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I was reading my Tin House magazine just now I thought this was awesome:
Only the I Ching Hexagrams are Lacking
Unlike despair, happiness knows no final answer
As one who has carried discontent
Like car keys,
why should I silence the music of their ping and jingle?
I turn to the Master of No Speech
And seek his counsel.
In the dye-glare of Zattere waters,
He opens his hands: five elements and the ten celestial stems.
– Charles Wright, from Tin House Vol. 10, No. 3
I adore Chinese (well, let’s be inclusive and say ASIAN) calligraphy. It’s complex and lovely and one of my favourite art forms. I am doing another wisteria window and I thought it’d be cool to have ‘wisteria’ in calligraphy on the window. So, I search the intertubes and find 2 versions – but have no way of knowing which one is the one I want.
Enter Oriental Outpost. This site offers custom calligraphy wall hangings as well as Asian art and translation assistance. They can find you a word, they can create your name in calligraphy or provide you with stunning Asian art pieces. The site is run by an American, Gary, who has lived in Asia for years. The forums are chock full of information and Gary will help you with whatever you need. They also offer straight up translation services, too, if you need something translated to or from Chinese or Japanese – or you want to make sure your kanji tat says what it’s supposed to… ;-)
Gary showed me which of the ideograms for wisteria I should use for free, which is why he gets a big old shout out on the blog today. Thanks, Gary, I appreciate your assistance!
We are finishing up some stuff and getting ready to head out to FCBD! Go to your local comic shop to get your free comics!
If you’d like a ThinkWeasel! Sampler, just email me and I’ll get one to you.
We’ll be at Criminal Records and Comics at 2:30pm today to introduce the Atlanta Cartoonists meetup group. There’s a sign up sheet if you miss us!
After the FCBD festivities, we’ll be at the Vortex for Heather’s birthday party @ 6pm. We’ll probably be upstairs if you meet us there.
That’s it! Gotta jet! Hope to see you in L5P!
We are starting a meetup group for anyone interested in the comics business – either hand drawn or web comics – or both. This group will meet monthly (hopefully) at various venues around town. I will line up a speaker or at least have a theme for each meeting. I hope to get started in June!
Please join us at Criminal Records in L5P for Free Comic Book Day, Saturday May 2nd. We will do our meet n greet around 2-3pm. There will be a sign up sheet at Criminal at the Comics desk, so please sign up when you get your free comics.
Feel free to email me (misangela at telepath dot com) if you have any questions or want me to put you on the list via email. :-)
Thanks to all that joined us Saturday. Everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves – some more than others (Dave, I’m looking at you! LOL). I’d gotten my drink on Friday night (damn that never ending VAT of box wine!) so I didn’t really drink that much Saturday. But I kept busy with the cooking and hostessing, so it was all good.
Super Special shout out to Caroline (et al.) for bringing that AWESOME boudin. OMG, we are totally addicted. Both the pork and the crawfish types were deelish! Someone needs to send me the links for ordering it or where to find it locally. YUM!
I took in my Wisteria window and Stormy’s The Overseer window to MINT today. Here is The Overseer:
Well, off to beddie! G’night intertubes!
