Friday, June 21, 2024

the old become blind to change sez me ... because we often think that everything we learned in our twenties may have been sufficient ... darwin teaches us that those who survive are often those who can best adapt to change ... i thought i understood quite a lot about colour but i knew nothing about colour coding for screen displays ...

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i had been puzzling for years over the way that myself and other people have different notions or understandings of the colours we call PURP...
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

I have a question about Bob Dylan’s song LIKE A ROLLING STONE

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    LIKE A ROLLING STONE is a memorable song with a lot of drive, but what about those lyrics ? Once upon a time you dressed so fine ...
Sunday, June 16, 2024

a NYMPHS & SHEPHERDS ScrapBook ... beginning with PICART ...

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  ... to be continued ...
Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Albert DECARIS ... engraver and etcher.

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I'm intrigued and often perplexed by this artist's works. He was famous in his lifetime. He seems to be largely forgotten already. H...
Monday, June 3, 2024

Concert of the Birds ... Language of the Birds ... and Parliament of the Birds

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Antwerp, 1629-ish Concert of Birds - The Collection - Museo Nacional del Prado (museodelprado.es) "This subject actually antedates the ...
Saturday, May 25, 2024

ATALANTA FUGIENS ... a rarther splendid work of 100% hocus-pocus ... really well put together in 1618 to beguile everyone who wanted to believe in magic ... and of course, they still do ...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atalanta_Fugiens https://furnaceandfugue.org/  
Sunday, May 19, 2024

The Satyr and the Traveller is a myth or parable based on a paradoxical aspect of a simple human action ... that we blow on our hands to warm them in winter ... but we blow on our soup to cool it ...

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  The Satyr and the Traveller - Wikipedia ... to be continued ...
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Gender differences in brain structure ? Artificial Intelligence used to analyze large sets of brain scans ...

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AI Uncovers Hidden Differences in Male and Female Brain Structures - Neuroscience News Deep learning with diffusion MRI as in vivo microscop...
Monday, May 13, 2024

GOLTZIUS made these four engravings in 1588, the year of the Spanish Armada ... he was quite possibly the finest engraver since DURER ... the set is known as the FOUR DISGRACERS ... maybe something has been lost in translation ...

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Wednesday, May 8, 2024

masks ... part 11 from a series of scrapbooks ...

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  ... CONTINUED IN PART 12, 24TH AUGUST 2024 ...