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  • Tilt-Shift Photography

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    We have a tendency to think of photography as “realistic” because it often seems to reproduce what we see with reasonable accuracy, but photography and human perception often diverge significantly. You may have noticed when looking at photographs of small objects, models, dioramas or model train layouts, that there is a limited range of the…

  • Phillip K. Dick Book Cover Art Gallery

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    Though I’ve come across it before, the Phillip K. Dick Book Cover Art Gallery is one of the unusual galleries featured in the Museum of Online Museums I mentioned in yesterday’s post. Phillip K. Dick was a science fiction writer active in the mid Twentieth Century, noted for his eccentric and um… original viewpoint. Though…

  • The Museum of Online Museums

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    I’ll start out by giving the Major Time Sink Warning. The Museum of Online Museums is site maintained by Coudal Partners, a design firm based in Chicago. Basically it’s a list of links to an eclectic collection of online sites, either virtual museums, or online extensions of brick and mortar museums. It ranges from the…

  • A Vermeer in Rome

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    In a situation similar to the one I described in my recent article on A Vermeer Comes to California, Jonathan Janson, the director of the amazing Essential Vermeer web resource, let us know in a comment on that post that there is currently a Vermeer on view in Rome. Normally the southernmost location to see…

  • Gris Grimly

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    Gris Grimly is the author and illustrator of children’s books like Jordan Ray’s Muddy Spud and the Wicked Nursery Rhymes series. He is also the illustrator for numerous other books, including The Dangerous Alphabet with Neil Gaiman. His web site, Mad Creator Productions, has a showcase of many of them, as well as a portfolio…

  • Kerr Eby

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    For the benefit of those in other parts of the world, I’ll point out that today is Veterans Day here in the U.S., a day set aside to honor those who have given or risked their lives, endured hardships and put themselves in the service of their country in military service. The same date, November…