WPC – It Wouldn’t Be This Time of Year Without…the Littlehampton Parade

Originally posted on Phi:
It just wouldn’t be this time of year without the fabulous antics of the Littlehampton Parade and fireworks, on the South Coast of England. Usually it’s bitingly cold, and extremely windy, but this year was unseasonably warm, and the night air was still. Usually it is held the weekend before Bonfire…

Making Your Own Cosmetics 101

Originally posted on BESS' ART JOURNAL: Through the eyes of an artist:
While I’m contemplating what jewellery project to commit to next I’ve been making my own cosmetics. About six years ago I stopped buying commercial beauty products and began making my own, both for health and economic reasons. I’ve made everything from shampoo, conditioner, body butter,…

WPC – Magic: Heron Over the Potomac Falls

Originally posted on Phi:
And now for something completely different: the magic of being at the right place, at the right time. A wily old Heron in mid-flight over the Potomac falls where Maryland waves hello to Virginia just on the other side, and Virginia responds by taking a selfie with one of those long…

The Answer is Always Music to My Ears

Sometimes you’ve got to let the Universe sing you the answer to your most troubling of questions. There is more than one way to achieve enlightenment I can hear ‘them’ say. These two following tracks kind of fell into my lap, so to speak. The lyrics in both songs are very apt. Both very cool […]

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Neanderthals, Modern Humans, & Natural Selection

Originally posted on The 79 Percent:
Researchers at the Center for Population Biology, University of California, Davis, published a research paper on 8 November 2016, that sheds new light on the hybridization between modern humans and Neanderthals. Entitled “The Strength of Selection against Neanderthal Introgression,” the study acknowledges the sexual mixing of human and Neanderthal populations…

Painted Cities – Illustrated Rome

Originally posted on Phi:
I created multiple version of this image, all of which I think have merits as final prints. Below are my favourites of the batch. Bill and I discovered when we arrived in Rome at the very iconic site of the Colosseum, that it really wasn’t quite what we had been expecting.…

High Fashion in Noir

Originally posted on Phi:
? It’s a personal challenge of mine to take an image and to try to find the art in it. Often I’m trying to recapture a sense of what I felt when I took the original shot, as well as trying to create something new and exciting. My objective through photography…

Writing 101 – How to insult an olive.

  Morning all! I awoke to a really interesting article posted on Twitter by the New York Times, apparently rescinding their recent apology to Mr. Trump for making defamatory statements about him during the election campaign. Here’s the link if you’re interested: ‘A Time for Refusal’. I was flirting with the idea of writing a […]

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My Coffee is Broken…and Nothing Ever Happens.

I’ve woken up early this morning, on a Sunday after a troublesome night in dream land. Second night in a row. I always make myself a half-caf coffee in the morning (I try to keep caffeine intake to a minimum so I don’t spontaneously combust), and usually it does the job of providing me with some […]

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