Best Reasonably priced digital camera for blogging.

I just bought this $200 camera that I love.  It is the Canon Powershot SX150. It deals with contrast well. It has so many wonderful features that you can manipulate but  I have found all I need is the auto which just  rocks.

Great with Contrast on auto

Great with detail- just picked up the camera and snapped Charlie from a distance. Great whisker detail.

Recycled styrofoam ice cooler lights

wow thought this was a pretty good and clever design

http://www.sunpack.com/blog/2009/08/repurposing-packaging-materials/

Antique Folk Art Carved Fish from Pitcairn Island

I saw this fish that had nothing to do with anything that I am usually interested in but it was just so well carved and had such personality that I bought  him. Turns out these carvings from Pitcairn Island are pretty well regarded especially the older ones and this one I think is. Lovely detail and patina.

Mine is not as good as this
http://www.antiquehelper.com/item/308977

More like this
http://www.vandekar.com/details.asp?inventoryNumber=NY07400
 http://www.webbs.co.nz/auction-item/a-pitcairn-island-carved-fish-stand-john-christian

HAPPY TO ACCEPT OFFERS ON THIS GUY

MId Century whimsical wall applique Ackermans goofy friend

These lovely ladies were one fun  thing too many a our house and found a lovely home with a wall just made for them

Why I cannot be a dealer

Well Turns out the table I sold on Craigs List for $250-350 I think was worth a bit more

http://www.wright20.com/auctions/view/L5UL/L5UM/287/LA/day_/M3TM/0

California Mid-Century Modern Mosaic Ackerman Eames Era

This was a fun mosaic I  found at PCC but it is on its way to Palm Springs on Tuesday.  No signature or provenance but has a real Ackerman  feel - He will be missed by is warrior friends

He will be missed by is warrior friends

Senyol

Be sure to click on the image below to see the whole painting

This is a painting by the uber talented South African artist Senyol.  I think he is one of the most modern artists around. I am not usually a big fan of text with visual art. I kinda think either something is perceptual or conceptual but he is the exception. His writing is so minimal and crisp it borders on the banal just the way I like it.  I mean "puffed up qualifier clouds" .

QUALIFIER

a word that qualifies the meaning of another, as an adjective or adverb; modifier.

b.

an adverb that modifies adjectives or other adverbs and typically expresses degree or intensity, as very, somewhat,  or quite.

Look at this link "morning mod" is one of my favorites this is earlier work and some of my favorite

http://senyol.blogspot.com/2007/10/morning-mod.html

I also am lucky enough to have this one - "Happy Holidays". "Look no Further" and "Module" float near a simple line drawing of a house. It really reminds me of my favorite song "Home" by the talking heads - the two together are super simple happy