…past and present, here and there
Dr. K
Anthropologist/Artist
Langorem alium apparere sentio! (I feel another fainting fit coming on)
Good grief, they are eliminating the Latin naming tradition just as I was getting the hang of it. Most of my 99 names in the previous post were correct and I had a good time doing it. Here is the article from the Washington Post: Botanists agree to loosen Latin’s grip
MoreThe Plant List, CORRECTED
My corrected plant list, with the nomenclature checked and approved, is ready to go.
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This is nuts: a mini cape takes shape
The promise to make miniature feather capes for the mini-museum was hanging over me so I decided to tackle it while I was a prisoner in the back seat of a car for 8 hours while driving to Boston. I gathered tools and feathers and a board for my lap and this is what I […]
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Miniature Gardening Resources
Some miniature gardening resources: http://www.twogreenthumbs.com/about_miniature_gardening.html Janit Calvo also has an excellent blog at: The Mini Garden Guru http://www.miniforest.com/ http://www.greenart.com/plants-miniatures1.html http://www.meehansminiatures.com/ http://www.miniaturegardenshoppe.com/ http://miniature-gardening.com/ http://www.robsviolet.com/miniature_houseplants.htm
MoreWhat’s that thing called?
Last year I had about 6 weeks to design my miniature setting, buy and keep alive the plants, create the miniatures , and, most importantly, submit an accurate and correctly named list of all the plants I used. Since this was my first time, I had no idea how to do this but I have […]
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Hawaiian capes and cloaks
I have started designing artifacts for the miniature Hawaiian museum. The first things are feather capes which are smaller than the cloak that I showed previously. I drew the capes in Adobe Illustrator using photographs of one real cape and a real cloak which I made smaller. The cloak is from the British Museum collection. […]
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Lucky finds at the miniature show
One of the artifacts that I hoped to make for my Hawaiian Culture museum was a miniature replica of a feathered cloak that for years was displayed in the Penn Museum. Here is what the cape (called ‘ahu ‘ula) looked like when it was displayed (see the museum website). Sadly, the entire Polynesia display has […]
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The Wonder of Miniature Worlds 