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Oh, so broken by a titanic iceberg,
And sinking slowly in a cold sea of stars,
The thought it was all a play
Made day from night-
Night into day is the white Moon's say.

DolphinWords

12/12/37

Remember the Panay.

OTI: My Blog Misses Me:11/17/19

Open To Interpretation

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The line, "What will you lend on an old golden rule" is one that has baffled many listeners, including Barbra Streisand, who during rehearsals in 1999 refused to sing it until someone could explain to her what it meant. Her A&R man, Jay Landers, took action, calling the song's lyricist, Hal David, who was in China but got back to him right away (the prospect of Streisand singing his song was apparently quite an enticement).

When asked about the line, David replied, "It doesn't mean anything." He was simply filling in words to Bacharach's melody, figuring he would change it later. Bacharach liked it though, so they left it in.

When Landers got off the phone, he told Streisand, "It's one of those lines that's open to interpretation." That was good enough for her.

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Notes:  Leastwise, I miss it...I've really gotten sidetracked posting to youtube comment threads...time I usually spend making my blog posts, has gone that away...it's, it's the political things going on...for a long while when I did my USS Panay blog I collected a lot of old lore, and that blended into my jfk times...I don't know if I qualify as a jfk buff...but thenabout, I collected more lore...but this was all like almost twenty years ago...but the youtube algorythm, 'recommended for you' about around the time of the all star baseball season break put a link to McDuff, or Geroge Webb, vlogs on youtube, in my feed bowl, and it was a live feed, and in the chat, SOCONY, came up, Standard Oil Of New York, and, and then Jardine Matheson came up...go figure!...when the Panay was sunk that fateful day, 12/12/37, it was escorting SOCONY river boat tankers, and Jardine junks...it took me a long time to sort what they were about...so, so, now every morning, whenever,  I listen in to McDuff and George Webb, and drop comments in the comments and chat...a lot of the lore I picked up is being gone over all over again...so, so I try to fill in when I can...things in the news are really really messed up...I bought a drawing tablet, need to hook it up...so pics from it in the offing for the blog...basketball ref season about to begin...I have too much housecleaning maintenance to ever get done...otherwise, Maya, my dog, and I, are like, 'What's it all about Alfie?'...

#inktober Days 30, 31 Capture, Ripe 10/31?19

#inktober Day 29 Injured 10/30/19

#inktober Day 28 Ride 10/28/19

oh, this is just a sketch...and I forgot the tail...the reference is a Greek bronze, but I don't know if it is ancient, a replica, or a modern original...but it is really cool and I haven't done it justice...

#inktober Day 27 Coat 10/27/19

#inktober Days 25, 26 Tasty, Dark 10/26/19

it is no simple thing, for me, to draw along with the youtube drawalongs...this to say my critical eye sees how off I get from the reference!...but, as the Pusheen Cat reference drawalong puts it...'it's for fun, and practice'...and I have as much fun copying as I do being original...drawing like walking, on an old well traveled path, or a new one-still much fun...

#inktober Day 24 Dizzy 10/24/19

after Simon's Cat...

#inktober Day 23 Ancient 10/23/19

#inktober Day 22 Ghost 10/22/19

#inktober Day 21 Treasure 10/21/19

Disney's Scrooge McDuck from youtube reference...I could see problems, for me, reference was pencil sketch shaded, so hard to pick out simple lines-not like the draw alongs!...though the beginning was so...I gesture sketched on typing paper, then worked it up in pencil, and left off to ink too soon...Scrooge's head too low and to right, or something, and other things too!...this why I did it on typing paper...but now I have Scrooge in my mental archive along with the others!...much fun...

#inktober Day 20 Tread 10/20/19

#inktober Day 19 Sling 10/19/19

reference Disney Donald Duck...sling-strap-backpack...sling-sling arms-put on-backpack...sling...ass in a sling-lost!...lol...

#inktober Day 18 Misfit 10/18/19

reference: Disney's Ugly Duckling...

#inktober Day 17 Ornament 10/17/19

reference: How to draw a peacock...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDBmzV1a-H4&t=290s

#inktober Day16 Wild 10/16/19

#inktober Day 15 Legend 10/15/19

thinking on prompt 'legend', I went to Legend of Sleepy Hollow...Ichabod too close to home, so, considered legendary animals/people...mermaids...but couldn't find a good draw along, and then, unicorns...and, again couldn't find a good draw along...so, thought 'horses', and of course, plenty of draw alongs...latched on to Alphonso Dunn's horses head instruction clip on youtube...and, scribbled away on typing paper again...sharpie fine line, with some nasal drip!...Alphonso relates he has done thousands and thousands of practice drawings...which I can't admit to, but should...thing is, I've been using canson board to draw on, and expensive water color paper, and, the worry of messing up, and the thought to do something bangup like all the other inktoberers, kind of obscures that in fact I don't know what I'm doing!...so, so sharpies and typing paper a good way to go, first things first!...lol...

#inktober Day 14 Overgrown 10/14/19

After much looking, I found my reference for prompt 'overgrown'...it's a face in the jungle on Disney's Jungle Boat ride...found in google images...and I cant do it justice...thought to do ink wash on watercolor paper, then just to outline on typing paper, and then, then I just got to scribbling to find the values...and thought...go with this!...lol...

#inktober Day13 Ash 10/13/19

#inktober Day 13 Ash 10/13/19 in mind the prompt 'ash' I thought baseball bats, as they are made from ash trees, sometimes maple...so, and then, Casey at the Bat...found good reference on web...watched Disney's cartoon...then, looked about, remembering the pen ink illustrations on cards and in sports pages...found cartoonist Gotto...Ted Williams-the Splendid Splinter...and, and then got to watching animation instruction clips...light tables and flipping and inbetweens...and the afternoon was gone, evaporated by the usual chores and things too...so, so, with time to midnight short, I went with ash-bat sketch on typing paper!...lol...no one can divert like I can!

 

 

#inktober Day 12 Dragon 10/12/19

another draw along from the same youtube channel for 'Squirt'...this is Toothless from Disney...I was going to ink wash it...Toothless is all black...but it seemed problematic!...so, I colored it...purple with some other colors...but then in photoshop made it black and white...it's problematic too to draw in real time with the sharpie along with the instruction video...I hit pause a lot...and go this way with a line instead of that a way!...but, I didn't use a pencil sketch, so, this is good exercise to draw direct with the pen like the instructor does!

#inktober Day 11 Snow 10/11/19 Chilly Willy/Lantz

#inktober Day 10 Pattern 10/10/19

On youtube, there are all kinds of draw along cartoon clips...here's link to this one of Squirt, the turtle in Disney's Dorey, which I used...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpPV7mYI4Vs

#inktober Day 9 Swing 10/9/19

This is from a pre-Columbian pottery figurine...Vera Cruz culture...

#inktober Day 8 Fragile 10/8/19

#inktober Day 7 Enchantment (from Disney's Fantasia)

#inktober Day 6 Husky 10/6/19

I tried to do the charcoal drawing of Maya, my husky/shepherd mix, with ink wash...been awhile since I messed with wet in wet watercolor...it doesn't much look like her...she is mostly black with white face, eyebrows, and chest and paws-the usual pattern...but it certainly looks like her looking at me in both renderings!...lol...Husky/Sheperds crave attention, and run to folk for pets and hugs and play...

#inktober Day 5 Building 10/5/19 Tailor Bird

I browsed a bit, consulted a bit, looking for ideas, and happened on Tailor Birds...reference for this is a pencil drawing instruction clip...brb...link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVm3_xNGq40

#inktober Day 4 Freeze (after Chilly Willy-Lantz)

#inktober Day 3 Bait 10/3/19

#inktober Day 2 Mindless (Mr. Toad) 10/2/19

#Inktober Day One Ring

Well, nothings working right on the computer...simple copy/paste and the text centering goes awry...wanted to write after the pic, but will try writing before...it's the first day of Inktober!...and the prompt for today is RING...Inktober, if one goes by the prompts, is a lot like the game "draw something", except in Inktober one uses traditional ink tools, brushes/pens...though some do use computer graphic tools...I missed last year's...and kinda skated on today's, though drawing a ring/circle with a Chinese brush has some import...to make it 'something', I closed my eyes...the drawing is one of those Zen things I went on about in a post aways back...brb...

 

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In Zen, ensō (円相, , "circle") is a circle that is hand-drawn in one or two uninhibited brushstrokes to express a moment when the mind is free to let the body create.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ens%C5%8D

 

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so, when is a circle more than a circle?...when it is an enso...lol...onward...

 

:)

 

DavidDavid





OTI:notes:9/29/19

Open To Interpretation

Onward

Notes: Game on...on the radio...Astros and Angels...Astros 8-3...Thais has done all the scoring for the Angels with two home runs...top of the seventh...welp...I got distracted, diverted, by drawing painting, and following on the on and on of current politics!...but, I have a couple ancient enigma posts waiting, but, will save them for next season!...hopefully, opening day then will have Ohtani on the mound...Fletcher, Trout, Pujols, Calhoun, starting lineup lead, and all the Angels healthy...meanwhile, InkOctober looms, thought is to post the effort for each day, and the usual other adventures...Astros made out...to bottom of seventh...off for a snack, and find something for today's hashtag strada easel effort...Fletch up...

:)

DavidDavid

OTI:notes:9/13/19

Open To Interpretation

Sun on the Horizon

Notes:  Game on...on the radio...Rays and Angels...top of 3rd...Rays 4-1...sigh...Angels were up by one, then three home runs by the Rays...the one run lead for the Angels was like their first lead in 34 innings...short lived...Rays made out...to bottom of 3rd...just two weeks left in the season...the 'handbags' came up again in a comment thread...Ancient Architects did a clip about one of the Gobekli Tepli pillars, the one with three handbag looking motifs on top...a new caption is that they represent three constellations...the handbag loop represents sunrise, and beside each loop is a figure, an animal representing a constellation...oh, Fletcher gets a hit, then Calhoun a home run, all with two outs...Rays 4-3...Pujols up...Pujols with double and scored in first inning...Trout isn't in the line up...bad foot...and, Ohtani out for the rest of the season...knee surgery, two or three month recovery...hmmph...

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The Vulture Stone of Gobekli Tepe: Pillar 43 Decoded | Ancient Architects  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dal1CChmPtc&t=28s

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so, so, I started off a comment about the handbags...seeing this notion as familiar, a glyph representing the sun on the horizon...welp...here's the comment...

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A 'reasoned maybe' in the three handbags being suns on the horizon on this pillar...I dunno about the Sumerian King's handbags being such...but maybe the Sumerian scenes/vignettes are astronomical dates too...but, that's a shaky reach!...not so shaky with Egyptian scenes, but those don't have handbags...the handbags truly a puzzle!...forget the name, but found are stone artifacts that look just like them at that site in Iran found not long ago...thing to keep in mind, handbags and buckets, with handles, are a universal easily arrived at tool...well, wait, they are used to carry things, water, seeds for sowing...caption I often see for the Sumerian ones is that they hold pollen, which is being shaken on the tree motif by the pine cone motif...the tree thought to be a date palm which, I gather, has to be artificially pollinated when farmed/cultivated...ancients would see in everday activities symbols for their cosmologies, so, a thought is to note a thing for just what it is, and maybe that will make some sense of an enigma...like a wonder is the scorpion, which makes constellation scorpio...on the pillar is a scorpion, maybe a constellation, but, what makes a scorpion special!...did someone make connection between how the stars are arranged, seeing a scorpion, like seeing a face in a cloud?...that doesn't follow...each month needed a name/sign, and then the sign given a group of stars that corresponded to the month...factcheck...I'm not an astronomer/astrologer!...the handbag as sun on the horizon glyph might be so...have to putter about and find sun on the horizon glyphs...Egyptians had the aker lions...sun rising between two lions...and the sun on the horizon, constellations rising over the horizon, is how the ancient astronomers sighted and timed...the horizon was their, I dunno, must be a name for it-like a ruler layed down sideways...there's an Andean site that actually uses a mountain range...☺oh!...puttering about, I found this, which fits in...page connects the Egyptian Aker glyph with the Minoan double ax glyph...too, I see the aker glyph connects to the Egyptian/Sumerian shen glyph, ring and bar glyph, which is often seen being held, carried, much like the bag...related is the ankh glyph, the loop with bar and post, cross like...this often too being held, and much like the pine cone held up to the tree, the ankh is held up to Pharaoh's face...the bar, line, handbag top, is the horizon...the loop, circle, the sun...what's really neat are the Egyptian headrests, a half crescent (like the moon) between the two lions...one's head asleep on the rest becomes the sun/moon on the horizon glyph!
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http://www.phaistosgame.com/Phaistos39.htm

Indeed, the shape of the typical ancient Cretan double axe can be seen as a mirrored copy of the Egyptian “horizon” hieroglyph which also appears to have depicted this arc:

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I, I have to fill this out!...too much for one post...for sometime...and time to foray out for a snack...so hot in the daytime I don't stir...nap and read...then at night try to move around!...lol...find a place to watch game...bbk with update...

:)

DavidDavid

OTI:notes, ten pics:9/10/9

Open To Interpretation

Gating

Notes:  Game on...on the radio...Indians at Angels...top of sixth...Indians 6-0...Angels keep getting wooped...won two from Chicago, then lost one...then home to face Indians, and lost last night...and, no luck tonight...been trying everyday to roll out to a local peak, summit, prominence, or some such, for the # stradaeasel contest...went through two tanks of gasoline...and, it's fun, and maybe tomorrow back at it...last two days I just drew here at home...Maya, my dog, yesterday, and tonight tried to draw Autumn, my grand nieces cat...the spirit of plein air painting/drawing is to paint on site outdoors...here in town just getting to an outdoors site is problematic...one could just sit on a street corner of  course, and take in the scenery...but plene air is known for its romantic scenes of California country sides, and that's what one thinks of-someone on an overlook with their easel, painting a Laguna Beach scene...Laguna Beach an origin place for plein air in America...had a dream my old music teacher came around to view my efforts, and he complained, 'why did you drag me here to see these?'...lol...what triggered the dream is I got a reply to a post in a comment section of a channel done by a very professional plein air artist...James Gurney...he also did for Nat Geo an illustration of a Moche sacrifice, which I copy pasted to the blog when going on about canopies...fump...Indians 7-0 top of seventh...the illustration has many of the Moche motifs, and Gurney did his homework to get them right...a headsup to view Guerney's channel came from a friend who introduced me to the stradaeasel contests, this three years back now!...so, a kind of glue and continuity to all this!...thing lacking is I don't have the chops my music teacher hoped for, or I!...but, that being said, few do have professional skills...and that shouldn't deter one from participating with what skills one has!...doing the charcoal drawing, brought back tricks I made up using charcoal sticks...and with these new drawings, I've added a few more...cone, ball, box, are like the basic shapes...and I've thought to use how I can do those with a stick to do the drawings...by example, I can hold a stick in the middle of it, press it down and twirl it...a complete twirl is a ball...if I press one end tight down, and twist the stick, I get a cone...boxes I make just dragging the stick...if I drag it, one end forced down, I get a hard edge, a wash, and a soft edge...to make a small circle, I break a stick down, or use just the end...there are of course all kinds of things I can do with my fingers, stumps, kneaded erasers, and such...but I'd like to keep to the 'stick' look...doing so can make for a very 'clean' drawing...hard to describe, so, so, I need to put the drawings up here in the blog, so, here they are with the progress of 'stickiness'...lol...


the hard line of the stick at top, the 'wash', then a not so hard line-one stroke...the scratches were a fail to make the gullies and things...

the sticks are the downtown towers of LA...I'm thinking cave petroglyphs!...the grid for city streets...

the stick twirled to make the sun...hillsides one stroke stick...river stick end...

tried to twist stick for canyons on slope, arc for clouds...

small stick dragged down to make Back Bay cliffs...edge of stick twisted for foreground plants

 

hard to read...in the middle was path going to hills in distance...and a half moon overhead...thinking 'glyph'...how I can make drawing petroglyph like...

beach edge, receding wave forms, cargo ships, and the sun was  filling the sky, very bright...

on overlook bluff...fence...cliffs/beach...scallop glyph for waves up beach...some Xs for homes, and dark curve for highway...line top right shouldn't be there...thought to indicate horizon...

this is all stick!...success...



this just two inches big...done with very small sticks...pulled out highlights with kneaded eraser...onward...

hmmph...for me the drawings amount to personal souvenirs...and can evoke the entire afternoon that went into making them...during the long back and forth rides, I think about the scene I'm seeking. listen to music, or the ball game...often, I cant find a view, and get turned around and lost looking...to go out with a pre supposition, is something called 'gating' by Gurney...sortofa if you go to the store looking for roses in particular, your subconscious will guide you to them from the array of flowers displayed...a notion with import to my ancient enigmas pursuit!...more for sometime...Angels down to their last strike...Ward with a two out double...Thais up...K...Indians 7-0...Angels have a 'gating' issue I'd say-lost their focus...

 

 

:)

 

DavidDavid