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Monthly Archives: December 2009

Bird furiously pecks at can with photo of bird on it Boing Boing

31-Dec-09

via boingboing.net one wacky bird video. Posted via web from normnode’s posterous

Rabbits

24-Dec-09

arcosanti

23-Dec-09

arcosanti, originally uploaded by normnode. Arcosanti – a cool, futuristic bee hive city in progress. Not very far from Phoenix, AZ. http://www.arcosanti.org/ for more information.

Trees

22-Dec-09

Same sketchbook.

Hats

21-Dec-09

Getting more of my non-digital work online is one of the many things I want to do before the end of the year, so I took some time to scan a few drawings. This drawing is from a sketchbook that is roughly six years old. Most of the drawings were done with India ink and [...]

video: by the estuary

14-Dec-09

by the estuary from Norm DeValliere on Vimeo. I love painting with a variety of apps for the iPhone, like Brushes 2.0, or Layers, or the very awesome Mobile Sketchbook from Autodesk. Brushes is my favorite, though; it’s a model of simple usability. It offers few choices in the tools being used. It also records [...]

Library of Congress

09-Dec-09

I hope everyone has the Library of Congress Flickr photostream bookmarked somewhere; it is a real treasure chest. In Flickr, everyone can help identify, tag, and otherwise enrich the body of knowledge about each image. Back at the LOC website, the uncompressed and un-commented images are preserved. Seems like an effective division of labor and [...]

Making Your Own Kodachrome?

09-Dec-09

Yesterday BoingBoing posted about this set of photos at Flickr – apparently of a home built machine for creating photographic film. The prospect of hobbyists filling in when industries die is intriguing. Is craft-brew 35mm film in our future? The processing of Kodachrome is more complicated, but hopefully someone is on that project, somewhere….

Latkes. Dozens of Latkes.

05-Dec-09

Alicia cooked up 4 dozen latkes tonight. mmmmmmm. Posted via email from normnode’s posterous

Time Lapsed Video of Swiss Alps

03-Dec-09

Swiss Winter time lapse meditation from Michael Rissi on Vimeo. Via BoingBoing.net.