Lost in Translation

Feb 10, 2009 by

Think about this: your eye is an evolutionary wonder. It collects and focuses reflected light onto sensors lining the back and your brain interprets it into shades, colors, shapes, and depth. Think then, of how much that same visual information is translated and re-shaped when a digital picture is taken, edited, and translated on to your computer screen.

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Painting Dragons

Feb 9, 2009 by

I've been painting dragons lately. On canvas, in my mind, and with words. Dragons are amazingly, and almost inexplicably present in a huge range of cultures. Scratch beneath the surface of ideas of where they came from and you'll find that the theories are shaky at best, and nobody really knows how dragons first entered human culture.

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Irrational Beauty

Feb 4, 2009 by

I am constantly amazed by the complex order of nature. Take trees for example. You look at most of them and they're pretty random, right? Wrong!

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