The Life of a Demoniac

I'm posting these screen recordings that show how I captured, found and enhanced the blue-light demon photo. Later, I intend to use them to create a video that provides instructions for enhancing photos of demons in low-light and other special conditions; however, for now, they may be useful to experienced users of photo-editing software, such as Photoshop and/or GIMP, and to those who might be in a similar situation, and want to start sharing their photos with others. Using GIMP to highlight the demons found in still frames of videos in motion The photo enhancement procedure mirrors that which is described in  TECHNOLOGY | Enhancing photos of demons (and the like) , and which has now been used in two subsequent posts, namely,  VIDEO/PHOTOS | The Pillow Demons  and  VIDEOS/PHOTOS | Dragons in the trees (and curtains) . Step 1: Searching for demons using Quicktime Player X A video made during a period of high demonic activity is skimmed frame-by-frame f...

Ripley Erin Greeff stumbled across this blog while seeking answers about a demonic entity that appears to be stalking him, and asked if I could shed light on his situation—probably, in the hopes that I can allay his concerns. In an e-mail received this morning, he wrote: This is going to sound crazy; I was going to ask if you knew anything about a tall, dark-hooded figure. I've read and searched so many things online and at the library trying to get answers. There's always people that encounter something similar but they don't get answers either—just more questions; [but], I noticed you had blogged about how you can see a demon, [and] I was going to see if you knew what kind it would be based on what it looked like. My brother and sister have seen it in a moving vehicle. I, on the other hand, had an encounter at my mother's house a couple of years back in the middle of the night. My baby boy slept in the bed with me at the time. Don't know if that helps. I...

Within the past few months, dragons have become more and more the theme of demonic art, especially over the past several days, when the new moon brought its usual hobgoblin demons , known for their blanket demons and tree art and the like: A dragon's head made out of tree branches A flying dragon made from twisted curtains A perched dragon made from a tree trunk Two days ago, hobgoblin demon-generated dragon imagery appeared in two videos made during the period of high demonic activity at that time. First, in a video made while on an early morning walk, a dragon's head was created using tree branches; then, in a video made at another Santa Clara residence, a flying dragon created from a pair of twisted curtains: A dragon's head made out of tree branches A flying dragon made from twisted curtains The culprit behind the flying dragon-curtains In one of the still frames, the culprit—an angry, skull-faced demon of miniature proportions—was revealed: ...

A video clip made hours ago at a residence in Santa Clara shows several pillow demons, all of which appear on the same corner of my pillow; and, just like the old maid and the young maiden in  Chica o Vieja , the faces overlap each other. This enhanced still frame highlights the most prominent one: A color-enhanced and sharpened still frame (enlarged x2), showing an apprehensive, beret-wearing pillow demon peers sideways out of a fearful eye, with his upper lip coiled in snare, bearing gritted teeth There are at least four other faces overlapping the one shown above; however, unlike the aforementioned painting, in which each face has an equal presence (e.g., same size), you might have to do more than just change your focal point as you stare at the image to see the face of each pillow demon. Specifically, you may have to make adjustments to color, as well as other enhancements (such as sharpening), to images of pillow and blanket demons to visualize faces that ar...

While looking for ways to clean up crappy photos of my boogey men, I came across a GIMP tutorial entitled  The High Pass Filter for Radical Sharpening , which had easy-to-follow instructions for improving the quality of images that are blurred by the motion of the camera. Here's a before and after of my first attempt, in which you can see nearly twice as many features in the demon's face in the improved version as you can in the original:  Enhanced Original Here's the result of applying the same method to another image, from which I learned that images that are motion-blurry benefit the most from this method: Before After I enhanced another image, this time, one that is very grainy and unfocused; it would have benefitted most by applying sharpening to individual parts of the face, as multiple renderings revealed thatsome settings work better on one part, while not so good on the other: Before After Here's another image, which is highly contrasted; li...