Beluga Haikus

On Deck Beluga Cam

While working on the Beluga cams, the Captain worked with one of the interns to come up with an Haiku after I looked up the format for them -- 3 phrases, 1st line 5 syllables, line 2 7 and line 3 5.

I also took it on as a challenge for myself and came up with this.

Webdesigner Depot

I found a new website that gathers some great artwork from the worldwide web. It's the Webdesigner Depot. Besides the artwork they find, "Webdesigner Depot is an exciting new platform designed to explore different web and graphic design techniques, great examples and best practices." I've added them to my Google Reader Service so I will always know when they've posted something new. I dabble, but I might go into web design one of these days.

Here are some of their art collections.

Do you love the designs baristas top your favorite coffee? Check these out - 50 Beautifully Delicious Coffees. Since I've always have my coffee to go, I've never had the opportunity to see a talented barista at work. Have you?


Did you know you can do a bit more with your panoramic pictures? Look at these 50 Dazzling Examples of Polor Panorama Photography. Are you now tempted to try this yourself? I will when I find more than one spare moment. Otherwise, it gets added to my growing list of things I want to try when I retire.

Last week, we lost one of our greatest musician, Michel Jackson. See how some artists paid homage to the King of Rock. They are beautiful pictures. I'm glad we will always have Micheal's music and music videos to keep his memory alive. I was blessed to be able to see him in concern twice. Both times were GREAT!!!

What sites do you check out periodically for art?

Picture credits: Webdesigner Depot

Stand By Me and Tires

These are my latest finds in the great world wide web...



Isn't this cool?


It's made of tires. What a way to recycle? Check out more here.

Sharpie and Sausage

This is totally amazing. The guy took some black Sharpies to his creme color walls and just started drawing. It's history from there. Read the article and see a 360-degree picture of his basement. It's really amazing. Notice that he sometimes took it beyond his wall and did his furniture, too. Plus, I think he converted a trash can into an R2D2 unit :)

"Masterpieces from Russia, made from sausage - according to the description anyone can just walk up and eat the artwork." I wonder if anyone has.

Street Art

Joshua Allen Harris know how to use air and plastic bags in New York City. Wait for the ad to finish.

Street Art: Joshua Allen Harris

Joshua has taken videos of some of his creatations -- garbage, bear, air monster.

And across the big pond, we have Slinkachu.

Check out Slinkachu's blog - Little People - A Tiny Street Project.

Mona Lisa

What's is it about Mona Lisa? I was lucky to get the chance to see the real live Mona Lisa who is currently living in The Louvre, Paris, France. Mona is not really big. She is only 20 7/8" x 30" (53cm x 77cm) -- oil on poplar wood. She was immortalized by Leonardo da Vinci.

Why am I investing time on Mona Lisa? Well, it had to do with this

then I remembered seeing this last years ago.

and this always put a smile on my mug when I hear this

When I went internet hunting, I found "Her" website (well I think it would be if she was alive): Mona Lisa Mania. I wonder what else is out there that people have done with Mona Lisa.

Love, Love, Love

I thought my friend was nuts to send me such an early Happy Valentine. Well, she was a smart gal. She had to send it to me early, so I get to share it with you. Of course, the video was attached to my email. Off I went to YouTube because I knew someone would have uploaded a copy there. Here it is.

It's all sand and a lady's, Ilana Yahav, hands. It's amazing.

Yes, YouTube has more art from Ms. Yahav if you put her name in the Search box. Her website, Ilana Yahav Sand Fantasy contains some and more information about her art.

Enjoy!!!!

Subway Pole Dancing

I got this in my email this morning. As soon as I saw the words "Pole Dancing", I thought of PM

Just another thing you might find in the city that never sleeps, New York City. Now these ladies would not have been able to this during rush hour as it's like a sardine can. Yes, the subway cars are like a jungle gym

Eric Grohe

I pointed you to the art of Scott Wade and Julian Beever.

I'm presenting you the art of Eric Grohe.

Pointy likes forwarding all the fun and sometimes not so fun emails to her siblings. One of the emails contain Eric's work. It had before and after pictures and just the name Eric. What!!!! No last name.

Thank goodness the search engine could handle three words "Eric murals 3d". Eric Grohe's website was the first entry. Check out his "Projects" and get blown away.

The Art of Scott Wade

If you enjoy the art of Julian Beever, the 3-D sidewalk artist, you will enjoy the art of Scott Wade. His canvas is not the sidewalk but dirty cars. We've all scribed "Wash Me" or something like that on filty cars. Scott has taken it to another level.



Read about Scott and look at his art work (gallery) here. Ingenious!

Julian Beever, His Art

I was introduced to Julian Beever's special kind of art through email. You may have also. Julian Beever is an English artist famous for his pavement (street) art in England, Belgium, France, The Netherlands, Germany, U.S.A. and Australia.

The most eye catching artwork is the 3-D illusion ones. The 3-D illusion ones are fine examples of an art form known as anamorphism. The picture is distorted so that it assumes a normal appearance when viewed from a specific viewpoint. This is a well-known technique, often employed in film and theatre production to create the illusion of depth.

The shame about pavement art is that it does not last. People will walk on it or the rain will wash it away.

Here's some of his pavement artwork...


Both of Julian's feet are flat on the sidewalk.

What the above picture looks like from a different perspective.




Only the guy (Julian) is real.

Notice the people walking around the pavement construction.



Notice Julian on top of the world

Looking at the World from a different view point. It's 40 feet long.

Yes, the picture is upside down. An inversion mirror may have been placed here so it can be seen properly by the pedestrians.





Notice the brick work on the screen

Look closely and you can still see the sidewalk cracks.

Read the BBC Article about this piece. You can see the creation process.

Larger images of his artwork can be found at his site plus other work. Just click on his name at the top of this blog.

In looking for more information about Julian Beever, I came across Kurt Wenner. He is a Michigan-born artist who now lives in Italy. He has some outstanding work, too. Check out his home page -- www.kurtwenner.com