Covered With Bees!
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magidThis year at Burning Man I'll be in camp Covered With Bees!, and I decided I should paint myself a T-shirt to show camp affiliation.
I researched online and at the Cambridge library (and had the help of a nearby friend for precise brushstroke instructions for the Chinese), but didn't make it down to the Boston library. As it turned out, I started with larger fonts than I should have, so the shirt feels rather filled anyway, even without finding more (though I do wish there were more African languages represented). Since bees swarm, I wanted to put language families together (though I didn't do this perfectly), rather than distributing them as I had with the peace shirt.
The languages: Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Aragonese (which is the same as Galician), Asturian, Catalan, Cherokee, Chinese, Cree, Croatian (which is also Bosnian), Dutch, Dutch Low Saxon, Emilian-Romagnolo, English, Esperanto, Faroese (which is also Icelandic), Farsi, Fiji Hindi, Finnish, French, Gaelic (which is also Irish), Georgian, German, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hakka Chinese, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Kiswahili, Komi, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Low German, Macedonian, Magyar, Malaysian (which is also Bahasa Indonesian), Maltese, Mongol, Navajo, Norwegian bokmal, Norwegian nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese (which is also Occitan), Russian, Serbian, Shona, Slovenian, Southern Min, Spanish, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Thai, Turkish (which is also Azerbaijani), Ukranian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Winaray (a language of the Philippines), and Yiddish.
It's silver glitter paint; I'm looking forward to seeing whether it's black-light reactive or not.
Still up for debate: painting a small bee in front, with purple dashed lines to show a flight path through the words.
I researched online and at the Cambridge library (and had the help of a nearby friend for precise brushstroke instructions for the Chinese), but didn't make it down to the Boston library. As it turned out, I started with larger fonts than I should have, so the shirt feels rather filled anyway, even without finding more (though I do wish there were more African languages represented). Since bees swarm, I wanted to put language families together (though I didn't do this perfectly), rather than distributing them as I had with the peace shirt.
The languages: Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Aragonese (which is the same as Galician), Asturian, Catalan, Cherokee, Chinese, Cree, Croatian (which is also Bosnian), Dutch, Dutch Low Saxon, Emilian-Romagnolo, English, Esperanto, Faroese (which is also Icelandic), Farsi, Fiji Hindi, Finnish, French, Gaelic (which is also Irish), Georgian, German, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hakka Chinese, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Kiswahili, Komi, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Low German, Macedonian, Magyar, Malaysian (which is also Bahasa Indonesian), Maltese, Mongol, Navajo, Norwegian bokmal, Norwegian nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese (which is also Occitan), Russian, Serbian, Shona, Slovenian, Southern Min, Spanish, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Thai, Turkish (which is also Azerbaijani), Ukranian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Winaray (a language of the Philippines), and Yiddish.
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It's silver glitter paint; I'm looking forward to seeing whether it's black-light reactive or not.
Still up for debate: painting a small bee in front, with purple dashed lines to show a flight path through the words.
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Date: 2010-08-24 05:50 pm (UTC)I read "Ellis Island" far too long ago to remember anything about bees in it. Obviously, it's time to reread that, in some copious spare time that I expect to have... in October? Maybe? :-)