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Post by The King » Wed Apr 08, 2015 2:33 am

LLama

Recently visited Hakone Shrine close to Tokyo as I was amazed by this pic that I found online.
Its magic. And in my humble opinion very artistic.

First time posting a picture so not sure this will actually work....

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Just in case it doesnt here is the link as well
http://stuckincustoms.smugmug.com/Portfolio/i-MFzLngb/A

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Post by Llama LluxaLlot » Tue Apr 14, 2015 5:50 pm

paranoiarodeo wrote:
(Perhaps not traditionally artistic, but I'm posting this 'cause I believe that if llamas ever went to war, then they'd use wood constructed, slingshot based, chainsaw powered, marble shooting machine guns, and this guy would be their patron saint of war. How llamas would carry and fire such a weapon is another question for another time.)

What do you mean, "if"? :smt058

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Post by Llama LluxaLlot » Tue Apr 14, 2015 5:52 pm

I want to hang a little hammock in that picture and stay a while, King.

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Post by Markus Tulus » Sat Apr 18, 2015 7:39 pm

i want to drift through there slowly, in cotton slippers

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:llama approves.

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Post by Llama LluxaLlot » Thu May 21, 2015 4:12 pm

Proof that I used to be more funny than even I am today.


"When I was 29.......It was a very good year.......I drank a very sweet wine........while romancing a Deer.......with good fortune and cheer.......I felt the world could be mine.........when I was 29

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Post by Deep Blue » Thu Jun 04, 2015 8:58 am

Just found this one, lol, the art of politics :wink:


My friends, I had not intended to discuss this controversial subject at this particular time. However, I want you to know that I do not shun controversy. On the contrary, I will take a stand on any issue at any time, regardless of how fraught with controversy it might be. You have asked me how I feel about whiskey. All right, here is how I feel about whiskey:

If when you say whiskey you mean the devil’s brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster, that defiles innocence, dethrones reason, destroys the home, creates misery and poverty, yea, literally takes the bread from the mouths of little children; if you mean the evil drink that topples the Christian man and woman from the pinnacle of righteous, gracious living into the bottomless pit of degradation, and despair, and shame and helplessness, and hopelessness, then certainly I am against it.

But, if when you say whiskey you mean the oil of conversation, the philosophic wine, the ale that is consumed when good fellows get together, that puts a song in their hearts and laughter on their lips, and the warm glow of contentment in their eyes; if you mean Christmas cheer; if you mean the stimulating drink that puts the spring in the old gentleman’s step on a frosty, crispy morning; if you mean the drink which enables a man to magnify his joy, and his happiness, and to forget, if only for a little while, life’s great tragedies, and heartaches, and sorrows; if you mean that drink, the sale of which pours into our treasuries untold millions of dollars, which are used to provide tender care for our little crippled children, our blind, our deaf, our dumb, our pitiful aged and infirm; to build highways and hospitals and schools, then certainly I am for it.

This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise.


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Neon signs! Made in Minnesota! Eight and a half glorious minutes!

(This video is making the usual rounds today. Our local PBS folks are kinda awesome.)

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Post by Markus Tulus » Fri Jul 31, 2015 11:32 pm

Promises

There was a shining gem stone
it lit the blackest night
we reached for it, in wonder
we asked to share its light.

We promised that we’d feed it
and help its warmth to grow
to guide us, and our children
with light we’d always know.

But something slipped away,
just where you won’t define,
I begged you help me search
but you didn’t seem to mind.

And now the iron wheel
has ground it into dust,
and with it went all healing,
fidelity and trust.

Now because my soul is blinded
by the dark behind your mask,
I cannot see my future, nor
the wonders of our past.

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npr.org: With Discovery, 3 Scientists Chip Away At An Unsolvable Math Problem

"Jennifer McLoud-Mann had almost come to believe that her last two years of work had been for naught.

"'It had gotten to the point, where we hadn't found anything,' she said. 'And I was starting to believe I just don't know if we're going to find anything.'

"Armed with an algorithm, McLoud-Mann, along with her husband, Casey Mann, and David Von Derau — all of the University of Washington, Bothell — had been trying to help unravel one of math's long-standing unanswered questions.

"How many shapes are able to 'tile the plane' — meaning the shapes can fit together perfectly to cover any flat surface without overlapping or leaving any gaps. Mathematicians have proved that all triangles and quadrilaterals, or shapes with four sides, can tile the plane, and they have documented all of the convex hexagons that can do it.

"But it gets a lot more complicated when dealing with pentagons — specifically convex, or nonregular pentagons with the angles pointing outward. The number of convex pentagons is infinite — and so is the number that could potentially tile the plane. It's a problem that's almost unsolvable because, as McLoud-Mann put it, it has 'infinitely many possibilities.'"

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Post by paranoiarodeo » Mon Aug 17, 2015 8:53 pm



I once had a roommate who was a professional chef and he was just as meticulous about sharpening his knives. Worth watching all twelve minutes if you need some daily zen. Sound in an integral part of the experience. Turn on, tune in, and drop out.

(Video available in 4k for maximum enjoyment.)

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(Perpetual Slinky escalator!)

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Post by Llama LluxaLlot » Wed Aug 26, 2015 4:16 am

Markus. Nice. I like it.

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Post by Llama LluxaLlot » Thu Aug 27, 2015 5:17 am

This is a guy I know here in Portland. Talilo is a hip hopper and a rapper. He makes his own beats, his own musical hooks, writes all the lyrics. This is my favourite song by him. Remember- this is totally amateur. Camera work is done by a friend in film school. Acting done by friends. Talilo is the shorter thinner one. Luck One is a more established rapper and has a following both in Portland and in NY. He is collaborating with Tallilo on just this one song. Don't my cuddy kill it tho.


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:lol:

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Post by Llama LluxaLlot » Thu Aug 27, 2015 11:15 pm

A very fine example of the female human form. Classic. And so life-like!

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Post by Deep Blue » Fri Aug 28, 2015 3:05 am

Llux Llama wrote:A very fine example of the female human form. Classic. And so life-like!
:llama

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Post by Llama LluxaLlot » Sat Aug 29, 2015 8:59 pm

I love the knife sharpening. I tend to scratch the knives I try to sharpen myself. quite zen and I learned some tips.

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Post by dollabillz » Tue Sep 08, 2015 5:12 pm

Here is a poem that I did not write but is still Very Good

FALLING

There is a part
of this poem where you must
say it with me, so
be ready, together we will make
it truthful, as there is gracefulness
even in the motioning of those
leafless trees, even in

such motion as descent. Fired,
I move downward through it all again
in an aquarium of debt, submerging
with the flowering electric
company, with March the 10th, 1971,
its darkness, justice and mercy

like clownfish, funnily striped.
Let them both as a matter of policy
devour the light that
escapes them, Shakespeare
had just candles, lamps,

Milton had only the
dark, and what difference? as
poetry, like failure, is fathered
in any intensity of light, and light
in all thicknesses of darkness,

as your voice, you out there,
wakes now, please, to say
it with me: There
are descents more final, less graceful
than this plummeting
from employment; it is the middle of a false

thaw, the ice undercoating
of a bare branch is
in the midst of falling. Where
can it all be put except
in this poem, under us, breaking this fall,
itself falling
while breaking it? Look
at this line, stretching out, breaking even as it
falls to this next, like a suicide,
the weather singing
past his face, and arising to kill him
this first last line in weeks.

– Denis Johnson

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Post by Red Beard » Tue Sep 08, 2015 9:27 pm

The precision of Japanese Joinery is pretty much sick. In traditional Japan, it seems that just about everything can be an art form to a ridiculous degree. Also, Para, thanks for linking Matthias Wandel. He's kind of a hero of mine. I've watched waaaayyy too many of his videos, and his panto router is an amazing design.

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Post by Red Beard » Tue Sep 08, 2015 9:39 pm

Another woodworking video which I may bore the hell out of some folks, but is a really beautiful step by step process of a utilitarian art form. If you love seeing how things are made, then this is probably for you :)


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Post by Red Beard » Tue Sep 08, 2015 9:50 pm

This isn't quite my thing, but I am sure a lot of you will appreciate it. Either way, this guy's skill is admirable to say the least.

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Post by Llama LluxaLlot » Fri Sep 11, 2015 1:10 am

dollabillz wrote:Here is a poem that I did not write but is still Very Good

FALLING



– Denis Johnson
I have read this 4 times. Once when you first posted it, and just now 3 times in a row.

I like it a lot.

"so be ready, together we will make
it truthful, as there is gracefulness
even in the motioning of those
leafless trees, even in
such motion as descent"

"as poetry, like failure, is fathered
in any intensity of light, and light
in all thicknesses of darkness,"

"Where
can it all be put except
in this poem, under us, breaking this fall,
itself falling
while breaking it?"

These parts I like the most. They work together with the rest of the poem which really has to be taken as a whole entity. But these word linkings are particularly pleasing to me.

Thank you , Dollabillz.

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