Thursday Challenge: Technology (again) -

"Technology II"
digital collage by Mick Mather
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"... once a new technology rolls over you,

if you're not part of the steamroller,
you're part of the road ..."
- Stewart Brand

Life imitating art or vice versa -

"Close Up"
digital collage by Mick Mather
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"... life imitates art far more than art imitates life ..."
- Oscar Wilde

NEW from the Faux Slide Set Series -

"Slide Seven"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"...there will be times when you will be in the field without a camera. And, you will see the most glorious sunset or the most beautiful scene that you have ever witnessed. Don't be bitter because you can't record it. Sit down, drink it in, and enjoy it for what it is ..."
- DeGriff

Click your heels together three times -

"The Red Shoe"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... I'm goin' out tonight in my red high heels ..."
- Kellie Pickler

The heart is a lonely hunter -

"Dear in the Headlights"
digital collage by Mick Mather
"... my heart is a lonely hunter
that hunts on a lonely hill ..."
- William Sharp

See me -

"A Pair of Glasses"
digitally manipulated drawing & collage by Mick Mather

"... my grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't
need glasses; drinks right out of the bottle ..."
- Henny Youngman

Illustration Friday: Old-Fashioned -

"Old-Fashioned"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... computers will never replace good
old-fashioned human stupidity ..."
- Unknown

Thursday Challenge: Fun (again) -

"Fun II"
digitally manipulated photograph by Mick Mather

"... everything being a constant carnival,
there is no carnival left ..."
- Victor Hugo

NEW from the Revolution Series -

"Revolution Three"
digital drawing & collage by Mick Mather

"... don't you know it's gonna be alright ..."
- The Beatles

Relativity?

"Sisters III"
digital collage & painting by Mick Mather

"... sisters never quite forgive each other
for what happened when they were five ..."
- Pam Brown

Downloaded -

"Down in the Basement"
manipulated digital photograph by Mick Mather

"... Johnny's in the basement,
mixin' up the medicine,
I'm on the pavement,
thinkin' about the government ..."
- Bob Dylan

Do-re-mi -

"Charting the Music of a Sphere"
digital drawing & collage by Mick Mather

"... O music! sphere-descended maid,
friend of pleasure, wisdom's aid ..."
- William Collins

Tropicana -

"Beach House"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... why do we love the sea; it's because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think ..."
- Robert Henri

Illustration Friday: Acrobat -

"Acrobat"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... throw your heart over the bars
and your body will follow ..."
- unknown trapeze artist

Thursday Challenge: School -

"School"
digitally manipulated photo collage by Mick Mather

"... I never let schooling interfere with my education ..."
- Mark Twain

Will annoy for food -

"Seagull"
tempera-on-paper painting by Mick Mather
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"... one meteorologist remarked that if the theory were correct, one flap of a seagull's wings would be enough to alter the course of the weather forever ..."
- Konrad Lorenz

Say it again, times ten -

"Revolution Ten"
digital drawing & collage by Mick Mather

"... well, you know ..."
- The Beatles

Before the sub-division -

"Pitcher's Farm"
digitally manipulated photograph by Mick Mather

"... when lightning strikes, the mouse
is sometimes burned with the farm ..."
- Phyllis Bottome

Moving toward the summer equinox -

"End of Summer"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... when summer gathers up her robes of glory,
and, like a dream, glides away ..."
- Sarah Helen Whitman

Kick the tires -

"Brand New Model"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... style is a matter of one's instinct ..."
- Bill Blass

Illustration Friday: Proverb -

"Selfportrait of the Artist Illustrating a Proverb"

digital collage by Mick Mather
"...musick has charms to sooth a savage breast ..."
- William Congreve

from, The Mourning Bride, 1697:
Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast
To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.
I've read, that things inanimate have mov'd,
And, as with living Souls, have been inform'd,
By Magick Numbers and persuasive Sound.
What then am I? Am I more senseless grown
Than Trees, or Flint? O force of constant Woe!
'Tis not in Harmony to calm my Griefs.
Anselmo sleeps, and is at Peace; last Night
The silent Tomb receiv'd the good Old King;
He and his Sorrows now are safely lodg'd
Within its cold, but hospitable Bosom.
Why am not I at Peace?

A chorus line -

"Dance to the Music"
manipulated digital photograph by Mick Mather
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"... those who danced were considered to be quite insane
by those who could not hear the music ..."
- Angela Monet

Ignorant of a watery grave -

"Waterlily"
digitally manipulated photograph by Mick Mather

"... swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying,
in sweetness, not in music, dying ..."
- John Greenleaf Whittier

I've seen the elephant -

"Striking the Big Top"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... time is a circus, always packing up and moving away ..."
- Ben Hecht

Town & Country -

"Parked and Locked"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... life is like riding a bicycle,
to keep your balance
you must keep moving ..."
- Albert Einstein

Save nine -

"Flying in the Face of Fashion"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... the stitch is lost unless the thread be knotted ..."
- Italian Proverb

Stop breaking down -

"Teetering on the Edge of Entropy"
digital collage by Mick Mather

en-tro-py:
inevitable and steady deterioration of a system or society

Illustration Friday: Dessert -

"Sister Existence Goes Out for Dessert"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... life is short, eat dessert first ..."
- Jacques Torres

Thursday Challenge: Technology -

"Technology"
manipulated digital collage by Mick Mather

"... one machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men,
no machine can do the work of one extraordinary man ..."
- Elbert Hubbard

Stripes and checks -

"The Plaid Shirt"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy ..."
- Albert Einstein