pictures!!

[pianowolfi]

You look 20+ years older with the short hair

not true

[leahcim]

You look 20+ years older with the short hair

If you think there's 20 years between those photos, I think you must be judging age based on looking at photoshopped pictures of celebs "She's 40 next year, but she's the skin of a selective guassian blur!"

[pianistimo]

what does that mean? 

i've figured out the secret past fourty for soft plump skin.  this may sound hilarious, but 'gold bond ultimate healing' lotion is better than replenishing $60. bottles of skin lotion from estee lauder.  finally, i got tired of that stuff.  it's probably the same thing - just repackaged in little teaspoons. 

first, i started out using gold bond for my hands (as a pianist).  i thought, wow. this stuff really makes my skin soft.  so - then i started putting it everywhere.  face, elbows, knees.  it's GREAt in the winter.  i used to get a sort of dry nose.  no more.  i should do advertising for gold bond.  it's better than spending $100. every two months for estee lauder.

[leahcim]

what does that mean? 

Any bit in particular or is the first time you've thought to ask

For example https://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/bikini/index.html

Although, if you find a few sites for companies that do digital image processing or graphic artists etc that have done celeb photos for their clients they sometimes have before / after shots of Britney or whoever.

[Although, as you'd expect, their clients are none too happy and I note quite a lot of those before / after are disappearing]


Some of it is just removing telegraph poles or other people in the shot, fixing the colours, making the sky bluer etc. Some of it is removing stuff that harsh false lighting exaggerates. But most of it is removing / adding, well stuff that swimming in gallons of gold bond isn't going to help much with.

It's ironic that 30000 extra rendering machines^* were needed to add the pores to the characters in Disney's animated adventure 'Our characters have got pores now!"....which is about the same amount of computing time is used to remove them from every celeb female on the planet.

^*statistic completely made up

[pianistimo]

that is too funny.  ok.  now i understand gaussian blur a bit better. 

swimming in gallons of gold bond?  i don't swim in gallons.  i bicycle a lot - so i get a lot of sun sometimes.  it makes my skin feel softer and nicer, i think.  and costs a lot less.

[leahcim]

that is too funny.  ok.  now i understand gaussian blur a bit better. 

Yeah I can't spell it though

[instromp]

This girl in my English class tried to scetch me...needs more detail.She made me look sorta asian in this 

[leahcim]

This girl in my English class tried to scetch me...needs more detail.She made me look sorta asian in this 

She needs a copy of something like 'drawing on the right side of the brain' [ignore the blather about brain hemispheres in it]

It does give a good approach to avoiding drawing the symbols for things [like your eye for e.g] rather than what she sees.

[thalbergmad]

This girl in my English class tried to scetch me...needs more detail.She made me look sorta asian in this 

If it was a girl in your art class, i would be inclined to call in the standards inspectors 

Thal

[nicco]

https://img525.imageshack.us/img525/5357/bilde015qs9.jpg

Heres one of me. taken with my fantastic webcam.

[instromp]

She needs a copy of something like 'drawing on the right side of the brain' [ignore the blather about brain hemispheres in it]

It does give a good approach to avoiding drawing the symbols for things [like your eye for e.g] rather than what she sees.

Yeah, that would probably be a good reference for her inorder to scetch/draw people and objects.

If it was a girl in your art class, i would be inclined to call in the standards inspectors

Thal

I dont take art, but she did this in my English class.but i dont think we need inspectors though 

[brahmsian]

Alberta, You?

Where in Alberta?

I'm from Edmonton

[alwaystheangel]

I go to the U of A. 

[pies]

A

[Kassaa]

Here is a picture of my hand:
https://content.imagesocket.com/images/DSC02499da3.JPG

Take more pictures of this keyboard, take all the keys out and clean it. You don't want to know what a mess it will be.

[pies]

A

[paris]

me, on the left, and friend in salzburg

[tds]

Okay, a big post for me lately but I want to show my new haircut because I have never had it short (except for when I was about 7 years old) and it's just plain exciting to me :

Before :




After :




LOL... I have been a little addicted to my newish webcam and so I went a little crazy with it taking pictures... it's fun .


m1469

[thalbergmad]

me, on the left, and friend in salzburg

SALZBURG - Etudes would have a heart attack.

I see you shaved your beard off.

Thal

[thalbergmad]

Found a stack of old photos.

Me at 21

[tds]

me, on the left, and friend in salzburg

nice, tho too much clothes in general

[tds]

Found a stack of old photos.

Me at 21

thal my friend, were u also born with a knife in your hand?

[thalbergmad]

For charity me once dressed up as an easter bunny.

Laugh and you die

Thal

[pianolist]

I see you nicked the ashtray from the pub, then. Do I recognise the brand, I wonder?

[tds]

For charity me once dressed up as an easter bunny.

Laugh and you die

Thal

goatee bunny

and tell me how much money did you get that day?

[nicco]

Found a stack of old photos.

Me at 21

whatever happened to this version of thal

[tds]

behold, another photo: me and my brother

sencorship coudabeen dun nicer tho, imo

[thalbergmad]

goatee bunny

and tell me how much money did you get that day?

Not as much as i got for this.

Charity arm wrestle, prior to World Championships 1987.

Me had to arm wrestle 50 soldiers from the local barracks.

[tds]

Not as much as i got for this.

Charity arm wrestle, prior to World Championships 1987.

Me had to arm wrestle 50 soldiers from the local barracks.

that cant be you! no kidding

[thalbergmad]

that cant be you! no kidding

Yeh, if you is talking about the one on the right

2 weeks later me benched a 400.

Thal

[zheer]

Found a stack of old photos.

Me at 21

  Waw  You look a lot like one of my past friends, but he would'nt carry a knife.

[zheer]

Not as much as i got for this.

Charity arm wrestle, prior to World Championships 1987.

Me had to arm wrestle 50 soldiers from the local barracks.

  You looked like an actor, what happend.

[tds]

  You looked like an actor, what happend.

dont know about an actor, more like a bouncer.

[thalbergmad]

dont know about an actor, more like a bouncer.

Nowadays, i just bounce.

Thal

[tds]

Nowadays, i just bounce.

Thal

lol

[le_poete_mourant]

One of us is sober.      The other has a piano tie. 

[pianolist]

This is pianolist with his best mate, Denis. You pianists expect Steinways to move everything for you. No stamina! We pianolists have to do it for ourselves. 

[pianistimo]

so which one are you?  are we supposed to guess?  you never mentioned a beard.   and, this is a pianola 'marathon?'  between you (whichever one you are) and that pic of thal holding a butcher knife - i'm just wondering why i bother with the pic thread (unless of course, you happen to be the guy on the right?  he looks more like what i pictured in my head.  a sort of kickback to the early 20th century - actually the other guy would fit that, too - having a sort of eastern european look).

now, thal in the bunny suit, and arm wrestling.  wow.  actually if the previous pic was without the machete - it would be great.  was that a tuning fork in the other hand?  was this an early indication of your musical prowess. 

[pianolist]

Well, welcome back, Mrs Keystone! I was beginning to wonder where you were today.

I'm the ugly brute on the left - Denis will be greatly flattered! He is 68 now, and still swims a mile and a half, three times a week. It's an old pic, from 1985, and we presented 72 non-stop hours of pianolas in and around the Royal Festival Hall. He's a wonderful friend.

I come to the US a fair bit, and since 9/11 I've worried about the beard. But I remember being at Newark Airport in late September 2001, and people could not have been nicer. I wasn't singled out for security, but I put that down to being significantly over 30 (well, late 50s, actually). Walking down the street in L.A. the year after, I did hear someone murmur "Bin Laden", but when I turned round, we all laughed, and my British accent guaranteed a happy conversation.

I got sunstroke on holiday in Italy in 1972, and I couldn't sleep for three nights, let alone shave, so I just grew a beard, and it stayed. No religious or moral significance, just happenstance. Mind you, I do get remembered when I do concerts, and it breaks the ice in a lot of situations, which I like.

Can you make out the printing on Thal's ashtray? I think it's an advertisement for a type of lager. I wonder which!

[pianistimo]

forget the ashtray.  what's he got stuck in his right ear? 

that's a mighty long beard.  you say it was grown due to heatstroke?  and, do you reguarly twist it?  it looks pointed.  do you use it for anything else?  aka brahms - stroking and thinking at the same time.

[tds]

stroking and thinking at the same time.

mama mia

[pianistimo]

tds, you need a girlfriend.  are you looking to date italian piano teachers?  i'm glad you like scarlatti, too.  seems that people poopoo it on the basis that it is repetitive and 'twinkly.'  but, to hear scarlatti as pogorelich and now maria tipo (i trust she's good since she's italian) is an experience that one does not forget - at least i know that myself about pogorelich.

tds, is the problem pretty universal.  good pianists avoid serious relationships?  now why is it that more conductors get married.  is there any difference.  can they do two things at once better?

pianolist, i think you look like galileo now.  and, the fact that you are married means that you must not be as scary as one might imagine with a longer than normal beard. 

[tds]

tds, you need a girlfriend.  are you looking to date italian piano teachers? 

i dont think miss tipo is looking for any boyfriend now. besides she is perhaps well in her 80s now. if i had to choose, i,d wait till your 5 yo toddler grows abit.

so, no one wants me now?

[pianistimo]

my five year old has another 20 years to go.  by then, you'd be 65. 

i'm not trying to make the situation sound impossible.  actually ,frankly, i'm thinking that women throw themselves right and left at you (from the sounds of that concert that you recently had) and you just tell them you don't have time for dating.  you probably have pockets full of business cards. 

what will it take for YOU to be smitten.  (spam warning)  ok.  tds.  you've got everything.  charm, good looks, brains.  what is it that you are holding out for?  seems to me that her being musical is probably 1/2 the problem - but the other 1/2 is musical, can understand and deal with your travelling, can help you prepare for concerts without getting jealous (that would be a hard one if the other person is also a performing artist), and basically be a helper to your situation and not competition.

so - as i see it - despite your pleas of spam stopping - i advise you to find a woman at the local church that you had the jazz competition/jury duty for.  someone that can sing a jazz number and make you go crazy from the wild turns and phrasing - and someone who can slow you down when you get hyper.  someone who might not understand the in's and out's of what you are playing - but gives you soul food before and after. 

and, i suppose can handle it when you get attention after concerts.  has to be a strong woman.  maybe someone who has a side job - so she won't get bored and put all her problems onto you.  someone who won't follow you around every minute - but looks for you around every corner.

[tds]

my five year old has another 20 years to go.  by then, you'd be 65. 

why another THEWHENTY more years?  i understand that girl puberty is around age 11. no? and why me be sixty *** five by den? 

 

i'm not trying to make the situation sound impossible.  actually ,frankly, i'm thinking that women throw themselves right and left at you (from the sounds of that concert that you recently had) and you just tell them you don't have time for dating.  you probably have pockets full of business cards. 

this true actually. some pretty blondes did approach me asking if they could have their pics taken with me on the piano. yes, full of business cards. u psychic! but i was too timid to give them away, even when many asked for it. neways.

[pianistimo]

i'm not psychic.  it's just a common theme, i'm realizing.  the attractive piano playing men are busy.  the attractive piano playing women are busy.  you'd have to literally go to their house, ruin their piano (pour acid over it or chain saw it in half) and then ask - can we go out sometime?  of course, then - the likely answer would be the same.  'i've got to get another piano.  look what you've done!  i never want to see your face again.' 

[pianowolfi]

This is pianolist with his best mate, Denis. You pianists expect Steinways to move everything for you. No stamina! We pianolists have to do it for ourselves. 

Hahaaaaaa, the funniest things seem to happen when I`m off cycling and can´t look into pianoforum. You really have such a beard. Amazing.

[thalbergmad]

John o Groats 1994.

Come on people, stop talking and post your photos.

Thal

[pianistimo]

wait.  you told me your name was mike.  now it's john?  o groats? 

[thalbergmad]

wait.  you told me your name was mike.  now it's john?  o groats? 

Stop spamming and post a photo.

Thal