a little madness in the spring
Apr. 4th, 2015 08:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaI picked the right day to come to Boston, as AnimeBoston was happening.
Britta wore an orange hoodie with a sun emblem on it and horns atop, seraphic butterfly wings, gray gloves, orange leggings, orange boots. It's a Swedish name and a German water filtration company.
Ernie and Tamara merely wore silly ties and their badges over street clothing. There isn't any public transit to be drawn on where they're from.
Steve wore a tattered trenchcoat, a black hat, a Pokemon t-shirt, jeans (probably), and a pentagram necklace. Steve said it's the first time anyone's drawn him. Steve thought Britta was a Charizard, but she was something from Homestuck.
Lia and Jill came out the best. Well, her name could just as easily be Léa or Leah. I just wrote Lia because it's the first thing I thought of. I'm pretty sure they're a couple. Lia has a tattoo of a hummingbird on her chest.
Asuka was on the train. I didn't recognize a lot of them because I'm not super into anime and I tend to watch more movies than series. I went on a Miyazakithon a while ago and I watched Makoto Shinkai's latest. 5 cm per second is utterly heartbreaking, by the way. Especially after you've fallen in love with your close friend. I swore that I'd give Azumanga Daioh another chance one of these days.
The woman in a polkadot coat wasn't part of the group.
There was a puddle at the bottom of the stairs.
Someone on the green line told me she loved my style. I can't decide whether having to take the E train instead of the B, C, or D was a perk because there was room, or an antiperk because there weren't any people in outrageous outfits to draw portraits of.
One woman apologized because she kept moving but it came out good anyway.
Speaking of Swedish people, Alexandra said my collaborative drawing with Emma reminded her of Gustav Klimt.
I wanted to show her some of the linoleum block prints I did, but all I have on my iPod was one of the backgrounds, which looks a bit like Claude Monet filtered through his own essence. In Hokusai's case, this wasn't stamped on. Plant dye was put on the blocks and paper was placed over it and the artist would press down on it. It was applied in parts.
I don't even have the scar anymore.
She says I'm right: those tools are sharp. I don't have the scar from it but I do have one where I tripped while mopping the stairs last spring.
She says she's not as good as Hokusai but I'm not either.
http://yamathespacefish.deviantart.com/art/stamp-sunset-and-black-304914471
http://yamathespacefish.deviantart.com/art/stamp-purple-and-orange-304914038
I didn't get to see the time capsule. Ruby told me that it was an hour wait and I should come back on a weekday if possible. If I was with a friend of any sort, I'd probably wait in line.
The three most beautiful things according to Tang dynasty poetry are snow, the moon, and flowers. I agree with two of those things.
Hokusai was a collection of wood block prints depicting views of Mount Fuji, scenes from history and mythology, animals, plants, bridges. There was a fan, some toys, a lamp depicting a snake and a dragon, a lamp depicting a tiger and a dragon, a koto, a shamisen, and some other kind of Japanese stringed instrument.
There was an exhibition of photographs after the March 11 tsunami. There's some contemporary Chinese art including a maze of faces, done with paper cutouts. I did something like that but haven't uploaded it to Devianart. I don't see this mentioned on the MFA's website so maybe it's more permanent.
I was talking about Italian and Cape Verdean Creole with a woman who speaks Italian and a guy who isn't Cape Verdean but has a lot of Cape Verdean friends.
There was a woman with green and blue hair waiting for the Ashmont train. I drew her friend/traveling companion/whatever who was dressed more interestingly, even if her hair was less amazing, although red hair is the most awesome natural hair color. And she had some tattoos of dandelions on her leg.
A woman was holding Harvey Dent In Stuffed Bear Form. Okay, he's not actually a Harvey Dent bear, but he reminds me of Harvey Dent, damn it.
Alas, after I got home and walked the dog, I found out the far right hijacked the Hugo Awards. I'm sad about the lack of Vandermeer. And I think I need to read The Goblin Emperor and City of Stairs. Maybe Something Coming Through will get nominated in 2016.
burning question: how does a pizzeria that won't serve pizza for same-sex weddings get over a hundred thousand dollars in donations? You know what would be a good thing to do? For those people to shut up and donate money so that Atlas Lab can make an album. Or better yet, a double album.
Britta wore an orange hoodie with a sun emblem on it and horns atop, seraphic butterfly wings, gray gloves, orange leggings, orange boots. It's a Swedish name and a German water filtration company.
Ernie and Tamara merely wore silly ties and their badges over street clothing. There isn't any public transit to be drawn on where they're from.
Steve wore a tattered trenchcoat, a black hat, a Pokemon t-shirt, jeans (probably), and a pentagram necklace. Steve said it's the first time anyone's drawn him. Steve thought Britta was a Charizard, but she was something from Homestuck.
Lia and Jill came out the best. Well, her name could just as easily be Léa or Leah. I just wrote Lia because it's the first thing I thought of. I'm pretty sure they're a couple. Lia has a tattoo of a hummingbird on her chest.
Asuka was on the train. I didn't recognize a lot of them because I'm not super into anime and I tend to watch more movies than series. I went on a Miyazakithon a while ago and I watched Makoto Shinkai's latest. 5 cm per second is utterly heartbreaking, by the way. Especially after you've fallen in love with your close friend. I swore that I'd give Azumanga Daioh another chance one of these days.
The woman in a polkadot coat wasn't part of the group.
There was a puddle at the bottom of the stairs.
Someone on the green line told me she loved my style. I can't decide whether having to take the E train instead of the B, C, or D was a perk because there was room, or an antiperk because there weren't any people in outrageous outfits to draw portraits of.
One woman apologized because she kept moving but it came out good anyway.
Speaking of Swedish people, Alexandra said my collaborative drawing with Emma reminded her of Gustav Klimt.
I wanted to show her some of the linoleum block prints I did, but all I have on my iPod was one of the backgrounds, which looks a bit like Claude Monet filtered through his own essence. In Hokusai's case, this wasn't stamped on. Plant dye was put on the blocks and paper was placed over it and the artist would press down on it. It was applied in parts.
I don't even have the scar anymore.
She says I'm right: those tools are sharp. I don't have the scar from it but I do have one where I tripped while mopping the stairs last spring.
She says she's not as good as Hokusai but I'm not either.
http://yamathespacefish.deviantart.com/art/stamp-sunset-and-black-304914471
http://yamathespacefish.deviantart.com/art/stamp-purple-and-orange-304914038
I didn't get to see the time capsule. Ruby told me that it was an hour wait and I should come back on a weekday if possible. If I was with a friend of any sort, I'd probably wait in line.
The three most beautiful things according to Tang dynasty poetry are snow, the moon, and flowers. I agree with two of those things.
Hokusai was a collection of wood block prints depicting views of Mount Fuji, scenes from history and mythology, animals, plants, bridges. There was a fan, some toys, a lamp depicting a snake and a dragon, a lamp depicting a tiger and a dragon, a koto, a shamisen, and some other kind of Japanese stringed instrument.
There was an exhibition of photographs after the March 11 tsunami. There's some contemporary Chinese art including a maze of faces, done with paper cutouts. I did something like that but haven't uploaded it to Devianart. I don't see this mentioned on the MFA's website so maybe it's more permanent.
I was talking about Italian and Cape Verdean Creole with a woman who speaks Italian and a guy who isn't Cape Verdean but has a lot of Cape Verdean friends.
There was a woman with green and blue hair waiting for the Ashmont train. I drew her friend/traveling companion/whatever who was dressed more interestingly, even if her hair was less amazing, although red hair is the most awesome natural hair color. And she had some tattoos of dandelions on her leg.
A woman was holding Harvey Dent In Stuffed Bear Form. Okay, he's not actually a Harvey Dent bear, but he reminds me of Harvey Dent, damn it.
Alas, after I got home and walked the dog, I found out the far right hijacked the Hugo Awards. I'm sad about the lack of Vandermeer. And I think I need to read The Goblin Emperor and City of Stairs. Maybe Something Coming Through will get nominated in 2016.
burning question: how does a pizzeria that won't serve pizza for same-sex weddings get over a hundred thousand dollars in donations? You know what would be a good thing to do? For those people to shut up and donate money so that Atlas Lab can make an album. Or better yet, a double album.
