Wrap it up -

"The Most Fabulous Dress"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... dress cute wherever you go ..."
- Paris Hilton

Illustration Friday: Worn -

"Worn"
digital collage by Mick Mather

“The hour of the waning of love has beset us,
And weary and worn are our sad souls now;
Let us part, ere the season of passion forget us,
With a kiss and a tear on thy drooping brow.”

- William Butler Yeats

Yakety yak -

"Talking With Marge"
digital collage by Mick Mather

Canapés, hors d'oeuvres, martini, high ball, cocktail dress, business suit and a good conversation. Yes, we're going to a party party!

Analog locative technology -

"Ritual Patterns of Spring"
digital collage by Mick Mather

Today's post sat around for a while as I considered how I might finish it. As regulars have already realized, I'm afflicted with "Spring Fever" and my thoughts revolve around expressions of renewal and hope for my favorite season. While doing research on locative media projects that involve more new technology than I have a budget for, I regressed to an old analog solution. Laying a dress pattern over a mapped grid seemed to work nicely here ... evidently the ladies agree, they're already walking the route!

Illustration Friday: Snap -

"She Couldn't Snap Out Of It"
digital collage by Mick Mather

Hmmm. Another struggle this evening but here's tonight's post and my addition to the theme, snap, at Illustration Friday. Our subject is locked away, at war with some inward turmoil that has her staring blankly into space, sitting upright but rigid. At sea, in a dark place and unable to snap out of it.

Sweep that runway -

"Fashion Plate"
digital collage by Mick Mather

Without jumping the gun - well, okay, without jumping too much! - there's that feeling of Spring in the air! My own winter funk is lifting and I'm beginning to feel the energy. Soon enough the snow will be gone, the flowers will be popping up and all the pretty girls will have stored their winter clothes for something a lot more - let's just say colorful, shall we? So, tonight's image is a toast to the imminent arrival...raise your glasses - to Spring!