Mermaid711

Yes, as you all know, I am an artsy-theater-photography geek. Yeah so what Here are some of my photos on my website. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ They are under 'stock photos' tell me what you think mmkay?

Obviously you didn't read the "Newer digital cameras have a 'red eye reduction' flash. And don't call me buddy. Just don't. And yes, you can use digital editing software, but what about people who can't afford the software, or they can't afford a digital camera? This will help them, along with the rest of us. Read people.

Well, I've never competed in a SOTW contest, so excuse my horrible art skills. I used PSP8 in this, so I also used a variety of picture tubes and pattern tiles in it. I like the way the tree turned out.

Red eye can be very problematic, and can make one's work look very unproffessional. Many compact cameras and digital cameras have this problem, but it comes very seldomly with professional equipment.You may be wondering, "How do I reduce red eye?"But first, in order to reduce red eye, you must know the cause of red eye.So what causes red eye?Red eye is caused when a bright flash goes off. Your eyes, or anyone's for that matter, do not have time to constrict when the flash goes off. So the light goes into your eye through the pupil, and relfects of the back of the inside of the eye, straight back into the camera.Ewwwwww nasty I can see the inside of your eye ewwwwwwww.Yes, eww. Photos look very "ewww" with red eye.But here is how to avoid it. Newer cameras in which are digital, typically have a 'red eye reduction' flash, or something along those lines. If you have that opption, more power to you. But if you don't, read this:1.) Increase the ambient light. (If you can)This is because most of the time red eye occours is when the pupils are most dialated, in the night. 2.) If the first is not available, ask your subjects to look into a light for a brief period of time.An odd request, yes, but it does help, since it alows the irises to constrict.3.) Take multiple pictures. This can be especially helpfull if the other two things are not available. The most likely picture to have red eye is the first one, so just through it out or keep it in your album, but the others should turn out perfectly fine.********If you can relocate the flash bulb, do so, so that the flash is located at a higher place than the suject. It should help.Also if you can find a flash filter, that will help, but that only works on close up subjects. They can be expsensive, however.

Okay, first of all, if you are hating on someone else's religion, you are not racist unless the person's mother is jewish, and that person is a practicing Jew. Yes, i know it's confuzing, go read some books on the holocaust, it should clear some things up. And I don't care what anyone has to say about my religon or anyone else's. It is my own damn opinion and they can get over themselfs. The thing that bothers me is that it is not acceptable to have a bible club on school campus, but if were a torah, Koran, (insert your religious book her) club, it would be all good. That's not fair. That's the problem. And as for the fashion thing: I would be quite offended if someone said I looked bad. A man obviously wrote this post, because men typically don't care what other's think, unlike women (or so I think- I am not a man so I don't know.) Ahhhhhhhh, I see where you're going with this. Have you noticed that the only religious figures you're using, are, infact, Christians? Just saying. . . Anywho, nobody ever asks the Priest here anymore, but then again, I live fat in the middle of Christian conservitive Texas. . . Hahaha, that's what I am thinking. Well, I, too, wonder why they always ask the preacher guy, it is beyond me. But keep in mind most of the people who run the media like that are phsyco liberals who want to make conservitive Christians look stupid-licious. Just ignore it That brings up the whole, why does the media try to ask anyone. It was not so much the person's "fault" as it was the media! Thank God. That is the last thing this forum needs. . . another religious debate. . . hahah I think people make a bigger deal of religion than it really needs to be. But it isn't so much the religious that are making a huge deal, as it is the Atheist.

Here are some holocaust edits that i am making for a collage in my language arts class.Please tell me what you think. It would be mucho apprieciated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Also, I need a list of countries involved in the holocaust, nuetral countries, and lists of the people and nations in the resistance . . .

Hi there you guys. . .I need to know what countries were involved in the holocaust in Europe. I also need a list of countries who were nuetral,and a list of countries who were involved in the resistance.And also any other information would be greatly appreciated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, I think that this whole topic is just completely asanine in the first place, not to mention a waste of webspace, but I'll put my two cents in.Thinking of ways of how someone should act sheerely based on skin colour is stupid and you know it. It is completely oay in my book for a white person to, quote un-quote "act black".Thinking in ways like that is prejudice and in some cases, racist.I think this topic is stupid and someone should hand the guy who started it's *bottom* to him.TOPIC LOCKED!

Hey guys.Thank you for the information. It was very usefull.Muchos Gracias

Hi guys.Me and a couple of friends are going to produce "Anne Frank and Me" as soon as we find the copyright avalibilties (hopefully it is in the public domain)Anywayssssssssss, we already have a couple of places lined up to film or, well, in our case, tape onto a digital camera, so we really need to know what we can get.Most of my friends have digital cameras, most with video capabilities. Also, are there any movie editing programs that are cheap or free that i can use?

Hi you guys.In my Pre AP ELA class, we have decided what to do for our "Now that you know, how can you teach?" thingamajig. We are going to make a gynourmous collage. I am in charge of art coordination(geeeeeeeeee imagine that ) and so I am going to take a bunch of photos and run them through paint shop pro 8. Any ideas?

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yes, Corrie ten Boom. The hiding place. I love that book. But it is very hard to read during the first couple of chapters. . . I had to read that a couple of years ago. . . Yeah yeah, my grandma was a Rosie the Riveter (look it up on google) what do you have to say to that British boy Haha, just kidding Anyways, I don't need the book for a class, I need the SCRIPT because me, along with some friends of mine, will be producing the script. It should be fun. . .

would anyone here happen to have a copy of "Anne Frank and Me"? I need it to do a project for a class of mine. Our job within the class is to teach others about the holocaust and how it went down.If you can't find that, can you find "And then they came for me"? Notice from opaque: edited title

Yeah they stand out. . . depending on what i have on and the light and colour of the room. . . anywho. . . Yeah I tried the oppisite color thing. It does work. But the problem is I don't know what makeup is best for me, and I can't seem to find makeup tips for my eye color anywhere on the internet because of the rarity of my eye color. So my orange/amber eyed peeps speek up

Hello there. . .I have orange/amber eyes. Since this eye color in humans is extremely rare, I need some advice on how to make them REALLY stand out and pop.I heard that using dark blue eyeliner works sometimes, but I am not quite sure. . .Suggestions please

Well, today in my language arts class, we studied world war 2 propaganda, then we had to right an eleven sentence paragraph over how we could prevent it from happening again and what specific groups of people to focous education on. This isn't exactly my eleven sentence paragraph, but here are some ideas. Topics of education- Well, seeing as how some of the countries of the world are trying to make it seem as the holocaust didn't exist OR they're trying to make it look not as bad as it was, or they are not teaching it how it occoured. I think that we need to make a cirriculum, or at least a basis for a cirriculum, to teach how it all went down. I find this especially important because you know what they say about bad events in history (it's never the good ones ) "If you don't know it, it's doomed to repeat itself." And, quite frankly, I have jewish, disabled, and homosexual friends (hell I might have some jypse friends [whatever a jypsie is]) who I do not want to become victim to that. Plus I find it rather cruel and inhumane for anyone to undergo that no matter who you are. I think that they should have anti-hate courses, in addition to the halocaust education. Rules of Society- Has anyone else noticed this besides me? It is becoming more and more acceptable to hate someone for their skin color, race, religion, disability, sex, soceoeconomic background, or sexual orientation now more than ever. It needs to stop. Now. It isn't okay for someone to be discriminated against just because they are different. No people, you know better than that. Disposal of Body Image Standards- If anyone here who is in the USA and over the age of about 16, you have probably heard about the Aryan race. The term originally came from a term to describe a person from Iran, or a persion. But the Nordic myths of Aryan supremacy is where the blonde-haired, blue-eyed people came from. I think that magazines like cosmogirl are premoting false images of perfection in one's body. If anyone knows how women can be at times, competing for the male's affection, the one who wins out (typically the blonde hair blue eyes) will gain a sense of supremacy. Well, before you go off on me telling me that this has nothing at all to do with killing 10,000 men, women, and children, you are right, but a sense of supremacy does not need to be granted to any specific genepool of people. For those of you who are familiar with adolph hitler and the affairs that pervert had with his wive, you know where the Nordic myths, or well, part of the Nordic myths originated from. We need to make behaviors like that severely frowned upon in this society. Don't let minority over rule the majority- The Nazis who actually knew what they were doing was only about 10% of the rest of the population. The fact of the matter is people, BE YOUR SELFS AS LONG AS YOU DON'T HURT SOME ONE ELSE! Ahhh it still needs work, but I don't want to type anymore. . . I might finish it later. . .

Do you want to know what it is missing?ME!

Ummm, no sympathy there for you buddy. The fact of the matter is that your broke the rules. You should have had self controll when this kid was being asinine and picking on you. It is only sensless and imature to beat someone up because they pick on you. That kid wanted a reaction out of you. Sorry, but your principal is right. And the kid that was picking on you didn't through the first punch, and from the sounds of it, it looks like he didn't fight back much at all.Sorry bud that's life.And just for the record: Small, less than one line posts are refered to as spam and will have you removed from the forum.

Ummm sense makes none. Imparing someone's judgment would disable them to make smart decisions. Or, here, let me put that in terms you can understand. It makes them stupid and makes them make stupid choices. Suuuuuuuure you're not. . . No, the views you have are absurd. It's kind of obvious when you say "Pot isn't bad but ole granny's tabbacy is!" that you smoke or have seriously considered it. . . but then again this is the internet so we don't really know. . . It has kinks out the wazzoo. If it has major work to be done on it, then why put it for people to hand your *bottom* to you? Well, I think we all stressed to you the whole "what will work and what won't work" concept, but you're being stubourn after you said you will be open to our ideas. And as for the whole "Pot has yet to be accounted for any deaths and Tabbaco is wayyyyyyyy worse thing": What in the hell are you smoking? I WANT SOME! Tabacco is a long term killer, yes. But I know of people who have died within 15 minutes of smoking blunts. The fact of the matter is that this is an asinine concept to say pot isn't bad but tabacco is. And for the whole it doesn't have anywhere near the bad effects of tabacco: you must smoke pot because that is infact, asinine. The fact of the matter is that this is a recent study by YOUNG scientists and the study has yet to be refined. Of the people you know, yes, but of the vast majority of people no. You don't know what you're talking about in the grand scheme of things. Oh yeah buddy. That's reeeaaaaal mature. You seem to be giving people a reason to say those things because YOU have NO IDEA what YOU are talking about. Well, if you'd just stop giving us a reason to call you asinine or dumb, then wed, infact, stop calling you those things! Sheesh it's common sense! And just for the record, after the pot thing, it's been really hard to take you seriously. You reap what you sow.

Um, excuse me, but I happen to be a western citizen, and I will tell you that these views are biased, and since what you cite in this post as your sources of information happen to be television and other media sources, you really don't know what you are talking about now do you Mr. Romania. You still don't know what you are talking about. The eastern civillizations are just farther behind us (with the exception of england, russia and germany) and so you guys are jeallous And yes we all know that history is known to repeat itself, but uhhh THAT WAS IN ROMANIA! It has been nearly 200 years since the Civil war, and us westerners tend to learn from our mistakes. Yes, but I guess they don't have E8 ethonal over there. . . And there is increasing proof that there isn't such thing as Global warming, that the Earth has heating and cooling cycles. . . I knew Al Gore was full of Bull Shhhh.... Crap =] There is no scientific proof that those disasters are caused by the global warming, which is increasingly disagreed with by the people who actually have an education. And if you are so worried about the fuel, the vast majority of that stuff comes from russia and the middle east. Fast food=BLEH! Sure I don't always have time to eat healthy, but I am not the american idiot you see on TV that gorges on junkfood. Weather you eat fast food or health food does not have anything to do with the downfall of a civillization. And being capitalistic as long as you're not a fascist capitilist is what drives this part of the world. you europeans have it all wrong. And the thing about the children shooting there schoolmates: that rarley happens. The media likes to make everything appear worse than it is in real life. My bes advice to you is ignore what you see on TV. . . that stuff rots your brain. . . Mmmmm yet again, no Idea what we're talking about. . . I'm going to hold my comment on this one. . . =D

Well, after being disapointed of Above The Rest's government idea, even though he DID put up a decent argument for a 14 year old anyways, here is my idea for a government.I don't exactly have a name for it, so it frees the mind of the thinker who wants to come up with something. =]]It is based off of capitilism, but it isn't entirely capitilism (which for those of you who don't know, that means that it isn't fascism).The first aspect of this government is. . . well. . . the type of government. It is much like the government of America, only not so full of liberal socialists yahoos *cough* Nancy Paloci and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama*cough*. There will be three branches, judicial, legistative, and executive. However, the power and government will not be so focused in one area but GENERALLY over through out the area. There will be a leader, I am not going to give specific terms because they DO mean different things. I guess you could call him the president. . . ANYWAYS. . . He or She will have the final say in things, however, they are required to get the corect information to make decisions before they make some totally biased decision.We will START at a diplomatic approach to wars, however, if the country does not accept our diplomatic approach, we will go to war, depending on the circumstance. We are not the Frogs (wow that was so politically incorrect ) we do not run when there is a war.We will stand by our allies. We will not allie our country with any random country, we have to know their moral values and things like that.Avarage people will be allowed to vote to decide wether or not we should go into a war when and only when it is decidable. They will not be able to decide how the military should spend its budget. The reason for this is, I don't want some diplomat hippy pants making important decisions about something they don't support. The government will get to vote, and as stated before, we will then have the president's say.Laws should star RELITIVLY close to the same way. . . not entirely. . . but close. . .**************The second aspect of our government is the way of life of our people. Welfare benifits will be reserved primarily for the old and the disabled, then secondly for the low income and the recently layed off. There will be a time limit to how long you can stay on welfare, depending on your circumstance. You may choose the job of your choice, colleges will vary in order to meet everyone's intrest.Housing will not be provided by the government, unless you are of the circumstance stated above. Sorry, it's not fair to the good tax payers of this country for you to be a lazy bum just sapping up all the tax money, when you are not contributing to society. And if there is a plot of land that you want to build your house on or someone is already there, you can negotiate with the person who is there, or if they say no/ you can't afford the land then your just *BLEEP*. . . errrrrrr I mean stuff out of luck. Sorry buddy, that's life.Unless you qualify for welfare, all food items will be bought with your OWN money. Uncle sam ain't paying for your beef stew, son, this is why it is so important to get a job.Our community members will have a free lifestyle, with a FREE (yes, mermaid finally agreed to government funded items) school eduction, much like Texas's education system. These will be funded by the tax spent at stores, along with some property tax.Roads will be payed for mainly on spendeture tax. We will try to keep income tax as low as possible. But what is left over from the income tax will fund wellfare and government/millitary spendeture.****************Drugs will be illegal, smoking tobacco will not, and niether will drinking, but it will be highly frouned uppon.Possesion of prescription drugs without a record or proof of prescription is highly illegal. Doctors are required to document when there is a prescription issued.****************You're not Paris Hilton. Drink Drive, GO TO JAIL! You will have your license revoked 30 days on first offense, 90 days on second offence, and a year on third offence. You wil not be able to buy any alcohol of anysort unless it is isopropal (rubbing alcohol) for 30 days.*****************There will be border patroll. Heavy border patroll. but we WILL keep things realistic. *****************Abortions are legal, BUT there will be heavy recosidering to do before you get one. What I mean is, the mother will be forced to learn about the abortion process, she will have to view her fetus ect. . . .*****************Capital punishment is and WILL be used in the community. If you murder someone, well, you will either be forced to serve life in a jail or capital punishment.We will also use chinese water tourture. . . amd believe me, I know, it DOES work. . . There are no physical side efects, but there are HEAVY mental side effects.*****************Well, that's my view of how things should be. . . let me know how you see things, or what your view of my awsome capitilistic view is.

Uhhh, excuse me, but I am perfectly capable of know what marijuana does. Medicinal marijuana is complete bull crap and you know it. That stuff ruins your grey matter (and since you probably don't know what that means, it means your brain) so it is infact, bad. The benifits of it, and I will be the first to say that there are benefits, do not make up for what is lost, few things are as grand and irriplacable as a human mind. Yes, but you know what else? Hillary Clinton is handing Barack Obama's *bottom* to him. That guy wants to go and have tea with people who wish death upon us all. So why is a form of government from someone who wants to have Barack Obama as a president a good idea? Exactly. . . I agree. We do have allies over there. No it doesn't, but people who DO have their head on straight are Republicans Do unto in all you do, as you'd do unto you. If you call me a little punk, I will have no respect for you. If you can behave like the adult you think you are, than I will be happy to respect you. Also, calling me a little punk only furthers your immaturity and ignorance and therefore gives me another reason to call you boy Do you need some Bengay for that pain? The reason why that statement is so ignorant is because I have sources who have been there, done that, and they know more than you. Oh yeah, they also know more than you CNN does, seeing as how that channle is nothing but propaganda. The Iraqis want us over there, and qquite frankly, if you don't know what you're talking about, just try not to say anything at all. Everyone here would appreciate it. Oh, and one more thing. The Iraqis that you see on TV, on the internet, or in the newspaper/magazine are just the bad half, we're actually making AWSOME headway over there. For about every one to two guys of ours that we lose, they (the BAD Iraqis, not the good ones) actually lose anywhere between ten and twenty. The people at CNN or [enter your liberal *bottom* tv/radio station her] don't say anything about what is going good in Iraq for two reasons: 1.) They want to make the president look stupid and 2.) Bad news sells. I mean, would you be more likely to buy a newspaper that says "Town struck oil recently- economics look great!" or one that says "A bus full of children killed sunday on their way back from the zoo"? Unless you are a major in accounting and economics, you are either going to pick both up or going to pick up the one about the buss full of children. BURN!

I think playing video games is just a complete waste of time in the first place, I have money to make, places to go things to do.And spending your money on virtual items, which I hear on mmorpgs can get pretty expensive, is just flat out dumb. At least when you buy the game you only have to pay once. . .RUNSCAPE SUCKS!

Well, I am sure Hillary will win (unfourtenately ennough) and I am scared to death. She is the most liberal woman on the face of the Earth, next to Nancy Palloci.Who do I hope will win? Mitt Romeney, Rudy Gulliani, or Matt Huckabee. I really want Mitt to win, but he's not even going to get nominated because he is a morman, and that doesn't fly to well with the Christian right. . . oh well. . . And even though we dont want her to win, the polls say she is ahead, and stupid americans don't know what to vote for, so since they dont like ONE republican, they are going to vote for the liberal. . . They'll learn soon. . .

Don't take it personally, I call everyone son. Weather or not, socialism, weather it is total comunism or just the ideas of hillary clinton, is socialism *cough* a bad idea *cough* Yes, but in THIS concept, which might I add is only a FANTASY and not REALLITY. The fact of the matter is that you need money to buy things in this world. And you have to have money in order to import needed things from other countries, there's no getting around the need for money, so don't pull out the liberal "Oh everything is free" card. I never said you were, bud. Sure I might have hinted it, but that's not what I said. . . And yes I know perfectlly well the difference between mary jane and cigarrettes. . . either way you look at it, they are both bad and should be made illegal. And dont even start with medicinal marijuana, that stuff is a load of bull crap. It may not make sense to you, but it does to the majority of us. . . And well, it seems to be better than your system. Drugs are bad, they tear families apart, they ruin brilliant minds, and how exactly are you going to do when you have a bunch of crackheads and coke addicts running around, hmmmm? Then that person deserves to be slapped in the face. Sure it's not MY choice, yes there will be disobedience, but I believe that it is in the best intrest of the children that the drinking age isn't that low. . . or at least we should have some kind of alcohol awearness program. . . Eitherways, it's just not the world's best idea. . . but I have seen worse. . . everybody has to start somewhere. . . Yes, but it's not what or who the allie(s) [it is spelled allie not ally, that's a girls name] are, but what they know. know the country before you have open alliencing. No, it is not the dumbest thing you ever heard, but you want to know something? What you just said is the dumbest thing I ever heard. My own FATHER was in the military, he even went to Iraq, and let me tell you, it's not as bad as those liberal maniacs on CNN like to make it look. And who was in control of Iraq before we intervined? OH YEAH! Saddam Hussein! And you know who took him out of power? WE DID! He killed millions of innocent people and now he is six feet under, and we are being thanked by many Iraqis. They actually like us, they love americans, they look up to us. Get your facts streight, liberal boy. The middle east. Go there, it's easy to break American laws. Why, yes I am, but I am only thirteen. I'm not like the liberals, I have my head on straight, and I think for my self, taxes are bad, SCREW HILLARY CLINTON! and oh yeah, YAY FOR CAPITAL PUNISHMENT! But because I don't agree with you politically, and nor do you with I, doesn't make me any less smart then you. Nor, are you any less smart then I, we just have conflicting beliefs