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Puss in Boots
Record number: 23051301
Artist: Kubel, Otto (German, 1868-1951)
Item caption, front: Brüder Grimm / Der gestiefelte Kater / O. Kubel, pinx.
Item caption/descriptive text, back: 5. "Man hat mir versichert," begann der Kater, " daß Ihr die Gabe besäßet, gnädiger Herr, Euch in alle Arten von Tieren zu verwandeln." -- "Das ist auch wahr," antwortete der Zauberer, "um es dir zu beweisen, will ich mich gleich in einen Elefanten verwandeln." Der Kater war erschrocken, als er den Elefanten vor sich sah, und bat den Zauberer, sich in eine Maus zu verwandeln. Das geschah, dia Maus lief plötzlich hin und her, der Kater aber haschte sie und fraß sie auf. = "I have been told," began the cat, "that you have the gift, honored sir, of transforming yourself into all kinds of animals." "That is certainly true," answered the magician, "and to prove it to you, I will transform myself immediately into an elephant." The cat was astounded when he saw the elephant in front of him, and then asked the magician to transform himself into a mouse. That happened: the mouse suddenly ran back and forth, but the cat caught it and ate it up.
Uniform title: Grimm: Der gestiefelte Kater (“Puss in Boots”); Perrault: Le Maître chat ou Le Chat botté ("Puss in Boots" or “The Master Cat”)
Dimensions: 140 x 93 mm.
Date: ca. mid-1920s or earlier
Nationality: German
Publisher: Uvachrom Gesellschaft für Farbenphotographie m.b.H., München [Munich]-Stuttgart, [Germany]
Series: Serie 223 Nr. 4293
Medium: Uvachrom color print from original watercolor painting
Interpretive notes: The Cat asks the sorcerer to demonstrate his powers. The sorcerer first transforms into an elephant; but when he then changes into a mouse, the cat catches him and gobbles him up!
Subject headings: Cats; Magicians; Monkeys; Elephants
Credit: The Jack Zipes Historic Fairy Tale Postcard Collection/Minneapolis College of Art and Design
There are a number of challenges I face when shooting ballet pics of Jessie. Mind you, I'm not complaining. I've very very grateful to the teacher (who is also the owner of the studio) for letting me shoot. But I just thought I'd give some insight into how I shoot and what kinda things I run into.
See the notes for explanation. :)
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Note how Micki is briefly checking her device and texting in the middle of dinner. This is perfectly acceptable (and even expected) behavior in today's modern highly interconnected multitasking culture. Get used to it. Evolve or die.
Note: the left pedipalp is missing in this specimen. I fed him a large fly and took him home, but he soon died. Poor fella.
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Earlier today I found these two bank notes from the old country snuggled in the back of a dusty book. These were in general circulation between 1978 and 1990, and so would have seen me through the end of high school, my two years national service, my three degrees and my initial move to the UK. Fascinating times.
The note is supposed to depict Johan Anthoniszoon "Jan" van Riebeeck, but some National Party bureaucrat screwed up and the portrait on the old bank notes is of Bartholomeus Vermuyden, as painted by Dirck Craey (1650) and currently hanging in the Rijksmuseum. The actual van Riebeeck was far less glamorous as this portrait of him in the Rijksmuseum reveals. Researcher Jonkheer F.G.L.O van Kretschmar has also determined that the popular portrait of van Riebeeck's wife, Maria, was more likely that of Catharina Kettingh, wife of Bartholomeus Vermuyden. The real Maria van Riebeeck (nee de la Queillerie) was as frumpish as her husband - this is the portrait of her in the Rijksmuseum. Worse still, by all accounts the statue in Adderley Street, Cape Town, is not a likeness of Maria either, but of the "wife of the chairman of the Dutch committee that helped to organise the 1952 Van Riebeeck festival in Cape Town." (Giliomee and Mbenga, 2007, "New History of South Africa"). Incredible - you couldn't believe a goddamn thing under the old apartheid regime.
Interesting read here.
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The earliest works on American medicinal plants included witch hazel, primarily noting its use to treat eye inflammations, hemorrhoids, bites, stings and skin sores, diarrhea and dysentery, and many other conditions for which a plant high in tannins would produce relief by virtue of its astringency. Herbalists consider it one of the best plant medicines to check bleeding, both internally and externally. A tea made from the bark or leaves is given to stop internal bleeding. A poultice of the fresh leaves or bark was considered useful for relieving the pain and swelling of inflammations. Dipped in a cotton ball, witch hazel water is dabbed on insect bites to calm pain and relieve itching. I find it especially soothing on chigger and tick bites, as well as mosquito bites, and poison ivy rash.
You can make your own witch hazel preparation - a tincture retaining the herb's properties - by soaking the bark in alcohol. This is different from the witch hazel water offered in pharmacies. It is closer akin to the witch hazel extracts available in Europe. Gather a few dormant winter branches, scrape off the bark, then soak in twice its weight of dilute grain (ethyl) alcohol (containing 50 percent distilled water) for about two weeks. Isopropyl or rubbing alcohol will work too, provided you clearly label the bottle "for external use only," Shake or stir the tincture once or twice daily. When ready, strain, bottle, and store in a cool dark place. Before use, dilute this tincture with at least two parts distilled water. Undiluted, this tincture may be too harsh for sensitive skin. With the exception of eye ailments, this concoction is useful for most applications calling for witch hazel. You might find it especially useful for relieving the itching and oozing of poison ivy rash. Or, you can go to any store where over-the-counter (non prescription) drugs are sold and buy some witch hazel water.
Thank you Skeletal Mess, for the beautiful texture!
This year I have been somewhat surprised that I have struggled to find the time to do regular sketching for myself and in a measure have stopped recording my life in my sketchbook. I am doing so much sketching now for work - illustrations or preparation for teaching. All great fun but it is never the same as the stuff I just do for me. The life of a freelancer is quite different… work becomes play and play becomes work…and that clear distinction between the two has gone. I am trying to get the balance right.
So last week I decided that I would try to do a journal page a day. I have started writing my morning readings in my book again (always read every morning but often don't write it in my book in 'normal life') Writing a verse out from the bible is certainly a great way to start the day and the act of writing helps me remember it more during the day - it also sets me up for doing a page a day! Some days I have suddenly realised at 10pm I hadn't done the sketch for the day…but I am getting in the swing of it and like the challenge of thinking of something for each day that records a moment of that day.
I have gone on a colour diet - reducing to a triad of 3 paints (of course) and learning more about efficient mixing. I am not liking how dirty my yellow gets or my water but it is improving and I am having lots of fun.
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Although in existence during earlier centuries, the "Marteau d'arme" was officially introduced as an offensive weapon by the mid 13th century. It was adopted by the infantry capable to inflict heavy damage to the armoured knights..
By the 15th century the marteau d'arme evolved in a weapon with a longer wooden handle whose metal end had a hatchet combined with a hook - "falcon's beak". These weapons were soon used by the cavalrymen, but with a shorter handle entirely made of metal until they were abandoned in the 16th centurywhen they were replaced by pistols.
In Eastern Europe the marteau d'arme was used for much longer, then in Central and Western Europe, as pistols were more expensive and rarer to come by.
This explains why the marteau remained popular for much longer in Ukraine, Poland, Moldavia, Hungary and preserved an undomitable "white arm" for highwaymen.
By the end of the 18th century, beginning of the 19th century, the marteau d''arme remained a symbol of power and social rank among aristocracy.
There are some beautiful examples of period engravings, soon after the Napoleonic wars, when Hungarian noblemen were displaying marteau d'armes as fashionable acoutrements, in the manner in which their English counterparts would use walking sticks.. During uncertain times such 'elegant" objects would always come in useful as defence weapons in case one was aggressed. the look of it was enough to inhibit any potential attacker who might be hammered and hacked to pieces.
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Arme de guerre dérivée de l'outil du même nom. Le marteau de guerre se composait d'un manche de bois terminé par une tête en plomb ou en fer et souvent munie d'une pointe dans le prolongement du manche. Bien que de telles armes furent certainement utilisées bien avant, le marteau d'arme semble avoir été admis dans les armées vers le milieu du XIIIe siècle. C'était une arme très lourdes, utilisée par les fantassins, capables de provoquer de gros dégâts et qui accélérât sans doute l'usage des armures de plates complètes. Au XVe siècle, le manche devient plus allonge et la partie métallique s'enrichit souvent d'une hache ou d'une pointe latérale(bec de faucon). A la même époque, apparaît un marteau plus court porté par les cavaliers et parfois entièrement fait de fer (cf. image). Ces marteaux furent en usage jusqu'au XVIe siècle dans la cavalerie avant d'être abandonnés au profit du pistolet.
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NOTE on the ORIGIN of the HUTZUL People:
The Hutsul (Romanian - Huţul) are mountain peoples with occupations in cattle breeding, and shepherding, forestry, and timber, who live in the upper reaches of the river Prut, in Pokutia (Romanian - Pocuţia). The origin of the Hutsul has been suggested to be one of the migrating peoples - Cuman, Scythian, Celtic, Gothic, Dacian, Romanian etc. However, they speak a dialect of Ukrainian and are generally thought to be Slavic, but have many Romanian influences in their language, costume and customs,
In the 9th century the political unity of the Ukraine was formed around the Poianian tribe of the Kiev region. Most of the original tribal names are only left as geographical and territorial names but in the mountainous Carpathians some diversity and traces of the old tribal characteristics have been preserved in the Slavic peoples of the Hutsul, Lemko and Boiko peoples.
The first references to the Hutsul are in the 14th century in current southern Ukraine. During the 15th century they colonised along the Prut river, over the mountains and along the Tisa river into Maramureş, and along the Ceremuş river towards northern Moldavia. In the 17th century they migrated across the mountains to the upper Suceava valley. By the late 17th century there were around 40 villages and further migration continued into the upper valleys of the Moldova and Bistriţa rivers.
Lifting a page out of the Stewart Butterfield handbook.
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This card features Memory Box Viola patterned paper and one of their butterfly dies.
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Note leg color. Bill is slightly curved, thin and pointed. Gape Notch is deep. Back braces. Wings longer than tail
Shot thru Phragmites.
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On a walk around the city to catch up on the rebuild. July 2, 2016 Christchurch New Zealand.
Here is a video and photos of what the city looked like and what it is like now: i.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/84993221/five-years-of-rebui...