Something sweet -

"Lemon Cupcake"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... Q: What do you call Policeman's cookies?
A: Copcakes ..."

Li'l Red -

"A Short Red Dress"
digital collage by Mick Mather
"... a dress makes no sense unless
it inspires men to take it off of you ..."
- Francoise Sagan

Now you see it, now you don't -

"Project Rainbow"
digital collage by Mick Mather
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"... there is no such thing as a failed experiment,
only experiments with unexpected outcomes ..."
- Richard Buckminster Fuller

At the speed of life -

"Chipmunk Cam"

manipulated digital photograph by Mick Mather
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"... trip the chipmunk cam
hung on the down low,
caught a critter scram
but the film, too slow ..."
- Mick Mather

Illustration Friday: Immovable -

"Where Fools Rush In"
manipulated digital collage by Mick Mather
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"... television has changed the American child from
an irresistible force to an immovable object ..."
- Laurence J. Peter

Thursday Challenge: Fun -

"Fun"
manipulated digital photograph by Mick Mather
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"... the world is a playground,
and life is pushing my swing ..."
- Natalie Kocsis

Mysterious doings at the Morton farm -

"Grandpa's Barn"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... the true mystery of the world
is the visible, not the invisible ..."
- Oscar Wild

Circles 'round the sun -

"Striking A Seasonal Balance"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... spring passes and one remembers one's innocence
summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance
autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence
winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance ..."
- Yoko Ono

Spiff-a-roo -

"A Tailors Dream"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... silk suit, black tie,
I don't need a reason why ..."
- Z.Z. Top

Wedding bells -

"The Honeymoon Cottage"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... the honeymoon is the only period when
a woman isn't trying to reform her husband ..."
- Evan Esar

...and wash me down -

"Take Me to the River"
digitally manipulated photograph by Mick Mather

"... I wanna know
won't you tell me
am I in love to stay ..."
- Al Green

Illustration Friday: Atmosphere -

"Atmosphere"
digital collage by Mick Mather
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"... it is only the surrounding atmosphere
which gives subjects their true value ..."
- Claude Monet

Thursday Challenge: Creativity -

"Creativity"
digital photograph by Mick Mather
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"... the creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box ..."
- Henri Cartier Bresson

Far Rockaway to Inwood Field Park -

"Take the A Train"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... if there's an intellectual highway,
there's also an intellectual subway ..."
- Stanley Crouch

Sail away -

"Into the Net"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach (to play one day)
and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles
and milly befriended a stranded star
who's rays five languid fingers were
and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which ran sideways while blowing bubbles
and may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone
for whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea ..."
- e e cummings

Turn the radio on -

"Border Radio"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... it's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on ..."
- Marilyn Monroe

In the laboratory -

"The Mad Scientist"

digital collage by Mick Mather

"... should we force science down the throats of those that have no taste for it? Is it our duty to drag them kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century? I am afraid that it is ..."
- George Porter

Somewhere -

"Highland Green Rainbow"
digitally manipulated photograph by Mick Mather

"... hung on the shower that fronts the golden west,
the rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes!
in hues of ancient promise there imprest,
frail in its date, eternal in its guise ..."
- Charles T. Turner

Illustration Friday: Star Gazing -

"Selfportrait of the Artist As A Rocket Scientist"
digital collage by Mick Mather
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"... second star to the right and straight on 'til morning ..."
- Peter Pan

Thursday Challenge: Beverage -

"Beverage"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it ..."
- Raymond Chandler

Shaken, not stirred -

"The Mixer"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... life may not be the party we hoped for but while we're here we should dance ..."
- unknown

Night flight -

"Unfamiliar Airspace"
digital drawing & collage by Mick Mather

"... the magic craft has opened for me a world in which I will confront, within two hours, the black dragons and the crowned crests of a coma of blue lightnings, and when night has fallen I, delivered, shall read my course in the stars ..."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Mr Lucky -

"Selfportrait of the Artist As A Player"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... as the farmer who won the lottery said when asked what he was going to do with his winnings, 'I'm going to keep farming until it's all gone' ..."
- unknown

Struttin' -

"Talkin' With Your Body"

digital collage by Mick Mather

"... the body says what words cannot ..."
- Martha Graham

The in betweens -

"Intervals"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... no great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation ..." - Walter Bagehot

Illustration Friday: Caged -

"Birdcage XXII"
digital drawing & collage by Mick Mather

"... we think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry ..."
- John Webster

Thursday Challenge: Outside -

"Outdoors"
digitally manipulated photograph by Mick Mather
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"... I dream of hiking into my old age ..."
- Marlyn Doan

Baubles 'n bangles -

"The Bracelet"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... it takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself ..."
- Peggy Joyce

A wing and a prayer -

"Measuring Causality"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... air power may either end war or end civilization .."
- Winston Churchill

This land is your land -

"Squaring Off With Nature"
digital collage & digital drawing by Mick Mather
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"... I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out til sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in ..."
- John Muir

Why did the chicken cross the road?

"Perched"
digitally manipulated photomontage

"... be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings ..."
- Victor Hugo