O V E R V I E W

2012-02-12T20:58:00.002+01:00

Starry Night
Van Gogh

2012-02-11T12:20:00.000+01:00

http://traavik.info/index.php/haerwerk-4---rock-steady-north-korea.html

The Norwegian Armed Forces Museum’s own Artist-in-Residence, Morten Traavik, has visited North Korea repeatedly over the last two years. In April this year, he made a tentative agreement with North Korean authorities to develop a series of independent art projects in the years ahead, based on his impressions from North Korean society and culture. The new exhibition ROCK STEADY NORTH KOREA! draws inspiration both from North Korean propaganda aesthetics and Western rock’n’roll iconography and points to possible similarities between two seemingly opposing ideologies.

'Take On Me' by AHA played by accodeon quintet from Kum Song (Gold Star) Music School in Pyongyang North Corea, brought to Norway by Morten Traavik as part of his project "The Promised Land" project.

Kirkenes, Berents Spektakel 2012, February 10th.

Also filmed in Pyongyang, North Korea in December 2011.

2012-02-10T11:05:00.001+01:00

March 14 2006
Rain chased a team of the Teachers Training Institute, Karaikal, Pondicherry, in the Zakir Rose Garden, Sector 16, Chandigarh, on Tuesday.

2012-02-09T14:09:00.001+01:00

Cipher in the Snow is a short story written by Jean Mizer . A short film was made in 1973 by Brigham Young University.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matryoshka_doll The first Russian nested doll set was carved in 1890 by Vasily Zvyozdochkin from a design by Sergey Malyutin... The doll set was painted by Malyutin. Malyutin's doll set consisted of eight dolls—the outermost was a girl in a traditional dress holding a rooster. The inner dolls were girls and a boy, and the innermost a baby. Zvyozdochkin and Malyutin were inspired by a doll from Honshu, the main island of Japan.

Metaphorically... known as the "matryoshka principle" or "nested doll principle". It denotes a recognizable relationship of "object-within-similar-object" that appears in the design of many other natural and man-made objects.

Examples include the Matrioshka brain [A matrioshka brain is a hypothetical megastructure... of immense computational capacity. It is an example of a Class B stellar engine, employing the entire energy output of a star to drive computer systems]

and the Matroska media-container format [The Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture or subtitle tracks in one file.]

The "matryoshka principle" is also an example of Mise-en-abyme ["placed into abyss". The commonplace usage of this phrase is describing the visual experience of standing between two mirrors, seeing an infinite reproduction of one's image, but it has several other meanings in the realm of the creative arts and literary theory. In Western art history, "mise en abyme" is a formal technique in which an image contains a smaller copy of itself, the sequence appearing to recur infinitely.]

Compare Fractal. [Fractals are mathematical sets that can have dimensions that fall between the integers. They are typically self-similar patterns, where self-similar means they are "the same from near as from far". Thus, on a computer, as you zoom in on a fractal image, nothing changes and you see the same pattern appear over and over. As mathematical equations, fractals are considered nowhere differentiable, which in a concrete sense means that they cannot be measured in traditional ways.]

2012-02-06T14:40:00.000+01:00

http://stop-nosebleeds.org/
GULP:
to swallow rapidly, esp in large mouthfuls: to gulp down food
to stifle or choke: to gulp back sobs
to swallow air convulsively, as while drinking, because of nervousness, surprise, etc
"Gulp" can mean two things, same with the following of "Double gulp".
Meaning 1: Gulp can mean "Uh-oh!" or that you are scared. When someone replies with "Double gulp!" it means they agree that they are scared but they are more scared.
Meaning 2: It means the same as above, but to put it shorter, it just means that you agree with what the original "Gulp" was referring to.

2012-01-26T16:40:00.000+01:00

http://usmilitary.about.com/library/milinfo/armybranches/blmi.htm
The sun, composed of four straightand four wavy alternating rays, is the symbol of Helios who, as God of the Sun, could see and hear everything.The four straight rays of the sun symbol also allude to the four points of the compass and the worldwide missionof the Military Intelligence Branch. The placement of the sun symbol beneath the rose (an ancient symbol of secrecy)refers to the operations and activities being conducted under circumstances forbidding disclosure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echelon_%28signals_intelligence%29
http://wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Main_Page
Heraldic Rose

The rose signifies primarily the maternal creative mystery. It represents spiritual unfoldment and attainment.

From the earliest times, the rose was associated with love; in Greek mythology, the red rose was symbolic of love which transcended death. In the Middle Ages, the red rose stood for the blood shed by Jesus on the Cross and therefore represented God's love for mankind. The rose as the 'queen of flowers' was also associated with the Virgin Mary.

http://wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Guide_to_Pursuants

2012-01-22T14:32:00.000+01:00

Karen Bit Vejle cutting paper with H.C.Andersen's scissors.

Her own and H.C.Andersen's scissors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papercutting

The snowflake kaleidoscope is made from a paper cutting of a dragon crafted in Hong Kong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Year

HAPPY NEW YEAR 4709!

Windows and doors will be decorated with red colour paper-cuts and couplets with popular themes of "good fortune" or "happiness", "wealth" and "longevity".

2011-12-09T14:55:00.001+01:00

Eagle Print Shopper

2011-11-29T18:33:00.001+01:00

"Jag frågade två vakter idag också. Jag pekade åt trädet och frågade om de kan dess namn. De sa Prescott. Jag svarade att detta namn dyker inte upp i Google, inte som träd. Å, sa de, det är namnet på the street, på andra sidan huset. Så, jag sa tree och de förstod street för att jag samtidigt pekade åt det håll både träet och gatan ligger... Och inte heller dessa vakter idag visste vad trädet heter..."
(Är det möjligen denna Prescott http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Prescott (från Prescott House i Boston)?)
"Back to locust. Imorgon mejlar jag the city arborist..."
"Dear Boston arborist, can you help me to identify a big tree that is everywhere in Cambridge and has long brown pods, some of them still on the trees and many on the ground around them. There is one for instance in front of the Irving House at Irving street, another at 12 Quincy street, in front of the Humanities centre. Grateful for any suggestions. On google I came close to Black Locust, or to Honey Locust. Sincerely, Vasilis Papageorgiou"
"Although we are not Cambridge our arborist said what you are likely describing is Gleditsia tricanthos inermis, common honey locust..."
Korstörnesläktet (Gleditsia) är ett växtsläkte i familjen ärtväxter med 14 arter som förekommer naturligt i Nord- och Sydamerika, samt i sydöstra Asien. Några arter odlas som trädgårdsväxter i Sverige.
Gleditsia triacanthos L. Engl.: honey locust, sweet locust, thorny locust, three-thorned acacia. Deu.: Falscher Christusdorn, Lederhülsenbaum, Amerikanische Gleditschie. Suom.: kolmioka. Sven.: korstörne. Bot. syn.: Gleditschia triacanthos L.
Gleditsia tricanthos inermis Korstörne. Ett träd med ormbunkslika blad och tornade grenar. Tornarna kan bli riktigt långa och grenar sig till att likna ett kors, vilket gett dess svenska namn.
Formen inermis saknar tornar.
KORSTÖRNE UTAN TORNAR!
Nationalencyclopedin: korstörne, Kristi törnekrona, Gledi´tsia triaca´nthos

2011-11-27T14:18:00.001+01:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dipper The Plough, also known as the Big Dipper or the Saptarishi (after the seven rishis), is an asterism of seven stars that has been recognized as a distinct grouping in many cultures from time immemorial. The component stars are the seven brightest of the formal constellation Ursa Major.
The Saptarishi (सप्तर्षि saptarṣi a Sanskrit dvigu meaning "seven sages") are the seven rishis who are extolled at many places in the Vedas and Hindu literature... Sapta Rishis are the Hierarchy working under the guidance of the Highest Creative Intelligence, God. There were all Saraswat Brahmins. The present batch of the Sapta Rishis: Bhrigu, Atri, Angirasa, Vasishta, Pulastya, Pulalaha and Kratu. They bring down to the earth the required Knowledge and Energies to strengthen the processes of Transition (Pralaya). They are naturally the most evolved Light Beings in the Creation and the guardians of the Divine Laws.
Known as Charles his waine in some areas of England, the Plough was formerly called by the old name Charles' Wain ("wain" meaning "wagon," and derived from the still older Carlswæn), as it still is in Scandinavia, Karlavagnen, Karlsvogna, or Karlsvognen. In the northeast of England it is sometimes known as Charlie's Waggon. A folk etymology holds that it was named after Charlemagne, but this common Germanic name meant the men's wagon (the churls' wagon), in contrast to the women's wagon (the Little Dipper). An older Odin's Wain may have preceded these Nordic designations.
In the same line of sight as Mizar, but three light-years beyond it, is the star Alcor (80 UMa). Together they are known as the Horse and Rider. At fourth magnitude, Alcor would normally be relatively easy to see with the unaided eye, but its proximity to Mizar renders it more difficult to resolve, and it has served as a traditional test of sight. Mizar itself has four components and thus enjoys the distinction of being part of an optical binary as well as being the first-discovered telescopic binary (1617) and the first-discovered spectroscopic binary (1889).
Five of the stars of the Big Dipper are at the core of the Ursa Major Moving Group. The two at the ends, Dubhe and Alkaid, are not part of the swarm, and are moving in the opposite direction. Relative to the central five, they are moving down and to the right in the map. This will slowly change the Dipper's shape, with the bowl opening up and the handle becoming more bent. In 50,000 years the Dipper will no longer exist as we know it, but be re-formed into a new Dipper facing the opposite way. The stars Alkaid to Phecda will then constitute the bowl, while Phecda, Merak, and Dubhe will be the handle!
In Tolkien's Middle-earth mythos, it is called the Valacirca (Sickle of the Valar), the sign of Hope signifying doom for Evil, while in T.A. Barron's Great Tree of Avalon series, it is called the Wizard's Staff, symbolizing Merlin's staff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Star The North Star has historically been used for navigation, both to find the direction of north and to determine latitude. It always appears due north in the sky, and the angle it makes with respect to the horizon is equal to the latitude of the observer.

2011-11-26T19:41:00.001+01:00

http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A4rgad_sn%C3%B6
Färgad snö är snö som av olika anledningar fått en annorlunda färg än den vanligast förekommande vita. Ofta beror det på föroreningar, men kan även orsakas av andra orsaker. Olika sorters färgad snö förekommer då och då, på olika ställen. Olikfärgad snö kan ha många olika anledningar som kan orsakas av lokala händelser. Exempelvis är det inte ovanligt att det faller röd snö i Ryssland från Mongoliets öknar, likaså i Korea från öknar i Kina, och så vidare. Förutom de nedan angivna formerna färgas snön ibland grön, förekommande i mindre fläckar orsakade av mikroskopiska fläckar, samt i bruna nyanser. I mars 1991 föll gulfärgad snö ner i Junsele i Västernorrland. Det snöfallet orsakades av Sahara emedan samma nederbördsområde hade färdats över Sahara några dagar tidigare. 2001 inträffade samma sak igen, fast i Skåne.
1954 föll klarröd snö från Kangamiut på Grönland ned, vilket var starten på en påföljande forskning. Då och då faller röd snö ovanifrån, men oftare orsakas röd snö av alger från marken. De tillfällen som röd snö faller ovanifrån i Europa beror det på stoft i luften från lösjordsbältet vid Svarta havet.
Röd snö är en inom det arktiska området och i bergstrakter förekommande rödfärgning (karmosinröd, blodröd, tegelröd) av snön till följd av riklig förekomst av alger. Algerna är rödfärgade volvocacéer, oftast Chlamydomonas nivalis (Sphærella nivalis, Hæmatococcus nivalis). De lever ofta i snö, men syns ofta vid täta förekomster. Anledningen till att algen bildar ett rödfärgat pigment täckande klorofyllet vid träffande solstrålar är att skydda algen mot den väldigt starka solstrålning som uppkommer när solen reflekteras i snön. Snön är vanligen färgad endast till ett ringa djup, intensivt på ytan, där algerna snabbast förökar sig i smältvattnet mellan snökornen. I Sveriges fjälltrakter är röd snö inte någon sällsynt företeelse och förekommer där både på så kallad evig snö och på snöfläckar, som helt töar bort under sommaren. På Svalbard finns tegelröd och grön snö. Blodsnö är snö som färgats röd av rödfärgat stoft, som virvlas upp av vindar och därefter kan färdas långa sträckor, och i vissa fall falla ned med eller på snö. Exempelvis kan sandstormar i Sahara orsaka blodsnö.

10.04.2011

Statsmetrolog Terje Alsvik Walløe på metrologisk institutt på Blindern forteller at den gul-rødebrune fargen skyldes sand fra Sahara.

- For noen dager siden blåste det kraftig vind i Sahara, og den virvlet opp mye sandstøv ganske høyt opp i atmosfæren. Samtidig har det blåst kraftig fra sør i Europa, og der har det vært lite skyer og nedbør. Dermed har sanden blåst nordover, og passerte England i går. I dag traff sanden nedbør i Nordland, og kom ned som gul-brunrød snø og regn, forteller han.

Han forteller at metrologene har fått melding fra Helgeland i sør til Narvik i nord om dette fenomenet.

"Extra näringsämnen från himlen" Stoft från Saharaöknen orsakade det gula regnet över Riksgränsen. Enligt professor Erik Swietlicki var regnet ofarligt och till och med nyttigt.

2011-11-02T11:50:00.000+01:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_world_maps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_Map_of_the_World

‘The Babylonian World Map, the earliest surviving map of the world (c. 600 BCE), is a symbolic, not a literal representation. It deliberately omits peoples such as the Persians and Egyptians, who were well known to the Babylonians. The area shown is depicted as a circular shape surrounded by water...’

The medieval T and O maps originate with the description of the world in the Etymologiae of Isidore of Sevilla (died 636). This qualitative and conceptual type of medieval cartography represents only the top-half of a spherical Earth.^[11] It was presumably tacitly considered a convenient projection of the inhabited portion of the world known in Roman and Medieval times (that is, the northern temperate half of the globe). The T is the Mediterranean, dividing the three continents, Asia, Europe and Africa, and the O is the surrounding Ocean. Jerusalem was generally represented in the center of the map. Asia was typically the size of the other two continents combined. Because the sun rose in the east, Paradise (the Garden of Eden) was generally depicted as being in Asia, and Asia was situated at the top portion of the map.

Beatus of Liébana (c. 730 - 798) was a Spanish monk and theologian. He corresponded with Alcuin, and took part in the Adoptionist controversy, criticizing the views of Felix of Urgel and Elipandus of Toledo. He is best remembered today as the author of his Commentary on the Apocalypse, published in 776. An illustrated manuscript known as the Saint-Sever Beatus, featuring the Commentary, was produced around 1050 at the Abbey of Saint-Sever, Aquitaine, France. It contains one of the oldest Christian world maps as an illustration of the Commentary. Although the original manuscript and map has not survived, copies of the map survives in several of the extant manuscripts.

Italian geographer Pietro Vesconte was a pioneer of the field of the portolan chart. His nautical charts are among the earliest to map the Mediterraean and Black Sea regions accurately. He also produced progressively more accurate depictions of the coastlines of northern Europe. In his world map of 1321 he brought his experience as a maker of portolans to bear; the map introduced a previously unheard of accuracy to the mappa mundi genre.

2011-10-27T20:29:00.000+02:00

Handwritten christmas card with a coloured photo of the Tolkien family, sent by Mabel Tolkien from the Orange Free State to her relatives in Birmingham, on november 15, 1892.

2011-10-25T20:04:00.004+02:00

Umbrellas, by Harold Pinter
Features two gentlemen in deckchairs on the terrace of a large hotel. Wearing shorts and sunglasses. Sunbathing. They do not move throughout the exchange.
A: The weather's too much for me today.
PAUSE
B: Well, you're damn lucky you've got your umbrella.
A: I'm never without it, old boy.
PAUSE
B: I think I'd do well to follow your example.
A: Yes, you would. Means the world to me. I never find myself at a loss. You understand what I mean?
B: You're a shrewd fellow, I'll say that for you.
PAUSE
A: My house is full of umbrellas.
B: You can't have too many.
A: You've never said a truer word, old boy.
PAUSE
B: I haven't got one to bless myself with.
PAUSE
A: Well, I can forsee [sic] a time you'll regret it.
B: I think the time's come, old boy.
A: You can't be too careful, old boy.
PAUSE
B: Well, you've got your feet firmly planted on the earth, there's no doubt about that.
PAUSE
A: I certainly feel secure, old boy.
B: Yes, you know where you stand, all right. You can't take that away from you.
PAUSE
A: You'll find they're a true friend to you, umbrellas.
PAUSE
B: Maybe I'll buy one.
PAUSE
A: Don't come to me. It would be like tearing my heart out, to part with any of mine.
PAUSE
B: You find them handy, eh?
PAUSE
A: Yes ... Oh, yes. When it's raining, particularly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASTAR
ASTAR is a fictional golden humanoid robot. The character was created in the 1980s by the Canadian amputee organization The War Amps and is featured in material for their PLAYSAFE program to educate children about safety.
The original televised segment featured a performer in an elaborate costume as ASTAR performing acrobatic stunts in a world full of dangerous machines. After evading various threats such as electrical hazards and moving blades, ASTAR eventually makes a mistake causing his arm to be amputated by a large rotating saw. He then picks up his severed arm and reattaches it with ease. The segment ends with ASTAR giving the warning:
I am ASTAR, a robot. I can put my arm back on. You can't. So play safe!
The above warning is now part of Canadian popular culture for those who grew up in the 1980s. In a 1990s remake of the segment, ASTAR is now an animated CG character, and the warning is altered slightly to
"I am ASTAR, a robot from Planet Danger. I can put my arm back on. You can't. So play safe!"

2011-10-23T16:18:00.000+02:00

http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne_Skouen
Tematisk handler mange av filmene om mennesker som "kommer inn i varmen". Budskapet hadde ofte med samhold, solidaritet og avhengighet mellom mennesker å gjøre, og han hadde gjerne outsidere som hovedpersoner. Han ble fascinert av nettopp dette tema i miljøet rundt Cirkus Arnardo og laget filmen "Cirkus Fandango" i 1954. Arnardo spilte selv sammen med Toralf Maurstad og Joachim Holst-Jensen.
Mellom 1965 og 1967 lager han en trilogi om psykisk utviklingshemmete barn. Han hadde selv fått en psykisk utviklingshemmet datter og ble opptatt av dette temaet. Den første filmen, "Om Tilla", er en slags drømmevisjon om hvordan psykisk utviklingshemmede kan fungere og passe inn i samfunnet.
Den andre filmen i triologien het "Vaktpostene" og handler om institusjoner for psykisk utviklingshemmede som ikke strekker til. Den tredje, "Reisen til havet", handler om utilstrekkeligheten i ettervernet for de som bryter ut av institusjonene. I disse filmene jobbet han med sin andre datter, Synne, i hovedrollen.

Om Tilla (1963)
Vaktpostene (1965
Reisen til havet (1966)

2011-10-22T11:48:00.000+02:00

Daughter Wrote

The flowers in the tree
are blooming so eyes can see.
The ripples on the water
get smaller and smaller
As the duck flutters
passed the daughter.
As the frog croaks,
the daughter strokes
In a little row boat
as the daughter wrote.

8/18/05


"I am your creator. You were in my care even before you were born." Isaiah 44:2

Krista Addison

2011-10-21T15:23:00.000+02:00

S T Ä D R O C K
Mönster :::
Omlottklänning ur Sy till barnen av Elsebeth Gynther.
Tyg :::
Pompeja av Märta-Lena Bjerhagen, för Borås textil. Detta bomullstyg från tidigt 70-tal finns i flera olika färgställningar...
Plus :::
Gynthers omlottklänning är genial i sin enkelhet. Förutom att den är snygg, så är den också perfekt att växa i. Omlottskärningen gör att den först kan användas som klänning och sedan som en kortare tunika när barnet växer.

http://www.space.com/13336-universe-history-structure-evolution-infographic.html

O V E R V I E W space time
It can look like a toppled water glass. With us hanging on the opening curve of the rim. Some of us are probably being washed away right now.

2011-10-20T13:51:00.000+02:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steward_%28office%29
A steward is an official who is appointed by the legal ruling monarch to represent him or her in a country, and may have a mandate to govern it in his or her name; in the latter case, it roughly corresponds with the position of governor or deputy (the Roman rector, praefectus or vicarius).
From Old English stíweard, stiȝweard, from stiȝ "hall, household" + weard "wikt:warden, keeper"; corresponding to Dutch: stadhouder, German Statthalter "place holder", a Germanic parallel to French lieutenant.
The Old English term stíweard is attested from the 11th century. Its first element is most probably stiȝ- "house, hall" (attested only in composition; its cognate stiȝu is the ancestor of Modern English sty). Old French estuard and Old Norse stívarðr are adopted from the Old English.
The German and Dutch term (Middle High German stat-halter) is a parallel but independent formation (a calque of lieutenant) corresponding to obsolete English stead holder (stede haldare 1456; also stedys beryng (1460), sted-haldande (1375) steadward, steadsman).
In medieval times, the steward was initially a servant who supervised both the lord's estate and his household.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tributary
A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly_roll_%28battery%29

2011-10-19T16:35:00.002+02:00

Ms dröm i natt: Hon sitter bredvid Kung Carl Gustaf och Drottning Silvia. Kungen försöker förklara var Karlsruhe är beläget. Han ritar på en serviett.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city states... It therefore considers itself the home of justice in Germany...
Due to similarities to the United States capital city, it has been speculated that Karlsruhe was a model city for the cityscape of Washington, D.C. Both cities have a center — in Karlsruhe the palace and in D.C. the Capitol Building — from which the streets radiate outward. L'Enfant, Washington's city planner, had been given the plans of Karlsruhe (among numerous other European cities) as an inspiration.
According to legend, the name Karlsruhe, which translates as Charles’ repose, was given to the new city after a hunting trip when Margrave Charles III William, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, woke from a dream in which he dreamt of founding his new city.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlsruhe,_North_Dakota

2011-10-14T16:21:00.004+02:00

http://www.acownersclub.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1810
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opalescence
OPALESCENT SILVER BLUE

2011-10-04T13:35:00.000+02:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Dor%C3%A9