Darling, lets get a divorse (a new property tax in Lithuania)

Darling, lets get a divorce!

So as It happens this one is about things in this strange little country Lithuania. Recently politicians in Lithuania were criticized about new property tax. Basically its a new tax that forces you to pay more for your property in case your or your families property value is above certain limit. Now lets leave all of this aside, main criticism here was that if you get a divorce and you  divide property you own among you and your spouse, well, you still have the same property still love your husband / wife, and you don’t pay this tax.   And this comes from a country which has a very… mhmmm… how should i put it .. conservative policies about family values.  Dont even think of gay marriage here, its unthinkable here.  Even if you are a family with a house, a kid and a dog but no papers on legal marriage – u are considered as a single person, legally that is. as far as i got it.

Post cards to some frieds

Last autumn I had a nice trip. One of my friends organized a trip. Its goal was La Biennale di Venezia, but he also decided to make it a true road trip. We rented a van, and sins we live in north Europe, we traveled all the way to Italy by car. It was seven of us and we slept in tents. Once in a Campgrounds, in other words legally. All other times – forests, crop fields abandoned houses and so on. We cooked food in a big pot on a Gas stove, sometimes in parking lots. That was a wild trip :) So sins I spend quite some time in a car, I decided to draw some post cards to my friends who didn’t participated in a trip. Then I tried to draw and post a postcard in each city I went by. So I do incorrige you to send some cards to your friends while you are on holiday, somewhere away from evertyday mind set.

post cards

A new pen!

So here it is! some very important / special Santa brought me this pen for a Christmas. And I am so, so very happy. Look how thin its line is. Now this one will be a perfect addition to my pen collection. Well to be honest it will be a first one in my collection. And I think you will see some new stuff here thanks to this little guy. well to be precise, thanks to this very special Santana :)

my new thin pen!

how would you call a multi legged god?

multi legged god

So seems some people, I guess Hindus especially like multi handed gods. My favorite elephant headed god Ganesh being one of them too.  And upon googling and wikiing a bit I found even more Hindu multi handed gods. Its fun really to consider such creatures could exist in real world. Fun just in an anatomical sense. I remember I used to have some anatomy lectures, and one of a hardest exam question was a construction of shoulder. that’s a shoulder-blade, chest and shoulder bone and muscle construction. Still partly remembering these structures, makes me wonder how could 4 or more handed creature be constructed? But then I thought of this multi legged creature. Ok, to tell you the truth it was not like that, I was simply practicing to draw legs. And then it happened, It became one creature with many legs. And then I started thinking of pubic bone structure to support more legs.  How would that work? Any ideas?

an angel’s ass

I have no idea what to write about this one. I guess it was a quite failed try to draw a lithography like drawing. The one you would see in some old books.  well still its there, a failed try. But thats a right direction, or?
Well no more words, just an ass in front of you :)

angel's ass

doodling, what does the web say

doodling – dictionary.com

doo·dle

1.to draw or scribble idly: He doodled during the whole lecture.

2.to waste (time) in aimless or foolish activity.

3.Dialect . to deceive; cheat.

–noun

4.a design, figure, or the like, made by idle scribbling.

5.Archaic . a foolish or silly person.

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Origin:
1935–40, Americanism ;  orig. sense, fool (n.)

—Related forms, doodler, noun

pinky in motion - one goes crazy from time to time..

doodling in wikipedia.

A doodle is a type of sketch, an unfocused drawing made while a person’s attention is otherwise occupied. Doodles are simple drawings that can have concrete representational meaning or may just be abstract shapes.

Stereotypical examples of doodling are found in school notebooks, often in the margins, drawn by students daydreaming or losing interest during class. Other common examples of doodling are produced during long telephone conversations if a pen and paper are available.

Popular kinds of doodles include cartoon versions of teachers or companions in a school, famous TV or comic characters, invented fictional beings, landscapes, geometric shapes, textures, banners with legends, and animations made by drawing a scene sequence in various pages of a book or notebook.

A tree (omnidyrectional little prince`s tree)

Trees are a fun thing. They do grow on earth. But do they grow elsewhere in universe? according to The Little Prince (French: Le Petit Prince) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,  seems they actually do grow. Remember the tree planet, or what was it…  Well to be honest I hade something very (?) different in mind, not the little prince when I was doodling this.

world tree

I was probably having in mind this thing called “world tree” wich, according to Wikipedia ” is a motif present in several religions and mythologies, particularly Indo-European religions, Siberian religions, and Native American religions. The world tree is represented as a colossal tree which supports the heavens, thereby connecting the heavens, the earth, and, through its roots, the underground. It may also be strongly connected to the motif of the tree of life.”  according to what I learned and remember from my school and Baltic mythology, it was also more directly representing the realm of heaven (canopy) our realm (trunk) and underworld (roots). So I was thinking that, as we know older myths worldviews and religions, they seem to have this firm structure, the pantheon of gods, the creation myth, and all sorts of rules and stories people based the worldview upon. But what about today’s world? That`s how this image came to life. I guess only problem with it could be one set of roots. they grow from one location, from “world origin, or center”.. But I guess I can just say, well that suppose to be the common history.. (we can think of this tree also in time not only in space  – time would be represented this way: roots would be the past, trunk would be present and the canopy could be the future). Of course I have never heard of such explanation of world tree, but that doesn’t prevent us from imagining such a symbol :)

Some more playing cards

So here is an Ace of hearts and a jack of Clubs. As you might notice one has a drawing of a heart and a later A, which might not surprise you, but the second one has a picture of clubs and a letter B. The cards I am used to have letters A for ace, K for king, Q for queen (or was it D, for Dama, i presume) and B… for… well we used word “bartukas”. What is the meaning of it? I am not quite sure. But when I made these cards I didn’t even thought of what must be written, as in all cards I have ever seen as a kid (later I never payed attention) had B for Jack.

korta / the playing card

So here comes all mighty Wikipedia with a big article on cads. Now if you look at image which is called something like central European cards, that’s exactly the cards from my childhood. Its funny how we (or me at least) think of cards as something so standard and self explanatory, while in reality there are so many variations and standards on cards, colors, names and anything indeed.

Fake Photo

And here is another oldie I still managed to preserve.  As you can see it was shot on a Kodak film. You can see perforation on a film too. Though it is a very strange film, can’t find its name. Its sort of film in between monochrome and 3 layer color film. It actually has one layer of regular silver based black and white layer, plus a yellow layer.  I presume the areas of this layer affected by light turns yellow while the rest stays transparent I presume. This film should be about 10-50 iso sensitivity. very rough.

fake photo

Another interesting quality is that silver crystals are microscopically aligned in special way, or should i say arranged. So regular film has silver crystals arranged in uni formal fission. they are spread all over the place covering all the surface in same amounts (or that’s how it should be).  Now in this case the crystals are arranged in sort of lines. So there is hardly a black area in an exposed and processed film, the back areas are made of series of small lines, which somewhat remind of drawing lines.  Now there is even more complicated setup here in the composition of film. If it would be just lines, they would appear either horizontal or vertical or they would have some sort of pattern that they follow. (Just imagine a close up of a print – you can see how the paint is distributed I suppose it’s called a raster but I am not sure..) And in this case it really looks like the objects are drawn, the lines are following the outlines of objects in most cases.. How is this achieved, I have no clue. Any ideas? Coud there be many layers of lines, and light somehow hits only the right layer (the one wich has a “right” distribution of silver crystals? How could that be? different layers are hidden from some incoming light rays depending on the angle they come from? But aren’t all rays coming from a foo lens towards the film perpendicular towards the surface of the film? Is the film not flat? Can it have some bumps that would curve the rays? Any other thoughts?

And just as a note that sets the “tone” for this line of thoughts: re35 ENJOY!

Some dudes with flags and feathers

And yet another thing I happen to doodle some time ago. As usual not so easy to write anything, sins there is no big idea behind this drawing, as you might have noticed the first sentence describes it as a doodling. And what can you expect from that? So please do not read this text, its plainly pointless..

Some dudes with flags and feathers

And sins we are talking about the pointless texts, I happened to discover recently what a sample text is. Or a place holder text, or a dummy text. So apparently there is a special text to be used as a dummy text, so one can see how fonts work, or the layout of the page. The name of this famous text is Lorem Ipsum. What is most interesting to me is that this text dates back to 1500. But ore on that can be read here: The Link