sheftali52

I don't have the time to follow this channel as much lately, but I wanted to say how much I enjoy the eclectic birthday offerings our host posts daily. I find it fun to pick a person or two I don't know and look them up--educational as well as entertaining. Bravo, Baldur!!

Baldur

Thank you Sheftali, I haven't been around here too much myself lately.
Baldur is still dealing with family issues.

Baldur

Happy Birthday to Nelly Furtado, Lucy Liu, Stone Phillips, Gianni Versace, Julie Harris, Alexander Haig, Maria Callas, Prince Mikasa, Otto Dix, Charles Ringling and Georges Seurat.

Baldur

Here is a nice seasonal Flashmob video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE&feature=aso

Login

Thanks Baldur, that was fantastic.

Baldur

You're welcome Login, it's amazing just how many variants of this are online.

Baldur

Happy Birthday to Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway, Brendan Fraser, Katarina Witt, Julianne Moore, Darryl Hannah, Warren Jeffs, Steven Kulp, Ozzy Osbourne, Viktor Gorbatko, Jaye. P. Morgan, Andy Williams, Ferlin Husky, Anna Freud, Charles Alfred Pillsbury, Pheobe Hearst, George B. McClellan, Gilbert Stuart and King Charles VI of France.

polenta

Good video Baldur, beautiful voices and terrific experience for those around them. One thing though. The more I see malls around the world, the more I realize how similar they are. It's like things inside a mall don't have a nationality. It could have been US, UK, India, Argentina or Peru. Why don't architects try something that gives shopping centers a national personality?

Baldur

I agree polenta, these malls are designed with a complete lack of individual personality.
Why should it be?

Baldur

Baldur was just given a gift of acres of fabric in the form of vintage 1970s linen draperies in an overscaled artichoke pattern.
I live a charmed life.
The holidays are quite busy here so they can't be dealt with until January at the very earliest, but they are safe here until then.
I am attaching a link, Baldur indeed found an image of the pattern online.
The rust background is perfect for Boughbreak.
Do not underestimate the scale of this pattern!
Each artichoke is a full 15" tall and 9" wide

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.craftlog.org/craftlog/archives/artichoke2.jpg&a mp;imgrefurl=http://craftlog.org/craftlog/%3Fm%3D200511&usg=__74070CpTz7sxDn9tpTVEVxauH_o=& amp;h=376&w=382&sz=53&hl=en&start=50&zoom=1&tbnid=-yMuZGKr7m1YgM:&t bnh=115&tbnw=114&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dartichoke%2Bpattern%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG%26biw%3D855% 26bih%3D550%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=203&ei=Msr5TODyEoOBlAe8 9uTIDA&oei=KMr5TNG1A8H38AaEhLjhBw&esq=7&page=5&ndsp=16&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:50& amp;tx=73&ty=44

Baldur

Somehow that link complicated matters, Try this one instead.
The image is the photograph under the heading: 'stretched napkin panels'


http://craftlog.org/craftlog/?m=200511

lynnspotter

Isn't vintage fabric wonderful? Which room might you add this to, and will they be curtains?

Baldur

Happy Birthday to Tyra Banks, Nikki Tyler, Jay-Z, Marisa Tomei, Jeff Bridges, Southside Johnny, Terry Woods, Dennis Wilson, Max Baer Jr., Wink Martindale, Deanna Durbin, Francisco Franco, Rainier Maria Rilke, Lillian Russell and John Cotton.

Baldur

They will remain curtains lynn but will need to be somewhat reconfigured (+3 points). Two of the 6 panels are 102 inches wide!
I have acres of screen printed linen fabric, all of it quite sturdy.
The top of each panel is pinch pleated. This shall be undone and coaxed back to flatness with the assistance of a steam iron. It makes no sense to Baldur to take such a graphic pattern and bunch it up into knots.
Here at Boughbreak we use metal drapery rings and exposed decorative rods to hang our window treatments.

Baldur

For tonight's Poetry Corner we are featuring the classic work of A. E. Housman. This was part of his 'A Shropshire Lad' published in 1896. a true wonder that everyone should read.........


‘TERENCE, this is stupid stuff:
You eat your victuals fast enough;
There can’t be much amiss, ’tis clear,
To see the rate you drink your beer.
But oh, good Lord, the verse you make,
It gives a chap the belly-ache.
The cow, the old cow, she is dead;
It sleeps well, the horned head:
We poor lads, ’tis our turn now
To hear such tunes as killed the cow.
Pretty friendship ’tis to rhyme
Your friends to death before their time
Moping melancholy mad:
Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.’

Why, if ’tis dancing you would be,
There’s brisker pipes than poetry.
Say, for what were hop-yards meant,
Or why was Burton built on Trent?
Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier liquor than the Muse,
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God’s ways to man.
Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink
For fellows whom it hurts to think:
Look into the pewter pot
To see the world as the world’s not.
And faith, ’tis pleasant till ’tis past:
The mischief is that ’twill not last.
Oh I have been to Ludlow fair
And left my necktie God knows where,
And carried half way home, or near,
Pints and quarts of Ludlow beer:
Then the world seemed none so bad,
And I myself a sterling lad;
And down in lovely muck I’ve lain,
Happy till I woke again.
Then I saw the morning sky:
Heigho, the tale was all a lie;
The world, it was the old world yet,
I was I, my things were wet,
And nothing now remained to do
But begin the game anew.

Therefore, since the world has still
Much good, but much less good than ill,
And while the sun and moon endure
Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure,
I’d face it as a wise man would,
And train for ill and not for good.
’Tis true, the stuff I bring for sale
Is not so brisk a brew as ale:
Out of a stem that scored the hand
I wrung it in a weary land.
But take it: if the smack is sour,
The better for the embittered hour;
It should do good to heart and head
When your soul is in my soul’s stead;
And I will friend you, if I may,
In the dark and cloudy day.

There was a king reigned in the East:
There, when kings will sit to feast,
They get their fill before they think
With poisoned meat and poisoned drink.
He gathered all the springs to birth
From the many-venomed earth;
First a little, thence to more,
He sampled all her killing store;
And easy, smiling, seasoned sound,
Sate the king when healths went round.
They put arsenic in his meat
And stared aghast to watch him eat;
They poured strychnine in his cup
And shook to see him drink it up:
They shook, they stared as white’s their shirt:
Them it was their poison hurt.
—I tell the tale that I heard told.
Mithridates, he died old.

Baldur

Happy Birthday to Margaret Cho, Doctor Dre, Jim Plunkett, Jim Messina, Jose' Carreras, J.J. Cale, Little Richard, Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX), Otto Preminger, Strom Thurmond, Walt Disney, Fritz Lang, George Armstrong Custer, Christina Rossetti!, Martin Van Buren and Pope Julius II.

sheftali52

Enjoyed the poetry, Baldur. Thought of our host as I looked at garden gnomes on-line. Lo and behold, there was a Steampunk gnome--perfect!

Qsilv

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=127181

I love Housman... and I think Baldur MIGHT like to keep an eye out for a (used!) copy of this:
http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9780198122258

Baldur

Wow! and is it ever expensive.... are publishers trying to push people into reading e-books?
I will keep an eye out for a used copy now.

Baldur

Here is that Steampunk Garden Gnome...

http://tomopop.com/tomopop-review-raje-toys-x-doktor-a-s-g-n-o-m-e-15141.phtml