Sola Deo Gloria

I had originally not wanted to see [Galaxy Quest] because I heard that it was making fun of Star Trek and then Jonathan Frakes rang me up and said “You must not miss this movie! See it on a Saturday night in a full theatre.” And I did and of course I found it was brilliant. Brilliant. No one laughed louder or longer in the cinema than I did, but the idea that the ship was saved and all of our heroes in that movie were saved simply by the fact that there were fans who did understand the scientific principles on which the ship worked was absolutely wonderful. And it was both funny and also touching in that it paid tribute to the dedication of these fans.

— Patrick Stewart

- “moo juice!”

- E G G - G I E

yes you may. also i propose the archivist who gets called up for research purposes regularly only to curse at length about how she’s not doing any more research from the specific source because its horrific to translate and she wants to be paid more to even look at it (she does it anyway because its fascinating but shes not going to tell anyone else that because they spend an entire episode trying to bribe her and she wants to see how far they’ll go)

# my friends and I pitched a sitcom called ‘Field School’ and I think it would be brilliant, #what’s more full of interpersonal drama and wacky scenarios than an archaeological field school full of green undergrads and tired TAs, #and by pitched I mean joked about how there should be one while we were out in the field walking survey lol. @specialagentartemis 

spectacular - exactly what we need in life. and the high quality content that is the shenanigans of green undergrads who think the tired TAs, lecturers, and otherwise more qualified archaeologists are actually more dignified, when in reality its 11pm and they’re semi-drunk crying over how tiny the coin they found today was

In a previous post about the Modernisme architectonic style, I said I wouldn’t mention the tiles not to make the post longer… @kiragecko​ asked for some tiles, so here are some examples!

The tiles in this post are “rajoles hidràuliques” (meaning “hydraulic tiles” in the Catalan language), which is a kind of tile invented in the 1850s in Catalonia and very widespread in our country since they’re very resistant and quite cheap.

In this post I include photos mostly from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, all from buildings in Catalonia and often inspired in older traditional Catalan tile stiles and the style of carpets.

This website posted a lot of tiles from Barcelona.

These ones were in the library of Vilassar de Dalt.

Barcelona again.

The street pavement in parts of Barcelona.

Palau Baró de Quadras, Barcelona. Tiles in the walls and floor.

There’s also wall tiles in relief

The two above are in Barcelona and the bottom one in Canet de Mar.

Wall and ceiling in Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona.

Two examples of walls in Barcelona.

And it’s not only for the floors and lower half of walls, they used it in the outside of buildings too:

The roof of Casa Batlló (Barcelona, Catalonia). It represents the scales of a dragon, as if the dragon was asleep on top of the house.

Or to write the name of your house (Bell Esguard)

Or to make a mosaic (this is also in Torre de Bell Esguard)

For your shop’s door.

Outside domes or the top of towers.

Outdoors of two buildings in Argentona.

This is in Canet de Mar too.

‘I do not know what you mean by that,’ answered the leader of the Elves. ‘They are fair garments, and the web is good, for it was made in this land. They are Elvish robes certainly, if that is what you mean. Leaf and branch, water and stone: they have the hue and beauty of all these things under the twilight of Lorien that we love; for we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.”

- Fellowship of the Ring, Chapter 8: Farewell to Lorien

This is how I think of Jackson’s movies. Yes, there are serious flaws - Gandalf’s de-powering, Gimli as comic relief, and Faramir, namely - but come on.

Remember when the guys making their chain mail invented a new method for quickly producing large amounts of it by hand? Remember Miranda Otto walking down the street, practicing sword positions? The guys who forged all of the swords - for leads and for extras? The men and women riders who volunteered to be riders of Rohan? The costume designers who designed the inside of Theoden’s armor (which no one would ever see) so beautifully that Bernard Hill said he felt like a king? The friendships between the cast, and their size doubles, and the stuntmen?

“The film’s art director and Kaynemaile’s founder Kayne Horsham worked with his team to construct each garment from plastic plumbing tubes, coating them in pure silver. Once filming wrapped, Horsham dedicated himself to creating a change to the liquid state assembly process to mass produce the polycarbonate chainmail for architectural applications — products that were light, but strong enough to protect the interior or exterior of a building. Now an industry-leading manufacturer, Kaynemaile produces mesh for everything from small interior screens to large scale exterior façades. Their mesh is easy to install and can be custom created for specialized applications.”

https://architizer.com/blog/practice/materials/kaynemaile-mesh-facade-systems/

every scene you see in the 11+ hours of glory that is the LOTR masterpiece is most like ridiculously elaborate or expensive–from model towers to the all-new motion capture technology used for gollum to the costumes and sets to the aerial on location shots of mother-fracking new zealand and the big impressive battle scenes and horse charges.

but then the story and the screenplay too–there is just SO much lore that is there in the background lurking if you want to look for it, yet it still remains simplified for the average viewer. Crazy impressive feat.

And the acting is heartfelt and real and makes you love the characters.

did you, at any point in your marriage, think to yourself: wow I am actually messed up

like marriage has this way of making you, forcing you even, recognize your awful sins and habits and patterns?