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A peevishness beyond

We all have our peeves about language. But Andrew McMillen’s fascinating article about those who contribute to Wikipedia […]

February 4, 2015 Language, Life, Technology

Luc Tuymans, copyright, and artistic creation

By definition, creating a 2D or 3D work of representational art involves some degree of copying. If you […]

February 3, 2015 General, Life, Painting

Truth in (landscape) painting 5 – conclusions

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This series of articles set out to consider how faithfully landscape painters have tried to depict the views and objects that they paint, as the ‘truth’ of their painting.

February 3, 2015 Painting

Country ways

The two perennial bugbears of the countryside are dogshit and dumping. I will spare you the former, for […]

February 3, 2015 General, Life

Now that winter’s here

The Isle of Wight is, I believe, the closest that the UK gets to the Mediterranean. You can […]

February 3, 2015 General, Life, Painting

Truth in (landscape) painting 4

Cézanne’s final style, featuring his characteristic ‘constructive stroke’ with patches of colour built from groups of parallel brushstrokes, […]

February 2, 2015 Painting

What is lacking in VR input

Playing with VR tools, in particular the Leap Motion, makes some limitations clear very quickly. The biggest and […]

February 2, 2015 Macs, Technology

So how do we learn that?

Being a linguist must be very frustrating. When others think of the most intellectually-demanding subjects which have been […]

February 1, 2015 Language

Rules for a prescriptive grammar

There is no shortage of grammars, particularly of English, which will tell you how you must write a […]

February 1, 2015 General, Language

VR – is it ready yet?

Virtual reality (VR) is hardly new, nor experimental. Aircraft pilots and ships’ crews have been training in VR […]

February 1, 2015 Life, Macs, Technology

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