http://pubs.rsc.org/en/
and you can find it on Amazon. With many thanks to Warwick Hillier!!
Front cover of Molecular Solar Fuels book
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/
and you can find it on Amazon. With many thanks to Warwick Hillier!!
Anaglyphs: new stereoscopic science images available
Anaglyphs are great fun and ideal for science-based novelties or children's science books. They are particularly useful for scientific subjects since they help the viewer to see unfamiliar structures in three dimensions.
If you see one of my images that you'd like rendered as an anaglyph, please let me know.
You need red-green or red-cyan glasses to see the 3D effect. You can check them out on the web for their 3D effect if you have suitable glasses. You can buy such glasses from specialist opticians or you can get cheap red-green filters in many 3D books.
How much should illustrators / designers / photographers / charge per hour?
It's a vexed question. Charge too much and you don't get the work. Charge too little and you hate yourself (whether you get the job or not). To help make things a little more rigorous, I created a calculator to compute hourly pay rates based on an estimated annual salary. You can put in the salary that you think is reasonable (say the local average wage), fill out the other bits and then see what pops out. Remember that this rate is for billable hours only (4 hours per day?). If you were pitching for a job, you might price for the whole thing but you should still have an hourly rate at the back of your mind. You can use this calculator for any type of work, really. Even though I wrote it, I was surprised at how much one must charge just to hope to make a basic wage.......
http: backlash backlash / Nature / Womanspace / Rybicki
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| Ed hits all the wrong buttons and enters a parallel web. |
Anyway, here is my little cartoon to celebrate Ed's unfortunate sojourn into the gendered net. So, if your cursor looks like this ♂, don't hit the backlash key \\\\\\\\\\ ....
Celebrate His 'n' Hers shopping experiences: buy this image on a SHOPPING BAG! It also makes an ideal mousepad for the politically incorrect man in your life. See all products with this image.
You can licence this cartoon. Anything from a small personal use upwards.
Why do we put more emphasis on formal music education than art education?
Why is it considered normal and desirable to teach young children music in a structured and formal way but not visual art? Not just at school. Many parents pay for after school piano lessons but how many pay for perspective lessons? How many children are forced to practice their academic drawing skills for hours a week? Take exams?
Money. Can it be that music is more lucrative? Probably. At least with music you can generally earn some money (playing in an orchestra or band) whereas in the visual arts it is virtually impossible to make a living.
Performance. (OK, this is really a subset of the money idea, since people pay for performances, and performances are, by their nature, ephemeral.) Despite the ubiquity of recorded music, music is still chiefly a performance thing. Art is not (with the superb exception of Rolf Harris and his live TV paintings - and of course Rolf Harris was also a musician...). This difference between music and painting was brilliantly captured for me when I heard Joni Mitchell use Van Gogh as an example many years ago. Still, Joni Mitchell was also a painter. (As an aside, when it comes to contemplating lyrics, only Jethro Tull crops up in my mind more frequently than Joni Mitchell.)
Teaching. Can it be a lack of teachers? The visual arts are in decline as a discipline. Might be that.
Bias. I remember at school that errors in spelling were taken much more seriously than errors in drawing. Overall, this might be a good thing, but it is illustrative of the bias. Children often paint the sky as a band at the top margin of their picture. How often are they criticised for this? What about fence posts that stray from the vertical (ask a child to draw a fence around a house*) or chimneys that tilt from a sloping roof. Would basic errors like these be tolerated in language or music?
*not really a fair example, since I vividly remember my teacher in primary school actually teaching everyone that the posts stay vertical as they turn a corner. Still, I think that the point stands (how many schools run remedial drawing classes?).
Have a look here at an excellent poster on the value of music....
Money. Can it be that music is more lucrative? Probably. At least with music you can generally earn some money (playing in an orchestra or band) whereas in the visual arts it is virtually impossible to make a living.
Performance. (OK, this is really a subset of the money idea, since people pay for performances, and performances are, by their nature, ephemeral.) Despite the ubiquity of recorded music, music is still chiefly a performance thing. Art is not (with the superb exception of Rolf Harris and his live TV paintings - and of course Rolf Harris was also a musician...). This difference between music and painting was brilliantly captured for me when I heard Joni Mitchell use Van Gogh as an example many years ago. Still, Joni Mitchell was also a painter. (As an aside, when it comes to contemplating lyrics, only Jethro Tull crops up in my mind more frequently than Joni Mitchell.)
Teaching. Can it be a lack of teachers? The visual arts are in decline as a discipline. Might be that.
Bias. I remember at school that errors in spelling were taken much more seriously than errors in drawing. Overall, this might be a good thing, but it is illustrative of the bias. Children often paint the sky as a band at the top margin of their picture. How often are they criticised for this? What about fence posts that stray from the vertical (ask a child to draw a fence around a house*) or chimneys that tilt from a sloping roof. Would basic errors like these be tolerated in language or music?
*not really a fair example, since I vividly remember my teacher in primary school actually teaching everyone that the posts stay vertical as they turn a corner. Still, I think that the point stands (how many schools run remedial drawing classes?).
Have a look here at an excellent poster on the value of music....
Womanspace, Nature, and the Immune Storm
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| Ed gazes into Womanspace ... and Womenspace gazes back into Ed. |
See Ed at his computer.....
New electromagnetic spectrum images
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| EM Spectrum: IR Visible Light UV |
Buildings Now Look Like Architectural Renderings
As I wander around Canberra, I see new buildings going up everywhere (it changes so much that I feel like I'm in Dark City). The funny thing is, many of these new buildings look just like architectural renderings made real. Everything has that slightly graphic look. Maybe I just spend too long in front of the computer...... However, I was brought up looking at architectural perspectives, so I might be sensitised to this art form.
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