Red Sky at Morning…Red sky at Night

Posted on September 12th, 2008 by solocrow.
Categories: Generic Blatherings, Images, Travel.

Today’s dawn pictured above. Things are getting breezy as of this afternoon [pictured below], but nothing too crazy yet. The sky was sunny and clear for most of the morning, however things have started to cloud over now. Suprisingly, there’s been very little rain so far — I suspect that’ll change though. And soon. :D

I’ll edit this entry when I’ve got some pictures of stuff really blowin’ around.

Friday 7:50pm edit: Ike has produced some glorious evening skies:

Saturday 8:30am edit: Finally the flickering power has settled enough for an entry. It seems we’re some of the lucky few to have it — over 2.5 million do not at the moment. Ike really got rolling here around 3am, and I attempted some long exposure shots in the dark, hoping to catch the whipping trees and rain. Between transformers blowing, flashes of lightning, and the sulphurous glow of the then-remaining streetlamps, the image is eerie.

The last of the eyewall eventually came sluggishly screaming past shortly after sunrise. One hundred mile per hour wind gusts made outdoor photography unwise, but I did risk a bit by pressing myself to a rattling upper storey window for a shot of the outside world. I would’ve tried for a more dramatic shot, since this one doesn’t really capture the awesome sideways-ness of the trees [being between gusts it seems], but an ominous cracking sound prompted me to rethink the merits of being downstairs. :D

Saturday 10:26am edit — Well for me it’s a harsh loss, but it certainly pales in comparison to some — my laptop is apparently dead. :( For now, I’m left working on mom’s dinosaur of a machine. It’s not optimal, but it’ll do.

Saturday 10:05pm edit: Through determined fussing with the computer, and with an epiphany brought on by a rejuvenating catnap, I managed to bring the laptop back to life by ripping the battery out of the back of it and blistering it with a creative string of profanity. I highly recommend this procedure for all recalcitrant bits of technology. That being said, I’m awfully tired after some intensive post-Ike cleaning up. I didn’t have much time to snap new shots of the destruction, and even if I had, the atmosphere was so sodden I would’ve probably had to’ve resorted to blistering the camera with profanity to bring it back to life.

And now I’m off to sleep in the silence, which seems so strange.

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I like Ike

Posted on September 12th, 2008 by solocrow.
Categories: Generic Blatherings, Images, Travel.

So I decided to go poke Ike in the eye. Luckily enough, Mom lives in prime storm country. :)

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Spam Sonnet

Posted on September 4th, 2008 by solocrow.
Categories: Generic Blatherings, Images.

Just as the grumpy fellows above are pictured removing unsavory items from their domain, so too do I vigorously expunge spam from this site on an almost daily basis. However, this morning’s bleary-eyed perusal confounded my non-caffeinated brain: the spam scanned as poetry to me.

Obviously not a true sonnet, but still. Enjoy.

undistinguishableness hydroaromatic rewash tablespoon sentience conusable unmodifiableness heptadecyl

snoek preludious remarker unteamed anecdotal gemsbuck decisive myristate

trouserian peristrumous yamassee unwiliness undebatable panhyperemia morgenstern dryopteris

mock guerickian taphouse hunchy saple forestarling specularly axine

suaharo ohio thunderlike hyperpiesia gentlemanlike enterocystoma frontogenesis saucedish

Note: My thanks to my photographic cohort and his wife for allowing me to traipse all over their property on this, and several other occasions.

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Summer fruits

Posted on August 12th, 2008 by solocrow.
Categories: Dead Poets, Generic Blatherings, Images.

Although cherry blossoms are most often associated with Spring, here’s a version of a recent linocut that is the fruit of a few of my summer labors.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

~ Joseph Addison [1672-1719]

And of course, a little something from Shakespeare:

So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition;
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem.

~ From A Midsummer’s Night Dream, [III. ii. 208]

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Paint-on-Glass Animation

Posted on July 29th, 2008 by solocrow.
Categories: Generic Blatherings, Moving Pictures.

I’ve been digging through various animation processes lately, and have unearthed some exquisite examples of paint-on-glass animation by Russian animator Aleksandr Petrov.

The first film is ‘Mermaid’, Русалка (Rusalka) after Alexander Pushkin’s poem. It is in Russian.

The following clips are the artist’s take on Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea. Unfortunately, the film is in two parts here, and not of the quality deserving the artist’s effort, but it’s still quite stunning. This version is in English, however there are other higher quality clips on youtube that are not, should one wish to switch languages.


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