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Month: July 2021

Landscape embedded 1

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Miniature landscape views embedded in more conventional paintings were not uncommon during the Renaissance, before landscape was established as a genre.

July 31, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 110

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Errand boy configured […]

July 31, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: Snapshots

A great advance in APFS which enables Big Sur’s Sealed System Volume, and backups being made to APFS. Here they’re fully explained.

July 31, 2021 Macs, Technology

Impressionist painting in Britain: 2 Walter Sickert

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A pupil of Whistler’s and member of his circle, he too adopted a form of Impressionism during the 1880s. With examples of landscape paintings.

July 30, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Why nothing else can back up to APFS like Time Machine does

A lot of what Time Machine does when making backups to an APFS volume remains a mystery. So far we don’t understand the magic used by Apple.

July 30, 2021 Macs, Technology

Reject: Gustave Courbet, The Painter’s Studio

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The jury for the French Pavilion at the Exposition Universelle in 1855 rejected three of Courbet’s paintings, including one of the canonical paintings of the century.

July 29, 2021 General, Life, Painting

How to customise keyboard layouts

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You don’t have to create a whole new keyboard layout for occasional access to emojis and symbols. Input Methods and Keyboard Layouts explained.

July 29, 2021 Macs, Technology

Francisco Goya: 6 The new king and rural humour

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More superb cartoons to be woven into tapestries for royal palaces, including a panorama of Madrid, and humorour rural scenes.

July 28, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Why are Big Sur updates so large?

The macOS 11.5.1 update fixes a serious vulnerability, but does it really take 2.2 GB (Intel) or 3.1 GB (M1) to fix what could only have been a few MB at most?

July 28, 2021 Macs, Technology

Still Life History: Deceiving the eye

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From the earliest still life paintings, many were designed not just to look realistic, but to deceive the viewer. Examples from van Eyck to the 20th century.

July 27, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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