Sunday, June 21, 2009

History Screensaver: Tears for Galileo

21 June, 1633 - Galileo forced to deny that the Earth revolves around the Sun by the Inquisition


Tears for Galileo

What modern rights and truths are being squashed by the Church today?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I was wondering how you do your ''digital glass'' artwork-- do you do it using a program on the computer or do you scan the images in. It would be interesting if you put up a short post on your technique!

Stushie said...

Hi Anon, you can find the instructions here

http://www.flickr.com/groups/stainers/discuss/72157594225600331/

Stushie said...

Better still here are my original instructions

1. Take a blank sheet of white paper.
2. Grab a black crayon.
3. Tile, diamond or put blocks on the paper.
4. Now meander with the black crayon.
5. Put paper in scanner.
6. Scan to Paint program as a bitmap image.
7. Fill in the colors using digital paint-brush
8. Invert the colors.
9. Look at the picture. See the picture. feel the picture.
10. Give it a name.
11. Upload to your flickr page
12. Join Digital Glass group
13. Send it to digital glass.
14. Enjoy!