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Calligraphica - Gothic Calligraphy & Lettering - 6mm Pilot on Borden & Riley #234 paper, post processed - Steve Czajka Calligraphy
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The End of Posterous
I just found out today that this is the end for Posterous. Posterous will go dark on April 30th 2013. Posterous is the blogging service that I use to publish this blog and one other. This is a sad day for me. Back in 2009 I had made a decision to get back into my art and calligraphy. This decision was not a light one. I had lost my mother in September and was feeling like I really wanted to make a mark on this world, and give it my best shot. Posting my art on the web was also a decision I did not make lightly. Posting your art online exposes everything, but also encourages me to do better. I had posted my art online a long time ago via altavista, but found the website editing painful back in 1997. Times change, Posterous was created making the process of posting/administration dead simple and fast -- so fast that I could spend my time focusing on my art, not web administration. My friend Anthony Marco pointed out Posterous to me and I will be forever in debt to him. A dead simple free service for sharing my art to the world. Perfect to get back into it. Posterous was easy to post via email, very reliable, supported rich media like youtube, google maps, etc..., comments, views, members, stats via google analytics and so on. But the coolest feature was autopost to flickr and twitter and so many others. Starting my own Posterous blog led me to creating another blog for the Calligraphic Arts Guild of Toronto, a non-profit organization where free is important. This in turn led me to another organization I am affiliated with called theKDU one of the largest design organizations out of the US. In parallel I was learning and teaching GIMP, the most popular open source image editing package in the world. This connection with GIMP led me to help build and manage GIMP Magazine (http://gimpmagazine.org) which as become a huge success. And all of this knowledge, connections with people from all over the world, and enthusiasm for art and design made it back to my day job workplace in using these skills in various projects that are design / publication layout oriented. All this from Posterous. That is pretty amazing! I have had so much fun using Posterous since December 2009. While Posterous will go dark on April 30th, and this will be my last or second last post on Posterous I will find a new home for my blog soon. Thanks for viewing! Cheers Steve
Desktop Publishing Course DVD - Scribus
The Desktop Publishing Course uses free and open source Scribus (http://scribus.net). Scribus is very similar to Adobe InDesign and MS Publisher. Learn to use free and open source scribus to create business cards, brochures, leaflets, full size posters, newsletters, magazine publications, and even books. I use scribus to create GIMP Magazine and several other professional looking documents. This will be similar to my previous course, "Digital Arts Course DVD" that can be found at: http://steveczajka.posterous.com/digital-arts-course-dvd-gimp-inkscape I have started the course outline and am designing the exercises. I will update this post periodically. If you are interested in purchasing this kindly let me know by leaving a comment on my blog, or send me an email at my address below. I estimate a release in a few months from today. Cheers Steve
Shine Music Video
I stumbled upon this song titled, "Shine" while searching for some music at http://ccMixter.org. Emily Richards aka Snowflake (the singer ) has an outstanding voice! I felt that Shine was a great song to try out my new typeface called, "high and narrow". Watch the video below...
The typeface featured in this video was hand drawn by me after taking a class from taught by Ann O'Shea. Ann's class was based on an exemplar from a well known US Calligrapher Jean Formo. I chose to use a very tall letter form with my own shading technique. My typeface also contains a full set of capitals, numbers and regular special characters (not shown). The complete set is available as an Inkscape SVG file, also available for use in Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop. It is a refreshing departure from my regular form of calligraphy. This is far more casual than I am used to as a calligraphic style, but has great applications in chalk board signs -- you know the ones that appear at your nearby eatery / deli etc. These signs look so cool, especially when hand lettered. The typeface is commercially available at http://steveczajka.posterous.com/high-and-narrow-typeface Emily Richard's (aka Snowflake) music can be found at http://ccmixter.org/files/snowflake/34848 . There is also an interesting back story about the song and why she created it in the first place. Cheers Steve
2013 Calendar
To welcome in the new year I have for you my 2013 Calendar. This is available both in desktop wallpaper format and printed format. This calendar features my "Letters Interacting" piece -- original found here http://steveczajka.posterous.com/letters-interacting. This was a favourite piece of mine in 2012. Letters Interacting also features my gothic Textura: "Tall and Narrow" typeface found here http://steveczajka.posterous.com/gothic-textura-tall-and-narrow. Again another favourite of mine and a breakthrough in how I do my calligraphy art form using a modern digital approach merged with old school traditional artwork. 2012 Looking Back 2012 was a great year for me. So many successes both at work and outside of work. In terms of my artwork I feel that my typography and calligraphy has grown significantly and I had so much fun doing this. I also had started a side project called GIMP Magazine (http://gimpmagazine.org) that has taken off far more than I ever expected, even making it on network TV. And from this project I learn a great deal about scribus (www.scribus.net) and how to promote a project through social media. It has been a great learning experience that has connected me with some amazing people. Great fun! Some of the things i didn't get to in 2012 was blender. This is a 3D package that I want to learn and integrate with my lettering and 3D animation. Blender, however is not the type of package one picks up in a weekend, it takes months to understand, and many years to master. I also didn't get into video editing like i wanted to. I am struggling with open source vs commercial product on this one. 2013 Looking Forward Maybe I will get started with blender in 2013? I also have plans to develop more typefaces. I plan to develop one over the xmas break, although I have been sick over much of the break so far. I also want to learn font development software. This is software that will take my typefaces and convert them into computer readable fonts (.OTF files). These can be commercially sold through various on-line font shops with a revenue stream. Again this is another learning curve that I am looking forward to. Merging calligraphy with font development has its complexities that i need to sort out. Having said this some of the most famous typographers have been professional calligraphers. Overall I really want to go deep into the creative side. I want to take more courses in calligraphy and possibly other design related topics. I find this to be a very rewarding area of my life. Finally i want to do another epic piece. In 2011 I did my calligraphy border round piece, and 2012 letters interacting / textura tall and narrow. I have some ideas for another epic calligraphy piece that I want to do in 2013, and i have been tinkering with it for some time now. I Made this Calendar using Inkscape The piece letters interacting was created using both GIMP and Inkscape, layout in Inkscape, colourization in GIMP. This calendar was created entirely using Inkscape. The process is simple. Step 1. File / Document Properties. Setup the page size to 11" x 17" portrait. Step 2. Pull in the artwork (letters interacting piece). Centre and size this onto your page. Keep in mind that the original artwork must be 300 dpi or better for print quality. Step 3. Extensions / Render / Calendar. This will create a calendar for you. You will need to work through the dialogue to setup your preferences. This will create monthly calendar objects for you using a default font. To change this, simply ungroup the calendar object, and keep ungrouping until you get to the font object level. Then simply select the type and change the font. For this calendar I changed the layout to six calendars per side to best compliment the artwork on a portrait page. These calendar objects are exactly the same size so I could easily use the alignment tools to get the alignment and distribution correct. This was a very easy project to create. I used open sans and open sans condensed fonts in this case. High Resolution Print Version I can provide you with a high resolution print PDF version if you like. Contact me via email to request a copy. Have a most excellent 2013! All the best! Cheers Steve
December 2012 Calendar
Again I was late on this calendar . . . better late than never. This was created using primarily Inkscape, but GIMP as well. The effect on the December lettering was a simple trace bitmap conversion using a lower threshold value in Inkscape. This distresses the lettering giving it an aged effect similar to my October 2012 calendar. This concludes my 2012 calendar series. I am not sure that I will continue this into 2013, but I will see. I do have a year in view 2013 calendar created and ready for posting soon. You can view my complete 2012 monthly calendar series on my flickr account at: Happy Holidays to you and your family! All the best. Cheers Steve
Never Forget
This photo immediately captured me. The shot is from Vimy, France. She sits atop a Canadian Monument. She overlooks fallen Canadian soldiers. Look at her sunken posture... Deflated... Broken... Look at the way she is holding the object in her hand... Relaxed... Empty... Look at how alone she is standing on the wall... This is an incredible sculpture, and a great photograph. This amazing photo was by http://claydevoute.blogspot.com/. I found this photo on flickr at: About this piece... I loved the grain of the original black and white photo. I darkened it slightly by adding a simple black filter. I added a mask to this filter and added RGB noise to the mask to increase the grain effect.
I created a few versions of this. In the end I liked this version, with the lettering standing out.
Thanks Steve
November 2012 Calendar
At the time of posting this it is more wet than frosty, but I think that frosty better captures the month of November in my geography. Back to Emily Dickinson here for November, kinda like my March 2012 Calendar http://steveczajka.posterous.com/march-2012-calendar. White lettering on a black (90% opacity black bar). The frost effect on the November lettering was done using a filter in Inkscape called Ink Bleed. I used a slightly tighter kern on the lettering since the original March 2012 post. The layout was also done using Inkscape, however the final step of title block was completed using GIMP. The two packages work great together. This frosty photo was done by klsmith77 on http://www.sxc.hu/photo/544830 I am looking forward to my December 2012 Calendar. I would like to do something special here as it will end my 2012 Calendar series. I am not sure I will be continuing these in 2013. I would appreciate any feedback / comments you may have. Any special requests? Cheers Steve
Horton Grand Hotel
The Horton Grand Hotel in the Gaslamp part of San Diego would be a great location for the Ghost Adventures crew to investigate. They say that room 309 is particularly haunted, and not open to guests. Apparently room 309 has doors that can not be shut no matter what they try. The doors always re-open mysteriously. This piece was based on an actual experience I had while staying in San Diego many years ago. Here is my story...
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My Ghost Story The story you are about to read is absolutely true and to the best of my recollection.
Location: The Horton Grand Hotel, San Diego, California, USA 311 Island Avenue San Diego, CA 92101-6998, United States (619) 544-1886
I used to travel to the ESRI International Users Conference in San Diego pretty much annually from the period of roughly 1997 to 2008 more or less. The second year I went I had requested the Horton Plaza Hotel and through a mix up I ended up with The Horton Grand Hotel which was actually closer to the conference so I was ok with that.
I arrived and noticed that it was a very old hotel that was redone and quite nice inside and even had a guest book in the room itself on top of the fire place mantel. I looked through the book, and apart from a few odd passages it was pretty much normal.
My room was unique in that it had French doors and a balcony looking to an inside courtyard. A beautiful setting where a wedding reception was actually being held. Here is where the story begins... As I was looking into the courtyard, out of nowhere my toilet flushed. I assumed that it may have been the cleaning person or some admin person in there. I waited a while and when I didn't hear anything, I knocked on the door. Nobody answered, so I went inside and nobody was there. Weird. I assumed the toilet flush was due to the old age of the toilet and old style design with the brass tank elevated near the ceiling unlike most modern day toilets.
The first day of my conference I left early to grab a business breakfast with a vendor i worked with. I walked onto the elevator from the third floor and proceeded to the first. The elevator took me there, but would not let me out. It proceeded back to the third floor then back - this happened a few times. Just before i was about to press the emergency button, the doors opened and let me out. I assumed it was just an old elevator, and i did not panic in any way.
By about Wednesday i realized that every time i walked past the front desk an employee always asked me if everything was ok (even if they were dealing with a client, they would pause and ask me is everything ok). At first I figured this was exceptional customer service, but by Wednesday it became just weird. I never connected any dots here.
I got back to my room from my day on Thursday and was resting on the bed before going out for a nice diner in San Diego. The TV was on and I was reading something and a bit distracted. I noticed that the TV started to get a really strange form of reception that i never witnessed before. I didn't think it was a ghost, I just thought it was weird form of reception. Wavy lines in the form of shapes that i couldn't make out. I have never seen this before or after. Later that night I was sleeping and the alarm went off. I rushed out of bed to get out, got dressed, proceeded into the hallway then I realized it was just a dream I was having and the hotel was completely silent. I went back to bed.
On Friday things started to really take a turn. I came back from diner and was resting on the bed. The TV was on and I was watching a show. Out of absolutely nowhere, the channel changed, then changed again and again. I was totally freaked out, as that never happened to me before. I picked up the remote and switched back and everything went back to normal and it never switched again.
It gets worse, much worse... That night while sleeping I was awoken very early in the morning, about 3 am, to small children screaming at the top of their lungs, running and banging on all the doors down the long hallway. I jumped out of bed and went out to the hallway to deal with it and absolutely no one was there and the hotel was completely silent. I was totally shocked. I figured i had a bad dream or possibly a nightmare, which is weird cause I don't have nightmares (not before, not after). This was very strange. I have two nieces (who were kids back then) and I know that children don't going running down the hall at 3am -- this just doesn't happen. I just went back to bed as I had a flight the next morning.
During the entire week I never linked any of these events to paranormal experiences, ghosts, spirits etc. Not at all. I just reduced every event down to something: an old toilet, an old elevator, a broken TV. This changed Saturday morning. I had to pick up a flight (and i had to leave the hotel around 6am which was early for me). I shared a minivan style cab with a couple who was also going to the airport. I was really tired sitting/dozing in the front seat when i started to make sense of the couples conversation in the backseat coming out of my sleepy daze. They were mentioning very strange things that happened to them during the week. I vividly remember the cab driver looking back at them when he explained that the hotel is haunted. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I started to recall all of the incidents that happened to me during that week. At this point i was wide awake with enormous clarity. He told us a story about room 309 which is off limits to patrons and only available to special guests under special conditions. Even maintenance people proceed cautiously into room 309. Apparently a murder happened there many many years ago and for whatever reason the French doors do not close. They have tried everything, but to no avail. I cant recall what room number i stayed in, but it wasn't 309.
Did I have a real paranormal experience(s)? I have no idea. As a professional, this is an absolutely true story to the best that I can recall many years later. If it were not for the cab driver, I would never have connected the dots. I never knew the place was haunted either before or during my stay. I never stayed at the Horton Grand Hotel again and not sure that i would. I wanted to take a ghost tour years after in San Diego, but never was able to line it up.
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This Digital Art This digital art piece was created based on an original photo from Adam Jones on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/adam_jones/6922204379/ The original image is an amazing daytime shot. So clean, so clear. I needed to create a haunted look for my ghost story. I added a parchment texture and used a feathered selection to delete the centre. This gives the image a textured vignette style outer edge. Then i darkened the image using a few solid fill black layers setting the mode to overlay for a night time setting. I also took the original image and ran a black and white photo to the image, then set the original colour layer to hard light mode (15% opacity) - still a color image, but gives a highly muted appearance. As you can see from the original I was able to use GIMP to change the mood of the photo. In general I have been trying to vary the mood that calligraphy can be used in... Everything from my Summer 2012 / June / July Calendar to a more historic / scary feel to a piece like Horton Grand / ghost adventures. People have typecast calligraphy for wedding invitations only, and this is simply not true -- calligraphy can be used anywhere in a variety of ways. Classic calligraphy is a refreshing change from typical fonts used over and over and over again. My Calligraphy I used my gothic calligraphy titled, textura stubby and narrow, added a few icicles, diamonds, and swirls to create an emblem look fitting the period. The embellishments above and below the lettering are simply vector art. The hotel lettering in red just adds mystery. I tried many different ways to layout this piece and decided on this optical vertical centre to balance it against the photo. Just enough lettering / just enough photo balance. While this wallpaper is creepy, the hotel is actually a nice place to stay and I would recommend it (if you can deal with the haunted aspects). Many of the rooms have their own fireplace, guest book and French doors opening to the balcony / courtyard. They have weddings in the courtyard quite often. Beautiful architecture that was redone inside -- i think an addition was put on also. Classy place in the Historic Gaslamp section of San Diego. Cheers Steve
Halloween
Does this remind you of the classic film, "John Carpenter's Halloween"? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077651/ ). I felt that the original was an excellent film. The music in the film was absolutely haunting. I designed it to look like the opening titles of the movie. The jack lantern on the left and the lettering on the right in the relatively same proportions. This features my "Textura Tall and Narrow" gothic typeface, with a slight bevel on the edge giving it a highly textured appearance. Textura Tall and Narrow typeface can be purchased at http://steveczajka.posterous.com/gothic-textura-tall-and-narrow
The jack lantern shot was done by... flickr.com/photos/peterkaminski/1230139/ I had done some minor editing to get it to fit. My thanks to the photographer. Happy Halloween everyone! Cheers Steve
October 2012 Calendar
Yeah, I am a bit late on this calendar considering it is the 13th of October when I am posting it. Getting the first few issues of GIMP Magazine started has been taking up some of my time. At any rate the October calendar is complete.
I altered my usual workflow with this one. I did the majority of the work in Inkscape actually. I find it far easier to do layout work using Inkscape rather than GIMP. Having said this the final image was done as a composite inside of GIMP. I really like this creepy jack lantern by levisz on http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1389362.
Keep an eye out for some Halloween Gothic calligraphy coming soon!
Want to learn how to make these? Click here
http://steveczajka.posterous.com/digital-arts-course-dvd-gimp-inkscape
Cheers Steve
P.S. Check out GIMP Magazine at http://gimpmagazine.org . It has been great fun working on that project, and I am blown away with the support for this project.
GIMP Magazine - Issue 1
GIMP is an amazing image editing software package similar to Adobe® Photoshop®, but licensed as free and open source for the Mac PC and Linux operating systems. The latest version of GIMP (2.8) has been downloaded over 6.5 Million times in just two months, so this is a huge community of skilled and passionate users. GIMP Magazine features the amazing works created from this world wide community. Photography, digital arts, graphic arts, web design, tips & tricks, step by step tutorials, master classes, help desk questions, product reviews and so much more are showcased and explored in this quarterly publication. This publication is available for free and is licensed Creative Commons CC-AT-SA 2.5. My role as managing editor for GIMP Magazine is to provide editorial direction in the stories and content that we feature in our magazine. And this is a difficult role considering the amazing content that we receive from our community. I provide overall coordination with the project and within our team of seven, including internal and external communications. I run the social media accounts for this project. And the most fun part of my role on this project is providing art direction, and layout services (in Scribus, like InDesign®). I am part of an amazing team of people who produce this publication voluntarily, and we are having fun doing this! I am also connected to incredibly talented artists and photographers from all over the world. Who knows what this will lead to?
Download it from: http://gimpmagazine.org
Cheers Steve
CAGT Brochures 2012-13
The 2012-13 Season is about to kick off on September 13, 2012 with the first Guild General Meeting and Course. And we have a new brochure ready for this season. These brochures will be unveiled at our Culture Days event on September 29th. More on that later.
For now you can enjoy this single page brochure 8.5" x 14". The brochure is designed for legal size paper with a regular fold. The finished product is printed full bleed, on 80-weight, glossy paper as photographed.
This brochure was prepared using GIMP, Inkscape, and the layout work was completed using Scribus. These free and open source software packages are similar to Adobe® Photoshop®, Illustrator®, and InDesign® respectively.
The art and design was created by both Mark Lurz and myself.
I will be doing a special feature about the creation of this brochure in Issue 2 of GIMP Magazine.
Cheers Steve
September 2012 Calendar
September signifies the beginning of the fall season. Back to school, leaves start falling, new TV seasons kick off... I love the fall. And I love this photo by alitaylor on sxc.hu. This is one of my favorite calendar pieces yet. I think this one and January 2012 (http://steveczajka.posterous.com/gothic-textura-tall-and-narrow ) stand out for me as favs. Let me show you how I created this using GIMP and Inkscape (both free, both open source software).
This calendar was easy to create. My gothic project master collection is a typeface of over 250 characters. Watch my Video Tutorial at
Step 1 - Create / Layout Lettering I place these bitmap characters into Inkscape quickly by simply drag and drop. I then arrange the letters using guides and spacers to get the spacing right. Finally I export the lettering to a bitmap PNG format.
Step 2 - Distressed Lettering Then I open this new PNG bitmap into a another Inkscape document and simply use trace bitmap and use a special value (used 0.65) to get this faded or distressed look. The trace operation creates a new vector layer. I delete the original bitmap object. This also fades the lettering based on the pressure of each hand done calligraphy pen stroke, something that a common texture fade will never achieve. I used the exact same approach with the quote, worried that the same trace value wouldn't work out, but it did. Save this as lettering.SVG
Step 3 - Edit Image in GIMP Create a new document in GIMP (1920 x 1080 @ 300 dpi suitable for printing). Drag and drop the lettering.SVG onto the canvas. Size it to fit. GIMP will automatically convert the vector format to a raster image.
Step 4 - Base Leaves Image Review license agreement and download the Leaves background image from http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1107616 . Drag and drop this into the GIMP Image, resize, move and fit.
Step 5 - Darken Base Image I used the beloved curves tool, classic S curve without the top part of the S. More of a right half of a U. This brings out the darks in the image.
Step 6 - Diagonal Pattern I then added a new layer and dropped in the basic black and yellow diagonal pattern that comes standard with GIMP -- then I added a mask to fade this into the edges of the image. So if you look closely you can see this hatching (slightly blurred).
Step 7 - Darken and Desaturate Base Image Edge The edges of the base image were created by: -duplicating the base image twice -create a rectangular selection about 400 px from edge all the way around -Selection / Feather (by 600 px) -Delete (delete the inner part of the image, make sure that alpha channel already exists) -on one layer use colours / Hue-Saturation / decrease the lightless, decrease the saturation -on the other layer colors / desaturate, then change the mode to overlay These operations result in almost a vignette effect, but better.
Step 8 - Lettering Drop Shadows The shadows are easy. Create a new layer, and do an alpha to selection on the calligraphy layer to get the outlines of each letter. Use selection / grow (use around 20), then fill this colour with black into the new layer you just created. Then blur this layer using Filters / Blur / Gaussian Blur, and change the Layer Mode to Grain Merge. Step 9 - Calendar Numbers These were easily created in Inkscape just by adding text, and typing them in. Select the Sundays, and change the colour to Red. It works best if you export this to PNG format, then drag and drop into GIMP and move / resize to desired position.
Layout Notice how the word (September and quote) seemed to be just above the imaginary vertical centreline. This is done intentionally, and this is referred to as an optical vertical centreline. I have been studying calligraphy and layout over the years and there are very specific layout practices that help to balance your work on a page. Using this layout practice is one of them.
My Thoughts This is one of my favourite calendars thus far. I think the distressed September lettering looks good against the fall leaves. I think that the white also makes the title pop out against the confusion of the leaves.
Interested in learning more? I created a Digital Arts DVD. Check it out: http://steveczajka.posterous.com/digital-arts-course-dvd-gimp-inkscape
Interested in purchasing this calligraphy typeface to create your own art? Click here: http://steveczajka.posterous.com/gothic-textura-tall-and-narrow
Cheers Steve
Design
This is a magazine layout I prepared for GIMP Magazine. GIMP Magazine is a new project of mine, details can be found here: http://gimpmagazine.org. This two page layout is the header for the digital arts design gallery. A collection of amazing digital arts from people all over the world will follow this header. And thus, the header needed to have strong modern and old world design elements.
This was created using GIMP, Inkscape and Scribus. Let me break this down for you: The calligraphy was hand done using a traditional calligraphy pen, ink and paper. This was scanned and cleaned up using GIMP. GIMP was used to create a typeface called Textura Tall and Narrow (see http://steveczajka.posterous.com/gothic-textura-tall-and-narrow ) that I make commercially available. This is a traditional gothic style form of calligraphy with my own blend of unique characteristics.
The word design was then laid out using Inkscape and subsequently vectorized and colourized. Inkscape is a superior tool for the layout and spacing of the calligraphy. The decay of the white initial background was done using GIMP.
This was saved off to a PNG file, later pulled into the final design in Scribus.
The overall layout of the magazine spread was done using Scribus (another great open source program comparable with Adobe InDesign). The background floral texture is stock art downloaded from www.vectorstock.com , a great resource of free vector textures. I worked in the blacks (black vs. rich black in Scribus) to get the designed effect. The preview sticker was based on a template from www.presentationmagazine.com , customized, vectorized in Inkscape, then pulled into Scribus.
That is pretty much how this was prepared. Let me know if you like the design, or have any questions about how to create this using completely free and open source software packages.
Cheers Steve
Ghost Adventures Night Vision Edition
The Ghost Adventures Crew uses night vision cameras as they shoot in the dark of night. This wallpaper edition plays off of that.
The only additional items I added to this Ghost Adventures Night Vision Edition include: -Filters / distort / video (large) on the overall image to give it a video camera look. -New Solid green layer, mode set to overlay. This is to emulate the night vision green that they use during their lockdown investigations. The investigations take place in pitch black surroundings. This must be dangerous for the crew, just from a safety perspective -- never mind the spooky factor.
Read more about the original version at: http://steveczajka.posterous.com/ghost-adventures
Have you ever seen a ghost? Drop me a comment and do share.
Cheers Steve