
This is how the “Calliope’s Book: Speed + Time” and “Calliope’s Book: Stop + Rest” posters look when printed.
The color, print, and paper quality are terrific, deviantART did a nice job packaging them for shipping, and you’ll note that Calliope now possesses all of her many, many knees.
They work well together, don’t you think?
(I’m seriously considering ordering some 20″ x 30″ versions — just to see how they’d look. At that scale, the print quality should still be above 300dpi.)

Outlaw Cat can’t help himself around shiny things… like, you know, stars.
(Personally, I always preferred the red or green ones. Could use a few of those right about now.)



Just got into Singularity Sky by Charles Stross. I love the style of his work — the subtle humor, the plotting, the legal entanglements of super-intelligences. Cutting edge work. Cutting things up generally.
Should get back to posting daily sketches — and maybe a new painting — within the next week. With that, allow me to usher you toward the myriad delights to be found at Street Photography In Paris.
Go on. See what you’ve been missing.
* Please reference tweet #788432399 for a further explanation of the post title. Patent pending.
** Intolerable Threat To Peace would be a good name for a battleship, don’t you think? Very modisch, very Iain M. Banks.

This week’s New Yorker cover was painted by artist Jorge Colombo entirely using that spiffy iPhone/iPod Touch app named Brushes which I wrote about in early January.
Steve Sprang — the developer of Brushes — also put together a neat companion application named Brushes Viewer which allows the replay of the process of painting.
Even though I’m still not used to painting on an iPod with my knobbly, misshapen fingers, I put together a little demonstration of this amazing software just for you. Take a look.

I really miss the bright night sky sometimes.

As always, this is based on an actual conversation with myself.
(Bonus: a quick sketch of Calliope.)

Cats. You gotta watch them all the time. Particularly when rebuilding an engine around anything mechanical.




Since when did the gendarmerie begin recruiting cats? Since forever.

Always sign a cast with veiled threats, not platitudes.