telophase

Found on Reddit:

"I'm throwing all of my money at the screen, but for some reason this Professor Layton/Sherlock crossover game still doesn't exist."

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Also, over on Great Masters Disasters, I can tell I'm going to get a lot of mileage out of the Mannerists.

Sora would like everyone to know that he is currently not being fed and that this is not a satisfactory state of affairs.



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Toby just set up my new iMac and it is fucking huge.

Cannot wait until we get the virtual machine set up and running so I can install Photoshop back on it and start painting ON THIS HUGE SCREEN.

(Er, did I mention this here? Old computer thoroughly died, although not without us able to get a backup of everything, so it's a hassle rather than a tragedy, and I decided to make the switch back to Mac now instead of buying another PC. I'll be slower on converting the software over, probably waiting for CS 6 or CS 6.5 on the Adobe stuff, because we can set up the machine to boot into Windows and I can install the old stuff there for now.)

So, back in the day a lot of paintings were made that functioned as "mystery paintings," or pictures that illustrated an allegory or tale of some sort with densely packed symbols and iconography.

You can read an analysis of a Titian here, at Three Pipe Problem.

I've been itching to do more painting ever since the first time I went to the Caravaggio exhibit, and I also wonder if I could do something similar with subject matter to the Old AMsters* who did this, only using, say, cosplayers sitting around at a con as the main figures (much like they used figures in contemporary-ish clothing to illustrate Biblical and Classical stories and allegories).

Question is: what should the allegory/theme be? Assuming that an Old Master theme would be more-or-less discernible to a reasonably well-educated person of that time who thought about it for a while, what would an equivalent be today?



* Typo, but as the Old Hamsters it seems like amuses me, I'm keeping it.**

** Also, read Caravaggio and the Caravaggisti specifically for the style, as I dig their take on realism.

We have bought many toys for Sora, so of course his two favorite toys are a feather toy he's pulled all the feathers off of, leaving a plastic stick with a couple of sad strips of Mylar attached to the end, and a wad of stuffing that Nefer's pulled out of the head of her plushie Hamtaro toy. Sigh.

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Okaaaay.... Amazon review of Math and the Mona Lisa by rampant homophobe who takes issue with the author's discussion of Leonardo's sexuality.

(Alas, the other reviews tend to convince me that the book is a bit too slight to bother with reading, but that one tempts me to say "methinks the author doth protest too much.")

What dos this violist do when a Nokia cell phone interrupts his performance? Watch and see.

All of you whose webspace I host: you'll need to change your FTP passwords (not Wordpress, database, or anything like that, just FTP). Dreamhost emailed to tell me that there was an incursion and some password data may have been taken, so they just expired everyone's password as a precaution.

If you have problems with changing it, let me know as I believe I can get in and reset that for you.

This is a fantastic dressing, and let me tell you I don't actually like salad dressing, and have stunned servers for years by ordering my salad dry.* But put this on a salad (and it is strong enough to drown out the bitter flavor of many dark leafy greens, which usually renders me unable to eat them), and I will inhale it.

It's also from a local restaurant - the chef-owner happily gives out his recipes. If you email him and ask, he'll send it. He also has one cookbook out and another one about to come out.

Sorry, cilantro-haters: there is cilantro. You may be able to figure out a substitute that will leave it still tasting good. Also, you control the amount of heat in it by how much of the seeds and ribs you remove from the jalapeno. Our current batch has no heat at all.

( Bonnell's Jalapeño Garlic Vinaigrette House Dressing )

* If they freak out at this, and surprisingly enough some of them do, a lot, I graciously allow them to accompany the dry salad with a slice or two of lemon, which I usually don't bother to squeeze on it. Honestly, you'd think there was something unnatural about not liking a bunch of goopy stuff on my lettuce. If you don't like the flavor of lettuce, here's a stunner: don't eat it.