#stradaeasel
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Notes: game on...on the radio...Angels and White Sox in Chicago...cloudy there, blue and hot here!...Planet Mul of the Seashells...comic book artists are the best...illustrators, animators...transport just one of them back in time...and the rest would be histories!...movieValerian-City of A Thousand Planets opens with scenes along an ocean shoreline, tall slender opalescent aliens beginning their day to day, soon to be doomed...but my thought is the giant seashells on the beach...those, those I have sort of lifted for my cosmic seashells!...the aliens' villages are made of seashells...whole scene is themed to seashells on a tropical beach...Calhoun up...fly out to center...Fletcher with a single...Trout up...windy...dust getting in eyes at home plate...Fletcher takes off to steal second...no need...Trout waps a home run!...Angels 2-0...Ohtani up...1-0...2-0...shift on...grounder gets by short stop...hit...Chicago pitcher easy to steal on...Ohtani steals second...Upton base hit beats the shift...Ohtani makes it home...Simmons up...
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https://picsart.com/i/image-valerian-and-the-city-of-a-thousand-planets-fanart-238717890096202
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Simmons grounds into double play...to bottom of 1st...that might be a fans replica...I'm a fan of Planet Mul!...White Sox with a double...another hit...runners first and third...Shoemaker on mound for Angels...
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"Planet Mul" start scene (HD) -Valerian and the City of the a Thousand Planets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBn4pmkSNmY
boat looks like the reed boats in Peru seen at Lake Titicaca and along the coast...double play...to top of 2nd...
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Caballitos de totora are reed watercraft used by fishermen in Peru for the past 3000 years, archaeologically evidenced from pottery shards. Named for the way they are ridden, straddled ('little reed horses' in English),
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caballito_de_totora
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Angels 123...to bottom of 2nd...thinking on Planet Mul, now seems anything I write going on about the ancients is like the destroyed spaceships falling, blackening that ultramarine blue sky...White Sox 123...to top of 3rd...so, Pakal's Nose...our facial features have all kinds of geometries...art instruction often emphasizes seeing geometric shapes underlying things...Calhoun with a lead off hit...Fletcher up...base hit...Trout up...thinking on this, I thought, 'noses are Pythagorean Triangles!'...my own honker an example, which I wont example...Katy Perry's will do...another home run by Trout!!!...against the wind...Angels 6-1...Ohtani up...White Sox picked up a run...2-2...33 home runs but only 68 rbis for Trout...W...still no one out...Upton up...so, right there in the middle of our faces a pyramid...on either side two round circles--iris/pupil, Ohtani thrown out stealing...only 2nd time...Upton pops out...Simmons base hit...and our eyelids around out eyes a vicies picis...mouth too...ears are spirals...ball grabbed at the warning track...to bottom of 3rd...our portrait classes were all from photos, and done in charcoal and pastel...it was a challenge just to find a good photo to draw from...photos in magazines, faces in movies and television, are often so bland that there's not much to draw...best photos were the old black and white 8x10s that movie stars had made...all carefully lighted for dramatic darks and lights...first task in class was to do Clark Gable in graphite/pencil...learned here pencil graphite can be mushed around with stumps/fingers for very fine shading...second task was to find our own photo to work from...this took like two weeks for the whole class to get on same page!...most portrait photos simply don't have good darks and whites...many landscape photos like this too...Ansel Adams sort of took it on himself to explain dark and light, his Zone System...
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The Zone System is concerned with control of image values, ensuring that light and dark values are rendered as desired.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_System
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what the photogs seem to have done is apply chiaroscuro to photos...White Sox score a run on broken bat single...Angels 6-2...
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The term chiaroscuro originated during the Renaissance as drawing on coloured paper, where the artist worked from the paper's base tone toward light using white gouache, and toward dark using ink, bodycolour or watercolour.[3][4] These in turn drew on traditions in illuminated manuscripts going back to late Roman Imperial manuscripts on purple-dyed vellum. Such works are called "chiaroscuro drawings",
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Although few Ancient Greek paintings survive, their understanding of the effect of light modelling still may be seen in the late-fourth-century BC mosaics of Pella, Macedonia, in particular the Stag Hunt Mosaic, in the House of the Abduction of Helen, inscribed gnosis epoesen, or 'knowledge did it'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiaroscuro
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White Sox make out...to top of 4th...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stag_Hunt_Mosaic
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runner on...Calhoun line drive into double play...to bottom of 4th...hmmph...and then there's Khaleesi's and Laureline's eyebrows...White Sox making trouble...runners on...two out...another run in...Angels 6-3...this to say, our art sense is from our face sense...K...to top of 5th...and, faces get make up...covered up all together even with masks...kind of a thing with the ancients...
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One of the challenges in anthropology is finding the precise derivation of human culture and early activities, with the invention and use of the mask only one area of unsolved inquiry. The use of masks dates back several millennia. It is conjectured that the first masks may have generally been used by primitive people to associate the wearer with some kind of unimpeachable authority, such as "the gods" or to otherwise lend credence to the person's claim on a given social role.
Replica of the funeral mask of K'inich Janaab' Pakal at the Museo Nacional de la Máscara in Mexico
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"The masquerade motif appears in the Bible on two different levels: an attempt to fool people and an attempt to fool God."[13] What shaped Judaic ritual was an "absolute prohibition against fashioning a statue or a mask", originating with the Second Commandment.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mask#Ancient_masks
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Trout up...2-0...pitching around Trout?...3-0...3-1...woops...3-2...bloop hit...Ohtani up...Trout's been on base now seven times in a row...pitching change...brought in a lefty to pitch to Ohtani...1-0...broken bat...close play but ground out 1-6-3...another pitching change...two outs...Angels make out...to bottom of 5th...White Sox make out...to top of 6th...Simmons with lead off hit...bloop hit for Fernandez...runners 1st and 2nd...they just found another Pakal mask...
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Archaeologists digging in Mexico's Palenque ruins have uncovered a mask believed to represent the 7th-century Maya ruler K'inich Janaab Pakal, commonly known a ‘Pakal the Great’ - one of ancient Mexico’s most prolific figures. Having become King at the age of 12, under Pakal the Great’s 68-year-long reign the ancient city of Palenque prospered and he instructed the building of its finest architecture. The newly discovered mask depicts Pakal in his old age at the end of his reign, a perfect rendition to accompany him on his way, according to a Reuters report .
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/ritual-mask-pakal-the-great-003654
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Ward K...and, I've read the how and why of Mayans altering their noses...but forget...brb...pick off at second sails into center...Simmons to third...runners 1st and 3rd...Fletcher up...fly ball run down in center...to bottom of 6th...left bases loaded...
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They were able to place carved stone inlays into prepared cavities in live front teeth, in people’s mouths (Figure 5). A round, copper tube similar in shape to a drinking straw, was spun between the hands or in a rope drill, with slurry of powered quartz in water as the abrasive, cutting a round hole through the enamel. The stone inlay was ground to fit exactly into the cavity. These inlays were made of a variety of minerals of beautiful colors, including jadeite, iron pyrites, hematite, turquoise, quartz, serpentine and cinnabar . Like the act of tattooing, both filing and drilling were very painful.
https://amateurresearch.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/mayan-body-modifications/
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article had everything Mayan, but nothing how the nose was altered...
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A perfectly shaped nose, to the Maya, was rather large with a pronounced beak. From their artwork, we can see many Maya did have the perfect Roman profile of a big, beaked proboscis. If nature did not provide the ideal nose, many Maya resorted to a removable artificial nose bridge to give their nose the right hook shape.
https://www.historyonthenet.com/the-maya-concept-of-beauty/
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123 for Bedrosan...to top of 7th...hmmph...how does the second commandment go?...Trout bops a single...eight times in a row on base...Ohtani up..
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Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+20%3A4&version=KJV
well, that one went south in a hurry...but wait...what a strange wording...fly out shallow left...beneath, above, under...what about on?...a quibble...Bible passages don't lend themselves to close reading, though read very closely!...passage commonly thought to mean a ban on worshipping idols...that bit above extended it to masks as adornment...long fly out...to bottom of 7th...hmmph...heart of the order might not bat again...need to hold White Sox to those three runs...this is a close game...well, wait...I've been going on about emblems as spells...everything the ancients made was a spell...and what else are Halloween masks if not a spell to scare people with?...anything sacred or holy has the aura of a spell about it...all the religions are full of spells...the National Anthem before a baseball game is a spell...the flag out in center field an emblem/spell...entering late through the gate, fans stood at attention while the anthem played, looking through the stadiums undersides towards where the flag is...in the news, this 'spellness' is being played out...there's a curious connect between the Bill of Rights, and the Commandments...a freedom from masks, speech bound, is akin to a freedom from masks, religious binding...the second commandment is a call for freedom from masks/spells...as is the first amendment...what's the second amendment?...brb...oh...that's the gun rights one...brb...
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights#First_Amendment
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well, what makes a religion?...die hard fans...lol...Congress in effect fashioned a religion, the USA, that was umbrella like, tolerant of all religions...that, that's Roman...ancient Roman...Romans ran into a problem when it ran into a religion that didn't tolerate other religions...the Jewish revolt...Rome pushed back and tried to set up images of the emperor in the Temple...being ruled by Rome wasn't the problem, being ruled by Rome's iconography was intolerable...and, Rome's iconography, it's panoply of spells, was swept away and replaced with Christianity, which, as it turned out, was a religion tolerant of other religions...regarding those as folk who just haven't been redeemed yet...the Dali Lama just said something to this import...'if you are happy with your religion, there's no hurry to convert to Buddhism'...or some such...Dali Lama is in exile from Tibet, ruled by China...incompatible iconographies/spells...it's the bottom of 8th...K...one out...there's even a quarrel about omitting the placing of the flag in a new movie about landing on the Moon...
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The moon-landing movie has sparked a furore for failing to show the planting of a US flag. But Hollywood has a long, complicated relationship with the final frontier
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“This is total lunacy,” tweeted the Republican senator Marco Rubio. “The American people paid for that mission, on rockets built by Americans, with American technology & carrying American astronauts. It wasn’t a UN mission.”
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In the same week that Nike’s sponsorship of NFL knee-taker-in-chief Colin Kaepernick compelled some Americans to set fire to their trainers, Chazelle’s movie is another illustration of how polarised US life has become, especially when it comes to the flag.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/sep/06/if-anyone-can-maga-it-is-nasa-how-first-man-put-a-rocket-up-the-politics-of-space
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hmmph...Greeks had names for everything...Democracy...Theocracy...incompatible iconographies...Calhoun on base...Fletcher up...it must be the top of 9th...there's another one...Timarchy...oh, wait, my spelling is wrong, and this one turned up...
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A timocracy (from Greek τιμή timē, "price, worth" and -κρατία -kratia, "rule")[1]in Aristotle's Politics is a state where only property owners may participate in government. The more extreme forms of timocracy, where power derives entirely from wealth with no regard for social or civic responsibility, may shift in their form and become a plutocracy where the wealthy and powerful use their power to increase their wealth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timocracy
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Fletcher works a walk...Trout up...this is where having Trout and Ohtani back to back is much fun!...there's no one out...base hit...another blooper...is that nine, ten in a row?...Ohtani up...line drive down the right field line...a triple!...Angels 9-3...much fun!!!...stratocacy/military rule...got that from crossword puzzle help site!...didn't think, but now with web, I might be able to get through a crossword puzzle!...crossword puzzles are side by sides...number of squares/clue aligns with the answers...kind of what this series of posts is...this post one hundred ninth in a series...Upton makes out...Simmons up...where did I get Timarchy?...Ohtani collides at plate...and is limping back to dugout...scores on the wild pitch...Angels 10-3...Timarchy another term for Timocracy...Simmons walked, to second on wild pitch...White Sox just want it to end...Baltimore was the first to reach 100...100 loses yesterday...check Chicago..brb...56-85...Baltimore now 101 loses...Boston has 97 wins...will be first in win column to 100...there's a big spread between teams in wins and loses...Angels are doing well in this game, but it has an asterisk...two more hits bring in another run...Angels 11-3...only one out...'close game' drama all gone...another wild pitch..."wild pitch wild pitch"...scorer shouting in what plays are to the radio booth sounds like a parrot...fc ground out run scores...Angels 12-3...Calhoun up...Angels batted around...even still, just hitting a baseball past the defenders, however it comes over the plate, is difficult...another wild pitch, but bounces back to catcher off wall...Cowert tagged out at home...lol...to bottom of 9th...Chicago down to their final strike...just wave at it!...never done...die hards...chased and missed, dropped ball tossed to first...Shoemaker with his second win...'put a halo on this one'...time for a seashell...
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