Links of possible interest: Science! Art/Magic! Scrabble!

[featherynscale]

First, Carl Zimmer's Science Tattoo Emporium. A gallery of tats based in maths and sciences. There are some really lovely taxonomies here, and a couple of applications of sigil magick based on circuitry, for druidevo and you other people what like that sort of thing.

Second, Tools for Photography as Ritual Magic. The artist creates a unique pinhole camera for each of his photographic series, including totemic elements related to the subject of the series. Among his cameras are one built with an 'underwater' filter containing an altar to Yemaya, two which include human skulls as part of the works, one made with a piece of girder from the World Trade Center, and one which uses a solution of HIV-positive blood as a filter.

Third, and most mundane, I like to play Scrabble, and one can play Scrabble over the internet with a ranking and ratings system here. If you would like to play with me, look me up. My name over there is Orbiting. After two games, I am rated at 666. :)

Comments

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

My name over there is Orbiting. After two games, I am rated at 666.

Of course you are...

Also, this is your reminder to call the hair salon, you dirty hippie.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I'm not a dirty hippie. I'm still much more mod than hippie. I probably won't hit hippie for another month or so. :)

[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

Scrabble? I've been playing over here. If you want to sign up, I'd love to challenge you.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Yeah, one of the joys of the Internet Scrabble Club was that it did not require me to sign up for Facebook...

[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

I began to register on this site, but it requires a software download.

It let me into the Java version, but says I can't use it unless I contribute, so either it's wrong, or it's going to stop me in a moment.

Anyways, I'm on there as LexPendrag. Evidently the 'on' is silent, because I wasn't observant enough to realize I was out of space in the text box until much later.

[gamera-spinning.livejournal.com]

What do you think of hobo ideograms and their potential as a form of urban sigil magic?

As for tattoos, I'm reading an interesting book called "Butcher Bird" by Richard Kadrey (you can read it online for free), where the main character is a tattoo artist and he discovers that one of the anicent marks he put on his body accidentally summons a supernatural creature, and after that encounter, he gains the ability to see an interact with a horde of weird stuff from other dimensions.

[bubbledragon.livejournal.com]

I'm not a tattoo person. Mostly because I'm a waffler, and what's super fantastic one day is suddenly forgotten in the ADD induced haze of my next obsession.

But I do have to say... that these tattoos are some of the most compelling I have ever seen. I think I need a lego brick.