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If you guys like Pooka’s art, and have some money lying about, grab a print! I know I’m buying at least Jokul tonight, and if I have enough, Hyde too~Individual Print: $20 USD / £14 GBP
Both Prints: $35 USD / £24 GBP
Size: A3 / 16.5 x 11.7 in
Paper: Gloss Print
USA shipping: Approx. $10 USD, this may vary depending on Zip Code.
UK shipping: Approx. £4 GBP, This may vary depending on Post Code.
If you’re interested in purchasing a print, please fill out the form shown below and send it to pookacurse@outlook.com with the subject ‘Sale Order’ and I will reply with your total and payment details.
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The first ten orders taken will also be signed by me and will come with a personalised doodle on the back.
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Project HARP (High Altitude Research Project) was a joint initiative between the United States and Canada to research the use of ballistics to deliver objects into the upper atmosphere and beyond.
In lay terms, the project was established to create a cartoonishly large gun to shoot things into space. The sole fruit of this partnership, a massive toppled gun barrel, still remains on the Barbados test site.
Designed by mad ballistic engineer Gerald Bull, the gun itself was originally built from a 50 caliber naval cannon, like what might be seen on a battleship, and was later doubled to 100 caliber, making the gun too big for effective military application, but seemingly perfect for satellite delivery. Not-designed for delivering human subjects, the cannon fired smaller projectiles in a sabot that would protect the payload during the firing and would fall away as the satellite rose. At its apex, the gun was able to fire an object a staggering 112 miles into the sky, setting the 1963 world record for gun-launched altitude at 93 KM.
As the project continued, installing similar guns in further locations, the Barbados gun was abandoned in the late 1960s and left to rust on its original launch site. Looking more like a painted sewer pipe than a Godzilla-size gun barrel, the original Project HARP space gun can still be reached along the Barbados coast.
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At a workshop not too many years ago a newer writer began to condemn a best selling novel, pointing out all its flaws and jagged edges. I listened for a long time, nodding.
“All those things are true,” I said. And gave him the C.C. Finlay quote. “But until you learn what the good parts were that excited the reader, you’re always going to be bitterly upset about what is wrong with that bestseller. Learn to spot what worked in that book, and you’ll be able to move forward. And you’ll be a lot less upset all the time as well.”
Tobias Buckell on “The fate of today’s book bloggers”
The C.C. Finlay quote: “A novel doesn’t excite readers because you took all the bad stuff out of it, it excites them because of all the good stuff that’s in it, regardless of the bad.”
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Sophia Loren
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So… I saw the new dragoon wallpaper and I can’t help but realize how SE loves referencing that classical Kain pose with their dragoons. Even the “dragoons”, in KH’s case, lol.
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EVERYONE gets niqab and burka the wrong way round in the West. And when it’s large media organisations, it’s really inexcusable.
This is really good to know!
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