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View the animation at THIS LINK (on YouTube) and 2 excerpts here below in the comments.
I started working on animations and music recently. The above sketch is just one small frame out of several hundreds... I made the animation in a minimalist way on purpose, It's meant to be a simple illustration for my music. I created the music and sound effects from A to Z using synths, my new Roland drum kit and Ableton Live.
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"The palest ink is better than the best memory."
--Chinese Probverb
One of the many fountain pens I use to write in my journals.
Indigestion, constipation, hysteria ... why are these complaints associated with just 50% of humanity? Stupid question really, you wouldn't substitute Mr Big Trousers with his super-important position at his desk or on the Trading Floor! Real men can eat canon balls [digested whole] don't get hysterical or, God forbid, admit to constipation ....
This letter is dated August 14, 1876. At that time Boggs would have been an instructor at what would become Virginia Tech.
Side 2
WWI letter of POW, from Tahskent to Austria.
Censorship, Red Cross stamps and marks.
(Please translate to English or Russian!)
The Desert books, the lost library of Chinguetti, Mauritania.
Poetry or novels, history and mathematics, medecine or astronomy, the Chinguetti’s books witness a large knowledge kept by wise men from the muslim world.
Stages - Photo workshops in Fontainebleau, visit my blog :
A recently acquired fountain len with a 14 carat gold nib. Mentmore was originally a British company, now it is Chinese, probably just a trading name for Chinese Duke pens. This pen is a small object of beauty. Built with a brass body, overlaid with a decorative acrylic finish. I had the medium nib adjusted to give a wetter ink flow. It's quite a large pen, 138mm closed and 122 open without the cap posted. It weighs about 58grams, and for me is too large and heavy with the cap posted.
It fits in my hand and writes very easily with the cap unposted, with a good wet flow of ink. I'm currently using Pelikan 4001 blue-black ink in it, which seems very quick drying. Despite being left-handed, I've yet to smudge my writing using this pen.
The paper is thin white card and the text is from a Latin breviary - clearly, I can make no claims to beautiful handwriting.
I've tried to colour-match the 3 images - the one of the whole pen, cap unposted, is most accurate.
Much to my amazement, a few of you have sent me private emails inquiring if I was doing the Chinese Word Game soon. Over the holidays, I've come up with a new series and some drawings.
Some Chinese words are based on pictograph/ pictogram/ pictogramme, which means the written words, at least at one point in history, resemble the icon, or ideogram, of the word's meaning.
I've drawn a few pictures here, as well as the modern writing of the word derived from the ideogram.
Please guess what the word(s) mean(s).
*** Those who understand Chinese language, please refrain from participating. ***
*** Also, please do not use internet apps to find the answer, that is cheating and defeats the whole idea of the game, don't you think?? ***
THANK YOU!
(:D
21.4.2011: detail from the funerary altar of Q. Fulvius Faustus and Fulvius Priscus, first half of the 1st century AD. From the Via Porta San Sebastiano, Rome. In the Terme di Diocleziano, Museo Nazionale Romano Rome.
Remembrance card for Mary Jane Butterworth, who died 18 Mar 1878, aged 31.
From the Documentary Photographic Archive at Greater Manchester County Record Office (Ref: DPA 552/9) 1878
A pleasant surprise, of course, especially since I had almost forgotten about writing him. My letter, posted in September, is to the left (or above, depending).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sedaris
Wonder if I should do some schmoozing at City Hall to see if I could get a garbage truck named for me?
Description: Sample pages of a book printed in Boston Line Type, an embossed Roman alphabet for use by the blind, titled "The Blind Child's Second Book". The book contains educational materials for children. This volume is one of the first books printed by the Perkins Institution.
Publisher: New England Institution for the Education of the Blind (Perkins), Boston
Date: 1836
Format: text
Digital Identifier: BLTIMG_3047
Rights: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA
Olympus PEN E-PL3+14-42 R II
Uruk (Cuneiform: or URUUNUG; Sumerian: Unug; Akkadian: Uruk; Arabic: وركاء, Warkā'; Aramaic/Hebrew: אֶרֶךְ Erech; Ancient Greek: Ὀρχόη, translit. Orchoē, Ὠρύγεια Ōrugeia) was an ancient city of Sumer and later Babylonia, situated east of the present bed of the Euphrates river, on the dried-up, ancient channel of the Euphrates River, some 30 km east of modern Samawah, Al-Muthannā, Iraq.[1]
Uruk is the type site for the Uruk period. Uruk played a leading role in the early urbanization of Sumer in the mid 4th millennium BC. At its height c. 2900 BC, Uruk probably had 50,000–80,000 residents living in 6 km2 (2.32 sq mi) of walled area; making it the largest city in the world at the time.[1] The legendary king Gilgamesh, according to the chronology presented in the Sumerian king list, ruled Uruk in the 27th century BC. The city lost its prime importance around 2000 BC, in the context of the struggle of Babylonia with Elam, but it remained inhabited throughout the Seleucid and Parthian periods until it was finally abandoned shortly before or after the Islamic conquest.
The site of Uruk was visited in 1849 by William Kennett Loftus who led the first excavations from 1850 to 1854, and had identified it as "Erech", known as "the second city of Nimrod".[2]
The Arabic name of Babylonia, al-ʿIrāq, is thought to be derived from the name Uruk, via Aramaic (Erech) and possibly Middle Persian (Erāq) transmission.