Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 11, 2024
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Tag: Art
Peace & Justice History for 10/11:
It’s National Coming Out Day!
| October 11, 1987 More than half a million people flooded Washington, D.C., demanding civil rights for gay and lesbian Americans, now celebrated each year as National Coming Out Day. Many of the marchers objected to the government’s response to the AIDS crisis, as well as the Supreme Court’s 1986 decision to uphold sodomy laws in Bowers v. Hardwick.   The AIDS quilt, first displayed in 1987 in Washington, DC The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt was first displayed there, bringing national attention to the impact of AIDS on gay communities, a tapestry of nearly two thousand fabric panels each a tribute to the life of one who had been lost in the pandemic. |
| Brief history of National Coming Out Day https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2019/10/11/coming-out-day-brief-history |
https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryoctober.htm#october11
OT Distraction Stuff About A Good Human/Genius I Admire
Such Beauty!!
I’ve seen Bee comment and like here on Playtime, so I follow The Bee Writes, and am rewarded every time I read there!
I bet Da Vinci had this same problem with cats. by Jenny Lawson (thebloggess)
(Quick, off topic, except for cats, distraction. Medieval art is part of this post, NSFW. But not gratuitous.)
Jenny Lawson (thebloggess) Oct 07, 2024 Read on Substack
This week I started a drawing that was all vines and flowers and it was fine, but a little boring and so I decided to add Hunter S. Thomcat to it because he’s always trying to add himself to drawings anyway. Exhibit A:
And it was a very good idea in theory but somehow it turned…weird? And I kept trying to fix it and it kept getting worse and I would like this to be one of those stories that ends with, “AND EMBRACING THE FLAWS MADE IT EVEN BETTER” but that did not happen because, well…look:
Why does he look vaguely human?
Anyway, I gave up and started another drawing but I’m not finished with it yet and I was feeling a little disappointed in my myself until I saw this collection of medieval cat paintings:
Turns out cats have been fucking up art for centuries because they are enigmatic and mysterious:
And comparatively, my cat drawing became slightly less unnerving.
It important to remember…they’re not all going to be winners.
Or…you know…always make sense?
But since I don’t have a finished drawing I do have this for you…a drawing a did awhile ago that I added color to before I realized that I’m actually not that great at color combinations.
It’s no medieval cat eating a dismembered penis, but then again…what is?
Hugs, sweet friends.
~me
” A Review of the VP Debate in Rhyme”
Autumn Poetry
Abhijit Naskar
So I did a thing a few days ago,
I do it now and then, hadn’t in a while but really liked one so I did it but didn’t turn it in. (It’ll become clear.) Then I got a bunch of GOTV postcards done, and there it was, at the bottom of that stack. It so happened that another came along that I really liked (this one below,) so I added it, then submitted it. It got posted today, and even though it’s really not at all good, it’s funny, it was fun, and I thought I’d share. I’ve sent in several over the past year; dotted amongst the posts. The best one was of two dogs discussing a thing; a similar scenario as below, but not exactly the same. And I might try this one, too. I can draw fish. Anyway, here is this.
Cartoon Eight Nine Four by Josh Lieb
Limits Read on Substack
Underwater. A group of fish laugh at a wild-eyed fish, who glares at them with impotent rage. One of the laughing fish says: “Go ahead, Throckmorton! Tell us more about the ‘land’ outside the pond.”
First they laugh at you…
It’s Two-for-Tuesday, and that means for the second day in a row, we’re graced with an Ali Redford original. Today she tries her hand at eight nine one:
It’s simple, it’s bleak — I love it. And I love what a great contrast it makes with Margreet de Heer’s version from last week. Margreet, of course, is one of the world’s great cartoonists; Ali is a writer like me (though she does draw better than I do). It’s fascinating to see what the same cartoon looks like filtered through two very different brains.
Margreet’s doomed souls strained helplessly to pull the lever. Ali’s sufferer merely looks at it, puzzled. It’s the same set-up, the same pieces of furniture, but the joke is very different. This is the beauty of collaboration.
Thanks, Ali (and Margreet again). It’s great.
The rest of you — get off your duffs (or, more accurately, on them) and draw. (snip)
So now you know I thing I do when I’m not writing postcards or congresscritters, or cleaning house, or walking Corky, and so forth. Once in a while, I “draw”, sometimes even manage to really draw a cartoon based on a professional writer’s scene.
Van Gogh painting mirrors real atmospheric physics
September 18, 2024 Ellen Phiddian
(One of the teachers with whom I worked had a beautiful tattoo of this painting on her inner wrist. She said it gave her strength. I need to send this to her, as she tutors STEAM aside from classroom work, and this is her top favorite painting.)
Scientists have peered at Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night painting and discovered it displays a startling resemblance to real atmospheric turbulence.
To see stars, one needs clear skies. But just because we can’t see it, doesn’t mean there aren’t intricate patterns of air movement above us on a clear night.
A paper published in Physics of Fluids, suggests that van Gogh had an “intuitive” understanding of this while making his famous painting in 1889.
A Chinese and French team analysed the brush strokes in The Starry Night, aiming to see how similar they were to real atmospheric movements.
The masterpiece has been the subject of several atmospheric studies before, with contradictory conclusions, but the researchers say they’re the first to look at all of the painting’s whirls and eddies.
They looked at the 14 main swirls in the painting, and compared these with theories on energy and turbulent flows in the atmosphere.
“The scale of the paint strokes played a crucial role,” says author Associate Professor Yongxiang Huang, a researcher in fluid dynamics at Xiamen University, China.
“With a high-resolution digital picture, we were able to measure precisely the typical size of the brushstrokes and compare these to the scales expected from turbulence theories.”
As well as brush stroke size, the researchers also examined the “relative luminance” of paint colours used in the painting’s swirls.
They found that the picture aligned with a theory of turbulence called Kolmogorov’s Law, which predicts atmospheric movement based on measured inertia.
The changes in brightness reflect a process called Batchelor’s scaling, which describes how fluids diffuse at smaller scales.
“It reveals a deep and intuitive understanding of natural phenomena,” says Huang.
“Van Gogh’s precise representation of turbulence might be from studying the movement of clouds and the atmosphere or an innate sense of how to capture the dynamism of the sky.”
https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/physics/van-gogh-starry-night-atmosphere/
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