Source: Juxtapoz Magazine – A Wavy Place: Gabrielle Garland Gives a New Perspective
Monthly Archives: May 2024
Flowers for Things I Don’t Know How to Say: A Tender Painted Lexicon of Consolation and Connection – The Marginalian
His paintings, loose and bright, become analogues of how abstract yet vivid the most interior experiences are — amorphous shapes saturated with feeling, blurry arrangements of contrasting parts of the self.
Monday Musings — 6MAY24
We all, probably, have heard the term “spang”. Here’s the definiton”
spang [ spang ]
adverb, Informal.
- directly; exactly:The bullet landed spang on target.
This next word is not actually in any dictionary. I made it up while half way between sleep, and wakefulness Sunday morning.
spangular [ spang-gyuh-ler ]
adjective
- Acting in a direct manner.
- Precisely
In a sentence: He spoke in a spangular way.
I don’t know, just some fun with words, I guess. LOL
WikiArt
Found out that there is a Wiki project solely for art. Spent some time perusing it, and it’s pretty useful.
Aim of the project
Our primary goal is to make world’s art accessible to anyone and anywhere. WikiArt already features some 250.000 artworks by 3.000 artists, localized on 8 languages. These artworks are in museums, universities, town halls, and other civic buildings of more than 100 countries. Most of this art is not on public view. With your active involvement, we are planning to cover the entire art history of the Earth, from cave artworks to modern private collections. We also provide you with tools for translation on as many languages as needed.
Has artist biographies, and a selection of their work, and a link to the Wikipedia article. It explains art movements/styles and has links (with portraits) of practitioners of the style.
What a great resource.
What about that box grater
18 uses for a box grater. Number 2 was the best in my estimate.
2. Brown Sugar
Even though I know that putting a citrus peel in the brown sugar keeps it soft, I inevitably end up with brown-sugar boulders that I attack with a knife, a scenario sure to one day end in heartbreak. And then I thought: box grater. It works.
Scott Nearing
A nice biography and remembrance of Scott Nearing, who along with his wife Helen, basically, started the back to the land movement. Read their books assiduously back when I was younger, still have my original copies of the “Good Life” books.
While I’m not able to garden like they did this spring, the wife and I have figured out how I can grow some herbs and veggies. Couldn’t do this life without her.
Thanks for reading. Love you all.
Pulsed plasma rocket (PPR): Shielded, fast transits for humans to Mars
The exceptional performance of the PPR, combining high Isp and high thrust, holds the potential to revolutionize space exploration. The system’s high efficiency allows for manned missions to Mars to be completed within a mere two months.
Source: Pulsed plasma rocket (PPR): Shielded, fast transits for humans to Mars
A Vibrant Rascality of Shenanigans: The Fantasticalicizm Of Anna Mond – Unquiet Things
The creations borne of Anna Mond’s marvelously strange brain noodles are gleefully grotesque, wickedly cheeky, ghoulishly precious brouhahas with a through line of the weirdest humor s…
Source: A Vibrant Rascality of Shenanigans: The Fantasticalicizm Of Anna Mond – Unquiet Things
Happy May Day
Did you know the May Day is actually two different holidays in one? Well it is.
The tradition of May baskets and May poles come from the celebration of Beltane and Walpurgis, ancient “pagan” holidays to celebrate the beginning of summer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day
It is, also, International Workers Day (ie. Labor Day). The US and other countries don’t celebrate it as such an that stems “from a resistance to emboldening worldwide working-class unity”.
Read more here : https://www.npr.org/2022/04/30/1095729592/what-is-may-day-history
So whether you’re a pagan, or a Wobblie; Happy May Day!