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first, watch this.
now, for the ranting session.
- the amazon does produce a lot of oxygen, which it consumes right away.
- the territory where amazon is located houses a lot of people. these people are for the greater part brazilian.
- the people who are pulling it down are corporate america. yes. that’s right. huge “american” multinationals are taking it over, with the “purpose” of using the land for grazing. cow grazing. know what they do? they pull down all the vegetation. then they put one cow there. leave it for a while, and go on to the next piece of land. taking that same cow, by helicopter, while the ground burns to get rid of the cleanup job. and this is a very poor soil, especially after the burning, so the only thing that grows there is forest, cause they are self sufficient, and the fallen leaves and dead animals make up for the lack of nutritients in the soil. these are the same companies that gave the military money for the coupe d’estate in the 60’s, which led to our state as a military dictatorship from 1964 to 1984, a time when many, many hundreds “mysteriously dissapeared” after being taken by the military. these people were mostly tortured to death and disposed of in unmarked shallow graves. most of them are still missing. the military then went on to start hundreds of projects meant to “bring progress to the country”, but which ended up bankrupting us. and that is still a problem 20 years later. i could go on, but all this information is available, so…
- there are minerals and gems and gold and silver and all that more around there. all of it protected. but, if you happen to own the land… need i say more? there is a huge speculation of diamond mines there as well.
- not to mention all of the flora and fauna, many of which have tremendous medicinal importance, hence the potential to make pharmaceutical companies even more rich then they are already.
i’m gonna stop for now, but you catch my drift, right? the people who get their hands on that land is gonna such it dry, and make gazillions in the process. and all in the guise of “saving the green”. yeah right!
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just to let you 20 people who read this know that i haven’t been feeling very crafty lately. must be the hectic work schedule, or maybe the 35 d. celsius/90% humidity induced headaches… i hate indian summers!
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Futuregirl posted a comment on one of my posts a while ago, concerning, among other things, my header image. As I explained to her,
i had it (the image) on my hard drive for so long, i’ve lost the source. let me explain:
sometimes, while surfing, i come upon things i like, and usually save the pages for further reference (i am more organized now, thanks to del.icio.us, but i had no respect for navigator bookmarks) and sometimes i clean up, and somehow this image ended up alone in a folder, and i couldn’t remember where it’s from! i was hoping someone would, but forgot to post the question (as is my custom. i have the attention span of a goldfish, i prefer them to fruitflys, seeing as how they are kinda gross)
now i remember i had to post this and forgot. so if you know any info on it, please send me;-)
To which she replied,
About your flower header …
The artist is Henry Darger. If you do an image search on google, you will find a lot of his work.
Well, you can say a lot about me, but never that I am not a curious person, so I googled him. And I didn’t find my header there. I admit, there are some striking resemblances, but it’s not Darger. So I got all hot and bothered, determined to find the f&%*#@% thing. And, after googling countless keywords, I found it! I have a great photographic memory, and I can remember sounds pretty well, not conversations, but voices and stuff. I digress.
Anyway, I remembered what it looked like whole, and was able to find it. And here it is:
It’s called Flower Garden, by Gustav Klimt. My third favourite painter of all time (first one being of course colour-wizard Van Gogh, second being the wizard of meaning René Magritte). I actually went to his museum in Viena, and that was a gorgeous experience. So, the mistery of my header image is solved, and we can now all feel better for it.
And, of course, another blanket is coming out of this (for further explanation, view Ripple Blanket, right here on the sidebar – I am lazy, remember?). Maybe I’ll do the Babette Blanket with this palette. See ya!
btw – thanks for all the well wishes, I am better, if not cured. Bye now!
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too sick to write. check flickr for photo update. bye.
So, this is my next project:
It’s from a book, but I found at the purl bee. It’s the Babette Blanket.
Right after my Ripple Blanket is done, or I get too bored to go on, I will start this one. It will be perfect for my kid’s play room. The couch there is just begging for some tlc… and there is no $$$ for new covering, so with some raw cotton fabric (the one you can bleach all you want) for cover and this on top, it’s gonna look great!!! The room also serves as my husband’s office, but he won’t mind (much). Ah… can’t wait…
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