The Alces Journal

Clocks and Photographs

2010-11-18T02:41:42Z

I'm producing stock for the yearly December art show. This year, I'll be making photos with clocks mounted in them. If you have issues with graphic heavy pages, you might want to skip this post.

Every thumbnail in this post is linked to a 1024x768 pixel image if you want to take a closer look.

Do please offer me an opinion on which are the strongest images. I'm looking on putting 4 of the first 8 into the show. I'm so deeply into this project that I'm beginning to loose all perspective on which might be the best images. I have reviewed, albeit fleetingly, 10 years worth of images today.

Chihuly Onion, 8x10 inches, from the Missouri Botanical Garden

Chihuly Tentacle, 8x10 inches, from the Missouri Botanical Garden
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Kwan Yin, 8x10 inches, from the Pagan Picnic

Public Goddess, 8x10 inches, from the Laumeier Sculpture Park

Running Man, 8x10 inches, from downtown Clayton

Sphinx, 7x8 inches, from the Calvary cemetery

Sunflower, 8x10 inches, from Lumbar Achers north of St Louis

Art Museum, 8x10 inches, from the St Louis Art Museum

I'm less sanguine about the following. Mainly I think they're too busy, but the Photoshop templates are done. If you feel strongly about any of them, please sound off.

Chihuly Boat, 7x9 inches, from the Missouri Botanical Garden

Faerie, 8x10 inches, from the Wentzville Renaissance Fair

Cactus, 8x10 inches, from the Missouri Botanical Garden

Serpent, 6x8 inches, from the Webster Groves 4th of July fair

Dandelion, 5x7 inches, from Oak Knoll Park in Clayton

Poppy, 8x10 inches, from the Missouri Botanical Garden

One final note: Athan, do you think Geoff would want this one in his shop? It's about 6x8 inches.

Numa Numa en Pointe

2010-11-16T14:10:01Z

For my fellow geeks.

The Solo Adventures

2010-11-15T22:06:58Z

You'll want to see the last five seconds.

Pumpkin Sausage Spinach Pasta

2010-11-14T17:59:03Z

I made dinner last night using this recipe. With some advice from Kiwi, I used beef broth instead of chicken, frozen spinach, and deleted the salt. Adjusting to taste just about tripled the pepper. It was very tasty! It's been a while since I cooked purely for fun.

PASTA WITH PUMPKIN, SAUSAGE AND SPINACH
from Green Lite Bites

1 small onion chopped
3 cloves of garlic diced
1 package of mild Italian sausage
1 15oz can of chicken broth
1 15oz can of pumpkin
1/4 cup of non fat greek yogurt
1 tsp ground sage
1/8 tsp ground nutmeg
1/4 tsp kosher salt
1/4 tsp fresh ground black pepper
8 oz whole wheat fusilli pasta
About 1/3 of a bag of fresh baby spinach leaves

Cook the pasta according to the package directions.

While waiting for the the water to boil, heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Spray it with non-stick spray and brown the sausage with the onion and garlic. Once brown, add the chicken broth and bring to a boil.

Lower to medium and add the pumpkin, yogurt, sage, nutmeg, salt and pepper. Stir to combine everything. Keep on medium until the sauce begins to boil again then lower to a simmer.

By this time the pasta should be done. Drain and add to the skillet with the pumpkin and sausage. Stir to coat and combine everything. Add the spinach and stir in until it wilts.

Serve with a sprinkle of Parmesan.

Scrabble Question

2010-11-14T17:26:41Z

If you play Scrabble, then please give me some advice on these modified tiles I'm considering ~~putting into the December art show~~ using as a Yule gift.

Please feel free to give me constructive criticism of any kind, including whether the idea is worth pursuing at all.

Clock Face Poll

2010-11-08T22:02:02Z

I'm considering putting out a few clocks in this year's art show. Do you think any of the following are sufficiently engaging?

View Poll: Clock Face

Geek Is

2010-11-05T17:43:41Z

Yes, I have done it with a vorpal sword.

More at Moose's Miscellany

Boosting the Signal

2010-11-04T18:04:19Z

Take a look at what keshwyn wrote:

"I quickly found that a screaming baby with a dirty diaper had a remarkable means of empowering one’s will."

Carnival of Spirits

2010-11-04T16:26:49Z

Carnival of Spirits is a quick and entertaining read. Remember, mangas are right to left.

I live ...

2010-10-17T15:55:29Z

... though it doesn't feel much like living. I've had increasing URI symptoms since my flu shot last Tuesday. This morning I had fever chills, but thus far no fever. Alka-Seltzer Cold Plus is my friend.

Diminished Reality

2010-10-12T18:00:30Z

This happens in real time. I would not absolutely trust any video from this point on. The process does seem to have trouble with reflections (see the bathroom mirror).

Practicing my Poll Skills

2010-10-05T16:46:36Z

View Poll: #1627955

Druidry in England

2010-10-02T18:27:20Z

LONDON — The ancient pagan tradition of Druidry has been formally accepted as a religion under charity law in Britain — a decision its followers hailed Saturday as giving long-overdue recognition to the worship of spirits and the natural world.

The Druid Network, a group of about 350 Druids, will receive exemptions from taxes on donations after the semi-governmental Charity Commission granted it the status of a religion charity, just like mainstream religions such as the Church of England.

Source

Leather Masks

2010-09-30T18:05:07Z

Hey firefly67, have you seen these?

Laumeier Sculpture Park

2010-09-30T05:28:28Z

I had a completely unexpected day off today, so we went out to Laumeier for a few hours. I got a good image of Kiwi finding art in places other folks never think to look:

Source

Cross-posted from http://moosl.dreamwidth.org/152700.html (with comments there).

OK Go: White Knuckles

2010-09-25T18:32:47Z

Deviant Art

2010-09-24T18:57:27Z

I've spend most of the last two days populating a Deviant Art store, everything from mugs to stretched canvas. Go take a look!

Cross-posted from http://moosl.dreamwidth.org/152559.html (with comments there).

Balloon Glow Videos

2010-09-18T17:17:08Z

I have the videos from last night's Glow up on Flickr now. The quality is ... um, scrapbookish at best.

Cross-posted from http://moosl.dreamwidth.org/152086.html (with comments there).

Nearly RIP

2010-09-18T14:47:27Z

My camera is all but dead. Of late, but particularly last night at the Glow, it needed to be rebooted for format errors about every third shot. There were many folks with cell phone cameras there that had better light gathering capabilities than I did. I'm now officially looking for a Deal™ on a Nikon DSLR with interchangeable lenses. If you know of such a deal, or places to search for one, please let me know.

Cross-posted from http://moosl.dreamwidth.org/152001.html (with comments there).

Female Ninja Magic?

2010-09-18T05:50:51Z

WTF doesn't even begin to describe this. All kinds of NSFW.

ETA: Kiwi is very taken with this. It's now in our Netflix queue.

Erotic Monter Manual Entries

2010-09-16T17:19:20Z

Here's a collection erotic D&D Monster Manual entries. My favorite is the Gelatinous Cube.

Cross-posted from http://moosl.dreamwidth.org/151777.html (with comments there).

Science vs Law

2010-09-15T19:02:58Z

"The life of each human being begins at conception," according to Senate Bill 793, which adds new regulations to the state's 24-hour informed consent law for abortions. "Abortion will terminate the life of a separate, unique, living human being."

The bill makes Missouri the second state to adopt such language after a similar provision became law in South Dakota in 2005, and then survived a legal challenge in federal court in 2008.

Source

According to my professional training, after the egg and sperm are joined it descends to the uterus. Once there, attachment to the uterine wall is a 50/50 shot. That means, according to normal human biology, 50% of all conceived human life is spontaneously and naturally aborted. Will this law be interpreted to mean 50% of all woman who have conceived are now guilty of murder?

Cross-posted from http://moosl.dreamwidth.org/151514.html (with comments there).

Another WTF Brassiere

2010-09-15T16:46:42Z

Here is the quintessential WTF. NSFW and just plain strange.

Twitter Tweet

2010-09-14T18:34:07Z

Star Trek Commercial

2010-09-14T16:50:54Z

There's a few more here.

Cross-posted from http://moosl.dreamwidth.org/151083.html (with comments there).