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The Pre-Photoshop Arabesque

This was the cover of the 1986 album "Island Life" with Grace Jones from Island Records. This move is pretty much impossible to achieve, unless you're photographer Jean-Paul Goude. Before Photoshop, there was just lots of frames and then lots of studio time working with the negatives. Dodging and burning, the good old days of photography. (Although I do love digital)

Click here for more info on the making of this shot.

If Empires Joined Forces

What Good Customer Service Can Do For You

Click It or Ticket

Take That Crop Circles

What you got Mr. Alien? You think you can mess with our rice art kung fu?

In the land of rice and small spaces, some farmers had some big ideas. Using different grains of rice, these farming artists (or fartists, yeah I went there) use different grains to creative the various colors. The only shame is that these field art have about the life span as the harvest. Edible art. Hmm... that means you can be eating that weird dragon guy on the left. Pass the salt.

Check out the rest of the rice paddy art.

Some Stuff From Class

So, as a writer, it's good to explore visually as well, so I took a photo class for non-image majors at my school. Here's some of the stuff that I liked. I'll post more once I get everything close to being done.


I can tell you what she's not supposed to be, innocent.

I don't like taking self-portraits. I feel vain when I do. That is why I chose those props in the pic. Let's just say the camera is the gun.

That's my cat (or kat because he is my best friend), Mr. Bojangles. Much love kitty.

Irony

Give Me A Job!!!!!!!!!!

Palandromic Evolution

Cookie Monster vs. The InterWeb

Books OnDemand

Say hello to my little friend. His name is the Espresso Book Machine (EBM) and he's here to make a book for you. Talk about quality with quantity. All you have to do is upload your latest novel (graphic ones too if you choose so) into the program and boom, you'll have a library-quality book to give to your mother. Tell her to send her thank you card to OnDemandBooks.

The EBM lays out, prints, slices, dices, binds, folds, and finishes a book on the spot. Watch the video to learn more.

No Means No Unless It Means Maybe

How to tell if a woman wants to have sex with you.

For many men, it is very hard to tell when a woman wants to have sex. It is in a man's best interest to know when a woman wants to have sex, so that they don’t look foolish and/or get tasered.

So here is how you can tell when a woman wants to have sex with you:

She says, “I want to have sex with you.”
This is the surest and easiest way to find out. It also usually means that if she’s giving in this easy, it is because no one else will have sex with her or she wants to make babies. Before you engage in the act of love with Lazy Eye Susan or Tranny Janice, put on a condom and check to make she is not sleepwalking.

Click here for more signs.

Where Is The Banjo?

In case you're travelling, this might be helpful. Take time. Take notes. And you might want to take TP. When you're in a place you can't pronounce and you're about to break the seal, you'll thank me for this.

The Hang Drum

I saw one of these when I was in Barcelona. This guy is a little better than the street performer.

Nice Cerebral

From here.

Why Go To The Diner?

Did Ya Hear The One...

From here.

Honesty Is The Best Policy

From here.

The Weight Of The World

From here.