Moo Cards: Mini Custom Cards From Your Flickr Photos

Moo cards from FlickrHow cool, tiny name cards that feature your favorite Flickr images! If your the owner of a pro Flickr account you can have a free sampler pack of 10 shipped for you, you guessed it, free! These would be great as gift tags too, just stick a ‘To:’ and ‘From:’ line on the back and your set. I can’t wait to see what other people end up using these for. I should get mine in about a week. I’ll have to make it a point to shoot some photos specifically for these cards on my next trip.
For more printing ideas go have a look at the Qoop page. I’m betting that if the mini cards are as popular as I think there going to be, Moo will be branching out to the other popular photo sharing networks as well. I can only hope.

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Moo Cards: Stunning kid-sized custom biz-cards with Flickr pix

A Hobbit Hole Of Your Very Own

Have a bit of land? Want a place to get away from it all? Like the works of Tolkien a little too much? With a little work, some simple tools (chainsaw, hammer, chisel) and some friends to the heavy lifting, you can make your very own Hobbit hole. Looks like a fun project if you have the space. The straw bale construction technique works very well for many buildings. Makes great insulation too. I’d be quite happy in one, as long as it had some plumbing and power.

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A Low Impact Woodland Home

Shooting Phoenix

Cat skull 01Grain in tracks 02

Today was the first photo outing of the four white walls photography group. We all met up in beautiful downtown Phoenix at 6:00 am today to go take photos of all the old buildings that won’t be around much longer. Turns out all the old warehouse and art gallery spaces down there will bring big bucks when sold to people that want to build parking lots, sports bars (that’s so 90’s) and Starbucks. Anyhow, here are my photos and here are the photos from the group. I’m looking forward to the next event, whatever that may be.
Phoenix skyline

C M Automata

Hermes

The husband and wife team of Peter Meder and Chris Chomick who these fanciful sculptures and automata are masters of their art. After starting out in the special effects business they found their calling as artists. These one of a kind creations use everything from common R/C servos to hand cranks to give life to their creations. This kind of work simply amazes me.

Chomick Meder : Figurative Art and Automata