Dawntreader Downtrodden

I just watched the movie adaptation of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

In summary — it's not very good.

In truth, I find it difficult to assess how the movie stands on its own merits; it butchers the original story so bady that at times it could be described as "a movie based on the title of a book by C.S.Lewis". I'm aware, of course, that absolutely faithful movie adaptations of books are seldom dramatically successful, but in many cases the additions and elisions, and changes in scene order, characterization and tone in this movie often don't appear to have any justification except for the sake of fiddling around by the screenwriters.

I'll give it this much — the sea serpent is pretty cool and scary.

African Mask

Sgraffito — indian ink painted over a layer of white wax crayon on paper, and then the ink scratched away to form the image. It's the same process as scraper-board, but the resulting lines and areas are much less clean and precise.

Garden Sculpture

Math

Ding-Dong, the Witch is Dead

Or in this case, Osama Bin Laden.

He was a huge drippy chancre on the swollen hæmorrhoids dangling from the arsehole of humanity, and I'm very glad that he's dead. I only wish that more of his charming comrades-in-arms shared his state.

I don't think it will make a blind bit of difference to anything at all.