images in the new year
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littlemetaldrop had done a beautiful tiger for the Year of the Tiger. I know Chinese New Year isn't for a couple of months, but in Japan they celebrate New Year's on January first, but using the Chinese zodiac animals.Here is her tiger, made with origami paper:
Our car has malicious intentions toward us; it's seeking our bankruptcy. Our mechanic feels sorry for us, I think, so he sweetened the blow of the last bill by giving us a Currier & Ives calendar for 2010.
The image for January is rather dramatic. (Click to see it larger) Check out the moose's tongue! Look at that one wolf floundering in the icy water!
ETA (It does look more like an elk--or, as
peppergrass suggests, a mutant buffalo with horns-- than a moose. My instinct was to call it an elk, but it was pointed out to me that the caption said moose, and I believe everything I see in print! But it doesn't seem very mooselike, does it?)
Last image--the sky, in folds, before the snow came yesterday (probably also only visible if you click through to a bigger size).
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Date: 2010-01-01 05:32 pm (UTC)Which car is the one that seeks to drive you to fiscal ruin?
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Date: 2010-01-01 06:43 pm (UTC)Let's hope the year of the tiger roars and triumphs!
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Date: 2010-01-01 08:05 pm (UTC)Happy new year Asaki :D
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Date: 2010-01-02 12:46 pm (UTC)You lucked out on the zodiac years, in terms of pure gorgeousness!
Which makes me remember, I have a couple of books, from China, of entries in contests to design images of the zodiac animals, and some of them are amazing--the artists are very clever.
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Date: 2010-01-02 12:48 pm (UTC)Hey, so your little sister just finished her first cycle! Or wait, no probably not yet, huh? But this year she will :-)
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Date: 2010-01-02 07:15 am (UTC)I think that's meant to be an elk in that picture. A North American elk, not a European one.
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Date: 2010-01-03 03:19 pm (UTC)Sorry to hear about your car - ours was doing that to us last summer, trying repeatedly to fix the same issue.
On the Currier & Ives print - I submit that is not a moose. (Does the caption say it is? Perhaps the artist was being imaginative?) It looks much more like an elk, based on the antlers and head shape. I've never seen a moose up close, but I've met elk personally. ;)
Now I'm going to watch the undersea monster worm video, yay!
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Date: 2010-01-03 03:48 pm (UTC)Mind you, imo this only adds to the painting's charm.
Of course, nothing compares to the unmitigated awesomeness of PiranhaMoose! http://wondermark.com/546/
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Date: 2010-01-03 03:55 pm (UTC)And piranha moose is totally FTW.
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Date: 2010-01-03 04:03 pm (UTC)See: http://lh5.ggpht.com/_jn1Xu8VJja8/R4uvcWEc1VI/AAAAAAAAigA/IxJBn_3r6y8/young+bison+relaxes.jpg for a young bison's profile....
...and here http://www.jillwlang.com/images/Wallpaper/2007/0441YoungElkSepiaFrame800.jpg for a young elk. Elk (and moose, for that matter) are much more deer-like (and long-faced), and bison are more cow-like.
Young moose, too: http://delargy.com/images/2006_6_Moose/moose_young_bull.JPG
I would remember that face anywhere!
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Date: 2010-01-03 04:09 pm (UTC)(so cute)
Actually, all of them are so cute!
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Date: 2010-01-03 03:42 pm (UTC)She was HUGE.
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Date: 2010-01-03 03:43 pm (UTC)so cool!!
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Date: 2010-01-03 08:09 pm (UTC)Bad car! I hope that the mechanic has sufficiently chastened it and it will behave, now.
That is a dramatic scene. So often, when I think of Currier & Ives, I think of there more serene work (the stuff of holiday cards), but they did quite a few of these tooth & claw pictures, too.
I love the idea of folded clouds. Your picture is starkly beautiful. I am glad to be inside where it's moderately warm, but just looking at that picture makes me want to grab my sweater (which I should have done as soon as I'd dressed, this morning).
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Date: 2010-01-03 08:36 pm (UTC)Yes, I was surprised by the melodrama in the Currier & Ives scene, too, because I had the impression of them as mainly celebrating bucolic rural scenes. I was amused and interested to discover this other side of them. And it seemed to sum up our feelings about the car so accurately!