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In 1990 there was a pretty nifty film callled Where The Heart Is-- unfortunately it has since been somewhat eclipsed by the film of the same name made a decade later, but they recently released it on DVD.

The movie featured lovely large-scale, body paint trompe l'oeil works by Timna Woollards. In the story of the film, they were to represent the twelve months of the year, commisioned for an insurance company promotional calendar.

Unfortunately, information about the artist is very difficult to come by, and as far as I know, the works were never released in calendar or book form. In fact, the best view of them has been under the closing credits of the movie, which just doesn't do them justice. I created a Java "Processing" program that, with a large amount of fiddling, allowed me to reassemble complete screenshots of the scenes with the scrolling text removed. (The fullsize versions are 720*480, with reduced compression.)

I've created a few ways of appreciating Ms.Woollards' work... you can see a page of the fullsize versions, or you can generate a series of calendar pages for any given year using the following tool... you can just hit generate or click on "show options" for more advanced control. (Click the image on each month to move forward a month.)

where the heart was calendar generator
year:
starting:
week starts:	sun mon
go:
show options
colors:
background:
text:
weekdays:
weekends:
options:
box height:
display:	month in title year in title day names day numbers
number align:
font