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Coast: On a clear day – from the cliff, Friedrich to Gude

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There’s two ways to paint a coastal cliff: from the beach, or on the top. Surprisingly few landscape painters have opted for the latter. Here are some examples.

August 24, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Preference settings: where to find them in macOS Sierra (v2)

Got a setting that you just can’t get to stick properly? Here’s a listing of preference files for Sierra, and pointers to all sorts of other settings too.

August 24, 2017 Macs, Technology

Degas’ Circle: After Impressionism

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Now seen as the odd man out of the Impressionists, at the time he had great influence. Here are samples of the work of those he influenced.

August 23, 2017 General, Painting

The universal panacea for macOS problems: install the Combo updater

Time Machine not backing up hourly? Troubled by repeated prompts to enter your user password? iCloud Drive playing up? Try installing the latest Combo updater. Updated for High Sierra.

August 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

Degas’ Circle: Before Impressionism

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Degas was nothing if not thoroughly sociable. Here are some of his more significant artistic friendships, with paintings.

August 22, 2017 General, Painting

Storyspace and hypertext: index to articles (version 2)

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A listing of over 50 articles, and a detailed index of the topics covered in them, from adornments to zoom.

August 22, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Apple pushes silent Gatekeeper update

Apple has today pushed a silent update to Gatekeeper’s configuration data, bringing it to version 1.0 124. As […]

August 21, 2017 Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 39 Scylla and Minos, and the Minotaur

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An important painting in its social context by Watts, tackling the evils of Victorian Britain, 2 from Moreau, and one of only 3 surviving paintings by a French history painter.

August 21, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

More Fun Scripting with Swift in Xcode: extended attributes

Working with extended attributes in Swift. They’re straightforward using shell commands, but that is not the best way ahead.

August 21, 2017 Macs, Technology, xattr

A Woman’s Work 2: Portrait of a Laundress

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The majority of portraits and genre paintings of women washing clothes are thoroughly demur, without the slightest innuendo.

August 20, 2017 General, Life, Painting

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