Author Archives: Virtual Brush Box

Awareness of the outside world. The good news. Olympics.com: Bill May exclusive: After 34 years of dreaming, the artistic swimmer is relishing his chance to compete at the Olympic Games. Peene 02 November 2023. The bad news. Olympics.com: Bill May misses out on USA Artistic Swimming Olympic roster for Paris 2024, Merrell 09 June 2024.Continue reading “Horse Show Pageantry, Alabama State Games”

Awareness of the outside world. CNN: UAE breaks new ground with its debut equestrian team heading to the Olympics. Video. Hat tip to J. International Equestrian Organization, FEI: UAE. National Equestrian Organization, UAEERF (change languages if needed, direct link to English did not work). UEA Olympic Committee, on 10 June, a horse was one ofContinue reading “A & B & Me, Show Report, Alabama State Games”

Awareness of the outside world. LOC: The First Newspaper ~~~ Virtual Tevis Cup 2024100 Miles in 100 Days10 April to 21 July Rodney12 miles this week, 81 miles total12 outings – 11 handwalks, 1 ride Milton9 miles this week, 79 miles total9 outings – 7 handwalks, 1 ride, 1 drive All outings one mile inContinue reading “Play By Play, Virtual Tevis 2024”

Awareness of the outside world. Considering the news. A wise person once told me, Always vote the environment. It’s the only thing that will be here in 100 years. While one could raise a quibble about the long-term impact of this or that event, as a first pass, it’s a good metric. ~~~ Rodney hasContinue reading “Fly Mask Update”

Book Arts of the outside world. The American Bookbinders Museum. ~~~ Trimming & gluing covers. Introduction To BookmakingDavid WestMakeBHMTuesday 4 June 2024Class 3 of 4 Compiled from material of class 2, minus the orange booklet. Previous[Quick Books, Book Making Class #1][Preparing The Parts, Book Making Class #2] Onwards!Katherine

Awareness of the outside world. Equine Ink: The Triple Crown’s Flower Garlands. ~~~ Plot concept. Story built around a medieval manuscript. The settings would follow the book through different times and places. Could be done as narrative history about an IRL manuscript. Or use interesting examples from various books as best suits the storyline. OneContinue reading “A Book Through Time, Fiction Concept”

Art of the outside world. Street Art cities. Also, many cities have guides & maps to their murals. ~~~ My photo plan for this week was to use the phone camera for some sort of Gen-not-mine selfie exercise. Not so fast. I did some research. But not enough. Headline on screenshot says 2024. After, IContinue reading “The Life, Death, Life, and Limbo of A Mural, In Which I Learn about Urban Art and Access Issues, Photography”