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Month: February 2019

More Than Portraits: the paintings of Diego Velazquez 3 The challenge of narrative

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He made friends with Rubens, who helped him improve his narrative painting, and them travelled to Italy, where he painted the first plein air oil sketches in European art.

February 5, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Quick Actions: 2 Making your own in Automator

Making your own Quick Actions in Automator is very simple, provided that it has the actions built in or provided with apps which can do the task.

February 5, 2019 Macs, Technology

Painting Goethe’s Faust: 5 Gretchen’s fall

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Gretchen and Faust become lovers, but her mother dies as a result of Faust’s sleeping potion, and he kills her brother in a sword-fight.

February 4, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Quick Actions: 1 Introduction

One of the significant features of Mojave, Finder Actions deliver significant features without you having to open an app.Are they extensions, and where are they installed?

February 4, 2019 Macs, Technology

Comments now fully enabled

I have now enabled commenting again on all articles posted here, including those over 40 days old. Please […]

February 3, 2019 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

A Weekend with Joseph Stella 3, 1926 on

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He continued with extraordinary detailed fantasies of birds and flowers, and developed drawings in silverpoint with crayon.

February 3, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: The secrecy of privacy

Mojave’s privacy features remain essentially undocumented. Apple hasn’t explained how command tools negotiate TCC’s protection. Why not, and what should we do?

February 3, 2019 Macs, Technology

A Weekend with Joseph Stella 2, 1919-25

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He developed near-Surrealist fantasies apparently inspired by Hieronymus Bosch, and the Cubist ‘Brooklyn Bridge’, his best-known work.

February 2, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Scripting in Swift: Process deprecations

Calling command tools from Swift changes with macOS 10.13 and 10.14 with the deprecation of some of the Process class. Solutions aren’t as clean as they should be.

February 2, 2019 Macs, Technology

A Weekend with Joseph Stella 1, to 1918

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A student of William Merritt Chase around 1900, he was a brilliant draftsman. He initiated American Futurism in 1913, then changed style again.

February 1, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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