Spider Pictures
Spiders are amazing creatures and good friends of a macro-photographer.
Autodesk Moving to Rental-Only for Software
How a company made for artists is pushing a policy that promotes more starving artists instead of thriving artists
Autodesk is now making plans to stop selling perpetual licenses and move all future business to a rental-only model.
CorelDRAW & PHOTO-PAINT Colors
A brief overview of the color tools in CorelDRAW and PHOTO-PAINT, including a video tutorial and new features in CD X5.
This article demonstrates some of the new color features in CorelDRAW X5. The video demonstrates the basic methods of selecting colors in CorelDRAW and PHOTO-PAINT. New and experienced users can benefit from the video.
JPEG Cleaner - Program to reduce JPEG file sizes
Digital cameras append JPEG files with data that increases the file size of images.
Feasts of Creativity
Graphic of a crystal photo manipulated to look like a dragon.
Education in the Digital Age
Essay on education in the modern digital age.
The Cringe Phenomenon
Interview with Cringe that appeared in Now It's Dark Magazine.
The other end of life
An emotional editorial by Shawn Olson about old age originally printed in the Messenger.
Shawn Olson
Shawn Michael Olson is a technical artists and photojournalist in Central Ohio. He owns Wall Worm, Webonizer and the Artistic Network.
New Global Artistic Network
Shawn Olson Artistic Network changes direction with launch of new global arts directory. I've now separated the open artist enrollment of my site to a new site.
