I hope you like the final state of this project. It was quite a bit of work, but now I have a fantastical home decoration or centerpiece. I may eventually list it for sale on Etsy.com, although for now we’re treating it as a quirky new house guest.

It is not notably functional; although I have had friends offer their suggestions. Sadly most good ideas ( “Make it a lamp!” ) would require a completely new build: utility would have to be part of it’s design from the beginning of the project. It does however make a nice candle holder / nightlight:

• I’m still trying to figure out Hunch.

• Mythbuster Adam Savage (home page, wikipedia) asked for a new avatar. My submission:

• Stephanie Meyer, Troll Slayer - from the awesome xkcd.

• Meme Scenery from Waxy: Identify all the internet memes with their subject & macro removed.

• The art of UP (imdb) on Lou Romano’s blogspot (link). Many illustrations are quite Mary Blair (wikipedia, Disney Legends).

Wikipedia says Eyvind Earle (April 26, 1916 – July 20, 2000) was an American artist, author and illustrator, noted for his contribution to the background illustration and styling of Disney animated films in the 1950s.

His official site has numerous galleries for perusal. I especially recommend the Serigraph section - you’ll notice in images such as the one above a measured style recalling Disney’s Sleeping Beauty, for which he was responsible [cite] for styling, backgrounds and color.

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Open a new tab for 8tracks.com

This site lets you make, share & browse virtual mix tapes (up to 8 tracks per mix). There are some limitations on how many tracks you can skip, etc. but it’s only to keep the music companies happy.

While you’re there check out The Inferno by Graeme Revell feat. Emma Shapplin from the score for The Red Planet. It’s the first track on the mix in that link & it gives me the goose-bumps.

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For the tech & data-oriented, two cool tools are available to you: startup-CIOs - your enterprise is now in the cloud.

Timetric β - http://timetric.com/
Making data useful. Timetric is a service for storing, searching, graphing and publishing the world’s statistical data. Hint - don’t have a data file to upload? Head over to the new data.gov.

Dabble DB - http://dabbledb.com/

Dabble DB helps you create online databases on the web. It’s easy to use yet extremely flexible and powerful. Create reports, Sorting and grouping, Collaborate with others, Powerful filtering, Formulas and subtotals and Pivot tables.

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Finally, what would a post like this be without a youtube video? Take a gander at Felix’s musical machines: (m_Ajg1G3vik)

It was a lot of fun, and a lot of work. Blame the latest issue of Wired Magazine, but I have puzzles on the brain.

It’s the sort of puzzle you have to hold in your hands, so I can’t show you today, but tomorrow I’ll have scans of 2 art pieces & I’ll figure out a way for you to play online.

All I can show you right now are these views:

Fantastic Art from Rune Guneriussen

We have a new edition of addition to our house:

We got this little “critter” from DomestiKate off Etsy. You can see it here …

… on our wall next to the Laundry Day print from theblackapple, which we also got from Etsy.

I wanted to let you know about the fantastic collage & mixed-media artist, Ben Butcher.

With a distinct style to his own his pieces have no problems catching eyes, but it is the first work that I saw of his that keeps me coming back. I saw the Blue Bayou at the Disney Gallery in Disneyland earlier this year. Check out the hi-res on his site.