Day’s Reflection – Poetry & Photography
JK.Leahy©
A reflection mirrors the day
Trapped waters, throw light
Finding its way as water may
Leafy dense cannot hold sight
A rainbow lurks as if to say
Blue sky might come to stay
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Free and Lose Art – Watercolour
Maria’s Daughters – Watercolour
I am working free and lose again on my watercolour, after getting the work so tensed up. When I first learnt to paint in watercolour, I thought it was crazy. You had to work so quickly and once you’ve made a mistake, it was so hard to fix. In my earlier work, I painted loosely and simply. Then, painting in all mediums (Acrylics, oils, watercolour etc) at different times, I started to overwork the watercolour.
This shot is a little dark, but the artwork has only had three coats of paint so far. It gets exciting when it starts to come together. Let’s hope I don’t over do it again.
A True Friendship – Or Is It?
Some pictures don’t need captions just like this friendship of the unlikely kind. I was doing some research into green tree frogs and found this picture in the public domain. I’m not sure which one of the two subjects is smiling but I do hope, this is a good friendship. Photographer Fahmi Bhs, who took the snaps at a zoo in Jakarta, Indonesia, said: “I was worried the python may swallow this beautiful frog” to which the zoo keeper explained the two had grown up in captivity together and were friends, otherwise the python would have swallowed the frog, a long time ago. It also turns out, this type of python does not eat amphibians. (You probably can tell by what I’m writing that I’m not convinced).
Kookaburra – Australia’s Laughing Bird
Kookaburras are a type of kingfishers that live in Australia and PNG and they are very territorial. They are referred to as the laughing birds because of the way they sound, just like someone is dying laughing. They live in most treed parts of Australia.
The birds can grow between 30 and 40cm tall and eat mostly insects, worms, crustaceans, small snakes, frogs and other small birds. Australians sing songs about the Kookaburra’s laugh, but the truth is, that loud continuous sound they make, sometimes in a group, is a territorial call. The bird warns its family of birds about who is approaching their territory. I grew up with a song call, Kookaburra Sings on the Old Gum Tree. And all this time, before I knew, I thought they were singing to welcome me, but they were warning each other.
The birds can become tame around humans, like these two that have been living on our balcony since we moved to Bellbowrie five years ago. One in particular (pictured here) has recently started grabbing food off the plates or comes into the kitchen to help herself.
She also likes it when you hand feed her. I took these micro shots of the cheeky one. She was very patient and she did not fly off, so these are all her. Read more here.
Perfect Landing – Grasshopper Photography
This grasshopper made a perfect landing on our red bar chair when I was up-close and photographing a Kookaburra outside yesterday. Sounds like a David Attenborough moment, but only because, the grasshopper injured its second left joint. There is an ant on it if you check the third picture down.
I shall post the Kookaburra pictures tomorrow. I was pleased the red bar chair provided more than what I could hope for in a backdrop, especially providing a good contrast to the insect’s beautiful green colour. The grasshopper did take off as soon as the hungry bird made a move towards it.
Melted Seat To Be Continued – Cool Stuff
How would you like to melt into this seat, or sit in this melted seat? Our cool stuff item comes from Julien Carretero. It is not only a spectacular ‘melted seat’, Carretero calls his creation, To Be Continued. This creation obviously does not stop here.
“Each piece produced comes as a result of a process applied on the piece that came before. Each piece is then existing because of the others and couldn’t have been designed without the others,” said Carretero.
And the whole purpose of making such a thing is to experiment with creating a real and recognizable uniqueness within serial production. If you are concerned about the ‘messed up’ look, the artist says it is because of the imperfection of the cast, that the object slowly mutates and starts designing itself. I am not going to argue with that.
I think they look pretty cool; my only concern or curiosity is how does it feel to sit on the seats?
Artist Profile
The multi-disciplinary industrial designer was born in Paris suburbs. Carretero studied industrial design consecutively in France and in England before attending the Contextual Design MA at the Design Academy Eindhoven. In conjunction with his training and studies in the Netherlands, Julien worked for two years at designer Maarten Baas. After his graduation in 2007 he founded Studio Julien Carretero, which moved to Brussels in 2012. He has held and participated in several major exhibitions across Europe.
Click on the link below to see the To Be Continued process itself.
Family Visits – Photography
Kaz the rainbow lorikeet visited last week. It may be something to do with a new scale-breasted lorikeet that has moved in a week ago. Initially Kaz and friend came to check out the new bird and then returned almost every day. Each time, Kaz’s conversations are getting longer.
Some of you know Kaz, who was abandoned and we raised him. He has returned to the wild and found the partner (pictured) and has lived away for two years, but often comes for a family visit. It was nice to see Kaz and listen to his long conversations in between his treat of honey and bread. How I wish I could understand his stories because often he gets excited while talking and dances around in a circle and flaps his wings.
Beautiful New Ireland – Papua New Guinea
Learn about one of the most exquisite island provinces in PNG.
This is a Tourism Promotion video.
Teeth, Bones and Shells – Painting
Teeth, Bones & Shells, My Art. This is a painting from last year that I finally finished. Watercolour and ink on paper. I hope you like it. I enjoyed breaking away from writing to paint this man.
The Cook Book You Can Eat – Cool Stuff
Don’t ask me how I found this, but I was looking for pasta recipes and then other things and this sprung up from Abungac Google. I thought it was cool. It was on this website. The Mary Sue.
By Max Eddie
In what is likely the best use of pasta you’ll see today comes this cookbook from the Gerstenberg Publishing House. As the title implies, it’s a cookbook that you can eat. And we’re not talking just edible paper here — this is the big leagues. Each page of the book is printed on a sheet of delicious pasta, and the entire book is meant to be read and then baked as a lasagna. Finally, the perfect way to sate your literary and literal hunger.
Unfortunately, my German is terribly rusty. However, it looks like the book/dinner’s creators missed a big opportunity to print the recipe for the book in the edible book itself, but with a cookbook you can eat, I don’t think we should be so picky.
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