ad infinitum

I have continued to work on the monoprints but this is the first one I have don by cutting the stencil rather than tearing it. A swivel knife would have made it easier. i scanned one of my sketches to get the image. By the way, I have started to use a pencil in my sketchbook rather than a pen. I got some hairspray to use as a fixative but in the small travel size. It will be difficult for me to change from the black ballpoint though.

I am still spending most of my time on video as for as creative pursuits gp. I have some six hundred pis fro vacation to put into an interesting slideshow. It's almost overwhelming.

drooling

Help

Recently, I have be a slakard in adding to my blog. My bad! I have been involved with certain creative endeavours. This Ulead Video Studio just fascinates me. There are so many things you can do. One of my favorites is creating slide shows. We have hundreds of photos from our travels. With the software you can zoom and pan the stills to give the illusion of motion and even add such things as rain, snow or lightning.

About the left. It is a CD for the hearing impaired. How can this be you ask. By reading the CD of course!

Video

I'm getting too much into video. It is all consuming. I dream of mash-ups. I look at my lunch on my plate and begin imagining how it would look animated. Every photo becomes part of a slideshow. Every drawing needs to be animated and every scrap of video needs a new soundtrack. It's not that I'm obsessed but when I refer to seeing some one wide angle the film is running off the sprockets in my mind.

I simply must find a way to share my knowledge via how-to videos. It is late and I'm about to fade out....

dig-it

Today while walking along East Bay Street in Charleston, SC, I discovered an archaeological dig. It was like out of a George Lucas movie. if I had been wearing my Indy fedora i could have joined right in. We talked with a historian on the site and he identified out the other workers. Archaeologists as well as laborers were on the job digging dirt and sifting it through a screen to recover fragments pottery and such. The dig was under the the auspices of the Walled City Task Force, a consortium of non-profit organizations and sectors of the city government. Charleston is the only walled city built by the British in North America. The Spanish build won in St. Augustine, FL and the French in Montreal, Canada. You can keep apprised of the goings on in the dig by visiting the website at www.walledcitytaskforce.org .