Harkonnen Nude. Yes, yes I went there, it was a much more polite way to talk about this particular figure and piece of artwork rather than stating the obvious. I chose to shoot this one in black and white with spotlight highlights to showcase the exhibit, I hope, in an eery way. Not that it wasn’t already weirdly eerie, including the dead eyes. nude male nude male, side At six foot plus in height, he was, to say the least, an imposing figure.
For when you want to feel fancy but need to be practical, Esterbrook offers some of their prettiest materials in a ballpoint pen. The ultra-classy Nouveau Bleu material, an elegant acrylic in shades of blue with gold veins and flecks, comes with either gold or chrome trim. The pen has a faux cap, so that it looks like a posted pen, but the cap section is really a twist mechanism that deploys the tip from the nose cone. This cap-like end pulls off to reveal the cartridge. It takes a Parker style…
So a six-week hosepipe ban (covering all non-essential use of water) has just started in an area including Maynooth: (I’m a little surprised that we haven’t been served with an official written notice about this but I’ll observe it anyway.) Since we won’t be able to play with real water for a while, how about the next best thing in the form of this wonderful performance of Maurice Ravel‘s beautiful Jeux d’eau by Martha Argerich? This is the only version of this piece I have on CD, and I’d be…
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Kids play in the water as the sun sets behind the Manhattan Beach Pier. マンハッタン・ビーチ マンハッタン・ビーチ・ピアの背後で太陽が沈む中、子供たちが水遊びをしている。
Tommy Bahama Street Corner – New York, New York I mentioned the Camp Snap camera yesterday, a $69 plastic toy-like camera originally made for kids. They’ve sold a lot of them, and it has become a phenomenon. Many teenagers and older adults have started to use it instead of smartphones for a different look. The image quality is clearly worse than that of modern-day smartphones, but many don’t seem to care. With no back screen, it offers a simple, old-school film-like experience. I was curious…
Ornamental Women, my debut Gothic Fantasy novel, has been out for just about two months now, so I'd like to offer a little something to everyone who bought a print copy: a silly bookmark drawn by yours truly. (If you bought an ebook copy, I still love you, but you won't need a physical bookmark for that, right?) Anyway, here's the bookmark: The bookmark is a doodle depicting Serafina, the "Angel of the Graves," main character of Ornamental Women. Since Sera is a dangerous grave robber, she's…
From time to time I’m prowling through old email archives and when I see something related to, or from, the late Dennis McMillan I’m tossing it into a new DMac file. At minimum, it’ll be fun to round up various of his aliases so they’re easy to find. Here’s an arch-Dennis tidbit added to an email sent May 5, 2010 — he died on Cinco de Mayo this year. He put out the word: P.S. The attached jpeg is of a true “flamenco shirt,” of the type I’d like to find in my actual SIZE, XL, although I CAN wear…
Observing shadows. Another singular-image day. Taken right when I started the morning commute.
The Tōkyōiter discovered while wandering over the web, this website is “A faux magazine collection celebrating Tokyo & illustration’. This is the kind of poject I simply LOVE, dedicated and fully focused to a single idea … executed in the best way possible. The Tokyoiter is made by illustration and drawing freaks who are willing to present the talent of artists they like to a larger audience. Some of us are illustrators and some are just living in Tokyo a wonderful city full of stories and…
I like a picture series, and this is one I hadn’t encountered before. Dorothea Tanning’s Les 7 périls spectraux (1950) is a portfolio of seven lithograph prints with accompanying text, “Pourquoi Rester Muets?”, by André Pieyre de Mandiargues. Of the series, the artist had this to say: My first lithograph adventure has become a book. An album with seven perils in it. Because to the seven deadly sins I preferred the seven spectral perils, life being more perilous than sinful. What we don’t…
Another orchid from last year’s Hilo Orchid Show. This year’s show is in a couple of weeks and I plan on visiting again. Might have to do a couple of months of orchid photos! Posted for Terri’s Flower Hour. See more responses here.
Sharing my favorite images from my archives. Source
Hotel Dusk: Room 215 isn’t quite a visual novel, and isn’t a pure point-and-click adventure, either. It’s a graphic adventure, akin to many of the works of studios in the 80s and 90s like LucasArts and Riverhillsoft, where you control where your character goes as you explore and spend a whole lot of time clicking around and experimenting, but at the heart of it all is a narrative that unfolds in front of you. Hotel Dusk is more narrative-y than most, as its linearity makes it feel that much…
View fullsize View fullsize Euwitt Nyanhongo carves serpentine and opal with his hands, pulling figures from the same Nyanga mountains where his father taught him to see.The son of Claude Nyanhongo, one of the pioneers of Zimbabwean stone sculpture, Euwitt began shaping rock at twelve, often finishing his father's works during school holidays. Now based between Zimbabwe and Cambridge, he sources Springstone, Lapidolite, Leopard Rock and Nyanga serpentine directly from the mountains where he was…
The tender, sometimes playful associations of violet and iris-powdery references account for the popularity of several sweet florals in the market, especially when coupled with the intensely feminine note of roses producing an almost "makeup" vanity-table effect. Here is an experimental list of fragrances that reference cosmetics, especially face powder and retro lipstick, in their scent.
Senor FajitasNikon Df, 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6G AF Nikkor2026 On my recent Lincoln Highway tour I came upon this sign in Columbia City. Hand-printed signs on the restaurant proclaimed it Now Open. Plastic Pepsi and Coke signs like these were super common during my 1970s kidhood. I have always assumed the soda companies gave them to businesses, or maybe sold them at cost, for the advertising value. I seldom see them anymore. But this one interested me because it’s clearly in good condition — and this…
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