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Following her introduction to the techniques and processes used in architectural gilding, I invited Leah Beth Fishman to pen the following guide to gilding tools, materials, and terminology.This extended feature breaks down various important concepts that will help you when setting up to work with different types of metal leaf, and includes:What is Gilding?Types of GildingTools & TerminologyTypes of LeafFormats of LeafSuppliersIf you are interested in learning how to gild, …

If there was ever a type of camera that you could clearly define as a niche product, it would probably be infrared converted cameras. While very neat from a technological perspective, they don’t get a lot of use in the professional photography world. When you think of infrared photography, you likely think about ghostly colors […]

“Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and rather fun, I always write my scripts all the way through as fast as I can, the first day, if possible, putting in crap jokes and pattern dialogue—“Homer, I don’t want you to do that.” “Then I won’t do it.” Then the next day, when I get up, the script’s been written. It’s lousy, but it’s a script. The …

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The Art of the Personal Project is a crucial element to let potential buyers see how you think creatively on your own. I am drawn to personal projects that have an interesting vision or that show something I have never seen before. In this thread, I’ll include a link to each personal project with the artist statement so you can see more of the project. Please note: This thread is …

There are some idiotic fanatics working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. They have submitted a plan to kill 500,000 barred owls (Strix varias) in the Pacific northwest over the next 30 years. These government bureaucrats classify barred owls as an invasive species, but this is pure bullshit because barred owls are native to North America. Barred owls began colonizing the Pacific northwest during the 1970s. Spotted owls (S. …

open files and directories on macOS! man open on macOS is super interesting. I have used open -a to launch specific apps for years, but I have never looked at all the other options. There are many, and they are pretty cool! Here are just a few of the neat things you can do: open -e opens the item in TextEdit. I basically never want this, and it’s fascinating that …

I'm examining in depth NoteCards, the hypermedia environment of Medley Interlisp well described in the 1987 paper NoteCards in a Nutshell. To experiment with the NoteCards API I set out to explore the space of possible answers to the question: what if Lisp programs were represented as NoteCards hypertexts? Leveraging NoteCards to play with the idea seemed like a natural extension to Sysrama, my Interlisp documentation tool for presenting information …

Tim Edwards and Markus Sodergren in The Story of My Life at the Stage Door Theatre, London. Picture: Peter Davies The Story of My Life continues at the Stage Door Theatre, London until 19 October 2024. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ With a definite touch of the retro cabaret lounge about it, the Stage Door Theatre, above the Prince of Wales pub on Drury Lane, Covent …

I’m sure every futurist has been asked this question. Maybe lots of times. We may have developed a stock answer. We may vary it. I was asked recently and I thought back to 2007, when I was fresh off the publication of the first edition of Thinking about the Future with Peter Bishop. We gathered […] The post Why Foresight? first appeared on Hinesight....for Foresight.

A couple of months ago, I posted this on the sociality: Every once in a while I listen to “Hog-Eye Man”, a fine sea shanty. Lots of versions online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfMhy-Er-_Y [Martin Carthy] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCIM_shahkI [The Longest Johns] But... it’s noted as one of the filthiest shanties ever collected. Of course, every published and recorded version is cleaned up! Ass-cheeks and bit of double entendre are all that remain. (Maybe the N-word …

It’s been a fun three days in Ljubljana, it’s on to Budapest tomorrow for potentially more flooding. The trains are still running so who knows. For now, it’s sweet dreams of Slovenia, a beautiful country full of warm, friendly people. I’m very much looking forward to returning next week for the original two days we had planned. Note tags: travel, europe, slovenia, adventure, architecture

William Jennings Bryan (left, seated) being questioned by Clarence Darrow at the Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee. Image from the Smithsonian Archives via Wikimedia. Reprinted with permission from Worst. Book about the Scopes Trial. Ever!, published on September 10, 2024, by Righting America, a forum for scholarly conversation about Christianity, culture, and politics in the US. Glenn Branch is deputy director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit …

The next time we meet it will be autumn. Who submitted the requistion for that? Thanks. A lot. At least we get one more Saturday in. We’ve had a good run of weather to see us out, picking a couple of pounds of tomatoes a day. I’ll need a new hobby once the garden slows down. Maybe I could join a men’s pie making groups or something. The American Association …

Our review of Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime Travel, by Sara Caputo, first published in August 2024. Tracing a history of ships track on maps from their inception about five hundred years ago to modern times, Tracks on the Ocean, untangles what else they can tell us beyond how to get from A to B.I‘m only a minor map buff, and I don‘t know …