I have a new respect for 4-year-olds. I went to a party over the weekend that had a kids area. There was a colouring book left. I took it. I will not longer snicker at kids drawing outside the lines. I haven't coloured in years. It's harder than it looks. The crayon, as it wears down, creates a new 'tip' while you're colouring! The lovely tip on the left I was using, would quickly turn into a tip on the right and the next thing I knew I was drawing dangerously close to the lines. ::shudder::
Oh, I almost forgot my point!
While flipping through the colouring book I came upon an image that looks incredibly like Mr. Hanky! This is a standard, generic kids colouring book. I think it was unintentional, but it seriously looks like him.
I coloured as well as I could with the crazy point-changing, then put the picture in my computer.
Playing with graphics all day, I'm use to altering images a bit. Here's the 'stained glass' version for your next Christmas card. You're welcome!
I was working on some graphics today and realized something I'm totally excited about. If you already know this, it's cool, right? I was staring at a photo, trying to think what I could do with it. I closed my eyes to think and saw the image in my mind's eye in negative. Negative images are always a little creepy. They're great, and I can stare at them forever, but it's the creepiness factor that gives them their appeal. I stared, with my mind's eye - which is really just some type of retinal burning of the image I'd guess - until it faded away. Then, I remembered that Jesus test. It's in a lot of books about eyes or science or something. I've come across it a few times. You see it a lot with that 'is it a vase, or two people facing each other?' image. You stare at Jesus, close your eyes, and Jesus appears to you in your mind's eye. So, I thought, if staring at a portrait created a negative image.... I changed the image on my screen to a negative. I stared at it for a few seconds and shut my eyes. There it was! The real image! I could almost make out the colours. Have I mentioned I'm easily amused?
I'm listening to David Gray's White Ladder album. I can't let this go. If I don't have the CD nearby, I feel like I'm missing something.
"Where are my keys? Here. Where's my checkbook? Right here. Where's my David Gray???"
Somehow, it's become a security blanket for me. My most favourite part is that Babylon is on the album twice. When I used to make cassettes of albums/CD's for my car, I always recorded my favourite song again at the end of the tape. Babylon is recorded twice, with some variance, on White Ladder. I got the CD for Babylon, but my favourite song changes daily. I highly recommend this album. Here's a karaoke version of one of his songs for you:
