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Step 1: Create a curves adjustment layer and pull the point REALLY high—until it looks like a UFO beamed down and is about to abduct you.

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Step 1: Find the right fire photo for your base image.

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Most cultures around the world—with the interesting exception of Asian countries such as Korea, China, and Japan—usually have some sort of response when someone sneezes, and it’s almost always some variation of “Bless you!” or “To your health!” But in the Philippines they say, “Who didn’t take a bath?” and in Vietnam they say, “Rice with salt.”

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“Cake and Cunnilingus Day” comes exactly one month after “Steak and BJ Day,” which comes exactly a month after Valentine’s Day. But are they really as much fun as No Pants Day and Dance Like a Chicken Day?

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When art is reduced to self-indulgent, emotional expression that is somehow exempt from being criticized, compared or evaluated, it kills incentive, it kills originality and ultimately it strangles artistic-expression in its cradle, robbing the world of all that it could be.

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Nothing is original anymore; such is the plight of the modern artist. Mark Twain once wrote, “Substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources” — and that was well over a century ago, so one can only imagine how many times these ideas have been passed down in the interim.

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Too many people make the mistake of either accepting the first job they’re offered out of college or fall into the existential abyss and do nothing for a year while living in their parents’ basement.

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If globalization stresses interdependence (which requires reciprocity of two equal yet different interests, so to speak), then that’s the exact opposite of standardization.

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The time reads 3:53AM and I can hear the sprinklers outside as I’m writing this, and I have a feeling I’m going to hate myself in a few hours when the sun rises.

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If you have been thinking about filming and uploading your own videos, you should not hold yourself back for any longer. Take a risk. Grab your camera.