Monday, March 23, 2015

It's a Simple Explanation

I'll start with my zinchies for the week. My first one was "OOF."  I it saw on some other tanglers blogs from last week. I had to do it, as OOF just sounded weird. The explanation of it's origin is interesting enough, but I didn't see it. So I also drew the source material--the window at the Cloisters. They don't look quite a like, but the OOF is for "out of focus," so I guess if you squint real hard...
And a few more. I read on Genevieve Crabe's blog that she has catalogued 3,000 patterns. At my current pace, I'll have that many done in 9.5 years.


I've been playing with the whole Trees concept for the inaugural TwobyTwo challenge. My citrus trees are spitting fruit, so I took a photograph of the harvest last week:


Yes, I played with the image in Photoshop. It's my day job.

In search of inspiration for the EIM word of the day, I found the most confounding explanation of something or other that I cannot even begin to understand...."Lasso and the Least Angle Regression"
yhat=b0 + b1*x1+ b2*x2 + ... bp*xp
from: Stanford, which says it is a "simple" explanation.
Sure! Riiiiiight. Simple. Back in college, I may have been able to wrap my grey matter around that, perhaps, but now?! Not a chance. No way! I can't even help my daughter with her college math classes let alone whatever that is.
From there it was a jaunt through cowboys, horses, spurs and saddles...with a detour to some beefcake and well, it just deteriorated from there for a bit. I didn't realize it's a specialized genre for romance novels--the whole cowboy thing. And I guess the Australian Thunder Down Under show in Las Vegas has disappeared? Bummers.....
As I tell my children, I may be old, but I'm not dead yet.
Well, ahem, back to the task at hand! Here's my "lasso:"


Happy trails to you...until we meet again.

20 comments:

  1. I love this, the colors are so lovely, feeds my color obsession with orange! Great work

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    1. Dear Freebird, thank you for your kind thoughts. If you like orange, then this post is for you! Have a brilliant day! c

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  2. Lovely picture for your inchie, and I envy your fruit harvest.

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    1. Dear Wendy, if only I could share some of the fruit--it's time to get it all off the trees so they can happily work on next year's crop. My friends are pretty tired of my sharing--especially grapefruit. Glad you liked my work! Have a brilliant day! c

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  3. Happy Trails - the theme song of Roy Rogers - my hero as a child. Great inchie

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    1. I'm glad you liked what I lassoed up, Kia. I had fun with the rope-like typeface. Have a brilliant day! c

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  4. Love arches & forest, the oranges look yummy & the inchies cute :-)

    Sally

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    1. Thank you so much, Sally! I've been having fun with all these teenie projects and YES! the fruit is YUMMY! Have a brilliant day! c

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  5. I really like that inchie with this amazing colourful sky. Great inchie :-)

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    1. The cool thing about photography is it rarely really needs alteration, you know? I'm glad you liked what I put together, Sandra. Have a brilliant day!

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  6. I just adore your growing zinchie collection 9.5 will fly in a jiffy (but then there will be more patterns invented and added on.....) I had to look up that Australian Thunder Down Under, didn't even they existed - yuk from my point of view. I love a good Western though, and your cowboy scene is gorgeous! Happy trails to you.

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    1. Thank you so much, Zoe! So far they're cluttering a small box. I counted what I have so far and I have 64. ONLY 2932 to go! HA! Glad you like my roping cowboy. I have to agree; the "Thunder" is not quite my style. My daughter wanted to go see them, but alas that window of opportunity has closed, I suppose for her. For now.
      Have a brilliant day! c

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  7. Fantastic inchie and a great reminder of the Happy Trails song.

    Love Chrissie xx

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    1. Thanks, Chrissie! Glad you liked it! Have a brilliant day! c

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  8. Great art! Love your zinchies! Nice photoshop skills on your oranges. Beautiful image of the cowboy with lasso silhouetted by the sunset.

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    1. Thank you, Heather! I appreciate your kind thoughts and that you took the time to offer positive commentary. Have a brilliant day! c

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    1. Thanks so much Trillian! Have a brilliant day! c

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  10. Ahhh, yes, remember the Marlboro man? Yum, teehee. Nice work!

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    1. I really appreciate that you took the time to view my work and post positive thoughts. Gotta love a strong American icon! Have a brilliant day! c

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