The Number is Sand

September 29, 2009

Nearly everyone’s seen those books, posters, etc: “How many is a million?” Actually, if you search Amazon for books on a million you’ll come up with a whole bunch on the same theme: trying to express the concept of million to children. It’s sort of a brilliant idea, but I’m not sure how possible it

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Pattern Recognition

September 26, 2009

This week’s Illustration Friday is “Pattern,” and I had an old piece that fit too well to resist. I’ve never posted it on this blog, but I posted it last year some time on Living in Space. The title I gave this at the time was EmpTV. The style is much more simplistic than I

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Infinite

September 19, 2009

When I heard the Illustration Friday word of the week, “Infinite,” the first thing I thought of was the silly philosophy question “How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?” I’m pretty sure at least one of the answers that came out of that was “infinite,” but I could be thinking of

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