Хочу заказать мягкие игрушки по своим рисункам. Если кто-то видел симпатичных людей, которые этим занимаются — посоветуйте пожалуйста

Ого, оказывается «засосало под ложечкой» это не во рту.

В старину «ложечкой» называлась небольшая впадина над мечевидным отростком грудины, на границе груди и живота. Со временем это значение было забыто, но само слово сохранилось в устойчивом сочетании.

Меня снова попросили сделать картинки для голландского журнала макгафин, очень этим доволен:

Экспериментальная школа Апельсин, прекрасного Дмитрия Зицера. Расписание в шортсе похоже на расписание в фильме Нас приняли 🐸
https://youtube.com/shorts/_BErtc2eJlc?si=fi4xuU_UEtkb9F0B

В Ритвельде в этом году выпускное шоу открывал дворник академии. Сториз главы департамента фэшн

для того, чтобы помочь студентам академии справиться с тезисом наши преподаватели в 2018 году ввели предмет, на котором мы писали маленькие тексты — штук 7-10 за семестр, это одно из моих эссе

minimum

Minimum is this kind of Latin word which gives me a taste of metal in my mouth. It makes me think of Mies van der Rohe and his suit making their way on a heavy taxi through the city of Chicago in the 50-s. Less is more indeed. I wouldn't say that all Latin words sound to me like that but some really do and "minimum" with its counterpart are among them.

I wish, I knew more languages and I am set to. Now I speak only Russian and English, German is slowly fading into the blue for the last ten years. I still can manage to make an order for an omelet with cheese and vegetables, probably in 5 years it would be only cheese and later I will stay hungry.

We do have quite a lot of Latin words in Russian and they settled well there, they fit our language, we bent and skew them as we like and they even look similar to the Russian words. You know, some type designers agree on that the Cyrillic noscript has too many vertical strokes in the letters and they are spread too much in the Russian words. Take the word "пиши" ("to write" in English) -- it looks like a solid fence, not even one curve. You shall not pass.

The same with the word "minimum", one can actually spell it by putting 15 vertical strokes in a row and then connecting few of them almost in a similar way. Two dots, one little above the fourth vertical stroke, second above the seventh, 8 short horizontal strokes and voilà. Stumbling upon such a word in an English text I compare with finding something sharp in some soft and safe substance, a needle in a haystack or a thorn in your shoe or a knife in a pillow.

I am not saying that I don't like these words in English, not at all. I just strongly feel that there is something different about them, another audio-visual layer in the body of the language and I find it very interesting. As a bath half-filled with hot water and the other half with cold, you step in it and depending on your luck either draw back because hot water burns your skin or clench your teeth because it's freezing. Curiously, I don't feel such a presence of the French language in English but as I understand it is very much there thanks to William the Conqueror. The Tower of London remains but the perception of presence has faded in the language. I wonder if there are still standing Roman castles in the Great Britan or maybe it is that the heritage of Normans is in the bricks and the heritage of the Romans got its fortifications -- fences scattered in the Exford Dictionary.

Imagine how those people who came up with "I-am-sterdam" sculpture are lucky that this word has all these different letters inside. With all those strokes and curves you can lean against these letters, you can climb some or you can climb in others and even slide some. A lot of people are happy. Truth must be told, words are Worlds but some of them are better sculptures for public spaces than another.

Уже много лет возвращаюсь к этимологии слова «проект». Проектировать, проектор, projectile (снаряд на английском) — однокоренные, всё это «бросать вперед». Мне кажется, что адекватным синонимом для глагола «проектировать» должно быть слово «пулять». Проектирование это предсказывание, это рисунок и текст, который описывает то, что случится, напечатается, будет произведено, будет результатом работы. Одно из сложностей в том, что дизайнер в том числе берет ответственность за работу других людей, редакторов, фотографов итп итд. Так вот у слова «пулять» есть какое-то правильное ощущение инерции, заложенной энергии и траектории.

British naturalist and broadcaster #SirDavidAttenborough’s visit to #Wimbledon provided a vivid reminder of his impact on the sport: yellow balls. With the advent of color TV and growing interest in tennis in the late 1960s, producers looked for ways to improve the viewing experience. Tennis balls were historically either black or white. Attenborough, who worked for the BBC in the ‘60s when the broadcaster was transitioning to color, was one of the people who inspired the switch to yellow balls, the All England Club said Tuesday. The 98-year-old Attenborough was a guest in the Royal Box at Centre Court on Monday when play started at the grass-court Grand Slam. England soccer great David Beckham was alongside him. The International Tennis Federation introduced yellow balls into the rules of the sport in 1972 “as research had shown these balls to be more visible to television viewers.”

This week, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow welcomed J. R. R. Tolkien’s fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings to the fellowship of things, such as patriotic flags and, uh . . . physical fitness, that are now bad because the “far right” likes them. Maddow reacted to Donald Trump’s selection of J. D. Vance as his running mate by noting Vance’s connections to tech billionaire Peter Thiel, and finding fault in their affinity for Tolkien’s work:

Mr. Thiel . . . has named his companies after things in the Lord of the Rings series of J. R. R. Tolkien books. Lord of the Rings is a sort of favorite cosmos for naming things and cultural references for a lot of far-right and alt-right figures both in Europe and the United States. Peter Thiel names all of his things after Tolkien figures, like his company Palantir, for example. Like his mentor, like Peter Thiel, who had given him all his jobs in the world, Mr. Vance also when he founded his own venture-capital firm with help from Peter Thiel named it after a Lord of the Rings thing. He called it Narya, N-A-R-Y-A, which you can remember because it’s “Aryan” but you move the “N” to the front. Apparently that word has something to do with elves and rings from the Lord of the Rings series. I don’t know.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/does-the-left-really-want-to-argue-that-enjoying-lord-of-the-rings-is-far-right/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icxpzIh0HWA
Niklaus Troxler