Kit Williams
Kit Williams
Christopher 'Kit' Williamsis an English artist, illustrator and author best known for his 1979 book Masquerade, a pictorial storybook which contains clues to the location of a goldenjewelled hare created by Williams and then buried "somewhere in Britain"...
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bring city convention council deck facility favor interest investment parking quality rid voted worth
It was in the city's interest to get rid of this blight and bring a quality hotel, parking deck and convention facility to the square, and that's why it's worth the investment to do that. That's why the City Council voted in favor of this,
absolutely cannot citizens city protect saying sued
I am not saying that Fayetteville could not be sued if this conditional use is denied. However, I cannot concede that the city and its citizens have absolutely no right to protect single-family residential neighborhoods if a use is deemed incompatible.
call city level permit restaurant state tells
A liquor-by-the-drink permit tells the state you are a restaurant. I think it's inconsistent to call yourself a restaurant at the state level and tell the city that you're a bar.
cant collect decide spend
and decide that you cant spend more to collect it than youre going to collect.
act amount city component computing fair including labor longevity mistakes overtime paid pay period rather specific standards technical
The city had probably made some inadvertent technical mistakes in computing overtime, ... The city had paid firefighters about what the Fair Labor Standards Act would have mandated, but we paid EMT pay, Hazmat pay and longevity pay as a specific amount every pay period rather than including it as a pay component for overtime pay computation.
rabbits significant form
The rabbit is significant in that the handle on the original South Pointing Chariot was carved in the form of a rabbit. Because the handle extended out front it meant that wherever the rabbit went the chariot had to follow.
advertising ancient contemporary
The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.
simple west east
In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west.
afternoon wednesday practicals
Practical! On Wednesday afternoons I could be practically anything. What's up?
writing ideas bored
I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.
thinking artist alive
I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps us working. In the case of the chariot, although it's been sold I actually still have it, just in another form.
years people done
I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot.
hands careers faces
Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center.
feet way would-be
As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot.