h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Ah yes, I love cloud gazing! The other night I saw a sunset pink fish. (shaped cloud ).(hah, inspiration for photos)

I'm afraid the kirlian photo got lost in the mists of time, my friend. Would be so cool for . Tell you what, if I get to the Brighton MBS Festival, I'll see if the kirlian people are still around. heheh. The Kirlians, my Cousins. .That won't be till November, but better late than never.

I don't know if they still do kirlian photography, it was all the rage in the late 70s, early 80s.

I want to keep working on contributions for , with a little help from my friends .

....Oh look!

http://kirlianphotography.webs.com/

they're coming to London! The Kirlians.

Wonderful!

I think that's just what we need...some Kirlian photography.

Okay...Kirlian photography led to some art-project nonsense by me.

Two versions of Vitruvian Man - one by da Vinci, one not - put through the spatiotemporal meat grinder.

Poems, anyone?

http://gheorgheniplex.blogspot.com/2013/05/two-views-of-vitruvian-man-in-spacetime.html

Oh, wow. CC, you have to see this. Somebody has a whole blog about Mad Jack Fuller: http://madjackfuller.blogspot.com/

I'm in love.

That's incred. They are amazing. Had to google Vitruvian Man. . Now where is poetlady, or other wandering poets, when we need them. heheh.

Funny thing , I just spent the last half hour putting more of my photos through the art filters, whoah, some strange lighting going on. I wish I had a kirlian camera, or an x ray camera, , or stick my hand in the scanner no! no!

No kidding! There's another Mad Jack out there. . I love it.

Now we're well away ... .

Sorry, you've left me behind and I'll have to to catch up.

I think I understand about Mad Jack Fuller, and about Leonardo's drawing of the Vitruvian man. But I didn't know about Kirylian photography and, although I like the idea of a spatiotemporal meatgrinder, I don't quite understand it.

Have I missed something?

No , fear not mvp.

We're OK now. . We got a bit carried away by luminous kirlian angels.

I'm adding the final tints to a strange photo of a pepperpot. That's a nice cure for us. .

Spatiotemporal meatgrinder? What???

Ah yes, the kirlian question. Aura photography, or a camera effect. It's like the orbs that people photograph these days. Are they orbs, or a digital camera effect.

Some say it is what it is, some say it isn't what it isn't.

And on that philosophical note, have to catch early Exeter train ...

Speak soon

Just stopping off to tell about the cabbage white

I was feel a little stressy about driving today

A cabbage white came along and danced around me, she said 'It will be fine'. I said 'I know it will be alright but it is all the better for knowing you are there'

She said 'Thank you for the cabbages, it is good to know you care'
I said 'It is a pleasure to share beautiful dancing butterfly'

And she left

I saw a flit across our garden the other day, and I've seen orange tips around.

But it's still cold and there haven't been many bees.

We've seen bees. And s, too.

Also, the skinks are out.

What kind of skinks are those Dmitri?

I dunno the name for them, Willem. They have stripes, does that help?

OK, campers I found our skinks. They are non venomous and fast.

http://www.herpsofnc.org/herps_of_NC/lizards/Eumfas/Eum_fas.html

They have racing stripes which is appropriate for the land of NASCAR racing.

Thanks so much for those links! They are very similar to what we have over here:

http://www.hlasek.com/mabuya_striata_db6953.html

These are all over my garden.

I don't have any skinks

*goes off to hang out with her beetles*

I think they like warmer places, Peanut.

I love the skink-links. . Lovely skinks! I never heard of them before. I want skinks also, but skink-links are good, because they rhyme.

And lovely news of orange tips, and cabbage white flutterby spirit messengers. .



OK, ye literary ones, perhaps you can help.

I don't know my John Masefield, but for some reason, while I've been away for most of the weekend, the spouse has taken to discussing Masefield quotes on email with his brother and friend.

He keeps going on about Quinquireme of Nineveh which is driving me nuts, , but not half as nuts about the other issue concerning the first line of the poem Sea Fever.

. The spouse is miffed. All his life he has been defending that first line. No! he hath protested, 'tis a misquote, 'tis not 'I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky'. And it certainly isn't 'I must go down to the sea again....'.

The truth, he has always maintained, is that it is 'I must down to the seas again ....' which he says is a completely different thing.

Is this what Masefield originally wrote?

So then he checks and finds that there are two versions.

In some Masefield anthologies, the first line of the first verse is 'I must go down to the seas again...' then in the second verse it returns to 'I must down to the seas again ...'

But who changed the first line? Was it Masefield himself? And why?

So now we have a sea fever, a frenzy, a poetic upset. The truth must out. .

Of such quandaries are great literary feuds made. Wow.

Yes, quite so. .

I keep suggesting that presumably Masefield himself changed it. It couldn't have been just some random bloke, not allowed surely.

But why? why? says the spouse, clutching brow.

At least Quinquireme of Nineveh is straightforward, I gently suggest, not having read Cargoes until five minutes ago, although I'm not sure about the apes and peacocks.

I think I'm going away again. . .