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Lately I have been walking past Lansdowne Park on a pretty much daily basis. Locals here will know that, after decades of City Hall debate, Lansdowne Park is being rebuilt as a shopping mall, sports centre, and condos. Every day it's a little different. The last few days, it's been mostly trenches, with a lone tree stump near Bank Street ( Read more... )

Polyvore has posted a very cool book-cover picture of Philippa Somerville in Topkapi Harem, from Pawn In Frankincense. Very cool.

An interesting story about art and life: The Highwaymen. Wikipedia article: The Highwaymen. Seems there are lots of websites about them.


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Day 8: Favourite artist

My favourite comic book artist of all time is the American artist Barry Windsor-Smith, whose work on Conan the Barbarian was breathtaking in its Pre-Raphaelite complexity and delicacy.


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I used the rather small picture of the cover of Avengers: Hawkeye - Solo TPB that was in Marvel Previews #101, and framed it for my wall. It took the place of the picture of Peter Wingfield that was by the kitchen, and now that picture is in the bedroom.

I love rearranging my art.

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From the Dorothy Dunnett people comes this lovely story about paper sculpture and mysterious notes.


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I love archeological mysteries. And yet before today I never heard of the Plain of Jars in Laos.

Here's what Wikipedia has to say about it. How fascinating... I see now there are many sites, many with great photos, like this one from 7 Most Fascinating Asian Battle Sites (and this just after I'd been reading about Hiroshima!):


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