The award winning photo, above, is by Ken Hopson. Ken is an artist and musician living in Richmond Virginia. He is the operations manager of the media department at the VCU (Virginia Commonwealth University) Libraries. Ken has contributed a lot to the Richmond art scene including his award winning photography, web design and music.

He was in the hilarious band “The Wee Wees” who did “discobilly” cover versions of disco songs. Click here to hear their amazing cover of Blondie’s “Heart of Glass”.

We are honored to include Ken among the many great digital artists featured in “Digital Art Revolution, Creating Fine Art with Photoshop”.

Besides his many other talents, I’ve always delighted in Ken’s skewed sense of humor. At one point, Ken periodically posted non-sensical observations on his Facebook page. I’m posting some of them here for you. If your sense of humor is like mine, you’ll find them hysterically funny. If your sense of humor is not like mine, you can visit Ken’s website or go directly to our “Book Artist” page to learn more about Ken and all the other outstanding artists in Digital Art Revolution, Creating Fine Art with Photoshop”!

Observations by Ken Hopson:

September 5
 Ken found there is no word for 'thesaurus' in the thesaurus.

September 2
Ken thinks a sword should be forged that can also write, so then the pen will no longer be mightier.

August 26
 Ken thinks dawn is not all its cracked up to be.

August 23
 Ken can't really understand three types of people: madmen, geniuses and people who mumble.

August 19
 Ken thought 'the proof is in the pudding' meant that it was spiked.

August 18
 Ken supposes when they say the best things in life are free, they must not be talking about advice.

August 17
 Ken notes silence is #FFDD00.

August 16
 Ken supposes when they say 'straight from the horses mouth,' they must not mean a 'gift horse.'

August 15
 Ken wouldn't want to put his nose to the grindstone, it sounds bloody painful.

August 14
 Ken wonders if 'invention' is a bastard?

August 13
 Ken wonders if william byrd hadn't been reminded of richmond on the thames, might he have named our river city virginiapolis?

August 8
 Ken wonders if the metric system had ever caught on we'd be saying 'peter piper picked 8.8098 liters of pickled peppers.'

August 7
 Ken noticed the ingredients in his detergent include real lemons, but his lemonade uses artificial flavoring. go figure.

August 6
 Ken has not been driven insane ... it was within walking distance. (8:08am)
 
  Ken 's train of thought derailed. (12:02am)
 
August 5
 Ken hopes the large hadron collider is a smashing success.
 
August 4
 Ken is the oldest he's ever been in his entire life .
 
August 3
 Ken saw a shooting star go across the sky, then ANOTHER go back across, and for a brief moment, felt like outer space was playing atari pong.
 
August 1
 Ken IS sane. voices told him so.
 
July 30
 Ken 's mission was to not accept his mission. he accepted.
 
July 29
 Ken thinks the similarity between SETI, Yeti and spaghetti are not beyond suspicion .
 
July 28
 Ken 's beer is flat. maybe that's why they used to think the world was flat ... no fizz.
 
July 27
 Ken finds it odd that earth is not named after a god like all the other planets, but after dirt, when most of it is covered with water.
 
July 26
 Ken still resorts to dactylonomy.

July 24
 Ken wonders if there is an exception to the rule that there is an exception to every rule.(6:32pm )
 
  Ken wonders what a chair would look like if your knees bent the other way. (8:33am)
 
July 23
 Ken hasn't lost his mind ... its backed up on disk somewhere.
 
July 22
 Ken 's computer just beat him at chess, but it was no match at kick boxing.

July 21
 Ken 's inferiority complex is probably not as good as everyone else's. 

July 20
  Ken thinks the word 'migraine!' should really have been called 'mybrain!'. 

July 19
 Ken is phobiphobiphobic (fear of the fear of fear). 

July 18
  Ken is putting the pro in procrastination.
 
July 17
 Ken just found out his myodesopsia were not visitors from another dimension that only he could see .
 
July 13
 Ken may appear to be doing nothing, but on a molecular level he's really quite active.
 
July 11
 Ken is keeping an eye out for his future self, just in case time travel is ever possible.
 
July 10
 Ken is euthymic.
 
July 8
 Ken wonders if giving up his superpowers to live among humans was really a good idea. 
 
July 2
 Ken is jacked up on C8H11NO3.
 
July 1
 Ken 's spill chucker is'nt wonking.
 
June 29
 Ken thinks nothing is so simple it can't be misunderstood.
 
June 27
 Ken thinks the universe is real big, perhaps the biggest.
 
June 26
 Ken is glad our galaxy is called the milky way, and not 3 musketeers.