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Happy New Year!

Blog Bling

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Blog Surfing

Self Replicating Art

Quando

Departure Girl

Sharon Chekroun

I just received an email from Sharon Chekroun announcing her web site. These are exquisitely beautiful images and I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. [Link]

Appetizers

Spadina Blues

Toronto, Ontario.

Street of Regret

Seasons Greetings

All the best of the holiday season and every happiness in the new year.

Computation City

The Memory of Her Kiss

Sweet Songs

All the World's a Stage

Dancing in the Dark

Enjoy these beautiful images by Sonja Benskin Mesher.

Since Time Began

For the wise, there is only this timeless moment.

Falling Leaves of October

Another Fall Scene. Ajax, Ontario by the lake.

Leaped at the Sun

Alack, it was I who leaped at the sun
To give it my loving friends to keep!
Nought man could do, have I left undone:
And you see my harvest, what I reap
This very day, now a year is run.

Robert Browning

Song of the Volga Boatman

Nightshift on the Volga.

Sunrise

He who binds to himself a joy, doth the winged life destroy.
He who kisses the joy as it flies, lives in eternities sunrise.

William Blake

A thought for the day.

Never, ever give up.

The Instair Special Edition

The Instair Special Edition has just been published presenting the works of a number of Webists, including myself. There are lots of fabulous images here, so treat yourself to a few hours of great art by some fabulous artists. Just click here, or the banner below.

Webism Calendar

This year's Webism calendar is now available. Featuring the work of 12 amazing Webism artists, this is bound to be a collector's item.

Jazz Fans

Some Jazz fans at this Summer's Beaches Jazz Festival in Toronto. Done Van Gogh style, I have to say that this painting captures the mood of the evening exactly.

The Woodshed

Turneresque digital painting of an old woodshed. Buy me for only $6.19.

Beaches Jazz Festival

A street scene with street musicians from this summers Beaches Jazz Festival in Toronto, Ontario. Buy me for only $6.19

Still Life with Flowers

A quiet meditation. Buy me for only $6.19

Taki Tiki

For Tiki Fans.

One Golden Day

Okay. I am missing September already.

A la Carte

Some holiday buzz from the menu.

A Tale of Two Turtles

It's turtles all the way down.

The Love Bug

Nanopotion.

Crazy 8

Infinity beacons.

Festive Birds II

A goose in every pot.

Festive Birds

Destiny calls.

Miniature Resort

Ethereal and lovely.

High C

Setting the tone.

Bill Carter camping in Algonquin Park

Meditations on nature: a digital oil painting.

Adiemus

In love with beauty.

Ask Me Now

The Oracle is within.

Everything is Abstract

Everything is abstract if we know how to look. All the many things that we see in everyday life are like the children's game of finding lions, tigers and other imaginary things in the fleeting shapes and patterns formed by the clouds in the sky. Our perceptions tell us that the phenomena of everyday life are solid and permanent. Just like the clouds in the sky, though, they are fluid with only arbitrary boundaries and are constantly being blown apart by the wind of time. When we purify our perception of the habit of solidifying patterns, all the myriad things shine as luminous, pure appearance.

Mike Butler

Sacred Secret Place

I take it as a given that everything has as it's essence a kind of radiant goodness, a wild, unstoppable breeze of fresh, spring-like air. That this is so, I have no doubt. After all, everyone loves something, even if it's only ice cream.

This is the true path of the artist, to find the radiant, unstainable goodness of human existence and express it through her art.

Mike Butler

Your Mind is Everything. Everything is Your Mind.

Things to think about today:

"It from bit symbolises the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom - at a very deep bottom, in most instances - an immaterial source and explanation; that which we call reality arises in the last analysis from the posing of yes-no questions and the registering of equipment-evoked responses; in short, that things physical are information-theoretic in origin."

John Wheeler

"Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of the universe"

Freeman Dyson

"Everything is in it's nature of the mind. Being of the mind, there is nothing, not even the smallest thing, such as an atom or a mote of dust, which is not of this same mind nature."

HH The Sixteenth Karmapa of Tibet

Mother and Child

Here is a nice write-up on the Dracula Project by some Webist friends on Absolute Arts.

Sunbonnet Blue

And a yellow straw hat.

Lovers

That's Amore.

Who Could Ask for Anything More

Contentment.