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Ball and Glove, Pelota Mixteca, originally uploaded by sakraft1.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelota_mixteca

Solar Panels!

The mother of a friend put in a PV system at their house in rural New Jersey. She is the first person I really know to install such a system in their home. The panels are not mounted on the roof of the house but in the expansive back yard. They are connected to the grid and there is no battery system. She said she had them mounted at a 30 degree angle for optimum collection for her location.

Ace Donald

Ace Donald, originally uploaded by sakraft1.

This was after warmup. His beak is a bit stubby and the crossed arms were pretty hard (and still didn't come out right). This is the first full body I attempted and one of the first in this series that was not referenced in detail from a model sheet. The first time I uploaded this, flickr inverted the colors! That never happened to me before. I saved a smaller version and it came out ok.

More Donald Duck Drawings

More Donald Duck Drawings, originally uploaded by sakraft1.

I draw some more Donald Duck from model sheets. Hands are hard, esp. cartoon duck hands, esp. cartoon duck hands drawn by Disney animators...

sellotape tin

sellotape tin, originally uploaded by alice-palace.

Donald

Donald, originally uploaded by sakraft1.

The trick to Donald is that his beak is really squared off kinda. Before I really understood the structure of Donald's beak, my drawings looked awful. When he is angry, his eyes are more like triangles than ovals. And he always has messy hair, which is more interesting than a plain round head. I really appreciate all the work that those animators put into Donald, he is pretty detailed for a major character. Oh yeah, and those eye arches extend above the top of his head.

Anatomy of a flickr tag feed

flickr gives you rss feeds for a number of things. They have a list of available feeds , but a tag feed it not on the list. I can't remember how I found it, but you can create a feed in your news reader for any tag. Any photo uploaded with the tag you choose will show up in the feed. For example, this feed will yield any photo tagged with the word "pirate":

http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=pirate&lang=en-us&format=rss_200

Adventureing Safari

Look, I'm on safari



Ah, I'll photograph you first. You'll see that some of these photos have extraordinary vines that grow straight horizontally and don't seem to attach to anything, they're called telephone vines...



I'll just turn the camera this way...



My faithful assistant chimes in: (in Cockney accent) "I don't think you ought to be doing that."



OMG, I must photograph whatever horrible thing is about to eat me!

I have the dumb

more cat pictures

Found on flickr: "No one ever goes to the Adventurer's Club. Let's close it."

, originally uploaded by deepseaswim.

The Funniest Lightbulb Commercial Ever