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Sunday, March 2, 2014

WVWS members only -this week we begin displaying our watercolors at Sylvia's Brick Oven in Lafayette. The exhibits will be bi-monthly giving members an opportunity to exhibit and sell. It will showcase local art to the community. Members should have received an e-mail with details, if not, leave a comment here and you will be contacted.

Saturday, March 1, 2014

A Portal into the Past

The Lines and Colors blog (one of my faves) has a post about imposing 18th century paintings onto Google Street View images.

http://linesandcolors.com/2014/02/28/18th-century-paintings-meet-google-street-view/

The links to the originals don't seem to be working (or maybe you have be a member of reddit?) but the examples on the blog post are intriguing and definitely worth a look!

Google street view is itself fun to play around in. You can land on a street in Paris or Venice or Lafayette and look around: maps.google.com

Type in a location, then when the map comes up, click and hold on the yellow figure (bottom right), move it to the location,  and release. I've used this, for example, to check out a hotel's surroundings and to see what a storefront looks like.