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Cute monkey…

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Scary monkey…

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Cute monkey…

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Scary monkey…

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Cute monkey…

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Scary monkey…

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Cute monkey…

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Scary monkey…

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Stick together… part 38… monkeying around… part 6…

Sulawesi Crested Macaque, black monkey. Image shot 2011. Exact date unknown.

So tell me…

Sulawesi Crested Macaque, black monkey. Image shot 2011. Exact date unknown.

What could be scarier than mirror image angry monkeys?

Sulawesi Crested Macaque, black monkey. Image shot 2011. Exact date unknown.

Double mirror image angry monkeys.

Sulawesi Crested Macaque, black monkey. Image shot 2011. Exact date unknown.

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Stick together… part 37… monkeying around… part 5… now with no distracting words so you can just soak it in!!!

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If only there was some kind of protective barrier we could throw over tRump to keep him from spewing his vindictive bile all over us when he is being a dick…

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Oh… wait… we have something like that already…

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Multi-media-tasking… part 3…

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Glass and water. I won’t bore you again with what is going on here. You can read the first two posts in the series for the details.

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Suffice it to say that all of these come from one photo I took of one object I made.

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I am doing double digital filters on copies of the photo, but I am putting the version that has had another filter applied to it above the images that I already did another filter on… did you get that? So the image above is this image…

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But with a swirl filter… and the one above the one above the one above is with an extra ‘space’ filter. Are you following along?

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So that up there is a ‘smoke’ filter…

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Used on that version, which had a ‘wave’ filter used on it.

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Whereas that one is a ‘neon’ filter…

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On top of a ‘wiggle’ filter.

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But they still all come from that… which I made myself.

Glad we could clear it all up.

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Stick together… part 36… monkeying around… part 4… now with no distracting words so you can just soak it in!!!

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Stick together… part 35… monkeying around… part 3…

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Is that a flying saucer???

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No, I guess not… just more mirror images.

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But still…

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It was an Unexplained Funny Object.

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Multi-media-tasking… part 2…

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How do you make a fire star?

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First, you take a glass blowing class, and make a paperweight.

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Then you go to Maui on your second honeymoon, and get a cool little glass bulb with an etched jellyfish inside, that comes with a stand… or base… that has color-changing LED lights in it, and, in a dark kitchen, you take super close up photos of the paperweight using a macro lens, as the colors shift.

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Then, using that cool website I am always telling you about, you put that macro photo through the ‘kaleidoscope’ filter.

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Then, using the new image, you just use some other digital magic filters on it.

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See, nothing to it.

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I mean, this will work on any other images you have floating around.

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So I guess the Hawaii trip and the macro photography and glass blowing class are sort of optional.

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But art doesn’t like laziness.

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Art requires dedication, if nothing else.

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Art wants you to try…

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So at least go to Maui.

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Monkey see, monkey doodoo…

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So I was doing another of the pictures for my series where I make mirror image images of stuff, and when I finished doing the mirror image of a group of monkeys, it hit me how funny this would be as a metaphor for tRump followers.

There they are, not overly bright or particularly evolved, and not even the best examples of their own species, captivated by the loudest monkey in the group. He hoots and waves his arms, and they hoot and wave their arms right along with him. If he shows aggression to a member of another group, some of the bigger, dumber males will attack small, defenseless members of that group… as long as they outnumber them. If he treats the females or young members of his own group with disrespect, you can bet the other males will follow his lead.

And if he throws crap, well, you get the idea.

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Stick together… part 34… monkeying around… part 2…

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It is the humanity in their faces, their eyes, that make this even better for me.

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Which leaves me wondering…

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If perhaps I should do some more of these… of famous humans through history.

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The thing is… (hello, thing, where have you been hiding?)… that faces, monkey or human, are so symmetrical.

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This works best on a photo of a head that is tilted, or turned to the side a little.

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If that monkey wasn’t tilting his head, a mirror image would just look like a particularly symmetrical monkey face.

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That is what I learned… the hard way.

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