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After building the tables, I decided to make a book shelf in the same style. I have since switched to Kindle, but this shelf holds some of my favorite books of all time - Lord of the Rings (red leather bound!), Shogun, Otherland, Tales of the Otori, Shadowmarch, etc. It also features a (relatively) cheap replica of a Samurai katana. For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by medieval Japan. I built its stand (from 1 by 1s), wrapped in black velvet.
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A dazzlingly original, lyrical and epic encounter with the Earth as it used to be 'As close to time travel as you are likely to get' Bill McKibben
This is the past as we've never seen it before. Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the worlds that were here before ours. Travelling back in time to the dawn of complex life, and across all seven continents, award-winning young palaeobiologist Thomas Halliday gives us a mesmerizing up close encounter with eras that are normally unimaginably distant. Halliday immerses us in a series of ancient landscapes, from the mammoth steppe in Ice Age Alaska to the lush rainforests of Eocene Antarctica, with its colonies of giant penguins, to Ediacaran Australia, where the moon is far brighter than ours today. We visit the birthplace of humanity; we hear the crashing of the highest waterfall the Earth has ever known; and we watch as life emerges again after the asteroid hits, and the age of the mammal dawns. These lost worlds seem fantastical and yet every description - whether the colour of a beetle's shell, the rhythm of pterosaurs in flight or the lingering smell of sulphur in the air - is grounded in the fossil record. Otherlands is a staggering imaginative feat: an emotional narrative that underscores the tenacity of life - yet also the fragility of seemingly permanent ecosystems, including our own. To read it is to see the last 500 million years not as an endless expanse of unfathomable time, but as a series of worlds, simultaneously fabulous and familiar.
Impressions from The Otherland Estate. These are snapshots from some of our green waterfront regions with some fantasy architecture and landscaping by Cracker Taggert.
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Nikon D7000 - Nikkor AI 105mm f/2.5.
A friend asked me to come by and shoot their gig, and I had been TRYING for months, but they play on weeknights and usually too late besides. But this one time, we managed to get it in. I love my sleep. But I like this photo, too. Tough to shoot a 5-piece with a telephoto, but I got some good portraits out of it, and I had a 24mm for wider stuff.
I usually don't take this lens out much, as fast as it is, it is still a bucking bronco to handle in a dark bar environment. but it was working well on this night. This is Andrew Geraci backing up Faith Evans Ruch in Memphis, TN