“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
Why? Because of the utter stupidity of the masses. The totally CRAZY videos we are all subjected to. The “theories”/”speculations”/”computer-generated BS”/Entrenched Minds/Over-Complicated Calculations/Mirrors/And now REFLECTIONS off the MOON! FFS! IT IS A BALL. One half solid. One half not. As Above, So Below Put water on a Flat surface and it runs everywhere. Put a […]
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The Nine Worthies were : Jewish – King David, Joshua the Patriarch and Judas Maccabeus Pagan – Hector of Troy, Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar Christian – Charlemagne, King Arthur, Godfrey of Bouillon There are many renditions of these characters but it’s believed that they first appeared in picture form in 1312. I’m intrigued […]
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I put a question the other day to the only person that I know who could possibly help me track down a man about whom I’ve found zero info. Not only did I get the much needed answer…..I also got a strange but Wonderful link from my mystery man to the author of The Raven. […]
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My recent battle with a major online retailer (refund still pending) has, sort of, been a blessing in disguise. Part of my new research was prompted by the Wondrous work of a Bulgarian artist about whom I can find very little information. I have no idea if he still lives. If he still works. I […]
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As I’m injured mostly on the left side of my body, and I’m right-handed, one of the few things that I can do at the moment is knit and crochet. So…I’m immersing myself in Mademoiselle Sophie’s world. She has been an inspiration for many, many years. But, sacré bleu, she’s elusive! Anyway. I’m feasting my […]
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Mmmn. The coat has turned out better than I expected. I knitted the collar and trimmed the entire garment with reverse single crochet in a very pale beige/coffee PURE wool/silk yarn. It’s now been washed (again) and set on the dummy to do it’s own thang. I love this part of the process. Zero stress […]
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I’ve been researching the art of Charles Altamont Doyle. He was probably not what we, today, would call a Master but his work was very touching and telling. I feel that he influenced his son, Arthur, more than that son ever admitted! The image above is called Saint Giles, his bells. The one below is […]
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I know this subject has been yt-M.O.C. covered ad infinitum but…did y’all get your info from here? ‘S OK. I don’t expect a single Honest True Answer from anyone. Learned that Lesson the HARD way :o(
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Nope. I would never have put those names together either! The things you learn when you wax lyrical about Caravaggio’s painting techniques (!?) Mother. Just go on youtube right now and watch Penn & Teller : Tim’s Vermeer. You’ll love it. OkeyDokey.
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Realist revolutionary: The painter who brought the heavenly down to earth Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), was always a name to be reckoned with.Notorious bad boy of Italian painting, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial: Violent in temper, precise in technique, a creative master, and a man on the […]
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One of my fave Lovejoy episodes. Jim Leonard,Lovejoy’s old mentor,asks for his help in a plot to sting greedy Dutch art dealer Hans Koopman,who once cheated Jim’s wife’s Judy’s late father. At a weekend house party where Tinker poses as a lord and Eric as a gentleman farmer they persuade Koopman to buy a fake […]
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Loving Mr AG-D right now. Andrew Graham-Dixon interviews John Lydon I’m one HAPPY soul :o)
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Hidden History Research 