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Oct. 25th, 2003 10:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76It's ashing outside.
The current set of wildfires, about a hour's drive away from me, are being influenced/inflamed by the Santa Ana winds, which are winds that switch about the normal order of things here in SoCal and dlow in from the desert rather than the sea, bringing super-dry air (I live five miles from the ocean), increased static electricity, and, usually, incredibly clear vistas to where I can see downtown Los Angeles (a hour's drive away) from the restaurant where I work. This time around, though, I suspect the last will be lost as there are occasional flakes of white ash drifting down into the backyard.
The light of last night's sunset looked like blood or fire due to all the crud in the air.
Driving home after work, though, the fog was so thick that I could see it around the streetlights *where I work* (~20 miles inland). By the time I got home, it was down to about a quarter mile visibility. Could just *barely* see one stoplight from the next. 't was quite nice. And the radio was making up for playing no good music on the way to work--first got Pat Benetar's "Invincible," which always puts me in mind of Hot Fudge Production's excellent Gundam Wing AMV to that song and reminded me that I need to poke at the next chapter of Reality Storm, then another station played Michael Jackson's "Thriller" which I hadn't heard yet this year--and better yet, it was a different cut than the usual, featuring a couple more lines by Vincent Price.
I need to find a website that teaches one how to emboss gold on fabric. I know we had a demonstration on it in one of my Japanese classes several years ago, but I can't remember much about it. And looking at the Souryuu costumes we want to present someday, it's very obvious that while a chunk of that goldwork is embroidery, a similar chunk is gold leafing.
The current set of wildfires, about a hour's drive away from me, are being influenced/inflamed by the Santa Ana winds, which are winds that switch about the normal order of things here in SoCal and dlow in from the desert rather than the sea, bringing super-dry air (I live five miles from the ocean), increased static electricity, and, usually, incredibly clear vistas to where I can see downtown Los Angeles (a hour's drive away) from the restaurant where I work. This time around, though, I suspect the last will be lost as there are occasional flakes of white ash drifting down into the backyard.
The light of last night's sunset looked like blood or fire due to all the crud in the air.
Driving home after work, though, the fog was so thick that I could see it around the streetlights *where I work* (~20 miles inland). By the time I got home, it was down to about a quarter mile visibility. Could just *barely* see one stoplight from the next. 't was quite nice. And the radio was making up for playing no good music on the way to work--first got Pat Benetar's "Invincible," which always puts me in mind of Hot Fudge Production's excellent Gundam Wing AMV to that song and reminded me that I need to poke at the next chapter of Reality Storm, then another station played Michael Jackson's "Thriller" which I hadn't heard yet this year--and better yet, it was a different cut than the usual, featuring a couple more lines by Vincent Price.
I need to find a website that teaches one how to emboss gold on fabric. I know we had a demonstration on it in one of my Japanese classes several years ago, but I can't remember much about it. And looking at the Souryuu costumes we want to present someday, it's very obvious that while a chunk of that goldwork is embroidery, a similar chunk is gold leafing.
