GMD question

I'm staring at the categories and tags that I've got for GMD so far* (listed in the footer), and wondering if it wouldn't make more sense to swap the tags and the categories so that the tags become categories (and able to be listed alphabetically!) and the categories become tags.

Which way makes more sense to you? It's a reasonably trivial job to swap them now, but if it gets significantly larger, then it won't be.

ETA: And as a thank-you for helping me decide, I shall let you know about the painting Boilly as a Sans-Culotte that can be found here, and which is absolutely fantastic.



* Today we pick on Titian! Titian picks back! Titian wins!

Art musings

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.

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If you can't see a picture here of 5 shrunk-down webpage designs, well, it's LJ's fault. Click to embiggen them slightly. Pick one. Don't think too much about it; I just want your first preference.





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(Reason: I need to code up a few sample designs for work, and this is one of them. I'm going to pick one of them to put into code, but am too close and overthinking and can't think which one to do.)

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Poll over on LJ regarding website designs. Nothing enormous.

Whoa

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.)