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Surrogates Posters

Surrogates is a Bruce Willis sci-fi schock fest where everyone in the world interacts through their robotic avatars known as “surrogates. Humans use their robots to work, shop, have sex, do drugs, and everything else you can think of. Meanwhile, the actual human being controlling the robot is laying in some computer bed at home getting fat, sick, and smelly.

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Reproductive Health Bill Posters

The use of a waist cinching corset to tighten the shape of the waist can be seem as a form of bodily harm. Whilst searching for body harm campaigns/posters I can across RH Bill ads that use photography and editing to get across their issue.

RH Bill or the Reproductive Health bills are Philippine bills aiming to guarantee universal access to methods and information on birth control and maternal care. The bills have become the centre of a contentious national debate.

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Learn How To Create Neon Text In Photoshop

In this tutorial, we would be showing you how to make neon effect on the text using simple blending options and basic effects in Photoshop. Below is shown the effect, which we are going to create.

STEP 1: BRICK WALL IMAGE

First of all, you would need a brick wall image like the one shown below.

STEP 2: HUE/SATURATION

Bring the image on the canvas. Press CTRL U to open up the Hue/Saturation box. Use the following details to darken the image.

STEP 3: CLOUDS

Set the foreground to black and keep the background to white. Make a new layer and go to Filter, Render and choose clouds.

STEP 4: OVERLAY

Now select the Clouds layer and change the blending options to overlay. Pick up the eraser tool and erase the clouds like shown below.

STEP 5: TEXT

Right in the center of the canvas type in your text. Set the colors as shown below.

STEP 6: GAUSSIAN BLUR

Duplicate the text layer. Go to Filter, Blur and choose the Gaussian Blur effect. Keep the radius to 15px.

STEP 7: DROP SHADOW

Now choose the text layer in front and go to the Layer Style options. Tick on the Drop Shadow option and use the following details.

STEP 8: INNER SHADOW

Now select the Inner Shadow option and use the following details.

STEP 9: OUTER GLOW

After that, select the Outer Glow option and input the following details.

STEP 10: BEVEL AND EMBOSS

After that, select the Bevel and Emboss option and use the following details.

STEP 11: COLOR OVERLAY

To give your text the neon effect, tick on the Color Overlay option and use the following details.

STEP 12: ADDING DEPTH

Create a new layer and position it between the wall and the text layer. Color the edges of the text (the area that should be colored is denoted by the black circles in the image. Once you are done with this step, go to the Layer Style and choose Bevel and Emboss. Use the details given below and this would add more depth to your text.

STEP 13: FINAL TOUCHES

Create a new layer right at the top and color the whole canvas black, except the area with the text and glow. Go to the blending options of that particular layer and choose “Luminosity”.

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Suitable Buildings For Neon Signs

These are the type of buildings and sign posts that I think suit the idea of how to go about displaying neon signs. I've like the building in my final image to look like a barn/motel type of place so it looks quite like a low budget place for women to visit to receive easy waist training sessions.

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Creating Neon Text

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Flashing Sign Buildings

By searching for images of flashing neon signs I am able to fully understand exactly how it is they appear unlit and lit against backgrounds. Therefore I will be referring to these when I begin to go about creating my own digitally created text.

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Corset damage

With the rise of the health and dress reform movements, there was a great amount of controversy surrounding the corset. Advocates for reform protested against the harmful effects of this “instrument of torture.” They believed that the tight lacing crushed the ribcage, displaced and damaged the internal organs, and caused disease. Many argued to go corsetless, but that was seen as particularly indecent by prudish Victorian society, so more flexible, breathable designs with straps to relieve the weight from the waist and hips appeared. They were not as popular, however, and the mainstream corset remained an intricately boned, strapless hourglass.

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Jean Paul Gaultier's Corset For Madonna

Three-dimensional leather cage corset worn by Madonna on her MDNA World Tour in 2012.

Gaultier’s sketch of the costume.

Black leather cage corset worn by Madonna during her 2012 MDNA World Tour.

This 3-D Patent Leather Cage Corset was worn by Madonna in her MDNA World Tour in 2012 when she was 54 years old.

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Model With 16 Inch Waist

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2809286/Beautiful-bonkers-Meet-woman-16-inch-waist-TRAINED-body-shape-tight-corsets-inspired-Jessica-Rabbit.html

The woman with a 16-inch waist: Model TRAINED her body to be that shape by wearing a corset for the past seven years.

Kelly Lee Dekay, 27, started 'waist-training' seven years ago
The fetish model from New York claims it helped her to overcome shyness
Kelly uses a steel boned tight-laced corset to shrink her waist
She struggles to climb stairs and lift heavy items when she is wearing it

By CAROLINE MCGUIRE FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 10:36, 27 October 2014 | UPDATED: 15:52, 27 October 2014

MOST women dream of an hourglass figure - but for Kelly Lee Dekay sculpting her waist has become an obsession.

Inspired by her favorite comic book characters, Kelly, a fetish model, has shrunk her waist to a minuscule 16 inches using a steel boned tight-laced corset.

The 27-year-old, from New York, started 'waist training' seven years ago after being inspired by the extreme shapes of voluptuous Jessica Rabbit and Marvel super-heroine 'Storm'.

Kelly Lee Dekay, 27, started 'waist-training' seven years ago. The fetish model from New York claims the steel boned tight-laced corset helped her to overcome shyness.

Kelly, who studies fashion, said: 'Growing up I just loved the exaggeration of styles and the beautiful costumes that comic book characters would wear and that led to the aesthetic that led to tight-lacing.

'I like that they wore their personalities externally.

'I do understand their measurements can't ever possibly be achieved because they would break.

Meet the fetish model with an INCREDIBLY tiny 16-inch waist.

'I think it's interesting how fabric and thread can just easily manipulate the body to do such an extreme silhouette though.'

Growing up, Kelly was a tomboy, and says that corset training has helped her to overcome childhood shyness.

She said: 'As a little girl I was very shy and I loved the way comic books portrayed the characters. 

Kelly has been waist-training with a corset for seven years. Her middle now measures an incredible 16 inches.

She continued: 'I liked that Batman is actually Bruce Wayne but when he puts on the batsuit it allows him to become this vigilante.

'He was the same person but the different outfit allowed him to channel a different side of himself.

'I've always loved how certain pieces of garments gave you permission to let out certain parts of you.

'So I think that's what tight lacing does for me, I wanted to become my own super hero villain.'

But waist-training is not without it's problems and Kelly does struggle with some physical tasks. 

Kelly was inspired to start waist-shrinking after becoming obsessed with cartoon characters like Jessica Rabbit as a child.

Kelly Lee Dekay pictured around the age of sixteen with a friend at school in New York City was incredibly shy as a child.

She said: 'The corset can be restrictive when going up the stairs and you can't carry too many heavy things because you could hurt yourself.

'I actually did hiking in my corset and that's very dangerous.

'I also played soft ball in a corset once, that was an interesting feeling, but I don't go to the gym in a corset - that's really dangerous because I do weight lifting.

'But if I do want to do something extreme, I don't limit myself. If I have to be out of my corset, then I'm out of it.' 

Kelly works as a fetish model, here she is pictured in some of the clothing that she wears on the job.

Kelly's corset is unsuitable for any exercise or heavy lifting.

But despite the limitations, Kelly has no plans to hang up her corset, despite facing some negative comments online.

She said: 'I get mixed reactions.

'Some people really love it, some people really hate it, but I always did it for myself - I didn't really do it for people's reactions.

'I love modifying and its often mistaken that modification is being a means of not loving yourself but I modify because I can, because it's fun.

'People say that it looks unnatural, but I have big bright blue hair - what part of me screams that I want to be like everybody else?'

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Coffee Drinks For Seahawks Fans
http://blogs.seattletimes.com/seattlesketcher/2014/09/26/coffee-drinks-for-seahawks-fans/

September 26, 2014 at 6:28 PM
Posted by Gabriel Campanario

Sketched Sept. 17, 2014

If you want a caramel macchiato, ask for an “Interception.” A “Touchdown” will get you a mocha, and a “First Down,” a latte.

That’s the right terminology at a new drive-thru stand near 196th Street Southwest in Lynnwood where baristas don referee jerseys and give out little blue footballs as punch cards.

Owner David Craig (no relation to former Seahawks quarterback Dave Krieg) came up with the idea of a 12th Man-themed drive-thru after meeting someone who supposedly makes a killing painting the number 12 on people’s garages and roofs. (If that’s you reading, I’d like to sketch you, too!)

But “12th Man” is trademarked, so he had to get creative. His stand, perhaps the first of its kind in the area, is branded Twelfth Fan Espresso.

“As long as the Seahawks keep winning, it will work,” a confident Craig, wearing a Super Bowl champions hat, told me inside the concession trailer.

I usually don’t pull up for drinks while I’m driving because I never know what to expect. But now that I’ve met Craig, I may have to come back and order another “Beast Mode” Italian soda.

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Yellow Teletubby Breaks Into House Fridge

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2815307/310-pound-6ft-student-dressed-yellow-Teletubby-breaks-friend-s-college-apartment-steals-Chinese-food.html

310-pound, 6ft student dressed as yellow Teletubby breaks into a friend's college apartment and steals Chinese food

Terez Owens was at party in Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Broke down door and made his way to the fridge to steal leftovers
Was dressed as Laa Laa from the BBC children's series at the time
Reports suggest he bundled all of the food into a 'man purse'
Is facing criminal mischief and disorderly conduct charges

By WILLS ROBINSON FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 04:20, 31 October 2014 | UPDATED: 10:17, 31 October 2014

A six-feet tall, 310-pound student is facing criminal charges after he broke into a party and stole Chinese food while dressed as a yellow Teletubby.

Terez Owens, a student from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was dressed as the Laa-Laa from the BBC children's series when he went into the refrigerator and dumped leftovers into a 'man purse' before leaving.

While trying to steal the food, he spilled sweet and sour chicken and sesame chicken onto the floor. He also cut himself and left parts of the property covered in blood.

Facing charges: Terez Owens (left) from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was dressed as the Laa-Laa character from the BBC children's series when he went into the friend's refrigerator took food.

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John Holcroft Illustration

http://www.johnholcroft.com/

John Holcroft's images are considered to be rather smart and clever and involved a great deal of metaphors along with comical juxtaposition. His work such imaginative interpretations of everyday life which justifies why we works with institutions such as the BBC, Financial Times and The Guardian.

The clean design in each illustration is equally fascinating. After starting off as a painter, using acrylic paints, Holcroft has enjoyed exploring a number of differing styles which has lead him to his screen-print-like digital illustrations. Each of his current pieces feature sharp blocks of colour, and a textured background that looks much like hand-made paper.