I just discovered some of the wonderful deep space images on space.com. I'm always so amazed at the incredible beauty and complexity that surrounds us. And yet we're so unaware. How much is around us, on a much smaller and more immediate scale, which we overlook every day?
I've been taking lots of close-up photos of flowers and leaves the past few months, largely for the excuse of getting so intimately involved with their colors, shapes, and scents. My own little universe in a garden.
I'm still redesigning the site. The new front page went up today. I hope to finish the templates for this section this weekend & start on the other two. We'll see. The shoemaker's children never have shoes.
I just ran across History of Art for the Intelligence Community, an interesting experiment combining internet surveillance and fine art. There are some other interesting projects, as well.
It's interesting to me to see a willingness to change a piece of art done by someone else. As an art history major, it seems almost sacriligeous in a way. (Though not necessarily a bad sacrilege, I suppose.) Certainly better than the flocked-velvet reproductions of the Last Supper or the "give Mona Lisa a new emotion" flash thingy I saw yesterday.
I just read the BBC's list of the top 100 novels. On a quick run-through, I think I can say I've read at least 50 of them. There were 6 or 10 others that I've either started and given up on or think I've probably read, but can't remember for sure.
Now I'll need to see if the library has the rest. Heh.
... I'm getting better all the time.
Not nearly as sick as I was the past two weeks. There's nothing quite as boring as lying on the futon for five days, unable to do anything but cough and watch bad daytime tv.
MyStarsLive.com lets you see the stars/moon phases/etc. for your town (or any place & time). Very cool.