http://www.diasparwasnotalwaysthus.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:19:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I found a great book called Landscape into Art, by Kenneth Clark at the library. In the chapter called "Landscape of Fantasy", Clark explains that fifteenth century artists, such as Grunewald, Altdorfer, and Bosch, began to explore the "mysterious and the unsubdued" and that they used the landscape to "excite ... http://www.diasparwasnotalwaysthus.com/?p=261 I just uncovered two quotations and a sketch I had made from last spring, from John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. I had intended to make an illustration that could be presented next to one of the quotes - which never happened - but the quotes are thought-provoking and worth reading. ... http://www.diasparwasnotalwaysthus.com/?p=258 "But we should never forget that what we call complicated or even wonderful is not at all wonderful for Nature, but quite ordinary. We always tend to project into other things our own difficulties of understanding and to call them complicated, when in reality they are very simple and know ... http://www.diasparwasnotalwaysthus.com/?p=234 The following tip works in Photoshop CS3 & CS4. If you have ever merged multiple layers (Layer > Merge Layers) that have different blend modes you may have noticed that the blend mode effects are not maintained and the merged version looks different than the un-merged version. Try this method instead: Make sure ... http://www.diasparwasnotalwaysthus.com/?p=251 "But we should never forget that what we call complicated or even wonderful is not at all wonderful for Nature, but quite ordinary. We always tend to project into things our own difficulties of understanding and to call them complicated, when in reality they are very simple and know nothing ... http://www.diasparwasnotalwaysthus.com/?p=248 “Always this same morbid interest in other people and their doings, their privacies, their dirty linen. Always this air of alertness for personal happenings, personalities, personalities, personalities. Always this subtle criticism and appraisel of other people, this analysis of other people’s motives. If anatomy presupposes a corpse, then psychology ... http://www.diasparwasnotalwaysthus.com/?p=236 “Our attitude must be like that of the mountain pine... It does not get annoyed when its growth is obstructed by a stone, nor does it make plans about how to overcome the obstacles. It merely tries to feel whether it should grow more toward the left or the right, ... http://www.diasparwasnotalwaysthus.com/?p=231 I found this TED Talks video via the Free Technology for Teachers website. http://www.diasparwasnotalwaysthus.com/?p=229 “Anyone who cannot set himself down on the crest of the moment, forgetting everything from the past, who is not capable of standing on a single point, like a goddess of victory, without dizziness and fear, will never know what happiness is. Even worse, he will never ... http://www.diasparwasnotalwaysthus.com/?p=226 I am leaving for the mountains of northern Virginia today, to vacation with my parents. I always start to read poetry before a trip. There is something incredible about leaving all of the day-to-day business of my life. Hopefully I will return with some residual incredible feelings. http://www.diasparwasnotalwaysthus.com/?p=223