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[uwmspeccoll]

Chinese Ceremonial Papers

Many hundreds of varieties of prayer sheets used to be produced by specialist ma-chang printers all over China. Many of the limited range made today are the cheapest offset-litho jobs on the cheapest machine-made papers, but the designs still imitate the original woodblock prints.

Modern Taiwanese sheets of cash, made from recycled paper, sold very cheaply by weight in Taipei.

Mock money and other ceremonial papers for religious ceremonies will be gathered in "bowls" of crude papers, usually made of a mixture of rice-straw and bamboo fibers.

The simplest form of mock money is made traditionally with thin layers of tinfoil affixed to the center of a small piece of bamboo paper, although in contemporary production the cheapest grades of machine-made paper will be used instead, and in Taiwan and Malaysia metallic inks may be used instead of tinfoil.

Here's a piece of mock money in traditional colors with auspicious designs, and tinfoil brushed over with a dye from the pagoda tree to make it resemble gold.

Contemporary Taiwanese ceremonial paper.

Another variety of gold mock money, with inscriptions and symbols for good fortune building up the design, usually still quite well printed from woodblocks on fairly good quality paper, but sometimes now mass-produced by offset lithography.

Contemporary ceremonial paper printed letterpress on a stout machine-made paper in Hong Kong. The yellow coloring might have been brushed on by hand, but otherwise production of these attractive sheets has been mechanized completely.

At the Feast of Hungry Ghosts many large sheets of paper with pictures of all the clothes one's ancestor could need are burned. Although images of the paraphernalia of modern life like cell phones and computers might be printed on these papers, the clothing is always of traditional style.

Red paper envelopes with good luck symbols have been used for many years to enclose gifts of money made at New Year. They may be found wherever any ceremonial papers are sold; today usually with elaborate and eye-catching gold-stamping.

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The examples shown here are original paper samples included in Roderick Cave's (1935-2019) two-part article on "Ceremonial Papers of the Chinese" published in Matrix 12 (Winter 1992, pp. 51-66) and Matrix 13 (Winter 1993, pp. 161-177), printed at the John and Rosalind Randle’s Whittington Press in Risbury, Herefordshire, England.

In these articles, Cave, a noted print historian, librarian, and educator, discusses the history, manufacturing, printing, distribution, and uses of Chinese ceremonial papers used in rituals, celebrations, and festivals associated with the gods and the ancestors.

Our copies of Matrix are a donation from our friend Jerry Buff.

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[neuro-chaos]

Sequence Sector

A live stochastic experiment with two sequence presets, using two Oberheim Matrix 12 synthesisers, possibly in the style of 1980s science fiction film music. https://on.soundcloud.com/T48sx

[mychlapci]

ok but how can we even be sure that tfone megatronus wouldn't be into what the decepticons are doing. it's all "megatron used his name and face as a symbol for a faction he wouldn't agree with" and "megatronus would be disappointed to see what his face represents in the future" well first of all, he didn't tell you that, second of all, why not imagine him cheering and hollering from the sidelines.

[mysterysimblr]

Dot and Woody were both invited to the party, so they behaved themselves.

[0rb0t]

oh man I did not realize how angry people were about the selfcest in loki. I LOVED it. I also tbh thought Loki may have seen Mobius as a father figure, the fact he's even got two sons, one who is a trouble maker and is younger, the other who is a BIT more responsible. THE PARALLELS DIDN'T GO UNNOTICED.

I missed all the trailers for the show, so if they were queerbaiting it went right over my head.

Sylvie and Loki were so cute, but so sad. You could tell they were very much at different points of their own stories, but still very much Loki. That terror she felt of opening up and perceiving betrayal.

But what I REALLY love is how every line they say to each other can also be taken as things they actually feel about themselves.

If Sylvie had just been anyone, Loki wouldn't have fallen in love, and I think the same is true for Sylvie. "I just want you to be okay", that was so meaningful AND can still be taken as Loki talking about himself especially after he's said he's been where she's been.

"I'm not you" she says and kicks him through the door, but it absolutely resonated because they ARE each other, and they DO KNOW one another and it's so tragic.

I LOOOOVE it. I love how desperately she wants to keep her life and choices and how paranoid she is. She never craved a throne because she never even had a chance to be IN that story, she craved having a life, being loved, everything that was taken from her.

But there's a special kind of loneliness for people who don't have a timeline anymore, and can only find love in themselves, too.

It's just... Ugh I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE GENDERBEND SELFCEST SOOOOOO MUCH!!!!

Sylvie GO CLIMB THAT TREE!!!!

[justatallstick]

a history

linocut, mine

[x-heesy]

​𝚂𝚕𝚘𝚠 𝚍𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚔

𝙳𝚎𝚎𝚙𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚍𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚜 𝚟𝚒𝚘𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚜 & 𝚙𝚒𝚊𝚗𝚘 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌𝚔

​𝙾𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚘𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚘𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚍 ​𝚘𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚘𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚘𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚘𝚗

Clubbed to Death - from "The Matrix" by Robert D.

[battleshipgarcy]

I love every The Matrix movie, but there's just something extra special about the first 💚

[synthient]

there's an article about his band where Keanu talks about what bass Neo would play and he mentions that Neo would play jazz with Morpheus on drums and Agent Smith on keyboard. truly a powerful image. NeoSmith band au when.

au where Morpheus and Smith have both been trying to recruit Neo into their dueling bands: Morpheus' cool indie-grunge acoustic band Nebuchadnezzar, and Smith's sleek corporate sellout synth band Agent. Through some form of anime rival conniving, Smith manages to destroy Nebuchadnezzar (get all Morpheus' bandmates except Trinity to drop out). But in turn, he gets dropped by his corporate sponsors and abandoned by his two bandmates.

Then they form an unexpected alliance, combining their acoustic/synthy sounds into a joint act called Room 303. Part of the gimmick is that there's four of them, but they rotate the lineup so only three of them perform at a time (this is as much to lower the risk of anyone trying to bite each other on stage as it is for theming reasons). I haven't decided what Trinity plays but I'm open to suggestions ("the triangle" is funny but not cool enough). And rest assured that the band IS a messy polycule (it's called Room 303 because that's the first hotel room where. where they)

[vonkarma2]

they should make gender flipped the thing

nothing to add to this but they absolutely should. and i can never watch the thing now because the whole time i'll be thinking about how this isn't the case 😔 i hope you're happy

[yellowmanula]

Bardzo dziwne uczucie, ale chyba spotkałam właśnie anioła, który kazał mi stworzyć grupę wsparcia Obrona. Urządzić ją. Było to przedziwne spotkanie z pilotem i matematykiem, który mówił, że kosmos wbrew pozorom nie znosi przypadków i że moja kurtka zlała się z backgroundem i musiał to uwiecznić. Nie wiem ilu ten pan zaczepia ludzi na ulicy i czy jeste szalony, ale przez jego usta coś przemówiło. Matrix. Gdy go spotkałam słuchałam piosenki Energy.

Spiritual lyrical

Mother sang sweet as taboo'rical kind

If I was astonished by the level of shame

Feminine energy, energy reign

Intuition and ambition, intuition strange

Intuition and ambition running through my veins

Pour up the love let the healing begin

I biją dzwony. Jest 12:00

Mega mistycznie

[ur-stepdad]

watching Bound (1996) for this first time. the femme touches corky's tattoo and says "that's a great tattoo" and i thought "beautiful labrys" and then the femme said that exactly. watchowski sisters we r on the same page

[mychlapci]

that one scene where they miss the train and the camera zooms out while elita lets out a rageful scream. fucking amazing. i'm so happy she got to be frustrated and upset and annoyed and the narrative didn't treat her as irrational for her behaviour. tf:one elita is wonderful and i'm sending anyone who disagrees to the shadow realm

i had that scene on the mind too, she was so real for that. she deserved to get angry! she wasn't irrational or annoying...

[emiliosandozsequence]

never gonna forget that time i walked into work (when i could still work) and one of my coworkers was blasting the credits song from the matrix revolutions

[mysterysimblr]

Quite a topic to breach with an international rock star…

[tortoisesshells]

hey fellas is it insane to sign up to run 12k every day for 12 days asking for someone who's definitely not me