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Dark Souls location series: theCatacombs
“Good day! You look reasonably sane!
What are you doing in the Catacombs?
Are you a Cleric or something?”
Marilyn Monroe then known as Norma Jeane Mortenson poses for a portrait in Los Angeles, 1946 | Richard C. Miller
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Summer Pinwheels by Binita Shrestha
Via Flickr:
Size: 40 x 50 Fabric: Moda Sunkissed Photograph by Scott Allan Wallick.
DIY: HOLI INSPIRED PINWHEELS!
Holi is coming up guys! It is one of our all time favorite festivals of the year. It’s just so colourful and bright and messy. And an extremely happy and fun day! This year for the decor, we made these simple pinwheels in large numbers and varied sizes, so that they can be can be kept all over the place. Also, made a few for the kids to have as keepsakes from the day.
Time taken to make one pinwheel: Less than 5 minutes!
Here’s what we used to make them:
- Scale
- Crafts knife
- Long pins
- Colourful paper (This paper is made by dipping toothbrushes in paint and spraying it with your hand onto the paper)
- Thick double sided tape
- Straws
Here are the steps on how to make them:
- Cut out a square and draw lines joining opposite ends with a pencil.
- Cut along the drawn lines till the centre. Stop when you are about a centimeter away from the central point.
- Add a little glue on the right corners of each triangle. Fold these corners to the middle and stick them. These need to overlap.
- Insert a pin through the central point where all 4 flaps meet.
- Twirl a straw with ribbon (optional step).
- Put a small piece of double sided tape on one end of the straw and put a small piece of paper on top of it. This is to make sure the tape does not stick to anything, while holding the straw in place.
- Push the pin through the tape and slightly out of the straw. Put another piece of tape at the end, to ensure the pin doesn’t poke anyone.
Things to remember:
- Make sure there is a gap between the paper and the double sided tape when you insert the pin in the last step.
- Definitely put a tape at the end of the pin, or it will poke someone.
- Go crazy with the colours and sizes!!
Try them out :) Happy Crafting!
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“Pinwheel” (风车)
Endless debates on whether color or drawing is more important within painting were definitive in the history of art ever since the Renaissance. According to the Venetian traditions, the more sensual “colore” was the true nature of mosaics, frescoes and oil painting. On the contrary, Florentine Renaissance artists believed in the superiority of “disegno” or drawing as being rational and scientific in its approach to perspective and design of composition. This opposition was that of nature and intellect, observation and invention. Yet, the two elements couldn’t exist without each other… thought the Renaissance master, until somebody came and got rid of drawing, this skeleton of painting to see the flesh of paint live free like the rainbow of cosmic gas in the vacuum of space. The scientific approach was finally passed on to the observers of nature when the impressionists started questioning what the eyes can see. They saw the whole spectrum of colors of Goethe’s color wheel as building blocks of vision and painting. It’s only one step away from abstraction. But the question here is, having let design go, when do we say good bye to the illusion of color?
39*39cm
RGB LED display, one-way glass, teakwood
Art for sale : kiwi@island6.org
12/28/16:Tabernaemontana divaricata, or Crape Jasmine/Pinwheelflower; flowering plant species classified as a shrub, most likely native to India, known for the flowers’ unique pinwheel shape, and for the plant being a bit medicinal as well. Generally prefers warm/tropical temperatures.
-Jessica
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