vast continent

No commentary, just this incredible gaze.

2010-02-03T15:59:00.004-05:00

...to hold the Internet in your hands as you surf it...

I can't stop looking at this. Not so much the iPad, but - their faces.

2010-01-20T09:48:00.003-05:00

into a bowline

Landscape

2009-12-14T14:17:00.003-05:00

2009-12-01T12:23:00.002-05:00

Foreigners

2009-11-20T15:44:00.002-05:00

Smoke Screen

2009-05-26T23:45:00.002-04:00

Little weaves

2009-05-19T23:37:00.001-04:00

Perception Check

2009-05-05T13:55:00.001-04:00

invisiblewizards.com
I failed it.

AM WATCHING

2009-04-21T23:44:00.001-04:00

http://code.google.com/apis/o3d/

Urgency

2009-04-15T00:35:00.002-04:00

Science Fantastic

2009-03-30T11:27:00.003-04:00

from the PEACE-FILES

Recursive Interventions (Everything)

2009-03-23T12:07:00.004-04:00

From Gauguin's Noa Noa -

All the joys-animal and human-of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. I am entering into the truth, into nature. Having the certitude of a succession of days like this present one, equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me. I develop normally and no longer occupy myself with useless vanities.

Dumbfunny

2009-03-12T11:37:00.005-04:00

Choices

2009-02-26T00:15:00.003-05:00

“Unable to resist my eager desire and wanting to see the great [wealth] of the various and strange shapes made by formative nature, and having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern, in front of which I stood for some time, astonished and unaware of such a thing. Bending my back into an arch I rested my left hand on my knee and held my right hand over my down-cast and contracted eyebrows: often bending first one way and then the other, to see whether I could discover anything inside, and this being forbidden by the deep darkness within, and after having remained there some time, two contrary emotions arose in me, fear and desire – fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things inside” (RLW § 1339).

Leonardo da Vinci

Wizard BATTLE

2009-02-24T00:38:00.002-05:00

From the Kalevala, Poem 27:

Then the landlord of Pohyola,
In bad humor, full of anger,
Conjured in the earth a lakelet,
At the feet of Kaukomieli,
Thus addressed the Island-hero:
"Quench thy thirst from yonder lakelet,
There, the beer that thou deservest!"
Little heeding, Lemminkainen
To this insolence made answer:
"I am neither bear nor roebuck,
That should drink this filthy water,
Drink the water of this lakelet."
Ahti then began to conjure,
Conjured he a bull before him,
Bull with horns of gold and silver,
And the bull drank from the lakelet,
Drank he from the pool in pleasure.
Then the landlord of Pohyola
There a savage wolf created,
Set him on the floor before him
To destroy the bull of magic,
Lemminkainen, full of courage,
Conjured up a snow-white rabbit,
Set him on the floor before him
To attract the wolf's attention.
Then the landlord of Pohyola
Conjured there a dog of Lempo,
Set him on the floor before him
To destroy the magic rabbit.
Lemminkainen, full of mischief,
Conjured on the roof a squirrel,
That by jumping on the rafters
He might catch the dog's attention.
But the master of the Northland
Conjured there a golden marten,
And he drove the magic squirrel
From his seat upon the rafters.
Lemminkainen, full of mischief,
Made a fox of scarlet color,
And it ate the golden marten.
Then the master of Pohyola
Conjured there a hen to flutter
Near the fox of scarlet color.
Lemminkainen, full of mischief,
Thereupon a hawk created,
That with beak and crooked talons
He might tear the hen to pieces.

heads-up cavern

2009-02-17T00:02:00.002-05:00

Charts

2009-02-15T01:25:00.005-05:00

Islands

2009-02-02T19:15:00.003-05:00

Wisdom

2009-01-31T20:23:00.004-05:00

Fencing and fighting are two different things, and you need to learn them both.

-Red Sonja

Flood Test

2009-01-31T00:38:00.001-05:00

Castle

2009-01-30T10:18:00.004-05:00

Antichthon

2009-01-30T00:19:00.008-05:00

From Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia

The Strait of Magellan is another case of Nature imitating Art. A Nuremberg cartographer, Martin Belheim, drew the South-West Passage for Magellan to discover. His premise was entirely reasonable. South America, however peculiar, was normal compared to the Unknown Antarctic Continent, the Antichthon of the Pythagoreans, marked FOGS on medieval maps. In this Upside-down-land, snow fell upwards, trees grew downwards, the sun shone black, and sixteen-fingered Antipodeans danced themselves into ecstacy. WE CANNOT GO TO THEM, it was said, THEY CANNOT COME TO US. Obviously a strip of water had to divide this chimerical country from the rest of Creation.

...

Dante placed his Hill of Purgatory at the centre of the Antichthon. In Canto 26 of The Inferno, Ulysses, swept on his mad track south, sights the island-mountain looming from the sea as the waves close over his ship–infin che 'l mar fu sopra noi richiuso–destroyed by his passion to exceed the boundaries set for man.

...

Counter-Earth

This is my color

2009-01-28T23:21:00.002-05:00

Diamond

2009-01-27T20:37:00.002-05:00

Landmass

2009-01-27T18:27:00.006-05:00