Visual Arts

White Peach Photography has the 30 Day Photography Challenge. In writing we build the picture with words. Illustrating, with a photograph, drawing or some other form of visual art is usually saved for children’s book and non-fiction. Except for book covers which have illustrations geared more to selling the book than sharing the writer’s vision [...]

How do you tell computers and humans apart? In cases where we can’t see whether we are interacting with a real human or a computer, CAPTCHA is sometimes used to prevent comment spam. CAPTCHArt : A blog for turning random CAPTHCA phrases/ letters into art. Know your Meme: CAPTCHArt Rhizome: General Web Content – CAPTCHArt [...]

I can’t print the form this is to be drawn on, but here is my contribution to The Internet Mapping Project, as is. Also see Flickr. How would you draw the Internet?

Sometimes odd phrases just pop into my head. They don’t make sense in a logical way, but they reflect my sense of irony and personal logic. Today I’ve been watching a marathon of TV shows about geography of the planet. Chances are people assume geography is about knowing where places are, like towns and countries. That’s only [...]

The biggest struggle with posting ASCII art anywhere was always the formatting. Trying to get your work to use a fixed width font so it doesn’t come out all warped looking. Also, making sure you added carriage returns at the end of each line of text. If you missed one you would soon find out [...]

The suffix of one word can lead to so many other interesting words. In looking into the theme for Doodle Week on U3 this Friday I knew I wanted to draw some kind of city skyline, a cityscape. That led to looking up other kinds of words with ‘scape’ as a suffix. That led me [...]