An interesting youtube video. An elephant painting a portrait (with some coaching I'm sure, but it's still cool).

I've got four votes on Blogger's Choice Awards so far.  Thanks to those who voted.  Still time for more votes (hint!).

In religious news, a high school student got a zero for drawing a cross in a landscape for art class.  Apparently, some teachers think separation of Church and state means the existence of religion cannot be acknowledged.  I wonder what would happen if a photography student inadvertently got a church in the background of a photo.

Yesterday, while doing my sunrise techniques in my back yard, I saw a pair of hawks fly over, land briefly in a neightbor's tree, than take off again.  As a dream symbol, a hawk represents prosperity.  They must be nesting nearby.

Ajinbayo Akinsiku's heavily abridged version of the Bible, in the Japanese graphic "manga" style, was recently published in the United States, with the goal of making Jesus more "accessible" to a younger, religion-indifferent generation. Quirky, illustration-rich manga presents biblical philosophy as action scenes using contemporary dialogue, according to a February New York Times review. In one example, Akinsiku (who hopes someday to become an Anglican priest) has Noah taking census on the Ark: "That's 11,344 animals? Aargh! I've lost count again. I'm going to have to start from scratch!" [New York Times, 2-10-08]