Recently I found this intresting guy on twitter called the Flying Trilobite who is an artist inspired by science - I really liked his drawings so followed him.
Anyway he then tweeted about submissions for palaeo-environment pictures and lo! I found Art Evolved and their time capsules full of palaeo-art!
Anyway it turned out the next time capsule was palaeo-environments and they wanted pictures along that theme. Unfortunatly it was very close to the deadline and I wasn't sure how to entire or if I could - even though on a later inspection of the site I saw all the instructions in plan sight!
Anyway I basically only manage to get a quick biro sketch done which wasn't composed properly or anything!
My topic was an Upper Ordovician benthonic community - yep you got it - basically it was another of my seascapes 🙂
Anyway its here if you want to see it 🙂 I'm in the middle bit of the time capsule.
Of course being me the first thing I did was sit down and read a few chapters of various palaeo books I just happen to have lurking about 🙂
Anyway I am really excited about this as I've been searching for art and science cross overs 🙂 The next time capsule is on the Therizinosaurs which I think are like beaked dinosaurs I think! I need to do a bit of reading up on these - at the moment the only book I have that mentions them is my Vertebrate Palaeontology book :/
I have applied to paint an elephant!
Yep you heard me an elephant! Of the statue variety - think the multi-coloured cows that were around London or the Pigs that were in Bath.
They don't have many left and I only just scraped in on the deadline - so I probably wont get it but I had to try!
The elephants will be paraded in London to help awareness of the plight of the Asian elephant. You can find out more about the event here.
I love conservation stuff and again this is for me at least a cross over of science and art - so for my design I went for the whole ecology feel - so yeah you guessed it I plan to paint one of my seascapes 🙂 Well to me the epitamise a bio-community in balance and in danger - they are also basically one of the oldest habitates on earth!
One of the things that doing this application has taught me though is that I need to get some sort of portfolio site up and running :/
Of course I have all the normal loss weight, do more exercise and cut down the caffine ones but then there are the others!
These are more about the mind than about the body and are really more about setting myself goals.
So firstly I am upping the poetry stakes - I plan to go to more readings and the like and to compile at least as e-books 2 sets of poetry. One of these is The Little Book of Festive Poetry I wrote for Jean as part of the PiBoIdMo. I could do a similar thing with the book of Spoogy Poetry I did her for Halloween too but I am more interested in getting a collect of 50 poems together that aren't kids ones. I have definatly written enough poems for this but I sort of want to do nice borders and things for the page so it will take a bit of work!
I am also setting up and helping to organise WoPoWriMo (World Poetry Writing Month) which will be in February.
Art wise I want to finish my Art Journal for Escape Into Life and send it off - maybe do some other art stuff but mainly get illustrations done for my own writing.
Science - I need to get enough courage to talk to the college about that so can't really plan anything.
Other writing projects - I would like to release a book of my Friday Flash stories though I do not yet know what sort of length would be good for that - besides 3 of them are currently in for an anthology so I may not be able to use those ones :/
I would love to get The Punk in Pink finished but don't know if that is possible so I will settle for writing another 100, 000 words on it! That is twice the NaNoWriMo count so should be doable even if I just use November!
I also want to finish typing up the Drs Wife and maybe get into editing it :/
Music wise I want to pick up the guitar again mainly.
This New Years Eve sees both a Lunar eclipse which is currently occuring - my camera is annoyingly doing the thing of deciding it's too cold to take photos 🙁
It is also by some definitions a Blue Moon! For real! I'm serious 🙂
The number of full moons in a year alters and if there is more then the 12 corrasponding to our months which all have names etc... the extra moons get the name Blue Moon. So if there are two full Moons in a month one of them gets called Blue!
There are other definitions of this such as the Lent Moon being the Betrayer Moon which sounds like blue in Hebrew or something but still we have a blue moon and an eclipse on the turning of the year and the start of a new decade 🙂
And yes I know that the turn of the year is actually at the Shortest Day but this is the night that everyones celebrating so ner!
So the first decade of the New Millenium is drawing to a close. Due to the the zeros involved in the dates it was dubbed the Nuaghties but I always prefered the Oozies instead.
And that is what this decade has done it has oozed - political wars shifted countries without the general public apparently noticing what the governments had done. Political parties in the Uk at least seemed to all merge into various forms of the same thing - New Labour=Old Conservative etc... Back paddling on polices.
I would say the banks and finiacial industries have oozed as has the printed book industry with plagerists getting short listed for prestigous prizes and those who should be getting the prizes rediculed becuase they are the wrong genre (like genre has anything to do with the power and talent of the writing?).
IT has oozed into all our lives - a process that started more in the nineties it is true but it is now ingrained and with this the degregation of geeks in the mind of the managers begain in ernest.
Spin doctoring has oozed its way into science and academia. And the apathy of the general public has oozed itself into discontentment.
Yes this is depressing but look where we stand at the end of this decade - look at the Copenhagen fiasco and ponder the future! Look to the fungus' and stuff hitting the Asian bread bowls and the vanillia plants due to greedy farming methods and think where we are dragging humanity in this 'New Millenium'.
One of the things I have discovered is that none of this is new - the more history I read as research for the Punk storyline the more I find humans have been oozing in their cesspits of civilisations for... well forever.
But I think it can be changed I think the oozing totalitarism can be stopped and humanity freed. And now the glitz of the nuaghties has started to tarnish perhapse substance will become important once more.
Art and Craft, Geology, Sarah | sarah | 
Fri 8th Jan 2010 11:55 am | 
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