Plan? Donno. So far I've just been looking for wintry paintings. Some knowledgeable person could write something about how artists have depicted snow and ice, their use of blue shadows on snow, darkness, etc. How to get the viewer to 'feel' cold....
Sca (
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13:41, 8 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Oh, those lovely nice gossy musey bears... I had a book I loved when I was 7 - with those kind of bears. Don't have it any more .. pity.
Hafspajen (
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17:06, 8 September 2014 (UTC)reply
There is a time for everything, a time for cry, a time for sorrows, a time for grieve and mourn. Later, the sun will maybe come. There is a time for everything. Not everybody can be happy-yappy-blappy always - there is grief and sadness and hurt in the world too. I feelt quite badly treated. People who never lost anything - don't know . I have lost thing - maybehappines, maybe fait- maybe something else. And where is that man who never lost anything? Those ar also human feelings.
Hafspajen (
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20:59, 9 September 2014 (UTC)reply
As the title of a German short story I read back in my student days put it, "Vielleicht scheint Morgen die Sonne wieder."Sca (
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22:12, 9 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Hi Sca-
Aside from the Free City of Danzig, from which other places would you be interested in seeing banknotes? I will be back at the Smithsonian at some point before the end of the year and will look for specific notes if you have requests.--
Godot13 (
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18:41, 9 September 2014 (UTC)reply
You'll be glad to know that sca is cooking up (or down) a batch of black bean & bacon chili made with fresh garden tomatoes from his very own back yard.
Sca (
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17:45, 20 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Very chilly - but Pythagoras would have pulled out every hair from his beard by now. He had a sect that he founded, they were not allowed to jump over fences, pick up things that fall down or eat beans.
Pythagoreanism. Now go and nominate that Magpie. You found that, you fix that. Your nouveau specialité Le winter.
Hafspajen (
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21:40, 20 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Actually, I hate magpies. We have quite a few of them here and they are always screeching and cackling in a most unpleasant way.
Sca (
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23:21, 20 September 2014 (UTC)reply
I don't see how switching to a different version of the same painting is a significant contribution, at least not in this case.
Sca (
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13:53, 26 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Well, no, wasn't. If you don't want to nominate it of course, don't. But we don't have many winter paintings. You are in the Winter bussines - nowadays, you found this pic. It has an article, it is a good pic, even if it contains a ferrocious magoie. So?
Hafspajen (
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14:08, 26 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Problematic originally meant uncertain or unpredictable. Only in recent decades has it come to mean fraught with problems.
Sca (
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23:59, 26 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Well, it is like sex. It can make people to do the noblest things and it can make people to do the lowest too. And - also like sex - it is very private - and only you can decide what you like and what it means.
Hafspajen (
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12:39, 27 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Of course
Hunters in the Snow is the quintessential winter painting. I've loved it since I first saw it reproduced in, I think, Life magazine when I was a teen. I hung a repro in one of my first apartments (& still have it). But I didn't want to go back that far style-wise in my gallery — it wouldn't fit with all the mostly 19th C. paintings there, which tend to be ... impressionist or symbolist?
Sca (
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21:17, 27 September 2014 (UTC)reply
(But, if you would like to take a stab at writing something, I'd be glad to edit into correct English. Maybe you could even write it in Swedish & computer-translate it?)
Sca (
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15:08, 28 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Ugugugu... PLease ... what - drafts float around everywhere. What we need to do to start something, slowly trace down each picture, throw in info into draf and reword ... That's you. Start it.
Hafspajen (
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15:48, 28 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Eh, oui, French, Spanish, Danish, Norwegian, Italian, Esperanto, some Hungarian, Latin, (some English?) a little Dutch and German too. ...
Hafspajen (
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15:16, 29 September 2014 (UTC)reply
My experience is, if you know English and you have to speak a little French, you can. Everyone knows a few words. I still remember some from my time in la Suisse decades ago. Also remember een paar worden of Dutch, and snippets of Polish, Lithuanian & Russian. Never was in Sweden, DK or Norway, though. (Danish seems to have some cognates with German — ??)
Dutch is a funny language, what with all those throaty, gargling sounds — you've heard Van Gogh pronounced in Dutch — and sorta mumbling action with the lips. But nice people.
Sca (
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15:52, 29 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Oh, just trying to impress you. Quite so. I understand Dutch fairly well, until they write. When they start talking - well, that's where the problem begin...
Hafspajen (
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15:56, 29 September 2014 (UTC)reply
You want Russian Venus woman back? So, you got her back... And my plan of entertaining you with a new woman every day is going down the drain. Or shall I start an extra?
Oh YES! I have to add that if you make a translation using the Swedish meaning of the words it will give you: fresh breeze on the Norwegian kissed.
Hafspajen (
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14:01, 30 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Figgers.
Evocative painting. Brings to mind the first part of a beautifully written short novel by
O.E. Rolvaag called The Boat of Longing (Længselens Baat). (He was one of the many Norwegian immigrants to Minn.)
Sca (
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14:09, 30 September 2014 (UTC)reply
THIS got removed,
as nonsense. In
Estonia,
Latvia,
Lithuania and
Russia sauna-going plays a central social role. These countries boast the hottest saunas and the tradition of massaging fellow sauna-goers with leafy, wet
birch bunches ('vasta' or 'vihta' in Finnish, 'viht' in Estonian, 'slota' in Latvian, 'vanta' in Lithuanian, 'веник' (venik) in Russian). The fast movements of the massage have created a common misconception that it is somewhat of a beating, however, the correct method of giving this kind of massage is to curb the hot air without actually touching the skin.
Well,
User:Altenmann also edited
Banya (sauna), which includes Russian Venus pic plus description of веники use, but when I looked he hadn't removed the latter.
I'm not an expert on sauna practices, so I don't feel like opposing his editing of
sauna, and I can't see how adding Russian Venus there would accomplish much.
Do you know a user from one of the other countries mentioned in
sauna who'd like to challenge him?
PS: Once in a sauna at a Warsaw hotel a lovely British fem popped in au naturel, sat down next to me & started chatting.
Sca (
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17:21, 1 October 2014 (UTC)reply
In the dirty, dark Warsaw winter, I used to love going to the
Hotel Bristol sauna, sweating, swimming in the pool & on way
home stopping at a so-called 'Irish' pub for a Guinness.
Sca (
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17:38, 1 October 2014 (UTC)reply
Well, he liked animals. Dogs have trouble finding water in the cities ... they don't have fickpengar to go and buy a Cola or a cofee. So, it is animal drinkwater there - I think it is a fine gestutre. Thoughtful.
Hafspajen (
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21:09, 4 October 2014 (UTC)reply
No doubt old Rudi was a Tierfreund, but this apparently was done by a commercial entity (a hotel) 100 years after his death, so to my way of thinking it didn't have much to do with Koller the person.
The other one of my Dad's brothers was named Anfin, supposedly an old Norwegian name. No one could figure that one out, so he was known as "Andy."
Sca (
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15:13, 5 October 2014 (UTC)reply
If you think that it is too much of a bother with refs, I promise not to nominate it ... (even if I am sure it would be a great succes).
Hafspajen (
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14:22, 5 October 2014 (UTC)reply
Actually, Dad had another brother, the oldest (probably born in late 1890s), who died as a result of WWI. He was a soldier in the trenches on the Western Front. Can't remember if he got TB or the flu from the great
1918 flu pandemic. His name was Conrad, or Konrad. Of course we never knew him, but I have his U.S. Army ammunition belt from WWI. They also had a sister, Valberg. Donno if that was a common Norwegian girl's name. I've never heard of anyone else named Valberg. We (my sisters and I) never knew her, either.
Sca (
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17:51, 6 October 2014 (UTC)reply
On
8 October 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Rudolf Koller, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Rudolf Koller painted "the Swiss national animal" running in the road in front of traffic (pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at
Template:Did you know nominations/Rudolf Koller. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (
here's how,
live views,
daily totals), and it may be added to
the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the
Did you know talk page.
Some shrimp to go with it, hope you like shrimps...
Sorgasbord
Where's the øl?
As long as it's not gamalost!
Where's the dog?
OK, are you or are you not creating that Winter in paintings draft? I need someting I can work in - and I am not going to start an other one - I have plenty of my own unfinished ones.
Hafspajen (
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13:13, 9 October 2014 (UTC)reply
Did you tried any of these above? And how is your garage door doing nowadays?
I'm a longtime fan of lefse.
You'll be glad to know that I managed to cobble together a ... solution? ... to the g.d. (garage door) problem, I hope. Had to put a couple of bolts right through the door. Not elegant engineering, but it works -- so far. Total investment: $3.18.
Sca (
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23:51, 10 October 2014 (UTC)reply