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Some snippets
and sites . . .
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Bored Panda:
40 Times People
Found Something Weird In The Woods And Just Had To Share
Photographs of
things found in the woods, well worth a look . . .
The collars of dogs
that have gone to the big kennel in the sky.
Someone has
turned the rocks into a dinosaur head.
Delightful
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Amusing Planet:
Hermits as
Garden Ornaments
Between the 17th
and the 19th centuries, a certain reproachful and voyeuristic trend emerged
among wealthy British landowners. Not content with inanimate garden ornaments
such as gnomes and bird baths, these people hired real, living and breathing
persons, to live as hermits in make-believe hermitages erected on the lavish
grounds of their estates. Most of them were required to make scheduled
appearances on the grounds in appropriate clothing whenever the employer was
entertaining guests. They were known as “garden hermits” or “ornamental
hermits”.
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Colossal
The Tessellated
and Elaborately Detailed Ceilings of Iranian Mosques
Capturing the
intricately tiled ceilings of centuries old mosques, Instagram photographer
Mehrdad Rasoulifar gives his followers both a history lesson and aesthetic
treat. The ceilings are not only covered in rich patterns, but architecturally
structured to appear like complex tessellations or honeycombs. The mosques are
built to include spiraling series of domes and indents, causing the viewer to
get lost in their disorienting beauty.
Smithsonian.com
People Are
Surprisingly Honest About Returning Lost Wallets
If you were to
lose your wallet in public, you might expect to never see it again,
particularly if it contained a wad of cash. But this may be an ungenerous
assumption about human nature, according to an expansive new study that found
people are more likely to try and return lost wallets with money than those
without. In fact, the more money a wallet held, the more likely the subjects
were to seek out its owner, according to a new study published in the journal
Science.
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BTW #1
Smithsonian.com
Unrestoration
Remember the
botched restoration jobs I wrote about not long ago? One of those restoration fails has been undone.
When a botched
restoration attempt of a 500-year-old sculpture of St. George in northern Spain
went viral last summer, commentators couldn't resist weighing in: The
well-meaning paint job, many pointed out, made the wooden statue look more like
Tintin than a legendary dragon slayer.
Thanks to a
roughly $34,000 USD “unrestoration” project, the statue—housed at St. Michael’s
Church in the northern Spanish province of Navarra—has resumed a semblance of
its original, 16th-century appearance. As Palko Karasz reports for The New York
Times, experts from the local government’s culture department stripped the
sculpture of its showy paint layers, assessed damage inflicted by the use of
materials and processes “completely incompatible with the restoration of works
of art,” and largely restored the walnut wood saint to his pre-2018 state.
My own view is
that I liked the first version, before any restoration.
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BTW #2
Another fail
Shopkeeper,
María Luisa Menéndez, was given permission by her clergy in Rañadorio in
northwestern Spain to paint some 15th century wooden statues in her local
church. She told a newspaper “I painted
them the best I could, with the colors that seemed right, and the neighbors
like it.” The work on the statues of Rañadorio looks more like “a vengeance
than a restoration,” said Genaro Alonso, the regional minister for culture and
education in Asturias, according to the newspaper La Voz de Asturias. The Spanish art conservation association
known as ACRE tweeted, “Does nobody care about this continued plunder in our
country?”
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