Added 1 new A* page:Completed the first A* Portrait today! The customer sent in a nice photo which translated well into a traced-over sketch:
but they also requested that the figure be given Einstein-like hair! :o So I found this nice gallery of Einstein rocking a variety of radical hairstyles, and decided to go with the "Classic Medium Wavy," so
Voila! Who would'a thought you could have that much fun with a $5 sketch? :D
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I neglected to plead with you to look at my "Princess and the Giant" fairy tale Sunday page from two weeks ago, so I'm going to try to steer you to it now with this tempting banner/link:
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And just so we don't have a day go by without some science (although we already had Einstein, but hey, bonus), I recently came across the BBC's Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2011 contest, and specifically the video there showing the winning entries. A nice view of the Milky Way (and the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* hidden somewhere there in the middle!) features among lots of other cool stuff.
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