Dreamwidth account!

[merimask]

Thanks to the wonderful kelkyag  , I now have a dreamwidth account!  Yay! 

It's all shiny and new in there.  I'm still figuring things out.  I did manage to import all my LJ entries though, so that's good because I definitely wanted a backup for all this WORK I've done here over the years.  Holy cow...hours and countless hours of writing, it's incredible really when you think about it.

So I made a new icon just for the occasion.   Change is good.

In other news; Charlotte had another rugby game on Sunday and this time I was there to document!  With the camera!  And they won!  All good things.  I warned her that it would all be in my LJ, and so it shall...but I still have to upload the photos into my photobucket account.  That's going to take time 'cause I want to crop everything & make it pretty, and I got distracted by the Dreamwidth Shiny.

Speaking of which; if you have a dreamwidth account too, go ahead & add me as a friend!  & let me know so's I can add you back.  I'm a little clueless in there.   As ever, I am "merimask".  I came up with that name on a whim, SO many years ago.  It was my very first e-mail address, created the first time I ever used a computer, and it's served me well.  I remember I created it with an eye towards picking something that not only characterized who I was but also what I did, and at the time I know I had it in the back of my head; "this will be a great name for my business, if I ever have a business". 

And now I do!  And so it is.
 

Comments

[golden-meliades.livejournal.com]

White ones are more Gothic...but I'd probably use a few of the pink ones, too, since pink is not actually, er...un-Gothic. Yellow, now. Yellow is about as un-Gothic as you can get. I was a little appalled when I tried to look up Gothic gardens on Google and got a pitiful return of images...and many of them contained red and orange flowers all willy-nilly. Perhaps they were referring to Gothic as an era rather than an artistic movement (or however it ought to be classified)?

I can always write a long email to my best. We always talk about the same stuff but it doesn't matter...we just want to talk to each other, even if we're only repeating ourselves. :) (She's a slow responder who doesn't answer questions but I still love her!)

[kelkyag]

Is some bright color out of place in gothic architecture? It's not a subject I know well, but I'm used to thinking of wildly colored stained glass windows as one of its features, livening up all that grey stone, and I assumed you meant architecture rather than modern fashion when translating to a garden. All the green of a garden doesn't fit my notion for the fashion at all ... though that could be a fine excuse for lots of plants with purple or red leaves. Ivy and moss work either way. Ancient half-dead trees ...

[golden-meliades.livejournal.com]

I wasn't speaking of architecture but the general modern movement, 'Gothic' more broadly...I don't feel that "Gothic" can be limited to fashion (ie: clothing)...it's a lifestyle. It's a writing style, an art style...to me "Gothic", other than the old style of architecture (I actually lived in one of the four neo-Gothic cities in the world...Ottawa. It still surprises me a bit...I think the only thing that really qualifies are the Parliament buildings and the Chateau. I don't know what the other three cities are, actually, I just remember Ottawa was listed as one of only four of that type.)

Um, anyway, where was I? *reads* To me, Gothic means bringing out the beauty in things normally not considered beautiful. Dark things, unpleasant things. I'm not a Goth, that's for sure, but I do like the style, though for personal style (clothing, make-up, etc) I couldn't do it except as a joke. But I love the idea of continuing that style from the many areas it has spread to right into the garden. Black flowers, moonlight, old things...reminiscent of a vampire's castle, perhaps, where even the garden is always waiting for night. (I'm actually a daytime person...but like I said, I really do appreciate the aesthetic value.)

As for green, when it comes to plants, green is as neutral as brown or grey, so to my mind it fits *any* style, including Gothic. Though I'd like darker greens and white leaves and blue-ish ones...and of course coleus would be great...red and purple and so on. But yeah, I've got no issue with green in a Gothic garden; I see it as neutral.

[kelkyag]

Sense! I was picturing something totally different.

Green is perhaps my favorite color, and it's the one that leaps out at me as missing when there are many colors together but it's not there, which nothing else does. So even when it's the expected not-very-exciting background color, I'd have a hard time seeing it as neutral.

On the other hand, plants make an excellent contrast with things that are dead, decaying, or crumbling ...

Sketches. Maybe. After the weekend.