Recent content by brianvds

Perhaps not quite entirely directly related to art, but aesthetics plays a role.... :-)

Got it in my head to try my hand at something surreal and creepy... I find it is far easier to come up with ideas for such images than to actually draw them. :-)

Went on a nostalgia trip and watched the 1979 Star Trek film. When it first hit the theaters, I was in primary school and completely obsessed with space. We didn't have a TV at the time, and I was unaware of the TV series, and in fact knew nothing at all about it. But the film was...

Alas for Cezanne, his habit of ignoring the rules of perspective made all his classically trained contemporaries think his breakfast posts were AI-generated. :-)

Perhaps I should aggressively identify as a pretty young lady. :-)

Well, I automatically do a South African accent. Plus, I can do a not half bad Mandela. But that's about it, :-)

Yup, anything with little holes or that will have the same effect can be used to view the eclipse. If you Google "eclipse pinhole camera effect" you'll see plenty of examples, including this cool one, done with a colander: No doubt the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster will approve. Of...

Everyone excited about coming spring, but here in the southern hemisphere signs of autumn are all round. In the garden, the last of the season's chafer beetles happily munching the last of the season's roses: Grasses ripening: And the forlorn wing of a grasshopper: Probably my favorite...

Lucky that the weather cooperated - it tends to be extremely perverse with phenomena such as this. A Facebook friend of mine lives out west in the desert, where it is almost never cloudy - except for the few hours of the eclipse. He didn't see a thing, except it suddenly got dark for a few...

Some or other graffiti artist with a sense of artistic humor...

No raccoons in my neck of the woods, but I saw this cute fellow again: Yellow mongoose. No sign of spring here either, since we're beginning to move into autumn! There, that'll teach you to be hemisphericists. :D

So do I: it's a linguistic mess-up again. What Americans usually call mustard is a fairly sweet and mild sauce we know here as mustard sauce, often sold in the same kind of plastic squeeze bottles as ketchup. Our mustard is English mustard: it's very hot, like wasabi, though with both the burn...

Yup, feel free to use any photos I upload anywhere - as far as I'm concerned they're in the public domain. Seeing as I find the public domain invaluable as reference, I like giving back to it bit. :-)

English mustard tastes pretty much like Japanese wasabe, i.e. quite strong, but sinfully delicious. :)