I am creating a family symbol, a family tattoo.

Really exciting!

i am going to share it as soon as i finish drawing.

Eentje uit de ‘oude’ doos. Winnaar van de Golden Lion @ Cannes 2004

“This little beauty will ensure you’re ready for action 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because you never know when your luck could be in.”

Predators will always try and attack prey animals from behind. The herbivores of Africa have many defensive mechanisms; this includes sharp hooves, horns and teeth. The predators need to concentrate their efforts on the less dangerous individuals in the herd. This is where the patterns are creating an illusion to the predator’s eyes and the hunters struggle to single out the weak elements in the herd. This illusion effect is enhanced by the fact that the young zebras fouls will always stay in close proximity of the mares and the following photo shows the effectiveness of this unique adaptation.

LITTLE MASTER

—for CMD

Little master, when I am gone, the gold rings on my fingers

Will be yours—I hope like clover they bring you luck.

We are only once men but twice boys.

You thought I was something— your hand in

Mine—your footstep in my stride—and now I

Hold your hand. 

The cropped world of Mrs.—taut and nervous—

Allows no space for the unexamined chin scrape, the

Unexplained bruise on the shin—we must talk about it—

There are no paths for you, Hunter, Warrior—guided by

Mars against a world that has declared its war on you in

Rules—quiet!—in commands—be still—and judgments—don’t cry.

The nuns once corrected my bold barbarian cursive.

The lack of memory for it all—except for the fiery dance of victory

On the noonday field and the implicit understanding that the other team

Is not dancing—and in those faces without victory you recognize your

Own defeated twin—they don’t acknowledge that about you.

In the Forest Nod of Lancelot and Galahad you meet your own

Christ—and there gently pluck the rose and hold it soft to your cheek—

Firmly tame the lioness to obey—master, master—master yourself—

And, little man, be nothing like me.

Autumn 2009

Dan Davis, © 2009

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Wednesday 4th March 2009 00:19am Lion and Lamb Walk

We had some very heavy snow for about a week then. The University was closed for many days giving us almost a whole week off to play around in the snow. After having a very warm day inside me and Arron thought lets go out and take some photos. We were out for a good couple hours as it kept coming down around us.

Bring on next year!

D

Directo al corazón!

Two lions burgled the enclosure of a rare white tiger at a zoo in the Czech Republic, killing the occupant, BBC News reports.

The big cat blue-on-blue is attributed to the zoo’s peculiar cage rotation policy. Lions and tigers share nocturnal accommodation in the same “pavilion”, and are released into separate open-air enclosures at daybreak.

But for reasons that are not at all clear, the external habitats are assigned to different species on a rota system.

The friendly-fang incident took place when the two lions — Sultan and Elsa — prised open a trap door leading to their previous accommodation, perhaps in an attempt to reclaim their old territory, and surprised Isabella, the new occupant.

Staff rushed to respond to the tigress’ cries for help, but in vain.

Head-scratching zoo director David Nejedlo told the BBC: “The current security system has been in place for 12 years and such an accident has never happened before.”

Saturday was so much fun! Seeing New moon and all! Fun, fun! After the film we went into town to start a little Christmas shopping, i cannot believe its that time of year already! D: .. not that I’m complaining! But still, I feels like I was enjoying the rays of summer only 2 weeks ago! .. Blimey. But hayho? .. Where was I, oh .. We were in town and brought a new stretcher for my ear 3mm, it hurts like fuuuuckk!!! D’: ..It’s hurting right now, as i sit in media doing fuck all. (: (Well I’m doing reviews on blog sites .. LOL Cha’right ;D) The soundtrack it quite good actually, its surpirsing how I remember which song was used for what scene in the film. I’m so awesome ^^, im hand has cramp again! .. Perhaps people sell cramp-wrist harnesses? D:- If only.
I had the weirdest dream last night! D:
I was in a pet shop with my family, and a couple friends, but the pet shop had a model section, and there was this hulk model under this batman one. And he was laying down on some lab bed in his green hulky form, and he looked really serious. But in the middle of his chest was a button, i obviously pushed it and i made farting noises! D: LOL .. so i kept pushing it, having myself a nice chuckle. I read the side and I was called something like, Whoopsie, there I go again! D: They walked off and my parents and that were like we’re going now, so they went I was gonna go aswell, but then inside one of those heater tank things was my friend Mark! D:< .. Wth? :L :L :L .. and he was sleeping, I go to him, 'Mark?! .. When I die can my funeral have a Lion theme?' He ignored me and proceeded in sleeping. I dont remember anymore, but I was strange. LOL! (: … Anyways I have to go now! Art awaits ¬¬'
Caio! ^^

This dream started out with me on an airplane, and we were just reaching our destination.
Upon our descent, most of the people on the plane started to get airsick (and if you know me, I’m the type of person who can’t STAND to see, hear, smell, etc. ANYone vomiting.  It is extremely disturbing to me).  Once the plane landed, I rushed off of it to get away from these people.

We had landed in the middle of a wide, open plain.  I can’t say for sure, but I’m guessing it was Africa, and you’ll see why in a second.
We were all of the same group, and we began to walk towards the edge of a cliff (which wasn’t too much of a cliff–it had a slope downwards that was fairly steep, but we were still able to climb down it).  We were walking, and then we came upon a giraffe.  I started yelling at everyone to go AROUND the giraffe rather than near it, because they are actually quite dangerous, but nobody listened to me.  The giraffe then proceeded to swing it’s head at people and hit them with its two bony horns (which, I recall from watching National Geographic the other night, is how giraffes fight amongst each other in real life).
In an “I told you so” manner, I began to climb down the slope with a few other people.

Once at the bottom of the slope, we were on a second plain, and then we got into a truck.  Most of us were in the bed of the truck, because there wasn’t much room in the cab, of course.  as we were driving, a cheetah started to attack us–it was jumping so high that it was above the bed of the truck, and trying to jump into it.
I, for some reason, had some sort of a club or a baseball bat, and I hit it to fend it off, which worked.

A little while later, we got out of the truck, and started walking….and then some male lions started chasing after us.
We ran as fast as we could, and eventually someone saw a beach, and yelled “head towards the water!  They’re cats, so they don’t like to swim!!”, and so we did just that…and it actually worked.
The lions didn’t follow us into the water, and after about 5 minutes, they got bored with waiting for us to come out of the water, and wandered off.

In a second part of the dream, I was taking pictures of fiddler crabs on the shore.
Then, it switched to a scene where I was still in this Africa-type place, but I was conducting an interview for the teacher of an elementary school.  The interview was being held on the playground of the school, and the person that I was interviewing for the position was messing with a piece of fabric on the sand for some reason….after a few minutes, this all changed–I was the interviewee, and the woman was the one who was interviewing me.
The interview concluded, and at about the same time, a male teacher came up to the interviewers, who were his superiors, and told them that, from now on, he would like to be addressed as Mr. 33702 (or a number similar to this–I know that the first two digits were 3s, but I can’t remember the last 3 digits), which was his zip code.  I made a joke that he was definitely not the only one in that zip code, and that there must have been hundreds of other “Mr. 33702″s, but he ignored me.

The dream then changed again, and I was still in this Africa-like area, but this time, I was a senior in high school again.  I took a few different artsy classes (which makes sense, since, in real life, I’m a photographer and all-around artist), and in one class, I won a contest where the prize was to pick one of a variety of corsets.  I chose one that was all-white, had a lacy pattern, and was very elegant and feminine.  Then that class ended, and I ran into a friend (a friend who I actually DO know in real life, but whom I haven’t seen or talked to in a few years, and she just happened to be in the dream), and she was very hysteric, going on about how she thought she might be pregnant.  I was telling her that she shouldn’t worry, because the only reason why she thought this was because she was a day late on her period, and she hadn’t even taken a pregnancy test yet, but it didn’t calm her down.

Which was when I woke up.

OPENINGS/ENDINGS

→ Macross Frontier – Single OP1 – Triangular

Name: Triangular
Artist: Sakamoto Maaya
CD Release: 2008/04/23
Tracks:

01. Triangular
02. Koto Michi
03. Triangular (w/o maaya)
04. Koto Michi (w/o maaya)
Download: Click Here (64.06 MB)

→ Macross Frontier – Single ED1 – Diamond Crevasse

Name: Diamond Crevasse
Artist: Sheryl Nome starring May’n
CD Release: 2008/05/08
Tracks:

01. Diamond Crevasse
02. Iteza Gogo Kyuuji Don’t be late
03. Diamond Crevasse (without Sheryl)
04. Iteza Gogo Kyuuji Don’t be late (without Sheryl)
Download: Click Here (56.76 MB)

→ Macross Frontier – Single OP2/ED2 – Lion

Name: Lion
Artist: May’n & Nakajima Megumi
CD Release: 2008/08/20
Tracks:

01. Lion
02. Northern Cross
03. Lion without vocals
04. Northern Cross without vocals
Download: Click Here (55.94 MB)

ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACKS

→ Macross Frontier – Original Soundtrack 1 – Nyan Furo.

Name: Original Soundtrack 1 – Nyan Furo.
CD Release: 2008/06/04
Tracks:

01. Frontier 2059
02. Welcome To My FanClub’s Night! (Sheryl On Stage)
03. What ’bout my star? (Sheryl On Stage)
04. Iteza – Gogo 9ji – Don’t be late (Sheryl On Stage)
05. Vital Force
06. Triangular
07. Zero Hour
08. What ’bout my star?@Formo
09. Innocent green
10. Aimo
11. Big Boys
12. Private Army
13. SMS Shoutai no Uta ~ Ano Musume wa Alian
14. Ninji-n Loves you yeah!
15. “Chou Jikuu Hanten Nyan Nyan” CM Song (Ranka Version)
16. Alto’s Theme
17. TALLY HO!
18. The Target
19. Bajura
20. Kira Kira
21. Aimo ~ Tori no Hito
22. Take Off
23. Infinity
24. Diamond Crevasse
Download: Click Here (194.33 MB)

→ Macross Frontier – Original Soundtrack 2 – Nyan Tora.

Name: Original Soundtrack 2 – Nyan Tora.
CD Release: 2008/10/08
Tracks:

01. Prologue F
02. Northern Cross
03. Triangler
04. High School Life
05. Transformation
06. Anata no Oto
07. Test Flight Delight
08. Seikan Hikou
09. Inu Mimi Ranka
10. Yousei
11. Tsuioku no Trumpet
12. Shinkuu no Diamond Crevasse
13. Ai Oboete Imasuka ~ bless the little queen
14. Ao no Ether
15. is this LOVE?
16. shadow of Michael
17. Aimo O.C.
18. Battle Frontier
19. Nyan Nyan Service Medley~Lion~Infinity~Watashi no Kare wa Pirate~Diamond Cravesse~Seikan Hikou~What ’bout my star?~Lion~Ai Oboete Imasuka~
20. Protoculture
Download: Click Here (171.15 MB)

VOCAL COLLECTION AND SINGLE

→ Macross Frontier – Ranka Lee Debut Single – Seikan Hikou

Name: Ranka Lee Debut Single – Seikan Hikou
Artist: Nakajima Megumi
CD Release: 2008/06/25
Tracks:

01. Seikan Hikou
02. Neko Nikki
03. Ai Oboete Imasuka -Dekarucha Edition size-
04. Watashi no Kare wa Pilot -MISS MACROSS 2059-
05. Seikan Hikou -without Ranka-
06. Ai Oboete Imasuka -Dekarucha Edition size w/o Ranka-
Download: Click Here (49.01 MB)

→ Macross Frontier – Vocal Collection – Nyan Tama

Name: Vocal Collection – Nyan Tama
Artist: Various
CD Release: 2008/12/03
Tracks:

Disc 1

01. Triangler
02. What ’bout my star? @ Formo
03. Aimo
04. Diamond Crevasse ~ Tenboukouen Nite
05. Welcome To My FanClub’s Night!
06. Iteza Gogo Kuji Don’t be late
07. What ’bout my star?
08. Infinity #7
09. “Choujikuu Hanten Nyan Nyan” CM Song (Ranka Version)
10. Seikan Hikou
11. Watashi no Kare wa Pilot
12. Neko Nikki
13. Ninjiin Loves you yeah!
14. Uchuu Kyoudai Fune
15. SMS Shoutai no Uta ~ Ano Musume wa Alien
16. Aimo O.C.
17. Aimo ~ Tori no Hito
18. Ai Oboete Imasuka
19. Diamond Crevasse
20. Aimo ~ Koi no Uta
21. Infinity #7 without vocals
22. Ninjiin Loves you yeah! without vocals

Disc 2

01. Lion
02. Diamond Crevasse 50/50
03. Sheryl no Aimo
04. Yousei
05. Northern Cross
06. Brera to Ko Ranka no Aimo
07. Anata no Oto
08. Ao no Ether
09. Ai Oboete Imasuka ~ bless the little queen
10. Nyan Nyan Special Service Medley (Tokumori)
11. Triangler (fight on stage)
12. Haha to Ko Ranka no Aimo
13. Nyan Nyan Special Service Medley (Tokumori without vocals)
14. Anata no Oto (without vocals)
Download: Click Here (366.88 MB)

MOVIE THEME

→ Macross F Movie Insert Song Single – pink monsoon

Name: Macross F Movie Insert Song Single – pink monsoon
Artist: Sheryl Nome starring May’n
CD Release: 2009/10/21
Tracks:

01. pink monsoon
02. Tenshi ni Nacchatta
03. ping monsoon (without sheyl)
04. Tenshi ni Nacchatta (without sheryl)
Download: Click Here (50.36 MB)

Hi!

It’s been a crazy week. In honor of it being done here are a few ways I am celebrating right now… well not number three… yet

1. Buying lots of pretty magazines like this October 2009 Australian Vogue (holy shipping delay!), and the new Elle and Elle Canada. I really like Elle, it’s just… grown on me so much. Plus the creative director Joe Zee is a fav and is everywhere all at once. Check out his great NY Diet post and then spend another 2 hours reading about what people eat in New York.

2. Downloading free fonts from Font Fabric and dafont.

3. Buying and popping champagne (aka $12 Spumante Bambino, watch an aweful/hilarious commercial here). Even the cheapest kind is packaged in a way that makes you feel like a million bucks. Gold foil anyone? Image from weheartit.

Tomorrow, themes and props I love in photoshoots: a list! (Next semester has me thinking a lot about it since I will be art directing a shoot for a double page spread (featuring a Ryerson fashion design grad) that has about a 1 in 20 chance at being published in Flare Magazine. I am so excited.

I also want to eat this picture it is so freaking good.

Kingdom of  SWAZILAND

stamp: 3 cents

year: 1969

mammal: catlikes / lion

For a long time Deearne has wanted to go to Africa to play with lion cubs for her 40th birthday. Well, the planning is almost complete and come March next year we’ll be doing exactly that.

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The plan is to fly from Australia to Johannesburg, where we’ll overnight at the Mondior Concorde Hotel, before flying on to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. From there we transfer by road to the Chobe Safari Lodge in Botswana.

While in Chobe we’ll do game drives and a Chobe River cruise with a view to seeing as many African animals in the wild as possible. However our chances of seeing any big cats here is relatively slim. After a couple of days in Chobe we road transfer back to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe where we’ll stay at the Victoria Falls Safari Lodge.

In Victoria falls we have our first lion encounter with an excursion to the Masuwe estate. Here we get to spend an hour-and-a-half walking with two to three lion cubs aged from 3 to 16 months. In addition to the lion encounter we’ve also organised a guided tour of Victoria Falls—the largest curtain of falling water in the world—and a sunset cruise on the Zambezi River to see more animals in the wild.

From Victoria Falls we fly back to Johannesburg and then on to Port Elizabeth, on the south coast of South Africa. There we’ll be staying at the Beach Hotel from where we plan to visit the Seaview Game & Lion Park for our second lion encounter. Here we’re hoping to be able to play with some young lion cubs, and at this stage they should have some 4-month-old cubs around the time we are there.

From Port Elizabeth it’s then back to Johannesburg for another overnight stay before flying on to Mauritius for a week of rest and relaxation at The Sands Resort. So far we don’t have a lot planned for the Mauritius leg of our trip, other than the pool/beach, but we’ll probably take at least one outing to Cascavelle for another lion encounter at Safari Adventures Mauritius.

From Mauritius we then head home on a very long flight via Perth and Melbourne, but no doubt worth it for the experiences we’ll have had.

Is your room too empty? Want to decorate your house with wildlife photographs? Then don’t hesitate to check out Nick Bandt’s gallery here!! You can choose the photos you like and just order your print!

To be honest I was never interested in looking at wildlife photographs, because it is always the same old thing. But Nick Bandt changed everything, I actually spent my time looking through photo by photo and it is amazing! Credit goes to Ryan Lee Bhaskaran for giving me Nick’s website.

cheers!

Furieux d’être viré, dévore son patron

Animals from the jungle trying to catch up with the truck with the last trees on

Running for life

Download free print version here

cartoon illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt - hikingartist.com

Let’s go with people named Nick…

Nick Brandt

Nicolas de Staël

Leo the Lion is my first amigurumi from the book Amigurumi World since I figured out that I was crocheting them inside out. As you see, his head and his bottom are much rounder than my previous animals for this book. I also feel that he was easier to crochet than the elephant or monkey from this book. This is probably due to crocheting him correctly, not inside out, or just the fact that I have made 4 of the patterns in this book, as well as the ones from my other book. I am getting the hang of crocheting amigurumi now. Either way I really enjoyed crocheting Leo and I think he turned out really cute.

The part that I really dislike still is the sewing together of these guys. I love to crochet all their parts but just hate when it is time to put them together. I feel I did better on Leo though than on my other amigurumi’s. First I studied the pictures in the book very carefully, and I saw that the felt parts where not being stitched on with a back stitch as I had tried to do previously. Second, by the end of crocheting, I am excited to put my amigurumi together so I think I rush the sewing together part. So, following the suggestion in the book and the pictures closely and slowing down and taking all the time I needed, I am much more pleased with Leo’s face than his friends. His face is probably better looking just due to the fact that his head is not pointy, or maybe just practice.

His mane was a sources of contention for me though. I crochet really tight. I followed that pattern exactly to make his mane but it fell short around his head due to how tight I crocheted it. I stretched it around to fit, but if I make another lion, I will break the pattern down and see how many stitches to add for more dumps on his mane. I already tried to crochet it looser, but still did not get a nice fitting mane.

So, Leo needs a good home. If anyone would like to provide him with one, please let me know.