Published By The London Review Of Books, 8 November 2012

Published by the London Review of Books, 8 November 2012

In Anne Carson’s six translations of Ibykos, the mode of fidelity to the source text varies not according to the closeness of cross-lingual synonyms but according to the spirit of the translation. It is an extreme example of a translator bringing herself and her own ideas into a text, and also an effective one—if her goal is not to replicate Ibykos but to play with his work.

(cp. 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei [Eliot Weinberger, Octavio Paz]; Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird [Wallace Stevens])

delightedbeauty.org

Shakespeare translation research project. Multilingual translations - all languages - all periods. Othello: case study, pilot project. Data visualisations.

Note also the project mentioned half-way down the page about translating the specific couplets. 

This conference is p awesome, so many amazing projects I’m learning about.

This is another WIP from fellow artist Sam, and I just want to say: THIS. So much this. Every article I've read about the Prometheus Bound which argues that Zeus isn't a big bad points to this "gentle touch" that impregnates Io as if it's a good thing. Like, "well it's not rape because it's just a touch, a sort of immaculate conception so we don't even have to worry about consent at all." I'm working a bit on the Prometheus Bound right now as one of the only sources outside Hesiod that mentions Kratos and Bie (two of the children of Styx) and I'd been sending Sam problematic extracts from what I'd been reading, and then she just produces this: this beautiful, succinct piece of art that is this fantastic rebuttal to all these stupid articles I've been reading. And it's just. The. Best. Thing. Ever.

Something else amazing I didn’t realise I needed in my life.

Another really cool art-writing-translation project.

This is called 'couching' and is a legit embroidery technique.

I wouldn't want any cosplayer to think that they had somehow cheated and therefore are not actually as skilled as "real" embroiderers.

Also, puff paint is a genius idea for couching with. Whoever thought of that deserves a medal.

Found this GREAT embroidery tip from a Facebook cosplayer!!

https://www.facebook.com/Inusdreamcosplay

For those of you who don’t have an embroidery machine accessible to you, and don’t think you have the skill/patience to hand embroider, this is an amazing tip! Plus, if you paint over a drawn stencil, it should be pretty easy to keep everything neat and even looking!!