Our sidebar art has been brought to you by mudpuppie and her legendary photo of the Fris (frisbee girl), the handsome and talented BoringPostcards and his faboo photo of some gorgeous signage (cropped here), and moi, from our first-ever emcee squared. Over on the right are three of mrs. pants' great "sad animals" buttons (follow the link if you want to get some for yourself!). →[More:]

Of course, if you've been mousing over the images, you already know all this. If those tooltip captions are a surprise, you can see where that happened in this thread, along with a couple of other small changes.

So... when I choose the sidebar art, I usually try to carry through some sort of motif or recurring theme that might be contextual or might simply be some kind of loosely related visual repetition - and I've wondered if I should mention what those themes are (when they occur), or not. I figured I would do it this time - next time, who knows?

This set was basically about ovoids, primary colors and black and white. All the images have a central circular image of some kind: friz's pretty round noggin (plus the arc of her arm, for a half-circle), BP's oval signs, my fortune-telling boy's round turban and his oval "crystal ball", which is actually a plate design iconomy made - and of course mrs. pant's buttons are round themselves, as well as having round-ish art on them (and don't you just love saying "mrs. pant's buttons"?).

And that's our round, and bright, and b&w motif du jour!