spring from the window

febrifugium magnum

sunspot

sprang

20 years of an eagle's flight

In principle, sprang may be regarded as a practical application of the fiber manipulation techniques used in the children's game known as cat's cradle.^[1] Sprang is made by preparing a set of warp threads either on a rectangular frame or between a pair of beams. The craftsperson then generates a fabric by interlinking the warp threads. Unlike most textile production techniques that add new rows at the end of completed rows, sprang works upon the center of a group of fibers and the material grows inward from both ends with symmetrical top and bottom halves. The craftsperson must maintain control of the center area or the structure unravels: most sprang worked upon has too many fibers to keep in hand, so rods or sticks maintain the appropriate fiber positions. The fiber manipulation itself is done by the craftsperson's fingers. Decorative patterns may be generated by regular variations in the fiber crossings. As crossings accumulate the craftsperson beats the material flat with a stick.^[2][3] Work continues with the material growing from both edges toward the middle until the center band becomes too tight to continue work.^[4] The completed fabric is either separated into two identical items or permanently secured at the middle to stabilize the contrary twists.^[3] In traditions where two halves of sprang are not severed by cutting, this center seam is a telltale sign of sprang manufacture.<sup>[3]

https://regia.org/research/life/sprang.htm</sup>

http://www.weavershand.com/

<sup>http://www.stringpage.com/sprang/sprang1.html 

https://earthguild.com/products/riff/rcdweave.htm

http://www.shelaghlewins.com/tablet_weaving/TW01/TW01.htm</sup>

tablet weaving

Birds have comparable postures, in the following groups:

• displayed, volant, and volant contourny


• close, naiant and the contourny versions of these


• rising, striking, roussant, and the contourny versions of these

photo: Erika

weasel breaks cern

When the machine shutdown, investigators discovered the charred remains of the weasel next to a 66kV chewed cable which powers the equipment.  2016

Killdeer: A diminutive bird known for its shrill, high pitched call is threatening to derail one of Canada’s biggest music festivals after it built a nest in the same location as the main stage was slated to be erected. The bird – which enjoys protected status in Canada – had laid four speckled eggs on a cobblestone patch, effectively claiming the main stage area as its nesting grounds.

It had already been damaged by ploughing, but permission to excavate a listed site was granted because of damage by more recent trouble makers – badgers which were burrowing out the entire site, and kicking out human bones as they dug.


2019 slug breaks railway
 

A power cut that disrupted rail traffic on a Japanese island last month was caused by a slug, officials say.

More than 12,000 people's journeys were affected when nearly 30 trains on Kyushu shuddered to a halt because of the slimy intruder's actions.
Its electrocuted remains were found lodged inside equipment next to the tracks, Japan Railways says.

mozart's starling

https://physicsworld.com/a/birds-measure-magnetic-fields-using-long-lived-quantum-coherence/

Nay, I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak; Nothing but 'Mortimer,' and give it him

European starlings were first brought to North America in 1890 by Shakespeare enthusiast Eugene Schieffelin who released 60 starlings into New York City's Central Park.
Schieffelin wanted to introduce all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare's plays to North America. As a result, European starlings are now among the continent’s most numerous songbirds.

the arson hawk

Australian birds have weaponized fire

kfc vr

and then there's a partridge wing saved

for the fool will eat no supper tonight

heritage futures

Turkeys circling a dead cat


In the last few years many other messaging projects have been initiated, most of which will send your message to space for a fee. This individualisation and monetisation is entirely in keeping with neoliberalism and with the increasing privatisation of space exploration. There have also been gifts to celestial bodies, such as the small aluminium sculpture on the moon sometimes called the ‘fallen astronaut’ . and the Lego mini-figures which are on board the Juno spacecraft which will crash into Jupiter soon.

*****

 RIP Gustav Metzger
 Computer Art Society Journal Archive
http://computer-arts-society.com/page?startidx42606=36

woah spoiler

Thus, in France, four eggs "were placed before birth on top of drones while still inside the eggshell and, after hatching, kept them there during their early feeding period," Reuters reported in November.
The eagles were named after characters in "The Three Musketeers," and by February proved capable of intercepting drones in lightning-fast horizontal chases. "Soon they will be casting off from peaks in the nearby Pyrenees Mountains,"

According to a Dec. 12, 1912, article in The Gleaner, the Morganfield City Council yielded to a crusade by the community's "leading women" and passed an ordinance prohibiting such dances as the Turkey Trot, the Bunny Hug, the Jelly Wobble, the Tangleworm Wiggle "or other like lewd and lascivious dances."

"The eagles are making good progress," said the French air force's commander of a program that adapts the ancient art of falconry to the threats of unmanned flight.

thrush

Thrush by csm_photosculpture on Sketchfab

death assemblage

grief increases by concealing

Scene [I]: The Cave
     [enter Sorceress]
     
     [PRELUDE FOR THE WITCHES]
     
     SORCERESS
     Wayward sisters, you that fright
     The lonely traveller by night
     Who, like dismal ravens crying,
     Beat the windows of the dying,
     Appear! Appear at my call, and share in the fame
     Of a mischief shall make all Carthage flame.
     Appear!
     [enter Enchantresses]

 ACT THE FIRST
     
     Scene: The Palace
     [enter Dido, Belinda and train]
     
     BELINDA
     Shake the cloud from off your brow,
     Fate your wishes does allow;
        Empire growing,
        Pleasures flowing,
     Fortune smiles and so should you.
     
     CHORUS
     Banish sorrow, banish care,
     Grief should ne'er approach the fair.
     
     DIDO
     Ah! Belinda, I am prest
     With torment not to be Confest,
     Peace and I are strangers grown.
     I languish till my grief is known,
     Yet would not have it guest.
     
     BELINDA
     Grief increases by concealing,

 DIDO
     Mine admits of no revealing.

japanese toys //

The Ningyo-Do Bunko Database has more than 100 albums of late 19th/early 20th century watercolour sketches of toy designs.

attention

"The blackbird could not find food in the eternal night and he desired light, and the earth lit up."

toride roadkill / staffs animal on animal

flamingo roof garden | holland park