I love scary movies. I have loved scary movies since I was a kid. The problem is… they don’t really scare me. The classic Universal Monster movies from the 30s and 40s were great, but I thought Dracula, Frankenstein and even The Wolf Man were cool, just not scary. When I was a teenager my …
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “scattered”. And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. Matthew 26:31 This quote from the New Testament has Jesus basically telling the apostles: “When I …
This weeks Illustration Friday challenge word is contraption. This is the second of two illustrations for the topic. Here is the first. Elijah McCoy worked as a fireman and oiler on the Michigan Central Railroad in the late 1800s. He often tinkered in his home workshop trying to devise new methods for lubricating machinery. He …
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “contraption”. This is the first of two illustrations for the topic. Here is the second. In 1970, 25-year old Steve Wozniak was working at a California company on their mainframe computer. He met a summer employee, 20-year old Steve Jobs and the two became friends. Jobs got an …
The Illustration Friday challenge word this week is “hibernate”. “Grrr … just five more minutes… okay?”
THe current Illustration Friday challenge word is “ferocious”. This is Grim Ruthless, the most ferocious man to ever live. He eats termite-infested tree trunks for breakfast. He lives in a huge boulder that he hollowed out with his teeth and bare hands. His living room has wall-to-wall broken glass. He once beat up a dump truck …
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “mesmerizing”. In his doctoral dissertation of 1766, De influxu planetarum in corpus humanum [“The Influence of the Planets upon the Human Body”], physician Franz Mesmer theorized that a natural energy force exists and flows continuously over the body. He publicized his belief that this energy was influenced by the …
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “boundaries”. Mother lays down boundaries to keep baby …um …safe. That’s right. Safe.
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “mysterious”. On Saturday, I went to meet my son at a free concert at the Great Plaza on the Delaware River’s waterfront. Instead of driving and fighting for a parking space on a busy holiday weekend, I took the train into downtown Philadelphia. I disembarked at the Market …
The Illustration Friday challenge word this week is “disguise”. “Um, four please.”
