#the marble collection

[littleraccooncarl]

A Forrest of Plans/The Marble Collection recap!

A Forrest of Plans

Carl and Forrest are building a racetrack, and they need a shoelace to complete it. Forrest goes to his house to get a shoelace. On the way, he bumps into Nico and Arugula, who are headed to the Pizza Pyramid. Forrest decides to go with them. Then, he decides he wants to play music with Lotta. Then, when Forrest gets home, he realizes that he forgot he had a race today, and he made too many plans. Forrest thinks he can still do all his plans, since he's very fast. He runs from one place to another, much to the confusion of his friends, and keeps each of them waiting. Carl is disappointed, and disassembles his racetrack. Nico and Arugula take the leftover pizza home. Lotta straight up gives Forrest the silent treatment. At least Forrest made it to his race on time, and he talks to his dad about how he made all his friends disappointed. Forrest gets in second place, clearly exhausted from all his running. Much to his surprise, all his friends showed up to the race, since they promised they would be there. At the end, they all play together, building a racetrack, eating pizza, and making music.

This is another episode that clearly shows Forrest's ADHD, as he tries to multitask and do multiple things at once, only to disappoint his friends. Forrest strikes me as a people pleaser, because he wanted to everything with all of his plans, and was unable to say "no." However, at the end, when the other racers invite him to the Pizza Pyramid, Forrest remembers that it's okay to say "no." That is a very important lesson. And I think Forrest could benefit from having a calendar that keeps track of important dates, like Lotta does.

The Marble Collection

On a very hot day, Carl and Arugula are planning on making an epic marble run. All of their attempts fail. Arugula suggests taking a break, but Carl is determined to keep going. After four attempts, Carl gets frustrated, so he and Arugula decide to play on Forrest's water slide to cool down. Forrest tells them how hard it was for him to assemble his slide as well, but all the mistakes he made helped him figure out what does and doesn't work. Carl and Arugula realize that they can learn from their mistakes, so they decide to build the marble run again. After 48 attempts, they finally get the marble run just right.

This episode could possibly be perceived as "boring" compared to other episodes, but that's probably just because Carl and Arugula are compatible together, and their personalities don't clash the same way that Carl's and Nico's do. That marble run looked really cool, now I kinda want to make one.

[tapakah0]

[whoamiandwhatimdoinghere]

Tim's bouncy castles collection

[riesenfeldcenter]

Some unexpected marbling on two books (here and here) covering the trial of Lord Sackville, 1760.

[skyekitsuneart]

Happy 14 Years Marble Hornets!!! An old art dump to celebrate!!

[thestudsystem]

I love the part in slenderverse where the depressed early 20's protagonist went "it's forest time!" And started slendering everywhere

- Jesse Wells

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Round One: Rainbow Collection

Marbled Polecat vs Madagascar Sunset Moth

Arena: Desert

Remember, it's not a popularity contest- it's a fight to the death!

[softcryz]

Everyone go home. This is the only thing in the world now. I saw Creativity's face in my askbox, didn't know what to expect and when I opened it I was treated to this delight. I will be fed for eons. This has made me turn over a new leaf

Do you love the colour of the Creativity

[eucanthos]

Sara Stockbridge, British Museum photoshoot for Dame Vivienne Westwood's collection Mini-Crini S/S 1985

Declan Ryan (photograrhy)

anasyrma (the gesture of lifting the skirt or kilt)

https://strip-project.com/archive/sarah-stockbridge-british-museum-vivienne-westwood-mini-crini-collection-spring-summer-1985-photography-declan-ryan/976.html

[kgkrloafrs]

the culmination of 100 brainrots

[ancientsstudies]

It’s a place of ideas.

ig credit: angelin_a_michelle.

[daneweeezer]

I'm giving the sharks an offer they CANT refuse

[icarrymany]

part 2 of what i think 2024 au totheark would look like

[uwmspeccoll]

It’s Fine Press Friday! 

Today we’re taking a deep dive into Songs for Gaia, a slim edition of poetry by Gary Snyder (b. 1930). This understated, beautifully-crafted letterpress volume was printed in 1979 for Kah Tai Alliance at Copper Canyon in Port Townsend, WA, a fine press dedicated solely to poetry since its founding in 1972, and was handbound by poet and bookbinder Samuel Green. It features woodblock illustrations by poet and printmaker Michael Corr (b. 1940), who learned his craft while living in Kyoto from block printer and illustrator Takeji Asano (1900-1999). Asano was a notable figure in Japan’s Sōsaku-hanga woodblock printing movement. The book is quarter bound in cloth with a cover marbled in a finely executed combed feather pattern, a touch that lends a hint of psychedelia to its otherwise traditional aesthetics. It was released in a limited edition of 300 copies.   

Snyder, who is popularly known for his time amongst and spiritualist influence on the Beat poets and the counterculture of their generation (along with Kerouac’s portrayal of him as Japhy Ryder in the 1958 novel The Dharma Bums) spent 13 years in Japan (1956-1968) studying Zen Buddhism, forestry, and ecology. A scholar of Asian languages versed in cultural anthropology, he also studied calligraphy with accomplished calligrapher and seal carver Charles Leong during his time at Reed College. Snyder’s calligraphic signature graces the half-title page of this edition.  

This modest yet potent edition of Songs for Gaia is a fitting form for the work of a poet whom writer Bob Steuding once characterized as cultivating an “accessible” style and “a new kind of poetry that is direct, concrete, non-Romantic and ecological.” As Snyder wrote of his own work in A Controversy of Poets, “I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may approach the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.”  

View more Fine Press Friday posts

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View more marbling posts (shout out to Alice, our resident marbling expert!)

-Ana, Special Collections Graduate Fieldworker

[daredevildemon]

I colored it :) thanks for all the love on the original sketch of the panel redraw

[essentiallykpopandbl]

With every episode of We Are, I am becoming more unhinged about Toey and Q. I would never be immune to Toey's puppy dog eyes either. And I'm not surprised Q is massively possessive of Toey. With every look, or flashback, or secret smile I am more in love with these two. And shoutout to Winny and Satang for controlling my heart right now.