"aus.tralia"

"go.where"

Print Screen (F5) shots of two jumbled web pages -- one is a slice of a slice of a Texan collage ..the second is a screen shot of a TV news web site where I was reviewing commentators' results of the GOG convention. I spent last couple of nights flipping between GOP and the US Open. Both channels lobbed a lot. Mixed doubles. Drop shots. In. Out.

"river.bed"

Sampled to the point of little re.cog.nit.ion. Calm, dry and faded under a bright July sun.

I have not used the spray paint feature in Paint for a couple of months, it was employed here.

"fence"

This one jumps from Neda's collage, to Lisa's duck reeds to Andrea's fireworks. An international fence. World art.

"civil.i.zation"

Neda inspiration - inverted, cut, pasted - no glue here....some there. A lovely image by a gifted artist that can be clicked and enlarged. Somehow slivers of Andrea's fireworks crept in too, here.

Lately I work on images very quickly - no time and it is quite bothersome. I do think quality is suffering and see no end in sight....work, family, lawncare.

Marie and I watched a most beautifully lit and photographed movie last night on DVD - "Girl With a Pearl Earring." Period piece - impeccable settings and costumes. But what was amazing was the lighting and also the pure love of paint and pigment....how artists ground and created made their oil paints before there were tube colors. Chemistry.

"You wouldn't think a movie could look like a Vermeer painting, but Girl with a Pearl Earring is filmed with an amazing range of luminous glows that evoke the Dutch artist's masterworks." Amazon.

The cinematography is much better than the storyline, but I can live it that, here.

My best.

"want.to.know.a.secret"

"Do you promise not to tell? Come closer."

The first 45 record I ever bought. Mowed lawns to buy it. Cost a dollar when a nice small house cost twenty or thirty thousand dollars in Northern California. Same house is now half a million, five water heaters later.

This is sampled from a refresh snapshot, by now the image is very very far removed. Only under the Napoleonic Code would the image above be considered copyright infringement, I hope. If so, I will avoid visits to France and Louisiana.

The image above looks ugly small - so muddy - I almost want to take it off this page.

Have a great day, create.