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Category Archive: General

Adding ‘parallel’ text and a timeline to the Lady of Shalott, in Tinderbox and Storyspace

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Using composite notes and included text to pull together content from existing notes, and displaying chosen content in a timeline.

July 20, 2017 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Figures in a Landscape: 11 A helping brush

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When a landscape artist finds it hard to paint figures well, there is one good solution: work with a figurative painter. The results can be spectacular.

July 19, 2017 General, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 33 – Jason, Medea, and the Golden Fleece

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Three tasks: yoking the fire-breathing bulls and ploughing in dragon’s teeth to generate an army, then getting past the fleece’s guardian dragon.

July 18, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Tennyson, Pre-Raphaelites, and Storyspace: a rewarding combination

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A new hypertext combining Tennyson’s poetry and superb paintings from those associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Free to download.

July 18, 2017 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Richard Dadd: 3 Bethlem 1846-1855

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He painted a series of narratives drawn from the Bible and other sources, and 32 watercolours of ‘Passions’ over this period.

July 17, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Elaine of Astolat, or the Lady of Shalott?

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Two different legends about Sir Lancelot and a woman falling in love with him. Both are told here with a selection of fine paintings.

July 16, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Back to the future

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Publishing has gone full circle, from markup to WYSIWYG page layout, and back to markup. Meanwhile many of its remaining problems have been solved – in LaTeX.

July 16, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Fair Maids: the paintings of Sophie Gengembre Anderson

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Are these beautiful paintings of women and children just eye-candy for middle-class Victorian women?

July 15, 2017 General, Painting

LaTeXport: revenge of the templates, and on to Tufte Book

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Wouldn’t you like your book or other document to look as wonderful as those of Edward Tufte? Here’s how to do that in Tinderbox and LaTeX.

July 15, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Richard Dadd: 2 Travels and Tragedy

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An extended tour of the Middle East proves exhausting, but results in two outstanding paintings. Then Dadd’s world falls apart.

July 14, 2017 General, Life, Painting

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