21 pictures that were no photoshop

These amazing artworks will fool you into thinking that they’re still photographs, or even Photoshopped in some way. They seem SO real even if you blinked a hundred times or rubbed your eyes repeatedly you STILL won’t believe what you’re seeing! What you see below are the works of some VERY talented artists and are all completely done by hand. Just keep your jaw in check every now and then to make sure you haven’t lost it on the floor!

1. Omar Ortiz makes magic using oil on linen.

Omar Ortiz

Omar Ortiz

2. You would never think that pencil and paper can produce this. Paul Cadden did it and it looks pretty real.

Paul Cadden

Paul Cadden

3. Kamalky Laureano brings canvas to live using acrylic paint

Kamalky Laureano

Kamalky Laureano

4. Another canvas magician, Gregory Thielker. He paints with oil.

Gregory Thielker

5. Lee Price also produces jaw dropping work using oil on linen.

Lee Price

Lee Price

6. When painters like Ben Weiner decide to make paintings of paint, they end up with these.

Ben Weiner

Ben Weiner

7. Ron Mueck makes you want to double check these realistic human sculptures for a live pulse to confirm that they’re not real.

Ron Mueck

8. Another amazing work of art using pencil. This one is by Kim Ji-Hoon.

Kim Ji-Hoon

9. Ray Hare really puts in the details into this acrylic painting on canvas

Ray Hare

10.  Grapes anyone? Only Pedros Campos can make oil on canvas taste so sweet.

Pedro Campos

11. Dirk Dzimirsky – Really? Scribbling with pencil can turn into this?

Dirk Dzirmirsky

12. We don’t know what Giclée is but Thomas Arvid keeps it real using just that on canvas.

Thomas Arvid

13. These painters don’t leave anything out. Even with the humble ballpoint pen artist Samuel Silva can produce this enchanting piece.

Samuel Silva

14. Too real. Gottfried Helnwein works his talent using oil and acrylic on canvas.

Gottfried Heinwein

15. Unbelievable oil painting on wood panel by Mike Bayne.

Mike Bayne

16. Even charcoal makes a great tool for Robert Longo.

Robert Longo

17. Diego Fazio also uses charcoal pencil to produce this amazing drawing.

Diego Fazio

18. The detail on this oil on wood painting by Bryan Drury is ridiculously life-like.

Bryan Drury

19. So real, Rafal Bujnowski’s self-portrait was even approved for his passport.

Rafal Bujnowski

20. Oil on Belgian linen by Robin Eley – just amazing.

Robin Eley

21. Kevin Okafor uses graphite pencils on paper for this incredible drawing.

Kevin Okafor

Excuse me while I pick up my pencil and try my hand at sketching Amy Winehouse. I think I may have some hidden talent too – NOT!

Make sure you share with your friends below so they can witness this amazing art.

reference:

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1REiNh/viralbang.com/these-will-blow-your-mind/?_nospa=true

Great Hits Of Enigma 1990-2010 In A Join Mix

Playlist 

1.The Voice of Enigma
2.Principles of Lust: Sadeness/Find Love/Sadeness [Reprise]
3.Callas Went Away
4.Mea Culpa
5.Knocking on Forbidden Doors
6.Back to the Rivers of Belief
7.The Eyes of Truth
8.I Love You ... I'll Kill You
9.Age of Loneliness (Carly's Song)
10.Return to Innocence (Long & Alive Version)
11.Morphing Thru Time
12.Beyond the Invisible
13.Why! ...
14.Shadows in Silence
15.The Child in Us
16.T.N.T. for the Brain
17.Push the Limits
18.Gravity of Love
19.Modern Crusaders
20.Silence Must Be Heard
21.Torn Around
22.Smel of Desire.
23.Following the Sun
24.Goodbye Milky Way
25.Seven Lives
26.Touchness
27.La Puerta del Cielo
28.Hell's Heaven
29.Je t'aime Till My Dying Day
30.Déjà Vu
31.Between Generations
32.Feel Me Heaven
33.Social Song

This audio uses frequencies associated with inducing astral projection or out of body experience.

Published on Dec 2, 2013

Astral Projection ★ Binaural Beats + Isochronic Tones ( Without The Bird )
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This audio uses frequencies associated with inducing astral projection or out of body experience.

From Wiki:
Astral projection (or astral travel) is an interpretation of out-of-body experience (OBE) that assumes the existence of an "astral body" separate from the physical body and capable of traveling outside it.[1] Astral projection or travel denotes the astral body leaving the physical body to travel in the astral plane.
The idea of astral travel is rooted in common worldwide religious accounts of the afterlife[2] in which the consciousness' or soul's journey or "ascent" is described in such terms as "an... out-of body experience, wherein the spiritual traveller leaves the physical body and travels in his/her subtle body (or dreambody or astral body) into 'higher' realms."[3] It is therefore associated with near death experiences and is also frequently reported as spontaneously experienced in association with sleep and dreams, illness,[4] surgical operations, drug experiences, sleep paralysis and forms of meditation.
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What is difference between 4.3 letterbox & pillarbox?

There are 3 types of content:
1. normal 4:3 where the picture fills the screen on a old 4:3 TV
2. letterbox 16:9 where the picture has blackbars top and bottom and looks correct on a 4:3 TV (much of the series on MNet is like this)
3. Anamorphic 16:9 where the picture fills the screen on a old 4:3 TV but the people are strched vertically (look too tall). This is now available for a few movies on MM1 and on BBC World Service

The SD-PVR has three settings 4:3 Letterbox, 4:3 Pillarbox (bad name, should be pan and scan or centre chop) and 16:9. You can cycle through these with Shift-TV Guide button.

This is how the content will look:

4:3 Letterbox:
1. Picture viewed as normal broadcast, fills the screen
2. Picture viewed as broadcast, black bar top and bottom
3. Black bars are added and appears similar to a show broadcast as 2.

4:3 Pillarbox:
1. Picture viewed as normal broadcast, fills the screen
2. Picture viewed as broadcast, black bar top and bottom
3. The edges of the picture are chopped off so the people no longer appear streched and appears similar to a show broadcast as 2.

16:9: This is meant for widescreen TVs
1. Black bars are added to the edges (Pillarboxing) so the people do not look streched horizontally (fat people)
2. Black bars are added to the edges (Pillarboxing) so the picture will have black bars on all 4 sides.
3. Picture fills the screen and the people look correct whick is why people with widescreen TVs want all content sent out like this.

There is a missing setting which will hopefully come out soon, 16:9 no pillarboxing. The proble with the current 16:9 setting is that not everyone likes pillarboxing of 4:3 content (especially letterboxed 16:9 [2] content) and need to switch back to one of the other options when viewing 4:3 content. Many 16:9 TVs have there own pillarboxing and zooming options which allow viewing the letterbox content so it fills the screen etc. so this option would always fill the screen and allow the view to adjust the picture on the TV

reference
http://forum.dstv.com/showthread.php?t=1315

Additionally

The pillarbox effect occurs in widescreen video displays when black bars (mattes or masking) are placed on the sides of the image. It becomes necessary when film or video that was not originally designed for widescreen is shown on a widescreen display, or a narrower widescreen image is displayed within a wider aspect ratio, such as a 1.85:1 image in a 2.35:1 frame. The original material is shrunk and placed in the middle of the widescreen frame.

Some older arcade games that had a tall vertical and short horizontal are displayed in pillar box even on 4:3 televisions. Some early sound films made 1928–1931, such as City Lights, were filmed in an even narrower format to make room for the sound-on-film track on then-standard film stock. These will appear pillarboxed even on 4:3 screens.^{[1][dead link]}

Pillarboxing is the vertical equivalent of letterboxing and is sometimes called reverse letterboxing. Its name is derived from its resemblance to pillar box-style mailboxes used in the UK and the Commonwealth of Nations. The four-direction equivalent is called windowboxing, caused when programming is both letterboxed and pillarboxed.

In order to use the entire screen area of a widescreen display (which is already significantly less than a fullscreen of equal diagonal measurement), and to prevent a reverse screen burn-in on plasma displays, the simplest alternative to pillarboxing is to crop the top and bottom. However, this results in the loss of some of the image within what the producer assumed would be the safe area. This overscan may or may not bother the viewer, but it often cuts-off the channel banner or other on-screen displays. Likewise, the vertical equivalent of pan and scan is called "tilt and scan" or "reverse pan and scan". This moves the cropped "window" up and down, however it is rarely done. A third option is to stretch the video to fill the screen, but this is often considered ugly, as it severely distorts everything on the screen.

Because certain screen resolutions can be used for both fullscreen and widescreen (anamorphic), widescreen signaling (such as the Active Format Descriptor) must be used to tell the display device which to use, or the viewer must set it manually, in order to prevent unnecessary pillarboxing or stretching on widescreen displays. 

Pillarboxing (reversed letterboxing) is the display of an image within a wider image frame by adding lateral mattes (vertical bars at the sides); for example, a 1.33:1 image has lateral mattes when displayed on a 16:9 aspect ratio television screen.

An alternative to pillarboxing is "tilt-and-scan" (reversed pan and scan), horizontally matting the original 1.33:1 television images to the 1.78:1 aspect ratio, which at any given moment crops part of the top and/or bottom of the frame, hence the need for the "tilt" component. A tilt is a camera move in which the camera tilts up or down.

Windowboxing occurs when an image appears centered in a television screen, with blank space on all four sides of the image,^[6][7] such as when a widescreen image that has been previously letterboxed to fit 1.33:1 is then pillarboxed to fit 16:9. It is also called "matchbox", "gutterbox", and "postage stamp" display. This occurs on the DVD editions of the Star Trek films on a 4:3 television when the included widescreen documentaries show footage from the original television series. It is also seen in The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course, which displays widescreen pillarboxing with 1.85:1 scenes in a 2.40:1 frame that is subsequently letterboxed. It is common to see windowboxed commercials on HD television networks, because many commercials are shot in 16:9 but distributed to networks in SD, letterboxed to fit 1.33:1.

Many 1980s 8-bit home computers feature gutterboxing display mode, because the TV screens normally used as monitors at that time tended to distort the image near the border of the screen, to such an extent that text displayed in that area became illegible. Moreover, due to the overscanned nature of television video, the precise edges of the visible area of the screen varied from television set to television set, so characters near the expected border of the active screen area might be behind the bezel or off the edge of the screen. The Commodore 64, VIC-20, and Commodore 128 (in 40-column mode) featured coloured gutterboxing of the main text window, while the Atari 8-bit family featured a blue text window with a black border. The original IBM PC CGA display adapter was the same, and the monochrome MDA, the predecessor of the CGA, as well as the later EGA and VGA, also featured gutterboxing; this is also called underscanned video. The Fisher-Price PXL-2000 camcorder of the late 1980s recorded a windowboxed image to compensate partially for low resolution.

reference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillarbox

Two great site for ITT and rookies

CanYouSeeMe.org - Open Port Check Tool

This is a free utility for remotely verifying if a port is open or closed. It is useful to users who wish to verify port forwarding and check to see if a server is running or a firewall or ISP is blocking certain ports.

http://www.canyouseeme.org/

Background

Most residential ISP's block ports to combat viruses and spam. The most commonly blocked ports are port 80 and port 25.

Port 80 is the default port for http traffic. With blocked port 80 you will need to run your web server on a non-standard port.

Port 25 is the default port for sending and receiving mail. ISPs block this port to reduce the amount of spam generated by worms on infected machines within their network.

Common Ports
FTP	21
SSH	22
Telnet	23
SMTP	25
Web	80
Pop 3	110
IMAP	143
Other Applications
Remote Desktop	3389
PC Anywhere	5631

What Is My IP?

This website is dedicated to helping users across the world not only locate their IP address, but perform an IP address lookup, learn how to trace email, and learn how to change IP address. Learning your own IP address is crucial for online gaming, tech support, using remote desktop connections, detecting proxies or even running an email server. We also host a forum for our users to learn and help others with IP related questions.

What Is An IP Address?
An IP address is an exclusive number online devices use to identify and communicate with each other through computer networks. This process can best be compared to how we receive mail to our home address. An IP address would be most similar to a mailing address, while the network would be compared to the town you live in. Just like our home addresses, information cannot be sent or received by devices without a specific address.

Internet Speed Test
An internet speed test will show you the results of the fastest upload and download burst rates during your internet speed test from your location to the location of the test server you choose. TCP/IP degrades over distance so choose the server closest to you when performing the internet speed test.

IP Address Lookup
The IP Address Lookup tool also referred to as IP Lookup, Lookup IP, Lookup IP Address, IP Address Location, IP Location, and IP Locator is designed to give you an idea of where your IP Address or the IP Address you lookup is located.

http://www.whatismyip.com/

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Ever since I was a young I have this question that I have never had answered for me.
Tonight I will search all over the internet to answer this new question.I will be glad if anyone that read my blog and has this answer.it will be appreciated if I can get from You guys
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