I’m doing this poster for basic design class showing my love for photography
the poster shows 3 stick figures with hearts, and one with a camera instead.
what do u think would be a good title for this poster? please help!

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Whats on my mind is that a lot of girls dont need all of this crazy makeup. You don’t need a lot of makeup to be noticed by people. Leave the crazy bright colors and glitter for the stage. If your in a performance, sure put on the different colors, but not if your going to the mall or out to eat, that is excessive. I was in the mall the other day and this woman walked past me with 2 little kids and her eyelids were covered in sparkly eyeshadow and there had to be about 5 or 6 different colors on each eye. I just personally found it insanely ridiculous. It wasn’t like she had any reason why she had to wear a superfluous amount of makeup and so I just found that if people realized their true beauty they wouldn’t need all of the extra things to enhance it.

Dancing through the BEST of Life

I like to draw with a plain number 2 mechanical pencil, but I keep pressing to hard on the pencil; my line won’t erase when I try to erase it. I was wondering what type of lead I should get? I need a lead that will be sharp and won’t smudge, but light enough so I don’t push too hard and make a dark un-erasable line.

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My camera has big file sizes – 5500, 6000 kb files – and I really want to make a gif with these pictures I took on a beach. The next thing I’m going to try is resizing the files but does anyone know a site that I can use? Thanks so so so so much!

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Spartanburg, SC, artist Isabel Forbes and Blues Boulevard Jazz, located at 99 South Church Street in Spartanburg will hold  the one-night art exhibit and reception with 40 percent of the art sales benefiting District 7 School art program on Monday, Apr. 23, 2012, from 6-9pm. The reception and exhibit are free and open to the public. Donations to the Spartanburg School District 7 art program will be accepted and appreciated.

Isabel Forbes counts herself fortunate to have grown up on a “magical street in Spartanburg.” Her memories of life on South Fairview Extension include not only places but also a “cast of characters” that included kids who created exciting outdoor games, a WORD-Radio DJ, artists, a doctor who would visit homes with a black bag filled with cures and a World War I veteran.

Those memories forged a strong bond between the young woman who grew up to be a celebrated artist and the community that fostered her. That bond, and her appreciation for the art education that launched her career, has led her to plan an exhibit and sale of her work to benefit the Spartanburg District 7 art program.

“My art teachers in public school saw something in my art skills and encouraged me to get more involved in art,” Forbes says, remembering the direction that art teachers, Mac Arthur Goodwin and Tom Willis, gave to her when she had none, guidance that led her to create an art portfolio when she was graduating from Spartanburg High School in 1978 that helped her garner a scholarship to Ringling College of Art in Sarasota, FL.

The reception and exhibit, to be held at Blues Boulevard in downtown Spartanburg, Apr. 23, 6 – 9pm, represents her effort to give back to those who gave so much to her. The paintings in the exhibit, which includes works painted on-site and in the studio from a recent trip to Cumberland Island, GA, will all be for sale, with 40 percent of the sales going to support the Spartanburg District 7 art program.

Mark Sullivan, owner of Blues Boulevard Jazz, host for the fundraiser, says that the event is free and open to the public, but donations to the Spartanburg School District 7 art program would be accepted and appreciated.

The local art community has embraced Forbes’ works that preserve Spartanburg’s historic landmarks and landscapes, but her work also reflects another passion, the South Carolina Lowcountry – Pawley’s Island, Litchfield Beach, Sullivan’s Island, and Amelia Island.

After graduating from Ringling with a Bachelor of Fine Art, she went to work in Florida as a graphic designer and illustrator and eventually managed art and production departments. “The skills I used to organize, plan, find solutions to tasks and to work with different types of people as a manager were not learned in math and English classes, but in my art training,” Forbes explains.

She laments the fact that in the age of standardized testing and “No Child Left Behind” that art classes have often been the first ones to be removed from a crowded curriculum. “Whether or not classes in painting and music improved my math and reading skills or standardized test scores is unclear,” Forbes says. “What is crystal clear is that learning through the arts has taught me life skills not measured by tests.”

Those skills that have made her such a successful artist – visual-spatial abilities, reflection, self-criticism, observing, envisioning, innovating through exploration, reflective self-evaluation and the willingness to experiment and learn from mistakes – she says, “helped me in life far more than a good SAT score would have.”

For Forbes, as for countless other students, art classes help fill the gap between the academic and aesthetic by encouraging students to think in different ways. “That type of thinking is more likely to produce the novel answers needed to succeed in this rapidly changing world,” says the dedicated advocate of art education who has exhibited her work locally, regionally and nationally, including at the South Carolina State Museum and Brookgreen Gardens.

After 20 years working in Florida, Forbes found her way back to South Carolina, first to the coast in Charleston and at last, in 2007, to her home in Spartanburg. Once home, she became involved in the local art scene, joining the Artists’ Guild of Spartanburg and exhibiting locally. And she found that she was beginning to see Spartanburg through her artist’s eyes.

Forbes began to translate the nostalgia she felt for familiar scenes into vivid paintings of local landmarks that brought back memories, first by painting her stepfather’s Heinitsh Walker drugstore on Main Street.

“I returned to Spartanburg to give myself a change and to see what I could accomplish as a full time painter,” Forbes says. Now the basement studio of her Duncan Park home is the perfect place for her to put all her memories – past and present – onto canvas. And it’s also a place where she can reflect on all the people that have influenced her throughout her life.

“I am so thankful for the wonderful opportunities the art lessons in District 7 schools gave me and can’t imagine what my life would be today without them,” she says. “By contributing a portion of my art sales during this one-night exhibit, I am in my small way saying ‘thank you’ to everyone who had a part in my success.”

For further information contact Blues Boulevard Jazz by e-mail at (msullivan@bluesboulevardjazz.com) or call 864/573-9742 or contact Isabel Forbes by e-mail at (info@isabelforbes.com) or call 864/909-0105.

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How did they gain popularity?
I guess I’m trying to find out what they said they were going to in speeches and what not in order to win the popularity of the public.

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My teacher gave me a science project were we have to create life on Uranus virtually.Now my question is how in earth am i supposed to do that?I dont have any idea of what program i have to use?She also said that we have to make it in a video with effects and music.I cant ask the teacher because she left and we being having a substitute

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The Art League of Hilton Head on Hilton Head Island, SC, will offer the 24th Annual Art & Flowers Luncheon,   “Springtime in Paris” on May 6, 2012, starting at 1pm.

The event includes: art and flower exhibits, art boutique, silent auction, French cuisine luncheon, and fashion show by the Palmettos.

Reservations due Apr. 23, 2012.

The event takes place at the Jack Nicklaus Clubhouse, Colleton River Plantation, 60 Colleton River Drive in Bluffton, SC.

Price of event: ; preview-only tickets (to view exhibits from 11:45-1:00) pm, .

Contact information: Audrey Larkin at 843/342-7349, e-mail at (aalarkin84@gmail.com) or visit (www.artleaguehhi.org).

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I like to have deep and meaningful talks with people, but sometimes it seems many do not wish to go any deeper. Is it scary to talk about meaningful things for you? And how do you feel when someone asks you a deep question that is hard to answer?

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Is it possible that the Earth as a whole is alive and has self awareness considering WE are a part of it and we are self aware? Especially in comparison to most dead planets. If so, is not the entire universe self aware, experiencing existence through us? Could their possibly be a collected pool of all consciousness, that we perhaps visit in dreams, and is always part of our subconscious?

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