They are labor intensive however. Isolating the image of the person from the old black and white images on the pitch cards sold during their performances is tricky. I am a perfectionist doing the graphics needed to make an icon. That takes time. I've been doing a couple a day.

Seeing how I have the Flu bad this week things have been tough. As I worked on an icon of an armless woman smoking a cigarette with her feet I began to have a visual migraine.

Visual migraines are totally painless and like looking through cut crystal that becomes liquid. It starts at the sides and grows toward the middle of your vision. They are very beautiful, with lots of refracted color and flowing movement. Every time I have one I stare at it in wonder. I leaned back on the pillows to give my full attention to this current visual migraine.

I look up; Hanging from the ceiling is a lamp I made a couple years ago. It has 6 of those special bulbs in it that flicker like a flame. For some reason ever since I moved the lamp into the living room to hang over the coffee table the bulbs barely flicker. What a bummer! At most one out of six will do its little flame dance.

This time it was different. All six bulbs were flaming wildly! The visual migraine combined with this miraculous lamp flickering was awesome. Totally psychedelic!
It kept on looking cool, so I reached for my camera and made around 4 minutes of movies. Of course ya'll can't see the visual migraine part. I just had to document this event for myself.

Here's the movie