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Like La La Land?
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Notes: I use 'it's' to often...and it was in a dream that I began to say, 'It's like...' and the girl sitting in another niche beside mine on like the side of a giant seashell filled in my thought while we looked out over the scene...which I've tried to capture with today's cosmic seashell!...scene was bright, lots of white with bold colors...painting is not nearly so bright white as it is on the screen...a mix of the photo's lighting/resolution and the color the screens do...the screens have about them the old color slides, which was always the best color, as it was light shining through the colors...movies too always had the benefit of color film...light shining through...light reflecting off a painting, or anything, isn't as vibrant...La La Land...oh...a movieLaLaLand2016...and with bold colors no less!...sometime to see...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7RmBgq4tT4
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go figure...wiki has it that Moorish/Islamic art borrowed from everywhere...and, that's hard to explain...one thing is that Moorish art doesn't depict people...nothing like Michelangelo...it does have geometries...like the artists, deprived of doing people, went wild doing geometries...artists are kind of like bonsai trees...restrain them with wires and they get all expressive...and I went on that Egyptian obelisks are like rocket ships...minarets are really like rocket ships!...did the Moors lift minarets from obelisks?...did they lift the banding of their key hole arches from the banding motif in ancient Egypt!?...and they had checkerboards, I think...oh...game on...on the radio...Angels and Athletics in Oakland...top of 1st...Simmons leading off...Calhoun with a day off...
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https://hiveminer.com/Tags/constantine%2Chippodrome
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hmmph...looks like a missile defense system!...Trout up...ground out...two out...Upton up...123...to bottom of 1st...
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The Serpentine Column has one of the longest literary histories of any object surviving from Greek and Roman antiquity – its provenance is not in doubt and it is almost 2,500 years old.
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The Greek victories at Plataea and contemporaneous naval battle at Mycale had the result that never again would the Persian Empire launch an attack on mainland Greece. Afterwards, Persia pursued its policies by diplomacy, bribery and cajolement, playing one city state against another. But, by these victories, and through the Delian League, Athens was able to consolidate its power in the flowering of Athenian democracy in 5th century Athens, under the leadership of Pericles, son of Xanthippus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent_Column
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some things that don't look like much, have import...the column a revisit...Ohtani first pitch broken bat ground out to the pitcher...'let's get crack'n'...A's made out...top 2nd...another ground out...two gone...another ground out...to bottom of 2nd...first pitch fly out...9 pitch bottom of 1st...five pitch bottom top of 2nd...or some such...K...Pena on mound for Angels...K...9 pitches again!...to top of 3rd...Angels make out...to bottom of 3rd...one out...fly out...two pitches two outs!...ground out...7 pitches...to top of 4th...good thing I didn't have anything in mind for the post!...game moving so fast...this like one hundred fifteenth in a series...see previous...Trout up...second pitch ground out...Upton grounds out...Ohtani up...1-0...ground out...to bottom of 4th...enough of that!...now there will be a ton of walks!...lead off base hit first pitch...base hit up the middle...two on...
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The checkerboard wrasse has a white to greenish background coloration with blue to black on the edge of its scales, reminiscent of a checkerboard pattern.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkerboard_wrasse#/media/File:Halichoeres_hortulanus_1.JPG
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and, a two rbi double...A's 2-0...and a hit and W...bases loaded...and a double...A's 4-0...eesh...Nature prefers geometries too...maybe that is where the Moors were thinking...though I don't think there is any animal art either...all this about just geometries goes to the wayside with the Mughal miniatures...more hits more runs...seven straight runners no one out...A's 5-0...
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This art of painting developed as a blending of Persian and Indian ideas. There was already a Muslim tradition of miniature painting under the Turko-Afghan Sultanate of Delhi which the Mughals overthrew, and like the Mughals, and the very earliest of Central Asian invaders into the subcontinent, patronized foreign culture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mughal_painting
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sac fly...A's 6-0...two out...ground out...to top of 5th...Oakland's payback for last night...Marte lead off single...Ward up...Pena had 36 pitches in the bottom of 4th!...four times more than first three!...Blash up...
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The painting technique used was simple, consisting of opaque watercolor on paper. The artist began by laying out the composition with charcoal or thin black ink applied with either a brush or pen. The paper may have been burnished beforehand. A thin ground—a layer of opaque watercolor—was brushed over the under-drawing. This layer—which might be white or tinted yellow or blue—covered the paper, but was translucent enough to reveal the under-drawing beneath. Different colored grounds could be used to define major areas of the composition. Another under-drawing, generally red or black and done with brush in thin watercolor, was drawn on the ground.
At this stage, the painting was usually burnished by being placed face down on a smooth slab of stone. The back of the paper was rubbed with a smooth stone, inset into a wooden holder. Burnishing was repeated frequently during the painting process. The practice of burnishing gave a smooth surface to the painting. Near the end of the process, the painted side might be rubbed using a smaller burnisher to produce local glossy areas.
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Paintings were kept in the palace in a dry picture storeroom, piled on stone shelves. They were usually wrapped in cotton bandanas to protect them from insects, dampness, and light. Bundles were arranged by topic and size.
https://asiasociety.org/mughal-court-paintings
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good site!...I've done like one opaque watercolor...a bolt...the threaded kind with hexagon head...exercise in watercolor class...and I've wondered ever since how the paint would last on the paper...it looked to just be setting up too much...like the smallest bump would knock it off...Mughals looked to have dealt with that by burnishing...I have a big opaque watercolor painting of Two Top Pine Meadow--11x14...looking across to the Cathedrals...not mine...was made by one of the artists who did NASA illustrations early on showing possibilities...got it from ebay when ebay was just starting up...don't know its value...a treasure...and a marvel of opaque watercolor skill...I should get it reframed...mat board turning color...not acid free...home run for A's...A's 9-0...hmmph...fellas, you're on your own tonight!...roll out for a snack...listen to the gloom on the radio...this game is in the A's creel...wait...listen to Trout's at bat...K looking...123...to bottom of 6th...
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