Fondly recalling short riffs I wrote on some of Bill Atkinson’s amazing closeups of minerals for his book “Within the Stone” (which could be a great iPad offering):
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You’re Lovely…. But Evil!
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➞ Chiangland: Don't give a damn 'bout my bad reputation
Inspired by a late-night viewing of The Runaways, and partly an exercise to see if I could make star-spangled pants and Wonder Woman go together. The idea started with Wonder Woman (I briefly entertained using an Ian Curtis Batman) but the idea of an all-girl rock band with Black Canary,…
(via twentypercentcooler)
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„Each country saw their ritual or ceremony as the only valid way to establish control of an area. The English built a fence or planted a hedge on their ‘plantations’ to show ownership; the Spanish read a declaration of war (The Requirement), based on the Islamic principal of jihad (dervied from the Muslim occupation of Medieval Spain); the French relied on “conquest by love”, a ceremony designed to show Native compliance with French rule; the Portuguese and Dutch used mathematical calculations and cartography to show how their “discoveries” of unknown areas established dominion.“
– From an Amazon review of Patricia Seed’s Ceremonies of Possession in Europe’s Conquest of the New World, 1492-1640
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Suggested by http://jujukitten.tumblr.com/ !
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I make little cider, my apples are worth more fed to my hogs than for cider; but I make a practice of selecting my best sweet apples, those that furnish the richest, heaviest liquor, and making a cheese from them, using the cider thus obtained for making apple or quince preserves, boiling down for molasses, and keeping two or three barrels for drink, or ultimate conversion into vinegar. When new from the press, and before fermentation commences, that which I intend for boiling is brought to the house, and boiling in brass to the proper consistence; taking care not to burn it, as that gives the molasses a disagreeable flavor, and taking off the scum that rises during the process. The quantity to be boiled, or the number of barrels of cider required to make one of molasses, will depend greatly on the kind of apples used, and the richness of the new liquor. Four, or four and a half, are generally sufficient, but when care is not used in making the selection of apples, five barrels may sometimes be necessary; but let it take more or less, enough must be used to make the molasses, when cold, as thick as the best West-India. When boiled sufficiently, it should be turned into vessels to cool, and from them transferred to a new sweet barrel, put into a cold cellar, where it will keep without trouble, and be ready for use at all times.
Molasses made in this way will be pure, and possess a vinuous or rather brandied flavor, which makes it far superior to the West-India for mince, apple or tart pies, though where the apples used are very sour, a small quantity of imported molasses may be advantageously used. It is also excellent for making beer in the summer, giving it a briskness and flavor which common molasses will not; in short, there are but few uses to which molasses is applied, in which it will not be found equal or superior to the other. Southern Agriculturist and Register of Rural Affairs 10, 10 (October 1837), 552.
From Common Place
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➞ Printing on Fabric with an Inkjet Printer
Could definitely be useful in costuming. I wonder if it would print on spandex.
