Tag Archives: Art

Sometimes nature looks unnatural. Or at least unreal.

I used rubber stamps of various fall leaves to decorate our wedding invitations. I tried using a variety of different colored inks on a stamp pad until I came up with a sort of gradient from green through yellow to red-orange… I think they worked pretty well. They looked more believable than this, and it’s an actual leaf…

“Hold on, I wanna look good in this shot! I think I’ve got something on my back.”
“Me too! My feathers are all askew… I gotta check under my wing…”
*click*
“HEY! We weren’t ready!”

There’s a cluster of pine trees just outside of work that have changed from the standard capital “A” triangle shape to something that resembles a lowercase “f” due to the massive weight of pinecones on their upper branches…

I don’t know if this is an actual ladybug or one of those imports that plagued the area for a while. I’m also unsure if it really matters… It’s been cold enough lately that this is likely to be one of the last insect pictures of the year. I was actually kind of surprised to see this guy at all.
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Good bye to the old Clinical Faculty Office Building… It’s being demolished as part of the constant University Hospital expansion. I was only ever in the building twice, ‘way back during my tenure as a student employee and semi-professional computer geek. The impression I took away from the place was awkwardness. It was built in the late 1930’s, in the days before ergonomics or handicap accessibility. Getting a cartload of computers from floor to floor was an adventure, especially since the only elevator was the little dumbwaiter.

There are more demolition pictures in the extended entry…
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It’s an ok picture. The real rainbow was much more vivid.
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It got a little cold last night, so we piled some extra blankets on the bed. The “I” managed to burrow his way into a little cat shelter between the time we got up and the time that the bed got made…

Looks like ought to have a really sweet deal on some second-hand droids, eh?

This little bugger was zipping around just outside of work. I took a half-dozen photos of it and this is the only one where it wasn’t a blur of fur…

This is a cat toy. It may not realize that it’s a cat toy, but that is the eventual destiny of any winged flapping insect in a house with two cats.

Either that or someone in the neighborhood kidnapped a pair of tiny singing twins from a remote pacific island…

A little something for the arachnophillic They Might Be Giants fans out there, of whom I know none. I think arachnophobic ones are much easier to find.
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