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August 1st, 2015
Natasha Oilver and her friends had just gone to see a World Cup match and stopped to rest and take some pictures near a house under construction in the ancient English town of Wem, Shropfordshire. Later, looking through their photos, they noticed something that caught their eye; an image that appears to be that of a ghostly woman and baby peering through a second-story window.
July 31st, 2015
My results: "You got 9 out of 9 right! Superhuman Vision You can see every color in the spectrum and then some. Your vision defies conventional logic, and is on par with Superman. You probably even have X-ray vision and can see the future as well." The blue and purple were the harder ones to discern.
July 30th, 2015
What is it called when one human resembles another human of a different blood type? A doppelgänger. And according to James Martin, it's been something of a curse as of late.
"Although he has cashed in on his close similarity to the Dublin star by working as a Farrell impersonator, single James said: “I’m single and struggle to get a nice girl.
“They assume I’m a typical hell-raising womaniser, and some [women] are weird about how much I look like Colin.
“Some [women] I don’t like, as they like Colin and I’m worried it’s not me they actually like.”"
Read more: http://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/irish-showbiz/colin-farrell-lookalike-unlucky-love-6124654
July 27th, 2015
More commonly known is the 'M' on most foreheads of tabby cats, less known is the dog that is on the face of most ducks - the Duck-Bill Dog! Resemblances exist when we give them attention, try it yourself for some mental ascension.
July 26th, 2015
In our latest Extraction we find our selves deep in a ocean cave with Orcinus orca as we ascend from some cave exploring. Get your canvas print today!
July 25th, 2015
While sitting in the waiting area of the Department of Public Safety with my Turn-O-Matic ticket that said I was number 59 in the G line, I quickly recognized a resemblance. The black triangle, letting you know to pull down and towards you, looks like a nostril at the end of a snout and the tear away tabs at the top become ears. This new image is available at my on-line store where you can choose to have this on a throw pillow, greeting card, shower curtain or tote bag to name a few.
July 25th, 2015
Did you know da Vinci, in his book A Treatise on Painting, spoke on the subject of Recognizing Resemblances? What a perfect name for a horse sporting a resemblance of a horse! Excerpt from Chap. CLXIII.—The Method of awakening the Mind to a Variety of Inventions.
"I will not omit to introduce among these precepts a new kind of speculative invention, which though apparently trifling, and almost laughable, is nevertheless of great utility in assisting the genius to find variety for composition.
By looking attentively at old and smeared walls, or stones and veined marble of various colours, you may fancy that you see in them several compositions, landscapes, battles, figures in quick motion, strange countenances, and dresses, with an infinity of other objects. By these confused lines the inventive genius is excited to new exertions." Read more page 84: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46915/46915-h/46915-h.htm
Da Vinci the foal was born at 5am on the 27th of May over at the Fyling Hall School and is world famous due to the Resemblance of a horse's profile complete with its own distinct mane!
July 24th, 2015
Delicate strands of extraordinarily thin ice grow out of rotting tree branches like hairs on a head. The ephemeral hair ice can last for only a few hours to a few days if the temperature stays freezing. Researchers have known since 2005 that cold-tolerant fungi are responsible for the tufts of ice, but only recently uncovered the species responsible for the ice growth, the chemical composition of the melted hair ice, and just how the fungi stimulate the unique ice growth. It was first described almost 100 years ago in 1918 by geophysicist and meteorologist Alfred Wegener (who is famous for originating the theory of continental drift in 1912). At that time, he proposed that the unusual ice formation was probably due to fungus growing on the damp and decomposing wood.
February 17th, 2015
My earliest Extractions were from my own scribbles. Then, I created work that involved the patron by Extracting Resemblances from their scribbles. I also began to Extract from drip paintings on canvas treating them like scribbles and adding tonal gradation and color to the white background between the lines.
Considering Jackson Pollock's intent was to free line from the representational image and make it a function of pure movement, I thought it the natural next progression in art history's break down of the image from representational to abstract to now come back around in the cycle and build the image back up - using a Pollock of course.
I chose No. 14 also titled 'Gray'. Beautiful black lines laid down over a still-wet gessoed back ground. This gives the lines a kind of gray halo. I will use color and shading to ferret out a scene of representational art and will post it here as soon as it is done.
February 12th, 2015
Our Extractionist today is an Italian by the name of Antonio Lo Pinto who took a photo of the Mountain overlooking Tower, in the locality of Cozzo di Sopra, Province of Palermo. People have begun to flock to the town to see what resembles the iconic Madonna.
