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They were trying for the 50s, Audrey Hepburn thing. It sort of worked.

They better send it to me or I will cry <-- like that

Joss Whedon (Buffy, Angel, Firefly and Serenity mastermind who many Potter fans have said they'd love to see direct a Potter film) - recently took part in a chat with Empire Online in which he addresses the question (transcript on the Australian Serenity site): Iaamond: Joss, what can a Browncoat do to get you directing a Harry Potter movie? Joss: ihaamond, awesome question, as I was just thinking about this last night...They would have to wait until all the books come out, as I refuse to see any Potter film till I've read them all, because she writes better movies tha[n] anybody shoots. When she's done, I'll go back and watch them and wait for the call to direct number seven. From : The Leaky Cauldron

Holy shit.

You forgot Jaime So Jessica it is.

First, open your image and duplicate the layer twice. (To duplicate, go to LAYERS > DUPLICATE or hit CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+N, unless they've changed the quick keys). So your layers pallette will now look like this: Next, desaturate the 'copy 1' layer by going to Image > Adjustments > Desaturate (CTRL > SHIFT > U). Select the 'copy 2' layer, and select your eraser tool (E) and erase EVERYTHING but her shirt using small brushes for near her body. You end up with something like this: After you're finished erasing the 'copy 2' layer, select the 'copy 1' layer and go up to ADJUSTMENTS again. Select "Brightness and Contrast" and slide both little arrows up to 40. Then select the smudge tool at 10% opacity (to get the 'smooth plastic' look to her skin) and slowly blend the skin on her face, arms, etc, avoiding places like her eyes and lips. At the end of all that, you get this: Next, set the 'copy 2' layer (the one that we erased everything but the shirt on) and set the layer to HARD LIGHT. If you want to make the shirt a little darker, create a layer between the b&w layer and the shirt layer and paint the area beneath her top with black and duplicate the layer you set to HARD LIGHT and up the contrast to 40. Here's what the layer pallette looks like:

The second one is a lot like what Acro described, they just took a bunch of images, erased parts of them and lowered the opacity on the layers the images were on. As for the first one, I'll throw together a quick tutorial for you since I don't know how to explain it. I use PS 7 though, just in warning. So if Acro can do it or someone else with CS, then that might be easier for you to understand.

01. Desperate Guy - The Faint 02. Dirt Off Your Shoulder / Lying from You - Jay-Z / Linkin Park 03. Big Pimpin' / Papercut - Jay-Z / Linkin Park 04. How Could I Forget - The Faint 05. Pts.Of.Athrty - Linkin Park 06. Enth E Nd (Kutmasta Kurt Remix) - Linkin Park 07. I Disappear - The Faint 08. Jigga What / Faint - Jay-Z / Linkin Park 09. Erection - The Faint 10. Frgt_10 (Alchemist ft. Chali 2NA) - Linkin Park

Of Wolf and Man - Metallica

X / 1999

Woo, that Editorial I haven't seen She may get to the point of Ana one day. Whose pictures I have to back up every weekend

This is more "hockey" and not "NHL" but I thought I'd share anyway. Sticks and Wheels Help Them Forget the Bombs CAMP WARHORSE, Iraq - One night recently, just after dusk, a convoy of Humvees came to an abrupt halt as it was leaving this military base. A soldier in the passenger seat of the lead vehicle climbed out, camera in hand, and stared, agape, at the silhouettes of seven figures gliding in skates atop a large concrete slab. "Hey guys, can you believe this?" he yelled to his fellow soldiers inside the Humvee, just before snapping a few photos and driving off. "Hockey in Iraq. Now I've seen everything." There is basketball for soldiers in Iraq, college courses for soldiers in Iraq, even salsa dancing lessons for soldiers in Iraq. But roller hockey for soldiers in Iraq must be among the rarest recreational activities of all. Here at Warhorse, though, near the city of Baquba, about 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, hockey has become a nightly ritual. Soldiers from Company B of the 203rd Forward Support Battalion, Third Infantry Division, gather at 7 p.m. to lace up their skates and play hockey on an area of concrete separated from the base's helipad by blast walls. The soldiers' 16 sets of in-line skates and 13 hockey sticks were donated by sporting-goods stores in Wisconsin. The single goal the soldiers use was fashioned with tent poles they welded together and netting normally used as a sun barrier. Some soldiers had skated before. Some had played roller hockey before. Others, like Staff Sgt. Glennville Fox from Palatka, Fla., had done neither. "I'm not very nimble, but this just helps me pass the time," he said after missing a shot on goal, losing his balance and falling to the ground face first, spread eagle. On the other side of the goal, Specialist Eric Armstrong let out a belly laugh as he weaved around other players, an orange rubber ball on the tip of his stick. He shot and scored. Then the players promptly lost the ball in the darkness. "While still in Kuwait, I joked that we'd be playing hockey here in a few months, but I was totally kidding," said Specialist Armstrong, 20, who is from Appleton, Wis., and has played hockey since he was 10. "Now it's weird to play this here, because Iraqis have probably never even seen hockey, or ice, for that matter. "But after awhile, I couldn't watch another movie, couldn't play another video game," he said. "I needed hockey." Specialist Armstrong and a few other players work security, escorting convoys down the perilous roads to and from Warhorse, an area rife with roadside bombs. Other times, Specialist Armstrong searches people entering the base, including injured Iraqis en route to the aid station. "We search them even though they have cut-up legs and shot-off arms or flesh hanging off of them," he said. "People have been known to strap bombs to their legs even then, so we have to keep the base safe. Now you know why we use hockey to distract us from our day jobs." Convoy security missions are just as stressful, but sometimes boring because there may be long waits at either end of the trips. Before his hockey equipment arrived, Specialist Armstrong said he often spent that down time dreaming about playing in the National Hockey League or trying to remember how it felt to dance across the ice with a hockey stick in his hand. In other times of ennui, he found different ways to occupy his time. Once, he ran full speed at a giant roll of Bubble Wrap to see if he would bounce off. (He did.) He then had grand plans to leap from the top of his housing unit while bear-hugging that Bubble Wrap, but one of his noncommissioned officers put a stop to it. Finally, after a few months in Iraq, he decided to ask his mother, Kris Armstrong, to buy 13 sets of inline skates, 13 hockey sticks and 2 sets of goalie equipment with the money he had saved while overseas. When she went to sporting-goods stores to buy them, Specialist Armstrong said, she ended up persuading the managers to donate more than $2,000 worth of equipment. Kris Armstrong spent about $150 to send that gear to Iraq. The equipment arrived two weeks ago and was the best package from home that Specialist Armstrong could dream of, he said. Since then, more and more soldiers have shown up to play. One night last week, more than a dozen soldiers in desert camouflage uniforms or gray T-shirts and black shorts sat in a row of dusty plastic chairs, most of them smoking cigarettes before the game began. They leaned their weapons - most have M-16 rifles, some with grenade launchers - against concrete barriers and slipped on their skates while a group of cafeteria workers from Africa played cricket in the background. Before the game began, Specialist Armstrong quickly fixed the goal with duct tape. The night before, another soldier had trouble braking and skated through the metal frame. When Specialist Armstrong was finished, the group set out for nearly two hours of gliding and, in some cases, colliding. "Hey, did you do this damage to me yesterday?" Sgt. Thomas Miller, 25, from Carmine, Ill., said to Specialist Armstrong, while pointing to a welt on his right shin. "Better me than some Iraqi," Specialist Armstrong said, as he skated off smiling. SOURCE: NY Times

Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahnuik

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I want it. But no way in hell can I afford it.

I think I might have clippings from that editorial I just never got around to scanning. I'll look. I'm pretty sure I do, but I might be imagining things.

I need to find more pictures

Good Charlotte - Change

I haven't been able to go back yet. I'm taking my skates in for new blades next week so I'll try then.

I scanned the entire Editorial. It's in the editorial thread Here's a link - click

Totally off-topic. Okay, not really. But we went to have my sister's ice skates sharpened this afternoon and Ana's green bikini ad was there I'll go back and see if I can steal it

Amber Pacific - Video Killed the Radio Star

Godsmack - Bad Religion (Fight Club Remix)

Draco fangirls (I'm not one I swear) now have something to squee over. We have a Draco picture! Also, here's a picture of Ron and "Moody"

Don't forget he was in Soundgarden too