“These are the voyages . . .”
What do I think is cool?
January 27, 2016
Implosion of the Hulton Road Bridge in Pittsburgh, January 25, 2016, 9:49 a.m. Perfect.
What am I drawing?
January 27, 2016 
I am a fan of stippling – although my stippled drawing that appeared in my high school literary magazine was criticized for having “too many dots” – mmm. I think Xavier Calsata’s work is amazing.
What am I celebrating today?
January 26, 2016
Call back the sun during Up Helly Aa – bonfires and carousing mark the end of the Yule season and a gradual return to longer days and shorter nights.
Here, Vikings line up for breakfast before the ceremony.
What am I celebrating?
January 26, 2016
Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day – celebrated on the last Monday in January. Bubble wrap was developed by two inventors, Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes, in 1958 in an attempt to create a dimensional wall paper. That idea did not take off, but bubble wrap as packaging material has existed since 1960.
Bubble wrap is also an interesting fabric for high fashion and casual wear.
You can also get a virtual bubble wrap app for your Android or iPhone.
What am I sappy cat blogging?
January 22, 2016
“Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth,” said Albert Camus. “They are inseparable.” Indeed, absurdity does have a way of instilling happiness in us. Take, for example, Nekozushi, the brainchild of Japanese company Tange & Nakimushi Peanuts (a name that’s equally absurd).
This wonderful collection of sushi cats is from Spoon and Tomago
What am I painting?
January 21, 2016
This homage to Vincent’s Starry Night is created by colorful colonies of bacteria grown in petri dishes.
Where am I living this time?
January 20, 2016
On Saturday, we went to an estate sale in a nearby suburb. The neighborhood is full of trees and ponds and twisty roads. The house above is the neighbor of the estate sale. They share a pond in their backyards. I really wanted to knock on this door to see inside, but restrained myself. What fun to have an observatory dome on the roof of your house! This is something I have often contemplated, but these folks went for it. Bravo.
What am I growing on tattoo Tuesday?
January 19, 2016
It wasn’t me. It was astronaut Scott Kelly on the space station who grew this flower from seed in space using the same technology being employed in urban vertical greenhouses. Still amazing.
As part of a new series of experiments aboard the International Space Station to study how plants grow in microgravity, astronauts have planted and cultivated an entire flower garden. This weekend, astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted a significant step in their research: this firey zinnia bloom, the first flower grown entirely in space. Plants like lettuce have aready been grown and eaten aboard the ISS, but the VEG-01 project is meant to explore how astronauts will eventually grow more complex foods like tomatoes. (Its Colossal)
What am I knitting?
January 18, 2016
Clever knitted food items – the complete meal setting, really. The peas and the beans just crack me up.
Art director and prop stylist Jessica Dance (previously) has collaborated again with food photographer David Sykes to bring us another tasty spread of knit dishes and other edibles. Dance makes all of the objects at home using 100% lambswool on a domestic knitting machine. All of the shots here (except the cheese spread) were for the comfort food issue of the latest edition of Stylist.
Gunsmoke and Knitting 