Sally Caves

SPOOKY LANGUAGE AT A DISTANCE: making words out of art and art out of words and sometimes making sense and sometimes not.

[fuckyeahcastles]

[sallycaves]

I’ve forgotten how much I loved birds-eye-views of complex, piled up little cities.

[sallycaves]

Notebook Scribbles: Horses, house, weird flower, and ‘prestigious remembered thing’ in Teonaht (s.caves)

[sallycaves]

Notebook Scribbles: weird little city

[yuk-tepat]

For the past year my biggest conlang endeavor has been working out the writing system for Yuktepat, and I think I’m close to the “end.” The aesthetics are settled, the infrastructure’s in place. I don’t have glyphs for all or even most of the words in Yuktepat, but the inventory of phonetic and semantic bits and pieces is large enough that it’s easy to combine them to make up new glyphs on the fly. The next order of business is working on a phonetic script to complement it. This script would be used alongside Tepatic glyphs by some of the surrounding languages of Tiptum. The individual letters are mostly derived from simplified Tepatic glyphs. In other words, they are to Tepatic glyphs what hiragana is to Chinese characters, so I’m calling them “Tiptum hiragana” until I can make a proper name. The last couple of days I’ve been “doodling” in it, like in the image above. The “words” are nonsense, I just wanted to see how the letters look connected, but so far I’m pleased with some of the possibilities.

[sallycaves]

These could be a beaded curtain of esoteric signs. Love it. Sally...

[jpkalonjiart]

Day 13 #inktober2015#kalonjiart#geneva#carouge#igersgeneva#switzerland

[bryankonietzko]

Sublime.

[sallycaves]

Beautiful and restrained.

[thunderstruck9]

Lyonel Feininger (American/German, 1871-1956), Study, on the Cliffs (early attempt at cubist form), 1912. Oil on canvas, 45.5 x 60.3 cm.

[tastefullyoffensive]

When your stupid wizard parents force you to make the bed. (vine by Kevin Parry)

[sallycaves]

I can feel the pain. 

[christophoronomicon]

From Horse Lords to Dark Elves to the language-affine TV watcher – David J. Peterson’s personal behind-the-scenes of language creation. Review by Carsten Becker.

Another review of David Peterson’s book The Art of Language Invention, by fellow conlanger Carsten Becker. Interesting especially for its criticism of the book’s weaker points (all of which I’m sure David is aware of, since he even started a Youtube channel to handle things he couldn’t handle in the book).

All in all, a good, balanced review of David’s book.

As for me, I’m still reading it. Whether I’ll write a review once I’m done depends entirely on whether anyone here is interested in my opinion :P. So, interested?

[sallycaves]

Sally’s Notebook Scribbles. My “Fishman” (Zef Perpwema in Teonaht). 

[joncarling-deactivated20190604]

wandering rabbit

[yuk-tepat]

The Declaration of Independence again, this time turned sideways and glossed for your convenience, although I admit it almost seems more confusing to me now that I’ve turned it back into English.

Also, this particular manuscript has an error: for the last instance of kô “present tense particle” (third-to-last line) the scribe actually wrote pol “become” instead, although both glyphs do have the same radical.

[sallycaves]

I have a scribe, too: Issytra. I blame the mistakes on her. ;) Very beautiful writing system!

[philopenshaw]

faded agenda 3

[joncarling-deactivated20190604]

[sallycaves]

Hsob aiba kwa vebro. “What a story there is behind this!” 

[sallycaves]

 Al plebgalel. “My poetry,” in Teonaht. Literally, “word-song.” The costume is “Vanitas,” made by Alpha.Tribe. My avatar and alter-ego is wearing it and catching fire. Sally Caves.

[sallycaves]

One more picture from Language Creation Conference 3 (Providence, RI) by yours truly. I’m working on better paintings of Fyvyk’s Wardrobe. ;)

[dedalvs]

‘Ozkavarkúi’ by Kaduatán One of my very good friends John Quijada is a genius on multiple levels. He created the Ithkuil language (for which he was profiled in The New Yorker), and he also happens to be a brilliant progressive rock composer. Of late he’s begun combining his two passions, and is in the middle of putting together a new album of original music with Ithkuil lyrics. This is the first song off the album, featuring MIDI instrumentation arranged by John and me on lead vocals. If you think influences from Yes, Rush, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, etc., you’re hearing right. I’m a big fan of John’s music, and was proud he gave me the reigns to record the main vocal line. It’s a prog song, so strap in for 15 minutes, but I hope you enjoy it. The complexity of John’s compositions has always blown me away. Also, the video features artwork by John’s twin brother Paul. It’s a 70s prog rock smörgåsbord. ~:D

[sallycaves]

Unique language, John! Great visuals, and wow, David, terrific singing voice. ;)

[i-amarobot]

[gacorley]

I don’t think I’ve expressed this here, but I really like Data.

[sallycaves]

I do too. Data is both innocence and experience at the same time. Favorite episodes: Datalore, The Measure of a Man, The Most Toys, all the ones where he plays Sherlock Holmes. And of course his role as a musketeer in Hollow Pursuits, about which I know the most. ;)