Edgar Allen Poe – The Black Cat

11. February 2010 · Filed under: Reading & Writing · 2 Comments 

Edgar Allen Poe painting by David Gough

If you didn’t know already, I love photographs and art. I use different sites to find collect images I find around the internet that speak to me in some form or another. Rather than post images on this site and create clutter, I recently started a Posterous blog that allows me to share pictures I like and add a quote or song lyric that I think of when I see the image. It also helps that I can quickly post from my iPhone via email.

Recently, I came across an image that reminded me of Edgar Allen Poe’s short story The Black Cat. Now, I wanted to share this on Posterous, but if you hadn’t read the story you wouldn’t understand why I chose The Black Cat to quote from unless you are familiar with it. Since The Black Cat is in the public domain, I decided to post it here in it’s entirety so you can read the story yourself, if you so choose.

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11 Stunning Videos of Sand Art

21. August 2009 · Filed under: Videos · Leave a Comment 

Sand animation is an art form. By using sand and a sheet of glass with a light under it, sand artists mix and blend sand while using their hands and fingers to create images to tell a story. Everything blends in seamlessly, like going from one panel to the next in a film. While not very popular, it takes a lot of talent and imagination to pull off this art form.

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