Weekend 415.0
“As Rembrandt’s own life moves toward the shadows of old age, as his success wanes, and the exterior splendor of his life diminishes, he comes more in touch with the Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Weekend
Weekend 414.0 (…that’s how our minds, create creations…)
Quotes from The Thinking Fan’s Guide To Walt Disney World: EPCOT by Aaron Wallace. This is a well-written/researched book from a writer very passionate about EPCOT. It’s also creatively formatted Continue Reading →
Weekend 413.0
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” – George Orwell (1) The Reckoning of the Continue Reading →
Weekend 412.0
Quiet weekend. I took a look at my list of personal goals for 2018 (hastily drafted during my holiday sabbatical) and was frightened by the lack of progress. (1) Route Continue Reading →
Weekend 411.0
(1) Museum piece: a show at the Cooper Hewitt explores design and technology (Wallpaper*) (2) Caricature: Or, Guston’s Graphic Novel by Chris Ware (The New York Review of Books)
Weekend 410.1 (AOE 3 / 2V3 / Yucatan War)
This was an all out European showdown in the Americas on a map called Yucatan. The sovereign(s) involved were the British, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. The British (red) were Continue Reading →
Weekend 410.0
(1) New York’s finest purveyor of pencils champions low-tech design (Wallpaper*)
Weekend 408.0
(1) Market news: painting of Richmond Hill has to stay in the UK (The Telegraph) (1a) Richmond Hill in the Summer of 1862 by Jasper Francis Cropsey (Flickr) “This is Continue Reading →
Weekend 406.1
“It towers above the polis like Notre Dame in Paris, but it is not a church building with a spire, cross or bells. Its architecture is monumental, evidently holding thousands Continue Reading →