SpacingOttawa.ca: A Bit of Boasting

I've been contributing on an irregular basis to Spacing Ottawa, a weblog devoted to urban infrastructure issues and history around the city. Pleased to report that a new article went live yesterday, dealing with Somerset House, a longtime landmark in the downtown of Ottawa.

A magnet for spam or something else?

I've been letting this place lie fallow again for a while. My mistake.

(Some people tell me to never own up to such things. Bushwah!)

Anyway, still here, and while I'm figuring out what to post here next, I thought you might want a look at something one of my acquaintances - one Jens Altmann by name - is up to, called Made of Fail.

Go take a look.

Been fiddling with any number of things over the last few weeks:

• Training in Illustrator and Photoshop, check.
  
• Indesign, not so much. I want to do something useful about that between now and next posting.
  
• Manga Studio, check. Managed to do a demo session at the ByMUG meeting yesterday, to boot. I could've managed the computer-projector interface settings better, mind you...
  
• Celestia, check. Astronomy software is a good thing for a guy working on space opera projects to have as a general rule. Whether you're writing or illustrating, that's a good rule to heed.

More as I think of it...

An experiment in fiction-mapping

Been thinking of the work done by Keith Giffen, and Tom and Mary Bierbaum on the Legion of Super-Heroes of late...and teaching myself how to use Adobe Illustrator as well. So...

From Mythical Maps

The Hobbled Bird - 1

The Hobbled Bird - 1
Originally uploaded by dwight_ew

Found this fowl at a local bus stop. It seemed obvious that it had a wing problem of some kind. Not being a veterinarian precluded my figuring the details of its problem.

It wandered off before the bus finally arrived to pick me up, so there was no chance to track down a vet to help.

Wherever it is now, I hope it's well.

Nanaimo - Federal Sighting

Nanaimo - Federal Sighting
Originally uploaded by dwight_ew

What school of architecture would you say this design belongs to?

Sunlight Into Bridgehead - Bank and Albert

Sunlight Into Bridgehead - Bank and Albert
Originally uploaded by dwight_ew

An exercise with light and Photo Booth.

Birds of Hintonberg

Birds of Hintonberg
Originally uploaded by dwight_ew

Sometimes you take a picture just to see if the camera can do the job.

Someone's got to be feeding all those birds...

Question in the Concrete

Question in the Concrete
Originally uploaded by dwight_ew

Sometimes a bit of other people's graffiti will get you thinking.

Snowbank in the Dark

Snowbank in the Dark
Originally uploaded by dwight_ew

Isn't it cool what you can get out of your camera with the right settings?

Just saying.