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Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2002 5:57 am
by frogus
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
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 5:31 pm
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?
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 5:32 pm
by Tybaltus
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 5:35 pm
by C Elegans
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?
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 5:37 pm
by Dottie
Hi Frogus, hope you had a nice time in the... quarry.
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 5:43 pm
by frogus
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
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
...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
...all this, not to mention callousses that you can cut diamonds with...
Cheers Dot...It was...character buliding
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 5:48 pm
by Tybaltus
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 5:48 pm
by Dottie
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 5:51 pm
by C Elegans
@Frogus: Thanks
The article is, as usual, about the function of the serotonin system.
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.
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 6:05 pm
by frogus
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.
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 6:11 pm
by C Elegans
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...
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 6:15 pm
by frogus
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
Good night
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 6:15 pm
by Dottie
Originally posted by C Elegans
You'd better catch some sleep Frogobert...
It spreads in multiple directons.
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 6:16 pm
by C Elegans
Good night Frog, sleep well and have fun tomorrow
@Dottixilium: ROFL
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 6:19 pm
by Dottie
rofl! So you are the guilty one.
No, i dont think it was deleted.
Night.
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 6:19 pm
by Tybaltus
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.
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 6:21 pm
by frogus
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...
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 11:54 pm
by Bloodstalker
* 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*
Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2002 2:04 am
by Ned Flanders
**reaches for flask**
Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2002 2:12 am
by KidD01
*Watches from a "safe" distance , while hoping that nothing serious will happen to Ned*