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by tinkertrain 20d ago
The article has a similar one (horse instead of elephant https://aphantasia.com/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.a... )
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by tinkertrain 3mo ago
I live in Bologna and went to Puglia at the end of last year for the first time, loved it!, here are some highlights off the top of my head: - We stayed a few nights in an _Agroturismo_ near Cisternino that makes olive oil, our room was ac
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by tinkertrain 5mo ago
If you want to know a little bit more about Guernica but only have about 15 minutes, I recommend this video by James Payne on his "Great Art Explained" channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJLH7JAsBHA I recomm
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by tinkertrain 5mo ago
There is an "Artwork Details" feature and in it a section "Paint residues from the act of vandalism", they are remnants of the act. I quote: > The varnish applied in 1962 served as a layer to protect the polychrome an
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by tinkertrain 1y ago
For anyone interested in pigments/colors, the National Gallery recently started a podcast on the subject in YouTube, I enjoyed the Prussian Blue history episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK1GSvP6VYs&t=1992s
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by tinkertrain 2y ago
I recently read The Poppy Wars trilogy by Rebecca F. Kuang, it's more fantasy and mythology than sci-fi, but it's very entertaining and I found the mythology and history (which I believe is based in China, though in the novel no r
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by tinkertrain 2y ago
Barcelona is great! Lived there for 4.5 years, beautiful city, amazing food and wine, not as much culture as say Madrid, but you can get there in 2 hours by high speed train for cheap! Also, great public transport, biking infrastructure, _v
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HSL: An Intuitive Way to Represent Color in CSS(helpscout.com)
19 points by tinkertrain 2y ago|10 comments
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by tinkertrain 2y ago
No we don't