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Add a CommentMy submission for Illustration Friday's "Snow and "Glow" theme is a pop-up Christmas card made of paper, paint, some photo shop and a little glue too. Have a very Merry Christmas to you!!!
Maybe it’s all the cameos in spaghetti sauce commercials and movies (was it Superman II where he straightens it?) but Pisa’s famous tower struck me as surreal, like we’d stepped into a fantasy world. The white stone buildings of the piazza, which we’re guessing had been cleaned recently, really glowed on the day we visited.
The kids called it the “Bendy Tower,” which is actually pretty accurate, since during its construction, the builders tried to correct for the leaning (already apparent) by centering the higher layers on top of the original foundation. Sounds like something I would do with one of my craft projects. So it really does bend. I kept thinking of Miss Havisham’s wedding cake.
No kids under 8 are allowed to go inside the staircase, which disappointed the kids but was fine by me. I often enjoy the outsides of buildings more than the insides anyway.
It’s a little surprising there’s a rule—-most sights in Europe have no restrictions about children, leaving you to make up your own mind. I understand this and appreciate it, but coming from the super-litigious culture of the U.S., I’ve gotten used to someone else making those decisions for me. At times we’ve been a little confused as to what was really appropriate for the kids.
While the tower was mesmerizing, my favorite thing in Pisa was the exterior of the cathedral next door. The tower is the bell tower for this cathedral. The stones that make up the cathedral are all different sizes and materials, which I found kind of crazy and awesome. Some of them are recycled from other buildings. You can see writing and designs that are now upside down and cut off:
From my reading, I understand the upside-down stuff to be recycled Roman stonework.
Here’s some other writing that must’ve been added after construction, but its placement seems kind of random:
And then there’s the graffiti (another word in my oh-so-extensive Italian vocabulary) scattered around. I guess in the olden days if you wanted to be a graffiti artist, you had to carry around a knife or a chisel or something. If you really wanted to have a lasting impact:
It seemed like these were little hidden messages waiting to be discovered. For someone interested in recycling, patchwork, writing, and printing, it was really cool.
I haven’t had a chance to do much research on the writing and recycled stone, so if you know of articles about it, let me know.
1. Go for a run.
2. Rent a movie.
3. Build a card tower.
4. Write stuff down backwards and then read it in a mirror.
5. Buy a trampoline.
6. Jump on it.
7. Crank up some tunes.
8. Try to lick your elbow.
9. Read a good book.
10. Clean up your room.
11. Start a blog.
12. Watch people’s fails on YouTube,
13. Prank call a friend.
14. Find a wall and see how high you can get your hand by jumping.
15. Wet your hair and style it.
16. Start a new instrument.
17. Find a job.
18. Put iodine on any open cuts. Being bored will seem pretty good after this.
19. Go for a walk and comment on people to your self.
20. Learn how to cook something tasty.
21. Write a story.
22. Take a hot shower.
23. See how far you can get a paper airplane to fly.
24. Wikipedia Race (google it).
25. Think of something else to do when bored and comment it for others to read.
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1. Go for a run.
2. Rent a movie.
3. Build a card tower.
4. Write stuff down backwards and then read it in a mirror.
5. Buy a trampoline.
6. Jump on it.
7. Crank up some tunes.
8. Try to lick your elbow.
9. Read a good book.
10. Clean up your room.
11. Start a blog.
12. Watch people’s fails on YouTube,
13. Prank call a friend.
14. Find a wall and see how high you can get your hand by jumping.
15. Wet your hair and style it.
16. Start a new instrument.
17. Find a job.
18. Put iodine on any open cuts. Being bored will seem pretty good after this.
19. Go for a walk and comment on people to your self.
20. Learn how to cook something tasty.
21. Write a story.
22. Take a hot shower.
23. See how far you can get a paper airplane to fly.
24. Wikipedia Race (google it).
25. Think of something else to do when bored and comment it for others to read.
Add a Comment
Beautiful and welcoming!
Fantastic and sparkling as I hope your Xmas be :)
I can feel her hopeful enthusiasm ***
Perfectly magical! Merry Christmas! :o)
Wow! Beautifully done. And definitely magical.
This is really nice. Love the colors too.
so pretty! I love the rich purple tones... and of course the fairy tale manner, one of my favorites!
Happy New Year! :)
Gorgeous! Absolutely love it. Happy new year!
i wonder if people wonder how you create such unique amazing three demensional comforting art pieces?
one day a few years back i had the great joy of getting a glimpse of the magic, and i hold that day to my heart even now.
happy new year, my dear friend.
love
kj