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Category Archive: General

Odilon Redon’s Vision 2

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Brilliantly coloured butterflies and flowers, Buddha, and a small sailing boat were among recurrent themes in his later work.

May 15, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Odilon Redon’s Vision 1

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It was his charcoal drawings and prints which first started showing weird chimeras. They then migrated to his canvas in strange but exquisite paintings.

May 14, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Covid-19 testing and diagnosis: where privacy stops

What’s the difference between a suspect and confirmed case, and which should be used for contact tracing? What about the implications of testing?

May 14, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Technology

The short lives of Modigliani and his dealers

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Modigliani died at 35, his partner two days later at 21; one dealer died at 35, the other at 43. Was this a curse or coincidence?

May 13, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paradise Lost: Book 1 in paintings and illustrations

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Summary of Satan and the bad angels being cast down to Hell, and Satan arousing the rebels to join in a council in Pandemonium.

May 12, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Smartphone contact tracing without Apple or Google

Can a smartphone contact tracing app work without using the support in Apple and Google’s forthcoming frameworks? Are there advantages?

May 12, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Goddesses of the Week: the Hesperides

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Three to seven sisters who guard Hera’s golden apples in a land ‘to the west’, painted by Burne-Jones, Leighton, Turner, Sargent, and more.

May 11, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 46

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 46. Here are my solutions to them. 1: backup […]

May 11, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Can you trace contacts with a smartphone?

Many governments are putting their faith in smartphone apps to control Covid-19 infection. But does it work, or is it doomed?

May 11, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Technology

River power: Paintings of watermills 2

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More wonderful landscapes from JC Dahl, Albert Bierstadt, Samuel Palmer, Vincent van Gogh to the remote Norwegian fjords of Nikolai Astrup.

May 10, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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