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Took some photos in the Old Dutch Cemetery this morning; light was coming in at the perfect angle to illuminate the brightly-hued leaves. More Halloween-ness!

I hate to admit it, but I think I love Microsoft’s Consolas font. I have not seen such a beautiful mono-spaced font since Courier. It’s easy to read, yet stylish, in a way that doesn’t distract nor interfere with legibility. It reminds a little of one of my other favorite fonts, Gill Sans.

Miksang is a style of contemplative photography based on Buddhist master Chögyam Trungpa’s teachings. I learned about Miksang from my cousin Stephen Burnie, who has worked in this mode for many years. There is lots of information about Miksang on the web.

Some guy named Valuca is hosting some phenomenal photos of lenticular clouds and other rare and beautiful formations, as well as some incredible storm photos.

Project Teddy, despite the stupid name, is a really fun 3D drawing toy. Definitely recreational – not for diagramming the next addition to your home (use Google SketchUp for that!

I rewrote my shell script that grabs the current National Geographic Picture of the Day in Perl, which should allow it to run almost anywhere Perl 5 runs. The original version was a shell script that relied on the GNU version of grep (specifically the -o option). The new version, renamed ‘Paperhanger,’ is still dependent [...]

My cousin Stephen is a member of a collective called Windrush Photographic, which is presenting a show of its members’ work (including Stephen’s) entitled Shapes and Structures, at the L.E. Shore Public Library in Thornbury, Ontario. If you’re in southwestern Ontario between September 2 and 30, 2006, check it out! For a taste of Stephen’s photography, [...]

Via Music Thing, Martin Wattenberg’s The Shape of Song. Not as interesting to look at as Alex Dragulescu’s work, but beautiful nonetheless.

I’ve always found music visualization projects fascinating. Here’s a beautiful set of images by Alex Dragulescu based on Mozart’s Trio in C Major for Piano, Violin, and Cello entitled Extrusions in C Major. Alex has a bunch of interesting-looking art and visualization projects online, including Spam Plants, which was widely publicized last week. I can [...]

Read this fascinating article at Wired about different types of creatives. It discusses a theory of a continuum of creative styles, with Conceptualists at one end and Experimentalists at the other. Conceptualists are characterized as those brilliant young people who make groundbreaking progress and blow everyone away with their fresh, unconventional thoughts. Experimentalists are the [...]