tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34899240544170784802024-03-13T09:03:24.795-07:00Art EffectsAll things having to do with design, art, photography, sculpture, textiles, drawings, paintings...Suzanne Powershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324334412116600798noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3489924054417078480.post-43608461355411941182020-04-28T14:56:00.000-07:002020-05-01T07:31:16.195-07:00A Love Affair With Fonts, Type and Jessica Hische<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have just taken several lettering and font art courses on SkillShare by Jessica Hische and I am now a devotee of her beautiful work. I feel privileged to have had the opportunity to have been exposed to this artist and her work. Jessica has gotten my artistic engine roaring again, making me want to create. When someone is that good all you can do is praise them and hope it rubs off! </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">She is the consummate professional; hardworking (she literally by hard work carved her place in the lettering print world), concerned with every detail, and with a lot of work experience for someone her age. Here is her latest children's book she has written and illustrated (she has two so far, plus other books on lettering and fonts), 'Tomorrow I'll Be Kind.</span></span>' </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She incorporates her fonts beautifully into her images. I love the simplicity of her artwork which seems doable for me and similar to the style of artwork I have admired in the past and have used in my own work.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">As you can see the type fonts are large, interactive with the characters and become the subject of the artwork. The characters are imaginative with detail that can pique a child's interest and imagination. I know it has mine! Her work has given me an idea for my own children's book from just observing and enjoying Jessica's drawings and lettering.</span></span><br />
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<br />Suzanne Powershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324334412116600798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3489924054417078480.post-85366187146376193912016-10-10T13:40:00.000-07:002016-10-23T02:08:01.333-07:00Seemingly Ordinary Doorknocker Morphs into...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">OK, not a gremlin you say...more like a griffin on a Medieval church - peephole and all. I think I exceeded my expectation since I added a message which gave a different feeling...</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.70588;">Most of the filming for Dr. Zhivago was done on a studio set. Thankfully it seems only some large crowd scenes were filmed outside in 80F+</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.70588;"> degree heat which was for the most part in Spain. You can image how the actors and extras were feeling, dressed in Russian winter woolens. The actors had to have their faces dabbed every two minutes. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.70588;">Thankfully, there must have been much cooler temperatures in the indoor studio sets. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.70588;">Production designer John Box and his crew transformed the Zhivago estate into an authentic Russian winter landscape. Everything was built and created by hand, even the house. </span><i style="line-height: 1.70588;"> </i><span style="line-height: 1.70588;">For snow/ice effects inside and out </span></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 40.9411201477051px;">(using the same building)</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 40.9411201477051px;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.70588;">all the architecture, chandeliers and furniture were sprayed with hot white wax, cold water was poured over everything and then sprinkled with marble dust. The the effect was that of a </span><span style="line-height: 40.9411201477051px;">frigid</span><span style="line-height: 1.70588;">, glistening ice palace. I would image giving a somewhat similar feeling of icy-ness as the Ice Hotel in Jukkasjarvi in Sweden.</span></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 1.70588;"> They are scenes I will never forget, even after 55 years!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.70588;">At Sharif's passing I wanted to create an image portraying the movie as a kind of memorial. Thinking I would like to create a digital work of the Zhivago estate in a snow scene, I took the movie set image of the house and put it into my photo editor to take a look </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 1.70588;">In playing with the image I discovered another building emerging to left of the estate! I was somewhat surprised this other building was not completely blocked out. It probably wouldn't happen </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 40.9411201477051px;">today</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 1.70588;"> just knowing what digital editors are capable of. In some instances it could be a little </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 40.9411201477051px;">unsettling</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 1.70588;"> to suddenly have a building emerge in the background! It can faintly be seen in the original image. It reveals the countryside was not the vast view it shows in the movie. Look closely at the first image below to the left of the Zhivago estate and then the second image below it with the yellow circled area. If you can see the building in the first one your eyesight is excellent, no need to get glasses! </span></div>
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Suzanne Powershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324334412116600798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3489924054417078480.post-70834265199482627112015-07-10T12:43:00.001-07:002015-07-13T17:08:27.413-07:00Omar Sharif and Dr. Zivago<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">With the passing of Omar Sharif I have to admit I have forgotten the story behind Dr. Zhivago, the movie starring Sharif who will go down through the ages for his wonderful portrayal of the character with the same name as the title. The movie stills are still lush looking bringing back memories of my childhood in the 60's and fashions that are having a revival and seem as fresh today as they were back then. Everything old DOES become new again when you have been through the cycle once or twice!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It is definitely true for fashion, go go boots from the era are now in style and can be bought new or old. Coats with fitted long princess seams running down the front and back with large collars are popular also. Bell bottom pants have been a mainstay for some years. Women wear long straight hair with a center part and Twiggy style short hair cuts are being worn like the "old" days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I have uploaded images from Dr. Zivago and fashions inspired by the late 19th century time period of the movie and Russia. Some of the Russian inspired clothing I would also term as folk or culture clothing which are becoming very popular today which I love. I feel I have already been introduced to the style and have a renewed interested especially when seeing beautiful images. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">You think, Wow, I am tired of those old styles I will never wear them again! Poof! here the ads come with wonderful visuals and you are caught up in the fashion style machine once again! Then I think who wouldn't want to dress in an earlier time and culture with gathered fabric on the sleeves and skirts with vests and bodices, very romantic! Although I think I am transcending fashion somewhat having seen a lot now pick and choose the styles I want to wear. Don't think I'm not grateful, there is a lot style-wise to choose from being offered today with something for everyone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As someone so aptly suggested on Twitter, let's all watch Dr. Zhivago tonight and remember Omar Sharif in one of his best roles. Note; his son Tarek Sharif plays the part of young Dr. Zhivago, Yuri standing at his mother's coffin at the beginning of the movie. It's nice to see a family member alongside Omar in the movie when so many articles say he was lonely and living alone in hotels, although I think at the end of his life his family apparently took care of him. The last article I read he had been living with family. Good to hear his family was supportive. He apparently lived alone for many years by choice.</span><br />
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Suzanne Powershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324334412116600798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3489924054417078480.post-61383180346026133412015-07-09T12:24:00.001-07:002015-07-09T13:19:10.366-07:00Beautiful Nursery Designs For Your Little Princess<h3>
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<br />Suzanne Powershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08324334412116600798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3489924054417078480.post-33381670607031224542015-07-09T10:23:00.000-07:002015-07-10T12:52:01.246-07:00What Family Member Prince George Favors In Looks<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I was looking at the christening photos of HRH Princess Charlotte. It's too early yet to decide what family member she looks like. Although the Windsors and Middletons are probably, like all families, seeing physical characteristics resembling their own members. On the other hand I believe it is possible to now know who her brother, Prince George favors, now that he is older. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Interestingly, when viewing these christening pictures I noticed two photos of George that I think reveal this. Look at the photo below of Michael Middleton and Prince George, then look at the last photo of George. I believe it is easy to see he favors his mother, the Duchess of Cambridge's father, Mr. Middleton. </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Prince George is a miniature of Michael Middleton, just call him Jr.! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">As I was working on the above chandelier image the </span></span>thought came to me that instant luxury can be added by just hanging a print or two of a crystal chandelier on the wall! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">It can add that extra unexpected pizazz to a space (chandeliers are usually seen handing from ceilings!). Great places to hang one would be the dining area, bedroom and yes, the dorm room!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">A chandelier from the Victorian period in black and white and with three together. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Horses playing using the Italian descriptive word "la robustezza"</span></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">in the title translates "...strength, sturdiness, stoutness, robustness..." as defined by the artist. A stunning image made even more exciting with the feeling of movement.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">I recently visited my local Starbucks located at the Kroger grocery</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> ,<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> Midlothian Tnpk, VA and saw these cute rustic silk flower arrangements in vases with burlap or a rough weave fabric wrapped around the container</span></span>. <span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">Very simple yet effective and goes very well with the eclectic casual setting. At the end of this post I will explain how to make one!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">It's not all about what you are drinking at Starbucks it is the total experience and higher end retail stores know this.</span></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Like most I like going to an eatery and paying more for the food with a nice interior, enjoying the atmosphere along with the food.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Visuals are important and have psychological value. An attractive clean environment will uplift rather than depress. I feel good every time I walk into a Starbucks, don't you?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">The color red can affect you in many ways and make you feel like you are going through an uncomfortable phase...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">or be cool and make you want to reflect, slow down, rest and consider your days...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">"I want just red Dahlias daaahling," what do you think?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">No matter what, red causes us to link! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">...because the old red rooster wanted an ice skating rink! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Now no preconceived notions of Red or it will make you like...lead...and....fall.....right.......into... ........bed.....ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Did you know cars can talk? It's really not a question of if but when! This old headlight and the little orange guy beside it can say a lot!</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> "We've been through hardscrabble times, good times, and President Hoover - no less than fourteen presidents to be exact!...</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">And now warm our old metal in the hot desert sun and that's a fact!! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">In base tones behind me I heard a low blast "Can you believe it?!! Some cars never stop it's just a lot of hot air and gas!!"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">"Just stopping for some gas, a tire change and I'll be on my way!" said the Daytona supercharged racer leaping nimbly out of his vehicle that was still trailing smoke and ashes...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">"Time Out!" I cried, my head just swimming, "My ears are splitting and I'm feeling rather faint because of all the loud exhaust, fumes and smelly paint!"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">making the earth feel it's burning presence</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> heating up the sidewalks and parking spaces...</span></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">Summer is almost here and with those lazy hazy days of summer the eastern seaboard states of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware is the tradition of the warm weather crab feast. It's usually nothing complicated with newspapers spread out on a picnic table with crabs piled high in the center for the traditional meal.</span><br />
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cob and of course watermelon to round out the entrees. </span></div>
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meat is such a delicacy especially the prized sweet meat of the
Chesapeake Bay blue crab and when feasting with my family there is no
accompanying bread, cornbread or hush puppies, traditional sides.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">I am so
focused on the crab picking I never miss the bread, in fact this is the
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accompanying traditional breads, I have eaten hush puppies and biscuits in restaurants when ordering shellfish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">At a crab feast for a large local state government gathering there weren't any of the above mentioned breads or even corn bread but no one mentioned it or cared, the crabs are that good! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I love this series it is beautifully photographed with a camera using film and is not digitally captured. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">This is a historical look at what the clothes were like and Venice is a perfect place for the surroundings, since it hasn't changed in hundreds of years. The whole city is listed as a World Heritage Site. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">This period is my favorite for Venice costumes and the style I plan to wear when I go. I have seen many Venice costumes for men and the color combination of white breaches, vest shirt and tricorn hat with the black wool cape is the most stunning combination.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Pink is such a pleasurable color it can be light or bright and comes in many forms, shapes and sizes - Spring wouldn't be spring without its glorious pinks!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">like my neighbor's irises...and the early blossoms of the redbud tree...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Pink can be seen in the most unlikely places..</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">More art by the seashore this time shells in art and seashell art. The marvelous Trompe L'Oeil by Johcherie above at first observation seemed to be a showcase for the pearl, a product of at least some or all of the animals that make their home in the seashells shown in the niches. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Upon closer observation and reflection the pearl necklace, cross, bowl and olive branch appear to represent the Pearl of Great Worth (God's Word and wisdom), Christ the sacrifice (cross), the Holy Spirit (bowl that holds water, water representing the Holy Spirit) and peace (olive branch) in that order. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">When I was researching shell images for this post, the previous post had to do with the shore and my vacations to Nagshead, NC and Cape Cod, MA, I became inspired to write another post, this one, I was inspired by another artist's beautiful watercolor of a Nautilus shell. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Whenever I see this image of shells from a visit one early spring at Nags Head, NC it calls to me whispering it's ocean sounds making me nostalgic for the time I spent there. I spend a lot of time walking up and down the beach. The beaches are wider than the ones at Cape Cod and further North. Because of it's size it seems to have it's own culture and events, a constant flow of wildlife from birds to crabs playing to humans doing various activities. I'm grown now and no longer drawn to sun worshiping and going into the water, </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Every early morning on the beach is like a new event there are always lots of things to see before people come to treasure hunt; what will show up?...will there be a conch shell or unfamiliar sea life rolling in with the waves?...will my new found friend be there too? </span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I stayed near one of the National Data Buoy System stations which coordinates monitoring of water temperature, atmospheric pressure, and many other things in the US and other international locations. There is a live video cam there, if you walk nearby it will pick you up and you will appear on their website. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Originally built in 1828, Nobska Light was rebuilt in 1876. The structure on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places" title="National Register of Historic Places">National Register of Historic Places</a>. The home adjacent to the light serves as the residence for the Commanding Officer of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Coast_Guard" title="United States Coast Guard">United States Coast Guard</a> Sector Southeastern New England.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Continuing
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well known artists. Bob Orsillo's image above shows an old book and
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">On a lighter note photographer Carol Leigh's Japanese book, </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">although I can't read Japanese characters</span>, with what seems to be layers of attached papers with fading inks gives wonderful textural depth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I am drawn to Gary Gay's image of old stacked leather books with sea shells recalling classic sea faring stories like 'Treasure Island,' '20,000 Leagues Under The Sea,' 'Robinson Crusoe' and others</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Lovely composition, photography turned into a painting of an 18th century lawyers desk with books and papers by Susan Savad. This table looks like where the lawyer would meet with his client to have papers looked over and signatures signed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Books are beautiful magical things that can take you places you've never been and teach you things you couldn't have dreamed. Artists are showing us that books can do even more in a physical way than be read and sit on a shelf, called "Altered Book Art."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Here is the wiki definition for "altered book":</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">An <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_book" target="_blank">altered book</a>
is a form of mixed media artwork that changes a book from its original
form into a different form, altering its appearance and/or meaning.</span><br />
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altered book artist takes a book (old, new, recycled or multiple) and
cuts, tears, glues, burns, folds, paints, adds to, collages, rebinds,
gold-leafs, creates pop-ups, rubber-stamps, drills, bolts, and/or
be-ribbons it. The artist may add pockets and niches to hold tags,
rocks, ephemera, or other three-dimensional objects. Some change the
shape of the book, or use multiple books in the creation of the finished
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Altered books may be as simple as adding a drawing
or text to a page, or as complex as creating an intricate book
sculpture. Antique or Victorian art is frequently used, probably because
it is easier to avoid copyright issues. Altered books are shown and
sold in art galleries and on the Internet.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">How about this for some fun book art! I really like the vintage look and the unexpected objects and scenes. It could be an image of what our memory looks like with our thoughts layered in our sub-conscience. Alexander uses old books, selects and cuts around the illustrations of the book leaving them on their original page!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Frank Halman treats books as architecture often carving out the inside of a set of books so that the viewer can peek in and see a space inside. Below is another of his works showing stairs that are descending mysteriously down into a book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">As a child I loved reading a collection of mysteries presented by Alfred Hitchcock, one of the stories was about little people that came suddenly one day to live in a house inhabited by the narrator. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The little people were never actually seen only noises or movement of things like a shade suddenly being pulled </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">down in a doll house</span> they were inhabiting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The little people brought the narrator good luck but apparently their privacy was violated somehow, I think consequently they left and the good luck with them! The staircase reminds me of the evidence of their existence but never actually seeing them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">More great altered books, this scene is so atmospheric and looks like an archeological diorama of a lost city in a museum only it's in a book, literally!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">This one reminds me of the lost ancient Minoan civilization in Crete. I like how the entrance walls look like they are on two different planes. The clever carving makes it look like it is dug out of a cliff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">"I often work within the realm of fairy-tales and folk-lore. I began making a series of book sculpture cutting out images of old books to create three-dimensional dioramas, and displaying them inside wooden boxes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Architecture is a way to interpret fantasy using details and parts used in the composition.</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> I find it fascinating to use architectural details or parts in a way that is fantastic as in the somewhat mysterious Gothic image above with birds flying around building copulas formed in a square (it made sense to me at the time, copulas are at the very top of buildings where birds sometimes roost), galactic stars, spaceships or patterns.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">In the above image I have incorporated cathedral ceilings and spires for the image above which is a pattern of sorts, almost like looking through a kaleidoscope.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I would not have considered doing outer space art but became inspired when putting the church roofs of the image below in position and finding it looking very much like a space ship suspended in space heading somewhere. Bring on Star Wars VIII!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">If cathedral dome roofs made into space ships are not your cup of tea, how about Victorian conical roofs with a Gothic rose window or Catherine window in stone made into galactic stars?! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Named after St. Catherine of Alexandra who was executed on a spiked wheel, ouch! It is from the 17th century and used in Medieval cathedrals. All the major cathedrals from that period in France have these windows. The Gothic revival period in the 19th century also used these windows.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">You say blue is not your favorite color, too conservative how about a galactic star in shocking pink?!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Real stars are probably very colorful burning otherworldly metals and rocks. Wouldn't it be interesting to see one up close. Some stars and their colors can be seen from earth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">It is possible the origin of the rose window is found in the Roman oculous. These large circular openings let in both light and air. The image below a sort of time capsule I believe is the dome of the Pantheon</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">where the oculi is at the top,</span> the best known example</span>. Early Christian and Byzantine architecture also made use of the use of circular oculi.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Iniquity too early of a time period how about Henri Toulous-Lautrec's Paris and the Eiffel Tower. Here is how it might appear as a star.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Some interesting facts about the Eiffel Tower it was built to sway slightly and on the sunny side it will grow as much as seven inches away from the sun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The Tower was originally made to be taken down in twenty years. When it went up there was a petition of 300 architects, sculptors, artists and writers asking the Commissioner of the Paris Exhibition to halt the construction. Trying to save it, Gustave Eiffel, who's firm designed it, made a meteorology laboratory on the third floor right after it's construction encouraging scientists to use it for their experiments. Studies were performed there from gravity to electricity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Ultimately what saved the Tower was it's usefulness as a wireless telegraph transmitter, enabling the military to communicate with ships during WWI. Today it is still used as a transmission tower with more than 120 radio and television antennas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">It is also home to two restaurants, several buffets, a champagne bar banquet hall and gift shops! You can't get married on the Eiffel Tower but you can have your reception dinner there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">You say "So what can top the Eiffel Tower?" They say two is better than one, two iconic buildings of New York, the Empire State and Chrysler Buildings combined!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Taller is better, only kidding! The Chrysler Building has some nice assets one of them being the wood inlay and chrome steel detailing in the elevator.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The lobby is a contemporary abstraction of African marble and chrome steel. The marble is not only on the floor it is on the walls and ceiling. Like the elevator everything looks like it is in tones of medium to dark brown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">This is one of the radiator-cap gargoyles, there is also a band of abstract automobiles on the building. Patterned brickwork is used extensively. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The Empire State Building was the tallest building for almost forty years and was topped by the North World Trade Center building in 1970. To date it is the forth tallest building in the world. Pretty impressive for being built in 1931.</span></div>
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