3SIXTY5 for Thursday, July 8: The Bird Watcher

I love using animals in my art. Our fellow creatures have held endless fascination for me since childhood. So of course I wanted to participate in Theme Thursday's "Animals" challenge. While looking through the wonderful vintage images in Jim Harter's  Animals: 1419 Copyright Free Illustrations from Dover Publications, I came across the stunning little fellow above. He wasn't holding anything in those spongy fingers, but clearly, he was meant to. He is called a Tarsier, lives in trees in southeast Asia, and eats insects. This particular one also likes to bird watch. With those eyes, maybe the binoculars are redundant.

3SIXTY5 Collage-a-Day #17 for Friday, April 23, 2010

I love looking through vintage technical books, with their old-fashioned charts and diagrams and formal language. So nostalgic! Yet in their day, they were cutting edge technology. Someday someone will be rummaging in a flea market and get a hoot out of our computer books. But visually, I doubt that these will be nearly as interesting. I call this piece The Inventor. The images came from the following Dover Publications books:
Machinery and Mechanical Devices, William Rowe
Men: A Pictorial Archive from 19th Century Sources, Jim Harter
Haeckel's Art Forms from Nature CD ROM & Book, Ernst Haeckel