PHOTOFUNIA... fun beyond words!

Realize your dreams of fleeting stardom on PHOTOFUNIA !!! This site is TOO MUCH, and i emphasise again, simply TOO MUCH! fun to keep to myself. It's super user friendly. No complicated steps to add your pictures. Just one simple step and you have a personalised superimposed image of your lovely self on the chosen template. This is self indulgence at its playful best! Time flies when one is having fun and as one template leads to another.. a good hour or two would have passed in a flash.

Imagine seeing yourself emblazoned on JC Decaux ads throughout the lamplit streets in Paris.

Get a kick out of making it to the countless billboards in Japan as the imaginary spokesperson of SOBA SO GOOD ???

Get your 5 minutes of fame in your Andy Warhol moment as you take on the myriad colors of a chameleon in an art gallery or museum.

Or gracing the cover of a magazine! In Madonna's song - Strike a pose! Vogue..

Have fun ! Throw caution to the wind and grab that 5 minutes of fame before it passes you by..

www.photofunia.com

Liberte with language profundities

Take liberties with the language if you dare! Many of us develop a set of "quirky" dictionary in the course of our conversations with friends, and more friends.... Seemingly nonsensical terms find their way into the "unofficial dictionaries" of our vocabulary when they take on a perceived meaning making sense only to an individual based on their personal slangs developed over time. Here are some "quirky" new additions to my "dictionary" : -

SASHIMIFY (pron. sah-shee-mee-fai) - to beguile one unawares with nothing but the raw truth

"CHEEMIFY" (pron. chee-mee-fai) - to beat around the bush around something simple

"CHEEMITOLOGY" (pron. chee-mee-taw-le-gee)- the art of BS at its best when you are just full of "air", you airheads !

"MYEONGWOLISM" - teachings from famous korean gisaeng Hwang Jin Yi, one of the many modern heroine's who were brave enough to challenge the status quo and championed women's rights, winning many a sexist battle with brains rather than brawn.

This is all I have for now... a great many new words escape my mind for now. I shall come back and update when these random discoveries decide to rear their heads again...

Adding to this quirkdom of my personal vocabulary this 1 July 2009,
1) Kimchify - as in personify
2) ..... words escape me now but i shall be back with more quirky vocab.. until then..

Poor man's ADOBE......

The "print screen" button on the keyboard is my favourite button of all ! Just like my favourite saying "Necessity creates ability ...... in times of adversity ! The timely discovery of this humble but powerful key opened doors to a whole new world of possibilities given the luxury of time.

F1 may be the fastest
F4 may be the cutest ( in an Asian context )
F9 may be the most dreaded by students....

But! "PRT SCN" is the most formidable friend you can have if you need to whip up a design layout in a jiffy. It has served me well in strapped times like these. No $ to buy the latest ADOBE PHOTOSHOP program ? All you need is some clever manipulation of the tools in the PICTURE TOOLBOX like crop/cut/brighten/darken/resize/enlarge/reduce & there you have it. It can whip up a decent draft mock up of a product mailer, a promotional A4 size poster, a personalised greeting card, an in-house newsletter, step by step instruction manual for a new procedure you are trying to master,etc,etc... the list continues.... only limited by your imagination and purpose! So happy experimenting with this wonderful function key on your keyboard. It's time to give this often overlooked button its time of day...

Who came up with the idea of this "PRT SCRN" button on all our keyboards anyways ?
Based on this website, the inventor's name is Bowers Jr., Walter L. (from the US of A) http://www.freepatentsonline.com/EP0732648.html

Bottomline - I think its an ingenious & economical way to incorporate this "photographic" function to a pc without all that fuss over installing sophisticated external camera equipment?