{"id":16949,"date":"2013-03-01T06:16:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T13:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=16949"},"modified":"2017-04-04T15:50:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T22:50:47","slug":"creative-prompt-197-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/creative-prompt-197-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Prompt #197: West"},"content":{"rendered":"

“East of the Sun and West of the Moon” Source<\/a>: Peter Christen Asbj\u00f8rnsen and J\u00f8rgen Moe, \u00d8stenfor sol og vestenfor m\u00e5ne<\/a>, Norske Folkeeventyr<\/i> (Christiania [Oslo], 1842-1852), translated by George Webb Dasent (1859). Translation revised by D. L. Ashliman. \u00a9 2001.<\/p>\n

Taliesin West<\/a> – Frank Lloyd Wright<\/p>\n

Great Western Bank (now part of Chase)<\/p>\n

Nato Camp:\u00a0During the Cold War<\/a> “the West” was often used to refer to the NATO<\/a> camp as opposed to the Warsaw Pact<\/a> and non-aligned nations<\/a>. The expression survives, with an increasingly ambiguous meaning. (your history lesson for the day from Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Best Western<\/p>\n

Southwest Airlines<\/p>\n

Kanye West<\/p>\n

Farragut West<\/p>\n

Mae West<\/p>\n

Go West, young man! – Horace Greeley<\/p>\n

West<\/b> is a noun<\/a>, adjective<\/a>, or adverb<\/a> indicating direction<\/a> or geography<\/a>. (Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/p>\n

West End (London)<\/p>\n

West Africa<\/p>\n

West Germany<\/p>\n

The West Wing<\/p>\n

West Valley College<\/p>\n

West is one of the four cardinal directions<\/a> or compass<\/a> points. It is the opposite of east<\/a> and is perpendicular<\/a> to north<\/a> and south<\/a>. (Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Nathanael West (author)<\/p>\n

West Nile virus<\/p>\n

Upper West Side<\/p>\n

Nine West<\/p>\n

Western Addition (San Francisco neighborhood)<\/p>\n

In Chinese Buddhism<\/a>, the West represents movement toward the Buddha<\/a> or enlightenment (see Journey to the West<\/a>). The ancient Aztecs<\/a> believed that the West was the realm of the great goddess of water<\/a>, mist, and maize<\/a>. In Ancient Egypt<\/a>, the West was considered to be the portal to the netherworld<\/a>, and is the cardinal direction regarded in connection with death<\/a>, though not always with a negative connotation. Ancient Egyptians also believed that the Goddess<\/a> Amunet<\/a> was a personification of the West.[1]<\/a><\/sup> The Celts<\/a> believed that beyond the western sea off the edges of all maps lay the Otherworld<\/a>, or Afterlife.(Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Western hemsiphere<\/p>\n

American West<\/p>\n

In American literature<\/a> (e.g. in The Great Gatsby<\/a><\/i>) moving West has sometimes symbolized gaining freedom<\/a>, perhaps as an association with the settling of the Old West (see also Manifest Destiny<\/a>).(Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/p>\n

West Elm<\/p>\n

West Portal, San Francisco (Wikipedia<\/a>, again)<\/p>\n

West Seattle<\/p>\n

To go west using a compass for navigation<\/a>, one needs to set a bearing<\/a> or azimuth<\/a> of 270\u00b0. (Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Western Union<\/p>\n

West is the direction opposite that of the Earth<\/a>‘s rotation on its axis, and is therefore the general direction towards which the Sun<\/a> sets. (Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/p>\n

West Point<\/p>\n

Moving continuously west is following a circle of latitude<\/a>, which, except in the case of the equator<\/a>, is not a great circle<\/a>. (Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/p>\n

West Virginia<\/p>\n

The word west<\/i> is derived from the name of one of the four dwarves in Norse mythology<\/a>, Nor\u00f0ri, Su\u00f0ri, Austri and Vestri<\/a>, who each represented one of the directions of the world. (Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Cornel West<\/p>\n

Western Europe<\/p>\n

The West<\/a> (PBS program)<\/p>\n

Post the direct URL (link) where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. I would really like to keep all the artwork together and provide a way for others to see your work and\/or your blog.<\/p>\n

We are also talking about this on Twitter. Use the hashtag #CPP<\/p>\n

The Creative Prompt Project, also, has a Flickr group<\/a>, which you can join to\u00a0 post your responses. I created this spot so those of you without blogs and websites would have a place to post your responses.<\/p>\n

And now for the homage to the law…<\/p>\n

West Publishing<\/p>\n

John West<\/p>\n

West Group<\/p>\n

Fenwick & West<\/p>\n

Westlaw<\/p>\n

Thomson West<\/p>\n

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“East of the Sun and West of the Moon” Source: Peter Christen Asbj\u00f8rnsen and J\u00f8rgen Moe, \u00d8stenfor sol og vestenfor m\u00e5ne, Norske Folkeeventyr (Christiania [Oslo], 1842-1852), translated by George Webb Dasent (1859). Translation revised by D. L. Ashliman. \u00a9 2001. Taliesin West – Frank Lloyd Wright Great Western Bank (now part of Chase) Nato Camp:\u00a0During … Continue reading “Creative Prompt #197: West”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[402],"tags":[79,311,72],"class_list":["post-16949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-402","tag-creative-prompt","tag-creativity","tag-group-project"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}