Here is another photograph I took at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. This painting has been titled “Sense of Taste.” Provenance: the workshop of Jan Brueghel the Younger, mid-17th century. [Click through for hi-res.] You can say a lot about this painting — the representation of the gastronomic luxuries of the 1600s, the slightly off-kilter [...]
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Post-impressionist gossip drama
From a letter from Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh, 1 October 1888, and accompanying commentary: … — ah! my dear Vincent, you would have plenty to amuse you, seeing all these painters here, pickled in their mediocrity like gherkins in vinegar. Makes no difference whether they’re fat, long or twisted and warty, they’re still, and [...]
Creature Comforts: America — Fears & Phobias
“Gazelles. Isn’t that that animal that’s like half zebra and half — whatever? Any half-and-half animal… I guess it really is just the startling aspect. Your mind starts to predict something, it’s used to the familiar — ‘Okay, I know what a horse is. Whoa. That horse is half zebra.’ Like, how did this happen? [...]
*Santa* brandbook
The consulting firm Quietroom has created a “brandbook” for Santa. It is so clever. You should read the whole thing here. (via GOOD, which is owned by MSN? Didn’t know that.)
Excerpt from The Deeper Meaning of Liff (Douglas Adams & John Lloyd)
Drebley (n.) Name for a shop which is supposed to be witty but is in fact wearisome, e.g., “The Frock Exchange”, “Hair Apparent”, etc. Duddo (n.) The most deformed potato in any given collection of potatoes. Dufton (n.) The last page of a document that you always leave facedown in the photocopier and have to [...]
