Author: koalie

#sketches: Hiroshige’s “View from Massaki”, 1857

I drew Hiroshige’s “View from Massaki on the Grove near Suijin Shrine, the Uchigawa Inlet and Sekiya Village” (8-1857), on iPad mini again, using ArtRage.

It took a couple days, 3 to 5 hours each. Below is a big version (1536×2048).

Quoting from the Scholten Japanese Art website:

This composition shows a view towards the Suijin Shrine on the Sumida River and Uchigawa inlet as seen through a round-shaped window from the second floor of a teahouse located in front of the Massaki Inari Shrine. At left the vase with a camellia blossoms and the branches of blossoming plum outside indicates the timing is early spring, and the dark hills in the distance set the time of day nearing dusk. The season and the proximity to the Masasaki Inari shrine suggest that it may be the first day of the horse in the second month, a day associated with visiting shrines devoted to Inari.

Hiroshige's View from Massaki, 1857

Visited 32 countries (14.2%)

Update (09:25Z): Karl suggests travbuddy.com which has a finer granularity:Map of the countries, the ones I visited in green

Visited 32 countries (14.2%) - Map of the countries, the ones I visited in red

If I have not forgotten any place, I have been to 32 different countries or states:

AT|HR|CZ|DK|EE|FR|DE|GI|
GR|HU|IE|IT|MC|NL|NO|PT|
ES|CH|GB|CA|CR|GP|PA|US|
CN|JP|AE|TR|NZ|MA|RE|FI|

Since I last updated the map (Aug. 2008), recent-ish travels to new wonderful places took Vlad and I to [pointers are to photo sets on Flickr]: La RĂ©union island (Aug. 2013), Costa Rica (Spring 2012), Guadeloupe (Spring 2010).

Introducing #Webizen electoral college

In a previous post “Individuals influencer of the Web at W3C –utopia?”, I drew up some balance sheet of possibilities for individuals to affiliate with the Web community.

What started as a simple fan club design is evolving into something far more appealing, which is re-aligning with my initial interest of individuals having a voice in the Consortium.

One of the key components of the W3C is the Advisory Committee, composed of one representative from each W3C Member. The Advisory Committee has a number of roles described in the W3C Process: review, appeal, vote.

So, what if we told you that Webizens can run for an Advisory Committee position?

The draft proposal is built in a wiki, the sections of particular relevance are:

The section on Package of benefits hasn’t been updated in a while and might need your input as well. And if you have an opinion on a communication strategy, you’ll be my best friend forever!

The design of the framework is still work in progress, is done in the open and public participation is free. We target to deliver a proposal by early June.

I am seeking feedback and comments, and thank you kindly for it! You may:

  • comment in this blog,
  • write to the public-webizen@w3.org mailing list (publicly archive),
  • edit the wiki directly,
  • even use IRC (irc.w3.org, port 6665, channel #webizen).