The Making of “Between the Mountain and the Moon”

[rose_lemberg]

I promised to tell you about my magick4Terri  Metamorphosis auction, which was won by Izzy (Hani) Jamaluddin. .  So I wrote a longish thing about my family, the never-ending quest for perfection, and folk art - but today I’m thinking it doesn’t really matter; so let me just tell you about my process.

Comments

[sovay]

I am really happy with how this came out.

It's a beautiful, beautiful book.

and 3) the work may come out queer, so please be ready for that.

What is that, some kind of drawback?

[rose_lemberg]

It's a beautiful, beautiful book.
Thank you *hug*

and 3) the work may come out queer, so please be ready for that.

What is that, some kind of drawback?

For some people, I think it is, yes. Though after all that I've written so far, it would be bizarre if people were surprised by this.

[prezzey]

LibreOffice is much more stable than Word when it comes to images in text, I've found (in case you need this for another project).

I wuv the Panther Moon. I followed this project and it's great to see it completed!

[rose_lemberg]

Thank you :D :D

The text I printed didn't have any images, the images were hand-printed with block prints later. It couldn't handle printing things as a double-sided booklet. Go figure :/

[prezzey]

It couldn't handle printing things as a double-sided booklet. Go figure :/

Uhh I once had that problem with Word too, but it was sometime around 2000! They supposedly had several major revisions since then! (I haven't used it recently - I hated Word so much I switched to OpenOffice in 2002 when it was still 1.x and it still used the SXW format. It was probably much worse than Word back then, but at that point I just wanted to use anything but Word, I was so fed up. ^^; These days LibreOffice is probably the best.)

I confess the last time I tried to print something similar was about two years ago, using OpenOffice (it worked fine).

[selidor]

This is a beautiful object of art.
I will gift
garnet and oystershell to your kinswomen
Makes me think of Northwest Coast peoples, somehow.

[rose_lemberg]

Thank you :)

It is actually inspired by the only habitat of the panther with which I am personally familiar :) - that is, the Russian-Manchurian border (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birobidzhan) My secondary worlds tend to be inspired by places to which I am somehow connected.

[selidor]

Ah! That makes very good sense. Thank you.

[rose_lemberg]

Thank you :) With any luck, the poem will be published. :)

[asakiyume]

Wow, so beautiful. The process is a pleasure to watch.

I **love** the panther moon. You should make an icon of it (if it reduces well to 100 x 100)

[rose_lemberg]

That's an idea! I'll try that tonight.

And thank you :) :)

[rose_lemberg]

How about this?

[asakiyume]

**********gorgeous*******************

I love it!