If you are planning on using your iPhone as a camera consider bringing a battery pack for it. You can easily exhaust the built-in one in a day. HDR sucks down the battery, and be sure to stabilize the phone for those HDR pictures. Panorama 360 was fun. Images saved
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cartoon life: Travel packing rules
1) no books 2) no books 3) no books 4) fewer clothes 5) more money 6) no books 7) no books 8) no wheelchairs 9) fewer clothes 10) more money Filed under: art
Continue readingcartoon life: The Pantheon 2
The 1700 year old part. Filed under: art Tagged: italy, Rome
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Raphael sleeps here. Filed under: art Tagged: italy, Rome
Continue readingcartoon life: The wall outside Vatican City
All the secrets are inside. Filed under: art Tagged: italy, Rome, Vatican, wall
Continue readingcartoon life: The Sistine Chapel roof
Just about the only reason, really, to see the Vatican. Filed under: art Tagged: italy, Vatican
Continue readingcartoon life: Rome Vespa girl
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Continue readingcartoon life: From the hotel at Pozzuoli near Naples
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Continue readingPostArctica: Walter Benjamin – The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Probably the most important essay I have ever read in terms of becoming an artist, and understanding the political and art historical aspects of Photography. “ The uniqueness of a work of art is inseparable from its being imbedded in the fabric of tradition. This tradition itself is thoroughly alive
Continue readingcartoon life: Uffizzi two
Two and more hours in the Uffizzi. Aside from the absurdity of trying to apply a rational (perspective) system to an insane irrational scene of slaughter, and as this is only one of three panels, I can see how The Battle of San Romano drove Ucello insane. Huge crowds. Hot
Continue readingcartoon life: Uffizzi one
There was no way I could have drawn this, like I naively thought I might have been able too. The room was hot and filled periodically with waves of people admiring famous paintings. Astoundingly you can get within a foot or so to actually see the thing. Filed under: art
Continue readingcartoon life: Uffizzi three
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Continue readingcartoon life: Across S Basilio harbour
Our last day in Venice,,two days ago now, a fog lay dense across the harbour, as far as we could see, which wasn’t very far into the fog. You can still see a bit of the atmosphere in this sketch. Filed under: art Tagged: Sketches app, venice
Continue readingcartoon life: Corniglia from San Bernadino
Been away from WiFi for a while. Posted a few drawings from Florence today at the Tumblr blog dougsamu.tumblr.com. I’ll catch up on some past work here. Soon. If you’re coming to Italy, don’t bring a wheelchair, and use your GPS. This is from Sketches app. Finding a very sure way
Continue readingcartoon life: Basilio harbour station Venice
I did the bottom part, the buildings and water in Paper app. The watercolour brush is just too fussy to get a big flat wash, so I imported from photo app and dropped in the sky in Sketches app with the big watercolour brush. That is the only cloud I’ve
Continue readingcartoon life: Facade in Murano
In Murano, down the lane from the second Actv stop at Faro. A small cafe and a view of a small marble building. It was hot and blazing bright. Filed under: art
Continue readingcartoon life: Venice chimney pots
Some chimney pots in Venice. Part of a larger drawing in Sketches app. Kind off king up a way t work in that app. Once again, the brushes are much more capable than those in Paper app by 53. Filed under: art
Continue readingThings Are Good: Community Canoes to Help Bees and Butterflies
A new initiative in Toronto is trying to help the local ecosystem and bring people closer to nature through canoes. Not by paddling, but by bringing bees and butterflies to the canoes. The core idea is to help pollinators in the city survive by creating little sanctuaries on land using
Continue readingcartoon life: Eiffel’s Tower
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Continue readingPostArctica: Lisa Ross “After Night”
Having previously photographed ritual objects and burial sites of the Uyghur people of Western China in the series, Living Shrines, she has created a new series that documents the surprising number of beds to be found, apparently in the middle of nowhere, in the landscape outside of the Uyghur community.
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