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This blog is intended as a professional art blog and informal portfolio for my most-polished artwork

While not politically focused, my stances are: BLM / ACAB; Trans rights are human rights, disabled people deserve dignity, and so forth

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Fetish blogs please DNI (I have to see your content in my notes!)

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Need help translating a haiku into Japanese

I was watching Ozu's film Early Summer and wrote a haiku based on the ending scene:

Amid the barley a bride our daughter’s age moves into the distance.

I don't speak Japanese at all, so I translated it into Japanese using Jisho.org, but I'm unsure of some words.

For the first line I'm thinking either 麦の内 /Mugi no uchi or 麦の中 / Mugi no naka

The second line is 若き花嫁 / wakaki hanayome

For the third line I'm thinking either 遠のくや / tōnoku ya or 消える哉 / kieru kana in both cases the kireji is at the end of the third line.

麦の内 / 麦の中 若き花嫁 遠のくや / 消える哉

In English the translated haiku should read as:

Amid the Barley A young bride vanishes/moves away/walks away.

Which Japanese words would you recommend I use?

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Revisited this picture and added the multicolored stripe and little fins on the belly. Upped the contrast on the other fins to better match the stripe. I'm satisfied with the result.

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[bitternest]

Come on Tumblr, don’t be fucking cowards

Alternatively -  come on nameless intern #102, you have a chance to be the fucking funniest person on staff.

[bitternest]

cowards

[northwest-cryptid]

Time for manual blazing, tumblr can be a coward but they can't stop us.

[castleonthearno]

after 8 days of work I'm finally finished! took an old colored pencil sketch (bottom pic) and redrew it digitally. I worked all day and was often up till one or two in the morning, so I'd say 100+ hours went into this drawing.

I tried to make this guy an alluring doe-eyed pretty boy; he's got iridescent skin, scales, and fins, big brown eyes, dark curly locks, and a powerful body to hold you close. the whole shebang really. doesn't he look inviting? like he was made to love...

background version uses a free sand texture image

spicy alt on twitter

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Two possible layouts for the passenger quarters on my airship. Each square on the grid represents one square meter. Top image is a composite of both upper and lower decks, with lower deck at left third and upper deck center and right thirds. Bottom image is upper and lower decks separately. In both cases details have been left out where symmetry between port and starboard exists.

In second design, the lounge in control gondola below the hull leads via staircase up into the hull with passenger cabins to starboard and smoking room with bar to port. Through a central passage leads to dining room which occupies most of central bay. Aft of which are kitchens, crew’s mess and officers’ mess. Aft of these crew spaces are crew toilets and stewards’ and kitchen staff’s bunks, along with electrical generator room. Staircase at front end of dining room leads up into a central lounge with dance floor with promenades to port and starboard and cabins aft. Corridors between these cabins lead aft into the next gas cell, where more cabins are held in port and starboard wings, with men’s and women’s toilets located between the wings, and a single shower between the restrooms. Window cabins in aft wings are 5 or 5.5 feet wide with double bunks 2.5 feet wide, and feature small window areas large enough for two chairs.

[hisashi-monogatari]

“I’m in the sun, sun, havin’ fun!”

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current progress on my airship. Added handlebars to the control gondola for the ground handling crews. The yellow stripes on the hull are strips of translucent cloth to light the keel catwalks, an idea taken from the USS Akron & Macon.

[alightinthelantern]

My ocean liner’s ballroom, sans furniture. Everything designed by me, except for the piano, which is an amalgamation of parts from piano models designed by other people.

And now, some backstory written for my ship’s storyverse (story-universe):

Known as the Memphis Room officially – named after both Memphis, Egypt and Memphis, Tennessee – the first class ballroom was one of the more popular rooms of the ship, being done in the moderne art deco of the day. The decor had an ancient Egyptian flair to it, which as well as giving the room its name worked in the room’s favor as well; the large grills of black lacquered wood, with their fan-shaped lotus motifs, snug in between beige plastered pillars, and the extensive use of gold, brick red and pastel green in the room’s palatte of tans and brown woods, gave a sense of style and sophistication to a room that would otherwise have been bland and homely. The gold in the color scheme, most noticeable on the coffered ceiling above the central dance floor, was achieved by using actual gold leaf, a fact made much of by the advertising department of the ship’s parent company.

The Memphis Room was not original to the ship, but was created during her 1933–4 Winter Refit, as the original ballroom designed by Henry Windermere was not the triumph the company directors were hoping for, but altogether a lackluster failure. Zelda Gomolka, the interior designer and Polish immigrant who had been turned town two years earlier for being then unknown in the field, had proven herself since, with such projects as the design of the Polish ambassador’s house in New York and a local diner, with much critical acclaim. She was at last given the chance to design spaces aboard the vessel of her adopted country after she barged into the company offices one October afternoon wearing her electric hat, which she always wore when she meant business, and the board of directors gave into her without a single argument. Ms. Gomolka proved her stuff again on the ship, creating rooms whose grandness was only rivaled by the first class dining room four decks below.

[alightinthelantern]

I’ve been working the past two days on a 3d model version of a room I did in a drawing a while ago, and it’s almost done now. I’m proudest of the tracery of the gothic window, and the Indian lotus flower motif in the domed central portion of the ceiling, as this is the first time I’ve attempted either kind of thing. Modeled everything except the rug, which I downloaded from the Google Sketchup Warehouse.

The room was meant to be a royal nursery, hence the whimsical architecture. The small room off to the side is a bedroom.

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Current Progress on my model of the SS Rex.

Disclaimer: I did not model the lifeboats, those were by someone else and I just recolored and resized them. I did model everything else though.

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So I realized it had been awhile since I had last published a progress report on my ocean liner WIP, so I decided it was high time to post a new one (I am pretending that people care as a salve for my fragile ego). There have been a fair number of changes since the last update, but most of them are minor. Some of the most recent ones are visible in the snapshots above, and explained in the captions below:

¾ view bow. The ship’s name plates would be aft of the anchor well, just below the top row of portholes. That is, if I knew what to name the ship.

Portside overview. As one can see, my ship was inspired by the German NDL liner Columbus. But I only modeled most of the exterior after it, so it’s hardly an exact copy. The funnels are longer and narrower than they used to be.

Sun deck. The part visible is just aft of the second funnel. Most ocean liners had two sets of bridge wings, the main ones on either side of the wheelhouse at the foremost end of the top superstructure deck, and an auxiliary pair at the stern to aid with docking the vessel in port. The German liners of the 1930s had extra pairs of bridge wings though, interestingly enough, situated just aft of their second funnels, and the Bremen and Europa had another extra set of bridge wings set a deck above and only fifty feet aft of the main bridge wings up front. I decided to replicate that third set of bridge wings just aft of the second funnel on my own ship as well.              Also visible are the wood-paneled covered stairways leading up from the First Class ballroom two decks below. In good weather nighttime parties were often moved up from the ballroom topside. The metal framing, meant to support canvasing to shelter walkers from rain or scorching sun, were used to hang lanterns and streamers from during those outdoor dances.

Poop deck and social hall. The “poop” is an antiquated term fr the sternmost deck of a ship, originating in the age of sail. On this ship the “poop” deck is the open, aftermost portion of the Upper Deck (which is below the Main Deck, which is below the Promenade Deck). Inside the wall with the double rows of portholes is the Tourist (3rd) Class Social Hall. The Poop deck is one of the main deck spaces for the no-frills Tourist Class, the other being a part of the forecastle, the long, open forward part of Main Deck at the bow.

¾ overview stern. Though not in great quality, you can see, from fore to aft, the net-enclosed First Class deck tennis courts between the two funnels; the part of the Sun Deck seen in picture 3; the First Class swimming pool and lido on the after end of the Boat Deck, the Cabin (2nd) Class deck tennis court on the raised roof of the Cabin Class lounge on the deck below.

As I’ve said before, lifeboats, davits and anchors are not by me, nor are the textures of the hull and portholes. Everything else is.

[alightinthelantern]

I’ve been continuing working on this project I mentioned two weeks ago, of designing an ocean liner for a Poseidon Adventure-based TTRPG map-set. I drew up a second profile on graph paper, but realized that if I wanted to get the proportions exact I’d have to model it in 3D. I spent the last two days throwing together this model, but that quick speed was because I’d already done the hard work of working out the broad measurements of funnels, decks, and all that. The ship takes the form of the RMMV Oceanic, a vessel planned by White Star Line in the late 1920s but never built due to the Great Depression.

Most blueprints connected to the project were thrown out a decade after its cancellation, and only a few rough drawings survive to give any indication of what the ship looked like. However, there are amateur aficionados who’ve done a lot of work and research into figuring out what the ship would’ve looked like, had it been built, and their research, while not a direct resource I used, still has been a great inspiration for me (their addition of a conjectured rounded superstructure front, rather than a flat, rectangular one as depicted inspired me to do the same).

The model is not high-def, and includes only as much detail as I needed to hone the proportions of deck length and placement of funnels and masts. The decks have no curvature (”sheer”) as it was unnecessary, and I have that memorized anyway. I’m missing a few cargo hatches, and like half a million vents (these big ships had so many vents!) but overall, I’m done.

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Current work on my airship. Measures 307.5 m long with a hull diameter of 43.4 m (1,009 ft x 142.5 ft). I’ve got the upper three fins done, I’ve still got the lower fin, engine cars, control gondola and passenger quarters to finish. The mooring cone at the nose (6th image) is a reproduction of the Hindenburg’s nose cone, which would made this airship compatible with the German and American airfields of the 1930s.

The airship’s general arrangement is based on an unbuilt design by the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation from 1935, with the great size, elongated control gondola with passenger lounge inside, and extruded portions of the hull above and behind the gondola for passenger quarters, but my airship has exterior engine cars based on the Graf Zeppelin II’s design, rather than long wind-turbine like engines extending outwards from the hull in the original design.

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he’s a friendly guy

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A mockup of two cabins aboard the airship Hindenburg I did in Sketchup, back in February. I found some general blueprint plans of the passenger quarters, but had no specific info on the cabins beyond that they were about 2.3 meters tall, and 5.5 x 6.5 feet for floor dimensions; everything else was eyeballed from photos. There are some mistakes, especially in the area of the sink basin, and the wrong number of holes in the ladders, but the model was only a preliminary mockup anyways, done to experiment with distance- and volume-measuring.

Last two photos are a vintage ad of an actual cabin aboard Hindenburg in 1936, and a photo of a reconstructed cabin at the Hindenburg museum in Friedrichshafen, Germany.

[thedeafprophet]

On dirigibles, blimps, and airships

Okay I'm on my phone in class so I don't have access to my big folder of reference pics I have at home but my urge to infodump came on so here's a basic summary. Also I am not an expert, I am just an engineering student with an interest, so if someone knows better feel free to correct the information.

A Dirgible is an airship, and can be used interchanged with being called a blimp. There's of course some mechanical differences in structures, but that's the basic deal. The names come down to the various inventors and what they were used for, but you can consult wikipedia for the breakdown of definitions if you want. Dirigibles in specific had a rigid structure from what I can gather, but with any terms (tho that may be instead for Zepplins), defining specific differences between airships seem difficult if you are not well versed in them I think. (Even back when people did distinguish them, they still often mixed the words up between blimps and dirigibles)

Keep reading

[thedeafprophet]

Home now so attaching a few of the interior type images i have saved on my computer <3

Also this is an interesting (and short!) video on the subject:

[castleonthearno]

Sorry, I have to make some corrections/clarifications:

Airship is the broadest, most all-encompassing term. Airships come in three types: Rigid, Semi-Rigid, and Non-Rigid.

Let’s start with Non-Rigid. This means there is no rigid structure that gives the airship its shape; instead, the shape is derived entirely from the internal pressure of the lifting gas inside the non-rigid, malleable envelope of the airship. Hot-Air Balloons are a kind of non-rigid airship (using the “airship” part loosely here, because by definition airships are steerable, and hot air balloons cannot be steered). Non-rigid airships are quite limited in the amount of weight they can carry; too much weight, and the tension from the support cables will tear the envelope apart.

Blimp refers exclusively to non-rigid airships, that are lifted with hydrogen or helium, but not to hot-air balloons.

A Semi-rigid airship is similar to a non-rigid airship in that its shape is also derived from the internal pressure of the lifting gas pressing against the outer envelope, but the non-rigid envelope is strengthened by a rigid spine which can run either internally within the envelope or externally beneath the envelope. This rigid spine can be built of metal or wood. Including a spine allows for weight to be distributed evenly across the envelope’s entire length, increasing the allowable size of the airship and the amount of weight that can be carried. Italian Umberto Nobile built two semi-rigid airships, the Norge and Italia, which were used in Arctic exploration. Both suffered in the extreme cold, and were ultimately lost. Also, all modern airship concepts are of the semi-rigid type.

A Rigid airship derives its shape from the rigid support structure over which an outer skin is stretched. This rigid skeleton encompasses internal gas cells, which themselves rather resemble balloons, while the framework somewhat resembles a giant birdcage in construction. A rigid airship’s frame can be built of metal or wood. A rigid framework allows for still greater weight carrying over semi-rigid airships, but these same frameworks are extremely heavy, an depending on individual construction can vary from two-thirds to four-fifths of the airship’s total gross weight capacity, which means they must be built extremely large to allow for the remaining net weight capacity , i.e. payload, to be large enough to be of any worth.

I once heard that the term Dirigible came from the French word meaning “rigid”, but I double-checked and it actually means “able to be steered”. Thus dirigible can technically refer to any kind of airship, but it’s generally used to mean rigid airships.

Zeppelin refers to a specific German company which made rigid airships in the early 20th century. The company was named after its founder, Count Ferdinand Von Zeppelin. Count Zeppelin pioneered rigid airships, and used both his own wealth and publicly raised funds to build several rigid airships between 1900 and 1910, which impressed the both the public and the German military, fulfilling his hopes. The Zeppelin company built civilian airships before and after WWI, and over a hundred military airships during WWI, which were used to bomb Germany’s enemies during the war. Due to this, the Zeppelin Company was forbidden from building any more airships after the war until 1927, when easing of the Versailles Treaty terms allowed them to build civilian airships again. That was when they built the Graf Zeppelin, which is considered the most successful airship in history. After this they built the Hindenburg, which is infamous for its fiery end at Lakehurst, NJ, USA on May 6, 1937. After this they built the Graf Zeppelin II. Both Graf Zeppelins were scrapped during WWII and their metal reused to make bombers.

Additional info for anyone interested:

Germany was not the only country to experiment with airships, but they were the most successful at it, having the most experience.

Britain built two huge rigid passenger airships, the R100 and R101, intended to link England with its far-flung colonies around the world. Both airships were based on German knowledge but were radically experimental, and had issues as a result, such has being too heavy and lacking in reserve lift. R100 made a successful flight to Canada and back, but R101 crashed during a storm on its maiden voyage to India and burst into flames, killing all but four aboard. After this R100 was scrapped. After R100 was withdrawn from service, Germany represented the only country in the world to continue exploring passenger airships.

The US experimented with military rigid and semi-rigid airships, most of which were built in Europe and bought by the US. The Italian semi-rigid USS Roma, which was filled with hydrogen, crashed and burst into flames, killing all aboard, and after this all American airships were required to use helium as a lifting gas. The British rigid R38 suffered structural failure and crashed over water, drowning most aboard, and after this US airships were required to have heavy, strong frames. The USS Los Angeles was built by the Zeppelin Company for the US, and served faithfully from 1924 to 1932, when it was decommissioned. The USS Shenandoah was built by the US, based on high-altitude Zeppelins from late-WWI, and after two years of service suffered structural failure during a storm and crashed in 1925. The Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation was an American offshoot of the Zeppelin company, and designed two identical rigid airships, the USS Akron, which served 1931-33, and Macon, 1933-35, which were designed as floating aircraft carriers. Both were lost in storms, each after roughly two years of service. All but three aboard the USS Akron drowned, having no life-rafts, but afterward life-rafts were stowed aboard the USS Macon, and all but two survived when the Macon went down.

After the loss of Akron and Macon, the US experimented solely and heavily in non-rigid blimps. These blimps were built in the hundreds and served in WWII and the Korean war, and eventually retired from service in the 1950s and ‘60s.

Italy experimented with several semi-rigid airships for military and scientific purposes, including Nobile’s Norge and Italia, but all these airships ultimately met bad ends.

France had a small number of airships after WWI, including the rigid Dixmude, which was originally an incomplete German Zeppelin that was seized and completed as war reparations. This airship was lost in a storm on 21 December, 1923 off Sicily, killing all aboard. France did not experiment with airships after WWI beyond the Dixmude. It had another Zeppelin, the civilian LZ-121 Nordstern, which was given to France as war reparations and renamed Méditerranée, but little was done with the airship and it was soon scrapped.

In the early 1900s an American man (whose name I can’t remember) invented a method of extracting and harnessing the helium found occurring in natural gas wells in Texas. These Texan wells were the only known helium deposits on Earth at the time. Thereafter the US slowly began extracting and stockpiling helium, but it was many years before they had enough helium for filling more than one airship at a time. During the USS Shenandoah’s and USS Los Angeles’ service lives only one could be flown at a time, and each had to be drained of its helium, and the helium transferred to the other, before the other could fly. By the 1930s the US had enough helium for multiple airships, but there still wasn’t enough to pass around to other nations. It’s popularly said that the US refused to sell helium to any other nation for fear it would be put to military use, but in reality this was partly true and partly an excuse, as there simply wasn’t enough helium to go around.

As an aside, helium has between 88% and 92% the lifting capacity as hydrogen, depending on purity of the gas. Hydrogen can be synthesized by separating the oxygen and hydrogen atoms in water molecules. Helium, as an inert gas, cannot be synthesized, even today, and all the helium that exists on Earth comes from the finite reserves located in gas and petroleum wells in the oldest crust on Earth. Petroleum radioactively decays into helium over the the course of billions of years, which means there is very little helium to be found anywhere on Earth. We are close to running out, and we waste helium on party balloons.

It’s popularly said the Hindenburg was originally designed for using helium. This is half-true. It was actually designed to have double gas cells, with inner gas bags filled with hydrogen surrounded by outer gas bags filled with helium. This was because the Hindenburg as designed was too heavy to fly if filled with only helium. The US however refused to sell helium to the Germany, due to the Nazi Party being in control of the country, but these double gas cells never inflated right during experiments so it wouldn’t have worked anyways.

After the Hindenburg crashed in 1937, the US changed its mind and agreed to sell helium to Germany for their incomplete Graf Zeppelin II, and the airship was redesigned for pure helium usage, lightening it by several tons. But the US changed their minds again after Germany invaded Austria in 1938, so the finished Graf Zeppelin II was filled with hydrogen. As the public no longer trusted hydrogen airships after the Hindenburg disaster, the Graf Zeppelin II was never authorized for passenger service, and instead made a few dozen spying flights over Germany and Britain, before being grounded at the onset of WWII, and being broken up for scrap shortly after.