First shown in the Salon at the age of only 18, Vincent van Gogh spotted his talent. Not only was it cut short, but his paintings are vanishing.
Month: November 2016
On Monday, bloggers on WordPress.com sites got a surprise: the old WP Admin interface had vanished. Almost.
His early career, drawing extraordinary ‘noirs’ in charcoal, making lithographs, and starting to paint in oils.
How easy is it to build a real ‘scripted’-type app in Xcode? Here I start to re-implement an AppleScript app using Swift.
Fifty paintings of scenes from the Bible: they could easily have been so bland. Not for Blake, though, whose genius shines through.
Not back to the Bluetooth purgatory of El Capitan, but still some worrying moments when your trackpad goes missing.
There’s a lot more to this painting than first meets the eye: a bit of Brueghel, some Leighton, and even some Signorelli.
Time to pause for breath, I think, for macOS and Xcode. Apple needs to bring the docs up to date, and attend to the detail.
A dozen major works, created as monoprints and then hand-painted to finish, show some of Blake’s most powerful and unique images.
There’s no point trying to script in Swift if you can’t deploy it to a user’s Mac. Here are two solutions available now.
The Eclectic Light Company 