tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347335542024-03-13T15:15:46.301-05:00NofoleteDane Larsen blogs about babies, flying elephants, and geographic contingenciesDanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08490798964019137253noreply@blogger.comBlogger194125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34733554.post-1781047206411355632012-01-27T09:52:00.001-06:002012-01-27T09:52:35.656-06:00Official Deprecation<div style="text-align: center;">
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Since I haven't posted on this blog in well over a year I have decided to officially deprecate it. This blog documents our stay in Thailand and, oddly enough, is the #1 hit on Google for <a href="http://nofolete.blogspot.com/2007/03/felting-human-hair.html">felting human hair</a>. Therefore the blog will not be deleted, but restrictions are being tightened on comments to prevent the blog from sinking into a cesspool of spam links. If you wish to keep up with the family, especially Jami and the boys, please find your way over to
<a href="http://biciclettejami.tumblr.com/">http://biciclettejami.tumblr.com/</a> where Jami blogs quite prolifically on crafting, Waldorf education, and other household matters. If you wish to follow my art please find it at
<a href="http://danelarsen.blogspot.com/">http://danelarsen.blogspot.com/</a>.Dane Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04817741523747884278noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34733554.post-61548553088477833772010-05-28T00:21:00.000-05:002010-05-28T00:21:41.296-05:00Boy in a __________<div style="text-align: center;"><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/p65FvQDh2HY&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/p65FvQDh2HY&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>These past few months I've been working on a woodcut for a print exchange with kids from <a href="http://btwprint.blogspot.com/2010/04/dear-all-please-read-article-after-this.html">Booker T. Washington</a>, a school in South Africa, and an adult printmaking group that meets at Booker T. most Tuesday nights. The goal of the project is to publish a bilingual coloring book for elementary school kids in the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/13/china-earthquake-69-quake_n_536595.html">Qinghai region of Tibet</a>, right where the <a href="http://btwprint.blogspot.com/2010/04/earthquake-help_4914.html">earthquake</a> occurred two weeks ago. Since the quake happened when school was in session a number of the casualties were the very children for whom we've been making the coloring book. There will be a show at the <a href="http://www.crowcollection.org/">Crow Collection of Asian Art</a> on <a href="http://www.crowcollection.org/event_view.aspx?date=5/13/2010">May 13th from 5:30 to 7:0</a>0 exhibiting the work and raising money with the goal of getting the coloring book to those kids still surviving. Anyone in the Dallas area should try to make it out if they can.Dane Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04817741523747884278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34733554.post-70328855078288874232010-04-12T20:06:00.000-05:002010-04-12T20:06:00.194-05:00Google Maps<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nofolete/4515983217/" title=" by Dane Larsen, on Flickr"><img alt=" " height="480" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2755/4515983217_151f3febdc_o.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nofolete/4516616756/" title=" by Dane Larsen, on Flickr"><img alt=" " height="480" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2755/4516616756_389a4c3b7e_o.jpg" width="320" /></a>Dane Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04817741523747884278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34733554.post-24768853625541631092010-02-20T23:24:00.000-06:002010-02-20T23:24:14.996-06:00Weeee!<div style="text-align: center;"><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MvvcCLUdzGs&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MvvcCLUdzGs&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div>Dane Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04817741523747884278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34733554.post-44191948934279591912009-12-30T12:26:00.000-06:002009-12-30T12:26:29.653-06:00Shopping Cart<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Dane Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04817741523747884278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34733554.post-76819988493277232762009-11-02T21:59:00.001-06:002009-11-02T22:03:17.188-06:00Loy Krathong at the Park<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nofolete/4071043310/" title="Loy Krathong by Dane Larsen, on Flickr"><img alt="Loy Krathong" height="333" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2530/4071043310_15ec0969b1.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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Tonight we celebrated <a href="http://nofolete.blogspot.com/2006/11/loy-krathong.html">Loy Krathong</a> at the park with way more people than we imagined on 24 hrs notice. Best holiday ever, though we did miss the drunks slinging bottle rockets on the banks of the Mae Ping just a little.<br />
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</div>Dane Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04817741523747884278noreply@blogger.com0Unknown location32.858338529336059 -96.70142412185668932.856085529336056 -96.705072121856688 32.860591529336062 -96.697776121856691tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34733554.post-17898656812314608412009-10-23T21:27:00.000-05:002009-10-23T21:27:11.555-05:00R Tells a Very Long Story. . . With Explosions<div style="text-align: center;"><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/OmmzkDeylVU&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/OmmzkDeylVU&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br />
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What would terrify a one-year-old more; a plush rocking horse, or getting merged into by an eighteen-wheeler? If you picked the plush rocking horse, you'd be correct. On night 1 of our vacation last month we stayed with one of Jami's very favorite people in the world (and her family, thanks, Harrows). There was a plush rocking horse in the living room which Rhus began eyeballing with a certain degree of suspicion. Thinking I was clever, I went over to it and began to pet it. Then I grabbed the handle and had it leap at me, while I hollered. Rhus freaked out. It took him about three minutes to stop shaking. The next day, on I-25 on our way to Aurora to visit another friend, an eighteen-wheeler merged into us, not once but twice. He hit my door, I tried to get away, and then he hit our rear wheel and spun us ninety degrees to the left as he finally started braking. Rhus looked mildly interested, and then spent the next fifteen minutes waving at cars from the side of the highway.Dane Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04817741523747884278noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34733554.post-14067180801010519902009-06-02T01:49:00.002-05:002009-06-02T01:51:04.436-05:00In Silsbee and on the Beach<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nofolete/3587648695/" title="Smiling for Nonna by Dane Larsen, on Flickr"><img alt="Smiling for Nonna" height="500" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3632/3587648695_f4ee5cd2f1.jpg" width="333" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nofolete/3588454854/" title="Crystal Beach by Dane Larsen, on Flickr"><img alt="Crystal Beach" height="281" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3598/3588454854_0da1b68652.jpg" width="500" /></a></div>Dane Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04817741523747884278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34733554.post-1253925180147722232009-05-11T23:32:00.000-05:002009-05-11T23:32:20.247-05:00Double Fisting Mandarin Oranges<div style="text-align: center;"><object height="385" width="640"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CplpYeMTNlg&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CplpYeMTNlg&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object></div>Dane Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04817741523747884278noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34733554.post-49666742421503489482009-02-19T21:14:00.000-06:002009-02-19T21:14:25.585-06:00Crying in the Garden<div style="text-align: center;"><object height="345" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6u89IRdwIZA&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6u89IRdwIZA&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="345"></embed></object></div>Dane Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04817741523747884278noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34733554.post-43971970698351258452009-02-14T09:53:00.000-06:002009-02-14T09:53:22.879-06:00A Delicious Teething Table<div style="text-align: center;"><object height="345" width="560"><param name="movie" 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Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04817741523747884278noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34733554.post-64766784608413130182009-01-28T23:29:00.002-06:002009-01-28T23:30:39.070-06:00Tina and the Nopal<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nofolete/3233564812/" title="Cactaceae: Opuntia cochenillifera and Tina by Dane Larsen, on Flickr"><img alt="Cactaceae: Opuntia cochenillifera and Tina" height="500" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3463/3233564812_8c977732ba.jpg" width="333" /></a></div>Dane Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04817741523747884278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34733554.post-58223352442851760302009-01-27T20:47:00.002-06:002009-01-27T20:49:02.447-06:00Rhus in Yellow<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nofolete/3201214704/" title="yellow4 by Dane Larsen, on Flickr"><img alt="yellow4" height="281" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3444/3201214704_8589575591.jpg" width="500" 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title="led in mouth by Dane Larsen, on Flickr"><img alt="led in mouth" height="281" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3388/3200127019_d92d58c873.jpg" width="500" /></a></div>Dane Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04817741523747884278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34733554.post-25524581960840286792009-01-07T01:30:00.001-06:002009-01-07T01:30:51.731-06:00Toad<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nofolete/3176342338/" title="rhus by Dane Larsen, on Flickr"><img alt="rhus" height="500" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3428/3176342338_1a01d0648d.jpg" width="375" /></a></div>Dane Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04817741523747884278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34733554.post-63283446257276072822009-01-05T00:29:00.000-06:002009-01-05T00:31:45.069-06:00El Guapetón Baboso<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nofolete/3168685545/" title="baboso by Dane Larsen, on Flickr"><img alt="baboso" 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<div style="text-align: center;">Our heart-felt apologies to people with ugly babies.</div>Dane Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04817741523747884278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34733554.post-69831637618137951322009-01-04T23:50:00.000-06:002009-01-05T00:22:12.635-06:00Compostin' Rat Killin' Party Time Vacation<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nofolete/3169780606/" title="rat by Dane Larsen, on Flickr"><img alt="rat" height="375" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3099/3169780606_fafec879d0.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><br />
Over the break we did some garden prep, including a much need revamping of the compost pile. It was a productive day. Between the two of us Tien and I killed three rats. He killed and ate one, with his bare teeth, I killed and did not eat two, with a shovel and the flat of a machete.<br />
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About the middle of December we acquired two new family members. Since Rhus was born we'd felt that Tien had been a little neglected. He's pretty social for a cat, he even used to go on play dates to visit his buddy <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nofolete/1594396509/in/set-72157594559809562/">Stewart Rosenberg</a> (a handsome cat with the stiff, athletic swagger of a retired football player) until poor Tien had to move away. One of my dad's coworkers has a Manx cat that gave birth back in October, so we went over to bring home the stumpy, and ended up with two. We call the stumpy-tabby Tina, and the black-and-white longy is called Lobs (we thought about calling him <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nofolete/1595019842/">Andrew Zimmerman</a>, in honor of Stewart's owner, but he just isn't an Andrew. Perhaps Andrew can take some comfort from the fact that a kitten with the ridiculous name of Lobs, and a personality befitting the name, just wasn't good enough to be his namesake). Since they're brother and sister they kind of take care of each other, and, as you can see from the photo, Tien likes them just fine.Dane Larsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04817741523747884278noreply@blogger.com0