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Blog Bacon #4 - HUGE Sale

Oooooh, lookie at this!

I just found a site that is having Dollar Days - all their fonts and graphics, etc for $1 each!

And there is some very good stuff there! (I am currently rifling through the clipart sets - hubba, hubba!)

I was pleased to see quite a few things that would be very good for people who home school or for those attempting to teach their children how to write (they have some wonderful fonts that actually show the little arrows to follow, etc - like in a proper copy book).

So get on down to Lettering Delights and snatch up some amazing digital deals!!!

Blog Bacon #3

At least one person had difficulty getting to my last piece of bacon - a video of an amazing piece of art. I've checked the link, and I think it's okay, but just in case, here's the address (in addition to a link) to Big Bang Big Boom: http://vimeo.com/13085676.

Today's bacon is another video: Patience (address: http://vimeo.com/7694315). Here's a visual clue:

Again, I'm so impressed. I mean, really, this sort of thing requires not only artistic skill and sensibilities, but you have to do MATH, too. I can only imagine how long the planning took - let alone the actual creation....

Enjoy!

Just Some Stuff & a Piece of Kevin Blog Bacon

Okay, first of all, Gigi has added some new books to The Bible while attempting to memorize some of its original books, to wit:

• Colossians has been replaced with Galoshes.
• Colossians has also been replaced with Colostomy. (Where she even heard this word is beyond me.)
• Thessalonians has been replaced with Theso-linoleum.
• Philippians is still being referred to as Philipity.
• And then, of course, there is an entirely new book, Amphibians (added when we couldn't remember what came after Ephesians)

This photo was taken at Gigi's pre-school graduation, but it pretty much captures what she still looks like when she's trying to remember what comes after Galatians. (We finally solved this by noting that Ephesians sounds very much like a sneeze if you work it right... Eee-eee-eee-phe-SIANS!)

In addition to a Gigi snicker, Please do go and check out this amazing piece of art I'm offering up as a piece of Kevin Blog Bacon:

Big Bang

This is a film of an ongoing and - shall we say, mobile? - painted depiction of the creation of the world. It shouldn't matter whether you are a creationist or an evolutionist - this artistic endeavor is jaw-dropping. And if you know anything about film and animation, you will quickly realize that this film probably took no less than 6 months to film....

Have a nice day!!!

Kevin Blog Bacon - Episode 1

I was going to post this later in the week because I already have posts for today and tomorrow, but I can't wait. This discovery can't wait!

I'm starting a new category here: Blog Treasures.

I'm starting it because I love how you see a link that will show you how to make something, and then you go there and you get the info, but then there's something else cool on that site, so you look at it, and then there's another link to yet another person's blog, so you check that out, and then THAT person's got a link to something else really cool, and before you know it, you're ten sites removed from where you started.

(Faulkner would be so proud of that run-on sentence. Oh, merciful heavens - can you just imagine what his blog would have been like? I'm getting a headache just thinking about it.)

Actually, given the "related" nature of these links, maybe I should call this category Kevin Blog Bacon or X Degrees of Separation.

I like Kevin Blog Bacon best, so Kevin Blog Bacon it is!

And now that I've got all that 'splainin' stuff out of the way, let me share the blog that got my attention! (Although there were many blogs, I'm saving some for later posts.)

Uppercase.

Oh. My. Word.

Unbelievable.

Do NOT go here without a beverage, a snack, and many hours at your disposal. (And make sure you go to the bathroom first!)

The site is for the creative, the curious, those who would be inspired, those who appreciate beauty in the unexpected, those who need a good visual fix.... And if the content doesn't rock your world, the links will send you into orbit! There are links and links and links - ALL to sites that are each tastier than the last.

They have a quarterly magazine that is a little pricey at $20/pop. I don't even care. It's Mac & Cheese for me for the next month. Whatever it takes. I. Don't. Care. I've subscribed and can't wait until the first one shows up. (This is the magazine that some other magazines wish they could be, if you get my drift.)

For your sake, I really, really hope you didn't just read this post at the end of your lunch hour....

Yeah.

It's that good.