Houseleek
by beq
3"x3", acrylic on board
uncompressed
i didn´t know anything about houseleek so I googled and this came up:
Superstitious country-folk in Wiltshire are often found to have a strong objection to the removal of a plant of Houseleek from their roof, or even to the plucking of the flowers by a stranger, believing it will bring death to the dwellers; it was formerly believed to be an efficient guard against sorcery as well as against lightning.
Houseleek
Interesting coincidence(?) of the shape of a plant and mythical stories about it inducing against its removal. Is that the background for this hesitating curiosity?
Low Hanging Fruit
by beq
3"x3", acrylic on board
uncompressed
Recently, scrabbling beneath the ivy which now covers the orchards, he found a fruit he had never seen before. It was a Baumann’s Reinette: the horticultural equivalent of a Faberge egg. “But I had no idea which bloody tree it had fallen off”. Somewhere in the nursery there should be two varieties – King Harry and St Augustine’s Orange – which even the national fruit collection doesn’t possess, but he hasn’t been able to find them yet.
George Monbiot: Low Hanging Fruit
The waiting gets boring. So let’s get a bit busy with some handicraft.
beq carved these beautiful Jailoween pumpkins.
All I Want For Fitzmas
by beq
(a really great desktop background:
1600×1200, 1280×1024, 1024×768)
fauxreal offers this haiku:
Neo-con worldview
Reality-free-based lies
Will burn their asses.
slothrop adds:
once there was watergate,
then monica, now miss plame.
too much justice fools
beq:
Lump of coal, you say?
endless sea of boiling oil
w in hell.
lonesomeG:
Neo-cons world view –
Freebased ideology –
Will burn their asses.
Rowan:
Lump of coal for us
for bush et al, the fittest
punishment to be
and also:
Cheney ham sandwich
surprisingly tasty – yum!
I give it B +
And of course there is Billmon’s Fitzmas Carol.
C’mon, add yours below.
Blowback: The unintended consequences of covert operations.
Cautionary Tale
by beq
(full size)
(title unknown)
by anna missed
pigment/paint on wood
(fullsize, 145 kilobyte)
Skull & Bones
A bit late friday art blogging.
Two Cows by Wolfgang Ohlhaver (detail)
40”x55”, acrylic on canvas, (full view)
Wolfgang is a former art teacher and local known artist living in my part of Hamburg. I meet him today and photographed this one. He has made a bunch of similar pictures of cows against just a white background and nearly lifesize. He is engaged in animal rights and working for better herding conditions.
Some miles north from here are the roots of these Holsteiner-Frisians, also named ‘Schwarzbunte’ (black-colorful ones). Big, pretty and peaceful animals. Those coded markers in the left ears were introduced after the BSE panic. You will get yours with Patriot Act III.
As a child I did seriously believe that black-white mottled cows made milk and brown-white mottled cows, uncommon in my hometown, made chocolate. I really bitched to my mother about letting me keep this believe after I milked my first brown checkered one.
fallujah morning
by anna missed
15"x14", pigment/spraypaint/pyro on wood
(fullsize, 145 kilobyte)
Washington Post, May 20, 2005:
Army Warns Iraqi Forces On Abuse Of Detainees
Reign Man (detail) by anna missed
18"x14" – pigment/spraypaint/pyro on wood
Full size (180 KByte)
New York Times, May 20, 2005:
In U.S. Report, Brutal Details of 2 Afghan Inmates’ Deaths
A sketch by Thomas V. Curtis, a former Reserve M.P. sergeant, showing how Dilawar was chained to the ceiling of his cell.
The Evanescence of Things
by beq
pastels with sumi ink
on paper from Thailand
(fullsize, uncompressed – 600 KByte)
There is more …
Cont. reading: Barfly Art: Transhumanity
