Conventional Artistic Medium As we work our way towards our featured artist and her unique medium, let’s first take a look at conventional art mediums. Conventional art mediums can have beautiful results. The include: Pastels, pencil, charcoal, chalk, oils, watercolors, acrylic…. Semi-sequitur: How to Draw a Sardine Unconventional Artistic Medium Artists are only limited by […]
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In yesterday’s post about climate change, I didn’t have space/time/continuum to post my favorite cartoon related to climate change: Turns out, as it was meant to turn out, that this is a pretty famous New Yorker cartoon by Tom Toro. Pretty cool (and inspiring) interview on NPR on how Tom Toro got his first cartoon […]
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Thanks to Unindicted Co-conspirator #1 for today’s post. One of my early trips to Africa was with a Canadian Trade Mission, sponsored by the federal government to promote international business development. The trip took us through Kenya, Uganda and South Africa and in each country we met with various businessmen to look for opportunities to […]
Thanks to Unindicted Co-conspirator #1 for today’s topic. Margaret Hamilton – pioneer in Computer Science, designer of the on-board Apollo flight software, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama. She also coined the term “software engineering.” Presidential Medal of Freedom The very first contract NASA issued for the Apollo program (in August 1961) […]