2006.03.08
The invisible library is a collection of books that never were, but I have something different, I have the Nebulibrary for ambigubooks - in other words, I can never be quite certain if I have a book or not. When I moved to Greece I got rid of hundreds of books, but kept some - which we shipped over. Now I'm never quite certain if I have a particular book or not, and since I've never managed to stimulate myself to quite the degree of actually organizing the remaining books in any rational manner, this means that when I enter the Nebulibrary (otherwise known as the wall of bookshelves in the hallway) with a title in mind, I often just become dazed and paralyzed by the idea of rummaging through all those volumes for an item that may not even be there. Such was the case with "Is Sex Necessary" by James Thurber... I had that book, as well as "My Life and Hard Times", and may in fact still have either one or both... But I just don't know.
At any rate, I didn't find it. And then I discovered that there are really very few examples of Thurber's illustration on the net (except, for some reason, the seal cartoon, which has evidently become the standard bearer for all his work, webwise). Eventually, however, I did come across "The Last Flower" in it's entirety, but unfortunately, whoever (or whatever) did the html decided to re-size the reasonably large images so small that it's pretty much impossible to read the text on them. This made me very frustrated. So I downloaded all 50+ of the images, and made a quicky slide show of them. Click on the right side of each image to move forward. (Or, if flash is a problem, here is an html page, or you want it, you can download a .zip of the whole thing.)
Posted by taz at 04:11 AM in Art, Books, Humor . Permalink . Comments (0)
2006.03.05
The Fake Model Photography tutorial is just so cool. So of course, I couldn't resist trying my hand at it. Sadly I don't have the requisite Photoshop CS and it's Lens Blur filter... and even more sadly, finding the proper sort of source photo is like pulling demon's teeth. Readers, I didn't find one. However, you can look inside to see what I did do with what I did find...
Continue reading "Faking the Fake Model trick"
Posted by taz at 02:27 AM in Photos . Permalink . Comments (0)
2006.03.01
In which I make you pee your pants in fright, using nothing but my eyes:
check inside to see how I done it...
Posted by taz at 09:52 AM in My ArtsyFartsy . Permalink . Comments (0)
2006.02.28
Today my world is manifesting a very odd weather phenonmenon that I've experienced here a few times: It's pouring rain, the sky is uniformly grey, but there's some sort of weird yellow glow in the air. Everywhere. Everything looks like an old polaroid (kind of like this, but outside)... If I lived somewhere else, I'd be worried about tornadoes right about now.
Here, I've created a facsimile!
A bit of Times Square (from this photo), polaroid-yellowfied! It looks a little like that outside.
Posted by taz at 03:14 AM in Thessaloniki . Permalink . Comments (0)
2006.02.26
Well, I should either start updating here, or close it down. It's supposed to be a place where I meticulously record the tedious details of my life, my middleaged angst, my boring dreams, my fear of housework... But I never seem to get around to it. I'm still not getting around to it, but I don't feel like murdering it just yet, so I will simply share this image from a really, really old "multimedia" cd rom (like Windows 3.0-old) I recently came across... Can anyone say "vagilicious?"
In keeping with our Windows 3.0 theme, I will mention that we recently rehabilitated our very first computer keyboard - a trusty old Packard Bell dinosaur - and I'm using it at this very moment. It's quite wonderful - so solid and heavy, with a pleasing resistence to the touch, much more like regular typewriter keys. The only downside I've found so far is that using the arrow keys to move around in the text is v e r y s l o w. Oh, well... it's a Packard, not a Nissan.
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2005.05.18
It turns out that he most fun I've had blogging has not been making posts for any of the community sites I belong to, or for either of my own blogs, but for someone else. I made a blog for Vangelis, so I could post all the things I wanted him to see, but that kept slipping through the cracks between his limited online time, and my spastic memory, and doing this has turned out to be a damned good time!
For one thing, the pressure's off somehow, since it's not "my blog", but basically a labour of love, and it takes me out of my usual routine type of sites (art, design, culture, blogworld), which has livened things up for me. It's a whole new experience - like window shopping for possible gifts, and unlike, say, Citrusmoon, where I have to think "how interesting will this be to the people who might be possibly reading this site?", I only have to think "How interesting will this be to Vangelis?" Easy!
So if you get bored with blogging for yourself - try blogging for someone else. Like Britney Spears. Just ask yourself: "WWBSC?" (what would Britney Spears click?).
Posted by taz at 11:29 PM in Personal . Permalink . Comments (0)
One of the small things in life that puzzles me: Why do people post a link to del.icio.us at del.icio.us?.
I'll never understand that.
Posted by taz at 09:18 PM in Web/Tech . Permalink . Comments (0)
2005.05.14
Big, O My!
I just entered my phone number into Brendan's Phone Anagram Generator, and found out that I can simply tell people to dial "BIGOMY" or "BIGNOW", to get in touch.*
Yep. That sounds like the ticket. Want to "get in touch"? Just call Taz at BIGNOW!
* (yeah, we have 6 digit phone numbers - but to make up for it we have dial a 4-digit area code)
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2005.05.13
A question for my "readership": What does it say about me that my dustbuster has dust all over it?
My old dustbuster was beige, which didn't show the dirt so much... but it died (some say of neglect), and the new one is slate blue. Bad choice of color for a dustbuster I say. What were the R&D people thinking?
Posted by taz at 12:32 AM in Personal, Silly . Permalink . Comments (3)
2005.05.04
Practicing with layer masks this evening in Photoshop, and made something kind of sweet...
Continue reading "Boy of Color"
Posted by taz at 11:38 AM in My ArtsyFartsy, Photos . Permalink . Comments (0)
