{"id":806,"date":"2006-02-27T00:35:03","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T05:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/an_infinity_of_"},"modified":"2006-02-27T00:35:03","modified_gmt":"2006-02-27T05:35:03","slug":"an_infinity_of_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"An infinity of blog posts&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0066ff;\"><strong>Stumbleupon.com might be the inspiration you need<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/\">Stumbleupon.com<\/a>, you will never run out of interesting topics to write about again. It is a free service that enables you to find pages you are <em>not looking for<\/em>. You don&#8217;t search for them in the conventional sense, you <em>stumble upon<\/em> them. <\/p>\n<p>StumbleUpon uses ratings to form collaborative opinions on website quality. When you &quot;stumble&quot;, you will only see pages which friends and like\u2013minded stumblers have liked.<\/p>\n<p>No description will give you the reality that 10 minutes of stumbling will do. I find that it exposes me to sites that I could never have found otherwise. It is so fascinating, and addictive, that I have to limit my use of it in order to get my work done. My current strategy is to stop after a completely satisfying discovery.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a discovery I made only moments ago:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0066ff;\"><strong>Stumbling upon the Art of Philip Straub<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=390,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/pstraubcohabitation.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"470\" height=\"286\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/ripples\/images\/pstraubcohabitation.jpg\" title=\"Pstraubcohabitation\" alt=\"Pstraubcohabitation\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Philip Straub is a concept artist, illustrator, author and art director. He is quite prolific. He does everything from oil paintings to digital art to children&#8217;s books and home decor products. <\/p>\n<p>I could fill up pages, but these images speak for themselves. They cover the range from surreal fantasy to cartoon-like simplicity. <\/p>\n<p>You can check out his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipstraub.com\/Index.html\">website<\/a> which contains <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipstraub.com\/Digital_Paintings.htm\">digital paintings<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipstraub.com\/illustrations_page.htm\">illustrations<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipstraub.com\/Store.htm\">Fine Art Limited Edition Archival Prints<\/a>. You might also want to Check out his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipstraub.com\/Textures_page.htm\">3D textures<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/pstraubzapplates.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=616,height=842,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"273\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Pstraubzapplates\" title=\"Pstraubzapplates\" src=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/ripples\/images\/pstraubzapplates.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 25px 5px; float: left;\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=639,height=799,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/pstraubmonicaportrait.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/ripples\/images\/pstraubmonicaportrait.jpg\" title=\"Pstraubmonicaportrait\" alt=\"Pstraubmonicaportrait\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 35px; float: right;\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/pstraubme_2_1.jpg\" title=\"Pstraubme_2_1\" alt=\"Pstraubme_2_1\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; float: right;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nHere is a photo of the artist himself.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbleupon.com might be the inspiration you need With Stumbleupon.com, you will never run out of interesting topics to write about again. It is a free service that enables you to find pages you are not looking for. You don&#8217;t search &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=806\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1810,1831],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-d0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}