Wednesday

Catsup a la Johnny Rocket's

Interesting day

Val found a bird. A chucker?

Brandywine River Museum

Pig and ladies, no relation.

Butterfly exhibit at the Academy

Halloweenie

Costume?

At The Farm

Babies!

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Photo search by color!

Color Fields Colr Pickr Colors from Flickr
OR

YotoPhoto A little more advanced search-by-color

The Infamous Ghetto Indoor Pool

In the old person catalog:

"Ease tension and reduce stress..." sure

Pictopia - Online digital printing
Very interesting.
From their Pro Services page:

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Appropriate Sept. 11 tribute by our President
God damn fucking president...

House Industries
This post is from a type designer site. The dude got junk mail sent to him with a personal post-it message --written in a font he designed. Good times.

MEEP MEEP!
A exhibition of cartoon skeletons. Brilliant! via BoingBoing.
See also Betty Boop and many more by artist Michael Paulus.
Val tipped me off on those though.

BibliOdyssey: The Wainwright Lithograph Collection of Philadelphia
This is some awesome awesomeness from BibliOdyssey. I loves me some ol' school Philadelphia!

It's here! Baby pigeon

Hugo, the irish immigrant.

Hummingbird moth

I was $150 richer for about a week. On August 4th an "encoding error" deposited $150 in my new TD Banknorth account. What a surprise! Yay for free money. Then I thought well, someone had to have deposited that money. Where did it come from? Who's missing their mortgage payment? What orphanage can't buy medications? The children! Well, I wasn't so woried about that, but I wanted to do the right thing.
So today I went into the branch, told them about the deposit, and waited for ... well, something. They thanked me and said the money would come out of my account soon. Hmm. No pat on the back. No Good Job Chris! And especially no "you can keep it for being so honest." I guess it's the boy scout motto cropping up in my life. Do a good turn daily. You know, like walking old ladies across the street and not expecting any reward.
I can buy that, but deep down I still think I'm expecting some sort of dharmic/karmic reward, like finding a $150 bill in the gutter [I know, shush.] A good deed is it's own reward. Yeah, I guess so, but then again No good deed goes unpunished. So at least I have that to look forward to. Good times. 

YouTube - Vader Sessions



More awesome awesomeness.

Dog Bites Bear
This is the best story to rise to the top of my news feeds in forever. A guard dog went crazy and chewed up Elvis's favorite teddy bear. Hahahahaha...

From the highest point in New Jersey.

ENTER THE MONKEY!!!

From the Firemans Fair in Hillsborogh, NJ.
P.S. I'm glad I live in Philly now.

RADIO.BLOG.CLUB
Todd posted the site, but here's a track:

Silicon Valley tycoon's superyacht sets sail | News.blog | CNET News.com


The Maltese Falcon

This is a centuries old tall ship brought gracefully into the 21st Century. It's got carbon fiber masts with sensors to gauge stress, "ultralight contemporary" interior, and a back deck fo' dinner and dancing.
It's the largest privately owned sailing yacht. ...and someday it will be mine. hehe.

Links for you:
Architect/Designer, Ken Freivokh Design (Good pics and such)
Charter World.com specs
via The Blue Economy

Check out this handy little jem I found today.

Doubles as a great radio substitute.

iTrip storage.
I just found out that either car designers have designed for me a perfect iTrip holder, or Griffin is just smart and can measure the holes that come with car lighters. 

Buy [me a] Flying Boat
This is freaking amazing. Just watch the video on the site. Best - toy - ever.

For better or worse.

In disguise.

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Facial additions

Do fake stashes make my job tolerable? Almost.

Stash

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Digital imaging? Book arts? Combined??? WHAAA??? Perfect@!!!!

From BoingBoing today:

New method to date old books and prints

A scientist has come up with a new way to date books and prints created before the mid-19th century. The idea is that the wood blocks and metal plates used in the printing process degrade at a clocklike rate. That degeneration is visible in the prints themselves. The researcher who developed the idea, Penn State professor Blair Hedges, is a biologist but it was his passion for printed material that led him to this latest research. From Penn State Live:

Hedges, a biologist whose hobby involves Renaissance prints and maps, developed his "print clock" method by first measuring time-related changes in 2,674 Renaissance works. He found that the number of breaks in the lines of images printed from woodblock carvings increased over time, while the image intensity became more pale in copperplate prints. "Because woodblocks and copperplates were expensive to replace, they commonly were reused for decades to produce multiple editions of a book or print," Hedges said. His methods include taking digital photographs of the prints, which he analyzes with standard statistical methods and with widely used image-analysis software. Working with black-and-white pixels, the software can detect and count breaks in the lines of woodblock prints and can measure fading of the etched and engraved lines of copperplate prints.

The analyses reinforced the visible evidence that prints made from the same woodblock or copperplate were qualitatively different in later editions. Surprisingly, the analyses also revealed that the changes were usually clocklike on average, and therefore could be useful for calculating the printing dates of other art and books that currently are undated.

Step 1: Find contact info
Step 2: Confirm methodology
Step 3: Offer to help and find profit margin, wonderful!
Step 4: Retire to Canada. (suggested only)

More nonsense:

Leisure time should be spent leisurely. Another new favorite wasteland:

Strange New Products

Enjoy!

My Life of Travel - Travel Journals, Travel Blogs, Travel Reviews, Travel Photos
I wish I know about this site before we went to New Orleans. This is a pretty cool resource. They even have RSS feeds for people so you can keep up to date with their trip!

It is with great pride that I announce that the official launch of the PhillysideArts.com website will be this week! The website will officially be live so that you may go, explore and enjoy.

A great deal of effort has been put into the website by each individual artist, organization and our web programmer. Please feel free to use their contact information provided on the website to give them feedback about their art.

Information about our first contest will be provided soon, but in the meantime, let’s all get together and celebrate! The Phillyside Arts Launch Party will be held Saturday, June 24^th starting at 6pm with the inaugural presentation at 7pm. Come join us on the 1100 block of South Bodine in South Philly. Refreshments and entertainment will be provided, and we will also be setting up a display area for our contributing artists to bring and display their art! (If you are a contributing artist, please contact me in advance if you want to display your art. A follow-up email to artists will follow.)

Thank you to everyone who has helped bring Phillyside to life. Remember, there is no limit to talent, only the time and resources used to develop it.

C. Todd Hestand
Phillyside Arts
215.850.7881

Phillyside Arts Launch Party location:
1114 S Bodine St
Philadelphia PA 19147
6pm – 11pm

Daisy!

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Bourbon Street

Pirate bar

Southern dinner.

Our hosts for the evening. Lovely food indeed.

Katarina

Obligatory devastation picture.

The Audubon Aquarium

Gator!

The Bayou

Bugs and plants and bugs and trees and swamp and bugs.

The Reception

"Ma-widge. Ma-widge is what bwings us together today."

To be wed

Matt & Tricia, Pictures at Sacred Heart.

FW: To the rehearsal

All dressed up like a big girl.

FW: A bit of Paris

Part of the Eiffel Tower, now a restaurant in New Orleans.

The Howling Wolf

Our entertainment for the night: Drums & Tuba, Analog Missionary. Hmm, we'll see.

'Show me your BEADS!'

The bling just grows on trees here in NoLa.

Bridge and river boat. That river's kinda long too.