Same Monday, Different Week
Mar. 27th, 2006 11:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tealinHello there, Internet!
GENERAL MAINTENANCE
Saturday's Sketchbook - CENTREFOLD! I had all day to draw ... and got two pages done. And only one of them really worth anything. Two sketches from Monstrous Regiment - one of Maladict demonstrating high morale among the troops, and one of Blouse's arrival. The preceeding page has thumbnails for Maladict and a sketch from a photo of a horse and rider. I filled in the front legs of the horse, because they weren't visible in the photo, but that was a bad idea.
Yesterday's Sketchbook - Sundays don't officially count but I included it for consistency, and also because the hand at the top was from Saturday. The rest are people and hands from the choir rehearsing for Easter.
Ooh, Scubbo! - Finally got ahold of my life drawing pad AND remembered to scan it at work, so here's that Blouse thumbnail I'd been trying to recreate.
Life Drawing Madness - Sitting next to my sister at life drawing can sometimes be ... distracting. This was drawn the day after finding out Michael Surrey was possibly back at Disney, and also features Hellboy as Robin Hood, triggered by the disproportionately large right arm I'd drawn.
Heehee.
Interestingly enough, the Decemberists have Patrick O'Brian on their links to varous interests. Is it all connected? And perhaps more frightening ... have they seen 'Round the Bend?
BONUS FEATURE
Aggrevated by the incessant post-Katrina coverage on Morning Edition* I decided to look up something more entertaining and found a nice long interview with The Decemberists, including several songs. It's a good introduction to the band, even though the drums are left out and the drummer is 'playing his lap,' and of course since it's live it's not as polished and perfectly mixed as the CD. But very good, and very entertaining, and they sang 'Eli,' which wins a million points for the host of the show, who requested it.** Click on the red 'Listen' button above the photo if you've got RealPlayer.
*Which I listen to occasionally, now, as the CBC's morning show is very nearly useless when it comes to news ... I used to listen to Morning Edition every day but now that I don't live in the States I don't really feel connected to most of it and, as I said, the neverending Katrina coverage gets old fast.
**Or the band, if they fed the suggestion to him. But they get a million points anyway.
GENERAL MAINTENANCE
Saturday's Sketchbook - CENTREFOLD! I had all day to draw ... and got two pages done. And only one of them really worth anything. Two sketches from Monstrous Regiment - one of Maladict demonstrating high morale among the troops, and one of Blouse's arrival. The preceeding page has thumbnails for Maladict and a sketch from a photo of a horse and rider. I filled in the front legs of the horse, because they weren't visible in the photo, but that was a bad idea.
Yesterday's Sketchbook - Sundays don't officially count but I included it for consistency, and also because the hand at the top was from Saturday. The rest are people and hands from the choir rehearsing for Easter.
Ooh, Scubbo! - Finally got ahold of my life drawing pad AND remembered to scan it at work, so here's that Blouse thumbnail I'd been trying to recreate.
Life Drawing Madness - Sitting next to my sister at life drawing can sometimes be ... distracting. This was drawn the day after finding out Michael Surrey was possibly back at Disney, and also features Hellboy as Robin Hood, triggered by the disproportionately large right arm I'd drawn.
Heehee.
Interestingly enough, the Decemberists have Patrick O'Brian on their links to varous interests. Is it all connected? And perhaps more frightening ... have they seen 'Round the Bend?
BONUS FEATURE
Aggrevated by the incessant post-Katrina coverage on Morning Edition* I decided to look up something more entertaining and found a nice long interview with The Decemberists, including several songs. It's a good introduction to the band, even though the drums are left out and the drummer is 'playing his lap,' and of course since it's live it's not as polished and perfectly mixed as the CD. But very good, and very entertaining, and they sang 'Eli,' which wins a million points for the host of the show, who requested it.** Click on the red 'Listen' button above the photo if you've got RealPlayer.
*Which I listen to occasionally, now, as the CBC's morning show is very nearly useless when it comes to news ... I used to listen to Morning Edition every day but now that I don't live in the States I don't really feel connected to most of it and, as I said, the neverending Katrina coverage gets old fast.
**Or the band, if they fed the suggestion to him. But they get a million points anyway.
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Date: 2006-03-28 11:04 pm (UTC)Hmm, the only thing I know of, as far as odd eating habits goes, is burying fish until it gets nice and rotten and then eating it. I'm sure this is a misconception of something perfectly legitimate, but ... eew.
Ireland's pretty famous for building around fairy forts and trees and suchlike, too... whether or not there is actually anything there, it's nice to see cultural sites preserved. By the way [fairly folklore nerd time] if you know any good sources for stories about the Huldrefolk (or whatever they're called) I would be immensely grateful ... there's no end of fairy lore from Engliah-speaking places but the Icelandic stuff is really interesting and I haven't managed to get ahold of much.
My favourite fact about Iceland is that Icelandic is the closest 'living' language to ancient Norse. : )
Huldufólkið
Date: 2006-03-29 04:38 pm (UTC)Wow! We have some nerd interests in common! Awesome. I like that Icelandic is so much like Old Norse. The grammar is the sound but the sounds have changed, probably due to the Celtic influence. I love how Icelanders also create new words based on Old Norse rather than just taking the word from another language. Telephone, for example, is telephone in most languages (or some form). In Iceland they took an Old Norse word for thread "Sími" and that is telephone.
The rotten shark is called hákarl qne is true that it is buried in the ground. That is really only one of the old foods that I actually hate. The other food is great. Iceland also has a big gourmet sccene, too.
You are very right about Ireland's fairy forts and such. Actually Iceland's ancestral make-up is both from Scandinavia, Ireland and Scotland so I think a lot of the fairy stories in Iceland originated from the Celts. They knew how to read and write so even though they were taken as slaves by the Vikings they taught the Vikings how to write down stories and, as a result, Iceland is the only Nordic country with a literary tradition. There is a good sci fi/fantasy story in there somewhere for someone to write about how the Celts influenced the Icelanders. BTW, many Icelanders look very Celtic with dark or red hair and grey or green eyes rather than blond hair and blue eyes.
I would LOVE to share some Huldufólk tales! I know a couple. I can email them to you or post them on my Journal- just let me know. There is also a good website I can translate into English for you that has some fairy stories on them. Finally, there is a great book from Iceland that is in English as well. You can find out more from it here.
http://www.randburg.com/is/vaka/folklore.html I can try to pick up a copy to send you the next time I am in Iceland. Brian Pilkington, a lucky British guy who lives in Iceland and whose drawings remind me a lot of Paul Kidby has done some hilarious English language tales about trolls in Iceland, too.
I have been kicking around for the last ten years a funny science fiction novel/graphic novel idea based on Icelandic ghost and fairy stories.