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good indoor light

We have a natural affinity for it.

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Over the course of our reporting, we came to think about this light — distinct from the blaze of a fluorescent light bulb — as the warm glow in a Vermeer painting. Dan Kaplan, a New York architect, put this idea in our heads.

When thinking about what an apartment wants that a modern office building often lacks, he wrote in an email:

“The ideal interior condition that you are getting at is perhaps best represented by those beautiful Vermeer paintings (‘The Music Lesson,’ ‘The Milkmaid,’ ‘The Geographer,’ etc.): tall windows (open!), letting soft light fall deeply into tall-ceilinged but relatively shallow rooms.”

Truly the man loved his window light:

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one can surmise they didn't pay enough protection money

A wax museum's figures of Kate and Prince William.

a tip of the hat to Sarah

 

 

 

the animator

Perhaps the last of a breed.  

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Mattinson had wanted to be an animator ever since his mother had taken him to see “Pinocchio” at a theatre, in San Francisco, when he was six years old. He soon developed a knack for art. “He would draw endlessly,” his son, Brett Mattinson, told me recently. “If he drew a bee, he would draw every single hair on that bee.” Burny’s father was a professional musician, and the family had moved to Los Angeles; auspiciously, they lived within striking distance of Disney Studios. In a bold move that can, perhaps, be attributed to the guilelessness of youth, Mattinson showed up at the studio gate with his portfolio as soon as he finished high school, in 1953. The magical part of this story is that, instead of shooing him away, the security guard liked his drawings and called the head of personnel to take a look. Thus, Mattinson became a messenger at Disney, beginning a career that would eventually make him the longest-tenured employee of the company (just shy of seventy years) and one of the last still at the company to have started there when Walt Disney himself was running it. As it happens, one of Mattinson’s tasks as a messenger was to go to Walt’s office every Friday and pick up a check, cash it at the studio cashier, and bring the money (three hundred dollars) back to Walt. (It was Walt’s weekend spending money.)

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a different reality show

Trying to recreate some of Vermeer's lost works - as reality TV.

 

other popes

And a tip of the hat to Jim

Presidents as pope

British PMs as pope .. but scroll down for something even better.

 

 

images from the sea

On the art of photographs of a downed Chinese balloon and other images of the sea.

 

personality capturing portrait set using stable diffusion

 

 

handy ai

Finding ways nature hadn't intended.

 

the symbol of a new agency

 

the eagle is in Dirac notation

sandy hook

The memorial.

Guns are a national sickness in the US.