Back Again, Baby!

Lately, I've started to get more active in my net activities. So I'm starting this old boy back up.

Elephants!!!

Click it... worth the bandwidth.

And You Think You Feel Old!!

Great picture, and some interesting information about sealife around Alaska. But here is the best bit of the story...

Not only was the Fish just under or over 100 years old... it was pregnant!

LiveScience.com - Strange New Creatures Found in Antarctica

An Antarctica octopus! He is a cute little fella, too!

The Wilhelm Scream

The internet was created to pass information freely around the world. Though it, doctors can treat people thousands of miles away from their location. Grandmothers can say hi to their grandkids scattered across the globe. Someone in deepest Africa can watch a local TV show from Lake Charles, LA.

But this... THIS... is why the internet was created. Strange little stories you'd never hear otherwise, put in a place where everyone in the world can see it!

I've actually heard of this before. It's one of those strange things that make you think a bit. Some bit player in an old movie made a scream, and now that same scream is in hundreds of movies and TV shows.

It's an odd sort of fame... and I doubt they ever knew anything of it.

I gave a homeless kid a camera - The Something Awful Forums

Let's consider art. If you listen to the fancy types, it's about so many mystical things like talent, or skill, or maybe some incredible something that us normal types couldn't possibly have.

Sometimes art is simple. Sometimes it's just view point. Sometimes it's just timing. Sometimes it's even in editing. In the link someone with no training other than the most basic few minute course took a few amazing pictures. Out of many pictures they got back from a homeless kid we got a filtered few.

Everybody can do art. Even untalented hacks can, in the right situation, and the right moment, create true art.

Ignore the labels.... look at the work. Ask yourself... does it say something to you? Did it move you? Did it inform your view?

I don't believe in magic. But I can't think of a better word for the wrong person, at the right time, with the right view point, creating art.

OK... done with the fancy stuff for now. I'll get back to the strange animal stuff and geeking out on tech soon. This is my art moment. Even as a hack, I can have one. You too.

Photoshopped Animals

Nothing useful, educational or anything but just silly, unless you really need a lesson on how that phrase "But the picture looks so real, it must be!" is total bull.

But hey, it's fun!