Monthly Archives: March 2012

I’ve always had a soft spot for uncomfortable furniture. So I was delighted to find the image of this little stool inspired by Pieter Bruegel’s Twelve Proverbs expertly crafted by “Yorkshire Stewart” His description and Bruegel’s painting are below.

Nightwatchman's chair, Yorkshire Stewart.

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Tagged bruegel, furniture, painting, woodwork

Some progress

Posted on Monday, 26 March, 2012 | 2 Comments

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Posted in idle angels, sketchbook, sketchbook monday

Tagged angel, drawing, figure drawing, illustrator, paper airlplane

Quotation: Philip Pullman (1946 – )

Posted on Sunday, 25 March, 2012 | Leave a comment

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”

(Thanks to Kate G-)

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Tagged his dark materials, narrative, pullman, stories, writing

Quotation: Mark Twain (1835 – 1910)

Posted on Saturday, 24 March, 2012 | Leave a comment

From “My Military Campaign”:

“The man was not in uniform, and was not armed. He was a stranger in the country; that was all we ever found out about him. The thought of him got to preying upon me every night; I could not get rid of it. I could not drive it away, the taking of that unoffending life seemed such a wanton thing. And it seemed an epitome of war; that all war must be just that–the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.”

(Thanks to Blaine W-)

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Syria and elsewhere

Posted on Friday, 23 March, 2012 | Leave a comment

When clans are killed in foreign lands
By armies of their own
And arms are hastened to their hands
Will wars be won or sown?

Syrian rebels aim during a weapons training exercise outside Idlib, Syria on Feb. 14, 2012. (AP Photo)

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Tagged civil war, egypt, guns, libya, rebels, syria

Dug North!

Posted on Thursday, 22 March, 2012 | Leave a comment

There’s a great feature out today on Dug North, automata artist and long time automata blogger at The Automata / Automaton Blog. Dug was also recently featured in the special features for the DVD release of Hugo. Dug has done so much to promote and cultivate contemporary automata (including my own work), it’s good to see his years of hard work resulting in some recognition!

The article is at Howl in Lowell and the associated video is below.

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Tagged dug north, film, howl in lowell, hugo, special features, workshop

South is up

Posted on Wednesday, 21 March, 2012 | Leave a comment

By Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum of the Medievalist blog:

“Working for eighteen years under the patronage of the Norman King Roger II Guiscard of Sicily, who gathered scholars from many regions at his court in Palermo, the Moroccan geographer Al-Idrīsī in 1154 completed a description and an atlas of maps of the known world.”