The
Fish we used against the Garden People came from far off,
and bringing them here was a hard task of luck and love. We
brought them from the River Hern, and hid them like cows in
summer fields of long grass and hay. Then we sat to wait.
Soon the Judge came down from The Mountain and said it was
time for war. And we used the Fish to great effect in the
Battle of Eltern’s Garden.
To be true, it was horrible for the Garden culture. Using
Rabbits from the warrens of Augenblick would have been kinder.
Even the Great Wagoners fought the men and women of the Garden
with thousands of Rabbits from the green pastures of Blumenbeete,
and did so with much success.
But we used Fish from the Hern, and the enemy shook, and some
went into seizures when they saw us astride the great Salmon,
dying in waves of hopelessness, all lying face down in the
green grass. The others ran, or stood their ground to fight,
but none could stand long against the terrible Fish…
Then the battle was won, and the Vogel came, as is their want,
to wipe the fallen warriors’ foreheads and cover their eyes
with cloth. We fed the enemy to our great Sturgeons, (the
fish used the world over, those great Sturgeons, for clearing
away what the other fish had killed), and they feasted on
the fallen enemy ranks from sunset to sunrise.
Once the fields were emptied of the frenzied fish, all that
was left of the dead was their weighted armor, and among the
armor sat the Vogel, angered at the lack of respect. We chased
them from the fields with a loud clamor and by quickly rushing
at their heads…
At dawn, we let the Fish rest. Often had Fish been pushed
to hard on the battlefield, and, going mad, turned on their
masters. Such a fate had befallen the Vorhange, leaving a
dire warning in the pages of history. So dire, in fact, that
mammals have been preferred ever since for the purposes of
warfare and the feast afterwards.
We then went out onto the emptied field and drank fermented
Kerzenrauch in memory of the enemy who had put up such a valiant
fight. To not show even this little respect to the fallen
warriors went against the ways of the Gods. And since we had
use the Great Fish, those ferocious weapons of war, we must
appease the Gods thus, to ensure that our tale does not fade
with the night.
I've
been doing this abstract stuff for about 10 years now. Here's
the best of the oldest; the ones from high school and college
that I think are worth dragging out of the dark and dusty to
present to you:
Carnival
Chains
Chaosian
Glove
City
of Bones
Crystals
Dark Water
Dream
School
Dream
Shards
Fathomless
Blue
Fire
and Ice
From the Depths
Gothic
Pentagram
Green
Jelly
Halley's
Comet
Icey
If Gold was Dirt Cheap
Leviathan
Liquid
Gold
Man
and Machine
Mandala
Reclusado
Misty
Moths
to a Flame
My
Dreams Are
Leaking Oil
Nightmare
Phoenix
Rising
Sailor's Delight
Severed
Ties
Shore
of an Ancient Sea
The
Lost Continent
Threads
various
sizes, all @ 72dpi (pretty much unprintable, unfortunately)
When
I mentioned that I was redesigning my site, there were a few
of you that specifically asked about new photos. I promised
that I would have some up right away, as one of the first
posts.
I
am now realizing that I probably won't get a chance to post
anything new until next week. I am taking a well deserved
break from NYC this weekend, and will be leaving my computer
behind (traveling light is my favorite way to travel).
However,
I do have over 1GB of photos that I've been sitting one since
last year, and as a peace offering to those who have been
waiting oh so patiently, I have organized them into the following
groups:
- Architecture
- At work (things I take pictures of when bored at the office)
- Pictures from my sister's visit, in Chinatown (no cheesy
touristy stuff, I promise)
- Pictures from my sister's visit, in Central Park & at
the Met (still no cheesy touristy stuff, I promise)
- The Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Cherry Blossom (Sakura) Festival
- Flowers (in general, not including the Sakura Fest)
- Lights (as in lightbulbs, neon lights, and other things
of that ilk)
- Pics from my trip to Seattle (if I need to say it again,
no touristy stuff)
- Skies (in general)
- Pics from a day walking around Southern Manhatten (got a
lot of good ones that day)
- NY Subway (in general)
- Trees
(in general)
If anyone out there leaves a comment
suggesting which category should be posted first, that's the
category I will post. Obviously, if there is more than one
suggestion, the most frequently suggested one wins, and in
the case of a draw, some sort of coin toss will be involved.
I enjoy random chance.
If
you're wondering what kind of pictures will be involved, check
out the archives. It'll be stuff like that. Looking forward
to hearing from you!
I
plan on beginning this whole posting-more-often thing by going
through my backlog of work and pulling out stuff which I still
think is worth sharing. Don't worry, you don't have to agree
with me on that. I'm going to be sharing it anyway.
Hopefully,
I can put all that old work to rest and make some room for new
stuff. That's basically what I hope this site will become for
me: a reason to push myself to create and a way
to make doing so more central in my life. If others enjoy it,
so much the better.
A
little something I put together as one of my first ever experiments
in hyper-text, back in my college days. They told me at the
time that hypertext was poised to make a breakthrough as the
next big literary genre. I'm still waiting...
After
many long days of hard work, the new Reclusland is finally done.
Will
it work as well as I have hoped? We'll have to wait and see,
but I am damn happy with it right now.
All
my old stuff is available in the archives of the relative sections.
I've simplified the art and
photography archives (keeping
comments intact), so they are now simple lists of the old material.
The webdesign portfolio was redone to give each of my clients
an individual post, as it wasn't that difficult to set up. The
layout of the webdesign portfolio
is also how all the new material will be archived into the other
categories, after it is removed from the main page (ie: right
here).
Obviously,
I am basing this on the various blog softwares that are out
there, but I enjoy that my page is only simple html. That makes
it both easier and more complex than an actual blog, but hey,
this is what I do, and I think I do it pretty well.
Also,
the Reclusland Research
Log is up and running over on tumblr, so check that out
from time to time to see where my interests are leading me.
It's my one concession to the whole web 2.0 thing... That counts
as Web 2.0 right?
Anyway,
please check back in regularly, I hope to make posts here a
regular thing.
Invented
separately in both India and South America, the numeral zero
is an important idea in the development of any mathematical,
organizational system. It acts as a placeholder for higher
integers and allows for the existence of negative numbers.
In the Cartesian coordinate system, 0 stands for the starting
position. In a way, it is the "you are here" of
the universe.
0
the only thing that both is and is not. It is the only indivisible
number. And it is the only number that guarantees a negative
result when something is taken away from it and a
positive result when something is added to it. And I plan
on doing a lot of adding here.
