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You know, this might be the earliest announcement for the Infomaniac Garden Photos Event ever published? If I could be arsed I'd do some research to check, but I can't, so you'll just have to go along with it. Unless you'd like to check for yourselves, of course?
Anyway, as I've treated myself to a day off work and have got shit all else to blog about, I have taken The Very Mistress's advice (command? order?) and come up with this primer for this year's Event, complete with photos of the pre-Spring blooms here at Hexenhäusli Device!
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Oh, before we go any further, here's a musical accompaniment to your downward scrolling: The Procession of Celestial Beings, composed by Joe Hisaishi and performed by the New Japan Philharmonic World Dream Orchestra (from The Tale of Princess Kaguya - which I watched the other day).
In an effort to continue the blogging impetus that I started last week, may I present a slight deviation from that of Ms Scarlet's original ketchup-based post. This post has a high Star Trek content, so you may be pleased to find that it is mercifully brief...
Sketches:For a while now I've had an idea to illustrate a scene from the backstory I worked up for the Star Trek map that I created back in 2019. As I don't have an art project on the go right now, I started sketching...
Here we have a Daughter of the Fifth House with her Yehtee assistant
(and a cartoonish interloper) disembarking the Royal Yacht
Snippets:"Every morning he'd arrive at work, ascend the steps to his cubicle and strip down to his trunks."
Screenshots:
Two years on from the last playing card reveal in a Star Trek production, comes glimpses of another deck - in this case, from a game of Leonian poker in Star Trek: Discovery (which I'm not watching, by the way - I didn't much care for the last season, and this one's on yet another streaming service that I'm just not going to sign up for. Well, until Star Trek: Strange New Worlds with the yummy Anson Mount/Captain Christopher Pike starts later this year, that is).
It was the Arcadian Queen that got my attention - as seen on Star Trek fan, Jörg Hillebrand's twitter account, here. Arcadians are very seldom seen aliens who first appeared in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (the one with the whales) - which is where the third screenshot comes from. I can feel the need to make some of these cards, just as I did with the Romulan pikhmit/pixmit cards here.
I discovered this thanks to The Great British Sewing Bee. A small part - "I'm doing my face with magic marker" - was playing during the modelling of one of Raph's creations in series 7.
I've realised that I'm in danger of never blogging ever again unless I do something NOW! So, taking a leaf out of Ms Scarlet's book - almost literally, and with her permission (kind of) - here's my quick-and-dirty, copy-and-paste Sunday Ketchup.
"Sunday Ketchup. It will be a random account of my week and will include
quotes from my journal [my very secret journal that I show no-one
ever!]; photographs; collages; calligraphy; and, of course, the obligatory piece of Sunday music. How thrilled you must be to read of my good intentions. Again. Let us proceed…"
My week - nay, my weeks - since my last post have been spent continuing the dither that engulfed me at the start of the year. It's got to the point where I've become a passive observer rather than an active participant, which means I've barely done anything of note at all.
I haven't produced any calligraphy of course, but I did spend 10-15 minutes making a £999,960 Bank of Bungle bank note for my sister Indescribable's birthday earlier in the week. She wanted a million pounds so I topped up the £40 John Lewis voucher I got for her with this:
Spot the mistake (which I corrected after I took this photo)...
In my very secret journal I wrote:A rescue - from [a spiral in(g) time] - a survivor, Galuth Nym, an old woman who should be young.
From my emails I wrote:Thanks very much for sorting Car out. Again. I’m sure it won’t be the last time – unless I get a new car sooner rather than later...
Photograph of the week:
Taken for an art project that never took off...
A tune that I discovered yesterday and have listened to rather a lot:"Impossible" by Röyksopp & Alison Goldfrapp
In fact, I'm listening to it now...
Right. I'd best be off as there's loads to do before I can lounge about in the bath for a couple of hours this evening. Plus, I need to do the catch up with all of you that I didn't do last time.
P.S. I love all your comments in the last post. Carry on!
EDIT 20:40 - P.P.S. For a birthday I usually forget... (not mine, although I did shoot this on my birthday 12 years ago)
