I took things literally when I was a kid, so when the teacher told us vaseline was nice for rubbing on your lens (filter, apparently), I went ahead and smeared it right on my lens (not filter). Hehe. Whatever, little Minie.

These are 4x5 format paper negatives (scanned and reversed) which I took at a photo workshop at the weekend (run by Alastair Cook alastaircook.com/ ) at the John Gray Centre, Haddington, as part of the Festival of Museums.

I ended up picking this up at a flea market. I remember paying about $15 for it but I have had it for close to a year so I could be wrong.

I was pretty excited about picking it up as it is a pretty cool item for any game themed area.

The paper birch has eyes.

A Paper Crafts December Gallery entry - more deets on my blog post at sueblondin.blogspot.com/2008/11/make-your-season-bright.html

This is a one page description from 1956 of an attachment to the Monotype keyboard which perforates a plain roll of paper in the machine. It can take a roll up to 7" in diameter; this would alleviate any current Monotype paper shortages. I am interested if any one has this attachment & how easy would it be to machine copies. On the internet, one can see pictures of the real thing on Tipoteca Italiana's Monotype keyboard in Italy.

Paper Cardstock Model of a Mustang or Camaro syled Ponycar.

Two months ago I discovered such a wonderful theme like paper lightboxes! I found it very interesting and started to learn this creating style

I wanted lightboxes to be disassembled and made a way to create it with paper, cardboard & PET plastic. Picture sizes are about A4 format, total thickness is 3-4 cm

Punch Room, Barcelona

Please listen to this music while viewing these images.

Phil Thornton - Tibetan meditation youtu.be/EzcgTFbASA4

Yellow Paper wasp, possibly Polistes balder. Drumsite, Christmas Island, Australia, April 2011.

Polistes balder is endemic to Christmas Island. According to W F Kirby in A monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean), C W Andrews, 1900, this wasp makes small hanging nests on trees and bushes, and stings severely.

Paper used to wrap sweets.

To capture the nature of erasure I chose to capture the phoenix, the bird born of ashes of old, by folding a paper crane and than deconstructing the bird to leave an empty sheet. Although the paper still carries traces of old in the creased folds, the paper is otherwise empty, not to be seeing as nothing but as a blank slate of unlimited potential where further creation can occur.

This piece was inspired from meeting the Kanin(the Head Priest's right hand man) of Eiheiji(the largest Zen Temple in the world!). The Kanin was a fascinatingly accomplished person whom was trained to die as a kamikaze pilot but given his life when the Atom Bomb dropped. Ever since the Atom bomb of Hiroshima, there had been a flame kept inside of a little red lantern. This flame was fueled by suffering, by pain and rage, and as the Buddha had said holding on to anger is like holding on to a hot coal with the intent to throw it at someone, you are the only one whom gets burned. The Buddhist monks believed that everything moves in a circle and recognized that the only way to extinguish this fire was to return the flame to the source. Organizing a group of monks together, the Kanin and crew flew to America and walked a great distance carrying the lantern to the gates of Trinity where the flame was born. The security resisted at first, but seeing the peaceful parade and the children with tens of thousands of cranes, with each containing a prayer for peace, they decided to open the gates. The band of peaceful people entered and opening the lantern they burned a specially prepared prayer on a long cloth along with thousands of cranes and a scrupulous amount of karma until the flames had extinguished themselves. The children`s prayers reached the heavens and were truly the key to getting into the gates of trinity and extinguishing the flame.

A4 sized paper cut, perfect for a wedding or anniversary present. Each one has been hand drawn and then hand cut, making them as unique and special as the happy couple.

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”

St Michael and All Angels, Summertown, Oxford.

Fancy number paper clip with notepad.

Ramadan is fast approaching!

New winking owl pattern in cobalt blue & steel grey is a funky fun card for this month of fasting. Get your Ramadan Mubarak greeting cards for family and friends before they're gone:)

This card measures approximately 3 1/2" x 4 7/8". Each card comes with an A2 (4 3/8" x 5 3/4") grey envelope.

**DEFINITION: Ramadan Mubarak= Have a blessed Ramadan

Each card is sealed in a cellophane envelope and shipped using USPS

1 sheet lokta

Designed by J.C. Nolan

@UrbanBlogDinner 11/2005

from Hong Kong, pre-handover, Netherlands and Norway

My friends and I like to write notes.

Here is the exhibit area from The Life of Paper.

Visitors are encouraged to populate the origami city with their creations.

Moxi getting the paper this morning.

The library is notorious for its paper-signage hacks that help people wayfind.

have been playing a lot with corrugation today. made some more pointy pineapple shapes, a leafy fan, and a lamp cover. need to get the right lampshade shape.

one sheet A4 copy paper.

Shirt stenciled with freezer paper

Reading the morning paper at breakfast. Especially on Fridays when the paper contains a full two page section called the 'Aarsman Collection'. Then, a Dutch photographer, Hans Aarsman, discusses and analyzes a recent news photo. Not only the content but the photographic quality as well.

Today's photo, actually four photos, show president Obama in Manchester, shaking hands with a crowd of people around him and getting a piece of paper from a young man. Thanks to the zoom, we can read the note together with him. Main message: Why doesn't he make a statement about the Occupy movement?

ODC - Theme (25-11-2011): Favourite time of the day

It was a brutally hot day for Commencement, and people were improvising to give themselves some shelter

for your fall art

Made of newspapers, one from each capital city of 48 states in the U.S.

Rice Paper butterfly captured using Nikon R1C1 system with three SB-R200 flash units mounted on lens and triggered by SU-800.