Art Wednesday - Skateboard

Here is Tyler's skateboard we painted for Christmas. I used a $10 deck from Target - sanded down and sealed with a white latex and rubbed with blue watercolor on the edges. The rest is painted with black enamel and orange water color - sealed with clear spray paint. Also included is the vector rough of the Triano logo. Note the signature on the right girl's boot.

Art Wednesday - Vector Art

Bit Maps (most digital photos) are made from a grid with location and color values for each point. Vector diagrams use mathmatics that goes over my head and are mainly used for logos and large graphics. I use the open-source (means free) tool called Gimp to photo-shop my digital photos. But I just discovered Inkspace (another free opensource tool) to make vector art. Here is a sample:

Music Tuesday - Eagles of Death Rock

I listened to a couple live recordings of Eagles of Death Rock, and they stink when they play live. The only good songs I've heard: Wannabe in LA and Cherry Cola. One of the guys is from Queens of the Stone Age. Actually most of their other music that isn't live stinks too.

Art Wednesday - Eddy in the Sun

I’m ¾ of the way through Twilight. Eddy just showed the damsel what he looked like in the sunlight. (I can't yet give a full critique of the book, because I’ll probably get hung, but at least I’ll say I wish there was more action and less gushy, mushy, cruddy discussion of their immature relationship.) Here is Eddy from the film and the way I think they should have made him in the sunlight.

Music Tuesday - One Word

Weezer - The Greatest Man That Ever Lived.

So we were driving east on County Line Road in Littleton on 12/04/08 at night and I saw a fireball blaze through the sky. I checked the clock - 8:42PM. The fireball was heading east towards Parker but looked like it would impact somewhere between I-25 and Parker. But there was no rumble, explosion or even a flash or light. I checked all the news sites and googled fireball sightings and couldn't find anything related to that specific night. However, I learned that there are tons of meteorites that hit in Eastern Colorado.

Here is a quick sketch of what it looked like:

I also saw this drycleaning truck in the area. No drycleaner has that kind of money these days to warrant a uhaul sized delivery vehicles. This is the most obvious undercover CIA UFO detection vehicle I've ever seen. You gotta know there are millions of dollars of computer hardware in that delivery truck. Coincidence that I saw both in the same area?

What this all has to do with Weezer? I don't know.

Scripture Monday - Agency

In legal terms, an agent is someone who acts on behalf of their client. For example a real estate agent acts on behalf of the home seller. Perhaps an alternative way of thinking of divine agency as freedom to choose, you could think of it as acting on behalf of the Lord. We get to chose how we serve our client, who is ultimately the Lord.

Maybe this isn't a new concept for everyone, but it was a fresh idea in my studies yesterday.

Two great agents and then one more great agent (I'll have to do a painting of the first picture sometime):