Month: December 2022
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Greek Pottery: 3rd-Century Bird-Shaped Askos (like a watering-can, but for oil)

A 3rd-century oil-pourer (askos) from Southern Italy in the Princeton University Art Museum.
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Greek Pottery: A Turtle-Shaped Aryballos

An Eastern Greek turtle-shaped perfume-jar at the Princeton University Art Museum.
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Fouquieria columnaris (‘Boojum Tree’): It’s like a tree and a cactus got together with some ocotillo and made this thing

Check out this whimsical Ocotillo from Baja!
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Cardboard Fables: The Python and the Heifer, or Too Late Did the Python Realize Her Terrible Error

Based on a(n apparently true) story from northern Australia: that time a cow beheaded a python.
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Coming soon: Cardboard Mosaics!

Cardboard mosaics! A solution to a double problem. (Plus a great recipe for an adhesive!)
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Notmas 2022: Low Tide at Imperial Beach

Some photos and a video from Imperial Pier in San Diego for my now-annual not-Xmas (aka Notmas) pilgrimage to the sea.



