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

[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.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

That's what I thought too--I was saying elk but Wakanomori pointed out that the caption said moose. There are two possibilities, though: Currier & Ives could have drawn, or worked from, a picture of an elk thinking it was a moose, or the person who wrote the caption could have thought that it was a moose. But yeah, the shape of the head and the horns are all wrong.