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The carved backboard on a 19th century sideboard .
Australian cedar circa 1865 attributed to George Dowden .
Gooloowan sideboard .
Ipswich Art Gallery
Ipswich . Qld.
This weekend marks the 9th anniversary of this personal project Mrs Wolf and I embarked on. Originally we wanted to shoot one set for each pair of boots she owned, sort of like an online gallery or catalogue. She owns well over 500 pairs ranging from vintage 80s Thigh boots to more recent acquisitions.
We are avid thrift store hunters and always find new pairs to bring home.
That original idea morphed into its own life form, if you scroll back to our earliest albums you'll see how we tried to make one set per pair plus some group photos of productive thrift store days.
We are both heavily involved in the BDSM lifestyle, so after a while we started offering glimpses into our other art. progressively Mrs Wolf started thinking up more and more themes and things really took on a life of their own....gone was the idea of one set per pair and in came so much more.
All photos of Mrs Wolf are accurate, she is a genuine Switch, she is Dominant with others and only submits to me. I am strictly Dominant. Mrs Wolf is a certified weldor, so along the way some photos of her welding were taken, she shoots at the range with me so there are photos of her with handguns and rifles mixed in.
We have never resorted to nudity and never will, what we hope to do however, is to tell a story with our photos. All photos are in at least one album, if you come across a photo you like, have a look at its album. I have been going through the archives recently finding photos not yet uploaded while she was recovering from a recent surgery. Fortunately she was well enough to mark this weekend with some modeling.
Here is the album where it all started
www.flickr.com/photos/62138824@N07/albums/72157684324758141/
This photo was our most viewed for a very long time, also from the same set.
www.flickr.com/photos/62138824@N07/35184388104/in/album-7...
9 years of shooting
42,000 uploads
1/4 Billion total views
And best of all is the fantastic people we have become great friends with, a few in real life!
I'm pretty sure I got this coin when I bought the boxed copy of the Elder Scrolls: Oblivion a few years ago.
A "charger" plate in the Obama White House china service, which was introduced on April 27, 2015.
This photograph was taken by a White House photographer. As the work of an employee of the federal government created in the performance of his/her duties, it is in the public domain.
The White House must order new china about once every 10 years, depending on wear and tear. Recent past colors have included celadon green (Truman), white (with flowers; Johnson), red (Reagan), gold (Clinton), and gold (G.W. Bush). Although dark blue has been used on previous orders of White House china (both the F.D. Roosevelt and Wilson services used it), the type of light blue used by the Obamas has never been used before on American state china.
The new Obama service porcelain was designed by First Lady Michelle Obama, with assistance from her friend, the interior designer Michael S. Smith. Planning for the new china began in the fall of 2011, and Obama consulted White House chefs (past and present), White House staff, and the Pickard China company of Illinois on the design and style of the porcelain, pieces, and color. White House dinners are growing ever-larger in size. Existing White House china settings are often used together, mixed and matched so that 400-, 500-, and even 600-setting dinners can be given. Michelle Obama was constrained by the need to design a china service that mixed well with existing china, but which reflected the Obamas' own personal style and tastes.
The Obama china service made its debut on April 27, 2015. It was first used on April 28 for a state dinner for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Each setting has 11 pieces and there are 320 settings, for a total of 3,520 pieces in the entire service.
The "service plate" or "charger" is the largest piece in the set at 14 inches. A charger is designed to be a placeholder, so that each diner knows to "sit here". As the meal is served, additional elements of the service are placed atop the charger. The charger helps protect the tablecloth from spills, but it also helps act as an aesthetic backdrop to the other pieces of china. The Obama chargers feature a lip of gold gilt, impressed with a fret (Greek key pattern). There is a narrow band of plain gilt on the rim next to the lip, with the rest of the rim in fluted gold gilt. A narrow band of plain gold gilt is placed just inside the well. In the center of the charger is the Presidential coat of arms in gold. The seal should be the first thing the diner sees when they are seated.
Each dinner plate is 12 inches in diameter. The lip of the dinner plate is plain gold gilt. The broad rim of the plate lacks gilding or color, and is decorated with pinwheels and fronds in bas-relief. The bas-relief design was taken from an Empire-style china service purchased by then-Secretary of State James Madison in 1806. The bas-relief element is unique to White House china, which has never featured anything like it before.
The Obama china service also includes a "second course" 11-inch dinner plate, a 10-inch luncheon plate, a 9-inch salad plate, a 9-inch dessert plate, a 7-inch tureen plate, and a 6-inch saucer. Each of these plates has a lip in gold gilt, impressed with a fret-oval-and-dart motif. Each motif is separated by a double row of dots. The rim of the plate is in a new color designed specifically for the Obama china service. This color is named "Kailua Blue," a bright blue inspired by the hue of the sea in President Barack Obama's home state of Hawaii. The fluted rim of blue is followed by a delicate inner line of gold gilt which completes the decoration. Only about half the rim is taken up by design and color. The dessert plate, the last plate the diner should see, also has the Presidential coat of arms in gold gilt in the center.
Each setting comes with a coffee cup. The cup has a lip of plain gold gilt, followed by a narrow band of gold gilt in a dart-oval-dart motif set perpendecular to the lip. This is followed by a band of fluted Kailua blue, and then a delicate band of plain gold gilt again. Each cup has the Presidential coat of arms; if held by the right hand, the coat of arms faces the guest.
Unique to the Obama china service is an individual tureen. Although large tureens have been part of White House china before, this is the first time an individual-sized tureen has been designed. The tureen reflects a more modern style of dining, which emphasizes soups, small entrees, or desserts requiring more than a bowl but not a large tureen. Each tureen is small, about 6 inches across. Handles on the side of the tureen are plain, consisting of a scroll with one acanthus leaf above and three below (helping to reinforce the scroll). Each tureen is about 4 inches deep. The lip of the tureen is plain. The rim is designed with the same plain pinwheels-and-fronds design in bas-relief. Below the rim, the side of the tureen is decorated with a narrow band of Kailua blue edged in a delicate line of gold gilt. The lid of the tureen is plain, with a mushroom-motif handle. The cap of the mushroom is fluted, with a botton topping the cap.
Pickard China produced the dinnerware. The tureen was incredibly difficult to make. It took workers more than a year and innumerable trials to produce the tureen.
The china service was paid for by the White House Historical Association -- a private foundation established by Jacqueline Kennedy to buy furniture, china, and decorative and fine art for the White House. The service cost $367,258.
Public Domain Book: Stand Scroll Book
Standard scroll book
Published 1876 by J. Haney & co. in New York .
Written in English.
The men who adorn this chariot mount are probably two orators and a grammarian, as suggested by their gestures and by the scrolls and writing tablets they hold. The piece may have been used to decorate the chariot of a distinguished orator in Gaul.
Late Roman or Byzantine, ca. 300-500 BCE, possibly made in Gaul. Copper alloy.
7 15/16 x 7 3/16 x 2 1/8 in. (20.2 x 18.2 x 5.4 cm)
Met Museum, New York (47.100.42)
Arrest at about 4 p.m. on Sunday March 15, 2009. Poor drunkies!
Kennedy Park, Western at 113th, Chicago, after the south side St Patrick's parade. You do NOT want to mess with these south side cops on St. Pat's weekend! I am not kidding, I almost got cuffed for riding my bike the wrong way down Western (which is a 2-way street!)
For more St Pat's foolishness, see Katherine of Chicago's hellish nightmare of swirling doom, in video form, 45 seconds of drunken idiots on a bus:
www.flickr.com/photos/katherineofchicago/3362848399/
Let's expose these people so they behave better next year (like at least eat something periodically, like gigantic pretzels or popcorn!) or stay home.
FOOTNOTE: shortly after this, the city of Chicago announced NO MORE South Side Irish Parades!
35/365
Our network went down for a couple of hours so it was the opportune time for a quick stroll around campus to get my photo for today. Ended up in the Library and wanted to take some photos of books but the light was rubbish so ended up with this close up of a scroll sculpture type thing. Processed in Piknik using their Lomo-ish filter and upped the contrast a bit too.
Kerouac's On the Road scroll on display at the Barber Institute, Birmingham, UK, December 2008 - January 2009
The story I was told: These scrolls---4 of an original six---were obtained from a collector of antique Chinese books and "the four treasures of the study." The title of the piece is "A Collection of 120 Chinese Character Shous in Leloatong." The scrolls were made by the seal engraver Sun Pan in the 49th year of the Emperor Qianlong (1784). Mr. Sun Pan is said to have collected the impressions of the character 'shou' (longevity) from many famous seal carvers of different dynasties, and added (in black) a short commentary for each. Supposedly this collection appears on p. 92 of the book "A Dictionary of Chinese Seal Characters," but I'm afraid to check it out. Probably a forgery (it's clearly old and re-mounted on new scroll backings) but a beauty in any case.
Anyone know anything? I'd be happy to email better pics if someone wants to work on this.
More seals at my Chinese seals page.
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Scroll for a Golden Alce (AEthelmearc AoA level award for martial skill)
Inspired by Harley 6563 ff. 71v-72
www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN.ASP?S...
Public Domain Book: Stand Scroll Book
Standard scroll book
Published 1876 by J. Haney & co. in New York .
Written in English.
The Scroll of Isildur was a scroll made by Isildur himself during his short time in Minas Tirith after the War of the Last Alliance between T.A. 1 and 2. The scroll held Isildur's account of the gaining of the Ring from Sauron and described the appearance of an inscription around the Ring while it was still hot. The Scroll was stored for millennia in the vaults of that city. Gandalf started to believe that Bilbo Baggins' Magic Ring was the One. In T.A. 3017 he visited Minas Tirith and studied the scroll. Isildur's description was vital in helping Gandalf identify the Ring. He visited Frodo Baggins in Bag End and testing his ring in the fireplace, confirmed it as the One Ring of Sauron.