Laocoön

I always liked that sculpture, I have seen it a couple of times, and as the father of sons I thought - hmm, whatever dude did, I am going to try to avoid that!

From wackipedia "The most famous account of these is now in Virgil's Aeneid where Laocoön was a priest of Poseidon (or Neptune for the Romans), who was killed with both his sons after attempting to expose the ruse of the Trojan Horse by striking it with a spear.^[4]

Virgil gives Laocoön the famous line "Equō nē crēdite, Teucrī / Quidquid id est, timeō Danaōs et dōna ferentēs", or "Do not trust the Horse, Trojans / Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts." This line is the source of the saying: "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts."

This work,  Laocoön and His Sons, was attributed by Pliny the Elder to the Rhodian sculptors Agesander, Athenodoros, and Polydorus. Them there boys knew how to chip them some marble, just sayin'.

I always liked how the sons were carved as miniature adults rather than using the actual proportions that youngsters have. Kind of like Greek folk art made to last a long time. And for the record, I always recommend puttin' on one's pants prior to fighting serpents of unusual size.

I am a big fan of the work of Hector Berlioz, but I won't link to "Châtiment effroyable"  from his opera Les Troyens as it is just too early to listen to that ottetto et double chœur.

Radio station Charlie-Papa sez skip to 1:10 in this link.

Things that frighten people:

I had a friend from Sylacauga Alabama who said "There are two kinds of snakes in this world - snakes that hurt you and snakes that make you hurt yourself."

Today as I was sweeping my shop (it could happen) I saw a black snake slithering away from me in the sawdust. I jumped back pretty good.



In deference to the gentle folk among us I will only include a picture of a snake I found in a maple tree once.

Things that frighten dogs: autonomous lawn mowers. Seriously, we were out walking and encountered one - the dogs reacted with fear, amazement and much barking. They had never seen anything like it - it was rolling along, making noise, no humans nearby. '

So there you have it - robots can take over even the most menial of tasks.

WRT my previous post:
I agree with CL that Dr. John's singing is rough, but his piano playing is smooth.

Nimrata Nikki Randhawa links Trump's "Rhetoric" with racist murders....and they say that Trump needs to pander to her?

The Hill by Jesse Brynes June 3, 2016

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is sharpening her criticism of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, linking his rhetoric to the 2015 shooting at a black church in Charleston, S.C.

While Haley said she doesn't think Trump's supporters are racists, she told The Associated Press that the rhetoric he uses is dangerous. She invoked the Charleston shooting, in which Dylann Storm Roof is accused of killing nine black parishioners at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church there.

"I know what that rhetoric can do. I saw it happen," Haley said.

One thing is not like the other

Horseshoe Bend at Sunset 

Neon Blue Garter Snake

snake

I drew you a picture.

This has been bugging me for a long time. This is what I'm thinking. The snake is already done. It is built on a step. A crimp in the step. An arm on the crimp. As the paper step folds, so does the crimp and to do that it must turn inward and the arm attached to the crimp turns too. There is a snake on the arm so the snake appears to move.

Two crimps in the step, so two arms that move in opposite directions, 45 degrees, and two snake coils attached that appear to move eerily similar to an actual snake, together a full 90 degrees, impressive in pop-uppery.

Disguised and covered it is a bit freaky.

But now I think that can be extended one step upon another lengthening sideways rather than up and down as steps do, steps that do not behave as steps but as a ladder sitting on the ground.

I made a brief video of a finished pop-up card featuring a coiled snake at the bottom of this page if you care to see how I charm the pants off my brother. The snake has arms. It needs them to pass out cupcakes, eh, why not? 

Here is how one looks like without arms and disguised covered in forest liter for this multiple page card

There is another one too but it's ugly. I got tired of drawing. Three snakes eating grasshoppers,