Ruining our schools, failing our children
In the Studio, by Marie Bashkirtseff , 1881 Thomas Sudhof, who shares this year’s Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology, told The Lancet in August 2010 that he owes his powers of analysis and concentration to studying a musical instrument. “Who was your most influential teacher, and why?” he was asked. “My bassoon teacher, Herbert Tauscher, who taught …
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Such fine paintings
Mist, by Daud Akhriev I needed to see some inspiring landscape today, since I’m busy hemming dresses and baking cookies for my kid’s wedding. Providentially, I received a link to this slideshow of Frenchboro Island (ME) paintings by Daud Akhriev. Clarity, by Daud Akhriev The Maine coast was not (believe it or not) designed primarily for …
Self-Driving Cars and other good design
a guest post by Sandy Quang 1968 Jean-Pierre-Ponthieu concept-car of the future. Some ideas just never get the respect they deserve. Inspired by a short conversation about self-driving cars this weekend, I decided they would be a wonderful thing to investigate. Imagine what a car that didn’t have to dedicate a quarter of its internal …
Falling apart
American Landscape with Indian Camp, by Ralph Blakelock, showing the damage that can result from tinkering with technique. Yesterday I mentioned the deterioration in Albert Pinkham Ryder’s paintings. He was not, by any means, the only painter whose work has suffered over time. Prior to the 19th century, painters had a limited range of materials …
Nobody owns technique
This recipe doesn’t spell anything out for you; it presumes you understand how to bake. (BTW, confectioners sugar no longer weighs out at 2.5 cups to the pound. I’d guess it’s milled differently today.) In 1954 a woman named Doris passed this cookie recipe along to my mother. Its telegraphic style always makes me smile. …