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Saying “I Love You” in many different languages in time for Valentine’s day. Card View: /
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by jegustavsen“For more than three decades, Joyce Carol Oates has been hailed as one of the most significant and enduring writers of the twentieth century. Brilliantly inventive and astonishingly prolific, she has captured the imaginations of millions of readers worldwide with her unflinching portraits of human nature set against tumultuous, frequently violent, and uniquely American landscapes. “ / http://jco.usfca.edu/life/iw.html
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No Place Like Home - The Dream Language of Oz by Karin Taylor
by Karin Taylor‘There’s no place like home.’ / ‘If I only had a heart, a brain, some courage’. Do these phrases bear any significance for us and i…
I wrote this a while ago with the intention of starting a new series of paintings on the Wizard of Oz….the idea is still there… I hope to begin a new painting/series soon on the subject. What I have written here, is the unfolding of the research work on my subject…it is important that I gain a deep understanding or insight into my subject, as well as preparing the visual side of things, i like to get a feel for it spiritually, or at least have an empathy with/for my subject/s. I read different editions of the story itself, and look at as many different illustrations as possible, rewatch the movie a few times, and listen to any music associated with it…for example the tracks from the movie, as well as things like Elton John’s and Katie Noonan’s versions of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and eminem’s Yellow Brick Road and Raine Maida – Yellow Brick Road and anything else i can find associated with the imagery of the story… Somewhere over the Rainbow by Judy Garland / Somewhere over the Rainbow Eva Cassidy / Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Kamakawiwo / Fields of Gold Eva Cassidy
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I search for Atman (Soul) and withdraw to The Cave of my Heart. To find the symbols and wander no more. Acrylics, inks and pigment.
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Please visit mission webite: / Click on link below. http://www.philadelphia33.org/ Tunga Zuga village. Rural Nigeria. / This was late evening, and i asked them to bring a child to me that had rickets, adn the brought 14 that were disabled by this terrible disease. some are not in the photo. I began to pray and the Lord touched me so deeply that I wept for them as I prayed. here are children who have bowed legs and feet adn they to as I was praying were praising God. the village canno grow enough food. this is why we are raising funds to buy a tracor and machinary, so we can help 25 villages grow good quality food. then rickets will be a thing of the past here in rural villages. Please help us and visit: http://www.philadelphia33.org/ link to all my Art & Writings. / http://www.redbubble.com/people/joshuatree1
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This is the sister piece to “A Type of Language” I did a while back Painted in Photoshop w/ Wacom Tablet I hope you like it~ Sara W ©
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A newer version with the background erased. Makaton sign language for coffee
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Chalks and shallac. Created as a response to Mike Parr’s “Launguage and Chaos” Text reads / “Surrealism as a political force was ultra-left wing communist or Anarchist.” / The text is designed to highlight problems with the English written language.
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A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning. The words may be spelled the same, such as rose (flower) and rose (past tense of “rise”), or differently, such as carat, caret, and carrot, or to, two and too. A homophone is a type of homonym, although sometimes homonym is used to refer only to homophones that have the same spelling but different meanings. The term may also be used to apply to units shorter than words, such as letters or groups of letters that are pronounced the same as another letter or group of letters. / Homophones are often used to create puns and to deceive the reader (as in crossword puzzles) or to suggest multiple meanings ACRYLIC ART CALENDARS CARDS POETRY PHOTOGRAPHY – ANIMALS PHOTOGRAPHY -CANDID SHOTS PHOTOGRAPHY – CATS AND DOGS PHOTOGRAPHY – CONTEMPORARY WORK PHOTOGRAPHY – FLOWERS PHOTOGRAPHY – INSECTS PHOTOGRAPHY – TRADITIONALLY TURKISH PHOTOGRAPHY – TREE AND TREE PARTS T-SHİRTS My Images Do Not Belong To The Public Domain. All images are copyright © taiche. All Rights Reserved. Copying, altering, displaying or redistribution of any of these images without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited / More products available / Why not follow me on / or join me at I have subdivided this category into sections: follow the links and hit on exactly what fits you. You are now at *ALL TEXT TEES ALCOHOL ATTITUDE BLACK/DARK HUMOUR CURRENT EVENTS- FEMINISM GEEK INNUENDO OFFENSIVE PLAY ON WORDS / POLITICAL SATIRE RELIGION TV QUOTES ANIMAL SERIES ART TO WEAR BIRDS CATS AND DOGS SERIES CELTIC SERIES CUTE SERIES DID I HEAR YOU RIGHT SERIES DIGITAL SERIES EINSTEIN SERIES FOR F*’s AKE SERIES GAY SERIES KISS SERIES LINE DRAWING SERIES MANAGRAM SERIES NATIVE AMERICAN SERIES PALINDROME AND AMBIGRAM SERIES PHALLUS SERIES PISS TAKE SERIES RUDE FOOD SERIES SEASONAL SERIES SIGN AND SYMBOL SERIES SMILE SERIES TEXT ONLY SERIES UK POLITICS UNDERWEAR SERIES VINTAGE BURLESQUE SERİES WTF IS THAT ALL ABOUT? See more of taiche at ZAZZLE / Baby Custom T-Shirts :dress that baby up with a special design on a custom t-shirt, long sleeve or onesize / Kids Custom T-Shirts .from organic t-shirts to long sleeve shirts, boys, girls, and toddlers can fill their fashion needs with a one-of-a-kind custom t-shirts for kids. Check out the latest organic t-shirts, sweatshirts, and girls shirts. And plenty of styles for toddlers too! Aprons / Bags / Buttons / Cards / Hats / Keds Shoes / Keychains / Magnets / Mousepads / Mugs / Postage / Postcards / Stickers / T-Shirt / Ties
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The word “atheist” in several languages, including Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Russian.
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...Love
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My tribute to John Lennon.
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Sumi-e style watercolor with ink to represent Valentine’s Day on newsprint.
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Savior of a Language This photograph is of a Cherokee shawl, a plate of the Cherokee alphabet (found miraculously at a yard sale many years ago) with a merged photo of a bust of sequoyah from a museum. Sequoyah was born between 1760 and 1770 five miles from the original Cherokee capital of Chota in Tuskegee, now part of Tennessee. At that time, the Cherokees were an independent nation still living on their original tribal lands. They were coexisting with the British Colonies as equal neighbors and were making seperate trade agreements with the government. / Sequoyah’s mother ‘Wurteh’ belonged to a prominent Cherokee family, whose three brothers and nephew were all chiefs. Sequoyah’s father was probably a white shopkeeper, named Nathaniel Gist with whom Wurteh lived until he went home to Virginia, while Sequoyah was still an infant. Gist had nothing further to do with either of them and died before Sequoyah became famous. / Wurteh brought up Sequoyah in a little cabin in the Overhills country, resembling a fullblood, was interested in everything and became a blacksmith and self-taught silversmith. He was naturally mechanical and a gifted artist whose special talent was for drawing animals. He married, had a family of four sons and settled on some land in the village of Tallahassee, not far from his birthplace. / As a very young man he had noticed the power that the ability to read gave the white man. He began to think and talk, both jokingly and seriously, about creating an equivalent advantage for the Cherokees. / About 1806 he and other Cherokees were forced off their land, and he moved his family to Alabama. In 1809 he started working on the syllabary, with a pair of silver spurs on which he had a friend stamp his Cherokee name in English letters – sitting for hours turning the spurs in his hand, thinking and jotting down tentative ideas on wood shingles. He used his nephew’s speller and some printed alphabets lent by missionaries for ideas as to the function of the letters. For the sounds of the letters represented he had to rely on his own powers of analysis, since he knew no English at all at this time. / The alphabets he saw are supposed to have included English, Hebrew and Greek. / During the Creek War of 1813-1814, he fought against the Creek for the US Government, interrupting his work, but after injuring his leg, he returned to the syllabary zealously until the cabin that contained all his work burnt down. / Migrating to Arkansas, he started over on the syllabary, reducing 200 letters to 86, remarried in 1815 and in 1821 was granted a hearing before the tribal council presenting written messages between his daughter and himself, proving writing worked just as well in Cherokee as in English. The council was impressed and Sequoyah began teaching youths and in a few months the whole nation was reading and writing the Official Cherokee alphabet in 1821. / In 1825, a medal was struck for him by the US and he began Cherokee periodical printed in Cherokee. He also visited Washington on behalf of the Cherokees in 1827, prior to the ‘Trail of Tears’. In 1839, as the president of the Westaern Cherokees, with his cousin George Lowrey, the president of the Eastern Band, they co-signed an Act of Union, uniting the two previously separated and warring tribes. / In 1842, he set off to Mexico looking for dissident members of the tribe, apparently becoming ill and dying around San Fernando, Mexico in 1843, where his grave has never been found. Like so many traditional heroes of other nations, he had vanished into legend, leaving a legacy of an alphabet, language and writing skills for his people.
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3.5×2.5” Numberism Artist Trading Card drawn on Illustration board with a 005 micron pen. This is one of the few that I still have the originals of from the trading card series. Drawn, as always, with only the numbers of the clock.
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so the alphabet snakes can write on my skin
by bellmuskerMy dictionary woke me this morning.
Spoonerisms: a form of metathesis where consonants, vowels or morphemes are switched around. • “The Lord is a shoving leopard.” (a loving shepherd) / • “A blushing crow.” (crushing blow) / • “A well-boiled icicle” (well-oiled bicycle) / • “You were fighting a liar in the quadrangle.” (lighting a fire) / • “Is the bean dizzy?” (dean busy) / • “You have hissed all my mystery lectures. You have tasted a whole worm” (missed….history, wasted…..term). This piece was inspired by my profile page, and my ever present obsession with language, in all its spellbinding glory.
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I’ve had a really nice photoshoot with a client this morning, tomorrow I have another session with another client and I also gotta keep studying for this awful philosophy exam I have on monday… - / processing: / texture: texture 4 from my free textures set B is for Bokeh / actions: fantasmagoria and bronze
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This shot was made for a contest on another web site, with a “Signs” theme. I wanted to do something different, out of the box. The idea of making signs to someone crossed my mind, and I searched for a few words on ASLPro , a visual dictionary for the American Sign Language. You can look for the words friend and computer to see what this is all about. I thought that it would be nice to illustrate what makes a community like this one so great: Computer Friends! This is a SINGLE SHOT, not a composite of multiple images. I set the camera on a tripod with the settings described below and a 10-second timer. I used a brooder lamp on one side (45° angle) with three sheets of white paper to diffuse the light. I then stepped in front of a dark background, all dressed in black, and made the signs slowly, stopping from 3 to 6 seconds every now and then to allow the image to expose enough and imprint as clearly as possible. I converted to B&W in Photoshop and tweaked levels, curves and contrast a bit. It’s not a sharp image, and I don’t think that this could have been possible because it’s very hard to remain utterly still for 6 seconds. This one is the best of the 25 shots I made. Focal length 35 mm / ISO-100 / Aperture f/18 / Shutter 20 sec. Shot in manual mode with a 10-sec. timer / Nikon D60 / AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-55mm f3.5-5.6G VR Featured in Bits and Pieces on August 14, 2009 Featured in Studio Lighting on August 16, 2009 840 views on December 7, 2009 /
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We get on like a horse on fire
by bellmuskerTeacher, want you dinner with me? _Ah, thanks, but school policy advises us not to …..um….date our students. Maybe we could hav…
Teacher, want you dinner with me? Ah, thanks, but school policy advises us not to …..um….date our students. Maybe we could have a class excursion to a restaurant? I not interested with class. I just want you…...you, and your phenomenon. The torture of wonderful lines like that is that you splutter, and turn to raise your eyebrows at someone in mischievous solidarity – and are met only by the confused gaze of a shy young Korean man, totally perplexed as to why his teacher is turning purple. I love my job. Linguistics keeps me alive, and being able to teach about the Germanic language family, Chaucerian couplets and non-defining relative clauses to a sea of eager Russian, Japanese, Brazilian and Turkish students makes me shine. And their deliciously inept grasp of my troublesome language keeps me entertained for hours. On a resume – In my three months in Australia, I have been working as a vacuum cleaner. / In a diary – I ran for the train and jumped on the last part of it. How say that – train’s tail? Train’s arse? / On a job application – For the last three summers, I have done a lifeguard in Pusan. Without a doubt, the most notorious part of English for most students is prepositions. These irksome little grammar particles are so hard to get right, and have resulted in some of my favourite mistakes. I don’t have my dictionary today – I left it in my housemate. So I went to the pub last night, and this guy came on me at the bar. / – He did what?! / – Flirted with me…why, is wrong? / – Ah, I think you mean he came onto you. There’s a world of difference, be careful! – So let’s talk about your daily routines, practise some adverbs of frequency. / – Well, every Sunday evening I eat out my wife. / – Excuse me?! / – Yes, sometimes we have Italian food, sometimes Thai…..are you ok? / – Ah, you need another preposition; eat out with my wife…..please. The cultural differences trigger dischord also, and give some memorable moments; like the man who thought it was socially acceptable to pick his nose while I was talking to him, and wipe his findings across his cheek. Shudder. Tattooed women come in for speculation also; for many of my Japanese students, that’s a sign of the Yakuza, the Japanese mafia, while for others it’s the sign of ahem ‘a woman of easy virtue’. Although my tattoos are covered in my ritzy private language college, many of my students know about them, and react in different ways. My feminist feistiness also gets challenged, like with the Korean student who wrote a job application stating ‘although I am just a woman, I think I could still do this job’. One student walked into a colleague’s class, took one look at her and went straight to the office to demand a male teacher because ‘a woman has not enough knowledge’. Oh my lord, where do I begin? Pronunciation gives me joy too, like the Vietnamese student who told his host mother ‘I want fuck you in my room’. It took quite a few perplexed questions and a spot of miming before she realised he was actually saying ‘vacuum’. Each language has its own particular problem area, such as Spanish students going to St Kilda Bitch each weekend, instead of beach, or Japanese students talking about the national erection instead of election….....how I keep a straight face, I don’t know. Actually, I have to say I often don’t! And I really don’t think they mind. Given that I’m a flame haired tattooed pagan wench whose teaching style derives from her dominatrix days and who bases her image half on a librarian, half on Van Halen’s ‘hot for the teacher’ video, who plays Pantera for her class to analyse the lyrics and takes them to quiz nights at the Cherry Bar….what’s a little laughter at the end of the day? My favourite story, which some of you may be familiar with, involves a shy young Colombian man who beckoned me over and whispered ‘what’s the word for animals, and sex?’ I wasn’t sure why he needed to know, but I told him ‘Ah, that’s bestiality’. The other students overheard and I ended up writing it on the board, drilling them in pronunciation and syllable stress, and they all wrote it in their little notebooks. And then the student said, almost to himself, ‘Ok, so that’s when animals have sex’. And I froze. ‘Hang on, no…..that’s mating. When animals have sex, they mate.’ ‘Oh, I see. So what’s bestiality then?’ I don’t think my class ever looked at me quite the same way again. Just a little musing….but you’ll have to excuse me, class is about to begin. And I have my little red notebook open and ready….who knows what gems will be delivered today?
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acrylic on board 1.5×1m .. featured in ‘abstract art’ /
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