Picked up a DERWENT little artists travel kit to bring along to Mexico — with the goal of doing a bit of painting everyday. Haven’t sketched or painted much in the past couple years… Figure watercolor pencils should capture the south well with some fine line Staedtler Pens to add some mix .. we’ll see [...]

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25 hours a day, more photos found here.

A store on Avenue du Parc in Montréal that I walk past most days. It’s open …

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“Firehouse Roots & Culture sampler
74 min selection, available exclusively on CD for the first 100 who reached the dance on 11 March but here in mp3 format.”
Setlist
MP3 (128Kbps 44Khz stereo mp3)

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“I/O Brush is a new drawing tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by “picking up” and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks like a regular physical paintbrush but has a small video camera with lights and touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up [...]

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“This blog is a record of my daily paintings starting January 1, 2006. It is the result of a New Year’s resolution to paint on a daily basis.”
Daily Paintings by Justin Clayton

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“An extremely detailed map of the North American Internet backbone including 134,855 routers. the colors represent who each router is registered to: red is Verizon, blue AT&T, yellow Qwest, green is major backbone players like Level 3 & Sprint Nextel, black is the entire cable industry put together, & gray is everyone else, from small [...]

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As much as I was so over this series by 10 minutes into the 2nd one … this is one of the better write-up/analysis pieces i’ve read …
“Sometime in the 22nd Century there was a war between humans and machines, which the machines won. The machines had been designed by humans to serve humans, [...]

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Photo from Flickr user Earthman.

3 weeks from now — for 2 weeks.

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“Bike Furniture Design, the preeminent designer and producer of fine, hand-crafted, contemporary / modern furniture made from recycled and reused bicycles since 1990.”
Bike Furniture Design

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“ISLANDS magazine searched the seven seas and found that while it may be a small world, the globe is definitely a big place, full of surprising and mysterious islands to discover and explore.
How many palm trees are there in the world with nary a soul relaxing under them? Thousands? Tens of thousands? Millions? We traveled [...]

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Apple’s greatest hits: 30 significant products
“What’s the most difficult thing about listing the 30 most significant products in Apple’s 30-year history? Limiting your list to just 30 entries.”
Macworld: Feature: Apple’s greatest hits: 30 significant products

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Well look what the cat dragged in ….
“More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac. Called Boot Camp (for [...]

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“Lumen is a series of acid-etched, stainless steel, oil lamp shadow projectors.”
AdamFrank | Lumen Series

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“These photos were found on the street in Cambridge, MA. They were originally glued onto scrapbook sheets like this. I’ve attempted to arrange them in a sensible order based on page numbering and picture content, but this is the best I could do.
Most of the photos were “tagged” with a labelmaker and I have placed [...]

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The good and the bad that comes from hurricane’s ….
“Information obtained through March 2006 continues to indicate that the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season will be much more active than the average 1950-2000 season.  We estimate that 2006 will have about 9 hurricanes (average is 5.9), 17 named storms (average is 9.6), 85 named storm days [...]

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