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Terrapene carolina carolina
May, 2012. New Jersey.
A beautiful female Eastern Box Turtle crosses a busy rural road in New Jersey. The Garden State is the most densely populated state in the country and in turn many of its roads carry unusually high traffic volume. This coupled with fragmented habitat makes Eastern Box Turtles exceptionally vulnerable to road mortality. The Eastern Box Turtle is listed as a Species of Special Concern in New Jersey.
Building a monome box for a monome 40h kit with an accelerometer...
Original post at www.iduun.com/blog
2 1/2 x 4 3/4" decorated match boxes. The outside of the box was wrapped in scrapbook paper. The top is decorated with vintage items: buttons, beads, ribbon, and gold trim. The drawer is covered in paper with a vintage button and ribbon bow drawer pull.
Here comes the first box of Kuman New Testaments to be sold. These New
Testaments are usually sold at a low price (less than the cost of
producing the books), not just given away, so that the people attach
value to them. This makes it more likely that they will be read instead
of being used for toilet paper and cigarette wrappers. Some were given
away, though. The local member of parliament bought a box or two of
them, and gave them away to the first comers. A was amazed to see that
those who emerged from the resulting rugby scrum had intact books
instead of scraps.
This is one of a series of photos of the Kuman New Testament dedication
in Kundiawa, Simbu Province, Papua New Guinea, on the 27th day of June
2008. This is the first day these people could get a whole New Testament
in their own language. There are about 950 languages spoken in Papua New
Guinea. Other than the 3 national languages (Melanisian Pidgin, English,
and Hiri Motu), Kuman is the language with the third highest population
of speakers.
Photo by Jan Gossner. Posted here by permission.
This cute wood box features hand sculpted cookies, cakes and fruit that I made. I made several variations on these wood chests.
We were invited at Monica's place to try out Fox in a Box, a concept where you get a box filled with all the ingredients for a wonderful evening with friends. Needless to say we had lots of fun.
Note: box does *not* include foxy ladies.
I made another memory box over the week, this time using a lot of sweet things. Hope you enjoy it. :D I have more detailed photos of the sides, but I don't want to clutter my flickr. :x
FIELD MARK-The box turtle or box tortoise is a genus of turtle native to North America (United States and Mexico). The 12 taxa which are distinguished in the genus are distributed over four species. It is largely characterized by having a domed shell, which is hinged at the bottom, allowing the animal to close its shell tightly to escape predators.
This old-fashioned police box, now a historical curiosity, will instantly be recognized by fans of the TV series 'Dr Who' as the "Tardis"! The box, and 120 others like it across Sheffield, played an important part in the fight against crime from the 1920s through to the 1960s. Originally, the boxes had blue lights on the top, which flashed if there was an urgent message waiting for police officers. The box was also used for sheltering from the rain, eating sandwiches and report writing. Sheffield is one of the very few cities in the UK where these boxes can still be seen.
Wood with glass inlay, 522–486 BC
Egypt
Darius I as pharaoh
The Achaemenid kings adopted local titles and traditions to maintain their authority across a culturally diverse empire. This included Egypt, which they ruled from 525 to 404 BC. On this wooden door, Darius I (about 550–486 BC) is portrayed (right) as an Egyptian pharaoh, making offerings to the deities Anubis (centre) and Isis (left). The door was part of a box for storing statuettes. It was covered in gold and inlaid with coloured glass.*
From the exhibition
Luxury and power: Persia to Greece
(May 2023 – Aug 2023)
Between 490 and 479 BC, the Persian empire tried, and failed, to conquer mainland Greece. Many Greeks explained their victory as a triumph of plain living over a ‘barbarian’ enemy weakened by luxury. Ancient objects reveal a different story. The Persian court used luxury as an expression of prestige and power, with a distinctive style that was imitated and adapted across cultural borders, even influencing democratic Athens and, later, the world of Alexander the Great.
'Treasure there was in plenty – tents full of gold and silver furniture… bowls, goblets, and cups, all made of gold'
When Greek soldiers captured the royal command tent of the Persian king during the Greco-Persian Wars (499–449 BC), they were confronted suddenly and spectacularly by luxury on an unimaginable scale. To many ancient Greek writers, the victories of the small Greek forces against the mighty Persians were a triumph of discipline and restraint over an empire weakened by decadence and excess.
Drawing on dazzling objects from Afghanistan to Greece, this exhibition moved beyond the ancient Greek spin to explore a more complex story about luxury as a political tool in the Middle East and southeast Europe from 550–30 BC. It explored how the royal Achaemenid court of Persia used precious objects as markers of authority, defining a style of luxury that resonated across the empire from Egypt to India. It considered how eastern luxuries were received in early democratic Athens, self-styled as Persia's arch-enemy, and how they were adapted in innovative ways to make them socially and politically acceptable. Finally, it explored how Alexander the Great swept aside the Persian empire to usher in a new Hellenistic age in which eastern and western styles of luxury were fused as part of an increasingly interconnected world.
The exhibition brought together exquisitely crafted objects in gold, silver and glass, and featured star loans including the extraordinary Panagyurishte Treasure from Bulgaria. Whether coveted as objects of prestige or disparaged as signs of decadence, the beauty of these Persian, Greek and Hellenistic luxuries shaped the political landscape of Europe and Asia in the first millennium BC – and their legacy persists in our attitudes to luxury today.
[*British Musem]
Taken in the British Musem
maža, medinė, apipiešta, vidus "paminkštintas" spalvotu audiniu
(apytiksliai 10x8x5 cm)
small wooden box with hand-drawn decoration
Inside the box is covered with fabric
This wall box is part of my arch/shrine series. It alludes to trees, nature, the evolving circle of our life and those things that we find important or pray to. It is porcelain, pattern is carved through black underglaze in a technique called Sgraffito. These boxes look marvelous in groupings of 2 or more.
sgraf·fi·to (skră-fē'tō, zgrä-) Decoration produced on pottery or ceramic by scratching through a surface of plaster or glazing to reveal a different color underneath. Ware decorated in this manner.
I don't usually buy TV dinner-type food, but it was on sale and the box looked decent. The result looked similar and was pretty good! Lots of shrimp and flavourful. Could use a little more salt or spice.
Rating: 8/10
Postland Signal Box in November 2005. A remarkable survivor although it has seen better days. This is on the former line between March and Spalding that closed in November 1982. There are other boxes on this line that survive at Murrow, French Drove and Cowbit. Plans have been mentioned to reopen this line, but the opening of the A16 over a section of the old line make this look unlikely.
Each year, Gallery Route One in Point Reyes invites over a hundred artists to create unique works of art using a wooden box.
Here are the inspiring artworks they created this year: they range in style from whimsical to poignant and thought-provoking. These photos were taken on closing day, when the gallery organized a live auction for each of this year’s 150 boxes. The proceeds support the gallery’s exhibits and community programs.
Two of the boxes were created by members of our art community: Howard Rheingold (a.k.a. Dr. Rindbrain) contributed an illuminated box called ‘Magical’, while Geo Monley and Meryl Rubenstein made ‘Les Puzzles.’
Members of ‘Pataphysical Studios came to cheer for their peers -- Dr. Really was the highest bidder for Dr. Rindbrain’s piece, which was thus kept in the family. After the show, we all went to Stellina to celebrate over a nice dinner.
About the Box Show:
View more of my Box Show photos:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157674518032706
Watch a video of the Box Show:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyG87-bWkW4
About Pataphysical Studios:
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I did this as part of a novelty course. It was the first time I was able to really carve the buttercake recipe I use.
Triangular tato box, from a circle of florentine paper (last bit of this paper, unfortunately)
This one has curved folds, but not the same place Oschene put his, thus petals curl downward.
Sorry for those expecting the 18-gon tato box, I took the challenge the other way around...