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Lois, this is not my Batman glass
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Guns. Lots of guns.
Proof that I am definitely both:
- Male
- A big kid
Just saw the full weapon list for Modern Warfare 2 and now I want to buy it. I think it’s mainly because I’ve just read/am watching Generation Kill and the first gun in the list is the M4A1.*
*On another note I’m not entirely sure how i feel about the Internet Movie Firearm Database as an idea.
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Heroes
44 Years in the making, the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary.
The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (HTOED) is a unique new resource charting the semantic development of the huge and varied vocabulary of English. It is the first comprehensive historical thesaurus ever produced for any language, containing almost every word in English from Old English to the present day…
I think I’m just going to want to read it.
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Molly & Milly
I’ve got more photos but I’ve lost my camera cable so need to take my camera into work but for now here’s a pic of my kitten Molly & Milly (courtesy of Al):
Molly’s the sleeping one and Milly’s the one looking at the camera.
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With a private boat (cont.)
Just in case anyone’s interested the original sketch went a little something like this (complete with hot chocolate stain):
I can’t actually remember which way round the inspiration worked but the idea was to essentially combine these two images:
(By Maurice Sendak and Katsushika Hokusai respectively)
More specifically the idea was to render the first in the style of the second, or insert the characters of the first into the second. My original intention was also to recreate the scene in an ink & wash style but in the end I decided I wouldn’t be able to get the fine detail and the homage itself would be lost so I went for manipulating the Hokusai image rather than recreating it.
The main difference between my original sketch and the final (lined paper and stain aside) is the positioning of Max and the Wild Thing. Originally I’d pictured Max in the nearest boat (which I’d incorrectly remembered as breaking through the near wave) with the Wild Thing emerging from between the rear wave but in the end I opted to switch them. Firstly to echo Sendak’s original spread (Wild Thing left; Max right) and I also didn’t want the sail on Max’s boat obscuring any of the waves themselves (though i didn’t mind it obscuring Mt Fuji as I like that it stops this image being a view of Mt Fuji).
So with the two nearer boats shopped out and Max’s mast, sail and self added in I was just left with the Wild Thing. The first attempt was pretty awful, I was trying to construct it from various flat elements and then stealing bits of texture from the original (as I had with the sail and Max) but it looked too out of place. Then the obvious hit me: drop in a sea creature/dragon from an existing japanese woodblock. A bit of scouting around found this little gem:
So with a little help from Utagawa Kuniyoshi and some recolouring so the dragon isn’t lost in the wave we have our final picture:
About which I am quite chuffed.