Those sound like the best Barbies ever! And I know what you mean about having medical people in the family - my sister and I occasionally ask that we not talk about opening cysts full of squirting pus while we're eating something like mashed potatoes, but usually we just shrug and go on eating.
I've just finished reading Guy Gavriel Kay's Sailing to Sarantium, which is set in a fantasy version of Byzantium with a mosaicist main character. The character spends a lot of time looking at the way light falls in certain places and what that will do if he places these tesserae at this angle - at one point he's figuring out how to make a mosaic torch look like it's flickering when flickering candle light falls on it. (He also spent a lot of time traveling and doing plotful things, though, so now I want to get the sequel where he's going to do a lot more mosaic work.) So that picture really helps me imagine exactly what he's talking about!
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Date: 2007-10-10 05:24 pm (UTC)I've just finished reading Guy Gavriel Kay's Sailing to Sarantium, which is set in a fantasy version of Byzantium with a mosaicist main character. The character spends a lot of time looking at the way light falls in certain places and what that will do if he places these tesserae at this angle - at one point he's figuring out how to make a mosaic torch look like it's flickering when flickering candle light falls on it. (He also spent a lot of time traveling and doing plotful things, though, so now I want to get the sequel where he's going to do a lot more mosaic work.) So that picture really helps me imagine exactly what he's talking about!
Also, very cool links.