Paper Whiskers

Home Sweet Home

Jenny B. Harris strikes again! Jenny is a children's book illustrator whose blog I follow. Her website has several activities, some of which I've posted about before. Remember, Zoe? This gingerbread house is the newest one. Here's my creation. Sweet!

Finally identified:

"At Long Last Love" from the "Sinatra & Sextet: Live in Paris" 1962 concert album (album released in 1994)

I've been looking for this song performance for ages, ever since I watched Return to Me the second time. (The first time I was recovering from the emotional rollercoaster that movie takes you on.) The soundtrack doesn't have this song on it, played during one of my favorite scenes. (When everyone's dancing at the restaurant.)

I figured out which song it was, but every version I could find online sounded different from the one in the movie. And yes, I did actually have the movie going and compared the song tracks to the clips I could find online. No dice. He usually sings it much slower and smoother than the one that is in the movie. So, I gave up the search.

Until this weekend, when I was watching the movie again, and realized I could see part of the CD that the characters are holding when starting the music. Thank goodness for Pause! It's not a clear shot, but the cover definitely had a black center, with a white border. Definitely enough to match, thanks to the Internet! And I found it. I don't want the whole CD, so unless I find a single for sale somewhere, it'll just be in my reference file. But at least I know which version I'm looking for now.

:D

Man, I love research.

Fun with Photoshop Elements: Trever

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I wanted to see how blown out I could go on this one and have his eyes pop. Still needs work, I think.

Fun with Photoshop Elements: Tayler

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I think this one has just color saturation, contrast, and levels adjusted.

Fun with Photoshop Elements: Trent

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Same things here as on Torie's. Color adjustment and diffuse glow applied.

Fun with Photoshop Elements: Torie

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No fancy filters or actions used. Just random adjustments in contrast and color saturation. Then I applied a little diffuse glow filter to it.

Those crazy Internets! What will they come up with next?

I love finding new cool stuff online. I stumbled across this site recently.

What it is: Web sites as graphs

An applet to try it yourself: Type in your own site URL

Here's mine:

And (from Sala's site) here's what the colors mean:

blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags

And there's a Flickr group dedicated to the images people are making of their sites: Flickr Group

Eat my dust!

We got our DSL kit from Earthlink this week, so I'm coming to you on a smokin' hot fast connection (compared to dial-up, of course).

Six is happy, Safari is happy, and I'm happy. Let the multi-MB downloading begin!!!!

hee

darnit!

I just realized my banner was messed up! I made a bunch of new ones over the weekend, and didn't realize Typepad had saved the tiny one. Grrr. The birthday one up now should have been up there all week. It's a stamp by Penny Black, hand-colored with Prismas. I love how well it scanned. :D

In Love

I just discovered Apple's new baby: Mac Mini.

thud.