Highway giants in motion

I took a bus. Went 100 miles East from home. Photographed trucks going West on the opposite side of the highway with my iPod. Filtered the pics with Instagram, one filter has been used, Hefe.

Hefe is very yellow and contrasted, and to me the filter seems the most accurate to depict the sunny summer early afternoon by the window.

I like trucks very mucks.


Just want to add something: this photo shoot would have been impossible with a standard digital camera, since it's not reflex -- I use to word reflex with its new? meaning, when you click is what you get.

Morning ordinary feat

When a woman combs her hair, the movement of the stars can be traced in her gestures.
- Rodin

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

David M Jackson

 Edgar Degas

  Edgar Degas

  Edgar Degas

 Edvard Munch

Giovanni Bellini

 Goyō Hashiguchi

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

 Henri Edmond Cross

Ito Shinsui

Paul Binnie

 Pierre Auguste Renoir

Salomon de Bray

 Torii Kotondo

 Utamaro Kitagawa

 Victor Louis Mottez

 William MacGregor Paxton

Take this comb
Touch the hair
Unknot each little knot
With a song.

A few thoughts
Float in the flowing mist
Between night dreams
And day dreams.

The anonymous silent move
 – Made of repetition forever –
Is a common early gesture
bound to the day to be born.

For a very little while
Everything's in its right place.

 

Władysław Slewinski

Ennobling birds with a needle

We need to keep hand embroidery alive, but if we hug our ideas to ourselves, they will become lost and worthless in the future. If I give you a gift, I no longer have it, you do. However, if I give you an idea then we both have it, and if you share this idea with others then we have multiplied it, expanded on it and watch it grow. 

-Trish Burr

Lilac Breasted Roller

Trish Burr is a self taught embroiderer. She was born in Zimbabwe. In 2004 she moved to the Western Cape in South Africa.

Her projects are mainly floral but she has recently expanded her work to include birds and portraits, devising means to include minute details in her subjects.

Here is Trish Burr's outstanding needle painting embroidery birds.

Australian Sacred Kingfisher

 Chinese Flower Painting

 Chinese Flower Painting

 Green Bee Eater

 Lilac Breasted Roller

Little Bee Eaters

 Little Kingfisher

Her emphasis on light and shadow brings her embroidery alive and her artistic use of colour further enhances the three dimensional effects in her work. She is recognized for her unique style of long and short stitch embroidery.

Trish Burr's web site
her blog

Long and short stitch (or) silk shading (or) thread painting (or) soft shading (or) painting with a needle (or) needle painting embroidery (!) is elucidated:

Explanation of the needle painting technique
Needle painting is a hand embroidery technique creating realistic pictures using needle and thread, embroidering long and short straight stitches.     

The long and short stitches are worked in rows in a range of shades.

Each new row of long and short stitches splits the stitches of the preceding row blending the long and short stitches. The blending of the stitches helps create a realistic design.     

This technique of needle painting takes several hours of practice to perfect but once the technique becomes familiar it is a very forgiving technique.

This afternoon I received the mini pheasants embroidery vintage kit I've bough at Etsy. Nice introduction to something I'm going to do this summer 'cos my dream is to be a bird needle embroidery painter!

No psychic, no sarcasm

Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.
 ― Marlene Dietrich

« Bullfighting is a traditional spectacle of Spain, Portugal, southern France and some Hispanic American countries (Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Peru) in which one or more bulls are baited, and then killed in a bullring for sport and entertainment. As such, it is often called a blood sport by its detractors, but followers of the spectacle regard it as a fine art.»

« A velvet painting is a type of painting distinguished by the use of velvet (usually black velvet) as the support, in place of canvas, paper, or similar materials. The velvet provides an especially dark background against which colors stand out brightly.  Velvet painting is an ancient technique, and took on a new popularity in the United States in the late 20th Century.

Velvet paintings mass produced by hand fueled the boom in velvet paintings in the 1970s in the United States. Edgar Leeteg has been called the father of American black velvet kitsch.»

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Edgar Leeteg

No psychic, no sarcasm; sensibility and intelligence.