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

[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!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I didn't think it was a moose either; I said elk too, and then Wakanomori pointed out that the caption said moose. But the caption could be wrong, or it could be that Currier & Ives worked from a picture that mistakenly identified it as an elk...

[peppergrass.livejournal.com]

Upon further examination, it really looks like the artist drew a young American buffalo, then added a set of large, weirdly elk-like antlers. And called it a "moose." ;)

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/

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yeah!! That furry coat does look buffalo-esque!

And piranha moose is totally FTW.

[peppergrass.livejournal.com]

And the face is just so short.

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!

[peppergrass.livejournal.com]

And seriously? Look closely at the "wolves" chasing him. Very strange looking, with small, pinched, weaselly faces.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

The wolves I don't mind so much (though I'll grant you that the body of the one we can actually see is a little strange looking), but the buffamelk is something else again.

[peppergrass.livejournal.com]

BUFFAMELK!!! <3

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

BABY BUFFALO ♥ ♥

(so cute)

Actually, all of them are so cute!

P.S.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

What was it like to meet an elk personally?

Re: P.S.

[peppergrass.livejournal.com]

Startling, especially since it was dusk in the treeline and neither one of us expected it. We were following the same trail, but in opposite directions, and came upon one another sort of all at once.

She was HUGE.

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[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

~ ~ Wow ~ ~

so cool!!

Re: P.S.

[peppergrass.livejournal.com]

I am so glad she didn't reflexively stamp me to death. That was very kind of her to spare me, I thought. *whew*

Re: P.S.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

She was probably relieved you didn't have a gun.