Wim 🅾 @wim_v12e@octodon.social

I finished a new large #watercolour #drawing. It's probably the most detailed drawing I ever made.

The main figure in the drawing is based on a picture I took at the Gion Matsuri in #Kyoto some years ago. It is a dancer performing the old Japanese court dance "Ran-Ryo-O".

I used Derwent Inktense and Conté Aquaralle pencils as well as watercolour paint (various brands). The paper is Arches 56cmx76cm 300g/m2 rough watercolour paper.

#art #mastoart

I finished my #drawing, on the last day of my holidays! It's the first time I've done such a large #watercolour (50cmx70cm). It's based on a picture I took of a lotus in a pond in a temple (萬福寺) near #Kyoto. #art #mastoartDetail of the lotus pond watercolour

#introductions

I'm Wim, in Glasgow (Scotland).
I like #photography, #reading, #art, #veggie cooking and #japan (#日本語).

I do research on #compilers, #languages and runtimes (e.g. #OpenCL) for #FPGAs, #GPUs and #manycores.

I program in #Perl, #Haskell, #Fortran, #C++,#Python.

@wim_v12e is my main account, I use it mostly for the non-technical stuff. The computer stuff usually goes on @wim_v12e.

I finished my #drawing. It's based on a picture of a scene from the Gion Matsuri that I took in Kyoto last summer. I used #watercolour pencils, acrylic watercolour paint and bistre. #art

And that's probably part of the reason why I like watermills so much.

And that in its turn might have been what attracted me at first to the book "Krabat".

The rest is a longer story, which you can read here:

http://selfedge.org.uk/fiction/krabat/

From that high point spring many small streams. One of them, called the Zwalm, has cut its own little valley in the plateau. Its waters were powerful enough to support many watermills along its rapid course towards the Schelde.

Today, none of them are still in operation. A few are still intact, including the machinery. Some are ruins -- I remember watching a kingfisher at work in the mill pool of one of them. But many of them have been converted into taverns that serve delicious pancakes.

Watermills
#smallstories

I grew up in one of the many close-packed villages along the river Schelde, between the medieval cities of Gent and Oudenaarde.

Because of Jacques Brel's famours song "Le plat pays", Flanders has the reputation of being flat, but that is only true for the region between the Noordzee and the Schelde.

Upstream of Gent, the river skirts a plateau which rises to about a hundred metres above sea level.

There are many obvious ones, but for me this one is definitely in that category:

GO!GO!7188 -"Punk" (パンク)

#30DaysMusicChallenge
Day 5: a song that needs to be played loud

Some katkins, on the tree outside my window.
#photography
#fediart