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One. 

Two. 

Three. 

Four. 

Five. 

And now, 

Six. 

The Flying Trilobite blog is six years old today. 

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500th Flying Trilobite Post

Haldane's Precambrian Puzzle © Glendon Mellow 2010

This marks the 500th post here on the Flying Trilobite since I began blogging about my artwork back in March 2007.  Thank you so much to everyone for their support and comments and commissions over the past almost-4 years! I had no idea what I was getting into when I started blogging, but it has literally changed my life. 

I thought I'd mark this post by including some links to a few posts I consider noteworthy. 

Fossil Hunters at Pigeon Lake - April 2007

Just a spoonful of mamenchisaurus to help the medicine go down - July 2007

Dinosaurs as Art: Royal Tyrrell Museum - August 2007

"Making of" Darwin Took Steps - February 2008

Flying & Asthma - May 2008

Inspiration & Drugs - August 2008

part of Sowing Seeds and Fossils. © Glendon Mellow 2010

Haldane's Precambrian Puzzle - November 2008

Migrations banner concepts - May 2009

Gift from God?  I don't think so. - May 2009

Science vocabulary = better art - July 2009

Remembering my first time - July 2009

detail from Fossil Boy, Diatom Girl. © Glendon Mellow 2010

Sowing Seeds & Fossils - October 2009

Fossil Boy, Diatom Girl - December 2009

Final. Art. Project. *gasp* - April 2010

Glimpse at image credits on science blogs - October 2010

And again thank you to everyone who reads this blog, and to my wife Michelle for believing in my art since the first time she saw it.

Mythical Flying Trilobite Fossil I. © Glendon Mellow 2010

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Triloblogiversary Cubed!

Three years ago today, The Flying Trilobite launched. Happy Triloblogiversary Cubed!


Thanks to everyone who comments, supports and encourages my every whim. Next year though, I expect fealty and a percentage of your harvest. By then the Mythical Flying Trilobite Fossil will have grown to Mothra-like proportions.

Thanks for sharing in my awe of science through art. That was an awkward sentence.
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Apparently the spellchecker has a problem with "triloblogiversary".
And "spellchecker".

Happy Flying Triloblogiversary to me...

Two years ago today, The Flying Trilobite began. A lot has happened since. I have back-posted a new "About" page which covers many of the highlights.
Last year, we celebrated with cake.

This year, I will be launching a swanky new blog banner. Another Mythical Flying Trilobite Fossil painting on shale, but with a bit of a twist. More deets tomorrow for Art Monday.

Oh, and I have pie! Celebrate with coffee, pie, and the music of Julee Cruise! Cue the bass: derm derrrmm...derm derrrrrm...Warm, hearty thanks to my readers, commenters, lurkers, blog peeps, ScienceOnline session attendees, and art patrons; friends, familiy and most of all my wife Michelle who 'gets' what I am trying to do and encourages and inspires my work at each turn.

When waiting for my flight back to Toronto from ScienceOnline09, Nature Network guru Henry Gee asked me if blogging had changed my life.

It most certainly has. The degree of intellectual and artistic fulfillment I have gained rushed in to fill a void whose dimensions I had not been aware of before. I began The Flying Trilobite as a way to self-promote my art and artistic skills , which is still a major purpose for me, and I've also been enveloped by community. It's a challenge to keep up with the clever heavyweights in the science, secular and artsy continents of the blogosphere. I hope my paintings continue to inspire and find a place of interest.

What's in store for year 3?
Watercolours!
Digital painting!
Casting sculpture!
More t-shirts!
More portraits!
More human figures!
More lack of sleep, more coffee, more yearning to do art for a living, more Beagle-y goodness, more naples yellow...

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