Never one to admit defeat without a battle (or two) we will yet again take a stab at the challenge of Clip Art.
Since this is a blog that stands alone, being temporarily used in conjunction with a work-related educational program, part of the challenge has been inspiration: what would I want to say that could be enhanced by clip art? By now, my friend Peter Wimsey would have come up with a hundred or more clever posts enhanced by the perfect bits of imagery; I lack his creativity.
Instead, I have allowed Reality to suggest something. Since tonight is the weekly downtown acoustic jam session, I decided to see if Microsoft offers clip art images of the instruments we usually feature and create
a little “virtual jam”, but, unfortunately the only instrument that made the trip from the internet to my computer was this one fiddle.
Soundtrack: Lonesome Fiddle Blues.
*sigh*
olddogsnewtricks said,
May 7, 2008 at 10:31 am
Hoorah! You did it! Funny how some things that should be easy can turn out to be challenges. But that’s another barrier crossed and old history now.
pandemonic said,
May 7, 2008 at 3:22 pm
It’s a nice one, though!
Shadodottir said,
May 7, 2008 at 8:19 pm
It *is* a great picture, isn’t it? I was so bummed — I thought I’d downloaded a bunch of instrument images — but if I only got one, at least it’s one of the better ones.
Corina said,
May 7, 2008 at 11:40 pm
You may have downloaded them but they may have downloaded to a different location or perhaps with a different suffix. That would mean that you’d have to go look for the right location or search for different file types to find it in the same location.
Looks pretty good, though!
tigereye said,
May 7, 2008 at 11:41 pm
If you can get one more of us to post a guitar, and someone else to post a banjo, and then maybe some total stranger to post a mandolin, this will all work out pretty darn well…
TheOtherIvy said,
May 8, 2008 at 2:35 am
And a very fine fiddle it is.
I like Tigereye’s idea. A musical synchroblog?
heathenly said,
May 11, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Happy Mother’s Day!
shadodottir said,
May 12, 2008 at 12:24 am
Why, thank you, Heathenly Friend! Hope yours was excellent, too.