20 November 2009 – Illustration Friday – “Music”

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They say you never know when inspiration will strike, and boy is that true. This week’s Illustration Friday topic was “music,” and I racked my brain for a good long while today to come up with a good idea. It seemed boring to just [...]

13 November 2009 – Illustration Friday – “Unbalanced”

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This week’s Illustration Friday prompt is “Unbalanced.”

So, here’s a challenge: how do you create a balanced composition that conveys something about being unbalanced?

Perhaps with a pair of staggering drunks, unbalanced alone, but leaning on one another to create a stable, triangular [...]

5 November 2009 – What Should We Do With Him?

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I’ve always been kind of fascinated by Guy Fawkes Day. The English like to say that Guy Fawkes was the only person ever to enter Parliament with honest intentions and joke about whether Bonfire Night is a celebration of the failure of the Gunpowder Plot or [...]

3 November 2009 – “We make our world significant with the courage of our questions and with the depth of our answers.”

It seems Carl Sagan is on lots of people’s minds these days, thanks in part to the YouTube sensation “A Glorious Dawn,” in which clips of Sagan from Cosmos and a bit of Stephen Hawking from A Brief History of Time are AutoTuned and set to music. Here it is, in case you haven’t seen [...]