République Française par la suite! hehe
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
agree with Thierry, Le Code Civil, Le découpage en département et l'organisation administrative (nous n'avons meme pas eu les couilles de la mettre à jour depuis, meme pas par referendum en 1969), le franc napoléonien (monnaie qui a tenu plus d'un siècle), le Musée du Louvres avec l'accès à tous, L'égyptologie, etc. Le bonapartisme c'est pas vraiment une forme de dictature, c'est une...
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- Thierry Lhôte
Ya pas que Bonaparte, Louis XIV en son temps avait laissé des prescriptions et une façon de gouverner la France, ainsi que son orientation diplomatique, qui ont fonctionné pendant un siècle. Encore une fois, on n'a pas été capable de se réformer collectivement, une fois qu'un grand patron avait dit que les choses fonctionnerait comme cela. C'est le drame de la France dans son histoire, son incapacité à se réformer autrement qu'en naviguant de big boss en big boss.
- Thierry Lhôte
Faut pas le crier trop fort quand même, faudrait pas attirer les attaques sur FF ;-)
- Claire
Ben c'est fait, j'ai lu quelque part que FriendFeed a fait face à quelques milliers d'attaques aussi, en même temps que les autres. Je suppose que même s'ils n'ont pas les mêmes moyens, FF distribue et cache ses serveurs derrière de jolis clusters machin-chose-Linux à-la-Google, comme de bons gars sortis de là-bas d'ailleurs. Croisons les orteils!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
G tellement lu dessus ;) je crois que c'était la discution lancée par Robert Scoble sur le sujet, sinon d'Alex Scoble about les attaques DDOS
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
ok, direction my home page alors ;-)
- stanjourdan
sorry, cà rame pas mal chez moi now, alors que je suis en train de faire des manips limite-limites sur mon site ;)
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
L'application iPhone avec laquelle je me suis bien amusée hier et la vidéo qui montre mon énorme sens de l'autodérision - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
"A new form of art is taking place all around us these days - the art created on the iPhone using the application, Brushes. Brushes is a natural media painting application designed from scratch for the iPhone and iPod touch. Featuring an advanced color picker, several realistic brushes, extreme zooming, and a simple yet deep interface, it is a powerful tool for creating original artwork on your mobile device."
- clarke thomas
from Bookmarklet