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Category Archive: General

Last Week on My Mac: Night terrors

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In the clear light of morning, when we’ve literally got out a bit more, we’ll surely realise how distorted our cognition has become.

May 10, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Technology

River power: Paintings of watermills 1

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From Dürer in about 1500, through van Ruisdael, Hobbema, Vernet, Girtin, to Constable watermills were popular in landscape art.

May 9, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 46

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re still allowed to do. 1: Reverse in […]

May 9, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

The first American Symbolist painter Elihu Vedder 3

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His late paintings were a mixture of symbolism and classical myth. Prominent are murals and a mosaic in the Library of Congress.

May 8, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The UK’s answer to Covid-19: Testing the iOS app

The UK rejected Apple and Google’s frameworks for contact tracing on phones. So what does the UK app do? You may be surprised at its primary purpose.

May 8, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Paradise Lost: Invitation to a new series

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When completely blind, likely to be arrested and sentenced to death, with the remains of the English state around him, John Milton wrote one of the greatest works in English.

May 7, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Patrons and painters: Mantegna at the Mantuan court

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How the Marquis of Mantua overcame the obstinacy of a traditional painter, and gained one of the finest trompes l’ceil in Europe.

May 6, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Gods of the Week: Chronos and Aion (Time)

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Father Time, a grey-haired old man with a beard, wearing ultramarine blue, and holding a scythe and hourglass.

May 5, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The first American Symbolist painter Elihu Vedder 2

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Mainly paintings of classical mythology, including Marsyas Enchanting the Hares, and several developed from his illustrations for The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.

May 4, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 45

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 45. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Finder […]

May 4, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

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