#taolin

[sculptingintime]

[intellectures]

Begnadete Literatur

Besser spät als nie. Endlich kann man die hellwache Prosa der amerikanischen Kultautorin Joy Williams entdecken. Nach den aufregenden »Stories« ist nun ihr Debütroman »In der Gnade« in der Übersetzung der Autorin Julia Wolf erschienen. Read the full article

[20elements]

Another collection for Twisted Wonderland's dorm fits, featuring one more for a Shan Yu inspired academy.

1. Heartslabyul: Amy Rose  2. Savanaclaw: Leonidas Starblood (OC) 3. Octavinelle: Octavio (Holostars VTuber) 4. Scarabia: Sara Nagare (PRISM Project VTuber) 5. Pomefiore: Faerah Margot (Spy X Family OC) 6. Ignihyde: Neo Metal Sonic  7. Diasomnia: Ulquiorra Cifer (Bleach) 8. Chang'e Canyon: ProtoMan.EXE (MegaMan Battle Network)

DISCLAIMER: Background is from Zelda Twilight Princess; I don't own it.

[fourseasonsfigs]

Taolin Forest Wen Kexing (Handcrafted)

This beautiful figure showed up on the artist's Xianyu page as an immediately available in-stock piece, and I pounced on it. You can tell by my profile pic how much I like this costume, after all!

The artist works in ultralight clay, which has been a new medium to me, and so far I've been impressed. It is very light (as the name suggests!) and appears to be extremely flexible. I was initially very worried about her figures breaking in transport, as they all have very delicate thin little details, but everything seems surprisingly sturdy. It bends, but doesn't deform, and doesn't seem to break with careful treatment. I do baby my figs, but shipping / customs is always a wild card.

For something like this, I would normally absolutely air column wrap it to protect it from crushing damage. I don't worry about the fig breaking parts off - I worry about it getting squished! If this fig got crushed it would certainly destroy it, given all the thin, flat loops of clay making up most of this figure.

But, I didn't have to, because the artist packed it in a rigid styrofoam cooler box. This is of course deadly on the shipping fees, especially since my warehouse flags the wooden base as air freight only. But, the only thing worse than paying volumetric air freight charges is getting a crushed figure, so what can you do?

I too am deeply disappointed by my lack of quality unboxing photos. Why did I not remove this top layer of bubble wrap? NOBODY KNOWS.

This is an extremely tall figure, by far my largest figure by a wide margin. The full size, including base, is 27 cm, of which 2cm is the base. This makes the figure itself about 10 inches high for us Americans.

The fan is not clay but paper, which was a nice surprise. I would have been fine either way, but I like the paper. I'm also very appreciative that the artist included it in this rigid plastic box so keep it from getting squished inside the protective cooler. Box. Protective box.

Here he is without the fan. He's gorgeous! You can really see the detail on his belt and his long, elegant fingers.

In fact, here's a closeup of those hands and the beautiful detail on the belt. His fingers may look even a bit longer than you might expect, but that's because they need to hold the fan. You can even see the slight indent for the fingernails. This artist is just amazing. She says she puts her whole heart into crafting these figures, and you can tell.

Holding the fan as so. If you don't think I wasn't a little stressed out carefully wedging the fan in between those beautiful fingers, you have somehow (incredibly) missed all the other cases of my fig related anxiety on this blog. I'm not even a high stress person! Normally.

Alright, let's spin this beauty around, shall we?

My camera decided to focus on many things, but Wen Kexing's perfect face was not always one of them. So we'll get some closeups. But first, let's do our bottoms-up and top-down pics:

Please do note the beauty mark on the middle finger of his right hand!

For size comparison, here's Wen Kexing with his OG official fig counterpart:

You can definitely see what I mean by how big this fig is! Maybe I should call it a statue instead of a fig.

Alright, time for our close ups.

Just beautiful. I'll need to commission a matching A-Xu in the Taolin forest costume so I can have them heading off to Siji Manor.

This figure was an incredible price - less than $50 USD. An absolute bargain. I can't even imagine the time that went into this. This was less expensive than other individual figures or pairs of this size, so perhaps I just got lucky with the artist clearing space.

I had really wanted semi-realistic figures like this when Word of Honor was released and I watched it for the first time, so getting this now makes me really happy. The artist also had a snowy mountain set that I picked up around the same time, which should be arriving here relatively shortly. Please look forward to it! I can't wait myself.

Material: Ultra-light clay

Fig Count: 386

Scene Count: 26

Rating: Pure artistry

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[minsarasarahair]

If You Yao donghua is a cdrama...

Best actors are Lou Zhu, Lin Kai and Fan Aiguo/Xie Liang. Lou Zhu's acting animation is so good. They are definitely the one who will carry the show.

Best in Choreography are Long Daxia and Zuo Yunqi. They are made for action lovers.

Best CP are YuKe and TaoLin for romance lovers. They have good chemistry. I'm a LouZuo shipper but I shipped them after the main story. When it comes to LouZuo, you need the full picture to be able to ship them. Its a very delicate ship unlike these angsty YuKe and cute TaoLin.

[baliportalnews]

Kisah Sukses Digitalisasi Buleleng Jadi Percontohan Daerah Lain

BALIPORTALNEWS.COM, BULELENG - Keberhasilan percepatan dan perluasan digitalisasi di Kabupaten Buleleng, Bali membuat daerah lain berkunjung dan melakukan studi tiru. Seperti yang dilakukan oleh Forum Koordinasi Perluasan Digitalisasi Wilayah Provinsi Lampung, Pemerintah Kabupaten (Pemkab) Belu, Manggarai Barat dan Sumba Barat, Provinsi NTT. Rombongan diterima langsung oleh Penjabat (Pj) Bupati Buleleng, Ketut Lihadnyana di Lobi Kantor Bupati Buleleng, Kamis (23/2/2023). Ditemui usai menerima rombongan tersebut, Lihadnyana menjelaskan segala upaya dilakukan untuk semakin memperluas digitalisasi. Dengan mengembangkan kanal-kanal pembayaran pajak maupun retribusi daerah. Digitalisasi diyakini akan membuat suatu daerah lebih cepat maju. Mendorong efektivitas, efisiensi dan sajian data yang akuntabel. “Dan semua itu bermuara pada percepatan peningkatan kesejahteraan masyarakat,” jelasnya. Salah satu upaya perluasan digital adalah penataan parkir. Salah satunya adalah penataan di Jalan Diponegoro yang masuk wilayah Pasar Anyar. Penataan parkir di wilayah Pasar Anyar tersebut dalam rangka memberikan kenyamanan kepada masyarakat khususnya para pengunjung pasar. Digitalisasi juga akan dilakukan pada penataan parkir tersebut untuk mengurangi kebocoran-kebocoran pendapatan daerah. “Nanti dipusatkan di Jalan Sawo. Semua pembayaran secara elektronik. Setiap orang bayar parkir sudah langsung masuk ke kas daerah. Secara langsung bisa juga dilihat dalam kas daerah dan meminimalisir kebocoran,” ujar Lihadnyana. Salah satu daerah yang melakukan studi tiru adalah Kabupaten Belu, Provinsi NTT. Menurut Bupati Belu Taolin Agustinus yang turut hadir, ada beberapa hal terkait digitalisasi di Buleleng yang bisa diadaptasi di Belu. Salah satunya adalah langkah-langkah kolaborasi dengan berbagai pihak terkait digitalisasi. Termasuk dengan wajib pajak sehingga wajib pajak percaya uangnya dikelola dengan baik dan mau membayar pajak. “Kita harus membangun kepercayaan masyarakat agar mau membayar pajak. Langkah-langkah yang dilakukan Buleleng melalui digitalisasi ini saya kira bisa adaptasi di Belu,” kata dia. Sementara itu, Asisten Direktur Departemen Penyelenggaraan Sistem Pembayaran Bank Indonesia (BI) Devi Riyanti yang juga hadir pada studi tiru tersebut menyebutkan program-program digitalisasi yang dilakukan Pemkab Buleleng sudah sangat baik sehingga menjadi yang terbaik regional Jawa-Bali. Respon, sinergi dan komitmen antar pihaknya berjalan bagus dan lancar. Termasuk program edukasi masyarakat yang sangat bagus. “Ini kan memang sudah arahan presiden. Ingin digitalisasi pemerintah daerah ini dipercepat dan diperluas. Kisah sukses ini harapannya bisa diimplementasikan juga di daerah lain. Harapannya agar kita semua bisa masuk ke digitalisasi,” tutupnya.(adv/bpn) Read the full article

[art-now-china]

Ye Xiao, Xiaoing and, Tao Lin

show pic

https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Ye-Xiao-Xiaoing-and/115279/1303632/view

[ruthypie100]

#Repost @itspeteski with @use.repost ・・・ Mood Calvin and Hobbes reimagined by @itsPeteski text via a tweet by Tao Lin �� @taolin ★ @ tao_lin (on twitter) #following #calvinandhobbes #taolin #thisisnthappiness #comix #comics #emoterror #vintagecomics #motivation #itspeteski reposted ♻️ via thisisnthappiness.com https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl1-xg7KHXP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[my-life-in-coffeespoons]

“Walking north toward Haleiwa, he felt himself sloughing off multiple curses he hadn’t known were on him-- ones for being reserved and repressive, minimizing novelty, viewing everything defensively. 

“They talked garrulously on new topics. They skipped and galloped. They saw a monkeypod tree with the Yoshida Effect. Kay described a short story...”

Leave Society, Tao Lin. 2021. 

[thedonttellshow-blog]

Mumblecore - Tao Lin, Megan Boyle (2011)

A chronicle of Tao Lin and Megan Boyle's relationship filmed through a Macbook camera.

This film has terrible sound, and looks like shit, but I realised during this how little those things matter to me. I watch films for the most part in the hope that they will illuminate something about existence that I might miss amongst my daily life. Watching two people chat purposely on mandy did that. It gave me in insight into the lives of two strangers, it let me see or engage with how they think and that's what cinema should be to me. It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to take me somewhere, and this did. 

8.5/10

#mumblecore #taolin #meganboyle #indiefilm #indiedocumentary #docudrama #Supportindiefilm #thedonttellshow #moviereview

[gasstationb]

Tao Lin, who was born July 2, 1983, is a novelist, poet, essayist, short-story writer, and artist. He has published three novels, a novella, two books of poetry, a collection of short stories and a memoir as well as an extensive assortment of online content. Lin also founded Muumuu House, an independent publishing house, and in 2010 he co-founded MDMAfilms, an independent film production company. 📚 #gsbauthorquotes #gsbquotestaolin . . . . . . . . . . #gasstationburrito #onthisday #literaryhistory #bookstagram #books #bookworm #author #authorquotes #authormemes #writer #writerquotes #taolin #muumuuhouse #mdmafilms #therightwords https://www.instagram.com/p/CCKatrWBVdv/?igshid=1sd6p57d4fm1c

[kalambatu]

Besok Bupati Belu Lantik Sekda Belu

Besok Bupati Belu Lantik Sekda Belu

Belu, Kalam Batu – Bupati Belu, dr. Agustinus Taolin Sp. PD-KGEH. FINASIM akan melantik Johanes Andes Prihatin, SE.M.Si sebagai Sekda Belu. Hal itu diungkapkannya ketika ditemui awak media di ruang kerjanya, Kamis (30/9/2021). Dikatakan, pelantikan akan dilaksanakan di Gedung Betelalenok, Jumat (1/10/2021) pukul 09.00 Wita. Pelantikan akan disaksikan oleh Sekda Malaka dan Sekda Kabupaten…

[fourseasonsfigs]

Snowy Mountain Wenzhou (Handcrafted)

When I posted about the beautiful handcrafted Taolin Wen Kexing statue from this artist, I mentioned that I had bought a snowy mountain set from her as well. That set made the long sea journey over to me, and is now ready for prime time!

These two were sold as a set, ready made. I was very excited to get them, since I didn't have a Zhou Zishu in this size and style yet.

I will tell you though, I messed up with this set. These were shipped in a very large box, so I figured I'd have them wrapped up in air column wrap to given them extra protection.

I did NOT think this decision through. It did not occur to me that the force of the air columns would press down too harshly on the figures. So, a couple things happened.

First, Wen Kexing's beautiful head (and please do take a minute to admire this gorgeous paint job) got broken - you can see how under his jaw there is a big crack. As I've said with these ultralight clay figures before, they're actually pretty flexible and tough - they just can't take crushing damage very well. In this case, though, it was an easy fix - I just pulled open the crack a little bit more (yes, that's as unpleasant as it sounds), ran a thin line of glue, and pressed it back shut until the glue bonded. Good as new!

The other issue, however, was that the force of the air columns squeezing up against the figures pressed all the beautiful drapery against itself. As you saw in the Taolin Wen Kexing, the artist very carefully molds all these wonderful curved folds and drapes everything against the figure in layers and layers of clay. She did on this set too, before some of those curves all got compressed together for a month, in the heat of early summer shipping. So, those folds arrived all flat and stuck to themselves. I tried running the rounded curved handle of a powder brush under the folds to loosen them up, which actually did separate them from each other nicely. But the sheets of ultralight clay are so thin, that I was afraid of ripping them if I was more aggressive. What I need to do is run the clothing under warm water and see if I can make the sheets a bit more pliable to re-bend back into place, but I have to work up the intestinal fortitude to do that first. Maybe later this fall.

Alright! I'll do the normal photographic circle around the two of them, and then do a bunch of closeups of each of them so you can see all the beautiful detail.

Beautiful! Even a bit squished, they're still incredibly lovely. The camera had a hard time focusing on both of them at the same time, so here's some detailed photos, starting with A-Xu:

Just amazing. The way she does the lips on these figures alone is incredible. Not to mention how we get this beautiful modeling on the neck, so when the light hits it we get the Adam's apple and the shadows of the muscles.

If this was me, I'd still be paralyzed in the initial stages of picking out the right colors...not anywhere vaguely close to starting in on the first drapery fold of the first figure.

Alright, on to Lao Wen:

Ridiculous. If I was this talented, I'd literally never shut up about it. I'd be insufferable. Luckily for everyone, that's in no way a problem.

The shine on the lips. I can't get over it, it looks so perfect.

It's easy for me to forget when I'm staring at Wen Kexing's immaculate face, but I can't forget he's holding A-Xu's drinking gourd for him!

Here's a picture of all three statues that I have so far. If you missed my post about Taolin Wen Kexing, it's here.

I'm out of picture slots, or I'd just keep posting pictures of these two, I love them.

Are there more posts coming about figures I've bought from this artist? Absolutely! I love her work. There's a couple Crown Prince figs, among others, that I'm really excited about (yes, I have been obsessed with watching Legend of Anle)!

Material: Ultra-light clay

Fig Count: 443

Scene Count: 30

Rating: Forever beautiful

[link back to Master Fig Index for more posts]

[minsarasarahair]

Done with Lesbian LouZuo fanfic. TaoLin and YuKe made an appearance.

My first plan is to make illustrations for it but a family member died so the household is quite hectic and we barely sleep. There's even a superstition that the alive family member can't leave the dead family to guard it from evil spirits until burial so we are exchanging places to guard it. You know, making sure the soul will get to heavens through prayers. This is why ORB anime very fitting in my current state.

[timorberita]

Bupati Belu Rombak Kabinet, Ini Pejabat yang Dilantik

Bupati Belu Rombak Kabinet, Ini Pejabat yang Dilantik

TimorBerita, Atambua – Bupati Belu Agustinus Taolin melantik 165 pejabat eselon II dan III pada lingkup Pemkab Belu. Pelantikan dan pengambilan sumpah jabatan berlangsung di Gedung Wanita Betelalenok, Senin 8 November 2021. Berikut list nama-nama Pejabat yang dilantik dan diambil sumpah oleh Bupati Belu, Agustinus Taolin berdasarkan Surat Keputusan Bupati Belu Nomor :…

[art-now-china]

MS. Liu Wen, Tao Lin

Oil on linen

https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-MS-Liu-Wen/115279/1259285/view