Seems that scientists have found a resurrected gene
A gene that is active in humans today died out during our primate evolution and came back to life again. This is the first time such a “resurrection” event has been identified, researchers say.
Since we seem to be devolving, I thought Devo might be appropriate.
Some amazing encaustic on panel work from Mark Rediske at Foster White Gallery, Seattle
Samana Cay
I’ve started working on my first woodcut ever, and I’m doing what’s called a reduction print, which uses one piece of wood for all the colors. Basically what you do is, cut away what you don’t want to print, and with this method you have to plan your cuts carefully, and should, probably, print from light to dark. It’s a two color print (three if you count the white of the paper: which is actually important for this print.)and I printed the first color today.
Here’s some pics, and some explanations.
Here’s the block, with the areas that will only have the color of the paper cut out. (The whit areas are wood filler that I used to fill some areas that I cut out, but didn’t want to.)
Carving
More carving
That’s it for tonight. I’ll be doing some more cutting, and printing, and will show more pics in a couple of days.
Åarhus Gallery is having a show called 44N 69W: Radius Belfast. It starts March 5, and runs through the 29th.
[It’s a]Salon style show featuring artworks created within the last year by artists any age or training, living within a 30 mile radius of Belfast, Maine responding to Aarhus Gallery Call for Art.
Aarhus Gallery will donate 20% of sales from the show to local Food Banks within a 30 mile radius of Belfast.
Opening reception is March 6–5-8pm. Be there or be square.
20% goes to charity, so if you go buy my painting $20 goes to a food bank in the area (and you get a nice painting: it’s Red, Blue, Green–M&Ms, by the way).
[Edit] To answer the question yes I only have one piece in the show (that’s all each artist gets to put in it), and it’s this one:
Several reports of PJF’s death this morning, including his website
I spent a lot of time as a teenager reading his World of Tiers series, among other books by him. A great writer.
Another SF great gone.
Well Saturday cleared up nice and pretty, and I got some pictures, and did a paintng from them. Now it’s snowed again, and I just got done shoveling over 14 inches of the crap.
Now the painting:
The book is at Art House Coop, and the first exhibit is next Friday night in Atlanta.
More at the website The shows are mostly like one night, after hours in the various venues. Check out the project page for a venue near you.
And that’s all I took pics of before I sent it out. When I get it back (next fall?) I’ll add to it, and finish it up.
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Is FACEBOOK a Department of Defense data mining scheme run by the CIA and D.A.R.P.A.? Should you be trusting all your personal data to FACEBOOK’s management?
FACEBOOK was initially conceived by Mark Zuckerberg but the venture was first funded with $500,000.00 in capital from PayPal founder Peter Thiel. With millions more to come from sources with close ties to D.A.R.P.A, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of Defense….
Is this paranoid, or maybe true? God, I love a good conspiracy theory. I always say be careful what you hang out there on the web. Personall, after last week’s Term of Service fiasco at Facebook, I wouldn’t be trusting them much anyways.
I sent it out on Saturday, and it’s not all filled up, but I’m gonna post what I got done. I’ll do it in a couple of posts so that I don’t bug your eyes out. First up, the boyz.
That’s it for now–more later.
Galileo Galilei
In honor of that, how about some Indigo Girls?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_B98ElLdP4
