So I was dismayed to learn that a fort building contest happened at this nifty collaborative arts website called Booooooom, and I missed it. And a fort-building contest inspired by and in junction with Where the Wild Things Are, no less. However, my disappointment really can’t settle for long after looking at all the pictures which are truly, deeply, delightful. There are eight (count them!) EIGHT pages of entries.
I feel giddy now. I f’n LOVE forts.
This is the winner of the contest, which is amazing:
His name is Eric Rice and I wish to be his friend now.
This next one was my personal favorite though. I have to admit, I’m a sucker for the indoors-bedsheets fort variety and the pretty lights definitely don’t hurt:
These folks are named Donnel, Paulo, Francis, Tim and Lou and I salute them!
I’m serious. I love being a passenger with a camera.
I love taking pictures of whatever is outside the window when we are stopped at a light. And while we are in motion. I love the underside of bridges, all covered in graffiti that you can see from train windows. And I even love the flares, sparks and trails of light you catch if it’s dark out, on the highway and you trying to take pictures anyway.
I figure there have to be more people out there who also love blurry (and non-blurry) passenger photos. I searched around on flickr and found some beautiful photos, but no groups that specifically noted photos were taken as a passenger in a car, train, boat or aircraft.
“If you see a whole thing – it seems that it’s always beautiful. Planets, lives… But up close a world’s all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life’s a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.”
-Ursula K. Leguin
What you are looking at is a set of pictures on the flickr account of a photographer named Dirk Paessler. He makes these “planets” out of panoramic photos and he posted a photoshop tutorial to teach yourself how to make them too.
I find them extraordinarily beautiful. I’ve been looking at them because a few days ago, Darcy found this and shared it with me and then followed the tutorial and made some of her own. Here is one of hers:
You can see the others and read about it on her blog, Arc & Angle.
I am not so terrific with the Photoshop, but maybe I will give it a try one of these days as well and post the results.
I rarely take part in memes. I particularly don’t love the ones that involve lots of survey questions. However, I signed up for this one (on the receiving end) and therefore, must now pay it forward. That’s how it works.
Here’s the deal:
I am going to make some kind of gift. The first five people that respond to this in comments will get one. I don’t know what it will be yet, but I am an artsy-craftsy type of girl, so it will be homemade and possibly a little silly or whimsical.
The only rule is that you must repost this in your blog and make something homemade for five people. (and so on).
Darcy posted this video on facebook the other day. I discovered (and fell in love with ) the song last summer, but had never seen the video. Turns out it is really, really beautiful.
So after months of talking about it, our etsy shop has gone live.
You know, just in time to not be able to sell anything for Christmas. I timed it that way on purpose. It’s a good thing I haven’t been busy, stressed, or unmotivated so that I waited until the absolute last moment, right? Snort. ((headdesk))
Well… better late than something or other…
Right now, we have only TWO items up (scarves). Tomorrow I hope to get a bunch more posted, so please check back sometime and browse. I will be putting a little link up in the sidebar as well!
