Animal animal: a weekly letter to you & the kid: https://teapawt.net/t.co/Uz1hbl7ir1 Writer\Book designer\Fulbright scholar\He/him. Kids’ book: https://teapawt.net/t.co/DjN3Yr2eRr
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Hi. I started a newsletter called *Animal animal*.
It’s partly for the small kid in your life: animal limericks, facts, drawings--
--and partly for you: books, art, online treasures.
Pop by and read edition 001 here: tinyurl.com/2zumzwfz
I hope you’ll sign up!
As promised, a new batch of yaksha. This time, I turned my eye to pan-Asian representations of the makara and the gajasinha.
I hope you like them and if you do, that you’ll consider buying one. In the age of AI, how nice to own some human-made art, no?
onlinedesho.com/shop
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The Navajo hogan is a masterpiece of efficiency & vernacular architecture: tons of thermal mass, an aerodynamic profile, well-ventilated yet comfortable year
round. The entire structure is built by hand from materials harvested nearby, & it’s fully biodegradable. Perfection
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3. Stone gajasinha sculpture in the ruins of the kingdom of Yāpahuva (1276–1284); a brass gajasinha made in Senkadagala (Kandy) in the 1800s, copied from a silver lamp at a temple in the Dumbara Valley (via V&A).
Woah 😍 Been itching to see this:
Ramayana: The Legend Of Prince Rama (1995) 4K movie is now available on Internet Archive (Without watermark)
Link:
archive.org/details/@ramayan…
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Nice new site: ruism.org. A bilingual edition of the Four Books, Chinese with James Legge’s English translation, and Zhu Xi’s commentary in Chinese toggles open under each verse. Plus the Five Classics, terms, bios, etc. Also has a Spanish and Catalan interface!
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"Itztlacoliuhqui — el señor del frío, la obsidiana y aquello que se vuelve rígido.
En la tradición mexica, Itztlacoliuhqui es una figura asociada con el frío, las heladas, el hielo , las consecuencias y la obsidiana; su nombre suele interpretarse como “el que tiene algo torcido” o “el que está encorvado”, una imagen relacionada la forma de su cabeza , representación del maíz y la obsidiana; junto con la rigidez y la transformación que produce el frío.
La obsidiana, negra, brillante y cortante como una noche congelada, aparece vinculada a su poder. No es simplemente una piedra: para los mexicas podía ser instrumento ritual, materia para armas y espejo oscuro capaz de evocar fuerzas sobrenaturales.
Itztlacoliuhqui representa así una naturaleza que no destruye con fuego, sino con frío: aquello que inmoviliza, endurece y detiene el movimiento." Por @sr.venado #neomexicanismos
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AI attempts to hobble or outright destroy the liberatory possibility of information technologies—the ability to use voice, image, video, and text as authentic witness and testimony, in a globally accessible human archive transcending distance and time, to easily contradict power.
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The gajasinha is a mainstay of Hindu/Buddhist art. It serves an apotropaic role, and/or appears as a guardian animal. Popular in Lanka as a threshold guardian, I was surprised to learn it appears much less frequently in East Asia.
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Tokyo developed new anti-crow posters to put up around trash collection sites. They feature geometric shapes幾何的 and eyes which apparently put crows on their guard
However, as the effect only lasts for a few days, the cities prepared several different types
The crow population in Tokyo has gone down from 36,000 in 2001 to 7500 today
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The extraordinary painterly photographs of Léonard Misonne (1870 - 1943). A pioneer of 'pictorialism' Misonne was originally a mining engineer who was forced to change career to photography due to asthma. He invented many new printing techniques to create his dreamlike images.
Liking these very much:
どこか懐かしさを感じさせる画風ですが、いずれも1983年生まれの現代美術家ユアサエボシの作品。今日から練馬区立美術館ではじまる展覧会では、「変身」をテーマに池田龍雄、高山良策、中村宏ほか戦後の前衛画家たちと競演していますが、まったくもって違和感なし。
それもそのはず、ユアサは1924年生まれの架空の無名画家「ユアサヱボシ」（1987年没！）になりきって作品を制作しているのだから。というわけで新作が発表されるたびに、「ヱボシ」の経歴には新しいエピソードが加わります。まるで美術史に埋もれていた画家の未知の作品が次々と発見され、その人生が少しずつ明らかになっていくかのよう。過去と現在を軽やかに往き来するユアサの作品に接していると、戦後の前衛芸術家たちの作品も急に身近なものに感じられるから不思議です👀
今展では初期から新作までまとまった数の作品が見られます。ヱボシワールド未体験の方も、この機会にぜひ。
ユアサエボシと戦後アヴァンギャルドの変身寓話集
📅10月31日～12月27日
📍練馬区立美術館
neribun.or.jp/event/detail_m…
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Sri Lanka is massacring elephants..
Join us.. to demand for Justice.. to demand for better protection of elephants..
