Category Archives: Art

I was searching images of fractals on a lark one afternoon, and came across the art of Krzysztof Marczak on DeviantArt.com. This polish artist has used a Mandelbrot rendering program to make some amazing 3D images.

You’ll have to click on them to make them bigger so you can appreciate the intricate details. This is exactly [...]

Today is my “little” brother’s birthday. He’s only two years younger than me, so I won’t mention his advanced youth. Just wanted to let you folks know so you can send him your happy birthday wishes.
Byron’s the one who has been making the majority of my book covers over the past few years; both the [...]

Proof that I have absolutely no shame, today’s picture is a washed out Kodachrome shot of myself at age 13 with several of my giant cardboard starship models.
These models were built from carpet roll tubes and store bought poster board. They were decorated with bits of model parts. Do you like that Luke Skywalker hair [...]

If you have read my novel Starveyors, you may recall this starfighter. An earlier version of this one, the A-9, was featured in that novel. This model was built from cardboard and bits of spare plastic pieces including a glue bottle cap and a Chapstick cap. Photograph by Bill Blohm.

I’ve decided to scale down my efforts at building more starship models. The epic size of the GCU Sokol model has made working on it a real problem. The damned thing is just too freaking big for my house. It has been relegated to the garage for all of its life, because moving it inside [...]