Monthly Archives: November 2017

Otherwheres Collide… (A humorous science fiction thriller)… prologue…

(Author’s Note)… Well, here it is. I am going to start posting the chapters of the fourth and probably not final book of my action/humor science fiction series: The Otherwhere Chronicles. Although the books are, I think, able to stand … Continue reading

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I swear we are almost done with the four-headed giraffe thing… the final chapter…

This is one of my favorite filters in than free online website I am always trying to get you guys to use to spice up your blogs. It is called ‘groovy rainbow’, and is under the ‘animations’ menu. Yes, it … Continue reading

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I swear we are almost done with the four-headed giraffe thing… part 3…

Here are a few examples of what the ‘flame effect’ menu option in ‘Lunapic.com’ can do for… or too… your photos. And, as you can see by the unaltered version of each picture I am posting below the altered version, … Continue reading

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I swear we are almost done with the four-headed giraffe thing… part 2…

You could make something like that… if you wanted too… I mean, yeah, I went to the trouble of going into Photoshop and making a four-headed giraffe thing, to which I added four hippo heads and a tie dye background, … Continue reading

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I swear we are almost done with the four-headed giraffe thing… part 1…

I guess, technically, this is the four-headed giraffe, four-headed hippo thing… I added a few backgrounds. You know, just for fun. And next, I am going to do the artistic filter effects with each of these in turn. Because I … Continue reading

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If you don’t know what this is, go back and read the first post in the series… part 10…

But at least I moved on to using cool filter effects on photos of the stuff I made at my second glass blowing class… HA!

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There is one good thing about driving my daughter to the train station at 5:45 in the morning…

We get to see the sun rise over San Diego. I mean, it is good to spend a little more time with her, but that is undercut by the fact that she is going back to college. But I do … Continue reading

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Two of my newest creations from my glass blowing class…

I have finished the classes for now. Here are two of my latest pieces of art… or pieces of Art, as it were. I did not take a picture of the vase I made for my older daughter… the one … Continue reading

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Some pictures from my third… and final… glass blowing class… the final chapter…

How do you add colors to glass? Well, it turns out that you roll the hot glass in various chemicals and compounds, and then melt them into it.  The colors stretch and move as the glass is worked. Here we … Continue reading

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If you don’t know what this is, go back and read the first post in the series… part 9…

Oh yeah… Still doing weird filter effects with my glass blowing projects… Because I can… Making art into other kinds of art.

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