Owl on September 27th, 2009

It occurs to me that people who do not accept the legitimacy of digital art are not asking themselves “Is it Art?” but “Is it Photography?”
Critics of  art works created in computer art software – Corel Painter for instance – seem to regard drawing as some kind of fairground trick. Regardless of the often quoted [...]

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Owl on June 14th, 2009

Seth Godin in his famous marketing book, Purple Cow, advocates being – yes, a purple cow.
I can’t say I was all that keen on the idea when I first set up on the net. Destiny, however, had other plans.
I started on the internet by looking for a memorable name. Scanning a list of design [...]

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Owl on October 31st, 2008

How’s your memory for faces?
The other day I realised something about the way I call up mental images of friends and relations. I was quite surprised. I wonder if your memory cheats on you the same way mine does.
One thing is almost certain. Considering the number of faces there are in the world, you have [...]

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