It’s been a busy weekend of getting very little accomplished. So… here’s… a… flowery thing. It might not look like much, but it does a decent Eddie Vedder impression. Should be able to do one, anyway. Grunge and all.
– I walked the line when you held me in that night…
– I walked the line when you held my hand that night…
– Pearl Jam – I got ID
About this image: digital media – vector art created with Adobe Illustrator – textures, etc. added in Adobe Photoshop
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How beautiful. Orchid is also very popular in Japan and I also like the pure color. 🙂
Thank you very, very much, sir!
I have always liked Orchids quite a bit… unfortunately my gardening skills are not the best, so I doubt I would have much luck keeping them happy!
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Very good SiG! Looks like an invasion of the encephlapods (which I have long suspected were orchids in disguise . . . )
I mean encephlopods!
I misspell the most basic of words so badly my spell-check doesn’t even know what I’ve intended to write… so believe me… there is NO WAY I would have EVER noticed that if you hadn’t pointed it out, Ms. K!
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Hahaha… thank you very much, Ms. K!
To the bunker!
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Beautiful! The orchid could be seen as white duckies if imagine it looking at it from a top view. 😀
Thank you very much, Cristina!
How wonderfully creative! I hadn’t even thought of it like that before!!!
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On the contrary it definitely does “look like much”. I love the contrast between the pure white and the textured background. Sometimes simplicity is all that is required.
You are too mind, Ms. G… thank you very, very much!
It’s funny… sometimes the simplest ones seem to involve the most head-scratching (and finger crossing)… trying to find (hopefully) some kind of balance.
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I’m intrigued by how there are rays emanating out from under the spray, yet the blooms throw shadows behind them, so that one can only think this orchid beauty is overshadowed by some greater.one which, thus, has transfigured/transformed the orchids to perhaps purposely reveal their (true) blue hearts. This is not a grunge interpretation, lol, so maybe your weekend was productive after all — I’d say it was a perfect medium for growing something wildly thought-provoking.
Wowza! What thoughtful and generous things to say! Thank you so very much! I sincerely appreciate your stopping by and incredibly kind comment as well! That sounds so much better than my description of… flowers… and… other random… um… stuff.
Thank you again, Ms. O!!!
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I plan on getting very little accomplished most weekends to be honest, and am usually pretty successful on that score.. Nice flowery type thing SIG.
Hahaha… glad to know I’m not the only one succeeding at that, F.S!
And I thank you, sir!
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Love it! I’m into orchids these days. I have about six right now that I’m trying to coax into flowering again.
Thank you very much, Nancy!
Unfortunately I have the power / ability to turn 6 orchids into um… 6 barren pots of dirt.
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I walked the line…wasn’t that Johnny Cash?
Hahaha…
ah, yes… the Bear (er, man) in black!
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I love this one!!! A little bit of CG??? Nice 🙂
That is very nice to hear, sir… I thank you!
And yes – good eye! I ‘drew’ the flowers in Adobe Illustrator, and then combined them with some texture(s) in Photoshop. Any excuse I can find to throw everything I can find at an image, you know!
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Usually you just throw goot stuff sir!!! 🙂
As you do kind thoughts, sir!
I sincerely thank you for that!
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Orchids are so beautiful. I love the delicate petals and soft colors. But they seem so temperamental and difficult to take care of – like some people I know. LOL!
Agreed! They always look nice as long as they’re not in my ‘care’!
And agreed! Hey… wait a minute…
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I agree with Michelle Gillies on this one SIG
the background really adds a touch of class
to this one my great friend 🙂
Have a fun Tuesday SIG 🙂
Androgoth
I thank you for that, Andro!
I’ll sure take that… because believe me… I can use all the class I can get!
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Classy is your middle name, and it shows in your excellent photography and art 🙂 It is always a pleasure visiting your Space my great friend 🙂
Androgoth
Hahaha… has a nicer ring to it than ‘Jay’, doesn’t it?
Seriously though, Andro… thank you so very much for your continued support! It is always very much appreciated… (especially on days when things just don’t seem to be working right – which I have more of than I’d care to admit)!
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Don’t worry I too am having
a lot of those recently but they
will disappear eventually 🙂 🙂
Well in theory anyway 😉 lol
I hope that your Thursday is
hassle free and wicked 🙂
Androgoth
I guess great minds are sometimes plagued alike, eh, Andro?!
But as you say, this too, shall likely pass. Well – I know it will in your case, anyway!
Thank you again, A.G! I hope your Thursday goes every bit as well as any Thursday possibly can!
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Thank you my great friend 🙂 🙂
Androgoth
Orchids are like YoYos they eventually come back as a craze.
Or as a glaze, if you like to eat them.
*om nom nom*
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Hmm… I wonder if you were to put a string around the flower pot if…
Nope.
Clean-up on isle four.
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LOL 🙂
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Great concept my friend for your presentation for today ,Thanks for sharing my friend 🙂
I thank you, my friend! You are very kind, as always!
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It’s an abstract army of orchids coming to get us!
Duck and cover!
Duck and cover!
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Like the grunge and the pure orchids. Busy weekend without accomplishing anything–to be followed by Monday–I’d demand a refund. 🙂
Hahaha… I know, right?! And something tells me the returns/exchanges line is going to take all week to navigate as well!
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Here’s to weekends when we don’t get much done . . . except, of course, share beautiful photos of Grunge Orchids.
There would be a lot to toast to around my neck of the woods then, Nancy! I usually mean well… but… well… you know.
Thank you so very much for your kindness, as always!
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I was gonna say… Don’t they look like orchids rather than unidentified “flower thingies”?
Then I realized you already knew that.
Love the composition. I wonder if I my Inkscape-ness will eventually be as good as to make me draw flowers…
The funny thing is… this is one of very few flower thingies I’m actually able to identify. That probably influenced my decision to give this a shot.
Thank you so much for stopping by, Kale… looking forward to checking out some of your inkscape-ness!
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I’ve seen those flower thingys. I really like them but haven’t bought one for my wife yet. Plus, I think one needs a stick to prop them up because they fall over. How do they make it in the wild?
My wife and I always stop to admire them, too… although we also have yet to buy one. Mostly because I manage to kill any / all plants within a 50 ft radius. Unless they’re weeds, of course.
Hahaha… good question! I’ve often wondered that myself! I guess they have to hope they grown next to a natural stick!
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Went around the Orchid house at Kew a couple of weeks back – Don’t remember seeing a Grunge Orchid 😉
I really like the 3D effect created by the stark simplicity of the flowers against the textured background.
Sounds very interesting, Martin! We have a yearly ‘Orchid Show’ at our Botanical Garden as well… the wife and I like to check it out if we get a chance.
Hahaha… yes, this is a… um… very… ‘rare’ specimen!
That is very kind of you, sir! You wouldn’t believe how many variations of this theme I tried (one of those cases of almost TOO many choices)!
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Love it. Orchids are the only flower that I can actually keep alive. So elegant and beautiful.
Thank you so much for stopping by, Mr. F… and for your kind comment as well! I sincerely appreciate it!
Hahaha… unfortunately I have yet to find the plant I can keep alive – I can beat-up a cactus!
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Naturally, I had to immediately go to Spotify to listen to “I Got Id” and relive both my teenage years and that moment in “Portlandia” when the Eddie Vedder tattoo comes to life. Of course, Spotify doesn’t recognize anything but “I Got Shit”, so I had a good five minutes of annoyance before I Wikipediaed the thing.
I was wondering if anyone would mention the title, U.M…
I wasn’t really sure which ‘version’ to go with here, but… um… considering my history of foot-in-mouth I decided to play it safe-ish. This time. For once. Or… something like that.
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Flowers and grunge are two of my favourite things.
Excellent, S.E! I’m very happy to hear that!
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The background makes this flower just pop! Excellent work, Sig! Hey, your giving me ideas again!
Now you keep your weekends to fun stuff. 🙂
Thanks much, Deb! I tried quite a few different options… so many choices/decisions… almost too many choices/decisions!
Hahaha… just what you need, right Deb? More ideas? I suspect you are like me in that there are just too many ideas to ever get to them all! Where to start, right?!
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Excellent skill and beautiful work
Many thanks, Astra!
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I dig your flowery thing 🙂
And I thank you for that, U.M!
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Nice, flowery thing. They kind of remind me of little, paper birds. Very cool. The grunge works.
Why, thank you very much, B.F! I can definitely see that now, too!
I hope so… I had a difficult time deciding which direction to go with this one… another case of almost too many options!
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Hi there! Well, better too many options I always say. Nicely done, as always!
Agreed! And thank you, B.F! Very much!
I hope things are improving on the computer front!!!
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loooooovelY!
I thank you, sir!
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Like the white against the grungy background. I am waaaay behind in my blog reading. Currently on hold on the phone waiting to talk to someone at a Government Department. I may run out of blogs to read before someone actually answers the phone 😛
And their on hold music is total crap
Hahaha…
I guess that would make you a fan, Mr. M?!
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They finally answered after a loooong time. I was getting really annoyed & if they’d kept me waiting much longer the crap would’ve hit the fan you speak of.
That’s the WORST, Tony…
I bet you’ve got some pretty hard rocking holding music stuck in your head now, too!
‘Your call is very important to us…
all our representatives are currently busy assisting other clients…
please continue to hold, and enjoy this elevator music from the sixties.’
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More like elevator music from the 1860’s
Hahaha…
Sounds pretty hard-rocking!
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Many thanks, sir!
OUCH! I KNOW that feeling… been there… hope to never be there again!
PICK-UP! PICK-UP!
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It has a Japanese print quality. Quite lovely.
I thank you, sir!
That’s quite a compliment coming from the master-o-texture!
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Beautiful! Someday we should get one of these.
Except I’d probably feel bad when I killed it.
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