L'Harpiste Mauresque

Extra, extra! Remember the delicate, skeletal harp-playing double amputee I linked to yesterday? Her name is L'Harpiste Mauresque, or the Moorish Harpist, and she was created around 1880 by the French automatonist Gustave Vichy. 

Well, there's a full version of her at the Morris Museum in Morristown, NJ, and she's wearing golden spangles and seated on an octagonal stand. If you go to the Morris Museum's main site, then Current Exhibitions, then Musical Machines and Living Dolls, then the picture of L'Harpiste [last one in the first row], you can see a high-quality video of her playing and, yes, moving her eyelids. 

Here's a still from the February 2005 Journal of Antiques, where you can see her expressive little purple face.

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L'Harpiste Mauresque

Extra, extra! Remember the delicate, skeletal harp-playing double amputee I linked to yesterday? Her name is L'Harpiste Mauresque, or the Moorish Harpist, and she was created around 1880 by the French automatonist Gustave Vichy. 

Well, there's a full version of her at the Morris Museum in Morristown, NJ, and she's wearing golden spangles and seated on an octagonal stand. If you go to the Morris Museum's main site, then Current Exhibitions, then Musical Machines and Living Dolls, then the picture of L'Harpiste [last one in the first row], you can see a high-quality video of her playing and, yes, moving her eyelids. 

Here's a still from the February 2005 Journal of Antiques, where you can see her expressive little purple face.

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How to make a web comic

 Option: 1:6 dolls and backdrops

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Option 2: Software like iClone

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Option 3: Photos to line drawings

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Option 4: Get a drawing partner

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Option 5: Draw a simple sketch comic

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Option 6: Draw a detailed realistic full-body comic

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Option 7: BJDs and backdrops

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Option 8: Export from something like Sims

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Sensations of death via an article in New Scientist

Just in time for Halloween, New Scientist's October 13, 2007 issue has an article about what various types of death [hanging, drowning, bleeding to death] feel like, as reported by those who have survived massive injuries. I was particularly interested in the effects of exsanguination which, it turns out, are just an extreme version of what happens after donating blood.

a decaying glass universe

Working exhaustedly with the online Poet supply of words from Magnetic Poetry's Web site.

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