Tiger, Tiger

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-943502058733630682.post-58134245778912453142008-10-27T05:36:00.006+10:002008-10-27T09:25:36.606+10:002008-10-27T09:25:36.606+10:00Tiger, Tiger<div align="center"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AOaTGbHxkIk/SQTHIQYLWfI/AAAAAAAAA-8/f4ySbU5XkT4/s1600-h/jm_tiger_preview.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261549209324837362" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 250px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="Click to enlarge" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AOaTGbHxkIk/SQTHIQYLWfI/AAAAAAAAA-8/f4ySbU5XkT4/s400/jm_tiger_preview.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><div align="center">Hmmmm...well it was one of those days :)</div><div align="center">I started the day yesterday making a some "tiger skin" following <a href="http://nansons-place.com/nontut/8doodles/tiger/tigerskin.htm" target="_blank">Nanson's excellent tutorial</a>. I became frustrated trying to make my result into tile, and thus more useable and headed off to the garden, with William Blake's poem bouncing around in my head.</div><div align="center">A few hours weeding and planting and I had worked out a way :)</div><div align="center">Of course once I had found my super Sumatran tiger image, I wasn't satisfied until I'd also made a leafy batik texture for a background! [and a few others too :) ]</div><div align="center">Clicking on the image above will bring up a larger preview and you can also download a zip with full desksized images from my <a href="http://www.4shared.com/file/68503101/90c7a169/jm_tiger_tiger.html" target="_blank">4shared files</a>.</div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"> The Tiger TIGER, tiger, burning bright <a name="1"></a> In the forests of the night, <a name="2"></a> What immortal hand or eye <a name="3"></a> Could frame thy fearful symmetry? <a name="4"></a> In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? <a name="6"></a> On what wings dare he aspire? <a name="7"></a> What the hand dare seize the fire? <a name="8"></a> And what shoulder and what art <a name="9"></a> Could twist the sinews of thy heart? <a name="10"></a> And when thy heart began to beat, <a name="11"></a> What dread hand and what dread feet? <a name="12"></a> What the hammer? what the chain? <a name="13"></a> In what furnace was thy brain? <a name="14"></a> What the anvil? What dread grasp <a name="15"></a> Dare its deadly terrors clasp? <a name="16"></a> When the stars threw down their spears, <a name="17"></a> And water'd heaven with their tears, <a name="18"></a> Did He smile His work to see? <a name="19"></a> Did He who made the lamb make thee? <a name="20"></a> Tiger, tiger, burning bright <a name="21"></a> In the forests of the night, <a name="22"></a> What immortal hand or eye <a name="23"></a> Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">William Blake (1757–1827)</div>Judynoreply@blogger.com1