Links
- 10 Mar 2023
- 30 Apr 2024
Hasui Kawase creating a woodblock print (English narration)
Sprachlogik a philosophy blog with a focus on logic and languag
Philosophy, Medieval Logic and the London Plumbing Crisis : Beyond Necessity
Aother urban sketcher using a Zebra nib Matt Gibbons (@mattgibbonsstudio) • Instagram photos and videos
Original Art & Best Tools for Sketching with Dong Ho Kim
Easy JAPANESE CURRY RICE » Made with Golden Curry
Don Low | Illustration | Design | Comics | Paintings | Sketches
Reinventing Japan (entire)
The Naming of Cats and an Offering
Top 50 Text-to-Image Prompts for AI Art Generators Midjourney and DALL-E
Tom Brown’s Schooldays BBC 1971
China: The Roots of Madness (1967)
WW2 Training Film for US Troops Occupying Germany Your Job in Germany | 1945
45,500-Year-Old Sulawesi Warty Pig Painting Found in Indonesian Cave | Archaeology | Sci-News.com
pbaylies/stylegan-encoder: StyleGAN Encoder - converts real images to latent space
Lycurgus Cup - Wikipedia
The Forme of Cury an extensive 14th-century collection of medieval English recipes
Prevalence-induced concept change in human judgment - when the “signal” a person is searching for becomes rare, the person naturally responds by broadening his or her definition of the signal
An encyclopedia of European things
Haecceity or ’thisness'
The Bibites by The Bibites An attempt at creating real digital life
The film, ‘Danton’ one of those I caught by chance on TV and couldn’t stop watching. Depardieu as Danton
Charles, not Ada A well-intentioned untruth but an untruth nonetheless. May write about this
The supposed destruction of classical temples and documents by Christians is a simplistic myth
Diegetic music or source music is music in a drama (e.g.film or video game) that is part of the fictional setting and so, presumably, is heard by the characters
Japanese Sentence Structure The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide
Gayageum Byeongchang Namdo Minyo Interesting traditional Korean music
Off to see ‘Akhnaten’ soon, Glass’s opera about the most intriguing pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. This is the Window of Appearances
Strawson on Dennett The champion of panpsychism takes on the Sage of Tufts
Fermi problems - how to make good approximate calculations with little or no actual data
Demosthenes, Philippics and other stuff
The Baku, devourer of nightmares Japanese supernatural beings that are said to devour nightmares. According to legend, they were created by the spare pieces that were left over when the gods finished creating all other animals.
The Chapman Stick is an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s. A member of the guitar family, the Chapman Stick usually has ten or twelve individually tuned strings and is used to play bass lines, melody lines, chords, or textures
Why Kyoto Prohibits Bright Colours - trying to keep a lid on the Tokyoisation of the ancient capital.
Munsell Colour System - reducing the chroma for those Kyoto colours
‘Je Vous Salue, Marie’ is a hymn written by Brother Jean-Baptiste, a catholic monk and priest. It was famously sung by the gathering crowds watching Notre Dame burn (YouTube)
Neil Sinhababu’s Possible Girls paper on modal realism. The funniest philosophy paper I’ve read but I stll don’t know if he’s serious.
Japan to revert to traditional name order - news report from 2019. Japan trying to move back to surname then firstname order
In Praise of Shadows by Tanizaki Junichiro (or Junichiro Tanizaki). Tanizaki’s thoughts on shadow and darkeness in Japanese aesthetics
The Fox Wedding (Kitsune no Yomeiri) and the fox window (Kitsune No Mado). Japan has a rich tradition of folklore concerning ghosts, spirits, demons, etc, — perhaps because of its mix of Shinto and Buddhism.
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