Photography 101

Although I am not a professional photographer; I do enjoy taking pictures, would like to share my little photography knowledge. Photography is a great hobby for a person of any age, background or ability. With Today's technology, all you need to get started is a basic digital camera. Although I would recommend a minimum of 6 mega pixels.

After purchasing your camera it is important to thoroughly read the enclosed manual as many times you needed and understand the basic controls and the camera's capabilities, very important to learn your cam's controls. Now, you are to start taking pictures.

First step as a photographer should be to check camera settings. Next, decide on your subject matter. start visualizing your composition. Figure out how to bring all the components together to take a good picture.

Photographers specialize in several different areas; such as landscapes, marinescapes, wildlife and portrait work. The lighting and camera controls will be slightly different for each of these. First I would recommend playing with composition. There are several rules in taking a good picture.

Basic camera controls

A brief overview of all the major digital camera controls,
recommendations about which settings to use in various shooting scenarios. May want to have your camera manual handy so that you can confirm whether your camera offers a particular option, and if so, how you activate that feature.

Image Resolution

The resolution control determines the number of pixels that your camera uses to produce a picture. Some digicams offer tree or more options.
The term megapixel means one million pixels. if you multiply 2288×1712 pixels, you get roughly 3.9 million pixels, or 3.9 megapixels which can round up to 4 megapixels.

Compression
Compression is a bit of software manipulation done to reduce the file size of a digital image.
Compression enables you to fit more pictures into your available camera memory. Be aware, however, that the more compression you apply, the more you sacrifice image quality.
As is the case with a low-resolution image, a highly compressed image may appear only slightly degraded if printed at a small size and on uncoated paper stock.

Creative Impact
With film imagine, you know that the larger the film negative, the more you can enlarge the photo without losing sharpness and detail.
You can make a similar connection between pixel count and print size. The more pixels you capture, the larger you can print your photo without a noticeable loss of quality.

Manual exposure controls.
When you take a picture, three camera components affect exposure:

Aperture:
The aperture is an iris in the lens that can be adjusted in size to control how muh light enters through the lens. Aperture size is represented by f-numbers and written with the letter f followed by a slash and the f-number–for example, f/2.8 The higher the f-number, the smaller the aperture size. The aperture settings themselves are referred to as f-stops.

Shutter speed,:
The shutter is like a window shade behind the camera lens. When you take a picture, the shutter opens briefly to allow light to enter through the lens and strike the camera’s image sensor. Shutter speed refers to how long the shutter remains open. The slower the shutter speed, the more light the sensor soaks up.

ISO rating:
ISO ratings are used to indicate the light sensitivity of the image sensor. The higher the ISO number, the greater the light sensitivity, and the less light is required to expose the image.

The Winter Sky: Planets, Stars and Cool Shapes

The Cold sky

New York's Architecture Series:

International Plaza

International Plaza:
A World Class Office Tower
Premier Location, Located steps from Park Avenue in Manhattan's Plaza District.

International Plaza is an outstanding world-class office and retail tower designed by world renowned architect Helmut Jahn. Situated across the street from Bloomingdales and Bloomberg's new world headquarters, International Plaza is steps away from a vast number of world class points of interest, hotels, restaurants, and elegant shops.

The main lobby, entered on East 59th Street, is a powerful composition of glass, marble and granite. Staffed by round-the-clock security personnel, it is a striking 30' high area, topped by a backlit atrium. 8 elevators serve the 31 floors.

Offering unparalleled security, state-of-the-art mechanical systems, and all of the first-class amenities imaginable, International Plaza is a rare business environment in a class by itself.

New York Architecture' Series:

Astor Place Tower

Pictures and a brieg history of some of buildings in New York City. There are many interesting buildings in the city. These are some of the ones i really like. I would like to continue with
The Astor Place Tower
This residential condominium tower is one of the most distinctive in the city.
Built in 2006
39 Apartments
21 Floors

Located in the heart of one of downtown's most eclectic and culturally enriched neighborhoods, amid landmarks that include The Public Theater and The Cooper Union, Astor Place at 445 Lafayette Street is an unprecedented Sculpture for Living designed by two of America's most renowned modern architects, Charles Gwathmey and Robert Siegel.

Urban life in 1st century Roman cities

Two thousand years ago, at the dawn of the first century, the world was ruled from Rome.
From England to Africa and from Syria to Spain, one in every four people on earth lived and died under Roman law.


Roman cities Roman city is basically composed by a number of identical components, were planned with two major streets running East –West and North-South intersecting at the forum, which was the center of commerce in the city
The forum was made with two Insular put together. There are a few temples in the Forum. They are the temples of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva. The other side of the forum was a place to meet for people.
Urban design of Roman cities The Romans achieved originality in building very late in their existence; for the whole of the republican period, Roman architecture was a nearly exact copy of that of Greece, aside from the Etruscan contribution of the arch, and its later three-dimensional counterpart, the dome Many European cities still bear reminders of the power of ancient Rome, and throughout the western world the influence of Roman power is still manifest. Architecture was crucial to the success of Rome.

New York's Architecture Series:

Flatiron Building

Pictures and a brief history of some of buildings in New York City. There are many interesting buildings in the city. These are some of the ones i really like. I would like to start with The Fuller Building known as Flatiron Building
Will try to post good pics.

Flatiron Building



The Fuller Building or as it is better known, the Flatiron Building, is in the borough of Manhattan, and was one of the tallest buildings in New York City upon its completion in 1902. The building, at 175 Fifth Avenue, sits on a triangular island block at 23rd Street, Fifth Avenue, and Broadway, facing Madison Square.

New "Wonders Of The World"

Interesting enough, we have New Wonders of the world...The Great Wall of China, Petra in Jordan and Brazil's statue of Christ the Redeemer are among the modern-day seven wonders of the world chosen in a poll of 100 million online voters, organizers said on Saturday.

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Access 2.0 Accesible Digital Life

I found a blog may be helpfull to you. Check it out?
Is your digital life limited by bad web access? Gizmos, gadgets, toys and bad interne experience tinclusivity Paul Crichton has a blog you need to see it for yourself.
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On the same note, i have found other sites can be useful to you, worth while to visit them:

Accessify
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Molly.com
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Neutron Stars Spew Like Black Holes

Wow, very interesting finding! Read more about Neutron Stars
Image: NASA/CXC/U. of Wisc/S. Heinz et al.

Physics promises wireless power

Here is something, really caught my attention.
The tangle of cables and plugs I've in my work station, it is way to messy, I really fix up every week. Somehow it must be done every week. All my machinery wouldn't work with out all these cables and plugs needed to recharge today's electronic gadgets that i have in my station. Could soon be a thing of the past. It would very awesome!
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Maximizing Survival Time Inside the Event Horizon of a Black Hole

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Chinese space technology is threatening United States space superiority.
Here it is another interesting article about space
Who will win?

What We Don't Know

Very interesting what it is that we don't know?
What We Don't Know

Astronomers Create 3D Map of Dark Matter

As you know one of my favorite subjects is the universe. This new advance exploration of the universe had accomplished the mapping of the black matter. It is very intriguing

Astronomers have mapped the positions of vast, invisible isles of dark matter in the sky, within which normal "bright" matter galaxies are embedded like glittering gems. The three-dimensional map[image] spans not only space, but also time, and stretches back to when the universe was only about half its present age.

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Will space save the race?

A follow up story of professor Hawking, Professor Hawking sparks debate on humans' future on Earth.

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Pluto's Newest Moons Named Hydra and Nix

-- Pluto's Newest Moons
Hydra and Nix

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Human Colonization of Other Planets...

Professor Hawking " The survival of the human race depends on its ability to find new homes elsewhere in the universe". Wow, what a statement, very interesting for Stephen Hawking to say we need to find housing on other planets such Mars, not to memtioned next door The Moon.



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No Tolls on The Internet

I don't know exactly this ranks on the ultimate scale of importance, but to me, it ranks VERY high. Read it now. Contact your senator.

No Tolls on The Internet

Hitching a Ride Out of a Gluttonous Black Hole

Are you facinate about black hole. Here is a very Interesting Article


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Spinning Black Hole. Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss

Black Hole Puts Dent In Space-time

As you know, friends of the blog. I'm interested on Black holes and its discoveries. Her we have the latest news about this amazing phenomenal

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A spinning black hole in the constellation Scorpius has created a stable dent in the fabric of spacetime, scientists say.

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SPACE.com -- Black Hole Puts Dent In Space-time

History of oil painting

The history of oil paint.
I think first of all, we, need to learn about oil paint to be able to understand the process of oil painting
The oldest Mediterranean civilization, Greek, Roman or Egyptian have extensively used painting techniques based on mixtures of encaustic (probably rich in bee wax), mineral pigments (iron, copper, manganese oxides) and tempera. Vegetal oils, such as flax, walnut or poppyseed oil were known to ancient Egyptians, Greeks or Romans, but no precise indication of their use in painting may be found. Learn and read more about oils

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Oil paints are one of the great classic media. Although the technique of oil painting, as it is used today (with some modifications), was brought to life in Europe in the 15th century by Jan van Eyck, the art of mixing oils and pigment was around during the Greek civilization. Da Vinci, Titian and then Ruben continued to hone the recipe, each bringing improvements to the technique and formula, with each generation of painters adding to its richness. Learn more about art

A Brief History of Oil Painting


Paintings are the products of a certain time and certain place, and art history naturally attempts to place these works in their larger setting. Anyone studying western art, for example, will learn to recognize the styles of the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern periods, and to understand the complex interplay of thought, patronage, society and economic issues that the paintings represent. It is to such an understanding that art critics refer when they insist that art today must engage with contemporary issues.source

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The History, Definitions, and Techniques
of Oil Painting
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Modern Art in New York

Living in New York City, I have the opportunity to visit a few Art Museums. I like modern Art.

Modern Art Modern art is a general term, used for most of the artistic production from the late 19th century until approximately the 1970s. (Recent art production is more often called Contemporary art or Postmodern art). Modern art refers to the then new approach to art where it was no longer important to represent a subject realistically — the invention of photography had made this function of art obsolete. Instead, artists started experimenting with new ways of seeing, with fresh ideas about the nature, materials and functions of art, often moving further towards abstraction.

The notion of modern art is closely related to Modernism...
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If you ever visit New York City. Here are few of the museums, you should try to visit:

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Photography appreciation. ( China's country side)

I do appreciate the arts as well photography, I'm very fun of good picture taken. A good friend of mine have shared these beautiful pictures from her native China. Her country has gorgeous country side. Hope you can appreciate these scenery great shots. You will see how beautiful China's country side is. Thanks to my friend you have the opportunity to see pictures you will rarely see posted on the internet (American's websites). Jiuzhaigou's Delightful scenery, China's fairyland... Enjoy!!!

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Jiuzhaigou is a deep valley of stunning natural beauty located in north Sichuan that covers about 620 square kilometers and was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1992. The name Jiuzhaigou refers to the 9 Tibetan villages that are situated here. The valley has a wide variety of inspiring scenery that includes lakes, waterfalls, snowy mountains and lush green forests. The lakes, of which there are more than 100, vary in size and shape and sparkle with color in the brilliant sunlight.

Five Colors Pond

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Arts for Transit, MTA New York City!

I have been living in New York City for the last eight years. I haven't really appreciated much the Art there is available on the tunnel of the NYC Subway system. Where noisy trains go fast, where people seen to crowded, every time I go to take the train. I guess the reason I haven't appreciated the Art is 'cause I've paid to much attention to the negative things, I don't like about the subway system in New York City. There are beautiful Art on many trains stations. Just to mention a couple The one on 42th and 86th streets. I like these two, they are petty good. You will find display of the Arts all over the tunnels that make the Subway here in NYC. There are awesome displays, you will enjoy...

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LIGHTBOX PROJECT

Arts for Transit .presents changing exhibits of photographs in the MTA Network in New York City. eThe photographs are exhibited in four exhibition centers throughout the year.
Grand Central Station.

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Artist — Ellen Jaffe
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Trainscape

MTA Arts for Transit presents Trainscape, by Ellen Jaffe, an exhibit of photographs taken from the windows of a train.
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What love is?

After chatting with my beautiful friend about these subjects I realized it would be nice to review the meaning of these intriguing subjects. She is very interested on these subjects. Sure why not? I'm posting these entries because of her. Thank you beautiful!

What love is?Definition of love: The word Love is from Old English lufu, connected with Sanskrit lubh, 'to desire' and Latin lubere, 'to please'.

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Dictionary's definition of love: Love is a strong liking for someone. It's a strong passionate affection for another person. love01

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Biblical definition of love: 1 Corithians
Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things; believes all things; hopes all things; endures all things.

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Love has many meanings in English, from something that gives a little pleasure ("I loved that food") to something one would die for (patriotism, pairbonding). It can describe an intense feeling of affection, an emotion or an emotional
state. In ordinary use, it usually refers to interpersonal love. Probably due to its large psychological relevance, love is one of the most common themes in art. The majority of modern movies have a love story and most pop music is about love.

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What nature is?

Dedicated to an Austrian princess! Should we talk philosophy? Sure, why not? I have few subjects, I will like to discuss by approaching them from a philosophical perspective...

What Nature is?
Also called the material world, the material universe, the natural world, and the natural universe... is all matter and energy Energy, especially in its essential form. Nature is the subject of scientific study. In scale, "nature" includes everything from the universal to the subatomic. This includes all things animal, plant, and mineral all natural resources and events (hurricanes , tornadoes, earthquakes) It also includes the behaviour of living animals and processes associated with inanimate objects

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I would like to share some quotes about nature:

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
Anne Frank:

The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration
Claude Monet:

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Frank Lloyd Wright:

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What Digital Art is?

Today, I was chatting with a nice young lady, I just met. Out of curiosity " What Digital Art is?" She said, I shared my definition. This is the result of this interesting meeting, then, I said to myself, Wow! What a "brilliant idea" for entry blog. Many may be intersting on learning a bit more about Digital Art. This is an interesting subject, besides I'm familiar with it, Why not post an entry to discuss What Digital Art is? This is the general definition I found online:
What Digital Art is?
Branch of the electronic arts that takes place or it is assisted by digital means, like digital painting, digital or digitized photography, modeling, digital video, animation, interactive programs and web pages

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Specially I'd like to discuss Digital Painting

Digital Painting; Digital Painting is created on a computer in digital form. The followings are examples of art computer generated as well the use of various software graphic applications were used to create these pieces

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Wormholes unlikely to allow time travel

I'm fascinated with Black Holes. they do real exist on my world.

The idea of the existence of Wormholes it is fascinating, I hope they do exist. It will be awesome to learn more about them. Researchers are saying, the idea of using Wormholes to travel from one place in the galaxy to another, It is a star trek idea whose time may never come. I truly hope so these guys are wrong.

I put much attention to professor Hawking latest news. On this article he is making news; "Wormholes unlikely to allow time travel".

. I found a very interesting a definition of what wormhole is Wormholes:

A wormhole is a pathway from one part of space and time to another more distant location. You might think of it as a shortcut through space that saves you from having to travel the normal distance between two points.

A worm hole is a mathematical solution to Einstein's relativistic equation for gravity in which two parts of space-time may be joined together. Unlike black holes, they have no singularities at least in the 'vacuum solution', but certain rotating 'Kerr-Nordstrom' black holes may serve the same worm hole-like function.

Many science fiction authors like to use them to allow spacecraft to travel quickly from place to place in our universe. But all of these ideas are based on 'pure math' descriptions of how they might work, and as you know, nature is often much messier than any idealistic, abstract rendering of it. There are no perfectly straight lines in the universe, and there are not likely to be wormholes either.
Here is another definition of wormholes this one make more sense to me. I really hope wormholes exist.
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Warmholes! (by Andrew Trapp)

Wormholes are essentially gateways between different parts of the universe and are made by linking a pair of black holes.According to this definitions it probable they exist

These astronomical phenomenon are awesome!

History of Modern painting in New York City

I would try to give a brief introduction to the history of Modern painting in New York.
For more than two centuries, artist have captured New York's harbors,skylines,festivities streets scenes, and buildings in paintings that shed brilliant light on aspects of the city's history.
In 1804 New York was a prosperous little city of about seventy thousand people. It extended two miles north from the battery to Houston Street.

In 1930, at age eighteen, Pollock moved from Los Angeles to New York City, settling in Greenwich Village. He immediately enrolled at the Art Students League, where he studied drawing and painting for five semesters with the American Regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton, who soon became his mentor and friend.

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In 1936 Pollock joined the Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros's Experimental Workshop, in New York, where he became aware of unorthodox mediums and techniques that he later adapted in his large drip paintings. In the late 1930s Pollock worked for the Easel Division of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration.

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By bringing together emerging artists from Mexico City and New York City, the series of show "Cambio," curated by Kenny Schachter, introduced the work of several artists into new contexts. For those of us in New York, the artists from Mexico City

Fortunately for them, New York has had an ongoing fascination with Mexican art since the late 1920s. While artists should be aware that the interest in contemporary Mexican art

Black Holes do not exist???

Acording to an article poeted it on the first weekend of April an article Black Scientists are saying. Holes do not exist??
Scientists from California are challenging Stephen Hawking theory of the existence of Black Holes. My personal opinion is: Yes, Black Holes exist and they're very real they may sound like Science fiction 'cause of its fenmenal existence. Here is the statement rom this article:Black holes are staples of science fiction and many think astronomers have observed them indirectly. But according to a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, these awesome breaches in space-time do not and indeed can not exist. Read
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J. McClintock, the author of this article, does not buy this reasoning. Among the observations that hint at the reality of black holes are the X-ray binaries. In a typical X-ray binary, prodigious, flickering fluxes of X-rays reveal the presence of an ultradense star and an orbiting companion. The rapid orbital motion of the companion star tells us that the central X-ray star has a mass of more than three suns. General Relativity assures us that such a star can only collapse further to form a black hole. Therefore, black holes must exist.

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Do, Black Hole exist
Yes. You can't see a black hole directly, of course, since light can't get past the horizon. That means that we have to rely on indirect evidence that black holes exist.

Suppose you have found a region of space where you think there might be a black hole. How can you check whether there is one or not? The first thing you'd like to do is measure how much mass there is in that region. If you've found a large mass concentrated in a small volume, and if the mass is dark, then it's a good guess that there's a black hole there. There are two kinds of systems in which astronomers have found such compact, massive, dark objects: the centers of galaxies (including perhaps our own Milky Way Galaxy), and X-ray-emitting binary systems in our own Galaxy.

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Ancient and Medieval Architecture

Architecture is the art of building. Sometimes people build small buildings like sheds or their own houses. Other times people build very large buildings. These are sometimes temples or churches for the gods, or tombs for important kings or heroes, or palaces for kings and queens, or public buildings like theaters or sports stadiums.

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The first houses were built around 7000 BC in West Asia, but the first big buildings were built much later, around 3000 BC. In West Asia the first big buildings were the ziggurats, and in Africa, in Egypt they were the Pyramids.

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A little later on, about 1800 BC, both the Egyptians and the Babylonians began to build big royal palaces, richly decorated. Soon the people of Crete and Greece began to imitate these palaces for their own kings and queens. In Egypt, the Pharaohs also built big temples for their gods.

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Is interior design for you?

Interior designers need to be creative, imaginative and artistic. They also need to be disciplined, organized and skilled business people. Combining aesthetic vision with practical skills and knowledge, interior designers work with clients to develop design solutions that are "aesthetically appealing, technically sophisticated and pragmatically satisfying"

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Areas of Design Specialization

Designers work in a wide range of settings, both commercial and residential. Surveys indicate that a majority of designers practice at least part of the time in both the residential and commercial areas, although they tend to favor one or the other. Because commercial designers must be knowledgeable about their clients' business needs, most concentrate within design specialties, such as designing for the hospitality or health care industries. Some restrict themselves to particular subspecialties, for example, designing restaurants or residential kitchens and baths. A few work in highly specialized fields, like designing interiors for airplanes or yachts, or doing historic conservation or restoration.

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Skills for Success

As members of a service profession, interior designers' fortunes depend on their ability to satisfy clients. Thus, they must possess three important skill sets-artistic and technical skills, interpersonal skills and management skills

* Designers must know how to plan a space and how to render that plan visually, so that it can be conveyed to the client.
* Designers must be comfortable meeting and dealing with many kinds of people. They must communicate clearly and effectively, as well as be attentive listeners
* Designers must have excellent time and project management skills, since they frequently work on more than one project at a time, under demanding deadlines, while looking for new projects or clients.
* Designers must be able to develop and execute business plans in order to protect and grow their practices. They need to know

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What is a Black Hole?

What is a Black Hole and can I see one in the sky? You may see one on the sky if you've Xray vision. No, you can't see one in the sky. Black Hole is the
result of the death of a star several times the mass of our sun.
The center of the star collapses and suddenly releases a tremendous
amount of energy. This release of energy causes the outer part of
the star to be blown into space in what is called a supernova explosion..
This explosions release so much energy that a supernova in a distance
galaxy can out shine the billions of star in the galaxy .

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The very center of the star collapses into what can only be described
as something smaller than a point with no dimensions. A region called
an event surrounds this dimensionless singularity. The singularity diesters
the space around it so much that anything that falls into the black hole's
events horizon because the escape velocity is greater than the 186,000 miles
per second speed of light. Since the speed of light is the fastest speed than
anything can travel, not even light can escape a black hole. That's why a
black hole is black.

If you have any questions, I would like to invite you to visit these sites where your question may will be answered

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Interior Design as a Career

Interior designers need to be creative, imaginative and artistic. They also need to be disciplined, organized and skilled business people. Combining aesthetic vision with practical skills and knowledge, interior designers work with clients to develop design solutions that are "aesthetically appealing, technically sophisticated and pragmatically satisfying."

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Why red makes people hungry?. Interior designers make a room. They transform it with color, furniture placement, accessories — and generally work their magic. They are also specialists in combining form and function. Restaurants can be designed to be austere and upscale or regal and formal. Beautiful upholstered chairs here. A wall of red to enhance the appetite and create visual interest there.

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At the School of design you'll gain a strrong foundation in the basics. includingdrawing perpective proportion and color computer aid drawing (CAD)aids you in planning recsidencial and comercial spaces. The Study of architecture ergonomics, fabrics and other materials are also are also part of your cousework.
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