Quiz

This is a random [but good] quiz that I found on the ACNielsen website. It was actually one of their contests. Anyways, as I like it so much, I want to post it here:

Don't forget to post your answers in the comment-box! I shall post the answers sometime later this week. Maybe Friday?

Dull.

I wish that at least tomorrow's sunny! A pic of my frosty window [not taken today]. I think it's quite mesmerising:

Teza

A drink that caught my eye the other day was Teza. They make green tea. 

Their bottles are very pretty. 

And - if you're concerned - they're into "the green thing" too. Just like Lush.

This is what they say on their site: We compost all our tea leaves, use green energy, and drive small tea bushes.

The tea bush part is indeed true, for I was lucky to snap a pic of it once:

It's entirely New Zealand made, and I don't think it's being sold out of NZ. I'll review about their teas after I try it!

The first two images are from the Teza website, and the last one's mine. All pictures are copyright.

And then there were five.

Five followers! Thank you all!

[This must mean I'm doing something right!]

I've been drawing ...

Actually, these are random bits from my drawings that I did last year for a project. We were to make a calendar using Photoshop only [I know, absolutely no InDesign!]. I came up with a series of whimsical characters, and made a calendar that you rotate each day. It's kind of hard to explain, but expect some pictures tomorrow.

Then we were supposed to design a campaign. I thought, why not go on with these characters? So I vectorised them, named them, gave them an identity. That was most fun. I also wrote a book about them.

Well, here are small bits of the drawings I did [I still need to refine the main characters, which is why I'm not posting them here]:

Today I am Thinking ...

Isn't it funny ... that whenever someone mentions the word joker [and by this they may mean a jester, a clown, the card ... the wise fool from King Lear, even], the first thing that comes to my mind is The Joker from The Dark Knight [one of my most favourite movies!]? This happens to quite a few people that I know as well ... I think that our perception of the joker is changed forever [well, I think mine is, anyways].

Do you think so, too?

The Dark Knight poster copyright imdb, I'm not going to be using it for personal gain.

Today I am thinking ...

No, scratch thinking. I learnt something new today. That in blogger, you can change the colour of your font ["typeface" for Graphic Designers]. That is so very exciting. Though I certainly don't mean to change any colours; the colours I chose represent my blog well [...brown and gold ... bees ...].

The Arnolfini Portrait

I promised someone that I'd post about The Arnolfini Portrait. So here it is:



This painting was done by the Flemish artist Jan van Eyck, in 1434. It's supposed to be a portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini, and his wife [who was deceased by the time this painting was done]. It is a very complex painting, full of symbolisms. And no, Giovanni's wife was not pregnant, what she is wearing was high fashion of that time.

That's just the painting in a gist; there is so much more meaning to it.

Image taken from our faithful Wikipedia.

Around the house

I've been photographing around the house. What d'ya think??

I really like this one ...


I've been told that some of the crayons look like ice cream sticks. Do you think so, too? Oh, and one melted because I left it in the sun.


Just like an iMac wallpaper! This is a new shoot of Aloe Vera [which is a beautiful red now; might photograph it later].


More Aloe Vera!


I did a whole A4 page of doodles last year.


If you want to use these pics anywhere, please just let me know beforehand! You can leave a comment on my latest post.

40th post.

This is my 40th post! It surely doesn't seem like it!

p.s.: 50 days till the Half Blood Prince!