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The latest art movement has seen an increase in art or photos reproduced on canvas, mostly because of the digital photo revolution. Nowadays individuals can take take photos with their cameras, go to a printshop specialising in canvas and get their holiday / family photos represented on stretched canvas. Or even perhaps their pet dog, favourite car, or holiday location. As a matter of fact, anything photographed can be printed on canvas sheet in minutes and be art on your office wall.

Photo editing software and digital cameras have all of a sudden made it possible to virtually develop your own art on canvas - not only supplying some fun and creativity to the task of adorning your surroundings with artwork, but saving you some money as well.

There are a lot of websites that allow you to add your photographs, choose your size of canvas, and then pay for it. Normally these artworks appear on canvas stretched out using stretcher-bars.

If you have a printshop near you, you can walk in with your pictures, and walk out 20 minutes afterwards with a canvas photo under your arm of your photo - it’s that straight-forward.

What about some examples? Here are some canvas prints of Twiggy pop-art canvas art. If you need some more ideas, you can always visit a website with royalty free photographs - then take your purchased photos to a printshop or website that produces canvas prints and get them printed onto canvas.

Sky lanterns are airborne paper lanterns traditionally found in East Asian cultures. They are constructed from oiled rice paper on a bamboo frame, and contain a small candle or fuel cell composed of a waxy flammable material. When lit, the flame heats the air inside the lantern, thus lowering its density causing the lantern to rise into the air. The Sky Lantern is only airborne for as long as the flame stays alight, after which the lantern floats back to the ground, and being biodegradable, just disintegrates in time.

They can achieve quite a height and launching them in strong winds is definitely not recommended. Sky lanterns are also referred to as sky candles or fire balloons; however this term is also used to refer to balloon munitions used during World War II. According to popular lore, the Kongming Lantern was the first hot air balloon, said to be invented by the sage and military strategist Zhuge Liang, whose reverent term of address was Kongming. These lanterns were first deployed at the turn of the 3^rd century as a form of signalling balloon or as some claim as a type of spy blimp in warfare. Although the name may come from the lantern’s resemblance to the hat Kongming is traditionally shown to be wearing.

Are you worried about the 2006 Atlantic tropical hurricane season and just know you may be stuck with no power for three or four weeks after a big storm? Are you concerned that you will be bored with nothing to do, no TV to watch and worried about rationing your food with nothing to do? Many people who have weathered storms are into quilting have noted it is a perfect time to do quilting.

Simply Stock up on all the supply you will need in advance and if you are Stuck in your home you can do your hobby while you wait for authorities to turn on the power so you can watch TV and see what happened. Many times with the power out and the telephones off and even the water supplies corrupted they have found little old ladies doing quilting when their families were worried sick about them.

They say; “Oh I was fine and I just finished this quilt and then I started on this next one how do you like it?”

Isn’t that funny we worry of so much about other people, but those who have hobbies can usually ride out of storm and do their crafts until the storm and danger passes. If you are considering the potential eventuality of such a large category storm, which in effect strands you in your home for weeks on end then perhaps if you have a hobby and supplies you will not need to worry about any of this.

Hurricanes are a great Time to do crafts and hobbies and you must Stock up with supplies in advance because all the stores will be close once the hurricane strikes your area. But just think the wonderful creations you can do while you wait? Consider all this in 2006.

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When CAS, made his decent,
(Paid his toll, before he left
Earth’s crust)
Proud he was when he appeared
At dock #666 Hell’s Northern Pier.

There stood Satan himself
Opening the gates, “Drop the oars,”
He said, formal and brief: “You are
Amongst friends, the Dead, who
Never die, nor ever sleep…!” And
His ten-wings snapped insanely.

There was the Henchman, Agaliarept
Ruler of an army in Hell; he leaped to
His feet, held out his handsaw the
Scorn on his face, said:
“Welcome, you are home my friend!”

His eyesvile, a hoary-red; he
Stepped up onto the dock, over the
Ash-dark canopy (called a sky)
Saw Satan taking off his ten-winged
Ring, said: with a whisper to CAS:
“Wake thy eyes, and make me a
poem that will never die…!”

#1122 1/29/06

Note: Clark A. Smith, was of the old stock, yet he rose above his day, and went from
Imagery poetry, such as George Sterling used, who was Smith’s teacher, and that of Robinson Jeffers, and Lovecraft, along with Baudelaire, to cosmic and fantasy. He perhaps went as deep, if not deeper than Poe. From symbolism to modernism; he did adjust to the times, but he also would not leave what was considered leaving the demonic roots of imaginative freedom Pure Poetry allowed.

I am sure if I had asked Mr. Smith, had the chance to edit this poem, he would perhaps have himself sitting down with Robert Howard, Lovecraft, and Satan himself, at a dinner table talking about verse, meter and other elements of poetry. And would tell me: I’m too soft with the imagery.

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There are many different types of poetry. I counted 50 on a quick search of the internet. You may have heard of Haiku and Limericks. There are the more obscure types too, like Terzanelle and Sestina. Learning different types of poetry though, isn’t nearly as much fun as inventing your own, so here are some ideas about that.

Types Of Poetry - Playing With Stanzas

What is a stanza? A division of a poem consisting of two or more lines. How many ways can you structure a stanza? As many as you want. Look at this stanza from the poem, “Gratitude:”

So there is nothing to say
There is nothing to say
There is nothing
Nothing…
But gratitude

Each line is a smaller part of the previous line. In this case, it quiets the mind in order to emphasize the last word: gratitude. However, this idea could be used in many ways. You could start with a line like, “She watched the birds come in from the sea,” and it can reduce to, “Come in from the sea;” “From the sea:” “Where Michael was left alone in the storm.”

Each stanza could have lengthening lines. Lines could be varied in length to create a picture on the page. Playing with stanzas is a fun way to create new types of poetry.

Ideas For New Types Of Poetry

In the poem “Do Not Believe In God,” each stanza starts with one of our senses: “See God… in stars and sunlight… and the face of your lover;” Hear God… in wind and waves… and the music of the birds.” All the senses are covered. How could we use this general idea? By starting each stanza with a different verb or adjective? By starting each stanza with a different person’s name? By having each stanza get smaller or larger as the poem progresses?

How many ways can you play with poems? “Dream poems,” could be a type of poetry that puts actual dreams into verse. “Dialog poems” could have stanzas or lines answering each other back and forth. A series of poems could use all the exact same words, rearranged, with an entirely different outcome in each. There are endless types of poetry you can create.

Steve Gillman has been playing with poetry for thirty years. He and his wife Ana created the game “Deal-A-Poem,” which can be accessed for free at: http://www.dealapoem.com