ritas kleine welt

so i decided to play a bit with a couple of pictures i took at the zoo last weekend and give them a bit of a vintage colouring. and then i got a bit carried away. thus, silliness ensued...

edit: now featuring tiger #2 and #3.

because it is the first day of the weekend and i just felt like dawdling away the free time on my hands, i listened to some old swing music from the 1920s whilst colouring pictures again. once i know how to do different hair colours, i might even attempt colouring some of the 200 scans of my old family portraints. in the meantime, chaplin will have to suffice.

colouring photos is turning into an addiction of sorts. this one though was a biatch to colour. the brightness and contrasts were all over the place and the image that i started out with was of poor quality. and now i simply reached a point where i don't want to mess with it anymore lest i might mess it up too badly.

because it's so much fun. because this is relaxation. because this is charles chaplin. because i don't actually need an excuse...

colouring pictures is just way too much fun. but it also is very scary how much younger people look once their faces have been painted. 


edit: apparently, i am not the only one who has taken a fancy to seeing mr chaplin in colour. check out the behind-the-scenes footage of the great dictator shot by sydney chaplin on a little hand-held camera. click.

although i should be doing more important things than colourising pictures ... it's simply too much fun to pass it up. today i found a very helpful tutorial of how to colour black and white photos and i simply had to try it out. (but not before i actually did cram in a little session of going over my papers. otherwise the guilts would have attacked me from behind with sharp knives and mallets. but that's another story entirely...)

as seen on a mugglenet comment board...

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a nifty new application, wordle, allows you to create word clouds for your blog. you can choose from a font, layout and colouring set. whichever you like. find my own wordcloud behind the cut.

edit: wordle is an instrument from hell! it's quite adictive and made me create two more word clouds.

well, so i did manage to watch the second half of the game germany versus austria after all, even though the online stream was delayed by almost an entire minute. which made the whole thing a bit boring because i was on the phone with my mum -- who kept me up to date and always told me in advance that a tight situation was just about to come up. which took most of the excitement out if the game. but anywho. at least i was bored and inspired at the same time and managed to make a silly doodle of a screen capture of mr netzer...