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From the site: "An English curate and the author of several books on religious subjects, Edward Topsell is best remembered for The Historie of Foure-footed Beastes and The Historie of Serpents. Born in 1572, Topsell attended Cambridge before becoming a clergyman in the Church of England. He published The Reward of Religion in 1596, and Time's Lamentation in 1599. In 1604 Topsell became curate of St. Botolph, Aldersgate, a position he held until his death. In 1607, Topsell published his magnificent illustrated work Historie of Foure-footed Beastes, Describing the True and Lively Figure of Every Beast. The book was closely based on the Historiae Animalium of Swiss author Conrad Gesner. In 1608 he followed it with The Historie of Serpents; Or the Second Booke of Living Creatures, which also drew on Gesner's Historiae. The woodcuts for both of Topsell's books came directly from Gesner's pages. Topsell authored one more religious work in 1610 called The Householder. He served as vicar and chaplain in various areas of England until his death in about 1638."

Linked to my Deviantart upload of the cave-thing I showed in class

You're right - Wal-Mart did royally screw it up. But - in that screwing up may have made it even more sinister than you had planned. Another thing - when I was looking at it in class - for some reason I was viewing it as the light being on the right side - whereas your intended orientation locates that light on top. Have you looked at it in different orientations? If so - how do those orientations affect your judgment or interpretation of the work?

A great guide for developing brochures. You can plug in dimensions for any size paper and get the right guides for developing pages in InDesign.

For months, we have been bookmarking interesting, useful and creative Adobe Adobe Illustrator tutorials and Resources, so you can now rest assured that you will have the necessary tools to get the job done.\n\nDue to this phenomenally vast amount of vector packs, brushes, patterns available, you can now add dirt, rust, floral effect, swirls, mold, oil stains in your artwork and to give it any look you want.\n\nSo in today's post, you'll find an assortment of top-notch tutorials, brushes, patterns, vector packs, tips & tricks and .EPS downloadable files that others have freely contributed to the design community.d that you will have the necessary tools to get the job done.\n\n

A slideshow, in chronological order, showing Khan's growth as an architect and his concentration on the relationship between people and the buildings they live/work in.

"Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC) is a ten-year national initiative to improve the conditions for artists working in all disciplines."

A comprehensive guide to craft in America including interviews and process videos. Also a springboard to the PBS series currently running on TV.

The Vogels collected art in a voracious, almost maniacal manner. This collection represents items from all 50 states in the USA.

Hoa Hakananai'a means "stolen or hidden friend" in the indigenous language of Rapa Nui. Hoa Hakananai'a is rare in that it is carved from basalt. The hardness of the basalt has maintained a lot of the decorative detail that has been lost from many of the other statues on Rapa Nui.

Stunning, color photos from Russia in the very early 1900s.  The clarity is astounding.

Scene from Solaris that shows lingering close-ups of Bruegel's Hunters in the Snow.

The largest investment and construction in Russia, of these days, are exhibition halls with residential skyscraper, Expocenter, located in a centre of the Moscow, designed by Zaha Hadid. The main aim of the horizontal space is to house the exposition and conference halls. In the ground-floor author created open, but cover place for outdoor exhibition.

A blog entry on Kurt Schwitters in Spanish with some very nice illustrations - later stuff.

A set of daguerreotypes that create a panoramic view of the Cincinnati waterfront in 1848.  Great, clear and subtle images.

A great selection of Japanese art from antiquity as well as contemporary works from the Japan Society in NYC.

Photography is power. In a world of images, the camera is a tool powerful enough to change the world as we know it.

If you are designing something - laying out a page and you are wondering how the page would look with text but you don't want to plug in the contents of your secret diary - this is a way to get that text...

A very detailed and well illustrated step by step tutorial for using the pen tool in Illustrator.

Absolutely marvelous tool. You select specific colors and then it finds images that contains those colors from the Creative Commons pool in Flickr.