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Time Lapse

<div style="font: 12px Arial; margin: 0px;"><b><iframe frameborder="0" height="225" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/23205323?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400"></iframe></b></div><b><a href="http://vimeo.com/23205323">El Cielo de Canarias / Canary sky - Tenerife</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/elcielodecanarias">Daniel López</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</b><br /><div style="font: 12px Arial; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font: 12px Arial; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Here's a fascinating time lapse montage showing changing weather and night illumination on the island of Tenerife. The explanation (links take you to more information):</b></span></div><blockquote>Visible in the <a href="http://vimeo.com/23205323"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">above time-lapse movie</span></a> include clouds that seem to flow like water, a setting sun that shows numerous <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110104.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">green flash</span></a>es, the Milky Way Galaxy rising behind towering plants, a colorful double <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100504.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">fogbow</span></a>, <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090203.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">lenticular clouds</span></a> that appear stationary near their mountain peaks, and colorful <a href="http://www.atoptics.co.uk/droplets/cormoon.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">moon coronas</span></a>. The <a href="http://vimeo.com/23205323"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">above video</span></a> was shot solely from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teide_National_Park"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Teide National Park</span></a> on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRprZWKI98w"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Tenerife</span></a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Islands"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Canary Islands</span></a> of <a href="http://www.ilike2learn.com/ilike2learn/Western%20Europe.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Spain</span></a>, off the north west coast of <a href="http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/af.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Africa</span></a>. The video also features an unusual type of plant in several scenes -- <a href="http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=110516"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">can you identify it?</span></a></blockquote><div style="font: 12px Arial; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font: 12px Arial; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110516.html">Astronomy Picture of the Day video</a></b></span></div><div style="font: 12px Arial; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://johnj.com/">Thanks, John J.</a></span></div><div style="font: 12px Arial; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></div>

Time Lapse

El Cielo de Canarias / Canary sky - Tenerife from Daniel López on Vimeo . Here's a fascinating time lapse montage showing changing wea...

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Sharks: The monsters tamed

Sharks: The monsters tamed

Peter Benchley (1940-2006) and Steven Spielberg taught us to fear sharks. But this video presents a different image of them. When Benchley ...

8:07 AM

Exploring Infinity with Geometric Doodles

Exploring Infinity with Geometric Doodles

Improve your doodling to the Nth degree by watching this video by Vi Hart. Via Best of YouTube Link to YouTube video Vi Hart's Website ,...

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Three Years of Daily Doodles

Three Years of Daily Doodles

Larry Roibal has been doodling portraits of famous people on his newspaper for three years now, and posting the results on his blog. To cel...

11:18 AM

Bicycle Wheel Anemometer

Bicycle Wheel Anemometer

How to make an spinning sound gadget from cheap stuff you can find around the house. File it under the category of “Utterly useless eccentri...

10:12 AM

Book Trailer Contest

When my last book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Imaginative-Realism-Paint-Doesnt-Exist/dp/0740785508/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_2"><i>Imaginative Realism</i></a> came out, blog reader GooGooSupreme suggested a book trailer contest, and you came through with <a href="http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2009/11/book-trailer-contest.html">fabulous entries</a>. There was everything from a poetic image montage using pictures from the blog to some really cool animation by a high school film class and a claymation caricature of me, complete with the high gray socks. <br /><br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeoY7ourvO2Rpw9MQJyBiE6UQED46WYfLX2CWJrb3gFVsK2XoAK0aNvXKJjq1_tkeLDR87rTFb20wa30O87TifndD8Wh0mKBtNJjRY3JCI6poisAiQrU5hr1DDhu2JTly3xechViKNJMs/s1600/Rainbow_Remarque.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeoY7ourvO2Rpw9MQJyBiE6UQED46WYfLX2CWJrb3gFVsK2XoAK0aNvXKJjq1_tkeLDR87rTFb20wa30O87TifndD8Wh0mKBtNJjRY3JCI6poisAiQrU5hr1DDhu2JTly3xechViKNJMs/s400/Rainbow_Remarque.JPG" width="400" /></a><br />Let’s do the same thing for <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Color-Light-Guide-Realist-Painter/dp/0740797719/ref=pd_ts_b_16?ie=UTF8&s=books"><i>Color and Light.</i></a> It can be live action or animation. It can be a wacky gag or magic trick, a practical how-to demo, a poetic art piece, a group project by a film class, or a personal reflection about something you learned from the book. If you have a camera or a  cellphone that shoots video, you've got all the tools you need. No  experience necessary. It can be as simple as talking into your webcam,  or it can be as fancy as a scripted, edited piece with music and sound  effects.<br /><br /><b>Here are the rules: </b><br />1. The contest is open to anyone of any age worldwide.<br />2. Videos must be three minutes or less.<br />3. It has to somehow relate to <i>Color and Light</i>, and it has to be something that you created. You don't  even need to own the book; you can create a video that uses content from  GurneyJourney blog posts if you want. But at some point it must either show the cover of <i>Color and Light </i>OR the presenter must mention the title on camera (not just voice-over).<br />4. Post your video on YouTube. Send the YouTube URL link to: jgurneyart@yahoo.com, subject line VIDEO.<br />5. Deadline is May 1, 2011.<br />6. Videos are exhibited on the blog on May 15, with links back to your website if you want.<br />7. Winners and runners-up will be chosen by popular vote on a blog poll; That decision is final. <br /><br /><b>Prizes</b><br />Everyone who enters will receive a signed and remarqued copy of the Color and Light poster. The two runners-up will each get their choice of one signed and remarqued book from the Dinotopia Store: (Chandara, I.R. or C&L or Drawing Made Easy). Winner will get the actual book that I decorated in “Painting Rainbows” as well as one other signed and remarqued book (in print) of their choice from the <a href="http://www.dinotopia.com/dinotopia-store.html">Dinotopia Store</a>.<br /><br />Good luck and have fun.<br />----<br /><a href="http://www.dinotopia.com/dinotopia-store.html">Dinotopia Store</a><br />Previously:<a href="http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2009/11/book-trailer-contest.html"> I. R. Book Trailer Results</a>

Book Trailer Contest

When my last book, Imaginative Realism came out, blog reader GooGooSupreme suggested a book trailer contest, and you came through with fabu...

4:54 PM

Making of Painting Rainbows

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRf7mL6PE_KQ_0KYL9qPFisTIqBmS9WpgwCeKbknPg7E7r3lzLVnsW2JpCaaxULWkxGYnrwPP4ILoKGbjk1DkVN_xLl2BAWFuCSrLhRlA1kL5rtDkz6-1mXJKgAh-RwkuHS16aM68LOBE/s1600/Bike_Camera_Rig.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>A couple of you asked about the making of the book trailer video “<a href="http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2011/02/painting-rainbows.html">Painting Rainbows</a>” which aired yesterday.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRf7mL6PE_KQ_0KYL9qPFisTIqBmS9WpgwCeKbknPg7E7r3lzLVnsW2JpCaaxULWkxGYnrwPP4ILoKGbjk1DkVN_xLl2BAWFuCSrLhRlA1kL5rtDkz6-1mXJKgAh-RwkuHS16aM68LOBE/s1600/Bike_Camera_Rig.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br /><b>Lighting and Effects</b><br />My wife Jeanette pulled the color cards and operated the smoke machine. There’s a shimmering light effect to the left of the camera path between :22 and :27. It’s a caustic pattern that I got by reflecting sunlight off an undulating surface of water on a cookie sheet, which bounced the light up onto a movie screen.<br /><br />I filmed that caustic reflection in HD and then projected it from a digital projector (visible on the C-stand to the left of the studio photo below). The smoke effect was a blast from a Memorex fog machine (Thanks, Frank).<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRf7mL6PE_KQ_0KYL9qPFisTIqBmS9WpgwCeKbknPg7E7r3lzLVnsW2JpCaaxULWkxGYnrwPP4ILoKGbjk1DkVN_xLl2BAWFuCSrLhRlA1kL5rtDkz6-1mXJKgAh-RwkuHS16aM68LOBE/s1600/Bike_Camera_Rig.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRf7mL6PE_KQ_0KYL9qPFisTIqBmS9WpgwCeKbknPg7E7r3lzLVnsW2JpCaaxULWkxGYnrwPP4ILoKGbjk1DkVN_xLl2BAWFuCSrLhRlA1kL5rtDkz6-1mXJKgAh-RwkuHS16aM68LOBE/s400/Bike_Camera_Rig.JPG" width="400" /></a><br /><b>Camera</b><br />The HD film was shot on a Canon Vixia HV40 and edited in iMovie. I shot the tabletop flyover using a homemade suspended camera rig. The rig was mounted to the end of an extension arm that reached out from a C-stand strapped to a bicycle. By steering the bike I could fly the camera an inch or two above the tabletop, giving a dolly shot with some steerability (and some wobble due to the knobby tires).<br /><br />The dissolve to the Chandara artwork masked the switch to a reset camera rig at the end of an extension arm on a circular pivot from a floor-mounted C-stand to the left of the table, rotated with my right hand as I reached for the box. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrLjEpbdJ9iFEyfZpB26ZTImGnhNuA_FHYMw2xqZ63wjStBe5jv-BhoAyzTflPkq2Ai-mAf1c4xeLlwBBd4DLAE8lG4D53Y5vbJNjn57b10o1AzdzY3RtkRIuSM9GJznn7Xk6b3p38CoM/s1600/Rainbow_Stuff.sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrLjEpbdJ9iFEyfZpB26ZTImGnhNuA_FHYMw2xqZ63wjStBe5jv-BhoAyzTflPkq2Ai-mAf1c4xeLlwBBd4DLAE8lG4D53Y5vbJNjn57b10o1AzdzY3RtkRIuSM9GJznn7Xk6b3p38CoM/s400/Rainbow_Stuff.sm.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><b><br />Sound </b><br />There are a number of “whoosh” effects added, along with some audio enhancement during the assembly of the toolkit, using gun cocks, lock clicks, and squeaks. All are copyright free sounds, as was the musical piece “Sanskrit,” which came with the iMovie suite (Thanks, Apple!)<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIoEhO7dyXOUj-SZ3p8TReJRNtKmhJN8VglhNzf7MpqvnW91hx70wT4GWJLiOX5sMFRD6EeA8PoFAHJEsZGMPwMqBc3csU9dsRy2Dg81B5HRGrp_Auyb7-s8wflC4j2zO1NzQOZBmYH3Q/s1600/Yurmby_Paints.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIoEhO7dyXOUj-SZ3p8TReJRNtKmhJN8VglhNzf7MpqvnW91hx70wT4GWJLiOX5sMFRD6EeA8PoFAHJEsZGMPwMqBc3csU9dsRy2Dg81B5HRGrp_Auyb7-s8wflC4j2zO1NzQOZBmYH3Q/s400/Yurmby_Paints.JPG" width="400" /></a><br /><b> Brushes and Paint</b><br />The brush is a Winsor and Newton Series 995 3/4 inch held onto the Helix compass with a Tridon hose clamp. The rainbow block has six slots cut with a radial saw with a plywood blade set to a maximum depth of 1/4 inch and spaced apart to a full spread of 7/8 inch.<br /><br />The paints are cheap acrylic paints, most of them $1.00 or $1.50 each at Michaels. They’re fairly close to YURMBY colors: American Bright Yellow, Michaels True Red, Folk Art Magenta, Craftsman Bright Blue, Aqua, and Holiday Green.<br /><br />Total budget for the book trailer, about $9.87.<br />------<br /><a href="http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2011/02/painting-rainbows.html">Link to Painting Rainbows</a>

Making of Painting Rainbows

A couple of you asked about the making of the book trailer video “ Painting Rainbows ” which aired yesterday. Lighting and Effects My wife J...

2:00 PM

Painting Rainbows

It's the final day of Video Week. Today the camera flies through my studio, ending with a demo of how I paint the rainbows in copies of my book <i>Color and Light.</i><br /><i><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="290" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jE7WWmYL91M" title="YouTube video player" width="480"></iframe><br /><br /></i>From now through the month of March, if you order a copy of <i>Color and Light</i> from the <a href="http://www.dinotopia.com/dinotopia-store.html">Dinotopia Store </a>I'll do a similar sketch in your copy.<br /><br />Tomorrow, I'll announce the "Color and Light" Book Trailer Video Contest.<br /><a href="http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2009/11/book-trailer-contest.html">Winners of the 2009 GJ Blogreaders video contest</a><br /> <a href="http://www.dinotopia.com/dinotopia-store.html">Get Color and Light at the Dinotopia Store</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE7WWmYL91M">Direct link to video on YouTube</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/gurneyjourney">GurneyJourney channel on YouTube  </a>

Painting Rainbows

It's the final day of Video Week. Today the camera flies through my studio, ending with a demo of how I paint the rainbows in copies of ...

4:37 AM

Ice Damage

Ice Damage

Video Week, Day 5: Make way for spring! It’s time to put an end to Old Man Winter. -------- Direct Link to YouTube video Previously: Ice Tow...

10:26 AM

Dean Cornwell Paints

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's some archival footage of American illustrator Dean Cornwell at work as he paints an illustration.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="290" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Cs7VY16nTA0" title="YouTube video player" width="480"></iframe> </div><div class="module clearfix" id="description"><div class="datawrap"></div><div class="datawrap"></div><div class="datawrap">The oil painting is from <i>The Robe,</i> by Lloyd Douglas: "And now, with a deft maneuver, Marcellus brought the engagement to a dramatic close."  Click on the image below for a very large scan of the final artwork (Thanks, Joe).</div><div class="datawrap"><br /></div><div class="datawrap"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQJ-xFG-91ph0gHCf9WVe3ovkClJcb8EFkg3oWAisCW6icc72G9RG8XBLXiUkVP_maBoLKlKc-ZeqwHQnWSvZurE4jS_Jm_i0maUYNRN0htCDVA9S_cdxCLVe4uBKi4YykUprBXTfZ-x8/s1600/Cornwell.TheRobe.sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQJ-xFG-91ph0gHCf9WVe3ovkClJcb8EFkg3oWAisCW6icc72G9RG8XBLXiUkVP_maBoLKlKc-ZeqwHQnWSvZurE4jS_Jm_i0maUYNRN0htCDVA9S_cdxCLVe4uBKi4YykUprBXTfZ-x8/s400/Cornwell.TheRobe.sm.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="datawrap">The footage was shot by Frank Reilly in 1947, part of his "Artists at Work" series. According to Reilly himself,  the purpose of the film "is to impress upon us the accomplishments of  those among us now and to perpetuate their memory for the inspiration of  those who are to follow.” <br /><br />Thanks to Mr. Reilly, and thanks to the individuals and institutions who have preserved Reilly's legacy. If anyone knows where the original motion picture film copies are, please let me know.<br /><br /><i>Correction, March 5, 2013: </i>According to one of Cornwell's grandchildren, "Dean was actually ambidextrous and could actually paint with both hands and  apparently sometimes did so simultaneously (I  would guess only if it wasn't great detail). Not a lefty; an ambi."<br />-------<br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Cornwell">Dean Cornwell on Wikipedia</a></div><div class="datawrap"></div><div class="datawrap"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs7VY16nTA0">Direct link to the video on YouTube</a></div><div class="datawrap">Previously on GurneyJourney:</div><div class="datawrap"><a href="http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2011/02/meet-harvey-dunn.html">Meet Harvey Dunn</a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"><span id="goog_941987965"></span>Dean Cornwell in Illustration Magazine </a></div><div class="datawrap"><span id="goog_941987966"></span></div></div>

Dean Cornwell Paints

Here's some archival footage of American illustrator Dean Cornwell at work as he paints an illustration. The oil painting is from The R...

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Meet Harvey Dunn

Here’s a two-minute video with archival footage of Harvey Dunn (1884-1952) as he paints a western character.<br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DdGAR5zaipw" title="YouTube video player" width="480"></iframe><br /><br /><b>About the video</b><br />In the late 1940s, illustrator and teacher Frank Reilly visited the studios of the premier illustrators of his day and filmed their working methods. He used state-of-the-art color film equipment, and in some cases, sound. He filmed Dean Cornwell, Arthur William Brown, F. R. Gruger, Bradshaw Crandall, William Oberhardt, and Harvey Dunn. He called the series “Artists at Work.” The films have been lost for many years, and a few of them have recently resurfaced. <br /><br />The purpose of the Artists at Work series, according to Reilly himself, was “to create a permanent collection of films that will be available to schools, societies, and museums.”<br /><br />In June, 1948, <i>American Artist </i>magazine interviewed Reilly about the project. According to <i>American Artist,</i> Reilly said the series “is intended to impress upon us the accomplishments of those among us now and to perpetuate their memory for the inspiration of those who are to follow. Eventually the collection will be entrusted to some museum or foundation or society where it can continue indefinitely to serve the purpose of its founder. This is a strictly non-profit educational venture, Reilly investing in it thousands of dollars of his own savings and will never receive a penny of the income from rental fees charged for showing the films...The enterprise has been set up legally to assure its operation on this wholly altruistic basis.”<br /><br />I’ve added a brief narration and some sound effects to this silent film. I would like to thank the teachers, institutions, and individuals who have helped preserve and share Mr. Reilly’s wonderful gift to the world of art.<br /><br /><b>Links for further reading</b><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdGAR5zaipw">Direct link to this video on YouTube</a><br /><br />Harvey Dunn is featured in a major new book written by illustration historian Walt Reed of <a href="http://www.illustration-house.com/">Illustration House Galleries.</a> You can find out more about the book called <i>Harvey Dunn, Illustrator and Painter of the Pioneer West </i>available at the publisher, <a href="http://fleskpublications.com/blog/?p=505">Flesk Publications</a>, or the <a href="http://www.sdstate.edu/southdakotaartmuseum/">South Dakota Art Museum museum</a>. And<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Harvey-Dunn-Illustrator-Painter-Pioneer/dp/1933865199/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297958036&sr=1-1"> the book is available only in limited quantities at Amazon</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://illustrationart.blogspot.com/2010/12/harvey-dunn-1884-1952.html">Post about Dunn on David Apatoff’s "Illustration Art" blog.</a><br /><a href="http://www.linesandcolors.com/2011/01/04/harvey-dunn/">Post about Dunn on Charley Parker's "Lines and Colors" </a><br /><a href="http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/dunn.htm">Biography of Dunn on Jim V's BPIB</a><br />Walt Reed’s Illustration House<br /><a href="http://www.sdstate.edu/southdakotaartmuseum/explore/Collections/Harvey-Dunn/index.cfm">South Dakota Art Museum website on Dunn</a><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Dunn">Wikipedia on Harvey Dunn</a><br />Previously on GJ:<br /><a href="http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2010/01/reilly-and-beyond.html">Reilly and Beyond</a>

Meet Harvey Dunn

Here’s a two-minute video with archival footage of Harvey Dunn (1884-1952) as he paints a western character. About the video In the late 194...

7:55 AM

Mud Trap

A couple of months ago, <i>Scientific American </i>magazine asked me to illustrate a feature for the upcoming March issue about an amazing discovery: a group of small dinosaurs who died together, trapped in mud.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_EY82VDrlEleaH_gtrJ49a7SB0AzgL_a3Kdpilf6wJcn39OBbTorb4CtPpc6GC2RXQEXeEahm-pCiXefzeR9_LbQKLE-xL988v91Yv2OcskHURLTJDh4NL017oMeDwCu-1W_aGf_rATU/s1600/Mud_Trap.sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_EY82VDrlEleaH_gtrJ49a7SB0AzgL_a3Kdpilf6wJcn39OBbTorb4CtPpc6GC2RXQEXeEahm-pCiXefzeR9_LbQKLE-xL988v91Yv2OcskHURLTJDh4NL017oMeDwCu-1W_aGf_rATU/s320/Mud_Trap.sm.jpg" width="316" /></a><br /><embed base="http://admin.brightcove.com" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashvars="videoId=776220647001&playerId=1399191810&viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&domain=embed&autoStart=false&" height="550" name="flashObj" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" seamlesstabbing="false" src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1399191810" swliveconnect="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="510"></embed><br />When I delivered the oil painting of the scene (above), I also produced <a href="http://bcove.me/b7jp6uae">a short video</a> showing how I did the painting.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFQRrEA0s6O73IhuUuZTgi7a9OOJJHeS7oFkJVkGX-uNAr_Fuj9pBz3F8Ma4gs7bFjA_BnIeETKyJZYCRMOoKYSWC13e6INlobTkFXDkGwswnBF7HAQxYuCzfa9yVXdfFbe_61Tq8Hc_E/s1600/Sino.Maquette_sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="321" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFQRrEA0s6O73IhuUuZTgi7a9OOJJHeS7oFkJVkGX-uNAr_Fuj9pBz3F8Ma4gs7bFjA_BnIeETKyJZYCRMOoKYSWC13e6INlobTkFXDkGwswnBF7HAQxYuCzfa9yVXdfFbe_61Tq8Hc_E/s400/Sino.Maquette_sm.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_EY82VDrlEleaH_gtrJ49a7SB0AzgL_a3Kdpilf6wJcn39OBbTorb4CtPpc6GC2RXQEXeEahm-pCiXefzeR9_LbQKLE-xL988v91Yv2OcskHURLTJDh4NL017oMeDwCu-1W_aGf_rATU/s1600/Mud_Trap.sm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div>Yesterday <i>Scientific American</i> put the video up on their official website, along with <a href="http://www.blogger.com/Scientific%20American%E2%80%99s%20official%20blog%20post:%20http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=dinos-gurney-video">a blog post </a>describing my analog process of making the maquette—you know, pencil, clay, glue, and paint. The cracking "mud" in the foreground of the maquette above is flour and water baked in the wood stove and painted with acrylic.<br /><br />If it wasn’t below freezing outside, I would have been out in the real pond muck wallowing around to see what it feels like to die in quicksand. <br />-----<br /><a href="http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1869637971?bckey=AQ%7E%7E,AAAAAFNl7zk%7E,OmXvgxJOvrEbn_k3B6RUMOYsPKmzkjgT&bctid=776220647001">Direct link to video </a><br /><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=dinos-gurney-video">Scientific American blog post</a><br />More from Scientific American about <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=dinosaur-death-trap">the new dinosaur discovery by Paul Sereno.</a>

Mud Trap

A couple of months ago, Scientific American magazine asked me to illustrate a feature for the upcoming March issue about an amazing discover...

8:59 AM

Amazing Powers of the Octopus

David Attenborough narrates this video clip showing how the cuttlefish and octopus can make rapid changes in color, shape, texture. These abilities, in combination with a formidable reasoning ability, can bluff predators or confuse prey.<br /><object height="290" width="480"><param name="movie"  value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jN99Kx_ghC8&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3"></param><param  name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param  name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed  src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jN99Kx_ghC8&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3"  type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true"  allowScriptAccess="always" width="480"  height="290"></embed></object><br /><br />Such displays of awareness and responsiveness in invertebrates force us to revise our notions of intelligence in the animal kingdom, and they provide fresh ideas for creature designers.<br />--------<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN99Kx_ghC8&feature=player_embedded">Direct link to YouTube page</a><br /><a href="http://bestofyoutube.com/index.php">Via Best of YouTube.</a>

Amazing Powers of the Octopus

David Attenborough narrates this video clip showing how the cuttlefish and octopus can make rapid changes in color, shape, texture. These ab...

5:00 AM

Jeffrey Catherine Jones Video

<div class="postBody" style="color: #777777;">A documentary about the fantasy artist Jeffrey Catherine Jones is in the works. Below is a preview (which contains some artistic nudity).</div><div class="postBody" style="color: #777777;"><br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="410px" src="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1948808029/better-things-the-life-and-choices-of-jeffrey-cath/widget/video.html" width="480px"></iframe></div><div class="postBody" style="color: #777777;"><br />I haven’t seen the finished production, but it promises to explore the life and the difficult choices faced by Jeffrey Catherine Jones. The trailer suggests the theme that art can rescue a person at difficult moments in their life, perhaps something we can all identify with. <br /><br />Rebecca Guay, Mike Kaluta, Rick Berry, Mark Chiarello, and Moebius all make cameo appearances.<br /><br />The film is directed by DC Comics art director Maria Cabardo, who is seeking additional financial backing to finish the project.<br />-------<br /><a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1948808029/better-things-the-life-and-choices-of-jeffrey-cath">Link to video</a></div><div class="postBody" style="color: #777777;">Thanks, Tom Babbey</div><input name="security_token" type="hidden" value="AOuZoY5QXsjViCcnTZWa6R5BeM-bjp3cyw:1295542122336" /><input name="postID" type="hidden" value="5525668639469224993" /> <input name="blogID" type="hidden" value="2999230124118604245" />  <br /><div class="errorbox-good"><input name="securityToken" type="hidden" value="XHpmBjYDy3FHzLoMLVHWmGHaeUk:1295542122356" /> </div>

Jeffrey Catherine Jones Video

A documentary about the fantasy artist Jeffrey Catherine Jones is in the works. Below is a preview (which contains some artistic nudity). I ...

9:47 AM

WETA Creatures

The digital artists at WETA Digital’s creature department have breathed life into Gollum, King Kong (video below), and the creatures of Avatar. <br /><br /><object height="285" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MzKRWvezu2Y?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MzKRWvezu2Y?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="285"></embed></object><br /><br />They are experts in anatomy. They build creatures from the inside out: skeleton, muscles, skin and hair. Then they apply their knowledge of physics and acting to make their creatures move. <br /><br />Digital creatures must share the stage with live-action actors. They have to perform every kind of movement from a subtle eye twitch to a deadly body slam. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW_j9N78wL9vC2V-Y-bIYiGnybG5T-yL2AneyRDKn4F3d2tKDtwmjNpjuMx-w7E1Si_Sje3S8ue63l7OvthJiixsvK8zpJZhbqwwJerItKvikicHdIaK80Q8W4NoFsDzZDUU-YvlmFQoo/s1600/Weta_Digital_Creature_Team.sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW_j9N78wL9vC2V-Y-bIYiGnybG5T-yL2AneyRDKn4F3d2tKDtwmjNpjuMx-w7E1Si_Sje3S8ue63l7OvthJiixsvK8zpJZhbqwwJerItKvikicHdIaK80Q8W4NoFsDzZDUU-YvlmFQoo/s400/Weta_Digital_Creature_Team.sm.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />Simon Clutterbuck of WETA’s digital creature department, (click to enlarge/ Photo by <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1081581692">Julian Butler</a><a href="http://www.julianbutler.com/">http://www.julianbutler.com/</a>) planned a fun New Year’s gift for their team: a set of 47 signed copies of <i>Color and Light.</i> They went outdoors yesterday in that fine New Zealand summer weather to take this group photo. These artists been living for weeks in the caves with the dragon Smaug so a little sunlight won’t hurt them. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWJI43SBYvNibPLPl79j9We7ZZchpnrrQ1QGJBVW9GFFDCPwfcYGgxMiTjk6VqmNyl7LCXgp4E3XLi8pAVjMKrZizsAQcKCHLcaoKqP8l3Jox4KN3zGDZo3IBOZUkxgSmHuZ-6UCn_ER0/s1600/Weta_Stamp.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWJI43SBYvNibPLPl79j9We7ZZchpnrrQ1QGJBVW9GFFDCPwfcYGgxMiTjk6VqmNyl7LCXgp4E3XLi8pAVjMKrZizsAQcKCHLcaoKqP8l3Jox4KN3zGDZo3IBOZUkxgSmHuZ-6UCn_ER0/s320/Weta_Stamp.JPG" width="320" /></a><br />Since they ordered such a big batch of books, and since I’m such a huge fan of WETA, I wanted to make the gift extra special. So I carved a unique rubber stamp using craft foam glued to a wood block.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3AuA5aWs3QpoDHRuMRqLm7sddGlsgwvuVMRv4BZM5biXc4UaIWeiWj1eeU9gvmOcYKQpvynKPQ0O-48CBSNntuAtY0nHdkhyPzWd23X7tPMU9bCKH6P-lNhQyql-O-5Dw5lRcuW1XSAc/s1600/WETA.Remarque.sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3AuA5aWs3QpoDHRuMRqLm7sddGlsgwvuVMRv4BZM5biXc4UaIWeiWj1eeU9gvmOcYKQpvynKPQ0O-48CBSNntuAtY0nHdkhyPzWd23X7tPMU9bCKH6P-lNhQyql-O-5Dw5lRcuW1XSAc/s320/WETA.Remarque.sm.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />Each book got the custom stamp, as well as a one-of-a-kind creature sketch that I made with pens and colored pencils. I imagined them as the “47 Creatures of Whangakokototoi Island,” —a tiny island off the coast of New Zealand that no one has discovered yet. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPOmp2yLimJreWPvyfVz1TyFYk1V90W2CWpkog5HNCdjM0-vG_SzTrgcakqxRgX6PbCNLM83zcqO8u05ZcBCpasCuMt2qn0YY0VaAisQnsWJhc3NM1g9Vzt1FY5YrKzl000V1yQGrhWw0/s1600/WETA.Remarque.montage.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPOmp2yLimJreWPvyfVz1TyFYk1V90W2CWpkog5HNCdjM0-vG_SzTrgcakqxRgX6PbCNLM83zcqO8u05ZcBCpasCuMt2qn0YY0VaAisQnsWJhc3NM1g9Vzt1FY5YrKzl000V1yQGrhWw0/s320/WETA.Remarque.montage.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />Here’s a sampling of the sketches, about one third of the whole set. Of course I didn’t know what each of the artists looked like, or what sorts of animals they liked, so I just guessed and drew the whatever popped into my head.<br /><br />Simon and Rachael, I thank you. And WETA Creatures, I salute you! <br /><br />If YOU, dear blog reader, are part of a large game company, movie studio, or art school, maybe you can get your department head or club organizer to put together a group purchase of <i>Color and Light</i> or <i>Imaginative Realism.</i> If there are more than 30 books in a single order, I’ll do a some sort of special design for you. Also, with a big order, I can ship internationally.<br />——<i> </i><br /><a href="http://www.dinotopia.com/dinotopia-store.html"><i>Color and Light </i></a>signed from<a href="http://www.dinotopia.com/dinotopia-store.html"> the Dinotopia Store</a><br />Questions about group ordering: jgurneyart <at> yahoo.com</at><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Color-Light-Guide-Realist-Painter/dp/0740797719/ref=pd_ts_b_16?ie=UTF8&s=books"><i>Color and Light</i></a> on Amazon internationally: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Color-Light-Guide-Realist-Painter/dp/0740797719/ref=pd_ts_b_?ie=UTF8&s=books">USA</a> | <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/0740797719?tag=parblo0c-20">CA</a> | <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0740797719?tag=parblo-21">UK</a> | <a href="http://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/0740797719?tag=parblo08-21">FR</a> | <a href="http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/0740797719?tag=parblo01-21">DE</a> | <a href="http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/0740797719?tag=parkablogs-22">JP</a><br /><a href="http://www.wetafx.co.nz/">WETA Digital  </a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke5OJgTC_WQ">Weta Creature show reel on YouTube</a> (Caution: includes movie violence and disturbing images) <br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr293iSdm5o&feature=related">King Kong climbs the Empire State</a>

WETA Creatures

The digital artists at WETA Digital’s creature department have breathed life into Gollum, King Kong (video below), and the creatures of Avat...

9:00 AM

Blackberry and Apple

Blackberry and Apple

Here, in case you missed it, here’s a BBC skit that literalizes computer metaphors. Imagine telling N. C. Wyeth that you can do a painting w...

4:35 AM

A Distraction

A Distraction

Roger Bansemer, a plein air painter and videographer from Florida, contends with a first-rate distraction in this short video. ------- Roger...

9:34 AM

How to Make a House Fly

Remember the little drawing I did a couple years ago of the science fiction museum in Switzerland taking off and flying? It's also on page 213 of <i>Imaginative Realism.</i><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV3h0mBTWyWmQ9T-C1e4EQQ1TdpT3tXwI3uCW8svyo4BOoiarR3tJTQvvhykXoAGTe2kjj33Ujzf56uGGRYVyOu7GNU0xG9QRoP9eZi0HOUOnk2iA2sLnVpNrDwoqc6087wfms89TWVHg/s1600-h/MaisonVolant.mq.sm.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="320" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253588180153476642" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV3h0mBTWyWmQ9T-C1e4EQQ1TdpT3tXwI3uCW8svyo4BOoiarR3tJTQvvhykXoAGTe2kjj33Ujzf56uGGRYVyOu7GNU0xG9QRoP9eZi0HOUOnk2iA2sLnVpNrDwoqc6087wfms89TWVHg/s320/MaisonVolant.mq.sm.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="200" /></a> <br /> <object height="285" width="450"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zF9xtzvMVaU?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zF9xtzvMVaU?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="450" height="285"></embed></object> <br />Friends of Maison d'Ailleurs have made a video showing how it's done. It proves what's possible with a small budget and a big imagination.<br />------<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF9xtzvMVaU&feature=player_embedded">Link to YouTube video </a><br /><a href="http://www.ailleurs.ch/index.php?s=en&m=0">Maison d'Ailleurs, museum of science fiction and utopias in Yverdon, Switzerland</a><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Imaginative-Realism-Paint-Doesnt-Exist/dp/0740785508/ref=pd_ts_b_?ie=UTF8&s=books"><i>Imaginative Realism</i> at Amazon </a><br /><a href="http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2008/10/maison-dailleurs-opening-fte.html">2008 GJ post on opening of Verne Museum and Dinotopia Exhibition</a>

How to Make a House Fly

Remember the little drawing I did a couple years ago of the science fiction museum in Switzerland taking off and flying? It's also on pa...

8:54 AM

Mathematical Doodling

Mathematical Doodling

Knot theory meets notebook doodling in this video. The rapid-fire commentary explains the geometric logic while bemoaning the cluelessness o...

8:46 AM

First Human Powered Ornithopter

First Human Powered Ornithopter

Engineers have succeeded in a short sustained flight by an ultra-lightweight human-powered ornithopter. Instead of using a propellor, the ma...

10:29 AM