NOTE TO SELF: MUSSELS ARE NOT THE MOST VISUAL MULLOSKS
One thing for sure is that anybody hoping for some exciting viewing on MusselCam will be disappointed, but then that's the way Mother Nature works. Unbelievable as it may seem MusselCam located in Prince Edward Island, Canada, was named amongst the top 25 most interesting webcams in the world. Hey - now that's an accomplishment!
That lone blue mussel is the only one of two Canadian entries to crack EarthCam's list. A webcam tracking the lighthouse at scenic Peggy's Cove in Nova Scotia
(www.peggyscovewebcam.ca/live) is also on the webcam network's list of favourites.
For the uninitiated and according to Wikipedia, "the common name mussel is used for members of several different families of clams or bivalve molluscs, from both saltwater and freshwater habitats."
Visually they aren't anything to look at being round and...round.
The message on the web page says it all: "mussels grow very, very slowly. Please check back often."
Garner Quain, the co-owner of Flex Mussels, which has locations in Charlottetown and Summerside, was surprised to hear his camera made the list.
"I didn't ever think that it would make any kind of Top 10 list, other than the fact that it's so, kind of, notoriously boring," said Quain."There's a few other ones on the internet that are sort of old favourites that have kind of always been running, so it was really kind of an homage to those, so to be included among them is a nice little honour."
Quain said MusselCam gets more than 1,000 hits a day.
Anyway, if you've got a lot of time - and patience - drop by the musselcam site here:
http://www.flexmussels.com/musselcam.html
Let us know if anything exciting happens. Yawn...
It's a slushy/snowy Monday in New Jersey. So we get 75 degree days in January and snow in April. Coldest April in a long long time. Anyway, busyness has overtaken me. I'm going to try to get back on my late Nintendo theme now. Sheeeesh! Someone slow down this train so I can go outside and have a snowball fight.
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Had to do some digging in my closet for this one. Back in 1999, I did a bunch of Y2K illos.
originally for art jumble, under the prompt: influential "people" who have never lived
well, not a people, but i thought it would be fun to draw good ol HAL 9000.
it was.
as far as monsters go this one is not only really scary but a possible reality.
SFG: Monsters In The Closet
This week's theme: Monsters In The Closet, as suggested by
Steph Doyle. What great visual imagery that phrase exudes huh? This should be a fun one!
Be sure to label your illustrations with the appropriate labels as well. I prefer you label your entries with your name or screenname, and the challenge label, SFG: Monsters In The Closet.
By the way, I'm always looking for new and creative ideas for these challenges folks, so keep your ideas and suggestions coming in..
Remember, this is a completely voluntary challenge designed solely to stimulate creativity and promote participation. Please don't hesitate to post your other work as normal.One last thing, be sure to check out and get involved over at the all new
SFG Forum. Based on feedback from a large number of members, who stated that SFG needed a stronger sense of community, The new forum is the perfect outlet to build that community. It'll only work if
you get involved though!
The next challenge will begin Thursday, April 19th, 2007.
Challenge yourselves
SFG'ers and have a great week!
-Jeff
Haha! Soo cute!