tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4969118685024390182024-03-05T06:56:11.360-05:00Nic's Blogphilosophnichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523116254141801951noreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496911868502439018.post-11983317747937985282014-04-22T22:13:00.003-04:002014-04-22T22:14:01.127-04:00Linocut Variations <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.nicbommarito.com/comics/lino2014/index.html" target="_blank">Here</a> are some linocut prints I did this winter. Also, I'll be moving to New York City in the fall.<br />
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philosophnichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523116254141801951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496911868502439018.post-12665180881751310022013-12-02T22:49:00.000-05:002013-12-02T22:49:15.528-05:00Envelope Drawing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Drawing on an envelope from last week. (It says ཡག་པོ་འདུག / It's good)<br />
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philosophnichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523116254141801951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496911868502439018.post-79905841825560762872013-11-10T14:58:00.001-05:002013-11-10T14:59:11.668-05:00Envelope Hammer & Nail<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Another seminar drawing. Not sure why I was thinking of hammers and nails ...<br />
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I'm mostly busy applying for jobs these days, but I did a little drawing of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Wayland" target="_blank">Francis Wayland</a>, who has a huge portrait in the philosophy department. I learned that he was the president of Brown University in 1827 ... </div>
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philosophnichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523116254141801951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496911868502439018.post-18307692343109456972013-01-31T13:35:00.000-05:002013-01-31T13:35:03.273-05:00Presentation Drawings<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Two small drawings I did during a philosophy talk about Ancient Greek philosophy and virtue. The second one says "the art of living" (I think!).<br />
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Here's a drawing I did of a stupa. It's based on the one I lived near in Nepal called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudhanath" target="_blank">Boudha</a>.<br />
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It's for sale <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/116090882/color-ink-stupa-drawing" target="_blank">here</a>, and as a black and white drawing <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/116091886/ink-stupa-drawing" target="_blank">here</a>. All the profits will go to benefit the <a href="http://nepalyouthfoundation.org/" target="_blank">Nepal Youth Foundation</a>, which provides education and healthcare to Nepali children.<br />
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philosophnichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523116254141801951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496911868502439018.post-4829505621607508452012-11-19T12:51:00.003-05:002012-11-19T13:05:53.437-05:00Slow Turtle is Happy!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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(It is for sale to benefit Tibetan charity <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/115314010/ink-turtle-tibetan-calligraphy-drawing" target="_blank">here</a>.)<br />
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philosophnichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523116254141801951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496911868502439018.post-44046696798362550622012-11-08T14:13:00.001-05:002012-11-08T14:13:49.595-05:00Math & Science Mix<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Here's a mix I made of songs about math and science for all my math-y and science-y friends. I may not always <i>understand</i> you, but I do appreciate you.</div>
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Get it while it's hot: <a href="http://www.nicbommarito.com/misc/MathScienceMix.zip" target="_blank">here</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> - <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'DDC Uchen', Kailash, Jomolhari, 'Tibetan Machine Uni'; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">ས་སྐྱ་པཎྜི་ཏ</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'DDC Uchen', Kailash, Jomolhari, 'Tibetan Machine Uni'; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><i>Even if rain damages a mansion,</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'DDC Uchen', Kailash, Jomolhari, 'Tibetan Machine Uni'; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><i>It brings joy to worldly beings.</i></span></div>
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philosophnichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523116254141801951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496911868502439018.post-71052883376218996012012-10-27T14:40:00.000-04:002012-10-27T19:07:13.802-04:00Ideas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A drawing / verse I did recently. It's on paper I brought back from Nepal. </div>
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philosophnichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523116254141801951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496911868502439018.post-66340031995664359122012-10-26T13:50:00.003-04:002012-10-26T13:50:51.487-04:00Tumbl for ya<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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10/26 : Nevermind. Tumblr sucks.</div>
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philosophnichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523116254141801951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496911868502439018.post-53899010983816542922012-03-01T18:42:00.000-05:002012-03-01T18:42:43.521-05:00Sometimes they happen<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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Had a headache today and did this drawing. Other than the headache, everything is good. Working on the dissertation blah blah blah.<br />
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</div>philosophnichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523116254141801951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496911868502439018.post-43979987171088438202011-12-12T01:31:00.001-05:002011-12-12T01:31:32.207-05:00Quite a title page<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Say what you will about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarat_Chandra_Das">Chandra Das</a>' 1902 <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/atibetanenglish00dasgoog">dictionary</a>, it has a beautiful title page ...<br />
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</div>philosophnichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523116254141801951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496911868502439018.post-43292792172814825822011-11-29T01:46:00.000-05:002011-11-29T01:46:57.166-05:00Eight Scenes of Worry<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a border="0" href="http://nicbommarito.com/comics/8scenes/title.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="230" src="http://nicbommarito.com/comics/8scenes/title.png" width="640" /></a></div><br />
I've put up a new comic that I drew this past year in Kathmandu, Nepal. It's called <a href="http://nicbommarito.com/comics/8scenes/index.html">Eight Scenes of Worry</a>. I've been trying to kick the habit of worrying too much and it was cathartic to draw what it feels like to be worried. I <i>think</i> I'm starting to improve ...<br />
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It's drawn on handmade paper and was drawn mostly by candlelight.<br />
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</div>philosophnichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523116254141801951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496911868502439018.post-44460176279512941062011-11-13T12:38:00.003-05:002011-11-14T00:11:54.919-05:00Aaron<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://nicbommarito.com/photos/film/roll4/images/Scan501.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://nicbommarito.com/photos/film/roll4/images/Scan501.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I haven't been blogging much but I recently went to Michigan to attend the memorial service for my friend Aaron Anderson so I thought I'd write something about him. Aaron and I went to college together and went on a study abroad to Tibet in 2003. I didn't hang out with him very frequently outside of Tibet, but every few months he'd show up at my place with some beers and a stack of records. It was really great just hanging out and playing snippets of songs we liked.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Even when things were rough in Tibet, Aaron was never one to complain and it was nice to hear from his family and close friends that this never changed even at the end. Aaron was one of the first people I met who didn't just know a lot about music (he did know a hell of a lot) but always managed to express how much he loved it. Though he owned records worth more than my car, he found <a href="http://philosophnic.blogspot.com/2010/03/late-at-night-230-disco.html">this cassette tape</a> in the street in Lhasa and was so excited that we went to buy a cheap player that night to hear it. As a Buddhist he was neither preachy nor new age, something that at the time I thought was impossible for a Western Buddhist. I wish I had been better friends with him, but I'm glad to have known him and he's someone I'll never forget. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(You can make a donation to Neurofibromatosis research <a href="http://www.nfnetwork.org/get_involved/donations">here</a>)</div><br />
</div>philosophnichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523116254141801951noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496911868502439018.post-73151373038024317772011-08-28T21:40:00.000-04:002011-08-28T21:40:17.435-04:00Back In America<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's a photo I took of some graffiti in Bangkok. These days I'm back in America. I've been getting settled and started working on dissertation things again. I gave <a href="http://www.eng-tib.com/">the Tibetan dictionary</a> a little facelift, but it still had a lot of content problems to fix. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Got lucky and hurricane Irene missed us. Other than that not much is new. New photos and drawings to come. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I leave Kathmandu tomorrow (for Bangkok, then Providence). When I got here I hated it but now I think I will miss it. That's always how it goes, right? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>philosophnichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523116254141801951noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496911868502439018.post-57883554244234394612011-06-29T00:08:00.000-04:002011-06-29T00:08:07.128-04:00My Tibetan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Anybody who has heard me speak Tibetan knows that I have a habit of saying 're wa' (རེད་བ་) a lot; it means something like "right?" or "isn't it?" (or maybe like <i>desune</i> in Japanese).<br />
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I'm saying "Lhasa is a nice place, right? Tibet has a lot of yaks, right? It's good, right? Right? Right? Right?" and the bottom text says "My way of speaking, right?"<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Amen. (<a href="http://www.ro-lu.com/exhibit/index.php?/commissions/scattered-light/">source</a>)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div>philosophnichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523116254141801951noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496911868502439018.post-79853344775686878382011-06-24T09:44:00.000-04:002011-06-24T09:44:33.770-04:00You guys got any bikes?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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I'm finally remembering to take my camera with me sometimes when I go out. I assume this is some kind of bicycle repair shop ...<br />
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I've been watching a lot of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wire">The Wire</a> on my laptop. If you don't know, it's a really great show about police and drug dealing set in Baltimore. Anyway, it must be getting into my brain because I saw someone toss out a bag of trash from their window and immediately assumed it was drugs ...<br />
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I feel pretty bad that I've been in Nepal for so long and haven't learned very much Nepali at all. So I decided to do a comic in Nepali. The sentence is from a lesson in a textbook I have. He says "Yesterday I didn't go out. I stayed home." (हिजॊ म कतै गइनँ। घरै बसॆँ। I <i>think</i> ... I'm not very good at typing in Devanagari).<br />
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Yesterday the rains finally arrived and I stayed inside nearly all day. There is something really nice about staying in when it is raining, but I want to get better about going out even when it is raining (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPjDMZiuhbQ">everything's the same</a>). Since my time in Nepal is starting to wind down, I also want to get out of Boudha a little more and see things that aren't just Tibetan (though I want to see a few more of those things too!). I'm saving some things for when Alex comes here in July (!), but getting out of Boudha and into the rain before then would probably do me some good ...<br />
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For the last few weeks I've been learning Tibetan calligraphy. There a lot of different Tibetan scripts - you can see some cool examples of Tibetan calligraphy <a href="http://www.asianart.com/exhibitions/calligraphy/">here</a>.<br />
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Before I could only read and write in a script called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uchen_script">U-chan</a> (<i>dbu chan</i>, <span class="Apple-style-span">དབུ་ཅན</span>) which means "with head" because it has a thick horizontal line at the top. This is the script that computers usually have and the one most books are printed in. However, most people can't write it and if they can, it takes a lot of effort like it would to make your handwriting look like a typewriter. <br />
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Now I'm learning a script called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Um%C3%AA_script">U-me</a> (<i>bdu med</i>, <span class="Apple-style-span">དབུ་མེད) </span><span class="Apple-style-span">which means "head-less" because it doesn't have the the thick horizontal line at the top (the "head"). My goal though is to learn the Kyu-yig (<i>'khyug yig</i>, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">འཁྱུག་ཡིག</span><span class="Apple-style-span">) script that most people write letters with. It's difficult because there are a lot of short forms for certain letter combinations.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">The picture is a page from my lessons. My teacher writes a sentence in red ink and then I re-write it a few times in black. I thought it would be boring and tedious to practice, but it's actually been really relaxing ... </span><br />
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