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Fantastic Universe Book Covers

If vintage illustrations, comics and book covers appeal to you, click over to GoldenAgeComicBookStories.blogspot.com to see everything from sci-fi and pin-up girls, to westerns, knights and pirate stories.

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Beautiful Hang Drum Duet

by Cat Johnson
The most marvelous thing about music is that it’s always changing; being recreated, reinterpreted and redifined. I love looking back on the evolution of musical forms and wondering what’s coming next.
In 2000, in Bern, Switzerland, after years of studying different percussion instruments from around the world, Felix Rohner and Sabina Schärer created the [...]

The Evolution of a Photographer Pt 4

by Rosey Lakos
I am not really sure when or why the housewife theme came into my work, but it first showed up photographically while I was working at City College in San Francisco. I wrote a lot while I was there and the character of a repressed 1940s American woman began developing in my sketch [...]

Writers on Writing

There’s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. —Walter Wellesley “Red” Smith
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. —Anaïs Nin
If there’s a book you really want to read, but [...]

The Evolution of a Photographer Pt. 3

by Rosey Lakos
I felt very self-conscious about going to art school because I had never considered myself to be a serious artist. I fell right in step in the photo department and it turned out to be a great fit for me, but it took me longer to feel comfortable and capable as an “artist.”
I [...]

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