The Old Banshee

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Sun Aug 18, 2002 5:57 am

This portrait is in oil, but yes, I love drawing, though I mainly draw anatomy...figures. In fact, that's all I draw, but it is the most difficult, worthwhile, and emotive thing to draw too...

Anyway, I am off this minute to the coast, and will be back in a week after hopefully spending 25 hours making a rock into a different shaped rock

...Goodbye all, and wish Grunty a happy Birthday if he is around

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 5:31 pm

Well, hello all...I am back, and once again refusing to occupy other taverns

Actually 'all' consist of me, Dottie, some vaguely scandinavian sounding username, occassionally Fable, and CE on stealth mode, not fooling anybody

Anyway, I have been in a quarry from 9 till 6 every day for the last week :eek:

....what have you been up to?

Tybaltus · Post by **Tybaltus** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 5:32 pm

Originally posted by frogus
Well, hello all...I am back, and once again refusing to occupy other taverns

Actually 'all' consist of me, Dottie, some vaguely scandinavian sounding username, occassionally Fable, and CE on stealth mode, not fooling anybody

Anyway, I have been in a quarry from 9 till 6 every day for the last week ....what have you been up to?

What? Im not included?

I was the last person you talked to in a tavern before your trip....

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 5:35 pm

Hello Frogus

I am only stealthing in order to make sudden aggressive attacks on Dotticutanus.

I've finished an article and sent it to a journal yesterday, now I just hope they will accept it for publication. It will be several weeks before I know. Many of my friends are also returning from their holidays one by one, so I've socialised with them.

How come you've spent the week in a quarry?

Dottie · Post by **Dottie** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 5:37 pm

Hi Frogus, hope you had a nice time in the... quarry.

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 5:43 pm

Sorry Tybbs!

:note to future readers: At 37 minutes past midnight, on a friday night at the end of August 2002, Tybaltus was logged onto this forum

@CE, good luck

What's your article about? (small words please

)...I have been virtuously creating art out of rocks :cool:

It is fierce work....I have been working a very dense limestone, 140 lbs. per cubic foot, and created a torso a bit less than two feet tall which weighs almost as much as me :eek:

...My right wrist is swollen, and I have developed a curious swelling in that flap of skin between your thumb and hand...about the size of a broad bean, soft, leathery, and rather painful

but no doubt essential to my adaptation to the lifestyle whcih my body assumed I was adopting :rolleyes:

...all this, not to mention callousses that you can cut diamonds with... :cool:

Cheers Dot...It was...character buliding

Tybaltus · Post by **Tybaltus** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 5:48 pm

Originally posted by frogus
Sorry Tybbs!

:note to future readers: [b]At 37 minutes past midnight, on a friday night at the end of August 2002, Tybaltus was logged onto this forum
[/b]

No problem.

Now you can call me slow or something, but I cant exactly place why the statement about me being logged at that time is significant in any way.

Dottie · Post by **Dottie** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 5:48 pm

Originally posted by frogus

Cheers Dot...It was...character buliding

I can imagine... :rolleyes:

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 5:51 pm

@Frogus: Thanks

The article is, as usual, about the function of the serotonin system. :rolleyes:

Sounds like very hard work, must be exciting to cut out a sculpture in limestone like that...impressive

Your hands are clearly overworked, rest them well.

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 6:05 pm

There was a man there who was creating a work of abstract art involving three cylinders, each indented in a different way (imaging squeezed coke cans), which are to be mounted on a rod, and will be rotatable, so as it can have an infinite number of permutations, and will be viewed differently each time.
However, he spent, in all, 40 hours, making a perfect hexadecogonal (?) prism (which he had created last year) into a cylinder, and creating a perfect octagonal prism. Because of the nature of his piece, he has to create the cylinders to mathematical perfection, which means first carving a perfect cuboid. Then a perfect octagonal prism, then a perfect hexadecagonal (?) prism, then a perfect tridecadohedronal (?) prism, and then smoothe all the edges untill cylindricity emerges

. Of course, in each of the stages, all of the surfaces he creates must be perfectly flast, so as he can draw straight lines on them, which is essential for his calculation, even though the surface which he is painstakingly flattening is about to be destroyed to make way for even more faces...

Thus his boring work, which has occupied 80 hours so far, has gotten him about 35% of the way through his piece.

Needless to say, I have less patience than that, but had to be satisfied that good things come very very slowly out of blocks of stone....

And now it is five past one, and I have to get up at half-nine tommorow for Reading festival....aaargh.

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 6:11 pm

And some people say being an artist is not a job...Sounds like an interesting idea, although like you, I would not have the patience for doing so much boring work.

You'd better catch some sleep Frogobert...

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 6:15 pm

Originally posted by C Elegans
Frogobert...

LOL

True true

Good night CE, and have fun writing about seratonin while I am continuously mangled for eight hours in the respective moshpits of The Hives, Ash, Muse and Foo Fighters :cool:

Good night

Dottie · Post by **Dottie** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 6:15 pm

Originally posted by C Elegans

You'd better catch some sleep Frogobert...

It spreads in multiple directons. :eek:

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 6:16 pm

Good night Frog, sleep well and have fun tomorrow

@Dottixilium: ROFL

Dottie · Post by **Dottie** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 6:19 pm

rofl! So you are the guilty one.

No, i dont think it was deleted.

Night.

Tybaltus · Post by **Tybaltus** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 6:19 pm

Originally posted by frogus
Ahh wait...one more thing, or I will got no sleep tonight...I left Kam and CM in charge of my network of secret schemes and clever tricks over the last week....so tell me...did they suceed in destroying the DF Tavern?

The DF Tavern still stands.

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 6:21 pm

I can't believe that it was CE behind this whole scam to destroy the DF Tavern...She has so many posts invested in the DF Tavern, and I thought she was not the type to do something so mischievious, not to mention downright wrong. I suppose it was stupid of the DFs to think that they could trust her all along...

Bloodstalker · Post by **Bloodstalker** » Fri Aug 23, 2002 11:54 pm

* in walks a figure cloaked in shadow, producing a flask from under his cloak that is warm to the touch and has a wicked steam rising from it. Placing the vial on the bar, the Lord of Lurkers makes his exit, leaving his gift to the SLURR's in a visible spot* :cool:

Ned Flanders · Post by **Ned Flanders** » Sat Aug 24, 2002 2:04 am

**reaches for flask** :eek:

KidD01 · Post by **KidD01** » Sat Aug 24, 2002 2:12 am

*Watches from a "safe" distance , while hoping that nothing serious will happen to Ned*