Art
Good Stuff #6: Calligraphy
“In this piece I have used at the top a line of poetry – “Without hunting there is no pleasure” – in what is known as Early Kufic, the style in which the first Qur’ans were written. In the main body I have used the later Fatimid Kufic style for two lines from a poem describing the strength of a Saluqi called Muq (which appears in Rex Smith’s book on Ibn Marzuban) – “He springs into action faster than the sword and the spear; he is more effective than arrows and javelins”. The decoration is in the Ottoman style of the 18th century.”
Good Stuff #3: Vadim Gorbatov
Butterflies & temple
Gibbon
clouded leopard
(For more on Neofelis, see Darren).
Dad’s B -17
Reid’s post below on the weather vane reminded me of a sketch he and Matt and other visitors have seen in my library.
In 1941 my father was a scholarship student at the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston. A year later he was a first lieutenant in the Army Air Corps, a bombardier and navigator in a B17 flying over Germany. I believe he flew 26 missions.
Here is what you get when an art student flies bombers:
Update: my brother in law, who has researched my father’s military career, says:
“Joe actually flew 34 missions– 3 Aug, 44 to 11 Dec, 44– and lived to tell about it!”