Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Ahh, the wonders of technology...

Here is my drawing I entered at convention in the spring of 2004



21 comments:

Meiska said...

Thanks to you, T!

Andrew Price said...

How funny, I've just been going crazy with my Mom's new scanner, myself. I have a ton of pictures scanned in.

None of them, of course, as nice as this one, which I've alwas loved. Is it alright if I download this drawing?

Hey! Now we can start that Artist's Blog! WOO HOO!

Andrew Price said...

Wait a minute. Is this scanned in, or is this a photo?

Meiska said...

I'm so very glad you like it, I do too! It is a photo, and I don't mind a bit if you download it.

Indeed, we can have an art blog, just tell me how!

Queen Mum said...

Would ya look at the movement in the fabric. It is so awesome. Mother Theresa and I always said that this is our favorite of your art. Are you going to put up the last one you did?

Knight and Romanian queen, thanks for your kind words to the art queen, encouragement is nice.

Meiska said...

Yeah, I'm going to start putting up alot of stuff now that I can work a digital camera and the cord thingy!

Andrew Price said...

Mother Theresa? Wha?

As far as Art Blogs go, it would be more effective if everyone involved had a scanner as that's the best way to get drawings etc. onto a computer and likewise onto the internet, as you have done here.

Do you have such a device?

Andrew Price said...

Of course a digital camera works too.

Meiska said...

Uh, yeah, I have a camera. Do I have to have a scanner?

Queen Mum said...

We have a super-good one at home. I think soldoutmonkey is the only one who knows how to use it. I think.

Meiska said...

It's ok, Penny, I wouldn't know how to use it either!

Thanks for all the affirming words, dear friends!!!

Andrew Price said...

Scanners are more important to me I guess, because the average size of a drawing of mine would be about one square inch. Yeah, I guess scanners are more of a detail thing. Definitely. Totally. Yep.

Moral: Scanners are nice for detail, but you don't need one.

The End

Andrew Price said...

Hey, is that your reflection in the first picture?

Meiska said...

Oh! Now I see why you need a scanner, for your wonderful little drawings!

Yes, it probably is my reflection, the drawing is under glass. (Doesn't that sound cool!?)

Queen Mum said...

You two made me so curious about my scanner, I had soldoutmonkey help me when he returned from church. It kept showing that we were not connected to the pc, when we WERE! I get so frustrated with electronics. I had this great picture of sleeping beauty and prince phillip...you know the magical awakening kiss. I wanted to post it on my blog, but nooooooooooooooooooooooooo. I can't see the reflection on my computer.

Queen Mum said...

ha, ha, ha, so much for having a super-good one huh! Orrrrrrrr, it could be the loose nut behind the wheel. Nothing like electronics to make one feel 'less than'.

Andrew Price said...

By my troth, the lady speaks truth!

That's why I named my computer "Albert", after the title character in one of my all-time favorite books The Magic Pudding (an Australian children's book). Did I ever show it to you?

The premise is that there is this pudding which can turn into any kind of pudding you want (in Australia pudding is perhaps more like a stew than what we might think of as pudding). Just whistle three times, turn it over and say what kind of pudding you want (steak an' kidney pudding is a common choice) and there you have it. And it never runs out.

I don't want to go to much further into it, but suffice it to say that besides being magical this pudding also has personality. And a pretty prickly one at that, he's constantly rude to his owners and asking to be eaten. And if you don't keep a sharp eye out he's bound to be running off any which way.

To push the technological parallel further, it should be noted that there are also Professional Puddin' Thieves always on the lookout to steal this precious invention.

I actually didn't have any of this in mind when I named my computer, I just did it because I liked the book. But in hindsight, the parallels seem plentiful.

Meiska said...

Mum, it is the 'loose nut' option, methinks!

Sir Knight, never have I seen this Pudding book. Sounds crazy! ( Also sounds like something I'd tell Princess SP to get her to eat!) Steal what? Albert?

Eucharisto said...

Man, I leave this blog for a few days, and when I come back, there's 20 new comments!

By the way, I just saw your art blog. What a great idea!

Andrew Price said...

Queen of A & E,

Yes, Albert. As it turns out, he not so much magical as REALLY REALLY well cooked. Thus a kind of invention.

(fiqiidmz: where you get your car checked out in the country of Fiqii.)

Meiska said...

Oh, I have been enlightened! Thanks.