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Today the Jodo Mission of Hawaii saw the return of its hand-painted Japanese hanging scroll. At least 60 years old and the second largest such artifact in Hawaii, it was fully restored by skilled Japanese artisans under the direction of Japan Memorial Corporation's Tatsuji Maeda, who presented the restoration work to the Jodo Mission board this morning. This prized artwork will be carefully stored and only displayed in the temple maybe twice a year. I'd love to hear from anyone who knows more about these scrolls, it was certainly an education for us (and a substantial investment).
Three years ago, I created a scroll (www.flickr.com/photos/anselm23/8380803242/in/photolist-dL...) of Thomas Taylor's hymn to Jove or Jupiter. Now I've made one of the same poet's hymn to Mercury. It's nice to see the ways in which my drawing and calligraphy skills have improved.
Detail of wrought iron railing and Ionic capital of the portico of the church of San Giorgio in Velabro, Rome (Italy)
'In Velabro' refers to the swampy ground where this church was first constructed in the 7th Century, when it was dedicated to St. Sebastian. It was re-dedicated in the 8th Century to the Greek saint, St.George, now also patron saint of England. This part of Rome was a Greek quarter at the time. The church has been reconstructed and added to many times, including extensive repairs following a street bomb in 1993, so I have no idea how old this railing is. But I assume the pillars of the portico, like this one, are the quoted age of the portico - 12th Century.
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----- www.revealedrome.com/2010/11/st-george-in-velabro-medieva...
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LONDON - PARIS - CATANIA - ROME - LONDON ----- DAY 8
Photo from the eighth day of our crazy long distance rail trip from home (London) to Sicily. We had had an unscheduled but happy first night stopover in Paris because our Eurostar train out of London was badly delayed due to 'a fatality [unexplained - perhaps fortunately] on the train'. We therefore missed our onward sleeper train connection to Rome, so spent our second day in Paris. We left Paris that evening, on the equivalent sleeper train service a day later. We reached Rome during the third day, where we changed to a daytime train for Catania, Sicily, arriving there the same evening. Our fourth day was our first full day in Sicily, and we spent this in the centre of Catania itself. We spent our fifth day on an excursion to Mount Etna run by GeoEtnaExplorer. We chose this tour company because the guides are geologists. Our particular tour went high up on the flanks on the summit, but not to the summit proper. For this sixth day, our final full day in Sicily, we took the bus from Catania (our base) to Siracusa, in search of Ancient Greek remains, while also getting distracted by other interesting sights, and some excellent ice cream, at various points in the day. But perhaps the most spectacular thing was the huge thunderstorm which hit us in the early part of the afternoon. The seventh day was the start of our homeward journey, for which we took our sixth train of the trip, from Catania and ending with an overnight stop in Rome. We spent the eighth day on a long walk through the heart of Rome, where we hadn't been back since I worked there briefly many years ago, before continuing our way home to London by catching a sleeper train that evening to Paris.
By the end of the whole holiday trip we had seen things and sites from ancient Greek time to modern, so the trip felt like a mini Grand Tour. Or given the rich mythology of Sicily, Etna and the Straits of Messina (Odysseus, the Cyclops, Scylla & Charybdis, etc.) perhaps our trip was like a modern mini Odyssey of our times. Odysseus took ten years to get home. It took us ten trains - but no monsters.
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A beautiful brown and white cotton fabric in a modern scroll print. There is a lining of cotton batting underneath for added softness. It is surounded with a border of pink gimp ribbon and a pink satin ribbon crosses over the top of the case. The case is finished off with a brown wire circle accent.
Environmental protesters holding aloft a scroll of signatures advocating for alternative energy supplies and against the Keystone XL pipeline at a rally at Lafayette Square.
Washington, DC / July 27, 2013
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Berliner Dom (Blick vom Rohbau des Berliner Schlosses)
Der prachtvolle Neorenaissance Bau liegt mitten im Herzen der Hauptstadt am Lustgarten. Mit seiner imposanten Architektur, den vier Türmen, der knapp 100 Metern hohen Kuppel und dem goldenen Kreuz ist er weithin sichtbar und eines der Wahrzeichen Berlins. In seiner unmittelbaren Nachbarschaft befinden sich das Weltkulturerbe Museumsinsel, das Deutsche Historische Museum und das neue Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss.
Die Hohenzollerngruft unter dem Berliner Dom ist die wichtigste dynastische Grablege Deutschlands und gehört neben der Kapuzinergruft in Wien, den Königsgräbern in der Kathedrale St. Denis von Paris und der Gruft der spanischen Könige im Escorial bei Madrid zu den bedeutendsten dynastischen Grablegen Europas.
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Berlin Cathedral (view from the shell of Berlin Palace)
This magnificent neo-Renaissance building is located in the heart of the capital, next to the Lustgarten park. With its imposing architecture, four towers, dome almost 100 meters high, and golden cross, it is visible from afar and is one of Berlin's landmarks. In its immediate vicinity are the Museum Island World Heritage Site, the German Historical Museum, and the new Humboldt Forum in Berlin Palace.
The Hohenzollern Crypt beneath Berlin Cathedral is Germany's most important dynastic burial place and, alongside the Capuchin Crypt in Vienna, the royal tombs in St. Denis Cathedral in Paris, and the crypt of the Spanish kings in El Escorial near Madrid, is one of the most significant dynastic burial places in Europe.
One of the custom scrolls I make with vintage papers & embellishments. I make a lot of these for weddings, anniversaries, etc.
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Scovia Monday is 15 years old. Together with her 4-year-old sister Aya, she fled the horrors of the war in South Sudan.
"My father died during an attack on our village in Morobo County. Then my mother ran off with another man and left us to fend for ourselves. We didn't have any other family anymore to fall back on nor enough money to survive in South Sudan", says Scovia. She decided to take her sister to a safe place in Uganda. By foot, they started a journey that lasted for days.
Upon arrival in the refugee settlement, where hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese had also found a safe haven, they could count on help from Cordaid and other aid organizations. "We were supplied with enough food and water to get through the day."
Scovia now has the role of an adult and is taking care of her sister like a mother. With some help of her new-found friends in the settlement, she was able to build a hut. She is taking care of the household but also tries to keep studying. But there is one thing the fills her with true joy: playing soccer.
A few times a week the older teams in the settlement play an actual tournament. Scovia loves to go and watch the games. She cheers, dances and jumps around with joy each time her favorite team scores.
Together with other boys and girls from the settlement, she trains on a daily basis to eventually participate in the tournament as well. Scovia is confident that very soon she will be selected for one of the bigger teams.
Despite her love for soccer, Scovia really wants to become a priest. Scovia: "That way, if I can ever return to my home country, I will be able to support the people there in difficult times."
Cordaid in northern Uganda
In the Imvepi refugee settlement in northern Uganda, 128.249 refugees from war-torn South Sudan are trying to pick up their lives again (March 2018). Imvepi is one of many settlements in Uganda and in total over one million people from South Sudan have crossed the border to Uganda in search of safety. When they arrived, they had no access to basic facilities and essential necessities like food and water.
Uganda has internationally been praised for its friendly 'open door' refugee policy but could understandably not handle this enormous crisis on its own. A large consortium of international NGOs stepped up and helped the Ugandan government to make sure the refugees are protected from disasters like famine, drought and the spreading of diseases.
In Imvepi, Cordaid has built a water supply system that produces up to 80.000 liters a day and serves thousands of people. The innovative solar-powered system is a sustainable alternative to watertrucking, which is an expensive way to transport water to all - sometimes remote - areas of the settlement. Although a necessary first response, with watertrucking the distribution of the minimum of 20 liters of water per person per day isn’t always reached.
Cordaid's water supply provides 22 liters per person per day to 4600 beneficiaries. Throughout the settlement, Cordaid has placed ten tapping stations to ensure easy access to clean and safe water for everyone in the area.
Providing water goes hand in hand with hygiene responsibility. Poor hygienic conditions could cause potentially deadly diseases to spread rapidly. That is why Cordaid constructed latrines around schools and busy marketplaces, as well as hundreds of household latrines. On top of that Cordaid works together with a team of refugees who promote good hygiene to the families through an educational entertainment program.
Through local partner organization Caritas Arua, Cordaid executes a livelihood program in which beneficiaries receive seeds and farming equipment to start growing crops for consumption and income generation by selling the products on the local market.
Cordaid’s activities in northern Uganda have been made possible by funds from the Dutch public donated to the national Giro555 famine campaign in March 2017.
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Scovia Monday is 15 jaar oud. Samen met haar 4-jarige zusje Aya is zij de verschrikkingen van de oorlog in Zuid-Soedan ontvlucht.
"Mijn vader is omgekomen tijdens een aanval op ons dorp in Morobo County. Mijn moeder liet ons achter en ging er vandoor met een andere man. We hadden geen andere familie meer of genoeg geld om te kunnen overleven in Zuid-Soedan", vertelt Scovia. Ze besloot met haar zusje te voet naar Oeganda te vluchten. Dagenlang waren ze onderweg.
Bij aankomst in het vluchtelingenkamp, waar honderdduizenden van haar landgenoten al hun toevlucht hadden gezocht, konden ze meteen rekenen op de hulp van Cordaid en andere organisaties. "We kegen genoeg water en voedsel om de dag door te komen."
De jong volwassen geworden Scovia heeft met wat hulp van haar nieuwe vrienden zelf een hut gebouwd, waarin de twee meisjes nu verblijven.
Ze doet het huishouden, zorgt voor haar zusje en probeert daarnaast ook nog te studeren. Maar er is één ding in het kamp waar Scovia veel vreugde uithaalt. Voetbal.
Een paar keer per week spelen de oudere teams uit het kamp een echt toernooi. Scovia gaat graag kijken. Het is er altijd feest. Ze juicht, springt en danst als haar favoriete team scoort.
Samen met andere jongens en meisjes uit het kamp traint ze dagelijks om uiteindelijk zelf ook mee te kunnen doen aan het toernooi. Scovia heeft er alle vertrouwen in dat ze binnenkort geselecteerd zal worden voor het team.
Ondanks haar grote liefde voor voetbal wil Scovia later graag priester worden. Scovia: "Op die manier kan ik, als ik ooit weer terug kan naar Zuid-Soedan, mensen steunen in moeilijke tijden."
Cordaid in Noord-Oeganda
In het Imvepi vluchtelingenkamp in Noord-Oeganda zitten 128.249 vluchtelingen uit Zuid-Soedan (maart 2018). Zij zijn gevlucht voor de verschrikkingen van de oorlog in hun land en proberen hun leven weer op te pakken. In totaal zijn meer dan een miljoen Zuid-Soedanezen de grens overgestoken.
Bij aankomst in Oeganda ontbrak het ze aan de eerste levensbehoeften.
Oeganda vangt de vluchtelingen met open armen op, maar de overheid kan de enorme omvang van het probleem niet alleen aan.
Daarom is er een samenwerkingsverband in het leven geroepen van internationale hulporganisaties om ervoor te zorgen dat de vluchtelingen niet bezwijken aan de gevolgen van honger, droogte of de verspreiding van ziektes.
In het Imvepi-kamp heeft Cordaid watervoorzieningen gebouwd om 80.000 liter water per dag te verdelen onder duizenden mensen. Het moderne systeem, dat wordt aangedreven door zonne-energie, biedt een duurzaam alternatief voor 'watertrucking'. Dat is een dure methode om water te transporteren naar alle verre uithoeken van het uitgestrekte kamp.
Hoewel het noodzakelijk is om snel water bij mensen in nood te krijgen, lukt het vaak niet om hiermee iedereen te voorzien van het minimum van 20 liter per persoon per dag.
Het watersysteem van Cordaid levert 22 liter per persoon per dag aan 4600 mensen. Er zijn 10 waterpunten in het kamp gebouwd om ervoor te zorgen dat iedereen in het gebied makkelijk toegang heeft tot schoon drinkwater.
Bij het leveren van schoon en veilig water hoort ook goede hygiëne. Door slechte hygiënische omstandigheden kunnen gevaarlijke ziektes makkelijk verspreiden. Daarom heeft Cordaid latrines gebouwd rond schoolgebouwen en drukke marktplaatsen en wc's bij de hutten van families.
Ook heeft Cordaid een team van vluchtelingen samengesteld die op een aanstekelijke wijze met zang en dans langs de families gaan om betere en veilige hygiëne te promoten.
Tot slot zorgt Cordaid via partnerorganisatie Caritas Arua ook voor de verstrekking van zaden en landbouwgereedschappen, zodat vluchtelingen gewassen kunnen verbouwen. Voor consumptie en voor de verkoop op de markt.
De werkzaamheden van Cordaid in Noord-Oeganda zijn mogelijk gemaakt door de gulle donaties van het Nederlandse volk aan de actie ‘Help slachtoffers hongersnood’ in maart 2017.
St. George is depicted here wearing a visored bascinet with characteristics of an early sallet. His bell-shaped fauld is typical of the 1430s, 1440s.
The artist is a master of the so-called Gold Scrolls Group, active in the 1430s, 1440s in Bruges.
The Book of Hours measures 21,2 x 14,3 cm. Just saying.
Pictures taken at the exhibition "L'Homme, le Dragon et la Mort. La Gloire de saint Georges" in Le Musée des Arts Contemporains, Le Grand-Hornu, Boussu, province of Hainaut, Belgium (October 18th 2015 - January 17th 2016).
Snapdragon Prime ENB
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Intel i5-4590, Gainward GTX970, 16GB DDR3
Playthrough 18 Mod list 002
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a pianola scroll. (air blows through the holes and the piano appears to play a nifty little tune on its own).. lol.
Fantasy scrolls were hand painted by me to enhance my morning ritual. I love the turquoise and rust and adore my black vanity and mirror.
This design is taken from the Hoitsu scroll stitched by professionals at Kurenai-kai (check out www.nuido.blogspot.com for details of the scroll). This is just a section and has two large iris in front of a stream. Am blogging on this as I progress so check it out if you are interested.
© Japanese Embroidery Center
2011
Mixed Media Collage
Including: Laser Printed images from Google image search, fabric, tracing paper, card stock, sumi ink, fake blood, charcoal, acrylic paint, basswood, dirt, mud, and dust.
6'x16"
Due to the large area of the Barony of the Far West {Japan, Korea, Guam, and sometimes China} and the small SCA population {itnierant military and teachers of English} we rely heavily on pre-made scrolls we just print out, put names on and paint. Still, I enjoy the painting.
One of my many Communion cakes this weekend. First time I tried making buttercream carnations, and I'm not sure I did them right. The photo doesn't really show it, but the cross is sprinkled with disco dust--my new favorite thing!!!!!!!!! The design lookes kind of "crooked" in the photo, but it didn't look like that in person.
An old schoolmate emailed me the other day to tell me her mother had an old tool to give away. She couldn't tell what it was, but that her father used to make toys with it. I went to see it this morning and brought it home. It is a Wizard 14" scroll saw bought many years ago from Western Auto, mounted on a board with a 1/4 HP Emerson Electric motor. I will clean it up and use it in my shop.
I found these in an old writing desk. I like the two hidden ones, they're like shadows of the others. But I think I like this shot, I like the simplicity of it anyway.
Back to Florence for a while!
The Florence Baptistry, Florence day 3 of our Cosmos tour, October 2, 2012.
The Florence Baptistry or Battistero di San Giovanni (Baptistry of St. John) is a religious building in Florence (Tuscany), Italy, which has the status of a minor basilica.
The octagonal Baptistry stands in both the Piazza del Duomo and the Piazza di San Giovanni, across from the Duomo cathedral and the Giotto bell tower (Campanile di Giotto). It is one of the oldest buildings in the city, built between 1059 and 1128. The architecture is in Florentine Romanesque style. Florentine style has not seen the spread of the Pisan Romanesque or Lombard, however, its influence was decisive for the subsequent development of architecture, as it formed the basis of which drew Francesco Talenti, Leon Battista Alberti, Filippo Brunelleschi and the other architects who created the ' Renaissance architecture . The Church of the Holy Apostles is a clear example, it announced for its spaciousness, as noticed by Giorgio Vasari, Renaissance themes. Therefore, in the case of the Florentine Romanesque, one can speak of "proto-renaissance", but at the same time an extreme survival of the late antique architectural tradition. Just from the pursuit of an ideal "classic" placed out of time, he creates difficulty in dating the Baptistery, similar to what occurs for other Italian medieval monuments of strong classical style, like the church of St. Alexander in Lucca or the Basilica of St. Salvatore in Spoleto with the nearby Temple of Clitumnus .
The Baptistry is renowned for its three sets of artistically important bronze doors with relief sculptures. The south doors were done by Andrea Pisano and the north and east doors by Lorenzo Ghiberti. The east pair of doors were dubbed by Michelangelo "the Gates of Paradise".
The Italian poet Dante Alighieri and many other notable Renaissance figures, including members of the Medici family, were baptized in this baptistry. In fact, until the end of the nineteenth century, all Catholic Florentines were baptized here.
For More Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Baptistery
This is another scroll painting done by an artist from Medinipur district in West Bengal. He also did paint an entire sari with scroll painting. My friends Maura Hurley is working with some of the artists from this place. My other friend Shubhendu Choudhury is working with a group of artists and developing a fair trade business on hand painted saris, stoles wall hanging etc.
Find more details in I. Suarez-Martinez, N. Grobert, C.P. Ewels. Nomenclature of sp2 carbon nanoforms. Carbon, 50, 741-747 (2012)
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Holi, das „Fest der Farben“, hat seinen Ursprung in Indien und wird jedes Jahr gefeiert, um den Frühling zu begrüßen. Die Menschen versammeln sich zu Tausenden und werfen buntes Pulver, den sogenannten „Gulal“, sowie gefärbtes Wasser in die Luft. Traditionell sind an diesem Tag alle Schranken durch Status, Geschlecht, Alter und Kaste aufgehoben. Holi gilt als eines der ältesten und farbenfrohesten Feste der Welt, das inzwischen auch außerhalb Indiens immer beliebter wird.
Die HOLI GAUDY Festival-Tour ist die europäische Variante des indischen Frühlingsfestes und geht ab dem 01. Mai 2015 zum dritten Mal auf große Tournee. Präsentiert von RTL II und Diginights stehen in diesem Jahr über 20 Termine in Deutschland und der Schweiz auf dem Tourkalender. Getreu dem Motto „Colour Your Day“ lädt die HOLI GAUDY Festival-Tour die Besucher ein, gemeinsam mit hochkarätigen Musik-Acts, das große Farbspektakel zu feiern.
Rennbahn Hoppegarten, Berlin, 09. Mai 2015
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HOLI GAUDY Festival, Hoppegarten racecourse, Berlin 2015
Holi, the “festival of colors”, has its origins in India and is celebrated every year to welcome spring. People gather in their thousands and throw colored powder, known as “gulal”, and colored water into the air. Traditionally, all barriers of status, gender, age and caste are removed on this day. Holi is considered one of the oldest and most colorful festivals in the world and is now becoming increasingly popular outside India.
The HOLI GAUDY Festival Tour is the European version of the Indian spring festival and will be going on tour for the third time from May 1, 2015. Presented by RTL II and Diginights, over 20 dates in Germany and Switzerland are on the tour calendar this year. True to the motto “Colour Your Day”, the HOLI GAUDY festival tour invites visitors to celebrate the great color spectacle together with top-class music acts.
Hoppegarten racecourse, Berlin, May 09, 2015
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Besuch der Zentralen Gedenkstätte für die Opfer von Krieg und Gewaltherrschaft (Neue Wache). Die Königin legte an der Neuen Wache, der Zentralen Gedenkstätte für die Opfer von Krieg und Gewaltherrschaft, einen Kranz nieder. Am Eingang wurde sie von Vizeadmiral Joachim Rühle und einer Ehrengarde empfangen. Während Ihre Majestät im stillen Gedenken verweilte, spielte ein Trompeter "Der gute Kamerad", ein Lied aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, das im Trauerzeremoniell der Bundeswehr eine Rolle spielt.
Die klassizistische Neue Wache ist seit 1993 die Zentrale Gedenkstätte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland für die Opfer von Krieg und Gewaltherrschaft. Sie wurde 1816 nach einem Entwurf von Karl Friedrich Schinkel als Wachhaus für preußische Soldaten gebaut und diente ab 1931 als Ehrenmal, zunächst für die Weimarer Republik und später für die Sowjetunion. Im Inneren des Gebäudes befindet sich direkt unter einem Rundfenster ein einzelnes Objekt: eine vergrößerte Kopie der Skulptur Mutter mit totem Sohn von Käthe Kollwitz. Die Bildhauerin schuf dieses Meisterwerk nach dem Verlust ihres Sohns im Ersten Weltkrieg.
Berlin, Neue Wache, Mittwoch, 24. Juni 2015 - 12.45 Uhr
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Queen Elizabeth II visiting Berlin, 2015
Visit to the Central Memorial to the Victims of War and Tyranny (Neue Wache). The Queen laid a wreath at the Neue Wache, the Central Memorial to the Victims of War and Tyranny. She was received at the entrance by Vice Admiral Joachim Rühle and a guard of honor. While Her Majesty lingered in silent remembrance, a trumpeter played "Der gute Kamerad", a song from the 19th century that plays a role in the Bundeswehr's mourning ceremonial.
The neo-classical Neue Wache has been the Federal Republic of Germany's central memorial to the victims of war and tyranny since 1993. It was built in 1816 to a design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel as a guardhouse for Prussian soldiers and served as a memorial from 1931, first for the Weimar Republic and later for the Soviet Union. Inside the building, directly under a round window, there is a single object: an enlarged copy of the sculpture Mother with Dead Son by Käthe Kollwitz. The sculptor created this masterpiece after the loss of her son in the First World War.
Berlin, Neue Wache, Wednesday, June 24, 2015 - 12:45 p.m.