Category Archives: blogging

Flame Online Art Program

By tone | Published: March 21, 2010
For inept artists who can’t draw if their lives depended on it, Flame is a nifty online tool for experimenting with colors and design. Peter Blaškovi? the 3d animator and designer from Piestany in Slovakia is the mad genius of Flame the online drawing tool. Flame is a painting program, it belongs to my [...]
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Petri Dishes as Art

By tone | Published: March 18, 2010
The Daily Dish is petri dishes painted by Klari Reis who has found himself a niche market. Who would figure you can paint on petri dishes and create exciting results. These quasi psychedelic images hark to days of 60’s counter culture acid images or even weird looking marbles at best.
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Hoarding Pictures

By tone | Published: March 18, 2010
Some might consider hoarding a disease or perhaps just a way to fill a void where happiness is empty. It has become a business where people are hired to de-clutter our lives of useless objects that we really don’t need. This obsessive behavior is a short term happiness that needs constant feeding with getting more [...]
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Cake

By tone | Published: March 17, 2010
The truth is out, Lost is finally revealed. Mmm… Cake. That’s it! Jorge Garcia, Elizabeth Mitchell, Yunjin Kim and Michael Emerson all love cake.
Also posted in TV, food, web, youtube | Tagged cake, Elizabeth Mitchell, Jorge Garcia, Michael Emerson, Yunjin Kim | Leave a comment

Maggie and Mildred Stitched Animation

By tone | Published: March 15, 2010
Maggie and Mildred is the hand-stitched animated story of the friendship between two girls. These girls aren’t your usual friends, however! The film was created by Holly Klein who lives in London and works in the animation industry.
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That is What Bea Said

By tone | Published: March 15, 2010
Gone but not forgotten, Beatrice “Bea” Arthur’s wisdom lives on the internet. That’s What Bea Said randomly displays some of Bea’s wit of wisdom. Never one to mince words, Bea Arthur was a comedian and observer of daily life.
Also posted in TV, movies, web | Tagged Beau Arthur, Funny, Golden Girls, Maude, Quotes | Leave a comment

I am With CoCo Artist Mike Mitchell Cashing In

By tone | Published: March 15, 2010
Mike Mitchell the artist behind the “I’m With CoCo” image that spun into a grassroots support for the dethroned Tonight Show stalwart Conan O’Brien helped Conan become the sweetheart of the internet community along the way. The image has helped Conan build and increase his savvy online supporters. Conan who has become the multimillionaire of [...]
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The Way the Future Was

By tone | Published: March 14, 2010
The Way the Future Was by great Science Fiction writer Frederik Pohl has morphed into a blog. The writer was coaxed into writing a blog by his publisher who felt he would become more relevant to new and old readers. Bless his heart, the man who could see the future still holds dear to past [...]
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The Making of a Book Cover

By tone | Published: March 12, 2010
What took six hours to make is a fully sped up segment of how a book is made in a montage sequence of layering with clip art. The soon to be released Blameless by Gail Carriger is the third in the series The Parasol Protectorate. The Parasol Protectorate Series books are comedies of manners set in [...]
Also posted in advertising, art, books, business, pictures, sci-fi | Tagged book design, design, fantasy, gail carriger, orbit, science fiction, steampunk | 2 Comments

Christoph Niemann Absrtact City Maps

By tone | Published: March 11, 2010
Sandbox World favorite Christoph Niemann the author of “The Pet Dragon,” which teaches Chinese characters to young readers strikes again with his latest Absrtact City Maps collection of well thought out maps of ideas. Christoph has a knack for breaking things down to the purest form and while conveying universal messages. See more maps>>
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