Thursday, December 27, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Horizon


Even though the sun was rising,
The Star of the East was still visible on the horizon.


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123rd entry for Illustration Friday.
Did you know Lotus 123 was the most popular spreadsheet
prior to the rise of Microsoft Excel?

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Friday, December 21, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Backwards


This has happened to me.

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122st entry for Illustration Friday.
Did you know 122 is the age of the longest confirmed lifespan of a person,
(Jeanne Calment born 1875 - died 1997)?

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Saturday, December 8, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Little Things


It's the Little Things that count.

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121st entry for Illustration Friday.
Did you know 121 is the number of cells on a Chinese checkers board?

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Thursday, December 6, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Excess II


If Microsoft combined flagship products Excel and Access,
this is what they might get.

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Illustration Friday :: Excess


We seem to be running into an excess of Political Correctness.
For the inspiration of this illustration, see this article:
It would seem that it is now offensive for Santa to say "Ho!Ho!Ho!"
"It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like P.C."

Here is a pretty good take on the whole thing:
Ha, ha, ha. Merry Christmas!

And, to be fair, here is the originating company's response,
And it probably has all been taken out of context:
Westaff Responds to Questions About Santas Saying "Ho, Ho, Ho"

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119th entry for Illustration Friday.
Did you know 119 is the longest
chapter of Psalms, and the longest chapter of the Bible, with 176 verses. It is composed of twenty-two sets of eight verses, each set beginning with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet, in alphabetical order?

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Thursday, November 29, 2007

Illustration Friday :: The Zoo



Drawn with pencil then colored with Paint Shop Pro

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118th entry for Illustration Friday.
Did you know 118 is the location of Force and Energy on the Dewey Decimal System?

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Superstition


Tom should have known that his luck was running out.

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117th entry for Illustration Friday.
Did you know 117 is the film format used by Kodak's first Brownie camera?

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Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!!

Friday, November 16, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Scale


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116th entry for Illustration Friday.
Did you know 116 is the year
Empress Liang Na of the Han Dynasty was born?

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Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Hats


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115th entry for Illustration Friday.
Did you know 115 is CXV in Roman numerals and 73 in hexadecimal (base 16)?

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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Trick or Treat


"Ghastly Trick or Treaters"
With sincere apologies to Edward Gorey


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Inked with Sharpie Ultra Fine Point Marker ::
Colored with Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI
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114th entry for Illustration Friday.
Did you know Stanley Kubrick frequently referenced the number 114 in his films?

P.S. I was thrilled to find out that my entry for grow was the pick of the week this week. Illustration Friday has been so much fun. Thanks to all who have left comments.

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Grow

Goldie didn't realize that goldfish only grow to their environment.

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113th entry for Illustration Friday.
Did you know 113 is the emergency telephone number in Italy?

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Thursday, October 18, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Extremes


Illustration rendered in MegaPOV Ray Tracer.
Scene was rendered at 800 x 600 resolution.
The scene took 1 hour 2 minutes and 26 seconds to render.


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112th consecutive entry for Illustration Friday
Did you know 112 is the number of pounds in a British long hundredweight?

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Thursday, October 11, 2007

Illustration Friday : Open


Illustration rendered in MegaPOV Ray Tracer.
Scene was rendered at 800 x 600 resolution. The scene took 43 minutes and 12 seconds to render.
The image was post-processed using Paint Shop Pro Photo XI.

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111th consecutive entry for Illustration Friday
Did you know "Eleventy-one" is the age at which Bilbo Baggins leaves the Shire in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings

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Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Illustration Friday :: the Blues



Illustration rendered in MegaPOV Ray Tracer.
Original scene rendered at 1600x1600 resolution.
The scene took 21 minutes and 53 seconds to render.
The image was post-processed using Paint Shop Pro Photo XI.

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110th consecutive entry for Illustration Friday
Did you know 110 is the number of stories of the Sears Tower in Chicago?


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Friday, September 28, 2007

Illustration Friday : Juggle


This is probably the latest I've ever posted.

Illustration rendered in MegaPOV Ray Tracer.
The scene took 2 hours 2 minutes and 41 seconds to render.

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109th consecutive entry for Illustration Friday
Did you know 109 is the registration number of the PT boat made famous by John F. Kennedy?


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Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Wedding

With This Ring I Thee Wed


Illustration rendered in MegaPOV Ray Tracer.

The scene took 2 hours 2 minutes and 41 seconds to render.
Depth of field was added using Paint Shop Pro Photo XI.

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Totally Digital Image :: MegaPOV raytracer
Enhanced :: Paint Shop Pro Photo XI

For a lighter take see my IF entry for Cake.

108th consecutive entry for Illustration Friday
Did you know 108 is the number of minutes Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth on the first manned space flight?


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Friday, September 14, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Momentum

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107th consecutive entry for Illustration Friday
Did you know 107 is the atomic number of bohrium?


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Sunday, September 2, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Alphabets


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106th consecutive entry for Illustration Friday

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Thursday, August 30, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Visitors


It is impolite for visitors to drop by unexpectedly.

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105th consecutive entry for Illustration Friday

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Thursday, August 23, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Captain


Just after Kirk's replacement arrived, a new enemy appeared--
--Myste.R.Moos


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104th consecutive entry for Illustration Friday

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Friday, August 17, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Emergency


I almost broke the glass.

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103rd consecutive entry for Illustration Friday

The Dummies book cover was generated by the
FOR DUMMIES book cover generator
.

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Missing


I decided to repost my
"Winslow Homer's little known Snap the Whip Too Hard"
I hope you see the connection to the topic.


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102nd consecutive entry for Illustration Friday

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Moon


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Here are other posts where the Moon appears:
Illustration Friday :: Gravity
Illustration Friday :: Superhero (the Moon has changed to the Bat Signal, though)
Ghost :: Illustration Friday
Night :: Illustration Friday

101st consecutive entry for Illustration Friday

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Poem


"A poetry reading:"

There once
was . . .

a man from . . .

Nantucket . . . . .


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100th consecutive entry for Illustration Friday

Friday, July 20, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Discovery




"Open the iPod Bay Doors, HAL"

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Friday, July 13, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Geeky

Not much time this week.
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Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Twist


A play on Charles Dickens.

EXTERIOR - BUMBLE'S ICE CREAM STAND - DAY

Oliver has returned to the stand -- empty bowl in hand.

OLIVER: Please, sir, I want some more.

BUMBLE: (Incredulous) WHAT!!!

OLIVER: Please, sir... I want some more... of my favourite flavour.

BUMBLE: More! ... of your favourite flavour!

OLIVER: Yes, sir.

BUMBLE: And what flavour might that be......


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Thursday, June 28, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Camouflage


Elvin's attempt at camouflage didn't work.

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Monday, June 18, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Rejection

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Friday, June 15, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Suit


The King's new suit.

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Monday, May 28, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Cars


Union

I don't know if this was a teleporting accident or a bad day at the assembly plant, but this may be one of the most undrivable cars ever made.

Illustration rendered in MegaPOV. This Nissan Micra K11 was modeled by Rene Bui using Wings3D.
It is used under the Creative Commons Attribution License. The scene took 1 hour 8minutes and 55 seconds to render.
Can you guess where the car colors come from?

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Signs


Sheamus' inability to heed road signs finally caught up to him!

This illustration was rendered entirely in POV-Ray. The scene was inspired by a sign our family saw along a roadside during our trip through Southern Ireland in 1999.
Here is the original photo:

The Cooper model is copyrighted by Gilles Tran and was originally used here. Model is used under Creative Commons Attribution License. The trees were generated by POV-Tree tree generating program. The sign graphic was drawn in Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI and mapped to the model sign. The scene took over eight hours to render on a 1.6 Pentium 4 PC with 512 MB RAM.

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Citrus


Citrus Bowl

Image generated entirely in POV-Ray ray tracing program.
Check out their site for some incredible images.
POV-Ray is a high-quality, totally free tool for creating
stunning three-dimensional graphics.


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Thursday, May 10, 2007

Illustrated Friday :: Neighbor


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Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Remember

"I don't remember."

It was at that moment that the entire
courtroom knew that Jimbo had perjured himself.


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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Polar

Polar Bear meets fish
Image inspired by Inuit Sculpture.

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Thursday, April 19, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Fortune

eel of fortune

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Saturday, April 7, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Green


It's not easy being green

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Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Snap

Winslow Homer's little known
'Snap the Whip Too Hard'


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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Total


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Sunday, March 11, 2007

Illustration Friday :: WIRED!

After finishing the whole pot herself,
Prissy had only one thought...

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Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Communication

"The Great Communicator"

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Based on Public Domain Photo as found in Wikipedia
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Gravity

"Why am I so attracted to you?"

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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Illustration Friday :: Crash


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Wednesday, February 7, 2007

I've been tagged!!

I've been tagged by Halloweenville!

RULES: People who are tagged should write a blog post of 6 weird things about them as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don't forget to leave a comment that says "you are tagged" in their comments and tell them to read your blog.


Six weird things about me:

1) I have two toes that have been 'stuck' together all my life.

2) I don't care to walk barefoot on grass. I think this stems back to my childhood when I stepped on a bee and was stung.

3) I sometimes put peanut butter on a hot dog. Don't knock 'til you've tried it! I am willing to bet that everybody eats something that someone else would think was weird.

4) I have trouble using the last of something like a gallon of milk or the last of a box of cereal. This is not as much a problem as it used to be.

5) My kids got me a birthday card that said "You are special" on the front. Inside it said "Mom told us to use 'special' when we mean 'weird'. They think I am very 'special. ;-)

6) I traced this meme back from Nicole Puzzo to Kathy Weller to Majeak Ann to Annax to Jademon to Simmy. Simmy didn't mention the two people who sent it to her.


OKAY! Must tag others now! I will use every sixth person who posted their entry to Illustration Friday after me.

I now tag Kayleen, Michelle, Caroline, Kutor, Katherine, Linda (I skipped Alina since she has already been tagged twice.)

Saturday, February 3, 2007

Sprout :: Illustration Friday

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Sunday, January 28, 2007

Red :: Illustraton Friday

"For some reason, I feel compelled to use this."

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