Eastfist Art

How to delay Google Adsense loading until webpage loads first

2011-06-17T11:56:00.000-07:00

If you're an AdSense publisher like myself, you'll probably notice how sluggish the ads can load. You want to make that revenue, but sometime users will be turned off when they don't see a page that is responsive or worse, they disable your ads preventing you from cashing in. So you, as the publisher, have to do your bestest part so that there is a trade-off and hopefully visitors will keep the advertisers happy and you get paid. Here's a method to perceivably speed up the download speed of Google AdSense ads and your webpages:

Ideally, basic placement of those dang AdSense ads should load just fine if it were one ad. But that's not how HTML documents load. Like most compiled languages, it's interpreted line by line. An entire HTML page has to be interpreted before anything is rendered out, meaning if you put a gigando AdSense ad at the beginning of an HTML doc, you'll be seeing a blank page for as long as it loads. Those first 5 to 10 seconds are precious as it determines whether or not the user finds your page "friendly". A user returning to your site is something else, but at the least the user can say, "Wow, this site charges like a bull in heat during mating season."

So, that's my strategy. Load the dang ads at the END of the document. Here's how:

<html> ... <body> <div id="visibleAdSenseHolder"></div>  <div id="hiddenAdSense" style="display:none;">  </div> <script type="text/javascript"> function swapAdSense(){ var destinationDiv = document.getElementById("visibleAdSenseHolder"); var sourceDiv = document.getElementById("hiddenAdSense"); destinationDiv.innerHTML = sourceDiv.innerHTML; sourceDiv.innerHTML = ""; } </body> </html>

Things to notice:

In the div "visibleAdSenseHolder", notice that it is empty. You need to define the width and height of the holder, but it is empty so it draws the space right away rather than later. You don't want the entire page to shift/redraw when the ad is transferred into the div. Drawing cycles eat cpu, son.
The hidden div "hiddenAdSense" will contain your actual AdSense pre-generated code. However, notice that it's style is set so that it isn't visible. The ad is still gathered, but it isn't drawn, which doesn't save much computing but at the least any rendering is delayed.
The javascript code basically does what we programmers learned in Intro to whatever programming language and that is how to do a basic ABC variable swap. The concept being you want to swap out A and C without losing any of their values, so you'll need a placeholder which is B. In this particular case, we already have B filled. We're just copying it to A or C. The foundation of the swap is in that concept.

ALSO, notice that I empty the source div at the end of the function. You must do this otherwise there will be two instances of this ad on the page and Google AdSense won't like this as they limit the number of ads you can have. I've noticed horrible performance with no ads showing at all until I optimized my function. Imagine that you copied the value of B to A and you didn't empty B, then there would be A and B ads on your page, which is redundant. Therefore, assuming the value of B was safely copied to A, you can remove the value of B, freeing up that space (and the code wouldn't be interpreted after the function executes).

That's basically it. You just need to do this for every ad you place. Theoretically, it's loading the same amount of info, but you will notice a slight perceivable load speed.

Customizing your Blogger/Blogspot template: A foundation

2011-06-16T03:05:00.000-07:00

I don't want to go into the details of customizing your personal Blogger template, but like most default templates, it comes with the same elements and each element can be customized. For the most part, when you're customizing your template, you're adding or removing these elements. Blogger likes to call them "widgets". By objectifying each element as a widget, Google's development team is better able to sort out all the clutter between their implementations, third-party implements, and of course, standards implementations.

First and foremost, if you really want to dive into customizing your Blogger template, you need to get familiar with working with script or code. When you take a look at Blogger's beastily template, you might be scared off and not want to throw a wrench into things. However, it will be quite worth it if you do trial-and-error tests on your own just to see which parts of code displays which elements. Of course, it's easier to use the template editor and enable/disable the widgets, but if you really want to see how things work, you need to get inside the code. However, if you do approach it with trial-and-error, I advise you to do so when you first open your account. You can't open a dummy account and play with it that way, so work it out before you finalize your design. Also, it doesn't hurt to backup your changes by exporting the template or simply copying the source into a text file.

Adding/Removing Widgets and other Blogger Page Elements

You can add or remove widgets and other Blogger page elements by going to your Dashboard > Design > Page Elements. You get a visual representation of your layout. There you can click Edit on each of the elements and edit them.

Customizing the inline stylesheet

Everything you need to change the way your template looks is within these tags found in the <head> section:

<b:skin><![CDATA[ Blogger's default css is found here, therefore you can put your custom styling here ]]></b:skin>

Implementing External Stylesheet

Sometimes, the inline stylesheet gets really inflated and will slow the downloading time. Technically, users are downloading approximately the same amount of data. But in order to have a more perceptively better download, moving that novella of an inline stylesheet into an external one is the best practice.

Copy the same styling from before WITHOUT ALTERING BLOGGER'S B TAGS (which will throw their interpreter off). Paste your custom styling into a text file and rename the extension to css.

You'll need to host that css file on a site that Blogger is friendly with, otherwise it won't work. I suggest using another one of Google's services: Google sites. Google owns Blogger, by the way.

Once you have your Google Sites account open, upload your css file as an "attachment" and reference to it from your Blogger template using a standard HTML <link> tag. When you copy the css link, make sure you remove any additional url paramaters and just get the sole url of the file. For example:

http://sites.google.com/site/eastfistart/eastfistBloggerCSS.css?attredirects=0&d=1

won't work so change it to:

http://sites.google.com/site/eastfistart/eastfistBloggerCSS.css

As proof, my own Blogger site is utilizing an external stylesheet. Check out the source.

Hiding Blogger's default nav bar

If you want to take advantage of the maximum browser window, you'll probably want to hide Blogger's nav bar. Of course, I found it to be quite useful for on-the-spot logging in, accessing the dashboard or editing, but I don't find it aesthetic pleasing. Hiding the nav bar is actually quite simple.

You won't find a reference to the particular div id in the stylesheet, but all you have to do is make one, like so:

#navbar{display:none;}

That's it. Of course, be aware that if you create your own div named "navbar", it will conflict with Blogger's internal div of the same name. The code is still generated, it just won't be displayed.

Creating homepage-only content

Coming soon...

Dark Knight Rises Bane Details and Characterization

2011-03-28T12:41:00.000-07:00

Tom Hardy is playing Bane in the upcoming Dark Knight Rises directed by Christopher Nolan. Will he resemble a masked wrestler with a tube attached to the back of his head?
Maybe. Maybe not.

Although, there might still be a chance that he might don a gimp mask. Even the more recent Batman animated series has depicted Bane in BDSM style.

Maximizing Ad Revenue with Blogger/Blogspot

2011-03-21T03:10:00.000-07:00

As of today, March 21, 2011, Alexa.com lists as it's top 10 global websites:

http://www.alexa.com/topsites

1. Google
2. Facebook
3. YouTube

4.Yahoo!
5. Blogger
6. Windows Live
7. Baidu
8. Wikipedia
9. Twitter
10. QQ.com

My main attention is focusing on #5, Blogger, being that they are hosting this blog. If I wanted to maximize ad revenue, I should probably be blogging more here (shrug). But it's a matter coming up with fresh content that people want to read or click on daily.

Nudity and sexual explicitness in video games

2011-02-21T10:22:00.000-08:00

By Chongchen Saelee

Most adults would still consider video games a children's toy. But it's not like developers aren't adapting to their aging audience. With mature titles like Heavy Rain and the upcoming Duke Nukem Forever, the explicitness is there, but does it make the game any more mature in nature and not just something still targeted at juveniles?
The stigma hasn't changed. Video games with nudity are like the newer American Pie straight-to-video movies: supposedly adult characters in adult situations involving sex, drugs, alcohol, but nudity is used to sell it to teenagers. One tell-tale sign is the lack of pubic hair on adult women, but that's a topic for another day.

I haven't played the full version of Heavy Rain, only the demo, but I have to give the developers Quantic Dream credit for creating such a beautiful looking game. The demo doesn't come with the nude scenes, but there are videos on the Internet for those who are curious. Within the context of how the game's narrative plays out, imitating film, the main character takes a shower nude and later does a striptease as an undercover stripper.

So given those two scenes, does it make the game more mature? In my opinion, how it's presented is really mature, maybe even classy. The context of the shower scene is not sexual, although gratuitous, but does help to sexualize the character in an otherwise incredibly gloomy setting. Otherwise, when she later becomes an undercover stripper, the player won't find it credible that she could seduce the bad guy. Ultimately, does Heavy Rain's usage of nudity change the stigma for video games? Can we truly reference it as a "mature" game worthy of discussion? Or is it merely used to sell itself as a mature game but still only target to teenagers?

If nudity and sex are the main focus, then there is a market for that. Sex games exist. It just doesn't have the same production value as the big-budget, commercially marketed ones. Granted, sex games are definitely not marketed towards teenagers. Although, sometimes I question Japanese animated sex games.

There was controversy with a hidden sex game in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas called Hot Coffee. Of course, it was used in a satirical/comedic context, on homage to urban films.

The Leisure Suit Larry games are well-known for its sexuality and nudity. But the games are also very humorous.

So does putting sex and nudity into video games make it any more mature? It's possible. In doing so from a retrospective, adult-like way, it might be mature. However, that's on the developer's end, not the player.

Ultimately, if video games want to be respected as serious adult media, there are many factors that still need to be worked on. One, of course, is the introduction of sex and nudity but presented in a way that it's not exploitative. That's not to say it's even needed at all.

The day filmmakers start making references to video games on how to do sex and nudity is the day video games get their deserved recognition. But first, let's see video games with anatomically correct modeling, and we'll see where it goes from there.

Terry Richardson: A Real American Hero

2010-11-17T21:14:00.000-08:00

Dude get's a lot of flack (from prudes). In the short run, he won't go down in history as a Picasso, Michaelango, or Warhol, but the reason he gets my respect is he represents what it means to be a free American.
How many people can say they can do what Richardson does: taking candid pictures of exotic places, affluent culture, naked women, all the while making a living and getting into the history books? Not many. Some argue he's a hack and merely makes it because he is the son of a photographer. If that were the case, he sure has a highly stylized and distinctive portfolio of work. Isn't that the goal of any artist?

How can you hate this guy:

http://fuckyeahterryrichardson.tumblr.com/post/128963932

The guy looks like an "average joe" living the "high life". That's something we "average joes" positively could look to for inspiration. If the illusion is unattainable, at the least this guy provides a window into the culture. How do the ending words of the film The Prestige go: "Of course, you don't really want to know (how it works)... you want to be fooled."

modelZILLA social networking site leader for internet models photographers and artist

2010-11-15T23:19:00.000-08:00

It's slowly, slowly getting built. What I envision for modelzilla.com is ambitious, but practical. I really cannot compete with big business. I'm not setting out to make a myspace or facebook, heck, not even a modelmayhem.
But, what I want to do is create a venue for artists and models to make some money and grasp an understanding of social dynamics. Hopefully, I can make a little profit on the side as well.

Not Safe For Work (NSFW) and 18+ Adult Content

2010-11-08T22:43:00.000-08:00

By Chongchen Saelee

What a prolific Internet meme. What does "not safe for work" really mean? Do people browse the Internet all day from work? Does that mean that people actually don't work when they're suppose to? And all the while, they're looking up pornography. My, how productive.

It's become the equivalent of the advisory label on music CDs or cover art. It becomes part of the graphic design/marketing. In the case of "not safe for work", it'll only be so effective in text searches. Before NSFW, there was XXX. It's not enough to have one X, but three X's means the content is extra dirty.

I find it strange that when pornographers try to sell their smut that XXX is stamped across covers. You would think it would be obvious with the big tits and spread pussy on the covers.

There was this phenomenon, too, with the advent of DVDs when "uncensored director's cut" was slapped all over the covers. It didn't really guarantee anything more raunchy, but that was the illusion.

But maybe there's something exotic about the exclusivity of the meme. Maybe people get tired of the practicality of "adult content" or even the word "sex". It's not that people don't actively look those words up or that they don't want to be known looking them up. Maybe it's thrilling to look up smut under some inconspicuity (is that a word?)

It's like when a woman's panties come off and she has pubic hair that is neatly groomed and you wouldn't have known otherwise, assuming she was a shaver or cave bear. An educated adult knows a woman has pubic hair, and should expect it there, but they don't want to just stare at those medical photos of aloof, homely women. Even then, we want to pull the panties aside and take a peak. What do we see behind the curtain of curtains?

I wonder if putting NSFW as a keyword can conjure up any traffic as a spread pussy shot could. Depends on how tempting the illusion of coveted explicitness is.

Batman Dark Knight Rises Movie Film Rumors News Gossip

2010-11-05T17:53:00.000-07:00

By Chongchen Saelee

What we know we know we know. What we don't know, we know we don't know we know we know. All in all, what can we expect from Batman Begins 3? You can check out what I deduce so far at my other blog. After scouring the vast interwebs, I think I've come to another conclusion that Tom Hardy is
Jean Paul Valley, otherwise known as Azreal.

I have a strong inclination that Aaron Eckhardt will return as Two-Face/Hush. Since Bruce Wayne has gone into hiding as Batman, Jean Paul Valley takes over and really screws up the bat mantle. Meanwhile, Two-Face terrorizes Gotham to the brink of chaos. I think Azreal ultimately kills Two-Face (for real this time) and that leads to the final ultimate fist-to-cuff between him and Batman in a cavern near the batcave. Some epic stuff.

What do you guys think?

Perfecting your craft as an artist

2010-11-03T17:43:00.000-07:00

By Chongchen Saelee

Perfecting your craft is an arduous journey. I'm only doing the Internet modeling thing until I can get a strong foundation on my filmmaking. Finding and hiring Internet models is a tedious process and costly. You also have to carry yourself like a business or independent company.

You serve as recruiter, photographer, and post-processing/retoucher. Of course, if you have a crew, you can divy up the chores, but to get one commercial-looking shot is still an entire production. All in the name of "selling" subjective beauty.

Refining your selection of nudes/images in your portfolio

2010-10-31T14:29:00.000-07:00

By Chongchen Saelee

It's important to update your portfolio regularly. If you're not shooting anything new, the least you could do is rotate your images or create new derivations. My portfolio at www.modelmayhem.com/eastfist is always transforming.

I'm still working on images from my first 2 shoots. The main reason is that it costs a lot to set up a shoot. The second reason is that it is practical to continue working on the images I already shot. My images still can't compare to the sterile technicality of the DSLRs, but at least I can boast of originality.

Mainly, it's an on-going learning process. I can compare what my images looked like a year ago to what I can do now. It's amazing when you actually have time to sit down and focus on your craft instead of 10 minutes at a time or being to doggone tired after long hours at work to "have fun".

If you want to permanently delete your images from blogspot, deleting it from your post isn't enough. You need to sign into Google Picasaweb Album and do it from there. Tedious.

Million dollar nude female model butt

2010-08-28T22:13:00.000-07:00

By Chongchen Saelee

I haven't posted anything in a while and have still been tweaking the same shots from my initial photo shoots with Jem from http://www.jemmodel.com/

I got some great shots, but some were better than others, particularly this one of Jem's tight bum
(let's be honest, I Photoshopped it some).

I was inspired by anime like "Ghost in the Shell" and "Aeon Flux" and wanted to make something cyber-punkish, seductive, icy. The bluish photo filter makes it kinda sterile, or mechanical. The barcode is just playing around, to vary my watermark.

Filters in Photoshop that create gloss, wet, glistening skin on nude female model

2010-03-18T10:54:00.000-07:00

Update: 6/28/10 - Google has sent me a notice stating they have removed some of the links. However, some remain and I have yet to send another DMCA takedown notice for those. I would rather those actual webpages and owners be removed entirely from the net, but a no-listing in the world's prime search engine is the next best thing. I'm just waiting for Google's indexing to update.

Update: 3/25/10 - IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION THAT THIS ENTRY HAS BEEN STOLEN BY BLOG SCRAPERS. IF YOU SEE THIS POST AND IT IS NOT AT EASTFIST.BLOGSPOT.COM, THEN IT IS A STOLEN ENTRY. CURRENT VIOLATORS ARE:

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Most photo-choppers will try to moisten a nude female model's skin when the actual photo shoot wasn't. In my spare time, I've been attempting just that. There are tutorials on the Internet, but the fundamentals could probably be learned through observation. This is the result:

I'm not saying it's flawless, but I like the painterly look. I've always been better at painting than photographing. To me, photography is a technical trade. Anyone can learn to operate and therefore take a "perfect" picture. But to be able to make the creative choices to compose a picture is something else.

Copyright © 2010 Chongchen Saelee

Photoshop and the Nude Female Model

2010-03-03T20:48:00.000-08:00

I'm still a practicing artist. Photoshop can't do all the work for you, but you should already know the basics. Here's a perfect example of how I slapped together a quick concept piece. To the untrained eye, it looks seamless. But for the most part, the lighting is the key.

The source image of the female model is from a hotel room shoot with a main light coming in from a window. If you learn anything from watching ILM featurettes on DVD, to make a composite seem unified, you need to match the original "plate". So I tried to match the original image's lighting as much as possible.

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How to Make Money From Blogging

2010-03-03T09:09:00.000-08:00

It seems the only way to generate passive revenue through the Internet is through automated services like sponsor ads. There's Google Ad Sense, a partner of Blogspot (both owned by Google, of course) and a bunch of other services out there. The reality is unless you are receiving a high volume of visitors, it won't amount to anything. But there are always ways of improving your appeal.

I, personally, don't have a service that people seek and are willing to pay for. Therefore, I don't have a high volume in visitors or paying customers, or returning paying customers (which is the most important).

Marketing is important. But not having something to market other than "I have a blog" proves not to be lucrative. That's one for the database. LOL.

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Sex, Drugs, Pornography, and Other Internet Pollutants

2010-03-01T21:49:00.000-08:00

Man, o, man, the Internet can be a resourceful place, but there's also a lot of shit out there. It's uncontested that the main purpose the Internet thrived as it did wasn't because of its original intent for military communication, but because the technicians that built the foundation needed their porn. I'm sure there's still a copy of the first scanned and digitized copy of a Playboy centerfold floating out there in cyberspace.

If that don't buy you over as why the Internet is what it is, then take an eyeful of spread pussy, pulsating cocks, and other types of unwanted spam ads on a normal browsing session with a tame keyword search such as "flower".

However, it's not such a bad thing to have pornography so accessible. It's because the world has become heavily influenced by Christian fundamentalism where sex is taboo. Of course, those going against the Christian grain are going to feel liberated by producing and consuming what they can't have. But to be fair, it's not just Christians; there are other fundamentalists out there. The primal reason is to not overpopulate because humans are some dumb-ass animals who fuck too much and don't think straight.

Of course, now I'm gone git to the main point. The main point is although there is an abundance of sexually-oriented, adult content on the Internet, users have to understand when too much (of anything) can be become a bad thing.

For the most part, the Internet is cluttered with lots of crap. It's crap porn, crap info, real crap porn (yes, of the scatological kind), anything anyone can think of even though it doesn't contribute to the bettering of society, it will be on the Internet.

If you truly want to behold the cesspool that is the Internet, check out 4chan.org or urbandictionary.com. You'll learn quickly how the minds of the modern cyber-addicted troll function. Even with that much sex and filth on the Internet, you'd think we'd all be content with all our human needs. That would make us well-rounded human beings.

But I think what really drives trolls, whom ultimately drive the Internet, is their lack of free will and lust for power. If sex doesn't calm the savage troll, then surely a dark shadow of a bridge isn't going to satisfy their needs. If a good pussy pic doesn't get a troll off, stay away when he pulls out his club.

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Who defined photo retouching criteria?

2010-02-22T20:49:00.000-08:00

It just dawned on me that the current standard of retouching a model in a photo until she looks like a mannequin might be because of the nature of the beast. Long in the history of print, photos have to look their best, but reproduced efficiently, which means without oversoaking the paper with inks.

So, if my theory is correct, models that have acne and dirt on their face means that splotches of black ink has to be applied on the paper, and if that sucker bleeds in with the other dyes... well, then that doesn't make a pretty picture.

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The Incubus

2010-01-26T16:36:00.000-08:00

I just created this concept piece yesterday. The exercise was in compositing. If the subject, in this case my model Jem, was just there completely nude, I don't think it would be that interesting.
Somehow, I wanted to wrap her with the shadows. And that's what the Incubus creature is suppose to be.

To view more of my work, visit my model-related portfolio at www.modelmayhem.com/eastfist or my official website at http://www.eastfist.com/.

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Customizing the Blogger template

2010-01-23T16:32:00.000-08:00

Yowza. At least Wordpress is more human-readable than this. The parser isn't so nice, can't seem to get a simple 2 column deal going on using "float".

But I do have to say that a nice black background color really makes a photograph stand out.

UPDATE: Success! It seems I need to put a nested div tag into the mainWrapper with a float element. Now it fills the whole browser. Tested in IE and Firefox.

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Finding a venue for my artwork

2010-01-21T11:33:00.000-08:00

Have done an exhaustive search for a host that allows adult-oriented content and Blogger.com (blogspot.com) seems to be a good choice. A mix of articles and portfolio.

And so, I present to you, one experimental piece which I will call "Reclining Nude Smoker". I wanted it to be raw, gritty, edgy, and sexy.

You can view more of my work at www.modelmayhem.com/eastfist or my official website at http://www.eastfist.com/.

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