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Artist's Journal Workshop, Midori Notebook, Kaweco Sport F, Noodler's Ahab in Ivory Darkness & Clear, and Lamy Vista 1.1 nib.
Always hunting for that albino space-whale...
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Pixel design by The Magic Tuba Pixie
Them lil' bots are ludicrously fun to build. :)
Rei Ayanami and Bone Ahab model for a test of my new home-made macro ring-light, inspired by this project.
Captain Ahab would be pleased, two rare CSX CW46AHs (derated AC6000CWs) on Q453-13 making a convenient daylight appearance into South Florida. #693 which I've spotted before in Lakeland, twice in YN2, leads ET44AH #3386, #664, and SD50-2 #8513 booking it through Cypress Creek. Crew was cautious minding a computer crash on the lead motor.
Speak, thou vast and venerable head,muttered Ahab: Speak mighty head and tell us the secret thing that is in thee. .Moby Dick
The Mesha Stele, popularized in the 19th century as the Moabite Stone, is a black basalt stone, bearing an inscription by the 9th century BC Moabite King Mesha that constitutes one of the most important direct accounts of the history of the Biblical world. The inscription of 34 lines, the most extensive inscription ever recovered from ancient Israel, was written in Paleo-Hebrew alphabet. It was set up by Mesha, about 850 BC, as a record and memorial of his victories in his revolt against the Kingdom of Israel, which he undertook after the death of his overlord, Ahab.
The 124 cm high, 79 cm wide, 36 cm deep stele was discovered in present day Dhiban, Jordan, which has been identified as Dibon, the ancient capital of the kingdom of Moab. Scholars were competing at this time for material proofs relating to the Bible, which encouraged a number of fakes. While in Jerusalem, Charles Clemont-Ganneau (1846-1923), a great Orientalist and disciple of Ernest Renan, learned from an Alsatian missionary, Reverend F.A. Klein, that a large block of black stone covered with characters had been found. He first sent an Arab intermediary from Jerusalem, Selim al-Qarim, who, in October 1869, made a schematic copy of the inscription, enabling Clermont-Ganneau to recognize the importance and early date of the monument. He then sent a second intermediary, Yaqoub Karavaca, to make a stamp of the inscription, in December 1869. In details lost to history, this operation aroused the anger of the villagers, and in the skirmish, the print was torn and the stele was broken. Clermont-Ganneau succeeded in retrieving the two main pieces from the antiquities market in Jersualem and donated them to the Louvre. the great British excavator in Jerusalem, Captain Warren and the Palestine Exploration Fund company, and to Professor Schlottmann, from the German Oriental Society (Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft). When the Palestine Exploration Fund learned that the Louvre had acquired the pieces retrieved by Clermont-Ganneau, it generously donated its fragments, and the daughter of Professor Schlottman donated her piece in 1891.
The arched shape and the basalt used are characteristic of the votive steles erected in the Levant since the Bronze Age, from Ugarit on the Syrian coast to Hazor in Galilee. The absence of figurative representation is unique, as is the prominence given to the text.
The glorification of the king and his undertakings were a standard part of the traditional literature of royal ideology in the ancient Orient and Egypt. The inscription features the earliest written occurence of the world Israel and constitutes the most detailed documentary source of information about the kingdom of Moab and its rivalry with the kingdom of Israel. It describes how Moab was conquered by Omri, King of Israel, as the result of the anger of the god Chemosh (whose spiritual sun Mesha claims to be); Mesha's victories over Omri's son (not mentioned by name), over the men of Gad at Ataroth, and at Nebo and Jehaz; his public buildings, restoring the fortifications of his strong places and building a palace and reservoirs for water; and his wars against the Horonaim. This inscription can be interpreted as supplementing and corroborating the history of King Mesha recorded in 2 Kings 3:4-27, thereby earning it a prominent place in the corpus of Biblical archaeology. However there are significant differences. In the Bible it is Ahab, Omri's son, who conquers Moab, and the rebellion is against Ahab's son Jehoram. Further, in the Bible, it is not Chemosh who gives victory to Mesha but Jahweh who gives victory to Jehoram. Israel withdraws, according to the Book of Kings, only because they are disconcerted when they see Mesha sacrifice his son.
In 1994, after examining both the Mesha Stele and the paper squeeze, the French scholar André Lemaire reported Biblical Archaeology Review that line 31 of bears the phrase "the house of David". Lemaire had to supply one destroyed letter, the first "D" in "[D]avid," to decode the wording. The complete sentence in the latter part of line 31 would then read, "As for Horonen, there lived in it the house of [D]avid," וחורננ. ישב. בה. בת[ד]וד. This assertion, however, has been contested by many.
The full translation of the stele reads as follows:
I am Mesha, son of Kemosh[-yatti], the king of Moab, the Dibonite. My father was king over Moab for thirty years, and I became king after my father. And I made this high-place for Kemosh in Qarcho (or Qeriho, a sanctuary) because he has delivered me from all kings, and because he has made me look down on all my enemies. Omri was the king of Israel, and he oppressed Moab for many days, for Kemosh was angry with his land. And his son reigned in his place; and he also said, "I will oppress Moab!" In my days he said so. But I looked down on him and on his house, and Israel has been defeated; it has been defeated forever! And Omri took possession of the whole land of Madaba, and he lived there in his days and half the days of his son: forty years. But Kemosh restored it in my days. And I built Baal Meon, and I built a water reservoir in it. And I built Qiryaten. And the men of Gad lived in the land of Atarot from ancient times; and the king of Israel built Atarot for himself, and I fought against the city and captured it. And I killed all the people of the city as a sacrifice for Kemosh and for Moab. And I brought back the fire-hearth of his uncle from there; and I brought it before the face of Kemosh in Qerioit, and I made the men of Sharon live there, as well as the men of Maharit. And Kemosh said to me, "Go, take Nebo from Israel." And I went in the night and fought against it from the daybreak until midday, and I took it and I killed the whole population: seven thousand male subjects and aliens, and female subjects, aliens, and servant girls. For I had put it to the ban for Ashtar Kemosh. And from there I took the vessels of Yahweh, and I presented them before the face of Kemosh. And the king of Israel had built Yahaz, and he stayed there throughout his campaign against me; and Kemosh drove him away before my face. And I took two hundred men of Moab, all its division, and I led it up to Yahaz. And I have taken it in order to add it to Dibon. I have built Qarcho, the wall of the woods and the wall of the citadel; and I have built its gates; and I have built its towers; and I have built the house of the king; and I have made the double reservoir for the spring in the innermost part of the city. Now the innermost part of the city had no cistern, in Qarcho, and I said to all the people, "Each one of you shall make a cistern in his house." And I cut the moat for Qarcho by using Israelite prisoners. I have built Aroer, and I constructed the military road in Arnon. I have built Beth-Bamot, for it had been destroyed. I have built Bezer, for it lay in ruins. And the men of Dibon stood in battle formation, for all Dibon were in subjection. And I am the king over the hundreds in the towns which I have added to the land. And I have built Beth-Medeba and Beth-Diblaten and Beth-Baal-Meon, and I brought there...flocks of the land. And Horonaim, there lived Kemosh said to me, "Go down, fight against Hauranen!" I went down and Kemosh restored it in my days...
Built for Insomniac Games and Microsoft to showcase the launch of the Xbox One exclusive "Sunset Overdrive"
This project was a collaboration between Volpin Props LLC and the artists at Hex Mortis in Atlanta, GA
The Great American Novel.
Scene depicting Ahab versus the giant albino sperm whale.
Original digital finger painting.
Sketchbook - iPad
Exhibitors Herald--World, October 18, 1930:
"The six large banners shown in the photograph above were used on the Warner Brothers Downtown theatre in Los Angeles with striking box office success. They were visible for several blocks. At the time this picture was taken lines converged from two streets to the ticket office. The film exploited was the Warner production, 'Moby Dick,' with John Barrymore"
Galaxy Science Fiction / Taschenbuch-Reihe
> Theodore Sturgeon / The Pod in the Barrier
> John Boland / Doat Age
> Willy Ley / For Your Information:The Earliest Robot
> William Morrison / The Sly Bungerhop
> William Tenn / The Dark Star
> Clifford D. Simak / Shadow World
Cover: Virgil Finlay
[Cover illustration titled "Capt. Ahab of Space"]
Galaxy Publishing Corp. / USA 1957
ex libris MTP
The northeastern bank of the Lake Tegel (in German: "Tegeler See"), seen from the Greenwichpromenade near the old centre of the Tegel district, with the moored inland passenger ship "Moby Dick", City of Berlin, Germany
Some background information:
The "Moby Dick" is an inland passenger ship of the shipping company "Stern und Kreisschiffahrt GmbH". It was built in 1972 by the shipyard "Büsching & Rosemeyer" in the East Westphalian town of Vlotho. With its toothed mouth and its fluke, its design is based on the shape of a whale. Today, the ship plies between Lake Tegel, the Havel river and the Spree river. On its route, the "Moby Dick" also reaches the nearby town of Brandenburg an der Havel, about 60 km (37 miles) west of Berlin.
Tegel is a district of the City of Berlin that is located in the borough of Reinickendorf in the northwest of Germany’s capital. Lake Tegel is the second largest lake in Berlin (after the Mueggelsee). It is fully situated within the area of the Tegel district. The lake is connected to the navigable Havel river, which flows in and out of the lake at its western end. Within the lake are a number of islands. Lake Tegel has a surface area of about 450 hectare (1,112 acres resp. 45 square kiometres). Just like the other lakes in Berlin, Lake Tegel is an important local recreation area and mainly used for all kinds of watersports as well as passenger shipping.
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it also the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. Berlin’s urban area has even a population of 4.7 million, while its metropolitan area of more than 5.3 million, which makes it the European Union’s third most populous city, according to population within the metropolitan area. The city of Berlin is also one of Germany's sixteen constituent states. Berlin is surrounded by the State of Brandenburg and contiguous with Potsdam, Brandenburg's capital.
Berlin straddles the banks of the Spree river, which flows into the Havel (a tributary of the Elbe) in the western borough of Spandau. Among the city's main topographical features are the many lakes in the western and southeastern boroughs formed by the rivers Spree, Havel and Dahme, the largest of which is Lake Mueggelsee. About one-third of the city's area is composed of forests, parks, gardens, rivers, canals, and lakes.
In 1237, the town of Koelln, which was situated on an river island of the Spree and nowadays is a central part of Berlin, was first mentioned in a document. In 1244, also the town of Berlin was documented first, which was located on the northeastern bank of the river Spree. However, archaeological excavations have proven that both settlements, which sat at the crossing of two important trade routes, already existed in the 12th century. Subsequently both towns grew together.
In 1356, the Margarviate of Brandenburg became an electorate and in 1417, Berlin became its capital. In 1539, prince-elector Joachim II Hector from the reigning House of Hohenzollern established the reformation in Berlin, which was accepted peacefully by the city’s inhabitants. But the Thirty Years’ War from 1618 to 1648 had devastating consequences for Berlin. One third of all houses was damaged and the number of citizens was halved.
In 1640, Frederick William, popularly known as the "Great Elector", took the government business over from his father. Just one year later, the suburbs of Friedrichswerder, Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichstadt were founded. Prince-elector Frederick William also pursued a policy of immigration and religious tolerance. Jewish families from Austria were rehomed in Berlin and Huguenots from France were invited, 5,000 of which settled in the city. A lot of immigrants also came from Poland, Bohemia and the state of Salzburg, which belonged to the Bavarian Circle at that time. Finally, Frederick William converted the town into a fortress with altogether 13 bastions.
When Frederick I was crowned King of Prussia in 1701, Berlin became Prussia’s capital. After the towns of Berlin, Koelln, Friedrichswerder, Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichstadt had finally merged in 1709, the total population climbed to 55,000. In the course of the 18th century, Berlin evolved into a centre of Enlightenment. After Prussia had been defeated by the French under Napoleon in 1806, King Frederick William III fled to the city of Königsberg in the very east of Prussia. Shortly afterwards the city was occupied by French troops, which stayed until 1808.
In the middle of the 19th century, the Industrial Revolution reached Berlin with all its might. Many new factories popped up outside the city walls and new important companies like Siemens, Borsig and AEG were founded. Hence, also new working class quarters emerged. Berlin was soon considered as an industrial city and the dire living conditions of the workers fostered the formation of a very strong working-class movement.
When Germany became an empire in 1871 and the Prussian King William I became its first emperor, the Prussian capital Berlin was naturally designated the capital of the new German Empire. In 1877, Berlin’s total population exceeded one million, and in 1905, the city already had two million inhabitants. After Germany had lost World War I in 1918, Germany was proclaimed to be a republic in Berlin. General strikes and uprisings in the following months were quelled violently and cost the lives of hundreds of people.
But Berlin recovered soon. In the Weimar Republic the city flourished and became the place to be in Europe. During the Golden Twenties, Berlin experienced its heyday as a major world city. Its population rose to four million and thus, Berlin became the third-largest city in the world, only outreached by New York and London.
After Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, Berlin was still the capital of Nazi Germany. Hitler and his architect Albert Speer planned to convert the city into the so-called "World Capital Germania", but fortunately most of the megalomaniac Nazi plans were never realised. However, during the Nazi era, Berlin’s great Jewish community was extinguished completely.
During Word War II, the city was widely destroyed by allied bomb raids and the street battles in the final days of the war. The Battle of Berlin ended with Hitler’s suicide in the bunker of Reich Chancellery and the Soviet capture of the city. Afterwards the town was divided into four occupation zones, three of them forming West Berlin, while the Soviet zone forming East Berlin. West Berlin became a de facto exclave of West Germany on the territory of Soviet-held East Germany, while East Berlin was made the capital of the newly founded German Democratic Republic. However, West Berlin was substituted as West Germany’s capital with the city of Bonn.
In 1948, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies’ access to their sectors of Berlin for almost a year. To carry supplies to the people of West Berlin, the Berlin Airlift was organised. American and British air forces flew over Berlin more than 250,000 times, dropping necessities such as fuel and food, with the original plan being to lift 3,475 tons of supplies daily. As this number was often met twofold by the so-called "raisin bombers", the Soviet Union lifted its unsuccessful blockade of West Berlin in May 1949.
In 1961, the German Democratic Republic commenced the construction of the Berlin Wall. The Soviet Bloc propaganda portrayed the Wall as protecting East Berlin’s population, while the West Berlin city government referred to it as the "Wall of Shame". Berlin families were suddenly separated by the Wall, but during its existence, more than 100,000 people attempted to escape. 5,000 of them succeeded, but an estimated number of 200 was killed by the Wall’s mine belt, its spring guns or the gunfire of the guards.
In 1989, a peaceful revolution ended the separation of Germany and with that also the separation of Berlin. Germany was finally reunified on 3rd October 1990. In the following year, Berlin was again declared the capital of Germany and also its seat of the government. Today, the city is a very vibrant megapolis with twelve boroughs. But Berlin’s authorities are generally classed as being inefficient and in need of modernisation. It’s also a great nuisance for many Germans, that a lot of money from other German states is transferred to the capital, where it is often used without any sense.
Built for Insomniac Games and Microsoft to showcase the launch of the Xbox One exclusive "Sunset Overdrive"
This project was a collaboration between Volpin Props LLC and the artists at Hex Mortis in Atlanta, GA
i can't keep up with the coloring pages anymore cuz i'm back to the salt mines but it's the Sabbath and next up in my pastor's portraits of kings are Ahab and Jezebel and by golly, today is mother's day and who doesn't say, "mom," like Jezelbel? Am i right? Jehoshaphat thought so... and you thought your mother-in-law was bad. :D