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Weekly weird roundup
Dec. 30th, 2009 02:09 pmOne more of these for the year, and then we'll see what 2010 brings us. "I want some sugar in my bowl, I ain't foolin'."
Was Caravaggio a photographer? A researcher suggests he used a kind of camera obscura to fix his paintings. Something of the same sort has been suggested for Vermeer because of the incredible attention to the psychological moment and the incredible lighting. I think that under values the creative imagination and the genius of these painters, but what do I know?
On another Caravaggian note, they've disinterred his body to try to figure out how he died.
I know Google has begun to seem like Big Brother to a lot of people, but in this case a Dreamtime story and Google Earth led to discovery of an impact crater in Australia. I can't help thinking that's rather neato kobeato.
(My friend,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jmeadows, would like to bring back the word "moxie," and I seem to be on a mission to bring back my childhood epithet of "neato kobeato.")
You remember the last time you did something-or-other "once in a blue moon"? Well, New Year's Eve would be that day.
The origins of working hard all week in order to get drunk on Saturday.
Stonehenge's altar used to build a bridge, Hadrian's wall used to pave a road, mummies burned for firewood—yeah, what were they thinking?
What's that you say, Vincent? You were jealous of who? You'll have to speak up. I can't hear you.
Was Caravaggio a photographer? A researcher suggests he used a kind of camera obscura to fix his paintings. Something of the same sort has been suggested for Vermeer because of the incredible attention to the psychological moment and the incredible lighting. I think that under values the creative imagination and the genius of these painters, but what do I know?
On another Caravaggian note, they've disinterred his body to try to figure out how he died.
I know Google has begun to seem like Big Brother to a lot of people, but in this case a Dreamtime story and Google Earth led to discovery of an impact crater in Australia. I can't help thinking that's rather neato kobeato.
(My friend,
jmeadows, would like to bring back the word "moxie," and I seem to be on a mission to bring back my childhood epithet of "neato kobeato.")You remember the last time you did something-or-other "once in a blue moon"? Well, New Year's Eve would be that day.
The origins of working hard all week in order to get drunk on Saturday.
Stonehenge's altar used to build a bridge, Hadrian's wall used to pave a road, mummies burned for firewood—yeah, what were they thinking?
What's that you say, Vincent? You were jealous of who? You'll have to speak up. I can't hear you.