Fun Mash with Flickr
One of the things I love about the web these days is the wealth of information that we can get from ‘mashing’ of site content. (A ‘mash’ is where information from more than one site is combined to give you something else.) A really useful mash is where location information, or photos from one site are overlayed on a map for example. I just came across this site which uses letters from images on Flickr to create words. Not only does it give you some fun graphics, but if you don’t like a particular letter, you just...
read moreThe female nude and a lifetime of study
After yesterday’s post about what to give my step-son for his 18th birthday, a number of wags made comments such as ’38-24-36′ via Twitter and Facebook. This reminded me of my own fascination with the female form as an 18 year old. I was a great Norman Lindsay fan and had visions of living a bohemian lifestyle, painting nudes and living a carefree life in an attic somewhere! My first year out of school, I had completed around 30 paintings and was on the way to accumulating 50 works for a one man art show when, at the...
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