It's that learning curve thing...

OK. well, you guessed it - I found Flickr. Joined (previous to this summer.) Found some cool groups to join, an Art Journal group, and two of my favorites- Every Day Matters, which is related to Danny Gregory's site, and the best one - Smell -O-Vision! The SOV group features only pictures which are visually strong enough to suggest a corresponding smell/scent/odor. There are lovely flower pics as well as yummy food pics, along with less obvious but equally compelling visions which compel your scent memory into action. There were many other Art teacher/Art class sites for later perusal.

Then I explored the sights - ahem - sites for apps. Found a cool one. Tried to insert it into my blog. Unfortunately, the app. didn't allow for spaces between words, so Lukas showed me how to insert a break (this blog composer won't read the typed symbols "less than, b, r, greater than") in html code. That worked, and when previewing the inserted letters, it looked cool. However, the blog preview does not necessarily show you how it's really gonna look in your blog. Also saw a few apps inspired straight from the art world (how art informs our reality!) - the Warholizer and the Hockneyizer.

Two apps I'd like to use are the Trading Card app and the Bead Art app. The Bead Art app. is particularly cool for me, personally - similar to mosaics, but on a very small scale. Bead weaving! Didn't look that close, but I hope it includes specific bead colors or numbers. The TC app would work nicely in lots of situations - perhaps even to scan drawn portraits rather than photos. Last year I had some kids making trading cards of cars and another group designing new and different creatures similar to Pokemon, or Bakugan. It would be cool to scan in their drawings or even help them do some cool stuff via scanning and working on the art thru one of the art programs ( PSElements/Gimp/ArtRage.)

Will get to the snip tool eventually.

I do have questions, tho.

1. Does the Flickr site have a place for each member to link to specific apps that they'd want to use? It seems to me that I'd forget about some apps otherwise.
2. How do I adjust picture sizes to insert into my blog? The letters from Flickr would be so much nicer smaller, reading horizontally.