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It's really a shame. I suspect that low-tension guitar-like instrument with horizontal rather than vertical sliding may work as well, but at this point dexterity comes to play haha. And the frets should be moved a bit compared to western scale. It's tricky, and the market is obviously tiny haha :(

So it's not as bad as teeth modification for playing Persian Nay, but still a pretty large investment. Rather ironically, the simplest instrument to play Indian music (specifically, Carnatic) seems to be a violin, held a-la-viola-da-gamba. (There's also Carnatic Mandolin, but I'm not a fan)

For Sitar and Veena it's peculiarly shaped callouses; I don't want to add a pic as it unsightly, but bending the strings is tough enough that fingers kinda suffer. For Sarod, is peculiarly strengthened long nails. and you mostly press strings against the flat fretboard with nails.

I recently went through a phase of obsessing with Indian music, and for a while considered buying an Indian musical instrument. But I learned a horrible thing. Both Sarod and Sitar players (and so probably Veena as well) have "modified fingers" on their left hands :(
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Cartoons voiced by real animals (Episode 2): Fox

Four curious birds painted on a brick structure along a railroad track

The birds approve!

Tower and gate of Vize (historic Bizye), towers of Pınarhisar Castle (historic Brysis), tower of Polos Castle (modern Yoğuntaş) - all sites in historic Thrace (modern Kırklareli Province)
Photos taken today

No RPGs or minis while on vacation in a remote location? No problem! Just butcher some old cereal cartons and bring out some pens! #ttrpg

Cleveland Museum photo showing an ancient Egyptian paint box carved from boxwood with five oval wells containing original paint pigments. From top to bottom the preserved cake pigments are red (red ochre), blue (Egyptian blue), green (a mixture of Egyptian blue, yellow ochre, and orpiment) and two of black (carbon black, from charcoal). Dimensions 2.2 cm x 21 cm x 3.6 cm. On the front of the box there’s an inscription inlaid in Egyptian blue with the name Amenemope who was Vizier during the reign of Amenhotep II, Dynasty 18. It translates as ‘The overseer of the city and vizier Amenemope. Master of secrets of the west bank [of Thebes]’. A red inscription on the back reads ‘Amen-Ra, Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands’. Dated c. 1427-1401 BC.

Wow, this 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian paint box still contains original pigments!

Looks similar to a modern-day set!

An inscription tells us it belonged to Amenemope, Vizier during the reign of Amenhotep II.

📷 Cleveland Museum of Art www.clevelandart.org/art/1914.680

#Archaeology

Masjid Ton Sen with a green dome

Masjid Phadung Tham Islam Mosque

Wat Kanyalamit

Santa Cruz Catholic Church

Today we visited

A 350-year old Sunni mosque founded by Thai Cham people

A centuries-old Shi'a mosque founded by Thai Persians

A 200-year old Buddhist temple founded by Thai Chinese

A 250-year old church founded by Thai Portuguese

All within walking distance

Only in Bangkok, baby

Is it true? I know about Ashera who has a different status, so I wondered if there are more hints / speculations

This looks like a nice neighborhood library!

Bots? Or trolls? Brolls? Trots? This too deranged to be genuine haha (or at least I hope so! Although with a large enough sample of people, who knows, everything is possible...)

(But it didn't catch "Перекресток моих неуклюжих рук" despite it being a direct quotation from Mayakovsky that I randomly know, so it can't do allusions unfortunately. If anything is rooted in older poetry, you still need a human, it seems, to detect that. For now... 😅)

An enamel bowl, a window's stare, A bedside stand, a bed stripped bare. To live is harsh, a comfortless plight, But comfort's found in death's goodnight. I lie and ponder: hardly past, This shroud-like sheet, so stark and white, Could it have covered, fading fast, One who stepped into death's last light? And softly drips the faucet's tear. Then Life, disheveled like a whore, Emerges from the mist so near And sees: the stand, the bed once more... And I attempt to rise and stand, To gaze into her eyes, unblurred. To meet that gaze – and understand, And weep... and never say the final word.

First I need to understand the tone properly. It's raw and existential - that line comparing life to a disheveled prostitute is particularly jarring. The rhythm feels like a cross between folk poetry and surrealist verse. Key challenges: The cultural specificity of "эмалированное судно" - literally "enamel vessel" but implies a bedpan or hospital bowl. "Bedpan" sounds too clinical though. The crude metaphor "растрёпана, как блядь" - must preserve the vulgarity without being gratuitous. The haunting repetition of furniture creating claustrophobia. User probably wants this for literary purposes - maybe a bilingual reader or writer. The request for "poetic" suggests they value artistic merit over literal accuracy. I'll prioritize: Maintaining the ABAB rhyme scheme Preserving the bleak atmosphere Finding equivalent visceral imagery in English Keeping the sudden vulgarity impactful That last stanza is killer - the desperate desire to confront life itself. Need to make the climax land with same emotional weight. The water drip motif ties it all together... should keep that auditory detail. Notable choices: Using "enamel bowl" instead of bedpan - more poetic while keeping medical connotation Translating "блядь" as "whore" - equally harsh but fits meter better Adding "dank" to enhance the atmosphere Making "white sheet" into "shroud-like sheet" to strengthen death imagery

Gosh, I asked DeepSeek for a translation, and it did a very decent job! I didn't know it can now translate verses. It didn't mirror the tone at all (it shouldn't have attempted rhyming), but I unironically love the thinking trace (right) as it provides a good linguistic commentary on the original

Борис Рыжий «Эмалированное судно...» «Эмалированное судно...» и другие избранные стихотворения поэта читайте в Аскбуке литературы.

The goth bats btw are using very good poetry to rave; dark but good!
www.askbooka.ru/stihi/boris-...

So this genre does gravitate towards lyrics-centered songs, but they also experiment with "naive realism" a lot (not sure how to call it), where the lyrics is kinda punk as fuck. Simple, raw.

genius.com/Schenki-you-...

It's not too complex, but it's about love, trust, and precarity of a transient unity between two people. The 4th line is a semi-quotation from Mayakovski ("the crossroads of my clumsy arms"), so they are signaling some cultural baggage, but it's not exactly Kurt Cobain

No I mean literally, what kind of music makes one think "I wonder what the lyrics are here". What shape of music feels like it's pointing at lyrics rather than using it as a pretense to do some music, you know?

Let me listen to this one now :)

Could you plz name me one song that sounds as if the lyrics might matter?? I'm just really curious to verify the impression! :)

I mean molchat doma

YouTube video by Viral Reddit Hanging bats filmed upside-down look like a Goth nightclub

Ah I heard strictly one of their songs in the context of goth bats!!

Nah they look right! Now I need to pick what to listen to, never heard any of these names!..

OMG(s), but so do we have any idea of who these other members were??

Will we ever learn the name?..

Sometimes Wikipedia is so pure — today I stumbled upon the page that is titled “List of individual rocks” and it is exactly as advertised.

Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Julia Feininger, Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Weil and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph F. Colin

Lyonel Feininger, Ruin by the Sea, 1930 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135663

A short thread on what Catholics in different countries believe in (they are surprisingly different! Or perhaps rather not surprisingly :)

It's kinda "cute" (of a sad kind) that they ask about women as deacons (lower, organizational, undoubtedly canonical) and not priests (equality)

A Buddhist painting centered on a large circle divided into six sections like spokes of a wheel. In each section are small figures, human, animal, and various non-humans. At the center are representations of poisons and their effects. The diagram is superimposed on the front of a humanoid figure with bulging eyes and a fanged mouth.

Thinking a lot about karma and opportunities to witness it ripening…

Thus, #ThangkaTuesday features the Wheel of Becoming (Bhavachakra; སྲིད་པའི་འཁོར་ལོ།) which illustrates #Buddhist ideas of cause & effect, realms of rebirth, aka samsara.

📷: Natl Gallery Prague via HAR

#himalaya #buddhistart #karma

At a Berlin playground in a Turkish-Arabic neighborhood:
Kid A (age about 4-5) to Kid B: let's open a store! (English)
Kid C: Can I play with you? (German)
Kid A: No, you're not grown enough. (German)
Kid C upset, complains to her mom (Spanish)
Kid A later chats with her mom (French)