I don’t know how long this will stay up before the Copyright Commandos remove it, so watch while you can.
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Nerdtour 2012 quickie: some tilt-shift fun
I figured I’d try the “tilt-shift” action in the latest Adobe Photoshop Elements, modifying one of my Nerdtour photos.
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Nerdtour 2012 quickie: Yokohama Chinatown
Chinatowns in all big cities are pretty much alike, but the one in Yokohama is very colorful at night, just like most of urban Japan, and much more so than the DC Chinatown. Here’s a prime example:
Some DC springtime pictures
One nice thing about living in the DC area, you have a chance to go downtown and see some of the beautiful monuments and other scenery on nice early spring days.
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Music discovery: Mongol pop music!
So, pop music from Mongolia, that you can buy on iTunes, how 21st Century is that! (update, bonus video!)(another update, fixed video sizes)
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Music discovery: Alsou
I recently found a nice music video by a beautiful Russian singer named Alsou.
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Nerdtour 2012 quickie: The shortest train line!
When I was in the station at Takadanobaba in Tokyo, this was the sign I saw above the stairs leading to the platform.
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Updated “Artwork” page
I finally got off my butt and fixed up the “Artwork” page so that it actually displays… my “artwork”! I had used an old plugin that just never worked, so I replaced it with actual links to the images on DeviantArt.com. I kind of got pretentious calling it “art”, I’ve never considered myself an “artist”, I’m just a “painter”. To me, an artist creates new things of beauty, whereas a painter recreates what he sees using paint. And I’m okay with that. I’d love to be able to create beauty using paint, but I don’t have the skills, nor the time to develop them, and so here are a few of the things that I’ve done down through the years.