Illustration Friday: Clutter -

"Clutter"
digitally manipulated photograph by Mick Mather

The weekly theme is clutter over at Illustration Friday and, to be perfectly honest, I put mine behind closed doors! If you've fallen for that, I have some beach front property in the Nevada Desert to show you ... you might imagine that I'd be selling that, ahem, dirt cheap. Nope, bring a couple of credit cards along. Anyway, here's mud in yer eye.

Thursday Challenge: Hot -

"Burning Hand"
digitally manipulated photograph by Mick Mather

This week's theme at Thursday Challenge is hot. As I was strolling through my photography files looking for something that fit, I found this image of a pair of crossing signals located about a block away from my office. After cropping this from a much larger photo it went into the super secret array of plug-in filters at the Secret Visual Laboratory. The brightly lit DON'T WALK sign seemed to be on fire but there's a triple meaning here for me. In addition to the theme this is also a play on words of "Burning Man", the increasingly popular, contemporary, counter-culture festival held every year in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. The third is that in a few weeks a tectonic sculpture of a 15' tall hand (designed by the very creative and talented Syracuse University architecture student, Brendan Rose) will be constructed as part of Syracuse Arts Week on the 26th of July. I don't think it's going to be red though.