TLLT

10/23/09

10/19/09

Happily Ever Over, Trailer

A holiday gift, I put sound and motion to my drawings to create an "animated" story. Full length coming soon! :)

10/9/09

10/6/09

10/4/09

Happy Full Moon to all :)

Cookie Monster sings.. If Moon Were Cookie.. yes *sigh* :)

9/30/09

Natural Beauty

I love jewelry that "rings" of the natural world. This one made me think of so many beautiful things. See it here and also support original artists on Etsy.

9/29/09

9/28/09

Coming to Life 103

More Coming To Life

Still working on my big art project but it is believe it or not almost done! :)

8/20/09

Things Look Like Games! A Life-sized Candyland

Yesterday an entire street turned into a real life Candyland! Lombard Street (you know that famous twisty turny one in San Francisco) got turned into a life sized version of the famous kid's boardgame.

To celebrate Candy Land's 60th anniversary, 575 feet of switchbacks in the Russian Hill neighborhood were transformed into a life-size version of the board game.

Kids from the UC San Francisco Children's Hospital and Friends of the Children competed in a round of Candy Land, which makes my girlhood fantasyland, FAO Schwarz, look like child's play.
Click here for all the info and a picture of the cute cake the kids got at the end of the game :)

on our way to Kandy Kastle
Originally uploaded by aaparton.

Lombard Street in San Francisco is turned into Candyland
Originally uploaded by Coyne Public Relations.

Check out many more sweet pix here :)

PS! Yes I am still here but ugh summer heat is making me melt in NYC :) What free-time I did have is being hogged up by my art project. I am making great progress, it's been getting it's time here and there btw "life" and all it's goodies but when it's done it will be worth it and yes I will share all. I do update Happy LOL Day on a semi regular basis. I am not gone I just need to get this stuff finished. I will also be getting ready to do FaerieCon again so it will be busy. So I hope you are having a nice summer (or winter if you are on the other end of our little floating rock in space :) ) and hopefully getting in some vacation time. I will be back! :)

7/1/09

All Kindsa Cozy!

Everybody deserves a little knitty warmth... even snails! Read all about this fella here! So slimy cute!!!

Ahh he also looks dangerously delish! (I am sure he is thinking.. Say no to Escargot!!)
Eat this cupcake instead.. :)

Henri's Cupcakes
Originally uploaded by Phoebe Holworthy.

Thanks Amy! :)
I have been workin' and doing an art project too so sorry I am a bit "away" at the moment but it's all good!

6/5/09

Happy National Donut Day!

Here in the US it's National Donut Day!
Read all about it.. then go get one :)

6/4/09

The Absence of A

Where was the letter "A" that day? Maybe here or there, and by its absence a poem was made.

6/2/09

Bee In Fashion

Click the last picture for a nice news story!

TLLT, How it started

photo, syncros

I have always been told I have a unique way of seeing the world and have fun weaving stories connecting one part of nature to another.
Through Flickr and its vast collection of photos I have been able to make these connections come to life visually and to gently expand the view of the earth we share. We are so interconnected in shapes and colors, we live on a single floating rock, maybe that's why.

I like to think of the man in Africa and the woman in the US who have come together with others through their pictures to tell one whimsical story. Will they ever meet? Probably not. But in one small space of web they are unexpectedly side by side becoming a part of a visual tale or poem.

This way of seeing the world blend always makes me smile.

Click the photos to go to the individual photographer's sites on Flickr
"Blog This" I only use Flickr pictures where the blog function is enabled. This means the photographer has allowed their pictures to be used in blogs. I only want to include people who don't mind being brought into a web world like this. I do not just take what I see.

# C Merry Website
# C Merry MySpace

Guidelines

This style does have guidelines:

These are just guidelines of course. There are plenty of other places to get straightforward stories, this is just another way to tell a tale. The journey to find it is part of its magic.

Avoid the Obvious The reason for this style is to appreciate how the world is connected by nature and chance. Don't use something with a smile face painted on it for example, use something that seems to have a smile face on it by total coincidence or a frozen moment in time that was not planned.

Colors, Textures and Forms Use shapes and colors that are similar to weave a tale. You'll be amazed at what shares similar features.

Searched For and Chance Finds Don't go out and take a picture of a blue texture if you need one to connect images in a tale, find it "out there". Part of what is amazing is sharing your vision and assembling it from the world's vision.

Text and No Text The picture should do most if not all of the storytelling. If telling a tale with text it should enhance the image not explain in excess detail why it's there. It should be clear what it's illustrating.

Top to Bottom Scroll Align your tales to begin at the top of your picture list and end with the last. That is of course if they do have a beginning and end, they don't have to. But as in everything there will be exceptions. If presented on a webpage side to side indicate whether it's to be read from left to right or not since not all countries read pages from left to right. What is great about this style is almost everyone can see what you are saying.

Change the World You can depict fact but use this form to expand the world by imagination

TLLT

10/23/09

Land, Sea and Air

10/19/09

Happily Ever Over, Trailer

10/9/09

A Colorful World

Twisting

10/6/09

Ciclope