This installation by sculptor Soo Sunny Park.
Using chain link fencing and colored acrylic discs, Park has created soft looking undulating, organic forms of characterized by ethereal colors that belie the underlying materials that make up their construction. More here.
To Mars – at roughly and virtually 3 times the speed of light.
Thanks for HMS Defiant for this reference about Romano-Egyptian socks. He watches me knitting and sent this delightful story along.
I am a sock knitter and one of the nice things about knitting your own is that you can tailor them to the recipient – color, length in all dimensions, weight.
However, I have never had to adjust my knitting to accommodate the apparently stork-footed (see there are storks again) individual for whom these socks were made.
Another note is that the story talks about single-needle knitting. I always thought that was crochet – ?
This week is a photo essay on stork tattoos. I decided to stay away from the baby-storky tattoos and go for those that are more realistic ones. Some of these may actually be cranes – but, close enough.
And for something different, yet related:
More on storks from the San Diego Zoo.
In honor of Charlemagne’s birthday, here is a series of fleur de lis tattoos.
The fleur de lis is a stylized lily. It figures prominently in heraldry, particularly in European royal coats of arms, such as on this flag of the Kingdom of France.
Charlemagne, born this day in 742. He became King of the Franks, King of the Germans and the first Holy Roman Emperor.
Called the “Father of Europe” Charlemagne’s empire united most of Western Europe for the first time since the Roman Empire. His rule spurred the Carolingian Renaissance, a revival of art, religion, and culture through the medium of the Catholic Church. Through his foreign conquests and internal reforms, Charlemagne encouraged the formation of a common European identity. Both the French and German monarchies considered their kingdoms to be descendants of Charlemagne’s empire.
The Carolingian Renaissance his reign spurred was short-lived, yet influential in that during that time:
Northern Europe embraced classical Mediterranean Roman art forms for the first time, setting the stage for the rise of Romanesque art and eventually Gothic art in the West. Illuminated manuscripts, metalwork, small-scale sculpture, mosaics, and frescos survive from the period.
Source: Wikipedia
Read his biography here on the BBC site.
This week Sappy Cat Blogging is a photo essay on cats and cars. From the fantastic . . .
To cats on vacation – where else but in the Catskills . . .
A cat parking lot . . .
And do not forget:
Happy Friday!
Today is March 26 and it is still snowing in Cleveland. This weather is not out of the ordinary, and I am not one to rush the hot weather. If I ruled the universe, I would make spring and fall the longest seasons with a few weeks of snow over the winter holidays and warm sunny weather whenever I want to go to the beach. Perfectly logical, if you ask me.
Today’s tattoos are an homage to snow.
At least our magnolias are still in their buds, not like this Washington, D.C. tree
(photo by Kevin Andrews from the Washington Post)
Firearms, fibers, any news or behaviors that make me say, "hmm, let me take another look at this."
I still miss my man, but my aim is getting better.
Gunsmoke and Knitting 