Comments | skellorg: oeuvre easy

skellorg

oeuvre easy

Nov 08, 2007 13:13

i am: present and accounted for
listening to: pc hum in a minor
drinking: peach cranberry juice
so, i've been coding merrily along and practically spraining my arm by attempting to pat myself on the back for the progress i've made with my site redesign over the past week. yesterday i was especially pleased with myself because i'd finished the last ( Read more... )

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skellorg November 8 2007, 21:41:45 UTC

I believe it's a nutmeg, which were used in the "shell game" way-back-when. Here's a link to the full-sized image: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Hieronymus_Bosch_051.jpg :)Apparently "Der Zauberkünstler" translates to "The Magician."

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skellorg November 9 2007, 02:22:31 UTC

I believe there is. :)

balplatinus November 8 2007, 21:52:33 UTC

I actually like the new colors, however, the header images is a tad too...um,something for me.
I can't quite put my finger on it.
But after seeing the tea cup for so long, I sort of began associating it with you, Susan.
Kinda funny :D

skellorg November 8 2007, 22:00:53 UTC

The header image just isn't your cup of tea, eh? (Groannnn.) I like it, 'cos that one guy has such a WTF? look on his face and the others standing there don't seem to be interested at all. To me, it's like he's holding up one of my entries here lol. I didn't realize I'd had the cup of tea up there for so long that it's the only header image you've seen. Wow ... I've been long overdue for a change here then, though I'm sure one cup of tea or another will reappear up at the top eventually. I have a bunch of them. ;) I'm glad you like the colors. I'm still not sure about the yellow. This flavor of my LJ may not last long.

Caffeine is good.

pocket_saviour November 9 2007, 00:30:23 UTC

Yellow? Looks more peach to me, but this monitor is quite blue-tinted (and I like it that way...)

I thought the guy in the pic was holding a conker. I don't know if you play conkers in the states or are familiar with it, so here's a link:
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/conkers.html

And here's a little macro I couldn't resist:
http://www.safehaven-uk.org/stuff/conkers.jpg

conkers roasting on an open fire just doesn't have the same ring to it, does it? skellorg November 9 2007, 02:21:17 UTC

Ooh, ah, peach won't do at all. I'll definitely have to play with it now. ;) Silly macro lol. I'd heard of conkers but never seen it explained so thoroughly - thanks for the link. :) Could be a conker, but from the look of the full-sized image whatever it is was at one time under a little cup. A little digging turned up this paragraph from the German version of Wikipedia, translated (somewhat) into English via Google:

"They were mostly in market places and in inns, often behind a small table standing. The repertoire of the pockets of players was limited mostly to the cup game in which to entertainment purposes balls or nutmegs wander among the cups."

Re: conkers roasting on an open fire just doesn't have the same ring to it, does it? pocket_saviour November 9 2007, 09:41:11 UTC

"Conkers roasting on an open fire" - well, conkers aren't edible for humans, but since the word has (naturally) passed into slang as a term for the testicles, the image that comes to mind is more Spanish inquisition than White Christmas, hahahaha!

Re: conkers roasting on an open fire just doesn't have the same ring to it, does it? skellorg November 11 2007, 23:55:41 UTC

>>the image that comes to mind is more Spanish inquisition than White Christmas, hahahaha!

Indeed, in that context, it does. Weird though, because the photos of "conkers" on that site look just like the chestnuts we buy in the stores here.

goingofthings November 9 2007, 03:42:20 UTC

ooh I really like it (the colors on my screen at least look natural, not too garish, but it seems like they are looking very different on different computers). I love the looks on their faces - I could easily compare it to my entries as well ;) It takes me back to American Lit, where we studied certain paintings like (http://www.uwo.ca/modlang/MedRen/dance.jpg) although in retrospect I'm not sure what they had to do with the poetry we were discussing. But the painting is brilliant in many ways and the one in your header reminded me of it. Will end here before I go off on a boring art history spiel that probably won't make sense

skellorg November 11 2007, 23:57:40 UTC

What a wonderful painting. Thanks so much for the link. It has such life and movement to it and the colors are so rich. I love it. I'm still debating over my yellow, which has taken on a bit of a peach tone to me, now that pocket_saviour has mentioned it. Ah, the power of suggestion. ;)

goingofthings November 12 2007, 02:53:14 UTC

I know - I love how festive it is. And it was one of the first paintings that didn't have confined borders or central figures (like some of the figures are cut off by the margins, which was an innovative idea at the time according to my professor). I do love the energy and movement of it - I love paintings where I could get caught up for hours trying to find stories.

It does look more peachy to me as well, but perhaps my computer is just confused on what to think ;P