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The history of hallelujah

Yesterday I heard a program from BBC called Heart and Soul.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005jlys

The story was about the history of the word, hallelujah. It featured the song Hallelujah written by Leonard Cohen. I started looking for the song and found it had been performed many times by many people. I have been singing it all day and woke [...]

Disability art contest

I got a postcard from VSA arts this past week asking me to participate in a collaborative art project.

The challenge is to define my concept of disability.

I have worked with the disability community for many years and have heard some of the experiences. Some feel that disability means lack of opportunity, respect and access. This is all [...]

Flaming illustrations

One of the best things I discovered this past summer were flame fractals.

These are different from your regular Mandelbrot set fractals. Flame fractals have a whole different set of rules.

This is a flame fractal

Many Mandelbrot fractals, as on the Fractalus site are created and displayed for their own beauty. Flame fractals are too, by many artists. But [...]

Mean People

abusers keep you off balance

I have been doing sketches for a series about abusive people and how they delight in making us miserable.

I thought of several working titles like, The Abusive Person or Bullies something or other. Not great. Not even good.  Those titles seemed too sanitary. I was talking to a friend about [...]