Friday Ephemera
Hewn from marble, some 400 years ago, by a 23-year-old. || Gentleman of the road. || I do believe it’s Mickey. || London’s medieval murders, an interactive map. || Are you using “anti-animal language”? || There’s always a catch. || At last, an intersectionality score calculator. || Cat-proof Christmas tree. || Scenes. || Enrichment. || These chocolates are fancier than yours. || Wing of note. || Not quite grasping how it works. (h/t, Darleen) || Today’s word is hominins. || How to wrap gifts without tape. Patience not included. || An archive of downloadable historical maps. || Meet the Mellotron, 1965. || Mouse housing. || Designer spinning tops. || And finally, his horizontal-bar back-flip is way better than yours.
Hewn from marble, some 400 years ago, by a 23-year-old.
That’s a beautiful twitter feed.
Addendum to Item One. Click to enlarge to really see the detail.
For a cheery thought, consider that such works of art will be hidden from view if the current crop of Feministas have their way.
That’s a beautiful twitter feed.
But also racist. Because of course it is.
I scored a 17 on the intersectionality calculator. [sigh]
That cat-proof Christmas tree will only encourage them to leap.
From the Arch_Revival Twitter feed:
Simply beyond the vision, talent, and skill of any of the woke leftist “approved artists” demanding public subsidies of their “work”. Giovanni Strazza is just a “dead white male”, so not worth their trouble…
But also racist. Because of course it is.
Brock argues that the account is deliberately and serially omitting the full history. “They are at best neglecting, but probably outright erasing, the huge contributions of non-white (especially Muslim) Europeans to European culture.”
Chesterton’s Flying Inn foretold this “Europe has always been Islamic” line of argument (the third stage of the propaganda campaign after 1:”the Islamization of Europe is a paranoid Enoch Powell conspiracy theory” and 2:”the Islamization of Europe is inevitable and a welcome change from our stale pale racist monoculture”).
There’s always a catch.
Looks like identity politics really f*cks you up.
Morning, all.
Click to enlarge to really see the detail.
The attribute required to turn a block of stone into that, using simple tools, is rather special, and not often found.
That cat-proof Christmas tree will only encourage them to leap.
And in a battle of wills, I’d bet on the cat.
Looks like identity politics really f*cks you up.
From the same thread, this one made me chortle into my coffee.
The Veiled Christ
Hewn from marble, some 400 years ago, by a 23-year-old.
I scored a 17 on the intersectionality calculator. [sigh]
I managed, or ended up at, whatever, 13.
I’m informed that You are more privileged than 75% of others!
Enrichment.
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Yes, the Muhammadan exorcism-cum-radical-karaoke gets a little out of hand.
But on the upside, it’s only £60 a throw.
That cat-proof Christmas tree will only encourage them to leap.
And in a battle of wills, I’d bet on the cat.
Your Mission . . .
Not quite grasping how it works.
Maybe people who’ve never run a business should do some research before they tell everyone else how to do it.
Cat-proof Christmas tree.
Because cats can’t jump!
Wait, no, that’s ‘white men’, isn’t it?
Maybe people who’ve never run a business should do some research before they tell everyone else how to do it.
Ah, but Ms Muscato, a transgender woman and all-purpose “activist,” tells us, quite loudly, “ACTIVISM IS MY FULL-TIME AND ONLY JOB.” And apparently, describing yourself as an “activist” now counts as an unassailable all-purpose credential and bestows a right to scold others on all manner of subjects.
Ah, but Ms Muscato, a transgender woman and all-purpose “activist,” tells us, quite loudly, “ACTIVISM IS MY FULL-TIME AND ONLY JOB.”
The ZMan pointed out in one of his early podcasts that Antifa protestors list the various protests they’ve participated in on their LinkedIn profiles.
Maybe people who’ve never run a business should do some research before they tell everyone else how to do it.
As someone who co-ran a small business for several years, on a shoestring budget, and for a couple of years while not paying myself at all, and then very little, I’m familiar with the feeling that it would be nice to pay employees more than is possible. But the usual alternative to paying employees what is possible is to shut up shop and not pay them at all. Of course, Ms Muscato, our Fiercely Leftwing Expert In All Things On Account Of Being Transgender, doesn’t see that as a problem. Though I imagine that the freelancers who earned an extra few grand from our small business might have seen things differently. Say, when paying for food and rent.
Again, leftist piety.
“Patience not included.”
Dammit. I can’t even wrap presents neatly with tape. Thank the free market for bags and boxes.
“Chesterton’s Flying Inn foretold this ‘Europe has always been Islamic’ line of argument”
Old GK knew what was what. And the stage after that will be that it was never really anything but. If you doubt it, look at what they’re saying about Jerusalem’s Jewish heritage.
“But the usual alternative to paying employees what is possible is to shut up shop and not pay them at all.”
As Glenn Reynolds likes to say, the true minimum wage is, always and everywhere, zero.
Anyway – at the risk of becoming an Ephemeral one-trick-pony – his unboxing video is better than yours. (My head hurts. But watch till – almost – the end.)
Look away now.
Dammit. I can’t even wrap presents neatly with tape.
Here, we have a system. One wraps, the other tapes. Much less aggravation.
The attribute required to turn a block of stone into that, using simple tools, is rather special, and not often found.
I try to imagine what it’s like to confront a block of marble with just a mallet and chisel, wondering where do I strike the first blow?
As for Renaissance sculpture, the artist cannot rely upon the observer to complement his work with the observer’s imagination. A painting is, in a sense, a different world into which the viewer is drawn. A Vermeer subject looking out a window causes us to wonder “what’s the milkmaid seeing?”
Not so with sculpture. It’s a self-contained reality which is a part of our own. There’s no “outside” which we can use to fill in the gaps. It’s right there in front of us and it either succeeds or it doesn’t.
(I probably need to tease those thoughts a little more until they magically become coherent.)
Muslim rave party:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTTP61_9Acc
Not quite grasping how it works.
During last night’s Film Programme on BBC Radio Four (00.30-13.25 for those who can infiltrate beyond the various firewalls) “rapper, writer” (and soi-disant communist) Boots Riley managed to make Danielle Muscato look like Warren Buffett in comparison. And the film sounds like a load of unfunny racist tosh with it- Eddie Murphy’s “potato up the tailpipe” riff extended ad nauseam. And, my guess is that getting the money from Hollywood types to make a “satire” about how white sales people talk when you have a profile such as Mr. Riley’s is just a little bit less difficult than creating something awe-inspiringly beautiful from a block of stone, albeit you wouldn’t know that given the tone of the BBC’s tongue-ba.. err, “interview”.
I scored 5 on the intersectionality calculator thing. I must be letting the side down somewhere….
It was coughed up in one piece.
*puts lunch back in fridge*
*puts lunch back in fridge*
No refunds. Credit note only.
Be the test tube
PETA has obviously not heard of IVF then
Oh, and for those who like that kind of thing, the Avengers 4 teaser trailer just dropped.
Oh, and for those who like that kind of thing. . .
I probably risk being shunned at a minimum or driven from the village to cries of “Heretic!” or “Unclean!” but, isn’t there someone, somewhere with a few new movie ideas beyond comic book knock-offs?
And, BTW, N.B. this thread started with Renaissance sculpture and wound up with CGI. Devolution in real time.
I probably risk being shunned at a minimum or driven from the village
I’ve actually enjoyed seeing these things – well, most of the Marvel Studios ones – in a big loud cinema with lots of other people who enjoy them too. It’s escapist fun – and fun that’s often done well.
I enjoyed the first Iron Man and the Heath Ledger as Joker Batman, as well as a couple of the Spiderman offerings. I think it’s the over-saturation of the genre that gets to me. It’s like an immunity where the same dose doesn’t provide the same high. But, YMMV, as they say.
Oh, and Gal Gadot is hot. I could watch her paint a fence and be entertained. So, I’ve got that going for me, at least. Which is nice.
I think it’s the over-saturation of the genre that gets to me.
Yes, I can understand that and I’m fairly selective about which ones I see. But the good ones are great fun, especially if you had a misspent childhood in which the comics featured prominently. And once in a while I do actually enjoy being swept along in some big pop-culture event that envelops pretty much the entire planet. I like that when we went to see the first Avengers film the atmosphere was almost like a pop concert. And when you see the trailer-reaction mash-up videos on YouTube, in which people in China, Korea and Brazil are getting very excited about the bits you thought were pretty good too, that’s… oddly pleasing.
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How to wrap gifts without tape. Patience not included.
How to wrap gifts without tape.
At last, an intersectionality score calculator.
Oh wait, that was Obama, I only got 12 which means I am more privileged than 79%.
I am thinking these are not serious people.
I think we can all agree that is unarguable, and only a mad fool would try.
I’d debate the “bargain”.
Today’s other word is sociopathy.
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More here.
A better Christmas tree for cats: https://youtu.be/B98MvPHJPGI
Today’s other word is sociopathy.
Gibs me dat.
Muslim rave party:
Putting the “mad” in “Mad Mullahs” since 1979.
the Avengers 4 teaser trailer just dropped.
‘This is gonna work, Steve’…
🙂
Muslim rave party
And for my next attempt to provoke the UK government into banning me from visiting as a tourist…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFzgYeUN6iQ
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Madame, please do cover up; this is a respectable place.
“What is ‘Something We Knew In The 12th Century’, Alex ?”
Being launched from a trebuchet was a “very dangerous thing to do,” she added.
this is a respectable place.
[ Hurriedly throws dust-cover over porno-mag vending machine. ]
[ Hurriedly throws dust-cover over porno-mag vending machine. ]
So David’s place is actually located in Japan?
The location of the Guild of Evil’s secret lair is, well, secret.
I think we can all agree that is unarguable, and only a mad fool would try.
Ayup.
What does remain so much easier is to simply point out that which just is, and continue on with that.
Should anyone pop up with insistent denials, refusals, demands that reality be ignored, just ask for the details of that refusal.
One gets to cheerfully state to the denier, By all means, do get back to us when you can get the objections to be more than just screaming No! No! No!
…his unboxing video is better than yours
Oh, yeah? https://youtu.be/iTmne_Soj0g
It passes the time.
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Madame, please do cover up; this is a respectable place.
Although apparently rather cold.
Being launched from a trebuchet was a “very dangerous thing to do,” she added.
In this day and age, you’d think such a thing would be safe. It was Oxford University after all. That’s one of the smart ones, innit?
“Oh, yeah?”
Heheh. But bloody hell, Twin Peaks – the first big internet TV phenomenon (and the only one I ever watched*) – is nearly 29 years old. There are people in their forties now who were too young to appreciate it at the time.
Somebody stop time. I want to get off.
*I still have the Sherilyn Fenn poster. Rrrrrr… even her name was hot.
Good and inevitable question.
Trebuchet technology would be farther along today if medieval warlords had used them to launch their armies over defenses rather than trying to beat them down by hurling boulders.
Trebuchet technology would be farther along today if medieval warlords had used them to launch their armies over defenses….
The Queen’s Own Kamikaze Highlanders:
https://youtu.be/Es0t50H44IE
It’s not offensive speech, or offensive speakers, or an offensive ideology. It’s offending speech, offending speakers, or an offending ideology.
“This is a teacher who’s had her credentials suspended twice before.”
I still have the Sherilyn Fenn poster. Rrrrrr… even her name was hot.
Twothree words, Sam: Two Moon Junction. Rowr.Twin Peaks – the first big internet TV phenomenon
BTW, who shot JR? And do you remember where you were when Lucy gave birth?
Adrian Stokes, The Stones of Rimini (1934):
This book by Stokes is in the first place a study of the carved reliefs by Agostino di Duccio in the Tempio, Sigismundo Malatesta’s memorial to Isotta — but as a meditation it is so much more than that. I warmly recommend it to R. Sherman and everyone else moved and intrigued by the sculpture shown above. I’ll quote one more paragraph:
Guardian correction of note.