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Month: April 2016

A personal language: Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s unique portraits

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His vegetable-rich portraits are unique in painting. Were they just jokes and whimsies, or is there something more substantial to them?

April 30, 2016 General, Life, Painting

Growing suspicions about El Capitan 10.11.4 and power management

After a ‘Sleep Wake Failure’ and a bizarre ‘GPU Reset’, I’m not convinced that 10.11.4 is doing this iMac much good.

April 30, 2016 Macs, Technology

Georges Seurat’s Poseuses: new wine in an old skin?

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Did this masterpiece of Neo-Impressionism use an old technique from the early Renaissance?

April 29, 2016 General, Painting

OS X now blocks old versions of Flash prior to 21.0.0.226

If you have just noticed that Flash has stopped working on your Mac, it is the result of […]

April 29, 2016 Macs, Technology

Libraries have not been replaced by the internet

Online and print publications and other sources of information are usually complementary. The internet enriches, it does not replace.

April 29, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

The Story in Paintings: Composite images of the Renaissance

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I have several times written that early western painting, until the late Renaissance, not uncommonly incorporated multiple copies […]

April 28, 2016 General, Painting

Tucking it away safely: archival media

How can you ensure that your descendants will have access to your photos, movies, and work many years in the future?

April 28, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

The Story in Paintings: Philemon and Baucis, virtue rewarded

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An unusually moral story of the classical gods; superb paintings by Rubens, Rembrandt, Elsheimer, and others.

April 27, 2016 General, Life, Painting

Need an external optical drive? If only life was more simple

It should be easy to choose an external optical drive for your Mac: this guide makes it clearer.

April 27, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

The Story in Paintings: Frescoes of the Brancacci Chapel

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Looking at the stories shown in the main paintings of the Brancacci Chapel, Florence.

April 26, 2016 General, Painting

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