I just listed a framed print of this photo on Etsy (you can view the listing here).
In the description I said,
This is a beautiful and moody photo of a traffic sign and a stoplight. These cloud and sky color combinations occur often in Seattle, where this photo was taken. In the print, the colors [...]
I noticed that one of the sketches I posted to flickr (again, part of the sketch-a-day project) had recently gained a lot of view hits. The hits all seemed to fall on August 7th and 8th, which coincided with the announcement that CERN was going to begin testing of the Large Hadron Collider the [...]
I sketched this last night before bed and I really like it. (It’s part of my drawing-a-day stay-in-the-groove project.) Please ignore the strange tonal artifacts created by my rickety, dying scanner.
I’ve lived in Seattle almost my whole life (if you count growing up on the east side of the lake, which shouldn’t really count, as that area (Redmond, Kirkland, Bellevue) is mainly populated by hostile extraterrestrials), and in living here, I have accidentally developed the skill to taste and enjoy coffee. I know what [...]
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This is a quick note to let you know I just listed a framed print of my favorite opium poppy photograph on Etsy.
Here it sits, on my couch, longing for its forever home:
I just learned about the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, and read her poem “Renascence”.
Here’s an excerpt:
“…The sky, I thought, is not so grand;
I ’most could touch it with my hand!
And reaching up my hand to try,
I screamed to feel it touch the sky.
I screamed, and—lo!—Infinity
Came down and settled over me;
Forced back my scream into [...]
Yesterday was my one-year BLOG-O-VERSARY! I can’t believe I’ve been writing here for a year. For this occasion, let me introduce the following sketch I drew a little over a year ago:
Yeah, I really don’t know, either, but it was the only almost-appropriate birthday-related image I could find for this post. I [...]
Last week during therapy I was talking about the periods into which my life is divided. A common symptom of chronic PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) is that the patient automatically creates a demarcation line in their mind that separates life “before” the event, and life “after” the event.
In my case, since [...]
I used to like to write extremely weird and silly rhyming poems when I was in my early 20s… Years ago, my best friend Jen printed out a collection of poems I e-mailed her throughout 1999, which I wrote while I was bored in the library at the U of Washington, waiting between classes. [...]
So, I’m quite sure how it happened (I blame my bloated-beyond-all-measure Google Reader RSS feed), but somehow I found a tab open with Colin Chillag’s flickr account.
My first thought was “Who is this guy?” and then as I looked at the images, my second thought was, “… Holy crap!”
Check this out. His painting entitled [...]