By Jonathan | September 5, 2008
I once fell in and then out of love, and when I was not in love anymore I realized that I had never been. It was nothing but an illusion of my own human mind.
Then I fell in love again, and when once again I had to go, I just kept on loving. And because of that I know the love was true.
I believe that to love in the truest sense of the word, then we must be willing to give it up for the greater good, even if it causes us great pain. In doing so we can allow the love to endure when otherwise is might whither and die under pressure. By setting love free, it can take wing on the breeze of life. Now it is no longer up to us, love is free to make it’s choice, whether that choice is to catch a gust of wind and seed itself elsewhere, or be blown back to us.
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By Jonathan | August 20, 2008
This photo was taken from a car window as we drove away in the opposite direction.
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By Jonathan | August 19, 2008
A shot of the Opus art supply shop located on Granville Island in Vancouver, British Columbia. Processed with Lucy Starkiller.
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By Jonathan | August 12, 2008
The following are sample images created using the Lucy Starkiller Effect. It is available as Photoshop Action and a script for Paint Shop Pro. You can view the product page and download it here.
Click the images to view full size.
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By Jonathan | August 8, 2008
The Photoshop plug-in known as LucisArt is extremely popular. It seems everyone is looking for that LucisArt look. I was no exception, the first time I saw it I absolutely had to know how it was done.
Well the bad news is that it is done with a plug-in that sells for an astounding $595.00. Now if you’re like me you probably think that’s a little ridiculous, since you can buy Photoshop itself for less than that. I said to myself, “Self, there must be a way to get this effect in Photoshop without any silly plug-ins”. And so I embarked on a quest to figure it out.
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By Jonathan | August 5, 2008
Recently I wrote an article detailing why it was counterproductive to your own success to resent those who have achieved it already. I used Bill Gates as an example of someone who should be admired, not despised, and I explained why.
So when you read what I am about to write you may be inclined to believe I am contradicting myself.
Fair Enough.
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By Jonathan | August 4, 2008
I took this photo while out walking my dog near the beach in Tsawassen, British Columbia. This area would be covered by the ocean were it not for the dyke!
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By Jonathan | July 29, 2008
Bill Gates is such an asshole.
That’s not what I think, but a lot of people do. In fact the level of vitriol directed towards Bill Gates and Microsoft is really quite mind boggling considering that the man has given away tens of millions of dollars of his own money to charities funding AIDS prevention, agriculture in third world countries, college scholarships, and other causes, mostly through his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which as an organization donates over 1.5 billion dollars a year to charitable causes. What’s more, the organization has a shelf life, it will close within 50 years after Bill and Melinda die, thereby ensuring it does not become a monster that eats up funds just to maintain it’s existence. As a result of all this, he was TIME magazine’s person of the year in 2005.
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By Jonathan | July 26, 2008
Today I read that neither Roger Ebert nor Richard Roeper will return to the show that began as Siskel and Ebert and The Movies. This is truly the end of an era. Roger Ebert has posted a blog entry about it.
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By Jonathan | July 26, 2008
Sometimes you look for inspiration, and sometimes inspiration finds you. This 
morning I was sitting at the front desk of the hostel where I have been working, sipping some over-sweetened almost cold coffee and feeling a little down in the dumps.
It was the sort of general malaise that only genius possess and the insane lament. And this may seem like a little too much information, but the coffee hadn’t agreed with me so I was… …but I digress.
Anyway, I wasn’t feeling too great. A little discontent, a little anxious, and really craving Starbucks, and a little excitement. So when an Australian fellow by the name of Devin Sturdy stopped by the desk in search of some English Breakfast tea, I didn’t really expect it to change my mood for the day.
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