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Yes, that lino print’s done now…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s quotation is from Vladimir Nabokov’s 1933 novel Laughter in the Dark, which I recently finished re-reading: The darkness inside the taxi slid and swayed as quarters and halves and whole squares of ashen light passed … Continue reading
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Tagged 'L'-shapes for windows, 1933, Albinus, art, arts, drawing, eyes, history, Laughter in the Dark, mackerel on toast, madness, Margot, Maurice, owl-eyes, owls, sex, simple forms, style, sunlight, surrealism, the unexpected owl, vladimir nabokov, waffle, windows, words, writing
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What’s this? Avenger-Trek?…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s instruction is to take a slim rat-tail file and enlarge the pre-drilled holes around the edge of the rim until they will accept the clear plastic tubing without chafing. Run a thin bead of silicone … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, archeology, arts, brain, celebrities, conversation, cool, drama, history, humour, information, instruction, misheard, music, poetry, puzzle, serendipity, Star Trek, style, surrealism, TV, words
Tagged 1960s, 1960s Star Trek, 1960s The Avengers, arts, blue wires, Captain Kirk, celebrities, conflate my genres, conversation, dictionary word, discovery, history, John Steed, madness, Mr Spock, Mrs Peel, music, Neutral Zone, plasma, poetry, rat-tail file, red wires, Scotty, serendipity, Star Date..., style, surrealism, TV, waggling toes, words, writing, Yankee Doodle Dandy
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The stern-faced man boomed!…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s lost plectrum is the one eventually found between the thumb and forefinger of the right hand on Michelangelo’s ‘David’. (David) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I wonder how those spacemen are doing, are they still poised with their rayguns … Continue reading
Posted in archeology, art, arts, books, composition, cool, creation, design, drama, drawing, history, humour, information, observations, reading, school, seeing, story, style, words, writing
Tagged 1956, art, arts, discovery, drawing, history, Knill, Lion Annual 1956, lost plectrum, Michelangelo's David, observations, old-style illustration, planet, Sammy the Sneak, Sir Walter Raleigh, spacemen, style, surrealism, unusual name, words, writing
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So, what’s happened to our months then?…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s well-established English expletive is Codswallop! e.g. You, are talking codswallop! There are several ideas on the origin of this word; they involve ‘cod’ meaning scrotum, and ‘wallop’ being a euphemism for Bollocks. But I have … Continue reading
Posted in academia, brain, conversation, cool, drama, dreaming, existentialism, expletives, fashion, Grumpiness, history, humour, information, irony, learning, observations, overheard, puzzle, radio, surrealism, swearing, thinking, words
Tagged bad english, BBC Radio 3, beer, codswallop, conversation, Dee-cember, discovery, existential angst, expletive, Febry, history, Janry, Joo-lie, look up words, madness, months names, observations, serendipity, style, syllables, The BBC, the BBC plot, the indefinate article 'A', words
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Lunch and a lino design…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s quotation is from Vladimir Nabokov’s 1933 novel Laughter in the Dark, which I recently finished re-reading: ‘Forgive me,’ he said, ‘don’t be cross with me, Margo. I can’t live without you. Look here, I’ve thought … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, art, arts, books, composition, conversation, cool, creation, design, drama, drawing, food, humour, information, learning, lino cut printing, lino printing, prints, reading, seeing, style, surrealism, thinking, words, writing
Tagged 'L'-shapes for windows, a fool, art, arts, buttered toast, conversation, destruction, drawing, history, Laughter in the Dark, lino block, lino print design, mackerel on toast, Margo, Marmite, owls, photography, ripping up prints, Russian literature, sex, style, surrealism, the unexpected owl, vladimir nabokov, windows, words, writing
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Anybody here like geometry?…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s confused film star is Stylvester Sallone. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Well, you see, yesterday my neighbour asked me if I’d like to draw, and then cut out from a large piece of 12 mm board, a couple of … Continue reading
Posted in academia, architecture, art, arts, books, brain, creation, design, drawing, history, information, instruction, learning, puzzle, reading, style
Tagged 1954, 8 x 4 board, a stick and a pencil, a strip of paper, arches, architecture, arts, constructing an ellipse, curves, discovery, drawing, elegant arch, geometry, history, instruction, lockdown activity, loop of string, lustre restored, major axis, minor axis, necklaces and bangles, optical illusion, pleasing shape, serendipity, style, The 1954 Gadgets Annual, the foci, woodwork
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Overheard and misheard snatches of conversation from back in the days of cafés…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s carefully selected colours are: buttercup pink, buttercup orange, buttercup black, buttercup brown, buttercup grey, and buttercup ultramarine. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ‘Christa! I seen him too!’ ‘Fresh, or buttered? Har har har har!’ ‘So, it was tree-wise training … Continue reading
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Tagged arts, bo-valve, buttercup black, buttercup brown, buttercup grey, buttercup mauve, buttercup orange, buttercup pink, buttercup ultramarine., carefully selected colours, colour, contipical, conversation, dictionary word, har har har!, ID, madness, mammals, microspotic, misheard, overheard, poetry, scenario, serendipity, sex, style, surrealism, words
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