Comments | zephre: Card of the Day: The Builder

zephre

Card of the Day: The Builder

Jan 21, 2011 20:11

Today work was fun but busy, which seems to be about par for the course these days. I really need to get out of the office to eat lunch, especially once the weather warms a bit.
I've finished all my Netflix DVDs of Fringe and have to wait a few days now for more. I am a little less than halfway through the first season now, and it's great ( Read more... )

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Comments 6

archaeologist_d January 22 2011, 14:23:34 UTC

Very nice. Love the pose!

zephre January 24 2011, 01:24:47 UTC

I think you may be referring to the card here, and that art is from the Gaian Tarot Deck by wonderful artist Joanna Powell Colbert. I believe that the model for this card is her husband, in fact. :)

It's a beautiful deck, and I aspire to produce colored pencil work of that caliber all the time!

jhadania January 23 2011, 21:54:42 UTC

Wait -- I thought bamboo and all things bamboo-related were among the most sustainable. Not so?

zephre January 24 2011, 01:20:04 UTC

Unless you're buying hand-pounded linen woven from bamboo, then you're buying bamboo rayon, and the process for making rayon is the same no matter what fiber it starts out as - heavily chemical and notoriously bad for polluting local groundwater. However, since bamboo linen has to be made by hand, it's usually prohibitively expensive outside of whatever community is doing the work. It's also a rougher fabric (as linen is), so it doesn't get the hype ( ... )

jhadania January 24 2011, 12:08:55 UTC

Which reminds me of a blog that I read which said (possibly quoting a book...) "there are two kinds of people in this world: those that shit in clean drinking water and those that don't." Which was followed by a discussion of composting toilets (and an elimination of all paper products in one's house, including a "family rag" with which to wipe). Which goes to show there will probably *always* be someone more committed than I am! ;) Although, if we lived in the middle of nowhere and could vent the bathroom appropriately and had a humongous garden with crops that could safely use "humanure" as they called it, then hey, why not?

A friend of a friend has started a blog which you may dig: http://www.sustainablebabysteps.com/

zephre January 24 2011, 17:45:17 UTC

ha, no kidding re: the family rag. Although I've tried to eliminate a lot of paper towel use at home - I have ShamWow in my kitchen, and lots of cloth napkins and towels. Of course, after acquiring these incredibly useful ShamWows and loving to use them instead of paper, I see that they are 100% rayon. Sigh - you just can't win! Although the trade-off may be worth it in the end, hard to tell.
I do use paper towels and napkins at work, and paper towels when doing art - so there's that. Baby steps, indeed.

Thanks for the link!