Thursday Challenge: Curved -

"Curved"
digital photograph by Mick Mather
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"... and the teeny, tiny spider weaved
a hanger for his spring coat ..."
- Unknown

Not in Kansas anymore -

"Whirling Away"
digital drawing by Mick Mather

"... it looked like a tornado was inside of the house ..."
- Wesley Hollingsworth

Sawing wood -

"A Roofer's Midnight Dream"
digital collage by Mick Mather
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"... 'come to the edge', he said;
'we are afraid', they said;
'come to the edge', he said;
they came;
he pushed them
and they flew ..."
- Guillaume Apollinaire

Leighlund sent a card -

"Diagramming Poppa's Birthday Card"
digital drawing & collage by Mick Mather
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"... the first hundred years are the hardest ..."
- Wilson Mizner

And lay siege against it -

"A Siege Machine at the Castle Gate"
digital drawing & collage by Mick Mather
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"... and set battering rams against it round about ..."
- The Bible

NEW from The Mister Existence Series -

"Mister Existence and His Dog Scare the Fish"
digitally manipulated fractal flame & drawing by Mick Mather

"... the dog went running and splashing and thumping,
I helped him scare fishes there, leaping and jumping ..."
- Mister Existence

Illustration Friday: Midsummer Night -

"Selfportrait of the Artist On A Midsummer Night"
digital collage by Mick Mather

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"... some praise the Lord for light,
the living spark;
I thank God for the night,
the healing dark ..."
- Robert William Service

Thursday Challenge: Wooden -

"Wooden"
digital photograph by Mick Mather
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"... proclaiming the message
day after day after day,
the delivery was wooden,
ever unchanged, by rote ..."
- Unknown

Oy!

"The Juggler"
digitally manipulated painting by Mick Mather

"... my grandmother was a Jewish juggler:
she used to worry about six things at once ..."
- Richard Lewis

NEW from The Trinity Series -

"Trinity #26 - 3343 Milton Readymade"
manipulated digital photograph by Mick Mather

It's been some time since I've posted anything from The Trinity Series. I've had this particular image in the files for at least two years - to illustrate the point - and I have every good intention of doing a few more throughout the summer.

Ya-da-ta, ya-da-ta, ya-da-ta -

"The Nag"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... people have a way of becoming
what you encourage them to be,
not what you nag them to be ..."
- Unknown

Judge not -

"The Book and the Cover"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... good judgment comes from experience,
experience comes from bad judgment ..."
- Bob Packwood

From the mountain to the sea -

"Packed and Ready"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... every horse thinks its own pack heaviest ..."
- Thomas Fuller

Illustration Friday: Launch -

"Ancient Launch Pad of Tanak"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... anachronistic, obsolete,
counting down to the salvage torch ..."
- Unknown

Thursday Challenge: Liquid -

"Liquid"
manipulated digital photograph by Mick Mather

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"... upon the brink of a wild stream
he stood, and dreamt a mighty dream ..."
- Alexander Pushkin

O' silent moon -

"Fido's Great Temptation"

digital collage by Mick Mather

"... then a dog began to howl
somewhere in a farming house
far down the road ..."
- Bram Stoker

Heading east -

"The Rising Sun"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... with each sunrise, we start anew ..."
- Unknown

Dinner at a diner -

"A Booth in the Back"
digital collage by Mick Mather
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"... the diner is everybody's kitchen ..."
- Richard Gutman

Heather lowper -

"Biggin on the Ben"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... it's a sad house where the hen
crows louder than the cock ..."
- Scottish Proverb

Infested by the carbon units -

"Escort for the Mother Ship"
digital collage by Mick Mather
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"... your child is having a tantrum Mr. Spock ..."
- Dr. McCoy

Illustration Friday: Swept -

"The Marble Players"
digital collage by Mick Mather
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"... clearances, air, swept the ground,
playing for fair, knuckling down ..."
- Unknown

Thursday Challenge: Music -

"Selfportrait of the Artist as the Singer Not the Song"
digitally manipulated photograph by Mick Mather
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"... the same old places and the same old songs,
we've been going there for much too long ..."
- Jagger/Richards

NEW from The Revolution Series -

"Revolution Four"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... you can never have a revolution
in order to establish a democracy,
you must have a democracy
in order to have a revolution ..."
- G. K. Chesterton

Pack 'em in -

"Sardines"
tempera-on-paper by Mick Mather
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"... life is rather like a tin of sardines,
we're all of us looking for the key ..."
- Alan Bennett

If not today, tomorrow -

"June 6, 1944"

digital collage by Mick Mather
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"... rangers, lead the way ..."
- Col. Francis W. Dawson

Tell us the truth -

"Declassified II"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... the national security apparatus
has got to take full cognizance
of their responsibility for the
safeguarding of classified information ..."
- Michael Mullen

Wrong distance -

"Powering the Lines of Communication"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... the more elaborate our means of communication,
the less we communicate ..."
- Joseph Priestley

Illustration Friday: Shadows -

"The Shadow of Doubt"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... worry often gives a small thing a big shadow ..."
- Unknown

Thursday Challenge: Home -

"Home"
manipulated digital photograph by Mick Mather
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"... when I can no longer bear to think
of the victims of broken homes,
I begin to think of the victims of intact ones ..."
- Peter De Vries

Grinding the gears -

"Alone With Her Thoughts"
digital drawing & collage by Mick Mather
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"... did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again ..."
- Winnie the Pooh