Polaroid once a day for 18 years

Jamie Livingston took a Polaroid every day from 1979-1997. Now they're all on the internet.

http://photooftheday.hughcrawford.com/

Photography in 10 easy steps

Just wanted to post a link to an article on smashing magazine.com on how to improve your photography skills.  It's a good reminder for some of us, and has some great HDR photographs (which serve as a good inspiration to upgrade your camera, if nothing else.  The article can be read here.

It even has a bit of speculation to the direction of art and photography in general, which is nice to ponder over.

Scintillation

I found this video on Cartoonbrew this afternoon from a Paris based artist named Xavier Chassaing, apparently it's "comprised of over 35,000 photographs and using a mix of stop-motion and live-action projection mapping techniques.". No one is quite sure exactly how it was all done.

SCINTILLATION from Xavier Chassaing on Vimeo.

mmmmm....pretty.

Painting Show this First Thursday

So I'm putting the finishing touches on some paintings I'm hanging tomorrow at the Star Y Rose cafe on 24th and Alberta. There are four pretty large paintings in a series I've been working on called "The Carpet's Lava" about children and their imaginary friends. The size of the paintings is part of their overall appeal, so if you can make it out to Alberta sometime this February, you should stop by the cafe. My sister will also be showing 3 of her woodburns that are very much for sale. It's the blue building with the old pharmacy sign up above it. They serve up a mean cup of coffee and a cheerful slice of pie. They even have vegan voodoo donuts. Hooray for life (sorry, not enough ventilation in my work space).

Pre-golden Age Sci-fi

Check out this article featured on BoingBoing.net today concerning Pre-golden age (1904-33) sci-fi book cover art!

It's found on io9.com, an online sci-fi magazine that features eleven sci-fi books from the early twentieth century that have exceptionally good cover art, as well as a synopsis of their plots and a slight historical contextualization of the work. This one concerns "A shy and retiring Chicago scientist manages to communicate with an advanced alien civilization, whose scientific secrets he refuses to share with Earth's flawed political powers; and he accidentally "broadcasts" a gorgeous naked blonde alien with whom he falls in love."

And there are NINE more where that came from!

Classic Sesame Street

My search for animated inspiration has lead me to rediscover these childhood gems from the olden days of Sesame Street:

First it's the Teeny Little Super Guy!

An Orange Singing "Carmen" and warping young minds, possibly from Jim Henson:

And finally, some really worthy animation from Jeff Hale (note the Pointer sisters backing up the soul on the soundtrack)
This one is even better than I remembered...

Wow, what a great show!  Good old PBS.  xoxo.