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Regional Dialect Meme

Can you tell where I’m from just by the way I pronounce these words? Let’s find out!

Say these words:

Aunt, Route, Wash, Oil, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, Sure, Data, Ruin, Crayon, Toilet, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Spitting image, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Syrup, Pajamas, Caught

Now answer these questions:

• What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?

• What is the bug that when you touch it, it curls into a ball?

• What is the bubbly carbonated drink called?

• What do you call gym shoes?

• What do you say to address a group of people?

• What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?

• What do you call your grandparents?

• What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?

• What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?

• What is the thing you change the TV channel with?

After a little research I discovered that rain when it is sunny is called a “sunshower.” HOWEVER, if you are in South Africa it is called a “monkey’s wedding.” No seriously, it is. 

Funky Frog Presents: Me and My Monkey

Funky Frog and Nigel the Monkey join together to sing the Beatles’ classic “Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey.”

Funky Frog presents: Minnie the Moocher

My good friend Funky Frog does his rendition of the Cab Calloway classic, Minnie the Moocher.

Today’s tutorial request comes from jjrecto. She takes these really cool macro shots of miniatures and she wanted to know how to put a realistic new background in her photos. This is called compositing. Composite images are one of the most common things I do. Cutting out one element from one picture and then placing and blending that element into another. There are probably a hundred ways of doing this. And a hundred opinions on what works best. I show you my preferred techniques in this video and guarantee that with a little practice, you can get clean cutouts of just about anything. 

Watch video in HD.

I went a little long on this one so I had to use Vimeo for the video. I’m still working on being concise and informative with these tutorials. Bear with me as I figure that out. If you prefer watching on YouTube, you can view it in two parts below. 

Part 1
Part 2

Also, here are the finished images I used in the tutorial. 

Alien on the Beach (A big thanks to jjrecto for taking such a cool photo.)
Lego Zombie