Scrimshaw is scrollwork, engravings, and carvings done in bone or ivory. Typically it refers to the artwork created by whalers, engraved on the byproducts of whales, such as bones or cartilage. It is most commonly made out of the bones and teeth of sperm whales, the baleen of other whales, and the tusks of walruses. It takes the form of elaborate engravings in the form of pictures and lettering on the surface of the bone or tooth, with the engraving highlighted using a pigment, or, less often, small sculptures made from the same material. However the latter really fall into the categories of ivory carving, for all carved teeth and tusks, or bone carving. The making of scrimshaw began on whaling ships between 1745 and 1759 on the Pacific Ocean, and survived until the ban on commercial whaling. The practice survives as a hobby and as a trade for commercial artisans. A maker of scrimshaw is known as a scrimshander. The word first appeared in print in the early 19th century, but the etymology is uncertain.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Scrimshaw.
mj wrote:
Truly art of the common working man
It exemplifies what time and care and imagination can create even
without "talent": scrimshaw.
Dave said:
Scrimshaw. Scrimshaw art was a way to pass the time on long voyages. In the days of sail, a ship often had to travel for months just to get to the prime whaling areas, and then it would often take months before the ship was full of oil and bone even if they were successful. If the ship didn't return full, then the crew had a "broken voyage." And with storms and other misfortunes, it wasn't unheard of for a ship to never return home. Sometimes the mariners tired of the voyage and jumped ship for the charms of the islands of the South Pacific, as Herman Melville did, although desertion meant that he wouldn't be paid his 1/175th share of the voyage's profits.
Photos: Whale tooth | antique scrimshaw tools
Alan J answered:
Scrimshaw.
Roy, Still voting Blue in Stupidly Red Tyler, TX replied:
The artwork created by whalers that is etched onto bone or ivory is known as scrimshaw.
Deborah responded:
Scrimshaw. Ironic that you asked this question; we re-watched "Master and Commander" last night (one of my favorite soundtracks, btw). I might even know which mast is the mizzen mast (which reminds me of a Sesame Street joke).
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Scrimshaw is scrollwork, engravings, and carvings done in bone or ivory
zorch said:
Scrimshaw
David of Moon Valley wrote:
pick me pick me...i know this one without looking on the googs or wikis......it's scrimshaw....see i told you i knew it!
John I from Hawai`i says,
"Scrimshaw."
Michelle in AZ answered:
scrimshaw
Billy in Cypress U$A replied:
Scrimshaw and I saw in Hawaii a couple of weeks ago.
Joe S responded:
As a former pirate I am very familiar with this type of artwork, it's known as scrimshaw. I "acquired" quite a lot of it, back in the day. Funny how the term scrimshaw came to be, but I don't seem to recall right off hand. I'm sure it was funny. I'm sure someone will Google it.
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"It's hard for me to contain myself," she began, before launching in the song, saying, "This kind of goes like this." Streisand changed the lyrics from "Send in the Clowns" to "Who is this Clown?" and specifically referenced numerous controversies surrounding Donald Trump and his administration, including his refusal to release his tax returns.
"He says he's rich/Maybe he's poor/Till he reveals his returns, who can be sure? Who is this clown?" she revised the opening lines of the song to go. "Something's amiss/I don't approve/Now that he's running the free world, where can we move?/Maybe a town, just who is this clown?"
Streisand didn't rewrite the whole ballad, only three verses, but she concluded by bringing the audience in on her parody. "Is this his art of deal or some awful joke?/You've got to admit/This fraudulent twit/Is so full of - " she sang, before pausing to allow the audience to chime in with the natural rhyme ("s-t"). She recorded the original version of "Send in the Clowns" for 1985's The Broadway Album.
Reports suggest Streisand also had accompanying imagery on the video screen, including an image of the White House with a circus tent over at, and one of Trump in clown make-up, altering his Time magazine 2016 Person of the Year cover to feature him with a red nose and the words "clown of the year."
"Fleabag" and its star/creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge took three top honors at the Television Critics Association Awards on Saturday. Amazon's quirky British romantic comedy won the program of the year, outstanding achievement in comedy and individual achievement in comedy awards.
AMC's "Breaking Bad" prequel "Better Call Saul" won the top drama award. Michelle Williams won individual achievement in drama for her role as actress and dancer Gwen Verdon in FX's limited series "Fosse/Verdon." Netflix's twisty "Russian Doll" took the TCA trophy for outstanding new program. And HBO won three awards, for movie or miniseries ("Chernobyl"); news and information program ("Leaving Neverland," detailing sexual abuse claims against singer Michael Jackson) and - in a repeat win - sketch/variety program ("Last Week Tonight with John Oliver").
The 35th annual awards were presented Saturday night during the TCA's semi-annual press tour. Desus and Mero, hosts of a Showtime talk show, emceed the ceremony, where Waller-Bridge, Williams and "Russian Doll" star Natasha Lyonne and producer Amy Poehler were among the celebrities on hand to pick up their prizes. (In an impassioned speech, Williams recounted her love of television as a child actor trying to break into showbiz, and she thanked FX for supporting "and paying us equally" in a pointed reference to her unequal pay for reshoots on "All the Money in the World.")
Other winners included Netflix's reboot of makeover series "Queer Eye" for outstanding achievement in reality programming (as it did in 2018) and PBS children's series "Arthur" for youth programming.
Veteran writer/producer David Milch ("NYPD Blue"), who last spring revealed he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, was honored with the TCA's Lifetime Achievement Award, and "Deadwood," one of his signature achievements, won the Heritage Award for "redefining the Western genre for a modern audience." (HBO in May aired a long-planned finale of the series, which aired from 2004 to 2006.)
Lucille Ball was a legend, for sure, but her daughter, Lucie Arnaz, says there's something that people have long misunderstood about her.
"My mother did not have a great business mind, didn't want one, was not interested in that end of it at all. She wanted to play in the sandbox, period," Arnaz, the actress daughter of Ball and her longtime love and I Love Lucy co-star, Desi Arnaz, tells Yahoo Entertainment. "She wanted to go to work and play those characters and have fun and do shows. My father was a great business mind and he ran the studio and she was never happier than when she could rely on that."
Ball was on her own after she divorced Desi after 20 years of marriage, in 1960. She became the sole owner of Desilu Productions, making her the first woman to lead a major TV studio. It was the one behind some of the most popular shows of the day.
"So she gets a lot of credit for being the first woman this, the first woman that, the big businesswoman… but she did not like to do that," Arnaz says. "And she wasn't particularly good at it. What she was good at was instincts, she had great instincts, so once in a while she made a couple of calls that were pretty brilliant, like, 'No, don't cancel Star Trek. No, I think Mission: Impossible is fun, let's leave it on.' You know? Those were smart calls, but it wasn't what I would call business sense, and she did not enjoy that at all."
What Ball was particularly and undeniably good at was comedy, the kind of hilarious, often physical performances that she gave on her classic sitcom, I Love Lucy. The phenomenally popular show ran for six seasons, from 1951 to 1957.
The Rookie series regular Afton Williamson, who played John Nolan's (Nathan Fillion) training officer Talia Bishop, will not be returning for Season 2. In an Instagram post published early Sunday, Williamson alleges that she quit the ABC series because of systematic racism/racially charged comments, bullying, and sexual harassment, which remained largely ignored by the producers of the show until the sexual harassment by the head of the hair department escalated to sexual assault at the wrap party and the person was fired.
She claims that she had reported inappropriate behavior by the hair department and a recurring guest star to executive producer/showrunner Alexi Hawley but her claims were not investigated, and the recurring guest star was allowed to continue, leading to her decision to leave the show, produced by Entertainment One. We have reached to the independent studio for comment and will update the story when we get it.
"Throughout the filming of the pilot, I experienced Racial Discrimination/Racially Charged inappropriate comments from the hair department and bullying from Executive Producers," she writes. "During the Season, it continued along with Sexual Harassment from a recurring guest star and the racist commentary & bullying from the Hair Dept. Head escalated into Sexual Assault at our Wrap party.The Sexual Harassment though reported directly to the Showrunner/EP remained undocumented and was not reported to HR as promised. The Hair Dept. Head was fired ONLY after the sexual assault and NOT for an entire year of outward racism/racially charged language and bullying behavior in and out of the Hair and Makeup trailer."
Williamson says that "after my initial report of sexual harassment, I was assured that the actor would be fired and "as a courtesy to the script" she filmed with him the very next day. But when "this actor reappeared on our call sheet at the end of the season, I was even written in scenes with him. I asked the Showrunner about this and he admitted to me that the actor had not been fired nor had he gotten HR involved."
"I was asked to return this season, and promised that "everything was handled." The investigation hadn't even begun and Season 2 had already started filming. I turned it down and I walked. Now is the best time in the world to be a woman and I have a platform so it's time to use my Voice."
Two journalists were shot dead in Mexico Friday, bringing to three the number of journalists killed in the country this week, officials say.
Jorge Celestino Ruiz, who worked for the newspaper El Grafico de Xalapa, was killed on Friday night in the violence-plagued state of Veracruz, the mayor of the state's capital Paulino Dominguez told AFP.
Ruiz's house was shot at in October and bullets were also "fired at his vehicle to intimidate him," said a police source, who asked for anonymity, and did not give further details.
The shooting occurred less than 24 hours after the director of online news website La Verdad de Zihuatanejo, Edgar Alberto Nava, was gunned down in the southern state of Guerrero, according to the local prosecutors office.
And on Tuesday, the body of Rogelio Barragan -- head of news website Guerrero Al Instante -- was discovered in an abandoned car's trunk in the State of Morelos.
The wind and rain whipped by at several feet per second as crew members stepped outside for a quick smoke, but the world's only floating nuclear power plant barely shifted in the choppy waves of the Kola bay.
The length of one-and-a-half football pitches, the Academic Lomonosov looks the part as the vanguard of Russia's "nuclearification" of the Arctic, at least now that its rusty hull has been repainted in the white, red and blue of the national flag.
Later this month it will be towed 3,000 miles from the northwestern corner of Russia to the Chukotka region next to Alaska, where it will provide steam heat and eventually electricity to the coastal gold-mining town of Pevek, population 4,000.
The state corporation Rosatom is trumpeting the Academic Lomonosov as the next big step in nuclear energy and a solution to electricity needs in Africa and Asia.
But the floating plant took more than a decade to build at high cost and has been dubbed the "nuclear Titanic" over safety concerns. It has been fuelled up and tested in Murmansk rather than its home port of St Petersburg after 11,000 signed an angry petition and Norway objected to two reactors full of enriched uranium being dragged along along its entire coastline.
North Korea has reportedly launched a range of stamps featuring Don-Old Trump (R-Huckster).
The latest released by the totalitarian dictatorship celebrates the US president's spontaneous meeting with Kim Jong-un in June, according to NK News, a news website based in the US.
It features an image of the pair standing together in the demilitarized zone.
It follows a series of stamps - apparently on sale in the capital Pyongyang - launched on 12 June to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the 2018 summit in Singapore, Japanese news agency Kyodo News reported.
The earlier stamps depict the first-ever handshake between Mr Kim and Mr Trump there, their signing of a joint agreement, and the full text of that statement.
Egypt displayed on Sunday the gilded coffin of Tutankhamun, under restoration for the first time since the boy king's tomb was discovered in 1922.
The restoration process began in mid-July after the three-tiered coffin was transferred to the new Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo from the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, southern Egypt.
The golden coffin of the boy king will be displayed along with other Tutankhamun artefacts towards the end of next year when Egypt's new mega-museum is opened to the public.
The restoration is expected to take around eight months.
The outer gilded wood coffin stands at 2.23 metres (7.3 feet) and is decorated with a depiction of the boy king holding the pharaonic symbols the flail and crook, according to the ministry.
The first spinoff of the 18-year-old "Fast & Furious" franchise, "Hobbs & Shaw," sped away with $180.8 million in its worldwide debut, including $60.8 million domestically - a strong opening that dethroned "The Lion King" after a two-week reign at No. 1 but couldn't match the box-office pace of recent "Fast & Furious" films.
"Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw" was crafted as a buddy-movie left turn for the car-mad franchise. It teams two franchise regulars, Dwayne Johnson's federal agent Luke Hobbs and mercenary Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham), for an adventure outside the previous eight films. Those will resume in May with "Fast & Furious 9."
"The Lion King" slid to second in its third weekend with $38.2 million. The Disney remake earlier this week crossed $1 billion worldwide, becoming the fourth Disney movie this year to do so. It joins "Avengers: Endgame," ''Aladdin" and "Captain Marvel" in that club, with "Toy Story 4" ($959.3 million) poised to soon join them. Not accounting for inflation, this "Lion King" ($1.195 billion) has now out-grossed the 1994 original ($968.5 million).
In its second weekend of release, Quentin Tarantino's 1969 fable "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood" held strong with $20 million. The Sony Pictures release, which cost $90 million to make, has a way to go before it's profitable. But the film's glowing reviews and early Oscar buzz should lead to a long run.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included.
1. "Hobbs & Shaw," $60.8 million ($120 million international).
2. "The Lion King," $38.2 million ($72 million international).
3. "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood," $20 million.
4. "Spider-Man: Far From Home," $7.8 million ($9.5 million international).
5. "Toy Story 4," $7.2 million ($10.2 million international).
6. "Yesterday," $2.4 million ($2.3 million international).
7. "The Farewell," $2.4 million.
8. "Crawl," $2.2 million ($1.5 million international).
9. "Aladdin," $2 million ($4 million international).
10. "Annabelle Comes Home," $875,000.
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