…art, music, and opinions from Lower Alabama
Get’cher mind outta the gutter.
My first try at colorizing a black-and-white old photo. Naturally I had to pick one that was very softly focused, had little or no contrast, and I had no clue about most of the colors.
All in all, it didn’t turn out too badly…
My momma, sometime in the early Forties (I think).
I’ll do better next time. Practice, practice, practice.
...can be found at Wondermark
“I don’t think we’re in Kansas any more…”
A hand-illustrated Silmarillion.
Nope, you can’t have one, unless the Tolkien estate relents and allows it to be published. One can dream…
Just ’cause it’s cool.
BTW all fire ants must die. You have to live here to understand…
for a ‘different’ kind of keyboard. 500 years later someone built one.
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A bizarre instrument combining a piano and cello has finally been played to an audience more than 500 years after it was dreamt up Leonardo da Vinci.
Da Vinci, the Italian Renaissance genius who painted the Mona Lisa, invented the ‘‘viola organista’’ – which looks like a baby grand piano – but never built it
Penrose Tiling- you want to zoom these!
(actually stolen from Ms. Sweasal, whom you should be reading)
If you didn’t think Commander Chris Hadfield of the ISS was something very, very special, you will now…
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via Vanderleun
