Visionary ART by gregvanderlaan.com

Golden Gate Park -John McLaren 2 Million Trees

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Throughout his life friends would meet him and greet him with

"How are you, JohnMcLaren, and how are your trees?"

From: San Francisco is My Home by Samuel Dickson

Me boy, if ye have nothing to do, go plant a tree and it'll grow while ye sleeps. - John McLaren

http://www.savemclarenpark.org/SMP4_john.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McLaren_(park_superintendent)

He is credited with planting

two million trees during his lifetime.

Photoshop Tutorial: Create a Rainbow Heart... or ANY Heart.

How to create a Rainbow Colored Heart Shape.

Create two Layers. a Nature Scene as background...

The other a Gradient Fill...

Select Gradient TOOL,

Place mouse in the lower left corner of the image and

click and hold... then drag to upper right hand corner. release.

Select Edit; Transform; Perspective and click.

Click and Hold Bottom left corner and

drag it to the center of the image. release.

Click on the Check Mark at the top, center of the screen.

Select Filter; Distort; Polar Coordinates; click

Click on OK when the popup asks if you want rectangular.

Move heart to a pleasant location...

Of Course, the layer you do the "Heartification" to may be any rectangular image.

Portraits of people end up looking oddly distorted... Abstract Art is often wonderful...

The heart shape can be enhansed with a layer style... bevel and emboss and outer glow...

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A variation on the Theme:

Using Edit; Transformt; Perspective...

Drag the lower left corner all the way to the lower right...

Creating a double Pyramid Layer.

Then Filter; Distort; Polar Coordinates;

click OK on the popup... Rectangular.

This leads to experimentation on the subject:

"What happens when I use Perspective Transform

moving the lower Left UP to the center of the SIDE?

and...

What happens with Polar Distort from

Circular to rectangular?

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GIMP has the transform perspective and Polar Co-Ordinates Distort.

http://www.gimp.org/

So does Paint Dot Net

http://www.getpaint.net/

so the Heartification may be accomplished using free software.

Legalize Marijuana. Write Your Elected Officials.

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Email President Obama

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Email YOUR Senators

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Email YOUR representative in the US House.

There are Millions of Voters for Legalization.

Enough to effect the outcome of the 2012

presidential election.

Who will claim these voters?

Who can afford to ignore the will of the people?

Write to your elected officials

and remind them that we are everywhere...

and we vote.

http://www.facebook.com/groups/likewine/

California Campaign at link above.

Regulate Marijuana Like Wine Act.

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Let's Explore Space. Manned Mission to Alpha Centauri.

Why not?

We could build a Spaceship that is big enough to house

a thousand people, gardens and ranches for the livestock.

We could fly it for hundreds of years to complete

the voyages between star systems.

A couple of technological challenges come to mind...

1. When you get far away from a star,

the amount of sunshine is reduced to almost nothing...

Bad for the garden. We would need to use grow lights.

That requires electricity and power generators.

2. Boredom. What would people DO to fill up their time?

3. COLD. It gets cold out in space and

the ship would need to run heaters constantly...

That requires electricity and power generators.

GOT ANY IDEAS ABOUT HOW THESE

CHALLENGES COULD BE OVERCOME?

EMAIL ME OR LEAVE A COMMENT...

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Spaceships Arriving

Edge of a Space Station.

Space Truckin' Poster

http://www.zazzle.com/gregvan/posters

Created using WINPLOT.

I have an idea how we could cure boredom on centuries long space voyages...

Play Farmville.

Ribbon Dancers in the Sky

On a different subject...

Malwarebytes is a good free program.

It detected adware on my friends computer and

deleted the files... Norton did not find these problems...

neither did McAfee...

Two Thumbs UP for MalwareBytes

Recommended by MyBusRidingPal.

Fun with Math.

Six and Three...

Click on the pictures to see them BIGGER.

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98% of all statistics are made up.

The other 6% are a result of math error.

Direction Finder at Sunset...

In Case you were Wandering around LOST.

Bird in Flight in a Tie Dyed Sky.

Infinite Butterfly Descending Into the Maelstrom.

American Donut in Nano Land and Heavenly Blue Morning Glory Seeds

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"Keep your Eye Upon the Donut and Not Upon the Hole"

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Flower Power

The SEEDS of the Heavenly Blue Morning Glory Plant

contain a psychedelic substance similar to LSD.

Many seed distributors coat their seeds with

a poison to prevent people from eating the seeds.

While the actual drug itself may or may not be harmful

to a persons health, the seeds coated with poison

are certain to make you sick...

Imagine what kind of person would intentionally put

poison on their seeds to prevent people from

eating psychedelics... Those people will have some time

to consider their behavior as they spend all of

eternity in a lake of fire...

DO NOT attempt to wash off the poison,

plant those seeds in the ground and enjoy a beautiful garden.

My experience was that pulverizing the seeds

in a blender to a fine powder

and stuffing the power into gelatin capsules

made the seeds easier to swallow and digest.

Also it is easy to regulate the dosage...

5 capsules is enough but not too much.

I got totally SEEDED at the free Beach Boys/Led Zeppelin

concert on the Fourth of July at the Washington Monument.

A Wonderful time... 500,000 people...

BIG MEDICINE.

click on the images to see them bigger.

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

The seeds of many species of morning glory contain ergot alkaloids such as the hallucinogenic ergonovine and ergine (LSA). Seeds of Ipomoea tricolor and Turbina corymbosa (syn. R. corymbosa) are used as psychedelics. The seeds of morning glory can produce a similar effect to LSD when taken in large doses, often numbering into the hundreds. Though the chemical LSA is not legal in some countries, the seeds are found in many gardening stores; however, the seeds from commercial sources are often coated in some form of pesticide or methylmercury to deliberately prevent people from eating them. These coatings are especially dangerous if one has a history of liver disorders and may also cause neurological damage.

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Happy Valentines Day

Hearts may be created in Photoshop Automatically Using Transform Perspective and Polar Distort.

The winged heart shape is created in Photoshop by choosing a rectangular layer and EDIT-TRANSFORM: PERSPECTIVE: move the lower corner all the way to the opposite lower corner creating two pyramid shapes… one right side up, the other upside down… then… FILTER- DISTORT- POLAR COORDINATES- RECTANGULAR TO POLAR…

To get a heart shape without the wings… when you are doing the perspective transform, bring the lower corner to the center of the picture at the bottom… Forming a triangle... flat on top, pointed at the bottom... then… FILTER- DISTORT- POLAR COORDINATES- RECTANGULAR TO POLAR…

Have Fun!

Voters for Legalization of Marijuana.

Millions of voters have concluded that the prohibition of hemp is an absurd law. We will be OCCUPYING THE VOTING BOOTH this November. Any candidate who is interested in receiving votes from this huge block should speak out publicly... Dear President Obama: Your decision to attack patients and doctors in California is unwise. Be AWARE that your election to office may depend on a smart policy for the regulation of the kind herb. The "Regulate Marijuana like Wine Act" makes a lot of sense. When I vote, I will decide if you are worthy... http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT

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Re-Elect the President. Obama 2012

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A rebuttal to all those Republicrimes who are selling

Bumperstickers about "Obama's Last Day"

with a DATE 4 YEARS EARLIER

than 1/20/2017.

On the City Bus I took this Picture...

Classic example of HAND SHAKE

on a digital camera... Blurry...

I always sit in the back row.

This is a view looking towards the front window.

We ought to have a Federal Subsidy to fund buses and Light Rail.

Reduce all fares to half price.

That would increase ridership and decrease cars on the road.

Reducing TRAFFIC JAMS... Improving the quality of life

for commuters... reducing stress, increasing productivity...

Everyone WINS.

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Legalize Marijuana. 2012 is our year.

There is a huge quantity of voters that support legalization. Be sure to email President Obama and let him know that you vote... and you are tired of CRAZYLAWS[tm].
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