Gwen Hendrix

The Works, Wisdom and Musings of Gwen Hendrix "Creating is about the process of doing the work... what happens intuitively, without a specific result in mind. " I am a mixed media artist currently exploring different aspects of fiber in 2D & 3D forms by incorporating sewing, quilting, weaving, paper and fabric painting. Favorite quote: "Art is what we call... the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist." -Seth Godin

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My new studio!! #nestartsfactory (at Nest Arts Factory)

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The Man of a Thousand Faces

Great photo of Lon Chaney from the Phantom of the Opera silent film in 1925. Lon’s talent with makeup earned him the nickname “The Man of a Thousand Faces”. [ More from our facebook page ]

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Spanish actress Maria Conesa in Photoplay magazine.  via

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via TumbleBoard for iPad (TumbleboardApp.com)

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Fern Andra in Genuine (Robert Wiene, 1920) from Cinéa magazine.  via

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Buster Keaton, The Cameraman, 1928

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via TumbleBoard for iPad (TumbleboardApp.com)

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Rising Sun by Sheena J. Norquay

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The Blacksmith by Digital Agent. Saw this here. See more here. 

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Above: What sand really looks like—grains of sand photographed at the microscopic level by TEDxMaui speaker Dr. Gary Greenberg, a process discussed in his talk, “Big beauty in tiny things”:

“Sand is about a tenth of a millimeter in size—each sand grain is about a tenth of a millimeter in size. But when you look closer…it’s really quite amazing. [In sand from Maui], you have microshells there; you have things like coral; you have fragments of other shells; you have olivine; you have bits of volcano…you have tube worms—an amazing array of incredible things exist in sand.

…In a place like [Maui], a lot of the sand is made up of biological material because the reefs provide a place where all these microscopic animals or macroscopic animals grow, and when they die, their shells and their teeth and their bones break up and they make up grains of sand…

When we’re walking along a beach, we’re actually walking along millions of years of biological and geological history. We don’t realize it, but it’s actually a record of that entire ecology…If you look at different sands from different places: every single beach, every single place where you look at sand—it’s different.”

Photos via sandgrains.com. See more of Gary’s photography documenting the “microworld” here.

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John Ritter - 64th Birthday

Earlier this week we would have celebrated John Ritter’s 64th birthday. I miss this man. My particular favorite role was of course Jack Tripper on Three’s Company. [ More: John Ritter 64th Birthday ]

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Crimsindia

36” x 36”

Acrylic on Canvas

Artist Michael Carini

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Towards Eggemoggin Reach - Deer Isle, Maine | image by D’ArcyG

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Image description: A group of puffins at Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge.

Photo from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Northeast Region

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the future hangs over our heads

2012; hand embroidery, illustration, &watercolor on handmade paper

brokenbees

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LIFE photographer W. Eugene Smith’s children, Juanita and Patrick, walk hand-in-hand into a clearing in 1946. The photo was the closing image in Edward Steichen’s now-legendary 1955 MoMA exhibition, The Family of Man, and was one of the very first that Smith, wounded while working in the Pacific in World War II, made after the war.

See more photos here.