tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-24:448299 Adventures climbing the fourth wall pyraxis 2017-11-01T03:28:36Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-24:448299:297122 2017-11-01T03:28:36Z 2017-11-01T03:28:36Z public 3 <img src="http://www.studiopyraxis.com/temp/photos/halloween_2017.jpg" alt="Two carved pumpkins on opposite ends of twin wood bookshelves in front of a big window with the curtains closed. Around the pumpkins are potted plants. The smaller pumpkin is carved with the face of wicked implike monkey with round ears and pointy little fangs. The larger pumpkin is a scowling pirate with an eyepatch, a heavy moustache, and missing teeth. A scar mark indented into the pumpkin itself goes partly behind the pirate&#39;s eyepatch."><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pyraxis&ditemid=297122" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-24:448299:183188 2013-06-23T17:35:07Z 2013-06-23T17:35:07Z indescribable public 10 And it's all women.<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://pyraxis.dreamwidth.org/183188.html#cutid1">No one's correlating, Mike.</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pyraxis&ditemid=183188" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-24:448299:167251 2013-03-25T04:33:13Z 2013-03-25T04:33:59Z public 0 SOCIALISM<br />You have 2 cows.<br />You give one to your neighbour<br /><br />COMMUNISM<br />You have 2 cows.<br />The State takes both and gives you some milk<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://pyraxis.dreamwidth.org/167251.html#cutid1">FASCISM...</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br />Bonus: Got this off a <a href="http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts/1dec2d/socialism-communism-fascism-nazismand-cows">traditional capitalism message board</a>. (Written by eskslo.) Anyone care to correct the bias?<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pyraxis&ditemid=167251" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-24:448299:135334 2012-08-23T02:10:17Z 2012-08-23T02:10:17Z happy public 0 Jim Nightmare made me a birthday cake!<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://pyraxis.dreamwidth.org/135334.html#cutid1">And I coloured it!</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br />We're at the beach for my birthday and I just had an awesome sushi dinner. When the waitress found out it was my birthday, she went and got a little cardboard box and gave it to <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://shashigai.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://shashigai.dreamwidth.org/'><b>shashigai</b></a></span> and wouldn't even let me pick it up so that I couldn't guess what it was. We're back at the hotel now and I'm going to be having cake and opening presents in a little bit. We have a little plug-in oven that makes a real cake even in a hotel room, and we brought mix and an egg and a little bit of oil. It's going to be done soon....<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pyraxis&ditemid=135334" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-24:448299:130722 2012-07-23T01:45:58Z 2012-07-23T01:45:58Z Donna Williams - Beyond the When awake public 0 For when we met I saw you look beyond the when, <a href="http://www.studiopyraxis.com/temp/07-Beyond-The-When.mp3">beyond the where</a>...<br /><br /><img src="http://www.studiopyraxis.com/temp/mandalas/batch_03_600.jpg" alt="Eight circular colour studies in coloured pencil" /><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://pyraxis.dreamwidth.org/130722.html#cutid1">Thinking of stained glass</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pyraxis&ditemid=130722" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-24:448299:129136 2012-07-16T04:45:29Z 2012-07-16T04:45:29Z discontent public 15 <img src="http://www.studiopyraxis.com/temp/clearwater/shore_sketch_600.jpg" alt="A pen-and-ink drawing of weathered rocks by the seashore. The surfaces of the rocks are encrusted with weathered clamshells and the sand is speckled with tiny black shells." /><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://pyraxis.dreamwidth.org/129136.html#cutid1">Yeh but what is it?</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pyraxis&ditemid=129136" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-24:448299:127203 2012-07-02T02:51:31Z 2012-07-02T02:57:53Z Yanni - Love is All public 2 <img src="http://www.studiopyraxis.com/temp/fireworks/fireworks03.jpg" alt="A little red firework sending up a foot-high jet of flame on a porch railing"><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://pyraxis.dreamwidth.org/127203.html#cutid1">Lots of celebration pics</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pyraxis&ditemid=127203" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-24:448299:124541 2012-06-23T02:40:17Z 2012-06-23T02:40:17Z creative public 2 Like the other set, these are from Mary Robertson's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1461104629/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=hubpages0a2d-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1461104629">Mandalas: 50 Hand Drawn Illustrations</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=hubpages0a2d-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1461104629" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.studiopyraxis.com/temp/mandalas/batch_02_600.jpg" alt="Eight circular colour studies in coloured pencil" /><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://pyraxis.dreamwidth.org/124541.html#cutid1">Cut to spare your eyes</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br />And I'm still not caught up to the latest ones. o_O<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pyraxis&ditemid=124541" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-24:448299:120942 2012-06-04T01:56:09Z 2012-06-04T01:56:41Z public 5 I've been colouring just about every evening as a way to de-stress. These are all from Mary Robertson's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1461104629/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=hubpages0a2d-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1461104629">Mandalas: 50 Hand Drawn Illustrations</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=hubpages0a2d-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1461104629" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />.<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://pyraxis.dreamwidth.org/120942.html#cutid1">The first eight</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br />And skipping ahead to the latest one.<br /><img src="http://www.studiopyraxis.com/temp/mandalas/15_400.jpg" /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pyraxis&ditemid=120942" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-24:448299:118673 2012-05-25T01:21:34Z 2012-05-25T01:21:34Z Omnia - Solfeggio (Guess who's Bach) excited public 11 It <i>is</i>! <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://tigerweave.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://tigerweave.dreamwidth.org/'><b>tigerweave</b></a></span> sent me a package and she said it was supposed to take 1-3 months but it got here today! And it's Turkish Delight, which I've never tried in my life.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.studiopyraxis.com/temp/narnia_500.jpg" alt="An open hexagonal box of Turkish Delight lying on orange cloth, with the corner of a long-distance envelope in the corner" /><br /><br />It's good too! It's lemon and rose, and lemon is one of my favourite candy flavours and the rose really does taste like flowers. I like it! I didn't even know there was such a thing as rose candy.<br /><br />Thank you! :D<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pyraxis&ditemid=118673" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-24:448299:115260 2012-05-04T03:45:49Z 2012-05-04T03:53:18Z Cornelius - Parachute, playing in my head public 0 Still tired and short on words, so have another glaringly autistic de-stressing project. Actually I finished these about a year ago, but I don't think I ever took pics and posted them. Unlimited Adventures cicns in perler beads. These were some of my favourite characters.<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://pyraxis.dreamwidth.org/115260.html#cutid1">Image under cut</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pyraxis&ditemid=115260" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-24:448299:114356 2012-04-28T04:01:00Z 2012-04-28T04:03:57Z tired public 0 This is what I do to relax sometimes when I get home from work.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.studiopyraxis.com/temp/poster_600.jpg" alt="Celtic knotwork poster coloured with markers" /><br /><small>Design &#169; Rose Art</small><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://pyraxis.dreamwidth.org/114356.html#cutid1">Design key and another photo</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pyraxis&ditemid=114356" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-24:448299:105051 2012-03-03T17:55:32Z 2012-03-03T17:55:32Z mischievous public 0 <span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://pyraxis.dreamwidth.org/105051.html#cutid1">The uncanny valley: good for more than just faces! (videos under cut)</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pyraxis&ditemid=105051" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-24:448299:103163 2012-02-25T03:23:42Z 2012-02-25T03:23:42Z public 0 Today's hilarity, discovered thanks to the guys at work!<br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qlicWUDf5MM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pyraxis&ditemid=103163" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-24:448299:100009 2012-01-29T04:22:19Z 2012-01-29T04:22:19Z hungry public 0 The Spacerobot Crew gave me some scratch art paper for a late Christmas present. We have been playing.<br /><br />These are designs from Karn. The first one is rsakk, probably from the Vahtani house.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.studiopyraxis.com/firesongs/scratchart/vahtani_500.jpg" alt="Silver scratch art of a symbolic tribal landscape with two rsakk lizards starting a fire with their breath, which reaches up into the sky with wings and plants growing and eyes in the clouds and the sun." /><br /><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://pyraxis.dreamwidth.org/100009.html#cutid1">More</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pyraxis&ditemid=100009" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-24:448299:99790 2012-01-19T05:03:23Z 2012-01-19T05:06:22Z Cowboy Bebop - Gotta Knock a Little Harder stressed public 2 <i>MPAA calls the Internet going dark in protest of SOPA 'An abuse of power'. In related news the Eye of Sauron accuses Hobbits of terrorism.</i><br />- plurk via <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://www.dreamwidth.org/profile?user=dejablue7'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://www.dreamwidth.org/profile?user=dejablue7'><b>dejablue7</b></a></span><br /><br />---<br /><br />Half my friendlist seems to have gotten caught up in a My Little Pony craze. I couldn't help but join in.<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://pyraxis.dreamwidth.org/99790.html#cutid1">Fanart...</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pyraxis&ditemid=99790" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-24:448299:97757 2011-12-25T02:00:30Z 2011-12-25T02:00:30Z happy public 0 <img src="http://www.studiopyraxis.com/temp/christmas11_01.jpg" alt="photo of our Christmas tree with snowflake, fish and kodama decorations, gold beads and ribbon garland, and light-up snowflake for a star" /><br /><br />And Happy Hanukkah and Happy Solstice and Kwanzaa and Festivus and New Year and Wintereenmas and Ice Night and Sol Invictus!<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pyraxis&ditemid=97757" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-24:448299:96499 2011-12-10T05:04:47Z 2011-12-10T05:04:47Z public 0 <br /><iframe height="315" frameborder="0" width="420" allowfullscreen="" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/oc-F-UFI5Bw?rel=0"></iframe><br /><span style="font-size: smaller;">(this is found from </span><a href="http://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/forgiven/"><span style="font-size: smaller;">ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/forgiven/</span></a><span style="font-size: smaller;"> )</span><br /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pyraxis&ditemid=96499" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-24:448299:94410 2011-11-26T18:52:36Z 2011-11-26T18:52:36Z public 0 <img src="http://www.studiopyraxis.com/temp/cats/litter2_500.jpg" /><br /><br />Mom brought her second litter up to the porch today. It looked like there were only two, a little grey wolf and a timid black guy. Then another black guy poked his head out of the bushes. And another.<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://pyraxis.dreamwidth.org/94410.html#cutid1">Writing = not going so well. Kittenspam = better?</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br />If we're going to help the new litter then the black triplets will need names. Does anyone have any ideas?<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pyraxis&ditemid=94410" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-24:448299:82516 2011-09-08T02:12:18Z 2011-09-08T02:12:18Z public 0 Not for me, but for <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://shashigai.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://shashigai.dreamwidth.org/'><b>shashigai</b></a></span>.<br /><br />He's given them all nicknames now. This is Lionheart and Buster drinking out of the flowerpot. For some reason they like that water better than the tap water or the filtered water.<br /><img src="http://www.studiopyraxis.com/temp/cats/lion-buster_01_500.jpg" alt="An orange tabby kitten and a black one with their paws and noses in a flowerpot" /><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://pyraxis.dreamwidth.org/82516.html#cutid1">Do you have any chicken? Do you? Do you?</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pyraxis&ditemid=82516" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments