SEASONAL GREETINGS

Since these holidays are about family, however you celebrate, alone or apart, here's a fantasy family for you, perhaps an ideal one, perhaps just an ordinary one, a little bit strange in a good way.


With warmest wishes to every single person who passes this way, I hope you'll stay a while. May the New Year be kind to all of us on this troubled planet. 

(This is actually a black and white photo of an old, highly textured painting of mine which I've scanned and coloured digitally).

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A is for Alternative Reality

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It's a rather large file so please be patient while it downloads. Watch the little circle moving along the bar at the bottom of the screen. If there's a problem go to Blaugustine, as usual, or to this page on blip.tv.

I crawled on the floor on my stomach to get a worm's eyeview of the room, resting the camcorder on a thick book which I slid along the carpet. I then manipulated the video in iMovie to make it more abstract and graphic rather than photographic. Finally I made up the soundtrack on a virtual keyboard inside Garage Band. It's just an experiment but I like it. Next time I'll know how to make it flow more smoothly.

Dedicated to my dear, talented and lovely niece Indira for her birthday today.

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Getting Rid of Six Demons

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The story about these "demons" and the cartoons I first drew of them is on the January 24th post of my blog, Blaugustine

In this movie, I tear them to pieces.