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A lot of us use perfumes right? We lavish some perfume on us every day and then bask in the goodness of the fragrance until it lasts. BUT, have you thought about doing something other than using your perfume for that purpose? To get really original photos, you have to get really creative. To get really creative, sometimes you have to go the extra length and do something absolutely crazy. Have you ever seen people’s Photoshop creations of flames with a black background? They look stunning isn’t it? People add artificial flames to objects, to text etc in Photoshop and make the things and text look real snazzy. Well there is some good news. You can do that too! How? Without the use of Photoshop! That’s how! In this tutorial, you won’t even need to edit the photos, if you get them right.   Creating flames in Photoshop or creating text/objects wrapped around with flames is surely not an easy task. To master this, it takes time. For a beginner, it might take more than 1-2 hours to g...

IHOP or International House of Pancakes, just went even more International, with the opening of their first store in the Middle East, in the Mall of the Emirates of Dubai. Mall of the Emirates is one of the premier destinations in the UAE to go to, which already includes high end brand name stores like Armani, Louis Vuitton, Prada etc. It attracts a lot of visitors each month, so it was an obvious choice for IHOP’s parent company, DineEquity, Inc. to open a restaurant in. IHOP in MOE is located right next to another famous chain of restaurants from the US called ‘Shake Shack’. Dubai foodies are in for a treat, because they are spoilt for choice now. IHOP’s vast menu offers things ranging from Burgers, Pancake Combos, Crepes, Waffles, French Toast to Eggs and more. The restaurant is primarily good for breakfast dining only, but has relatively other good items available as well on the menu, which can be good for lunch or dinner too. Twitter and Facebook communities were abuzz with pe...

The future of newspapers is a very debatable topic and there are many views from different experts in the field on this. Some say there is a bright future for newspapers; however other people are not so optimistic. There is a common perception that people would always need to know information and for that, some sort of medium would be needed. In the information age and with continuous media revolutions and technological advances, we may pose the question to ourselves; is traditional conservative media giving way to the modern media practices? These days life is very fast paced and we are in a commuter culture. People are always on the move. Whether it is going from the home to the office or commuting between different countries for work or personal reasons. In such a culture, people have less time to sit down and actually read newspapers. That means that circulation of print based newspapers is less and because of that the advertisers are pulling out advertisement money from newsp...

Applied media aesthetics differs in three major ways: Rather than being concerned primarily about beauty and philosophy of art, applied aesthetics deals with a number of aesthetic phenomena, including light, colour, space, time/motion and sound and our perceptual reactions to them. The media themselves plays an important part in shaping the message. Media aesthetics can be applied both to analysis and synthesis i.e. production. We can stabilize the environment and we practice, selective seeing and perception. We perceive an event relative to the context in which it occurs. Applied media aesthetics places great importance on the influence of the medium on the message. The medium itself acts as an integral structural agent. The five fundamental image elements are: - light and colour - two dimensional space - three dimensional space - time/motion - sound Aesthetics suggest that that we are all bereft of all aesthetics, that our perceptions are dulled or totally shut off...

I absolutely hate physical abuse. I hate physical abuse of any kind. Whether it is the husband who raises his hands on his wife, or where the father hits his children. Whether it is the mother who goes crazy and beats the children, or where even an elder sister hits her younger sister or brother. It is a horrific and gruesome act. Especially when it gets extreme. No one should go through physical abuse. It is wrong and unjust. It is inexcusable and there is no reason on the planet which can justify it. I have written a short story to illustrate my deep attachment to the subject. It is more of an account than a story, of a person who used to hit his daughter, but then regretted it in the end. Like everyone keeps saying, you don’t know what you had, until you lose it. For years I had done it without even a doubt in my mind. I had done it without remorse or stopping to think for even a second about what the consequences will be. I did not think about how much pain I was causing the p...

…Or having a good photo camera for that matter. Many people have over the years approached me and asked me what camera/cameras and equipment I use to take my photographs. I am not one of those people, who keeps this information secretive. I do tell them what camera I used to take the photo and the lens that was used. However, there is a big misconception in the mind of the newbies, of the serious photography world. They think that by just buying an expensive camera, they will start taking good photos. This is slightly true, in the sense that obviously if you have better equipment and more megapixels, your in general photo taking standards will increase, but in essence they won’t be actually ‘producing’ an excellent photograph, but just taking a better photo than they were before. Some think that by just buying a camera and getting some fancy lens, which they don’t even know how to use, they’ll just automatically become professional photographers. Well, that’s where they are wrong....

The concept of Utopia was originally used by Plato in the 4th century B. C. referring to a perfect place and society in his book ‘The Republic’. Over the years, many different scholars and philosophers used the word Utopia. Utopia was picked up by fiction writers to describe a place an author makes the traveller go to, which is perfect and faultless. As many people started writing and thinking about a perfect society, the opposite of such a society also came under consideration and people categorised Utopia in to two; positive and negative Utopia. Negative Utopia is also called Dystopia. The actual word Utopia comes from two Greek words, ‘ou’ and ‘topos’ which mean “no place”.  Perfect Utopia would be a place with a perfect socio-political-legal system. This term is used both in literary fiction, where it refers to a heavenly like place loved to be inhabited by everyone and it also is used to describe people that deliberately come together and try to establish perfect commun...