Don LaFontaine, voiceover master, is dead at 68. I’m wondering how the sound of movie previews will change without the heavy-duty drama of “In a world…”
Maybe Pablo Francisco will take over, since his beloved but tired spoof of the man would be kinda tacky now. But I’m guessing that the character of movie […]

Ray of Light

Originally uploaded by Tymcode

This illuminated shrine is dedicated to Steve Irwin. Goofball delivery and ironic death aside, he was a great conservationist and used his popularity and his money well.
The shrine was created in Jane Wynn’s Illuminated Shrine class at Art Unraveled 2008. It features a fetal ray, a stingray […]

Art Night

Originally uploaded by Tymcode

For the health of my marriage, we are instituting a mandatory weekly art night, wherein we ignore all the stuff we SHOULD be doing and just work on art stuff.
Here’s a mask I built from paper clay that will be used for a piece I’m working on. It’s heaped on there […]

Recently I dropped about 50 pounds and I have been enjoying the self-confidence you get when you look healthy. But as I made my way through a crowd of the young and hip and edgy and beautiful while walking through downtown San Jose, I realized that the kids in this scene had no reason […]

We took our much-maligned dog to the vet; she had been having these strange seizures and we couldn’t tell if it was joint pain or something else.
Before we had finished describing all of the dog’s various symptoms the vet brought up the dreaded “quality of life” phrase.  We thought it would be easy.  We thought […]

A discussion with a friend highlighted our differences of opinion on the subject of jealousy. I was bemoaning the fact that her friend, a guy I am positive I could get along with, never responds to anything I write to him because he’s not pleased that I make comments on his wife’s Flickr. […]

Geotagging (adding GPS coordinates to a photo’s metadata to indicate where it was taken) as an activity is fine. It’s an opt-in process, forcing the photographer to think about whether they want GPS coordinates for this picture to be made available. However, cameras are starting to include built-in GPS receivers, for automatically geotagging […]

Back in the frontier days and before, correspondents could expect a bare minimum of weeks or months for a reply from a distant family member, if the letter or its response even made it through the mail.  Now, with email, chat and cel phones it’s been reduced to minutes.  Unfortunately this expectation doesn’t factor in […]

Torque is Back!
Originally uploaded by Tymcode

He showed up today, skinnier and thirsty as hell but happy to see everybody. Shosh had been calling through a vent under the house in case he was in there and he came trotting around the corner.
I think I caused him to come home; I had just flyered the […]

Robert Rauschenberg is dead.