From a series by photographer Adam Sings in the Timber:
I am currently working on a broader project making a series of portraits of Native Women wearing traditional regalia in metropolitan settings, in order to illustrate that wherever a person goes, they’re on Native land. In order to illustrate that point, I am working to photograph Women who are descended from tribes that originally occupied the land each featured city was built on.
Richard Oelze: Expectation (1935-36)
From a collection of folklore gathered by Irish teachers in the 1930’s:
Weather 27-12-1938
Signs of hard weather:
Robin flying into house.
Lapwings seen early in winter.
Wild geese seen flying inland (southwards).
Small birds gathering in large numbers about corn sheds.
Cat turning his back to the fire (frost)Signs of Rain:
Moon on its back, or Ring round it.
Cap on Kaigeen mountains.
When S[?] is visible.
When train can be heard crossing Holdenstown Bridge (a bridge over the Slaney).
When you can hear church clock strike in Baltinglass.
When motors can be heard plainly moving along Baltinglass road.
Swallows or crows flying low.
Wind blowing from direction of Baltinglass.Signs of Dry Weather:
White fog lying in a valley.
Hinges squeak on doors.
Gossamer threads on bushes or grass.
Wind at a certain point blowing from Kilranelagh or Kaigeen.
Stones on walls or flooring getting coated with moisture.
Hills near hand appearing far away.
Hens moving out into the open.
Crows flying high.
Fan Ho: Surreal Sai Wan (c 1950-1960)
From Paul Fussell’s Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (1965): “In ‘The Poplar Field’ …William Cowper…unwittingly allows the whimsical associations of triple meter to work against him.”
The poplars are felled, farewell to the shade
And the whispering sound of the cool colonnade:
The winds play no longer and sing in the leaves,
Nor Ouse on his bosom their image receives.Twelve years have elapsed since I first took a view
Of my favourite field, and the bank where they grew,
And now in the grass behold they are laid,
And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade.The blackbird has fled to another retreat
Where the hazels afford him a screen from the heat;
And the scene where his melody charmed me before
Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no more.My fugitive years are all hasting away,
And I must ere long lie as lowly as they,
With a turf on my breast and a stone at my head,
Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead.‘Tis a sight to engage me, if anything can,
To muse on the perishing pleasures of man;
Short-lived as we are, our enjoyments, I see,
Have a still shorter date, and die sooner than we.
Image:
Claude Monet: Poplars on the Epte (1891)
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Thomas Bayrle: The City (1976) [detail]; here is the whole thing:
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Captain America recieving his trademark circular shield from FDR in June, 1941. From Captain America #255 (March, 1981) (Roger Stern, writer; John Byrne, artist).
The shield’s history developed slowly. Originally, in Captain America Comics #1 (March 1941), Cap carried a heraldic-style shield made of steel. By issue #2, it had been replaced—without explanation—with the now-familiar circular design. In reality, the change had come about as a result of copyright issues; another comic book company had complained that Cap and his shield were a rip-off of a character called simply The Shield.
In 1981, it was revealed that the circular shield had been presented to Captain America by FDR in the Oval Office. Its creator was a metallurgist named Myron MacLain. While the original shield had simply been made of steel, MacLain’s was composed of an alloy of steel and the near-indestructable metal vibranium.
In a 2001 story, King T’Chaka of Wakanda meets Captain America in early 1941 and gives him the sample of vibranium from which the shield is made. A 2010 storyline presents a different version: Captain America and Nick Fury meet T’Chaka and his father during World War II, and—after the Red Skull crushes Cap’s triangular shield in a battle—T’Chaka loans Cap a circular vibranium shield that inspires Cap to replace the destroyed shield permanently with a circular one.
