Author: Farmer Jim
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Shogunate Ottoman Empire designs
The output of new designs is low last months due to a moving house project, but I got some Shogunate and Ottoman empire designs to show. Firstly, I have two new Japanese kamon designs. On is fictional and the other is real. In this paragraph, I start of with the Hattori mon. It is a…
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Anti Social Neighbor How to Deal with a noisy one
Surely many of you have once in your life to deal with the question: “How to deal with a noisy anti social neighbor?”. And so have I. I’ve been living in my apartment for more than twenty three years. It is a small apartment building of six households. Not always the relationship with a neighbor…
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Galactic Empire Star Wars Banner and Mon
Galactic Empire! I was twelve year when in 1977 the first Star Wars movie was shown. It converted me into a Science Fiction fanboy and I never got cured from the illness. The three first films about the Galactic Empire made a big impact on me. The sets, the matte paintings, the special effects, this…
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Dental Hygiene Reviewing Products I like and buy
What I often read on other blogs are reviews, reviews about products the blogger likes or uses himself. So what could I review on this blog? Let’s start with stuff I use on a daily basis. In this case dental hygiene products. Sensodyne is a wonderful product I recommend to everyone that has sensitive teeth.…
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Kaigani Thunderbird and some tadpoles
It’s been a while since I posted a blog and in the mean time I created some new designs. I finally finished a new Haida formline drawing, this time a Kaigani Thunderbird. Drawing the thing on paper is fun, recreating it in Inkscape can be a chore. To give you a glimpse of my work…
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Should tourists walk to the Zaanse Schans?
From my window I see tourists on rental bikes and sometimes in an electric rickshaw going to the Zaanse Schans and then I wonder, “should tourists walk to the Zaanse Schans?”. In fact many actually walk all the way. But some clever business men started renting bicycles to tourists and one started a electric rickshaw…
