Category: Art
Song from a friend - Nicholas Kelsay sings “Saturday Morning”
Here's a song from a friend of mine. I've posted his stuff before, but I particularly like this new track of his. It's called "Saturday Morning." Download it in high quality here: Nicholas Kelsay - Saturday MorningPosted on Jan 12, 2010 - 07:55 PM
Creative Commons Quercus Lobata/Valley Oak Leaf Scans
I’m doing a website project for my grandfather, Robert Edminster - once I finish it, I’ll be sure to mention it here. To make a long story short, the design involved an oak leaf motif. So, I went outside, picked a small branch from the Valley Oak outside, and scanned them three of the oak leaves that were in the best shape. I’m releasing the original source image as well as a couple of edited/cleaned-up versions of the original image.
I believe these are leaves from a Valley Oak, Quercus lobata, but I could be wrong.
You can download all of the derivations I made of the original scanned image, including the original image and a transparent PNG GIMP .xcf file, here, in a .zip file: oak leaves zip. As well, here are the individual files:
And a single oak leaf, GIMP .xcf source.
Feel free to use these for any project, commercial or non-commercial, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. All I ask is that you send me an e-mail letting me know if you do so.
Posted on Sep 25, 2009 - 12:07 AM
Lupe Fiasco at Calvin College
Lupe Fiasco came to Calvin College tonight. Awesome show - here’s a video of “Hello/Goodbye” - to download - I haven’t converted it to Flash video yet.
Posted on Apr 04, 2009 - 12:53 AM
Altered Polaroids
I went to Natalie Good‘s senior art show at Calvin College’s (106) South Division Gallery. Natalie had a lot of art on display, but I particularly liked her series of altered Polaroids. I took photos of two of them: click on the images for larger versions.
And a close-up:
They look like miniature surrealistic landscapes. It’s a good look.
Posted on Feb 24, 2009 - 11:17 PM
Radical Jesus
Someone at a house party I went to this weekend had a massive Jesus painting in their living room. You can’t really tell from the photo, but it’s very large: probably 9 by 4 feet. Click on the image for a full-size version.
The phrases on the painting itself seem a little bit contradictory, but I appreciate the thought that went in to them.
Posted on Feb 22, 2009 - 06:02 PM
Я/Rolcats - English Translations of Russian Lolcats
Just when I had thought that the whole lolcat thing had been tapped out, the internets come up with something new: Яolcats. An example photo, with English “translation”:
We sleep with vigor, content with the knowledge that Lenin’s body shall never decay…
These rolcats - properly spelled with a Cyrillic “Я” - are one of the most subtle, subversive, and just flat-out absurdly hilarious internet memes I’ve seen yet. Nothing says Communist Party apparatchik like a cute little cat swearing fealty to the Motherland.
Note: according to the Russian-speaking denizens of Reddit, the captions aren’t in any way related to the Cyrillic text embedded in the photos. These are evidently legitimate Russian lolcats, albeit with absurd, awesome captions.
Here’s another Яolcat for your enjoyment, with captioned “translation”.
Mother, if my constitution is unfit for gymnast… The grist mill shall become my pommel horse and daily labor my reward!
And one more for good measure. Note: a captioned picture of an animal doesn’t necessarily have to portray a cat to qualify as a lolcat - or a Яolcat, as the case may be.
Puppy: Can I conjure happiness from physical things?
Other: You can try.
Puppy: This experience made me weak willed and afraid
Other: With this effort you will come up short every time.
I got these images from rolcats.wordpress.com. Incidentally, it looks like they got most of their images from http://kotomatrix.ru/.
Posted on Jan 31, 2009 - 01:22 AM
President Obama Spiderman Comic Desktop Wallpaper
I bought the Barack Obama Spiderman cover issue the other day. I’ve been a Spiderman fan ever since I was little, and I hoped Obama would be President starting in ‘06, so this is pretty special for me.
In honor of the occasion, I’ve made a bunch of desktop wallpapers with Obama and Spidey’s smiling faces on it. Choose the links below to download the one that’ll fit you best.
Widescreen
Non-widescreen
Let me know in the comments if you’d like other resolutions.
Posted on Jan 27, 2009 - 07:51 PM
