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Exclusive Interview: Director/FX Artist Arthur Cullipher Vs. Brian S.

• Aug 28, 2010 from GeekTyrant(GeekTyrant.com)
  I met Arthur Cullipher in Louisville, Kentucky at the Fright Night Film Fest this summer and have made a friend for life. One of the funniest and nicest guys you'd ever want to meet and he is talented too! He and his Clockwerk Pictures team have created one of the darkest and disturbing short films I've ever witnessed with 'Come', think Lovecraft and R-rated Twilight Zone episode mixed with a little Outer Limits, all on acid and then stuck in a blender, I haven't been lucky enough to witness more from him but I'm sure that day is coming. Arthur is a part of Clockwerk Pictures and even the Dark Carnival Film Fest. He's an FX artist, he writes, directs, produces, even makes action figures and can make you laugh in a second! Check out my latest "Versus" with Arthur Cullipher as he's invited all of us for a trippy wild ride inside his mind!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Brian S- First off Arthur let's talk about your FX and how you got in this.Arthur Cullipher- I was pretty much weened on horror, sci-fi and fantasy films. I was a Star Wars kid, I loved E.T., The Exorcist scared the crap out of me. The Devil was my favorite character in the giant Bible I'd read from as a child. I've always loved weird creatures. Always thought there was no better holiday than Halloween. I was always encouraged to make my own things. Since I was 11, I've known that I had to make monsters.At the end of 20 and 0, not long after the birth of my son, Tolling, my wife at the time, Shannon, had suggested that I finally go to that Joe Blasco Make-up School I talked so much about and really start taking this seriously. So we moved back to Orlando from Bloomington. I thought I was really going to have to bring my A game to this prestigious academy, so I studied the new materials and practiced things I'd been doing all my life. When I got there, most all of the students had never applied make-up to anyone, but themselves, some not even that. No one had applied so much as a bald cap. So I spent the first 'semester' helping the teachers teach. $9000 down the drain. Once we got into the advanced prosthetics and puppetry, then I felt like I was in school. They were great with job placement, got a few high paying gigs, but, ultimately, we hated Florida. So we moved back to Indiana. Not long after, Shannon saw an ad in the paper for someone holding auditions for a movie and said I should see if they needed a make-up artist. I invited my friend, Kirk Chastain to come along and audition. He got the part, I got the job and we worked on, still one of the best movies we've been with to date, Scott Schirmer's 'House of Hope'. Which is, and this shouldn't surprise the indie film crowd out there, only recently finished and, finally, ready for the festival circuit... this year! Keep your eyes peeled. We just did the (pretty darned insightful) commentary track for the DVD, some 8 years after the fact.
  
  
  
  Brian S- Tell me some about Clockwerks and the team involved.I'm afraid that's a bit more of a complex request than it seems. Bear with me. Clockwerk Pictures was established in 20 and 7 with the production of 'The Adipocere Child', but the philosophy that shapes it was formed several years before.Kirk and I were driving by one of our local video stores (R.I.P. Cinemat, we miss you) and saw a sign on the marquee that read 'Filmmakers' Meeting'. The meetings were run by Colleen Jankovic and John Landis (no, the other one), a couple looking to make connections and increase local filmmaking. This is also where we first met the amazing Dave Pruett, whom we would later partner with to build Dark Carnival. Together, we became known as The Cinephile Film Arts Organization. We put together a weekly fundraiser, through the grace of Cinemat owner, Steve Volan. We called it Atomic Age Cinema! A midnight horror movie/ spookshow, hosted live by real monsters, with door prizes, trivia and beer. Oh yeah, it's funny. The proceeds went toward filmmaking grants (trying to be altruistic, these were not solely for horror films) given out locally and a film festival to showcase the movies they helped produce. Until we found that, really, nobody seemed to care. Later, Dave and I decided to go where our heart truly was and just do a horror film festival. The funds from AAC! then helped finance Dark Carnival. After six years and, roughly, 300 shows, Atomic Age lost its venue. Now, Clockwerk Pictures produces AAC-TV! for VHS, DVD and ye olde internet.Mainly just to prove that we have a sense of humor. What we refer to as The DMYAYMDic Principle (the philosophy behind Clockwerk) began with an experimental occult film we did in 20 and 4, partly as a result of attending the Cinephile meetings. Along with our friend MyRK, we made a piece called 'Not Dead, but Dreaming', in which a magician undergoes a strange and transformative ordeal, summoning forth a dark deity. Without going into too lengthy of an explanation, through the process of...

Those Jobs Numbers Were Horrible, And The Fed's Next Move Won't Really Help Anything

• Oct 09, 2010 from businessinsider(Business Insider) in Business
  To ease or not to ease? That is the question we will take up this week. And if we do get another round of quantitative easing (QE2), will it make any difference? As I asked last week, what if they threw an inflation party and no one came? We will take as our launching pad today's unemployment numbers, which serve to demonstrate just why the Fed may in fact be ready for some monetary shock and awe.
  Teachers Don't Count?
  As the jobs report came out a number of headlines trumpeted the "strong" private-sector job growth of 64,000 jobs, trying to soften the overall loss of 95,000 jobs. If you exclude the loss of census workers, the job losses were "only" 18,000. However, for the first time since December of last year, we lost jobs in a month. That is not the right direction.
  "Moreover, when you adjust for the slide in the participation rate this cycle, the byproduct of a record number of discouraged workers withdrawing from their job search, the unemployment rate is actually closer to 12% than the 9.6% official posted rate in September, which masks the massive degree of labour market slack in the system. This is underscored by the broad U6 jobless rate measure, which spiked to a five-month high of 17.1% from 16.7% in August." (David Rosenberg)
  Let's go to Table A-1 in the BLS website. You find that the total number of "civilian noninstitutional population" has risen by exactly 2 million over the last year to 238,322,000. That is the number of people over 16 available to work. But the actual civilian labor force has only risen by 541,000. Over the last 12 months we have added only about 344,000 jobs, according to the data from the Establishment survey, or just about a month's worth in the good old days.
  Here's an interesting note I picked up while looking at employment data by age and education (with seven kids, these things are important to me!). There is a cohort that has seen its employment level rise. That would be men and women over 65. The total number of people over 65 who are employed has risen by 318,000 over the last year, accounting for nearly all the job growth (although one bit of data is from the establishment survey and the other is from the household survey, but that should be close enough for government work).
  Think about that. Almost all the job growth has come from those who have reached "retirement age" (whatever that is) continuing to work or going back to work. The unemployment rate for young people 16-19 is 26%. The unemployment rate for black youth is an appalling 49%. (This is not an abstract piece of data. I have two adopted black sons, so this figure means something in the Mauldin household.) Next time you go into malls, Barnes and Nobles, fast food places, notice again the work force. These are the jobs that traditionally went to those starting out.
  As my friend Bill Dunkelberg, chief economist of the National Federation of Independent Business, wrote yesterday:
  "Officially, the recession ended in June, 2009 according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, historical arbiters of recession and recovery dates. But in July, 2009, Congress raised the minimum wage by over 10% and 580,000 teen jobs were lost in the second half of the year even as GDP posted growth of 4% (annual rate). This was more than double the losses in the first half of the year when GDP declined at a 4% rate and fewer workers were needed. This was one of many policies implemented or proposed by Congress that made no sense as a measure to blunt the impact of the recession. The minimum wage determines the minimum value an unskilled worker must add to a business to justify employment. Congress has made this hurdle higher and more teens find they cannot get over it. This is just one of many barriers to hiring that are institutionalized in our economy, for example restrictions in the stimulus legislation that required union labor on projects."
  Let's hear it for unintended consequences.
  The Rise of the Temporary Worker
  17,000 jobs in the latest survey were from new temporary jobs. I caught this graph from uber data slicer and dicer Greg Weldon ( www.weldononline.com). Notice that part-time workers "for economic reasons" is the highest on record at 9.4 million. My take on this is that part-time workers are no longer a leading indicator but simply a manifestation of the new reality that employers don't want to take on the burden of a full-time employee who may not be needed or who comes with costly benefits under the new regulatory and health-care regimes.
  
  State and local governments shed 39,000 jobs, the largest percentagewise loss since 1982. Those jobs mean something, and as state and local governments lose their stimulus money they will continue to shed jobs as they are forced to work with less revenue. Even after many places have raised taxes, revenues are down 3%. The consumption that government workers contribute to final consumer demand is just as important as that resulting from private jobs.
  20% of personal...

Download Now Alien Skin Software. Master Bundle Collection 2010 (27.09.2010) Only In

• Sep 29, 2010 from 2down in Entertainment
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  Alien Skin Software. Master Bundle Collection 2010 (27.09.2010)
  
  
  Alien Skin Software. Master Bundle Collection 2010 (27.09.2010) | 531 MB
  
  The collection of all the latest release to date graphics filters by Alien Skin Software for Adobe Photoshop. These filters will be useful for both novice and professional users of Photoshop. With them you cmozhete easily and accurately process or to decorate your pictures.
  
  Year: 2010
  Developer: Alien Skin Software, LLC
  Platform: Windows XP, Vista, Se7en
  Compatibility with Vista: complete
  Language: English only
  Medicine: Present
  
  System requirements:
  * Intel Pentium 4 processor (or compatible)
  * Windows XP or later
  * 1024 MB RAM
  * Screen resolution of 1024x768 and more
  * Adobe Photoshop CS3 and above
  * Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 and above
  * Adobe Fireworks CS4
  * Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2
  * Corel PhotoPaint X3 and higher
  
  Eye Candy 6.0.0a (x32/x64)
  Eye Candy 6 is a set of 30 filters, which possess a wide range of designs, from smooth web interface to tasteful logos with exciting names. A realistic simulation of natural effects gives beautifully detailed results. You can create the most intricate natural effects for a few minutes.
  
  Bokeh 2.0.0 (x32/x64)
  The new filter is designed to draw attention to a particular object in the picture. Allows you to not buying expensive lenses, such as a Canon EF 85mm f/1.2 II and Nikon 105mm f/2.8 Macro, for perfect blur effect to focus the viewer on a dedicated facility. With its help, you can add to the image effect of depth of field, make a vignette or highlight the main object of other means. Features plug-in that it accurately simulates the effect of blurring, which can be obtained using these lenses. Bokeh - the emphasis on the main site photos.
  
  Blow Up 2.0.4 (x32/x64)
  The new filter offers high-quality image resizing, better than bicubic interpolation. Filter, if you change the image size, retains a clear edge and smooth lines, and creates a four-fold (1600 per cent) increase without the appearance of step artifacts and luminescence. In some cases, Blow Up allows enlarge six times without visible artifacts
  
  Snap Art 2.0.1 (x32/x64)
  A set of filters designed to transform photographs into paintings or drawings, hand-drawn in different styles. Snap Art contains a large set of preliminary preparations, which enable one-click to create oil paintings or painted charcoal, watercolor, colored pencil, pen or ink, pastel crayon, as well as in comic style, pointillism and Impasto (impasto ). The filter allows to choose canvas or paper type, which will create an image. When you create Snap Art figure takes into account the contours of objects in the original picture, making strokes and the strokes fall naturally.
  
  Exposure 3.0.5 (x32/x64)
  Positioned by the manufacturer as a tool for professional photographers. Allows you to make digital photography effect shot on film Fuji Velvia 100F "(even with the imposition of grain, typical for such films), or to help convert an image into black and white or duotone, wear out a photo, or color correction image.
  
  Image Doctor 2.0 (x32)
  Attention is invited to a set of five high-quality filters: Dust and Scratch Remover, JPEG Repair, Blemish Concealer, Skin Softener, and Smart Fill. The proposed set allows you to perform more complex operations involving the removal of unwanted objects, retouching. Smart Fill removes large artifacts (human figures in landscapes, road signs, litter in the grass - and replace their piece of the background), while Scratch Remover is designed to work with a relatively small defects (scratches, date, text), while removing unwanted background noise in the image. Spot Lifter removes defects with preservation of background textures and fine detail, lightens dark circles under the eyes or shadows from the wrinkles, "erases" tattoo, while maintaining the texture of the skin. Helps to quickly remove dust from images or spots. The fourth module, JPEG Repair, eliminates the typical compression method JPEG block structure of the image. Alien Skin Image Doctor also works with selected sites images, that is correct can be just what you need.
  
  Xenofex 2.1.2 (x32)
  This special collection of inspirational effects that will give new energy to any graphic project. Another never been so easy to create natural effects and complex distortions. A set of filters for Photoshop, which allows to do different design effects, such as using it to create lightning in the background, add effects mosaics, turn your picture into a crumpled piece of paper and burn it on the edges. This is not the whole list of effects.
  
  Splat 1.0 (x32)
  A set that includes 6 filters to create a simulation of painting and graphics. Half of them are designed to create artistic frames around images (Frame, Border Stamp, Edges). Other tools help fill the selection with groups of images (Fill Stamp), to simulate the image, applied on a given texture (Resurface), and is styled with ASCII-graphics...

Download Now Adobe Photoshop Plugins Collection (17.08.2010) Only In 2Down.us

• Sep 30, 2010 from 2down in Entertainment
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  Adobe Photoshop Plugins Collection (17.08.2010) | 2.6GB
  
  
  
  Include:
  Akvis Plugins Pack
  OnOne Plug-In Suite 5.1.1
  Alien Skin
  Topaz 7in1
  
  Akvis Plug-in:
  -AKVIS Retoucher v. 4.0 - plugin for image restoration and photo retouching.
  The Program helps to remove scratches, stains, dust, traces of folds and other defects and removing unnecessary details, the text, to reconstruct
  missing parts of pictures, "tighten" leaky sites and build up the ragged edge.
  
  -AKVIS Chameleon v. 6.0 - program for creating collages, realistic and fantastic.
  Chameleon saves time and effort, so it does not require precise selection of objects, automatically smooths the boundary and picks colors "insert" to the background color.
  
  -AKVIS MultiBrish v. 5.5-set of brushes for image editing.
  The program allows you to fix her chosen field of photography without much effort: to change the color saturation and sharpness, smudge object
  toned area, restore and conceal, remove unwanted objects and create an artistic collage.
  
  -AKVIS Enhancer v. 11.5 - a program for processing photos with increased image detail.
  Enhancer improves the texture, emphasizes the details, "pulling" them from the illuminated and shaded areas. Supports
  technology HDR.
  
  -AKVIS Coloriage v. 7.5 - Colorizing images
  AKVIS Coloriage Software for coloring black and white photos and replacing colors on color images.
  Coloriage is clear and simple as a child's coloring book, he turns the work into the game. A few dashes indicate objects for repainting. The program recognizes the borders, impose a specified color, given the lighting, the play of shadows, folds in clothing.
  
  -AKVIS Noise Buster v. 7.5 - software for noise suppression on digital.
  The program removes the noise matrix of a digital camera and noises that appear when you scan a photograph, reduces graininess and eliminates
  non-uniform color spots on the image, while maintaining detail and sharpness of borders.
  
  -AKVIS Sketch v. 11.0 - a tool for turning photos into the picture.
  Sketch turns a photo into a work of art, converts the images into sketches in pencil, charcoal, watercolor
  simulating manual work of this artist. With this program you can get not just black and white sketch, but a color picture.
  
  -AKVIS Decorator v. 2.0 - allows you to modify the surface of the object.
  When applying the texture stored volume, terrain, bends, folds, shadows of the original image. With the program Decorator can not
  only impose a texture, change it, but to load their textures, and simply change the color of the object.
  
  -AKVIS LightShop v. 3.0 - adds light effects to the image.
  With the program you can create any type and form of light, add a photo beams, halos, flashes, lightning, reflections on the objects, sunset or fireworks. LightShop decorate snapshot enliven landscape, change the time of day and weather.
  
  -AKVIS ArtSuite v. 6.5 - a program for processing photos.
  18 kinds of effects and frames and more than 500 samples! ArtSuite can make an image, create an original greeting card, holiday
  album, poster or calendar, to turn a color photo into a modern stylized black-and-white portrait, and even make color correction.
  
  -AKVIS SmartMask v. 3.0 - plugin for quick selection (cut) of objects in the image.
  AKVIS SmartMask allows you to quickly and accurately allocate part of the picture or cut the figure of a man from a photo using relatively simple
  manipulation. The plugin is used to remove the background, creating collages.
  
  -AKVIS Magnifier v. 3.5 - allows you to resize images without losing quality.
  You can not only reduce the image to put it on the Web or send to friends. The program allows you to receive the highest quality images from a small picture. Magnifier provides a manifold increase in the image without the artifacts and ghosting.
  
  -AKVIS ArtWork v. 4.0 - allows you to create a digital photo realistic painting, as if written by the artist. The program simulates an oil painting, imposes strokes so that the image looks like a work of art! It is possible to choose the type of canvas, add text to the design of the finished canvas.
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  OnOne Plug-In Suite 5.1.1:
  New version of the well-known set of extensions for PhotoShop, which consists of six plug-ins: Genuine Fractals 6.0.7 Pro (for zooming with virtually no loss in quality); PhotoTools 2.5.4 Pro (hundreds of professional photos -effects); PhotoFrame 4.5.2 Pro (for the imposition of a variety of frames and borders for photos); FocalPoint 2.0.2 (to create vignettes and adding to the image effect of focus); Mask Pro 4.1.9 (a set of tools for masking objects); PhotoTune 3.0.3 (for color correction of digital images and correction portraits). Major changes in the onOne Plug-In Suite 5 is a renewal of individual plug-ins, plus support for work in 64-bit Vista and Windows 7. All additions that are included in this package, support Photoshop and Photoshop SS4 SS5.
  
  Year: 2010
  Version: 5.1.1
  Developer: OnOneSoftware
  Bit: x32/x64
  Compatibility with...

Download Now Alien Skin Software. Master Bundle Collection 2010 (27.09.2010) Only In

• Sep 29, 2010 from 2down in Entertainment
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  Alien Skin Software. Master Bundle Collection 2010 (27.09.2010)
  
  
  Alien Skin Software. Master Bundle Collection 2010 (27.09.2010) | 531 MB
  
  The collection of all the latest release to date graphics filters by Alien Skin Software for Adobe Photoshop. These filters will be useful for both novice and professional users of Photoshop. With them you cmozhete easily and accurately process or to decorate your pictures.
  
  Year: 2010
  Developer: Alien Skin Software, LLC
  Platform: Windows XP, Vista, Se7en
  Compatibility with Vista: complete
  Language: English only
  Medicine: Present
  
  System requirements:
  * Intel Pentium 4 processor (or compatible)
  * Windows XP or later
  * 1024 MB RAM
  * Screen resolution of 1024x768 and more
  * Adobe Photoshop CS3 and above
  * Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 and above
  * Adobe Fireworks CS4
  * Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2
  * Corel PhotoPaint X3 and higher
  
  Eye Candy 6.0.0a (x32/x64)
  Eye Candy 6 is a set of 30 filters, which possess a wide range of designs, from smooth web interface to tasteful logos with exciting names. A realistic simulation of natural effects gives beautifully detailed results. You can create the most intricate natural effects for a few minutes.
  
  Bokeh 2.0.0 (x32/x64)
  The new filter is designed to draw attention to a particular object in the picture. Allows you to not buying expensive lenses, such as a Canon EF 85mm f/1.2 II and Nikon 105mm f/2.8 Macro, for perfect blur effect to focus the viewer on a dedicated facility. With its help, you can add to the image effect of depth of field, make a vignette or highlight the main object of other means. Features plug-in that it accurately simulates the effect of blurring, which can be obtained using these lenses. Bokeh - the emphasis on the main site photos.
  
  Blow Up 2.0.4 (x32/x64)
  The new filter offers high-quality image resizing, better than bicubic interpolation. Filter, if you change the image size, retains a clear edge and smooth lines, and creates a four-fold (1600 per cent) increase without the appearance of step artifacts and luminescence. In some cases, Blow Up allows enlarge six times without visible artifacts
  
  Snap Art 2.0.1 (x32/x64)
  A set of filters designed to transform photographs into paintings or drawings, hand-drawn in different styles. Snap Art contains a large set of preliminary preparations, which enable one-click to create oil paintings or painted charcoal, watercolor, colored pencil, pen or ink, pastel crayon, as well as in comic style, pointillism and Impasto (impasto ). The filter allows to choose canvas or paper type, which will create an image. When you create Snap Art figure takes into account the contours of objects in the original picture, making strokes and the strokes fall naturally.
  
  Exposure 3.0.5 (x32/x64)
  Positioned by the manufacturer as a tool for professional photographers. Allows you to make digital photography effect shot on film Fuji Velvia 100F "(even with the imposition of grain, typical for such films), or to help convert an image into black and white or duotone, wear out a photo, or color correction image.
  
  Image Doctor 2.0 (x32)
  Attention is invited to a set of five high-quality filters: Dust and Scratch Remover, JPEG Repair, Blemish Concealer, Skin Softener, and Smart Fill. The proposed set allows you to perform more complex operations involving the removal of unwanted objects, retouching. Smart Fill removes large artifacts (human figures in landscapes, road signs, litter in the grass - and replace their piece of the background), while Scratch Remover is designed to work with a relatively small defects (scratches, date, text), while removing unwanted background noise in the image. Spot Lifter removes defects with preservation of background textures and fine detail, lightens dark circles under the eyes or shadows from the wrinkles, "erases" tattoo, while maintaining the texture of the skin. Helps to quickly remove dust from images or spots. The fourth module, JPEG Repair, eliminates the typical compression method JPEG block structure of the image. Alien Skin Image Doctor also works with selected sites images, that is correct can be just what you need.
  
  Xenofex 2.1.2 (x32)
  This special collection of inspirational effects that will give new energy to any graphic project. Another never been so easy to create natural effects and complex distortions. A set of filters for Photoshop, which allows to do different design effects, such as using it to create lightning in the background, add effects mosaics, turn your picture into a crumpled piece of paper and burn it on the edges. This is not the whole list of effects.
  
  Splat 1.0 (x32)
  A set that includes 6 filters to create a simulation of painting and graphics. Half of them are designed to create artistic frames around images (Frame, Border Stamp, Edges). Other tools help fill the selection with groups of images (Fill Stamp), to simulate the image, applied on a given texture (Resurface), and is styled with ASCII-graphics...