The Dino-Aspie Cafe (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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Prof, what a gorgeous, elegant work of art! I love it!

Prof, like it a lot. I used to have a 63 MG-B first year they made the B, I want a better mid-life crisis then this one, I'd go get another.

The nntp feeds still stick with separating large binaries into their own newgroups. You have to bear in mind that there genuinely are still people with dial up 56K (or less!) modems out there!

In theory I have a 1GiB per month cap. However, when I pursued them, asking where I could find out how much I'd used in a month, they admitted that they hadn't got any software in place to enforce the cap. Seeing as I've downloaded 299.1 MiB today, I'd guess that they're not capping me.

I'm not even sure what download speed I'm getting. They may be throttling me to 128MHz. Lots of places are limited at their end, anyway. I must have a little check when I next download something lumpy.

Even on broadband, you can get some sillinesses. I had to sort out a problem that a woman was having last year. Her "LookOut Itsaess" wouldn't finish sending mail. It turned out she had tried (repeatedly!) to email some pictures... one email, 300 x 4MiB images, or something of that order.

:) My systems never give me hassle. It's me that gives them hassle! I insist on playing with them. (Man saws off branch he is sitting on.)

Wow! I like both works for different reasons:

Lemon, I love the demonstration idea itself - I like watching how a painting proceeds and flows. (I cannot ever control mine the way you are able to do - I just have to be satisifed to let it do whatever it wants to do. You have great skill!) When you changed to a 3/4 pose I like how her skin glows. Before the turn, while the head was straight on, I like how the red was coming out on her right cheek. The metal headdress is an interesting shape. And I also like the red in the painting, the mood it creates. A very interesting painting! I would love to see all of your works! [aside: saw your picture when you were 25 years old. You are very beautiful! You seem very thoughtful and peaceful].

Professor, I like this style that you were trying to achieve - and hit! The impressionistic/realistic style works very well for this classic car, and you have excellent technical skill! I like the color green you chose for the car as well. Very, very nice. Bravo! [aside: saw your picture as well. You are very beautiful too! (scared now arncha? HA!) You do look a little like FDR as you said. But I see someone who's very friendly, and I see lots of humor and intelligence in your eyes].

Chuck, reporting from Art Critic Corner.

Thanks all, I was trembling just a bit to post that.
You're very kind.
Particularly regards me mug ! !

I like it Prof and I even knew it was an MG right off. Yeah me! It's a fine mixture of impressionism with the background and realism with the car. It is like a photograph where the central image is in focus and the background is more indistinct. I had that impression as soon as I looked at it!

I have no art. Only my silly pictures.

Where is Prof's picture?


Ohhhhhhhhhhh I forgot! Guess what we went to see today? A whole parking lot full of old Volkswagons! They had Beetles and vans AND Karman Ghias! (sp?) I had forgotten all about those. We walked around and looked at all of them. They certainly don't make utilitarian vehicles like that any longer. Sigh.

Hi, all!

Nanarob--I am glad to hear that Helen and hubby have worked out a system, because that’s really so important for both parents to be on the same page no matter what the situation is. And I’m glad to hear that she is taking care of herself.

ZM--thank you for that good energy. I think those experiences have given me a depth and understanding and hopefully compassion for others I wouldn’t have had otherwise. It also gave me a sense of what is really important as well. A friend of mine seems to think there is some sort of character defect in general in people when she is both generalizing and using the wrong things to gauge people by. I don’t think purple hair is an accurate judge of character, but she seems to think so, and no gentle prodding is going to change her mind. However, she is 63 and has been very sheltered. And I see a lot of compassion here at WP, and acceptance as well.

Chuck, we have to be tough. We have our quirks, but I hope we also have our ability to accept. I hope these youngsters find their strength, and discover a way to exist in the world as themselves. I hope they discover that they really are okay, immature, maybe, but that’s natural for us. And that means a lot more interesting things will happen in our lives, and we will not stop learning and discovering. We may be dinos, but we are also old children. We have beginners’ minds.

Lemon, that is so cool what you do with texture in your work…I like the lines, it adds movement, and I really appreciate the courage to change the composition in mid-stream. I really like the first one, with the red texture on the face.

Postie, that is cool..how do you start? Do you draw first and then paint? And is it watercolor? That’s a very nice technique.

Lau, we do need a tips thread stickied. That would be so handy dandy.

Cosmiccat, as a woman with young women under her wing, I picked up immediately what Postie was trying to say. He was commenting on the sexual frustration of the young men on here, and for some that frustration and anger at the world has become a perseveration for them. While a twenty year old is young, they are not a child, and have been exposed to far more than we realize, and we need to respect that experience. I don’t think vibrators or other such thing is pornographic in itself, and I didn’t think PP was being pornographic, or even graphic. Young people are asking questions about sexuality on here, and some of those questions need some honest answers from someone who knows what they are talking about and will put them in terms so that they understand the biology and also some of the emotional and moral parts of an issue. Have you been to some of those threads? Some of the questions are from fifteen and sixteen year olds, and they need accurate and honest information. They are doing some goofy and questionable stuff. I can’t believe what some of them are doing.

I guess I come from the tough old broad school of survival. I don’t want my girls to be innocents--I want them to be smart and tough and with enough self respect not to let people walk all over them. I want them to know about sex, and to deal with it with some smarts, and to enjoy themselves when they do get sexually involved, and on their terms, and no-one else’s demands. And for joy’s sake, not to be afraid of coming to me with questions. I want them to know when someone is being a putz, or a perv, and to either metaphorically or actually kick them in the biscuits if they need to. I don’t want them suckered in.

And that’s life. I can understand the mother bear instinct, but at a point mama bear has to let her youngins fend for themselves, and kill their own campers.

Oh, dear, I’ve written a book.

Metta, all!!

Me mug is on display in the "Request a Pic" thread in "Members Only", but do have a pint before viewing ! !! I'm a bit of a shock ! ! (Who used that poem, "When it comes to beauty, I'm not a star...?")

Professor, you wrote somewhere that your passion is Ferraris (sp?). Ever paint a picture of one? That we could see?

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I'm obssessed with 'em ! !! Could you see ONE??? I've a hundred I've painted ! !! Just a bit now, let me work the computer thingie , (sticks tongue in cheek in just the proper spot.)

All right then, here's one in an infinite series... I don't expect anyone to know anything about Ferraris, so it's a pic of a 1982 308 model. It was featured on a certain Yank TV show about a detective who lived in Hawaii. (~ahem, clears throat~)

I got a little loosey-goosey with me technique on this one, so the car isn't so very realistic. I comes and goes as to realism, ya know ...

Here it is, and I like this one, I do ....

Gor blimey, it's HUGE ! !

(Sorry and all that.)

I can see its back to the drawing board for me. You really do have an artist's touch! I can do alright with people, animals, trees. But I can never nail buildings cars, trucks or motorcycles in any kind of believable way. (Couldn't draw a straight line if my life depended on it). Cars are tough too - if the technical details aren't just so, its readily apparent - and the way you've angled this car from above makes its curves difficult - but you hit it dead on! I like how you catch the reflection of the surroundings in the car's paint. If I squint my eyes, its just like looking out a window and seeing a real car! Good job professor!

Ok, I duck the camara a lot. But... there are a couple of me. Wasn't why I put this link here though. There are a couple with what my neck of the wood looks like. My second hard drive is full of pictures, I just can't find them when I want.

I'm blushing, I don't like to even look in the mirror.

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Prof:

I'm fond of cars too. And I would go into phases where I'd have to know about certain vehicles, and the history of that vehicle, like all the variations. To the point where I'd memorize what colors were available what years.

I wondered if you'd ever done auto portraits for people? There are so many auto enthusiasts with collectible, classic autos. A photo of the car is nice. But I wouldn't have wanted a huge photo of the car. I would have wanted a portrait.

And what is nice is YOU can work with the people who want the portrait, in choosing background colors/styles. To work with someone's decor/color scheme.

I bet you could do well at auto shows for those classic or vintage cars, having some kind of display with easels showing your work. People could buy the car of their dreams, if only on paper. Or buy a ready-made one that looks like their car. Or contract with you to make them a portrait of their car.

Bonus, you'd be around your favorite cars all day, and perhaps could get some new photos with different angles of cars to paint.

Do you paint from photos? Or do you manipulate the car in your mind. Like Lemon does with the linked art, where the head was repainted to angle rather than be straight on.

Mum said "If you find a job you like, you'll never work another day". I don't know what kind of income could be made from paintings, but you CAN depict an auto to look like it does, and there are people that will pay for that. I don't know if this is what you are doing now, or what else you are doing. Maybe you thought of this before.