Sunday, October 31, 2010

Happy Hallowe'en -

"Selfportrait of the Artist in His Halloween Costume"
digital collage by Mick Mather
"... Boo! ..."
- unknown

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Saturday, October 30, 2010

Nero's Ghost -

"Posing Demurely as the Barn Burns"
digital collage by Mick Mather
"... if to smoke you turn
I shall not cease to fiddle
while you burn ..."
- Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus

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Friday, October 29, 2010

Illustration Friday: Spent -

"Selfportrait of the Artist As A Cleaned-Out Gambler"
digital collage by Mick Mather
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"... in a bet there is a fool and a thief ..."
- an old proverb

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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Thursday Challenge: Messy -

"Messy"
digitally manipulated found photograph by Mick Mather
"... I love having messy hair. I put in a lot of effort
to have it look as messy as possible ..."
- Kristen Kreuk

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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Follow your bliss -

"Kate Ignoring the Evidence"
digital collage by Mick Mather
"... the complete lack of evidence is the surest sign
that the conspiracy is working ..."
- Unknown

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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

You may already have won!

"Attempted Delivery"
digital collage by Mick Mather
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"... United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin
and Crumpet and Punctual Delivery Company ..."
- Charles Dickens

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Monday, October 25, 2010

... go away -

"Rain"
digital collage by Mick Mather
"... still falls the rain
- dark as the world of man, black as our loss -
blind as the nineteen hundred and forty
nails upon the cross ..."
- Dame Edith Sitwell

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Sunday, October 24, 2010

Database Art Series -

"T & F Products"
digital collage by Mick Mather
"... but for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh
we deprive a soul of the sun, and light,
and of that proportion of life and time
they had been born into the world to enjoy ..."
- Plutarch

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Saturday, October 23, 2010

Now you see it -

"Declassified I"
digital collage by Mick Mather
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"... the phenomenon reported is something real
and not visionary or fictitious ..."
- General Nathan Twining

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Friday, October 22, 2010

Illustration Friday: Racing -

"Selfportrait of the Artist As A Speed Skater"
digital collage by Mick Mather
"... I skate because I want to live right now ..."
- Pat Knox

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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Thursday Challenge: Golden -

"Golden"
photograph by Mick Mather
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"... a crown, golden in show,
is but a wreath of thorns ..."
- John Milton

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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Walking the walk -

"The Most Fabulous Shoes"
digital collage by Mick Mather

Choosing Shoes

New shoes, new shoes,
Red and pink and blue shoes.
Tell me, what would you choose,
If they'd let us buy?

Buckle shoes, bow shoes,
Pretty pointy-toe shoes,
Strappy, cappy low shoes;
Let's have some to try.

Bright shoes, white shoes,
Dandy-dance-by-night shoes,
Perhaps-a-little-tight shoes,
Like some? So would I.

But ... Flat shoes, fat shoes,
Stump-along-like-that shoes,
Wipe-them-on-the-mat shoes,
That's the sort they'll buy.

- Frida Wolfe

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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Looking back -

"Paper Trail"
digital collage by Mick Mather
"... it's been said that man is a rational animal;
all my life I've been searching for evidence
which could support this ..."
- Bertrand Russell

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Monday, October 18, 2010

Martini or cosmopolitan -

"The Cocktail Dress"
digital collage by Mick Mather
"... the cocktail party is easily the
worst invention since castor oil ..."
- Elsa Maxwell

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Sunday, October 17, 2010

The 3 R's -

"Are You Smarter"
digital collage by Mick Mather
"... the important thing is not so much
that every child should be taught,
as that every child should be given
the wish to learn ..."
- John Lubbock

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Saturday, October 16, 2010

Flew the coop -

"Summer's Abandoned Nest"
digitally manipulated fractal flame by Mick Mather
"... there are no birds in last years nest ..."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Friday, October 15, 2010

Illustration Friday: Spooky -

"Spooky"
digital collage by Mick Mather
"... once upon a midnight dreary,
while I pondered, weak and weary,
over many a quaint and curious
volume of forgotten lore ..."
- Edgar Allan Poe

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Thursday, October 14, 2010

Thursday Challenge: Peaceful -

"Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay"
digitally manipulated photograph by Mick Mather
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"... sittin' here restin' my bones
and this loneliness won't leave me alone ..."
- Otis Redding

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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Trip to Faerieland -

"Faerie Circle Dance"
digitally manipulated photograph & drawing
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"... the faerie poet takes a sheet
of moonbeam, silver white;
his ink is dew from daisies sweet,
his pen a point of light ..."
- Joyce Kilmer

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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Smith Road Walk -

"Smith Road Walk I Document II"
manipulated digital image by Mick Mather
"... today I have grown taller from walking with the trees ..."
- Karle Wilson Baker

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Monday, October 11, 2010

You still have to mow it -

"On the Other Side of the Fence"
digital collage by Mick Mather
"... grass is greener in other pastures ..."
- Old Proverb

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Sunday, October 10, 2010

Made whole -

"The Sum of Its Parts"
digital collage by Mick Mather
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"... if you work at the parts the whole will be a success ..."
- Unknown

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Saturday, October 09, 2010

Firewatch -

"They Also Serve"
digital collage by Mick Mather
"... I used to work at a fire hydrant factory,
you couldn't park anywhere near the place ..."
- Stephen Wright

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Friday, October 08, 2010

Illustration Friday: Transportation -

"Selfportrait of the Artist as A Tour Bus Operator"
digital collage by Mick Mather
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"... art has to move you and design does not,
unless it's a good design for a bus ..."
- David Hockney

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Thursday, October 07, 2010

Thursday Challenge: Music (again) -

"Music II"
manipulated digital photograph by Mick Mather
"... blow wind, blow wind ..."
- Muddy Waters

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Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Eye of the beholder -

"A Mysterious Sculpture at the Art Park"
digital collage by Mick Mather
"... moonlight is sculpture ..."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Tuesday, October 05, 2010

What's cooking -

"Room for A Stove"
digital collage by Mick Mather
"... the cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid,
will not sit upon a hot stove lid again,
but he won't sit upon a cold stove lid either ..."
- Mark Twain

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Monday, October 04, 2010

148 Bonnie Meadow Road -

"Laura"
digital collage by Mick Mather
"... not even the suburbs want to be the suburbs anymore..."
- David Ginsburg

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Sunday, October 03, 2010

Things are not always what they seem -

"El Rayo Que Revela"
digital collage by Mick Mather
"... the theater is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time ..."
- Stella Adler

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Saturday, October 02, 2010

Sonic Resonance -

"The Bridge That Sang Itself To Pieces"
digital drawing & collage by Mick Mather
"... the hardest thing in life is to know
which bridge to cross and which to burn ..."
- David Russell

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Friday, October 01, 2010

Illustration Friday: Beneath -

"Beneath"
digitally manipulated torn paper collage by Mick Mather
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"... relying on the government to protect your privacy
is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds ..."
- John Perry Barlow

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