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Category Archive: General

Should Macs start a Night Shift?

It is probably the only new feature in Sierra 10.12.4 that you’ll encounter. What does it do, and does it work?

March 29, 2017 General, Macs, Painting, Technology

Jules Breton’s Eternal Harvest: 2 1860-1869

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This period saw him concentrate on farmworkers toiling in the fields at dusk, and he discovered the coast and people of Brittany.

March 28, 2017 General, Painting

Building a text database using Tinderbox

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How to sort, search, and study hundreds of chunks of text, using Tinderbox – with surprising bonuses.

March 28, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

The Largest Salon, the Wicked Stepmother, and a Fatal Lie

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A story which has been told by a long succession of literary and musical works. But this painting is almost the only one to depict it visually.

March 27, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Painting the Impossible: Gone with the Wind – people

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People and the props which they carry can readily show the effects of the wind. Some brilliant examples illustrate this well.

March 26, 2017 General, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Compromised, or conned?

Hackers claim 300 million compromised iCloud accounts, and Wikileaks claims details of techniques being used by CIA to spy on Mac and iOS users. Fact or fake?

March 26, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

Painting the Impossible: Gone with the Wind – land and sea

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Is it really futile and impossible to try to paint the wind? Here’s a selection of evidence, drawn from landscapes and marines.

March 25, 2017 General, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 12 – Semele and Jupiter’s Surrogate Pregnancy

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One of the strangest of all myths, only two painters managed to approximate Ovid’s account.

March 24, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Don’t die in the bath: mains power and mortality

It’s too easy to get blasΓ© and careless with electricity. Don’t die in your bath: please follow these basic precautions.

March 24, 2017 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Franz von Stuck’s Thoroughly Modern Histories: 1 1887-1891

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Another narrative painter in Germany around the turn of the 20th century, he is known for his symbolism and femmes fatales.

March 23, 2017 General, Painting

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