A pen and ink sketch, done while seated at a coffee spot.
Those of you who know me won’t be surprised when I tell you I found this topic at Starbucks.
I was frequenting a location, when I noticed something odd about the District Manager’s business card. The front of the card, of which you can see an approximation below,
appeared to have been damaged. There were pit marks on the face of the card, that resembled those seen on a piece of paper that has been run over by an automobile.
Intrigued with this situation, I looked at the other cards in the holder and saw they were all the same.
It wasn’t until I turned the card over that I realized it had a Braille message imprinted upon it.
Interesting outreach to a special population and kudos to District Manager Erin Bowers for thinking of it!
What happened to the left ear of the Chief Justice? On the front page of the Sunday, July 25, 2010 New York Times was a stylized portrait of Chief Justice John Roberts. But the left ear doesn’t fit with the drawing, having been rendered by two lines and none of the tones or shadings that depicted his other features. Was the transfer from a charcoal sketch to the digital file mishandled or is this another instance of bad Photoshopping?
The July 8 electronic newsletter from the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs led off with a picture and article about the suspended net sculpture created by
Janet Echelman as a part of the Biennial of the Americas celebration. But between the cup and the lip, or some lower parts of the anatomy, there was a
mishap. Below is the image that was a part of the newsletter.
After looking at the image, I emailed the folks at the Office of Cultural Affairs and asked them if anyone had looked at this image before it was included in or sent out as a part of the newsletter.
I never heard back, but I did notice that the next email I received from that Office used a different picture.
The July 11, 2010 New York Times Review of Books [NYTRB] contained a review of Work Song, the recently published book by Montana native Ivan Doig. [The review appeared on page 21.] The article contained a photo of the author that was credited to A. Wayne Arnst. It appears the background has been removed, a fairly common practice at newspapers. BUT, the removal of the background is an inept job. Look at the image below.
The blown-up sections show the places that made me notice how poorly the job had been done. If this isn’t poor Photoshop work, then the author must have gotten his haircut done by a moose. But check out the original color photo:
It is a bad job.
It must be the summertime torpor that has lessened the frequency of my posts. Here is the attempt to break from the rut. the sketch was done in graphite and marker.
I just checked my spam filter for the blog and found this interesting comment, that had little or nothing to do with the post, “of corse you can cry under water,and i pulled flys wings and still called it a fly.” Isn’t that almost poetic? Mad but poetic.
This is how Monday feels to me today.
