Posts by Islander
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Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to giovanni tiso,
nd this is the companion piece: nonna’s rolling pin, made from a single piece of cherry wood. It was more or less nonna-length, by the time she was in her eighties.
We have my Nanna’s girdle-iron – which belonged to her Nanna & was brought to ANZ from the Orkneys…I still cook iron breads & potato cakes on it-
no photo – my very touch seems to destroy cameras of every kind…it looks like
an iron base with a high iron handle arching over the middle. The iron is very smooth & tempered- -
Notes & Queries: The Rejected Selfie, in reply to linger,
toyed with the idea of a gravatar for use here, and got as far as making up a low-resolution self-portrait, which after sitting around for 4 years finally got used about 2 months ago when I joined Facebook … a move I regret already.
linger, know what you mean here: there are images of me on the net which belong to other people - so I cant eradicate them. The only one I actually agreed to was for my tribe's magazine. Annnd-
I dont belong to Linked-in/Facebook/any social media site whatsoever... -
Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Ross Mason,
Edit above
You will all be joyful to know that not so much as a slight bump/little wriggle/slip/slide/teensy shake was felt on the West Coast-
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Notes & Queries: The Rejected Selfie, in reply to Hebe,
Self-portraits I never think of doing. I know what I look like – it’s just not the same as my camera or mirror says.
Really interesting...I've drawn myself since I was a kid (because I was the only one in the family who'd stay still long enough!)***
But I only know what I truly look like from the inside-
***I've drawn a lot of family. I truly regret that I've not drawn more friends. But it seems such an intrusion...I will now look at you for more than an hour or 2 and not react except with chalk/pen/brush/pencil and hiss, if you move-
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Notes & Queries: The Rejected Selfie, in reply to Lilith __,
’s possible that Lacan over-emphasises the importance of the Mirror Phase, but self-recognition in a mirror is a well-documented milestone in child development.
And in a being having *self* awareness- (hence the importance of beings like cetaceans & our cuzzies Pan pan. et al knowing themselves in mirrors- bonobos, just incidentally, not only realise a mirror is showing *their* reflection - they will turn a mirror on another bonobo (unaccustomned to a mirror) and hoot with
laughter as the inexperienced ape goes "Wha?That?!" -
Notes & Queries: The Rejected Selfie, in reply to David Herkt,
It is always fascinating watching animals deal with mirrors…
chimps, orangs, bottlenose dolphins - and probably orca- recognise their reflection in a mirror (the old stick -a- mark on while unconsious trick... )and elephants certainly recognise both self & reflected pictures.
Actually, mirrors involving water are exceedingly portable...a small shallow bowl e.g.
(I know of a piece of polished obsidian here that works as a mirror also-)It is not for nothing that a number of practises in various religious traditions use mirror-gazing-
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Notes & Queries: The Rejected Selfie, in reply to David Hood,
Mirrors have been around for more than human history, if possibly a prestige item for much of that. For that matter the legend of Narcissus suggests people knew what there reflection looked like.
Yep indeedy. Maori didnt have mirrors(in the understanding of such things now) - but we- sure as shit- had reflection devices.
Commonly called 'pools."
There are several known up until this day that are especially good as showing you as *others* see you.
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Hard News: Who else forgot to get married?, in reply to ChrisW,
V. succinct summation!
Wasnt there remains of a kid discovered a couple of years ago that suggested there had been interbreeding bwtn. H.sap.N & H.sap. sap?Fascinating slideside-alley/cave: it is possible that there were FOUR different species of h.sap around at the same time...
Anybody else read "The Ugly Little Boy"?
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Hard News: Who else forgot to get married?, in reply to B Jones,
s someone who’s written lots to people I don’t know, I’m very much in favour of a general purpose title that doesn’t require you to know much about the recipien
As someone who receives lots of mail-physical & e- may I say I hate titular addresses?
You call me/write to me as Keri Hulme I'll happily respond...otherwise...
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Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Jos,
In the Okarito lagoon shallows at low tides, they form what we call the shag-stake-out...anything up to a dozen birds who seem to take turns at being at the back of a reverse arrow-head...where they invariably get a fish...