Praxid's Profile

Just returned from a trip to England with an amazing c.1820 silhouette. The gentleman in question now lives on my living room wall. He's currently engaged in a staring contest with a carved, wooden Thai dragon hanging from my window blinds.

I absolutely love the paint strokes in the old versions of silhouettes-- they create a slightly shaded, opaque effect. I imagine with photoshop one could create a similar effect using photographs of friends and family.

Yes, it's not a print, but clearly there's more than one painting made. I've got the rooster sitting on my shelf, but it sounds like several other people in the postings do, too.

I got it, too, Flying Dutchman, so they must be selling multiple copies. Is that really original art? Should I be disappointed my $20 rooster isn't unique?

My grandmother just turned 100 years old, and has always loved giraffes. She tells me "they have such soulful eyes." So her house was full of giraffes people gave to her as gifts. This makes me want to sent everything here to her, but now that she's moved into a nursing home, I suppose they will have to stay where they are.

I think these can be quite beautiful. I have antlers on my wall, that my dad found shed in the woods and mounted for me. I love having it hanging in my living room. We live in the woods, and my plants, the trees through the window, and the antlers feel like nature is inside with me.

"(although one researcher pointed out that it takes twenty years for an artificial tree's carbon footprint to match the footprint of a real tree)"

I may be misunderstanding the researchers point, but doesn't that mean if one false tree matches the carbon footprint of one real tree in 20 years, wouldn't that mean that because you aren't using a new real tree each year, you're 19 years/trees ahead of the game by that time?

I like my parents' artificial tree, which is nearly 20 years old now. Rather than that canvas stripping many of them use to make needles, this one has needles molded in plastic so they actually look like what you'd find on a real tree. Visitors invariably think it's real.