Mexico Vacation Photos Posted

Actually, they've been posted for a while, but I haven't an­nounced it any­where. There's a lot of photo­graphs docu­ment­ing our Culi­nary Tour of Mexico.

You can find them here

Posted: Tuesday, April 10th, 2012, 7:37 pm

New Label for Camille's Tooth Whitening Hard Cider

New label for my wife's Hard Cider, and also a demonstration piece for my Digital Illustration class I teach at Cañada College.

The "Tooth Whitening" idea takes off from the fact that my wife, Camille, is a dental hygienist, and also from her namesake, Camille, a.k.a Marie Duplessis, who was a famous nineteenth century courtesan and the inspiration for Giuseppe Verdi's opera, La Traviata. She is quoted as saying "Lying keeps my teeth white."

Posted: Sunday, November 6th, 2011, 12:47 pm

Dark Angels Site Goes Live

I've just posted a new web site devoted to my most current art project, Dark Angels.

Dark Angels is an open-ended series of renderings using the iconographic imagery of angels classical Western European painting as a starting point to re-imagine their representation as another kind of being, one with darker resonances and in opposition to the traditional representation of angles as beings of "light". Check it out, it's here: darkangels.khazar.com

Posted: Tuesday, July 26th, 2011, 7:07 pm

3D or Not 3D

My wife and I went to some trouble to go into San Francisco and see a 3D version of Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams at the Kabuki Theater. The cave's are an amazing place, but I'm ready to give up on 3D. Avatar was a wonder to behold, but subsequent 3D films have been consistently disappointing.

I imagined that Herr H. would bring the kind of artistic vision to the process that would make it worthwhile, but instead I just got a stiff neck and headache trying to keep the glasses in place on my nose and keep my eye's resolving the oftentimes out of focus 3D. We also got overcharged for parking...

So, I give up on 3D.

Posted: Sunday, May 15th, 2011, 2:03 pm

How To Incorporate Your Blog into Your Website

Any blogging website like Blogger.com can be posted to your website if it outputs an XML feed and you have a web server vendor who supports PHP. The secret is in PHP's simplexml_load_file() function, which turns the feed into an array, with each tag in the XML stored as a array within the array created by simplexml_load_file().

To see a demo of this, check out: myblog.php

You can download the php code here: myblog.php.zip

Posted: Friday, May 13th, 2011, 1:52 pm

Testing, Testing, 1-2-3

This is a test to see how my blog is doing these days. It's been a while.

Posted: Friday, April 22nd, 2011, 6:25 pm

Hello MART 368

Hi

This is a posting for my MART 368 Class. Hi!

Labels: Web Demo, Class Notes

Posted: Tuesday, November 9th, 2010, 12:14 pm

Go to pure XML

Go to jameskhazar.blogspot.com