These are the two gift samplers mentioned earlier. The one on the left is the one Carole made for Randee, and the one on the right is the one WeatherGirl did for Athena.
While I was there on Saturday with my tripod I took various random pictures, including this shot of one of the two spiffy new hand-painted ceilings that were done by Lisa Johannes as part of the rennovation of the Stevens County Museum.
The discussion of this over on Flickr has been interesting. I was especially struck by a comment from Eryximachos (who has a cool photo stream) that he had initially thought it was done with Photoshop. I hadn’t thought about it that way at all until I read the comment, but immediately saw where he was coming from when I did. I was drawn to the image in part because of the incongruity of the chandelier hanging down from “the sky” with the birds flying around it, which is exactly the kind of thing that Magritte did in paint and Pedro Meyer has done with digital image editing (I highly recommend Meyer’s wonderful Truths and fictions CD-ROM).
And then one could riff on how hip-hop turntabling grew in part from kids thinking that things they were hearing on the radio were being mixed “live” when in fact they had been spliced together in the studio. But not today…
The construction of reality is an amazing thing.
