Bungalow 104

Flickr

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:56:40 -0600

I've joined the Flickr flock, where you can view some of my recent photos.

NoComment

Thu, 18 Aug 2005 18:06:10 -0600

Despite the wonderful MT-Blacklist/Comment Spam Clearinghouse project, I'm tired of dealing with comment spam and have turned comments off.

Meanwhile, please feel free to contact me directly.

Door#2

Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:39:04 -0600

I wondered what was behind this door photographed on a narrow street in Florence, so I made up my own story…

Birthdays

Thu, 24 Mar 2005 19:31:26 -0600

Today is my mother's birthday. She is an artist, and a wonderful cook. So I made her a website, and some pickled asparagus. Happy birthday to us!

Two design constraints I set for this project:

1. Accessibility: a horizontal menu which would expand and flow /behind/ the logotype if text is enlarged, and;

2. SEO: use absolute positioning in the CSS to keep primary content at the top of the source order and place navigation last in the markup.

Witch Hazel

Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:21:11 -0600

For Halloween, an image of Witch Hazel.

The leaves turn bright yellow and drop off in autumn; then yellow flowers appear here in late October. Medicinal properties include “astringent, tonic, sedative, valuable in checking internal and external haemorrhage, most efficacious in the treatment of piles, a good pain-killer for the same, useful for bruises and inflammatory swellings, also for diarrhoea, dysentery and mucous discharges,” according to a text from the 1800s. (I wonder if that's why it's called “witch” hazel?)

Native to both North America and East Asia, the latter perhaps justifies this somewhat oriental rendering. The image is a composite of two photos using various Photoshop layer blending modes and filters.

“Witch Hazel” is also “a fictional character made by The Walt Disney Company. She first appears in the Donald Duck cartoon Trick or Treat in 1952 where she helps Huey, Dewey and Louie get candy from Donald.” —Wikipedia.

browsehappy

Sun, 22 Aug 2004 17:26:01 -0600

If you're concerned about using Internet Explorer because of recent security alerts, but aren't sure what your options are or how to switch to a different browser, visit Browse Happy created by The Web Standards Project.

Mozilla is my primary browser, and I especially like the tabbed browsing feature—also included in other free browsers—which eliminates the clutter of multiple windows but lets me have any number of Web pages open to view with a single click.

Fantasia

Sun, 08 Aug 2004 17:37:21 -0600

Fantasia: experiments with scans of dried fantasia flowers led to the following images:

a triptych of the original scans;
a triptych of closeups;
and an enlarged, extreme closeup.

Greece

Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:17:44 -0600

Photos of Greece: Searching for articles on underpainting, I came across the Mische Technique and wondered if it could be applied using Photoshop.

Each photograph was converted to line art, which served as a base for the underpainting.

The original image was then posterized, and used as a source for overpainting with Art History brushes from Adobe® Photoshop® 7 One Click Wow!

xml

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 19:31:21 -0600

I've implemented an RSS feed (I think).

Feedvalidtor.org helped me track down some problems, especially the documentation on upgrading a weblog's RSS 2.0 feed in Movable Type

To stay on top of various feeds, I'm currently using the free (Windows only) RSSReader.

Karascope

Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:07:09 -0600

Images from a Karascope®, designed by Judith Karelitz, were captured using a digital camera with a macro setting and self-timer. The camera was mounted on a tripod and focused into the kaleidoscope pointed toward a bright light source.

Reflecting

Fri, 02 Apr 2004 19:23:19 -0600

Reflecting: an accidental framing of a reflection in our kitchen window caught my eye, and the resulting red tones of the night shot remind me of working in a darkroom.

The Mirror Project was inspiration for this photograph.

Synaesthesia

Thu, 09 Oct 2003 19:03:04 -0600

Reading “Altered Land” by Jules Hardy, I'm fascinated by the concept of “synaesthesia.”

dictionary.com defines it as: “A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color.” Or when a touch produces the sensation of a taste...

Sunset

Fri, 01 Aug 2003 16:31:04 -0600

Sunset: a series of photographs taken within 10 minutes over Cranberry Lake in northern Wisconsin.

The last photograph is a variation using Photoshop's Auto Levels.

Wasp_Support

Fri, 25 Jul 2003 15:43:39 -0600

Spring (er...summer) cleaning: pages validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional or Strict, the CSS has been streamlined, and layouts for alternate platforms were tested using Browser Cam.

The weblog was ported to Moveable Type. Old comments were purged, but comments on new entries are welcomed.

Thanks to Ben Henick of WaSP for the button.