Ooooo, pretty.
Mar. 16th, 2006 01:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sepdetI'm such a goob. There's this piece of fanart I love, even though it's slightly out of character because the character is so serious, normally.
I tracked back to the original artist and found that he/she only speaks Japanese. So I used my Mac widget translator to write a note, as best I could, translating back and forth on the theory that if one babelfishes a phrase into another language, then back again, and the meaning still makes sense, it's probably intelligible. I gushed about the art, explained that I wanted to borrow the picture for my personal webpage, and asked if the artist would mind my borrowing it. I took a screencap of my LJ page, superimposed the graphic in a little bubble, drew a line around it with an arrow pointing to my page, and added a big red question mark and "Permission?" in Japanese characters.
The artist replied "OK"!
I am strangely delighted with technology that allows me to discover artwork I would otherwise never have seen, converse with a person across the ocean i don't know, and carry on a rudimentary conversation when neither of us speaks the same langauge.
So here she is. A silly Lulu with butterflies. Because I need another smiling picture besides my dear beloved Catherine icon, to offset all the grumpy and anxious-looking peeps. What a random collection of icons!
The original painting is this beautiful image from the Ice website.
I tracked back to the original artist and found that he/she only speaks Japanese. So I used my Mac widget translator to write a note, as best I could, translating back and forth on the theory that if one babelfishes a phrase into another language, then back again, and the meaning still makes sense, it's probably intelligible. I gushed about the art, explained that I wanted to borrow the picture for my personal webpage, and asked if the artist would mind my borrowing it. I took a screencap of my LJ page, superimposed the graphic in a little bubble, drew a line around it with an arrow pointing to my page, and added a big red question mark and "Permission?" in Japanese characters.
The artist replied "OK"!
I am strangely delighted with technology that allows me to discover artwork I would otherwise never have seen, converse with a person across the ocean i don't know, and carry on a rudimentary conversation when neither of us speaks the same langauge.
So here she is. A silly Lulu with butterflies. Because I need another smiling picture besides my dear beloved Catherine icon, to offset all the grumpy and anxious-looking peeps. What a random collection of icons!
The original painting is this beautiful image from the Ice website.
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Date: 2006-03-16 09:45 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-03-16 10:52 pm (UTC)and yes, don't you love technology? :D though the translations can be awfully rough sometimes... I've tested it with German a few times and it doesnt always come out right.