Sweet, delicious cookies: cooked by me. Om nom nom.
Additional pictures and explanation after the cut. If you need an explanation for cookies, that is.
Tag: Dragons
Dragons of the Lensic
Back before it was the posh and pretentious new Santa Fe Performing Arts Center, the Lensic was a classic Boller Brothers theatre in a pseudo-moorish / Spanish renaissance style. The architectural ornament includes some lovely dragons, which I was fortunate enough to see in person while visiting this November.
A few more pictures follow after the cut.
Netbook Décor
If this site has a topic at all, then it’s technology and dragons. (It’s right there in the tagline, after all.) Usually I have to make do with one or the other. This is the rare post where I can get both involved. Pictured right is my Acer Aspire One netbook. You might note (“Just look at it!”, etc.) that it has gone from being plain and corporate and boring to being attractively decorated. The process involved a Sharpie permanent marker, and the considerable skill of an artist (not me) who made me swear to conceal his identity, on account of — and I quote — “not being able to draw dragons.”
Much happiness. Your netbook is not as nice as mine. (If you believe otherwise, I want to see pictures.)
Yes, I’d Drink That
Look at this dragon latte.
Just look at it.
From The Vulcan & The Unicorn, via Art in My Coffee by way of Metafilter.
Needle-felting: Critical Success!
User tallydragon on deviantART has created a wonderfully detailed little green dragon using wool, wire, glass and crazy-mad needle-felting skills.
Don’t miss the other dragons in her gallery as well; good stuff.
(My thanks to Kanashimi-shi for the link.)
In Soviet Russia, Dragon Uses eBay to Buy You
I’m allergic to “cute”, but the little fellow to the right doesn’t read that way. (Not cute; much fierce!) He was a steal on eBay, and came to me all the way from the former Soviet Union. This is the kind of global economy I can get behind: buying a one-of-a-kind item from the opposite side of the globe. (Don’t worry; I still support local dragon-sculptors whenever I can.)
He showed up in an actual, literal brown paper package tied up with string, too. More pictures after the cut.
Lego Dragon Necromancy
Using the blackest of all dark rituals and a whole lot of expensive Danish plastic, Flickr user “necromancer7” from Seoul, Korea has brought this creature to terrifying un-life. You can see a number of other shots of this bone dragon (as well as other good stuff) on his photostream.
(Via Gizmodo.)
A Dignity of Dragons
Dave Malki at Wondermark presents the Stoakes-Whibley Natural Index of Supernatural Collective Nouns, and in so doing performs a valuable service for a worried public. So many confusing and embarassing errors might have been prevented through the timely use of Mr. Malki’s comprehensive and accurate reference.
(Via Making Light.)
ETA: Other dragon-related collective noun suggestions include flight, wing, weyr (from multiple sources), doom, blaze and horde. None of them appeal to the same degree as the definitive Stoakes-Whibley answer.
Dragons of TRF 2009
Within, you’ll find a handful of additional TRF pictures. For this post, it’s things I saw at fair rather than loot dragged home therefrom. Mostly dragons, of course.
Kaltenberger Ritterturnier 2007
The Kaltenberger Ritterturnier (knight tournament of Kaltenburg) is something akin to what leftpondians know as a renaissance fair, and is (I am told) the world’s largest such event.
I’ve never been fortunate enough to go, myself, but a German dragonfriend (who prefers to remain anonymous) sent some lovely pictures, and was kind enough to grant me permission to share them here.
More pictures follow, so read on.