Well … it WAS snowing in Roanoke a little while ago. And it was coming down pretty hard too. Then the sun came out and it vanished completely.
Campbell Avenue at Market Square.
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Framed Face Autostereogram by Dominic Alves, 2009
Yes, this is indeed one of those “magic eye” images popularized in the 1990’s. (I still think these things are neat, even if I am pretty hit-or-miss at being able to see them.) “Autostereogram” is a new word for me, but it makes sense if you break the word down.
Incidentally, the “Mallrats” (1995) scene to which I’ve linked above is a blooper. The image contained by the poster at the mall is not a sailboat; it’s a pattern of different geometric shapes. None of the characters could have seen a sailboat. (Seriously, pause the image on a laptop and look.)
If the below image is inscrutable to you, you can check out (or share) the larger image over at Wikimedia Commons.
Future Tense.
BritBud last night: “Happy New Year from the future!”
Me: “Happy New Year from the shameful and sordid past!”
© Nevit Dilmen, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
New Year’s greeting card illustrated by Kate Greenaway, circa 1900
Photography, 2024
I was lucky enough to get a few photos published this past year. If you’d like to take a gander at them, all of my published photos can be found in the section below:
Photo of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn by Mikhail Evstafiev, 1994
Russian writer and Nobel prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn looks out from a train, in Vladivostok, summer 1994, before departing on a journey across Russia. Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after nearly 20 years in exile.
Poetry and Commentary, 2024
2024 was a banner year for my poetry. If you happen to enjoy my ongoing, Kafka-esque portraiture of a neurotic scribbler, all of the year’s publications can be found right here:
Cover to “Batman: The Last Halloween” #1, Tim Sale, 2024
DC Comics.
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