Treaure:pic::notes:::4/19/2022

Treasure

Beach Cottage-Donna Elias

Notes: Game on...on the radio...Angels at Astros...pic from UK ebay...print I got from GoodwillSA has white frame and mat well done, and, oh,when I get the camera charged up I'll post pic...Astros being difficult...hit a homerun, now have a baserunner...Angels trying to close this game out...bottom of seventh....Angels 7-2...Donna Elias is on the web, noted for a Lighthouse collection!...$3.99 at Goodwill...to top of eighth...cool...back of frame has pocket with flyer-artist's bio...she's done a lot lighthouses!...Ohtani up...grounded out...to bottom of eighth...Angels lost against the Astros yesterday, Astros 8-3...turn that aound tonight, hopefully...to top of ninth...Angels come away with the victory!...put a halo over this one... 
 

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DavidDavid

OTI:pic::notes:::4/17/2022

Open To Interpretation

Labyrinth Mesoamerica

Labyrinths do, of course, occur in nature and must surely have inspired humans to create labyrinthine symbols. The Greek word for the Nautilus shell, for example, is laburinthoi.

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And finally, we find the labyrinth-like meander design featured in Mesoamerican art and architecture. For example, the xicalcoliuhqui, known as a “step” or “stepped” fret—greca in Spanish—is a common motif in Mesoamerican art (pic 5). It consists of three or more steps connected to a hook or spiral. The motif appears on temples and other sacred buildings such as the Pyramid of the Niches at the Veracruz site of El Tajin.

https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/you-contribute/the-curious-history-of-mazes

Notes: game was on...on the radio...Angels at Rangers...Angels 8-3...put a halo over this one!...how are the Dodgers doing?...brbk...Dodgers 9, Reds 1...both Giants and Dodgers at 7 and 2...another year like last year!...Giants and Dodgers head to head!...Angels at 6-4, first place in American League West...Astros 5-4...can breath now...sore afraid they would be like 0-9 after Astros spanked them...good sign is they are winning with everyone contributing...but then, they were playing the Mariners and Texas...the Labyrinth is yet another motif from ancient times inexplicably found all around the world...Mexiclore relates it to the step fret...maybe so...

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DavidDavid

OTI:pic::notes:::4/16/2022

Open To Interpretation

The Myth

Potemkin Village

Youtube comments

https://luwianstudies.org/the-etruscan-culture/513-tragliatella-wine-jug/

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The whole myth is plainly presented on an Etruscan wine jar from Tragiatella , dated from the seventh century BC.

The White Goddess, Robert Graves p320 1948

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Is Google a Potemkin village? Why are YouTube comments so terrible? Why is Reddit a hivemind? The Dead Internet Theory.

Try to do this experiment yourself:

I typed "pizza" into Google. 916 million results. That's a lot of results, but the internet is big, so it could be true, right?

So I started clicking on "next page". There's 10 links per page, so with 916 million results, there should be 9.2 million pages to click through.

However, someting weird happened. When I reached page 22, that was the end. After 215 links, I reached the end of Google. And at the top, the text changed. It no longer said it has almost a billion results, it just said "215 results".

On the last page, I was getting random news articles that only used the word "pizza" once, or links to sites of random Romanian pizzerias. Does Google, which is so often praised because of its fantastic algorithm, really only have 200 results more relevant to me than a random Romanian pizzeria? (I don't live in Romania or anywhere near it.)

I did some more experiments with different search terms, and I never managed to get past 300.

Why is this? What happened to the other billion or so results, and what are the implications of this?

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/tp6dgc/is_google_a_potemkin_village_why_are_youtube/

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Notes: game on...on the radio...top of seventh...Ohtani up...Angels at Rangers...1-2...base hit...walks load the bases, and sac grounder scores Ohtani...to the bottom of seventh...Angels 4-2...OH!...Ohtani waps a home run, top of eighth!...Angels 6-2...Trout up...It's true...google searches dwindle...OH!...Ward hits a home run!...I did posts about this, see the Battle Agate posts...too I think I did one on the "hostage statements"...such in my saved youtube comment posts...I post  to the comments in spite of knowing they're troll phoney...one snacks on cheetos or popcorn, and shouts out from the peanut gallery...youtube comments early on were awful...the worse things one would hear from fans at a sporting event...moderation set in, until now Elon Musk is trying to purchase Twitter for billions of dollars, and try to lessen its "moderation"!...isn't Musk the owner of Starlink?...OH!...he is he is!...go figure...anyway, I'm trying to put together a Black Deck story, Achilles Marries Medea...and, and did a search I often do, with books...I looked up Medea in the index of The White Goddess, and re-read what I've often re-read--a book full of curios!...Graves didn't footnote the book, or have a bibliography, but one can do the modern thing very easily--google search a curio...now, as superficial as google may seem, one can with a good search, turn up the wildest and most obscure things!...Graves seems to have anticipated this, as did Pausanias, Herodotus, the old Greeks...their memories were such, and I mean all of them, the audience, that mere mention of someone triggered an elaborate memory...the proof of this  are the vignettes on the vases and jars...they just needed a glimpse, and a whole story played out in their imaginations, in detail...the like has been lost...though fans at rock concerts seems to have some of the old skill, and baseball aficionados...I drift...Angels win!...Angels 7-2...put a halo over this one!...

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DavidDavid

Treasure:pic::notes:::4/15/2022

Treasure

Lobster Claw Salt Pepper Shakers

18in x 36in Winsor Newton Professional canvas

Notes: game on...on the radio...Angels at Rangers...bottom of third...Angels 2-0...Lobster Salt and Pepper shakers from Goodwill SA...two dollars...and two Winsor Newton canvases, new in wrapping...five dollars each...pic from etsy...Lobsters being one of my things, they caught my eye on the miscellaneous shelf...old price tag on them from store was five dollars, so, of the Lobster Claw Salt and Pepper shakers out there, these are the bargain ones!...canvas might be a steal...brb...dunno...on amazon for $37 dollars each...Dick Blick 18x24 $39.50 each...if one is to sell a painting, it oughta be on a good canvas...actually, a painting should always be on the best canvas with best paints one can afford...for water color, that's Winsor Newton brushes and paints, and ARCHES papers...I don't know what popular best is for for oil paints, and canvas for oils....Liquitex said to have best acrylic paints...when I was 'flush" I laid in a supply of ARCHES papers, Winsor Newton paints/brushes...been afraid to use them, so expensive they are!...for sometime, soon...Rangers 3-2...bottom of fourth...lettuce and tomatoes from the 99cent store next to Goodwill, five dollars...was lacking lettuce for BLT, and about making one now...I could live on BLTs...bbk...Angels 6-6...Angels 7-6...awhile back, I bought two Blick premier 22x24 canvases...brb...about same, $40 each...hmmph...afraid to paint on them too!...Maya, my dog, is getting soda cans from somewhere or someone...need to check this...she's chewing on another one now!...bbk...welp...I dont know where she's getting the cans from!...a concern the sharp edges...Ohtani up...Ohtani has two home runs!...ground out...to bottom of sixth...top of seventh...Walsh with a homerun!...Angels 9-6...on to the ninth, and that's the final score...Angels win...put a halo over this one!

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DavidDavid

Treasure:pics::notes:::4/14/2022

Treasure

Happy Easter!

Notes:  game on...on the radio...Angels at Rangers...Ohtani gave up grand slam in the second inning, and it's been down hill since!...Ranger 10-2...to top of sixth....I saw the Easter egg Snowglobe at Goodwill yesterday, but from that visit I came away with nothing...went back today after umpiring nearby, and it was still there...snagged it...it's really nice...pic from ebay...no manufacturing name on it...snagged too, Safari II by Lila Rose Kennedy...it's part of a pair...now watch, the second will show up in a week or so!...and in the Santa Ana Goodwill rather than Anaheim's, where I got it!...and it is really nice too!...pic again from ebay...paid $5.99 for the globe...$3.99 for the print...artist Kennedy has things on the web...bbk...Fulcrum Gallery has the second print...oh...game not over...out for a snack...bbk with report...

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DavidDavid

Treasure:pic::notes:::4/12/2022

Treasure

Birdhouse Print

Jan Jameson

Game on...on the radio...Marlins at Angels...bottom of ninth...tie score...Angels 3-3...small print of Birdhouse, w 3-d ceramic bird at corner of frame...the frame is like perfect...got it from Goodwill after my afternoon umpiring...my camera battery down, so grabbed pic from ebay...I got it for 2 dollars...Wade slid past the bag on steal...review in progress...last inning, Ohtani called out after a review on steal...safe!!!...artist Jan Jamison, 1991...passed ball...Wade on third!, one out...throw late to the plate on grounder to shortstop!...Stasi with the walk off rbi...Angels 4-3...put a halo over this one!...print is part of Heartprint Collection, Oregon (tag)...Jameson may be noted for coffee cups with prints-teddy bears, young girls, Xmas...can't find bio, or other prints in the collection...two dollars from goodwill...5-9 dollars on ebay...underpriced!...

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DavidDavid 

Game on:notes::4/11/2022

Game On

Notes:  game on...on the radio...Marlins at Angels...Angels 4-1...Fletcher up...while painting paint dripped on the floor, which is oak varnished...acrylic paint wipes up with water and one of those green scrub pads...busy while game on getting most of it up...for sometime, refinsh the wooden floors...come to regard the chores around the old house like Sheherazade's tales...so long as there is one chore to do, there will be more to do, and me in the house to do them!...lol...K...to top of fifth...and a rollout for a snack...bbk with report...bk...oh, Angels win, 6-2...put a halo over this one...got the couch and chairs back in place, tomorrowmorrow put the pics on the walls...

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DavidDavid

OTI:pic,notes::4/10/2022

Open To Interpretation

Quincunx

Together, the jars form a five-lobed shape known as a quincunx, a symbol of great cosmological importance for Mesoamerican religions.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/318444

https://www.jstor.org/stable/30027958

Notes: game on..on the radio...Astros at Angels...Astros 2-1...Angels up, bottom of sixth...Trout on second, two out...the four bases, with the pitcher's mound, make a quincunx...the five on a dice side, five of a playing card, so, soh, it is a utilitarian sort of word...and, and it's a motif...gathered it in over the winter, and thought to do post, first post of the step fret dig season!...as it happens, that pot I came home with yesterday from a garage sale has the motif...four petaled flowers a fit, and four leaf clovers...word new to me, but literary sorts have made much of it-see wiki...seventh inning break...God Bless America on  Sundays, along with the usual Take Me Out To The Ball Game...maybe it's that way every game...just now, it's taken me like the whole game to remember the word, lost in my notes...thought it was cinquin, or some such...then remembered the five aspect, quinto, and typing in quin in the google search took me back to the article I'd read....search: quincunx mesoamerica...

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The scribe: writings, ink [are] his special skills. [He is] a craftsman, an artist...a painter who dissolves colors, grinds pigments, uses colors. The good scribe is honest, circumspect, far-sighted, pensive; a judge of colors, an applier of the colors...creates works of art. The bad scribe [is] dull, detestable, irritating—a fraud, a cheat. He paints without luster, ruins colors, blurs them, paints askew—acts impetuously, hastily, without reflection (Sahagún 1974-82: 1: 54, emphasis mine).

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to give one pause, that!...somewhere I have an Egyptian's scribe describing his craft...same sentiments...to top of eighth, Astros 2-1...Astros 3-1, no outs...wheels coming of for Angels...anyway, for the archaeologoists, the motif has a catalog number T585, I gather...maybe that's a glyph number...someday, I'll find this numbered catalog, along with others, like the one for tocapus...haven't searched up tocapus for awhile!...more tomorrowmorrow...time for a nap...bbk with report...

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DavidDavid

Treasure:pics::notes:::4/9/21

Simplify

Notes:  game on...on the radio...Astros at Angels...Doom on the mound for the Astros...top of second...no score...Maya, my dog, being bedeviled by fleas...their season has begun with the hot days...I have an expensive flea collar, just need to put it on...no easy task!...two out single for Astros, broken bat...pics up from garage sailing, and visit to the Goodwills...chatting to myself thereandthenabout  about how to present the rollabout as a post!...Syndergaard on mound for Angels...W....two on....made out...Walsh waps a homerun off Verlander...Angels 1-0...outandabout now to Balboa for a hotdog...I haven't been to the ocean for weeks...and I like the drive listening to the game...bbk with report, and the musing about today's treasure haul- the things on the picnic bench and chair...need to shop for a better chest protector too...softball that thumped me yesterday I think cracked a rib!...still hurts when I move a certain way...but not so bad as last night...couldn't sleep...bk...top of ninth...one out...Angels 2-0...reliever Iglesias on the mound...Angels now have their own version of Doom...Syndergarrd out dueled Verlander!...two out...K!!!...Angels win...put a halo over this one!...the paintings of the kids painting; I noted the frames at a garage sale, like one of the first I went to...back at home, I noticed the paintings in the frames, found the artist on the web...and, and it was much to think on!...reminded me of famous artist Mary Cassatt...I thought then to do up a post...these middle tier artists deserving of attention, but I feel a bit undeserving to write about them...the thing to note, is that each of these things I get thrifting, were once on store/gallery shelves, and sold...these kid paintings are prints, and framed as they are sell for, I dunno, a hundred dollars new...I'm not a reseller...and I look kind of pathetic browsing at garage sales...I paid just five dollars each for the kid paintings, a gift...paintings of plein air artists painting is a motif...the kids painting gives a different charm...the hippo cookie jar from today, I got for free...estate sale wrapping up, "everything free"...it had been priced for ten dollars...the jar, five dollars("from Pier One"), the birdhouse, five dollars, the antique store front/clock, five dollars, the unicorn nutcracker, three dollars, three dolphins in a seashell, three dollars (I really like these resin things!), wild flower angel photo frame, two dollars, white frames, four dollars each (white frames said to be best for impressionist paintings), purple hair kids, 3 dollars, two dogs, five dollars, fish, four dollars, second pencil drawing (see yesterday post), four dollars, cup, four dollars, house behind trees, 5 dollars, moose, 5 dollars, simplify, three dollars...two of the artists I looked up when I came home...the photo of reddish house behind trees is by Mike Kelly of Laguna Beach, I believe...web says he uses color slide film exclusively, which may explain why the photo isn't razor sharp in focus...Moose Canyon by Jeannette Seacheck...a few things on web, but not this one...Simplify, stitched on fabric is Henry David Thoreau's shout out...spent the afternoon reminiscing about Thoreau...wrote a poem, we have stuff in common...poem too personal a reveal to post!...too bad, it's funny...like I said, I have a fondness I've found, for resin things...and I've found some others!...music box snow globes, lighthouses, primitive/folk wooden things...Goodwill had out two big bins of toy characters, five for a dollar...the picker vloggers on youtube snap these up, collectables as they are...too much...my choice of subjects to paint and draw, well, it's not cutsey stuff, but the frames I get because of the pictures in them is all over the map...they've widened my appreciation of art, like today, the unicorn nutcracker...kindofa My Pony style kid thing, but really well made, and attractive....it has 2021 date on pedestal, and, brb...on ebay for thirty dollars, new...the find of the day might be the two dogs...artist's name Lawrence Reiter...brb...he's on the web, but I can't find this two dogs...it's like pencil,ink, and something red, watercolor tint?...it's nice, and on back an old exhibit ticket, so it might be an original, not a print or giclee...I need to look at these with a microscope to note if they are original or print giclee!...plexiglass cover like exhibits want...it had a price on the ticket, but sharpie blacked out...maybe omitted back then that way...the cup is by Erin Dertnrer...brb...cup like this on ebay, 12-20 dollars...she's on web,lots- Fort Bragg...the purple hair kids, Anne Geddes...brb...on ebay, 12 dollars...she has lots of these little kid pics...the white frames have paper cut cosmetic things, perfume bottles, lipstick, eye lash tool...each mounted to the back of the glass...but no artist name...the wild flower angel by Kathy Killip...brb...on ebay 10-20 dollars...artist on web lots...the second pencil drawing is signed F. (Fred)Aldrian, can't find, yet...at a sale, I got a table saw...take some repairing to get it up and running...have always thought to make my own frames, and it's gotten to 'I hate the thought of re purposing these ones I find'...for someone, for who knows how long, they were someone's treasure!...re: the hippo:

"It's doesn't have any cookies in it..."

"Not yet."

the bird house is a model I can use to make birdhouses...the primitive/folk wood things too...the jar for the spider plants...the kids painting are by Corrine Hartley...on web lots, and originals in local gallery...for sometime... 

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DavidDavid

Treasure:pic::notes:::4/8/2022

 Lobsters For Sale

In the tweet, Musk said “As a general principle, for those looking for advice from this thread, it is generally better to own physical things like a home or stock in companies you think make good products, than dollars when inflation is high.

Elon Musk

Notes: Game on, on the radio...Astros at Angels...Altuve up...home run...lol...3-1 fastball...ok, after my softball game, I stopped at Goodwill, shopped the picture section, and found this pencil drawing in a nice frame...it has unusual inset inset back....anyway, now I'll look up the artist...Fred Aldrian Aug 2007...brb...Astros made out....bottom of 1st...Ohtani up...Astros 1-0...welp, I can't find the artist...so no tale to tell...and, I'm tired...bbk with game report...3-2...base hit!!!...bk...Astros up 6-2...sixth inning?...long game...both the Incas and the Egyptians didn't have coins/money...Astros 7-2...and I thought that some kindof, I dunno, noble...but on second thought, they both had treasure...Astros accumulating treasure!...Astros 8-2...there was another pencil drawing by the same artist in the Goodwill "gallery"...frame not good...mat blemished...Astros 9-2...the "gallery" is shelving along one wall...added to each day...subtracted from by customers each day....and as galleries go, it's kinda neat...famous artists to grammar school kids efforts framed by doting parents...there's two nearby Goodwills...some things are displayed nice, others put willy nilly on shelves...there is some kind of curation going on...and small frames are usually under five dollars, big ones 10-15....some I have are very expensive custom things gotten for this bargain...and, and I haven't found a signed original painting by someone famous...those are found long before they get to the store show...but that makes for something interesting....the works that are in the store, mostly prints/giclees, are by what I called 'middle tier' artists....professionals successful at selling copies of their originals for like twenty to eighty dollars...their originals sell in the thousands...almost any original work has good value, even if not gallery fare...try to find an example of this tomorrowmorrow...free tomorrow to garage sale!...most Saturdays I have games to ump...Angels are getting clobbered...a frustrating thing is Goodwill will display something that is part of something, a pair or some such...one day one thing, then, like two weeks later, the other thing!...got a couch and chair, cool leather, and then a month later the matching lazy boy showed up!...more of Aldrian's drawing might show up...fond of this one because of my thing for lobsters!...Ohtani up, bottom of seventh..."middle tier" efforts are fine things/treasure, like high school sports!!!Astros 12-2 top of eighth...eesh...bbk... 

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DavidDavid

Game On:OTI::Laboski:::pics::::notes:::::4/7/2022

 OTI

Poem: Step Fret

Lewbowski: Bridges' Sweater

4,000 year old pants

Step Fret

Our Heartbeats!

Your Greek key.

My embroidery is unraveling-

Dr. Zhivago stumbling from the trolley.

DolphinWords

https://www.thegreenhead.com/2012/12/dudes-sweater-from-big-lebowski.php 

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/first-pants-worn-horse-riders-3000-years-ago

Notes: pre game on...Astros at Angels...Opening day...Ohtani on the mound...umped a softball game this afternoon, shortened because of heat!!!...I haven't seen the movie The Great Lewbowski...just youtube clips...in one, Bridges was giving a speech for his co-star's Star on the walk of fame in Hollywood...and, wait! I thought...that famous sweater he put on with much ceremony, and, and it is decorated with step fret and chicana motifs!...popular as the sweater is, it's available through Pendleton for like $250 dollars...my google algo food bowl fed me the tale of the pre-historic pants...step frets!...Mitla step frets even!...hmmph...oh, roll out for pizza...maybe game on their tv...bbk with report!!!...bk...heck...Ohtani hits one to the warning track, but caught...out three in the bottom of the eighth, stranding a runner on third, Fletcher...Fletcher with the one Angels rbi...Astros 3-1...finished painting moldings and doors in the living room...tomorrow, tomorrow I can arrange the furniture I've aquired piece by piece from garage sales and Goodwill, paintings too!...the paintings are a story...I wanted to get frames for all the inktobers and stradaeasels...like there must be near two hundred of them now, most all very small...I had framed one of the cosmic seashells, and it's as it's said...frames can make a painting!...anyway, I had beginners luck garage sailing, came home with some really nice frames....and, and then I got to studying the paintings, usually prints, in them, learning about the artists....most of them I find are like middle tier artist, or some such...,and finding such has become a new hobby!....I've thought to post them, add a talkabout, each time I get some...it's a routine now to stop at Goodwill!...forgot this afternoon coming back from the softball game...so, soh, maybe I'll do that...tomorrowmorrow...to the bottom of the ninth, Angels last at bat...it's been a really good game...forgot how tough it is to win a mlb game...Trout bloops a single...Rendon up...long fly out...Wade up...close play at first...under review...oh, it's a double play...yep...Astros 3-1... 

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DavidDavid