I got a comment today with a link, and I debated tossing it in the spam bin. Then I went and had a look at funoak.com. It's a blog that posts series of amusing and interesting photos. Poking around I found a post about Sarolta Ban, a 27 year-old artist from Budapest, Hungary. She makes …
Drabbling: a fun, easy writing excersize
I've learned a fun writing technique in my travels around the Web: the Drabble. From Fanlore: Traditionally, a drabble is a piece of fiction that is exactly 100 words long. <snip> The term itself comes from Monty Python's 1971 Big Red Book, which declared the drabble a word game in which two to four players …
Sugar in the Ground
This morning I was to the garden early, and as I unlatched the gate a cloud of yellow Swallowtail rose from the green, followed by red cardinals and a few bluebirds.
Eating Flowers, and the Wonders of Dirt
This year, the soil is my canvas. I hope you will enjoy this art as much as the painted kind. If you're in the neighborhood, come over and help me eat it!
Green Fire: the force that through the green fuse* feeds the world
In the buzzing radiance of the garden, everything I see is alive.
All creative work builds on what came before
Here is an amazing video by Nina Paley made from photographs of sculpture taken at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Nina is a big supporter of the Organization of Transformative Works, a nonprofit organization run by and for fans to provide access to and preserve the history of fanworks and fan cultures. …
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“Snowpocalypse!” or, a cold storm and a warm hearth
It's getting cold outside, and all the snowy forms are turning that dusk blue colour. And it's warm around my hearth.
