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Shadows

These last two pictures are from today, taken with my new Canon Ixus 60. I had no idea Canon had continued to improve the Ixus, this one is great. Really compact, nice mechanical feel and looks, really good usability (for instance in show mode the zoom lever zooms in on the picture!). And really high picture quality. It is probably the best carry-everywhere camera I know of.

yellowblackwhite

By the way, y'all are invited to comment on the artwork. Feedback is good for the artist, especially comments about specific aspects of the work.
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Art by Eolake Stobblehouse. (Graphic is clickable.)
Museum grade prints available, 40x50 cm, pigment on fine art watercolor paper.
Signed and numbered, limited edition ten prints only. US$ 95 + s/h.

La Vie En Rouge

By the way, y'all are invited to comment on the artwork. Feedback is good for the artist, especially comments about specific aspects of the work.
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Art by Eolake Stobblehouse. (Graphic is clickable.)
Museum grade prints available, 40x50 cm, pigment on fine art watercolor paper.
Signed and numbered, limited edition ten prints only. US$ 95 + s/h.

Bling-bling

Okay, so I don't know what "bling-bling" means. Ask me if I care. :)

Update:
This post was just to celebrate that I am over caring about whether I am Hip or not.
But after a couple of comments, I got curious and looked up bling-bling.

Brilliance

I have a friend who considers himself brilliant. The problem is that you can't dismiss it as charming buffoonery, since he actually is brilliant. So that makes it immodesty, which of course we can't permit.

Update: Yes, this was a joke. Satire or something.
Me, I am not a modest person. I think I'm friggin brilliant.
But here is the rub: I think you are friggin brilliant too. And I think you should *think* you are friggin brilliant. And allow yourself to say so!

The world molds to our thoughts. Especially our own abilities, obviously. So if we give in to pressure to think less of ourselves, we become less. If we think more of ourselves, we become more.

Some people feel that if somebody appear to be impressed by himself and talk a lot about his own work, that makes *them* feel smaller... !
I think if this is the case, then they better work on their own self-confidence instead of trying to stiffle that of the other person.

Second update: Following a good comment by Lucid, I want to add:
Ego is an ugly thing, causing us much pain in so many ways. But I have a strong feeling that suppressing the ego is what creates the ego.

The bride stripped bare by her carebears

Thanks to Christos for recommending the Rosetta Stone course. I am studying French with it, and it is lots easier than it was in school.

And thanks to my friends Jonathan and Laurie for recommending memory foam beds, not the least Tempur. And thanks to myself for being able these days to get a top model. I haven't gotten it yet, but by all indications it will really be a big boon for my sleep and my back. I know a waterbed is, and this is even better. Tempur foam is the original NASA memory foam, and is made in my home country Denmark. I am really looking forward to getting it.

Enchanted World

Free e-book about EmoTrance. Download it, and more importantly, read it.

Leaf/beetle

Art by Eolake Stobblehouse. (Graphic is clickable.)
Museum grade prints available, 40x50 cm, pigment on fine art watercolor paper.
Signed and numbered, limited edition ten prints only. US$ 95 + s/h.

Feet are optional

Excellent article by Mike Johnston about rules, photography, and academia.
(Photo by Mike Johnston.)

"Cheating"

Today, a few minutes after I had taken the photo below, I ran into a fella from the local photo club (who is a great guy). I told him about how I am making art, drawings on the computer, on a special screen you can draw on (Wacom Cintiq). Jeff, who was out photographing with a thirty-five year old camera (Minolta SRT 101), told me that this was "cheating". :) And he wasn't kidding. For some reason he regards the feel of the paper to be essential to art. Well, like Scott McCloud points out, if you remove the text or picture from the paper, all you have left is dead trees.
I pointed out to him that when photography was invented, landscape photographers thought that *it* was "cheating"!

Culture clash

Found objects

I forget who observed this, but: everything anybody desires is a found object. Nobody every desires anything before they have seen it.
This is interesting to the artist: you don't have to fit your art into what you, or people, expect, because don't know what they desire before they see it.

Swirldance

Art by Eolake Stobblehouse.
Museum grade prints available, 40x50 cm, pigment on fine art paper.
Signed and numbered, limited edition ten prints only. US$ 95 + s/h.