I had a moment of pure beauty and winter magic and majesty, cross country skiing on the snow covered roads through Riverside Cemetery.   Thank you for your image.

Hi Bginley, 

Well, coincidentally I was involved in the same “imagining  winter” thought processes as you.

Your “July 16” is a bit of a tease – in contrast to winter white buildings and drab coffee colored sky.  And the “burning bridges”?  are they just the carbon in your paint – or a reference to division?

The reduction in landscape color during winter is a bit of a burden for me, so when I go out in the cold with my eyes and camera I am hungry to find color.   Today’s realneo header is  a photo collage effort to capture the iconic frozen water forms of shoeprint, icicle,  brown autumn leaf, white capped plants, and whizzing dogs and schussing kids.   

You  (or any realneo image enthusiast) might think of creating one of your pieces for a realneo header.   The header is 1000 pixels wide (images in blogs should not be that wide – 700 pixels or less for the central column of realneo) and between 150 and 200 pixels high – so your canvas width to height ratio for a header should be about 5:1.   After you have photoshoped your image for the web, log in to your blog, click create content, more,  image, in the “community of interest link”  pull down the menu to the very bottom and click on realneo header, then load your image (thumbnail) in the browse window, and pull on the corner of the “body” box to add text.   You can also click on “file attachments” to load another copy of the image to obtain a URL which you can then paste (using image insertion icon)  into the body of your text.   Once your header image is in the Realneo Header gallery, one of the realneo administrators can pull the image from “inventory” and insert it as a banner. 

I feel Realneo really should have a new banner every day. 

 This is a difficult schedule to meet however, because though I very much enjoy the process, banners do take a bit of time to make.    If there are “spare” banners waiting, ready-to-use, in the header image gallery, this will make it possible for new headers to visually welcome, inform, challenge, and inspire realneo users everyday.

Thanks in advance!

i will consider making banners for ReaLNEO with my art, I do think you should post those instructions to the general RealNeo team. 

these recent pieces are created using pages from a datebook during a very productive, profitable time in my life with lots of activity, doodles and unconscious scribbles. This collage surface creates a platform to re-create the current state of being that is today - my view from an old factory of a greying downtown dying slowly sketched out over the former years of success....july 16 i went to blossom to see a triple bill of the furs,gogos & b52's for free and fell asleep on the lawn...now history is covered in paint, coffee and ashes, only creeping thru to remind and reflect of better days...the dead downtown from the burned bridges stands stoically as the cigs and caffeine whirl the only energy left around the grey modular concrete peak...

more on my flickr here - they are in process and will change over time

http://www.flickr.com/photos/erieffusion/3117503338/sizes/m/in/set-72157...

Bridget's paintings cover the walls this month, softening edges in Tremont's Lucky's Cafe.

Come check them out; take a coffee, pastry, and hopefully a painting home with you.

Nice surroundings to work within; I've just spent a whole day here.
Slushing home, soon.

Jeff - thanks! i  nearly droveOVR u picking up art from Dana at Asterisk tonite round 8 - i appreciate the plug - Lucky's has the best Brunch every weekend. I am most happy to hang when paired with good cuisine