Derivative Works

Year: 2006

  • New Wesley Willis Art Site

    Here’s a new site about Wesley Willis Art, The Art of Wesley Willis. They have a shit-ton of great images of his work organized by subject matter: The Spot (Dan Ryan), Skylines, Transportation, McDonalds, and misc. It also has a gallery for images of Wesley himself. I’m pretty sure this one was taken at the…

  • My Subscriptions > Nial Kennedy’s Weblog

    So I thought I’d try something new. I’ve never done the typical blogging thing– "I saw this thing, here’s a link, here’s what I think about". The other thing is that I currently have SubscriptionBloat in my Bloglines account with 125 feeds. I care about maybe 1/2 of them. So what I’m going to do…

  • Text Wrangler for PDF Text Cleanup

    I manage the website for my parish, which means that I get a PDF of the weekly bulletin on Wednesday, the day that it also goes to the printer, JS Paluch. Going from PDF to posts is pretty easy, except for one thing: the carriage returns. Carriage returns are necessary in PDFs (and/or the native…

  • Katherine Harris is A Complete Loon

    And the NYT goes to some lengths to document that today: Senate Contender in Florida Presses On She is especially animated when the topic turns to animals, including the guide dog she plans to train starting in November. She will care for the dog for 18 months, spending nearly all her waking hours with it.…

  • Quilling is Paper Filigree

    I just found out about quilling. Pretty intricate stuff. Quilling is the art of creating decorative designs from thin strips of curled paper. Using simple tools, long strips of paper are tightly wound and released to form complex shapes. Also called paper filigree, it is believed the art has been practiced since ancient Egyptian and/or…