Up first is an update of an earlier photo montage showing my favorite country/blues artist Bubba Brister. Originally, I used a picture of the real Adam Brister when he was the lead singer of the short-lived Southern gospel band the Revelators. Although I touched it up a bit, it was still blurry and part of the face was still very dark. Also, I didn't like the Hobo Standard font (as in the 1970s hit TV show The Dukes of Hazzard) as much as I thought. So I went to a photograph I picked up about two weeks ago on a casual visit to Brister's Facebook page and found on a file called "Old Pics." It had also appeared on the Bubba Brister Band page on Guitar.com which had been taken down. That was taken several years earlier when Adam Brister attended high school in Wyoming. It's of better quality and all I had to do was fit his head over the 2012 Facebook photo I used earlier. The font is Birch Standard; it's larger, has a stroke to improve readability, and is over a larger available area within the background picture.
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Below that is my rendition of a rainbow lobster. I first saw the phrase on the 1989 game show Now You See It, of which my love for it I've written about earlier. It's not to be confused with cherax quadricarinatus, which is an actual freshwater crayfish that is native to Australia. (So it actually exists, unlike, say "barbell boycott" and "earmuff etching" from the same show.)
For my version, I started with a photograph of a lobster about to become dinner at a restaurant in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. I then used layers showing different colors, and each with lowered opacity, to complete the look of the strange fish. The colors are green, black, and blue in addition to red.
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