Inspiration
Pumpkins
We finally got our pumpkins but I hope we’ll have a chance to carve them before Halloween. Here are some excellent, “crafty” ideas for you artistes out there: 1) Enchanted Cottage shows clever photo and painted pumpkins. I thought this was an great idea if you don’t have time to carve. I might just use it this year. 2) Fantasy Pumpkins from Hallmark Magazine shows how you can really get into the decorating. I’m sure Martha has some too, but way more patience is required than I have right now. I’ll post more if I see them and closer to the time of Halloween for those last minute procrastinators, unlike…
Surgery
I notice art in a lot of places, but I also recognize when something is so innovative that it is art in the mere doing. This is the case with this new type of surgery called natural orifice — using the body’s natural openings as entry and exit areas for conducting surgery, which minimizes scarring and potential risk. This is a no brainer but at the same time so out of the box that it wasn’t thought of until now. Warning: this video at this article link contains some graphic visuals of the actual gallbladder removal and surgery, so it may be disturbing to some viewers, but I grew up…
Animation
I’m too tired to write but trying to stick to my schedule of 3 posts a week. When I first saw this animation by Glen Marshall as posted the Wired Blog Network, I was mesmerized but became even more intrigued when I learned it all stemmed from his original animated work called “Butterfly.” Music Is Math from Glenn Marshall on Vimeo. Coincidentally, my new business has a lot to do with butterflies and transformation. I’ve always been fascinated by them by their vivid colors and complete metamorphosis into something free and beautiful. In Art History/Christian art they are symbolic of the resurrected human soul as seen through the life cycle…
