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Category Archive: Language

Analysing narrative paintings of Icarus and Daedalus

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Turning a linear HTML article from WordPress into a full hypertext document, using Storyspace 3. Not hard, but does it work?

April 13, 2016 General, Language, Macs, Painting, Technology

Technology is not turning the young into puddings

Should we worry about claimed adverse effects of smartphones on book reading? And who suffers most if we close libraries?

April 12, 2016 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

I’m learning Google: no logic in translation

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Ask Google Translate to turn the Hungarian for “I am learning Hungarian” into French, and it tells you that I am learning English, in French.

April 11, 2016 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

The Story in Paintings: Painting to the music of time

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Language has rich and precise mechanisms for dealing with time. Narrative painting is not without its tools, though.

April 9, 2016 General, Language, Painting

The Story in Paintings: index of well-known narratives 6 Non-European

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An index to the 7 well-known narratives of non-European origin, covered in articles here. Currently Indian.

April 5, 2016 General, Language, Painting

Huw Wystan Jones: the April Fool

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An explanation and apology for yesterday’s April foolery: and the paintings correctly attributed.

April 2, 2016 General, Language, Life, Painting

In a Word: Spoof, hoax, and April pranks

Spoof was originally a card game. But why April fools? A quick trip around trickery.

April 1, 2016 General, Language, Life, Painting

Huw Wystan Jones: the Welsh Impressionist

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Thanks to painstaking work in the Mouton-Rothschild Collection, a new artist is being added to the canon of Impressionists.

April 1, 2016 General, Language, Life, Painting

The Story Story

One reason for the continuing popularity of more traditional means of storytelling is their lack of explicitness, and reliance on the imagination.

March 29, 2016 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

The Story in Paintings: index of well-known narratives 5 history

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Covers 18 well-known narratives from post-classical history, with example paintings for each.

March 27, 2016 General, Language, Painting

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