taelon's blog

A mini canvas is a small, (4 inch x 3 inch)
portable photo that is transfered to a small wooden canvas. You cna even get a mini easel that will hold the Mini Canvas for dispaly.

Now that it's officially spring and the weather in these parts is starting to warm up, I am looking forward to taking new photos. When it's cold and windy I don't expose my hands to the cold, since I really dislike winter.

In response to the danger posed by the Orphan Works bill and the probable paid artist registries that would be created by the passage of this bill, forcing artists to pay for every piece of artwork they want protected, ConceptArt has created a free artist registry. It would be free to the artist and also free to a searcher.

Earlier in the year I bought a new memory card because I thought that the cards that came with my camera were defective. Everytime I used them there would be several images that appeared to save correctly to the card but when I tried to review later, would cause an error. Getting a new card has not solved this problem. I am not going to investigate repairing the current camera because it would probably cost more than the camera is worth. I had a new camera on my wish list but in 2009 it's going to become an actuality.

I uploaded a pdf excerpt of 'Cuttings of Time' to Issuu. The preview is about 38 pages and can be viewed as an interactive slideshow.
The page numbers shown in the preview might change as time goes on as I am rethinking some of the photographs that I have included thus far.

Friday was spent in the company of a family friend that I last saw a little more than a year ago and we had a great time talking about all sorts of stuff until he mentioned wishing that he had brught his camera. He has a Nikon D2 and I told him I wanted the D3. At this point we abandoned my father to his own compnay as the two of us launched into an epic discussion of the beauty that is the D2, the settings, the great shots that he's taken, the prints he's made etc. It was great.

Instructions for creating a paper origami rose flower.

These are two screencasts of old projects I did while getting my media studies degree.

The first - In fall 1999 I created an online gallery of the work I did for the semester.

From TechCrunh:

"Acrobat 9—Now With Flash

I've captured the raw footage of the first video I'm going to place on the site. It's a look back at some of the past art work I created. It's not just static art, some of it was interactive and I'm lucky that some of it still works in today's browsers. There were quite a few that no longer work. I have to schedule some time for editing and once it is complete I will post.

Update 6/5/2008: