images in the new year

[asakiyume]

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).

Comments

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

This coming year... yes, it would be year of the tiger, which means next year is ours! Mwuahahahaha!

Which car is the one that seeks to drive you to fiscal ruin?

[88greenthumb.livejournal.com]

Year of the Tiger! Yes, bring it on! Thanks for sharing a photo of littlemetaldrop's lovely origami. So intricate.

[intertext.livejournal.com]

That's a lovely image of a tiger! Happy new year.

[faerie-writer.livejournal.com]

Did you make that paper origami tiger? I love it! :D

[newsboyhat.livejournal.com]

What a gorgeous tiger! Though I'm partial to dragons of course, being one. (2 more years!)

Happy new year Asaki :D

[ravens-shadow.livejournal.com]

I'm a rat. My little sister is a tiger, though. That origami is great, and although I haven't commented lately, the photos you've been posting (the little box in the brambles, frost on a fence, etc.) are really beautiful.

[wakanomori.livejournal.com]

*Love* the folded sky -- may it bring us more snow, more snow!

[slobbit.livejournal.com]

Yay ninja girl! Good occasion for me to use this icon, I think.

I think that's meant to be an elk in that picture. A North American elk, not a European one.

[suzan-s.livejournal.com]

Beautiful tiger....such intricate paper cutting requires much skill....well done!

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

[desert-sparrow.livejournal.com]

A superb tiger.

[peppergrass.livejournal.com]

She did a great job on the tiger!

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!

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

I love littlemetaldrop's tiger. It's wonderful!

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).