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Research the still life and flower painting of the 17th century Dutch Golden Age.

Make notes on particular paintings you admire and find out about techniques.

Research at least one with iconographic significance and discuss the meanings ascribed to the objects.

Explore still life through the 18th to 20th centuries and discuss how the subject matter was dealt with; in particular the early Cubist approaches of Braque and Picasso.

Consider how contemporary artists are interpreting this genre.

Specifically, this task refers to 17th century masters from what’s known as the Golden Age. Running an initial search, my first thought was just how much related to food and possessions – displays of wealth that, in effect, were the instagram posts of their day; here we are, look at how laden our tables are and how glossy our burnished goblets. These carefully posed and positioned items are not for diners, but for observers, and they say that the owner of that produce is not only wealthy enough to have it all on a table at once, but also – as this must have taken some time and food items tend to go off – to sacrifice it in the interests of having it immortalised by a reputable painter.

The skill though, is indisputable. Hyper-realistic and glossy, the meat could be wax with a varnished shine to it, and the flowers silk sprayed with water in homage to dew. The ones that struck me in particular, and I deliberately avoided those depicting dead animals or meat, included Pieter Claesz, Simon Luttichuys, Maria van Oosterwijck, Clara Peeters, and Balthazar van der Ast, although my absolute favourite is Vermeer and so I would like to include him on this list just because his work is so quiet and domestic and so often includes still life as incidental but critical elements of his work.

From Vida Hull’s 2013 ETSU video lecture.

From Vida Hull’s 2013 ETSU video lecture.

Looking more closely at these works I quickly fell down the rabbit hole of iconography which I’d thought to address as a separate issue but which turns out to be unavoidable once you know it’s there. Dutch 17th century artists were embedded in a Calvinist christian religious ethic and so almost every element of a still life was drenched in symbolism. I had often wondered why so many of these paintings featured skulls and now that is so obvious it barely merits mention. What is less obvious is the subtle signs associated with slightly drooping flowers, timers with sand running through them, insects – short lived and ephemeral but with special dispensation for butterflies which represent the soul and continuity.

The prevailing ideas behind these symbols or icons come from the notion of vanitas, that core theme of religion that says nothing mortal is worth anything. According to Hull in her 2013 video lecture (see below) it comes from Ecclesiastes who proclaimed ‘Vanity of vanities, all is vanity’, a commentary on earthly preoccupations with the material which quite coincidentally makes me think the writers of at least one Carry On* film were smarter than I’d imagined.

Vanitas paintings seem to have been heavily loaded reminders to anyone in the know, which may have been most of their audience, that life is short, you can take nothing with you, not even your learning and certainly not your money, so you had better be sure you are in good grace with your maker.

Many of these were, to my mind, gross and overblown which I discovered has its own term – pronk – that mercifully, again to my mind, led to an anti-pronk movement favouring simplicity. I have to thank the Saylor Academy video (2011) used in the East Tennessee Art History programme for this.

I think I had understood iconography as a much more ostensibly religious and obvious set of images and features, but this is much more subtle. The videos above make this clear but for text, I found this 2016 glossary by Zeynap Rekkati in his blog Mearto, which deals with the valuing of art, to be an invaluable guide. As Rekkati says:

When these artworks were painted, their audience could understand what messages were conveyed at the first glance. However, for a modern audience, these still-life scenes can look like just random supermarket objects.

Or as I thought them to be, 17th century Facebook posts. Now it becomes possible to examine with more insightful purpose something like this by Balthasar van der Ast:

via Bridgeman Education, accessed 14th February 2020.

It is a still life, or nature morte – it is dead – which conveys instantly the message of mortality. There is fruit, which stands for the ‘general transience’ of life (and in case we miss this, there is some drooping foliage down towards the right), and flowers which also are ephemeral. One of these seems to be a rose which, according to Rekkati, symbolise the virgin Mary’s suffering via their thorns. The butterfly is there, perhaps representing the soul and immortality in the less materialistic spirit world, and insects which, being short-lived (and also maybe the agents of decomposition?) lay on with a trowel the message of impermanence. Rekkati doesn’t mention birds but the Rijks museum sees them thus:

Birds are often encountered in 17th-century Dutch genre scenes, in which they usually have a sexual connotation because the Dutch word ‘vogelen’ (birding) means to engage in sex.

which puts quite a different perspective on the otherwise innocuous picture. In the same vein, and it’s hard to make it out, there are shapes under the shelf which may be snails and which also carry sexual connotations, this time relating to the immaculate conception, reportedly because people were unable to figure out how snails mate.

This brings me a long way from seeing these paintings as somewhat overblown, even schmaltzy, pieces of self promotion. Rather than saying look how rich I am (although some probably are), they’re reminding everyone how materialistic they are and how this will not carry them through to their heavenly destination. Heavy duty art. There is hope though, and hope is a butterfly.

It’s difficult for me to pick one ‘I admire’ as per the task, because really I’m not fond of this style at all. The ones I find most striking though, and that I might replicate somewhere if possible, is the dramatic black (or very dark) backgrounds that sit behind many of the flower arrangements. It seems to me that drama of this kind takes immense skill otherwise black/very dark might simply deaden the whole image instead of popping it out. This one for instance by an unnamed artist of the Antwerp school c1650s (via Bridgeman education) to me exemplifies this technique and is as simple as the vanitas pieces are complex. The deep blue, repeated beneath for the shelf and given a lighter tone to distinguish it, throws the tonally consistent flowers forwards and makes them the only thing to look at in the frame. I found some contemporary photographic replications of this style in which the items shown and the colours used make the same dramatic statement. These will appear further along in this discussion.

Unnamed artist of the Antwerp School c1650s. Oil on copper. Via Bridgeman Education accessed 15th February 2020.

As to techniques, I was surprised to find that many painted on panels (and the piece above is on copper). This for instance, by Balthasar van der Ast who reportedly used this particular painting as a kind of all-in-one catalogue, showing what he could do and also the quality of paint, especially the blue and the reds, he could deliver:

  This unattributed but well-referenced piece titled The Highly Systematic Methodology of Dutch 17th century Painting Techniques discusses technique in seven categories:

canvas – the article talks about canvas becoming a more available support during the 16th century, and readily available by the 17th. This must have made the production of paintings both cheaper and less weighty to move around, although on recent visits to galleries I’ve noticed a resurgence in metallic supports, particularly aluminium.

ground – I like this quote as it resonates my reluctance to waste paint:

if one were working on canvas, they might use the mixture of pigments and oil created from cleaning their brushes to prepare their canvas.

The idea that some of these masters were reusing/recycling their resources appeals to me although I doubt this was an ecological choice.

underdrawing – this surprised me:

Occasionally the drawing was applied over the priming layer but more often than not it was beneath it, on top of the ground.  The design would be drawn, more or less precisely, in silverpoint, black chalk or ink.

I think I’m understanding the priming to be one layer of pigment from brush cleaning and ground to be another, with the underdrawing sometimes being beneath the latter. Complex underdrawings were sometimes achieved using a metal pin.

imprimatura – I haven’t found a definition of this term other than one relating to ownership/authorship or licensing, but here it seems to refer to yet another layer of medium, the function of which is to isolate the ground and add a colour priming wash to underpin the actual painting. Today’s techniques, particularly when using acrylics, are remarkably simple in comparison.

dead colouring – yet another wash layer:

Following the imprimatura, one would ‘lay an even, flat wash of colour for each individual object to be depicted.  Dood-verf or dead-colour formed the basis for depiction of forms which would be worked up in finer detail from this uniform tone.

I really can’t conceptualise this. Maybe it has to be seen in action.

binding medium, – this, often oil or egg tempurer which possibly artists made themselves was used to bind pigment together and improve adherence to the canvas. Again, how simple are our present day methods by comparison.

and

pigments – as we might expect, there were documents in which the best ways of using, or mixing, or applying pigment were described – the wikipedia of their day and probably much pored over by anyone wanting to get the best from their materials.

There are probably descriptions of individual techniques that I’m missing here; brush, pigment, support, ground preferences. Today we might be inclined to add music which, while not a medium having a direct impact on a visual product, certainly one that many people would choose to set a mood appropriate to the work, or just to screen out extraneous sounds that irritate and distract.

18th – 20th century still life

The obvious ones would be Cezanne, Van Gogh, Braque, and Picasso and for me the massive attention given to many of these pieces wears them a little thin – although I have to confess to having no real insight into Braque’s Cubist approach. I understand the theory behind it – the idea of bringing three dimensionality to painted images by incorporating several views in one place – but I find it hard to relate to. Cezanne’s work I find to be brighter than van Gogh’s, possibly because his strokes are more angular and defined. This article by Kelly Richmond-Abdou in My Modern Met (2018) juxtaposes examples of each, which is probably the first time I’ve had the opportunity to make that distinction.

Cezanne, Basket of Apples c 1893. Via Bridgeman Ed. accessed 16th Feb 2020.

van Gogh, Sunflowers, 1889. Via Bridgeman Ed. accessed 16th Feb 2020.

I came across Giorgio Morandi recently via the drawing module and found his simple, very quiet style much more interesting. He’s a proponent of tone rather than line, and of understatement and stillness, and I wondered whether this was a reaction to the turbulent times (two world wars) through which he had been living and working, an attempt to keep some thing, any thing, quiet and undisturbable. Although his earlier work seemed to me to be much darker and a little less contained, as in this piece for instance from 1936:

Still life, oil on canvas, 1936. Via Bridgeman Ed. accessed 16th Feb 2020.

Later paintings seem reflective of the ice cream colours that began to prevail post WWII and that I recall seeing in 1950s open air swimming pools and holiday seafronts.

Giorgio Morandi, 1953, oil on canvas. Via Bridgeman Ed. accessed 16th Feb 2020.

Giorgio Morandi, 1949, oil on canvas. Via Bridgeman Ed accessed 16th Feb 2020.

More recently, I found these by photographer Paulette Tavormina while searching for Dutch flower artists and my goodness, the vibrancy there is in these pictures. Tavormina is explicitly going for the Dutch Golden Age style in her photography. David Sim, in his article about her work, quotes her thus:

“I have long been drawn to the 17th century Old Master still life painters Giovanna Garzoni, Francesco de Zurbarán, and Adriaen Coorte. I am particularly fascinated by Zurbarán’s mysterious use of dramatic light, Garzoni’s masterful compositions and colour palette, and Coorte’s unique placement of objects.”

And it shows.

Cropped from Watermelon Radishes (2009) by Paulette Tavormina. In International Business Times 30th December 2015.

  I know very little about 21st century still life artists and so I ran a search to see what caught my eye and this Pinterest page came up which led to another specialising in Daryl Gortner’s hyper-realistic and very colourful – also quite confection-focused! – work. This is a clip from that page, accessed 16th February 2020:

This is Daryl Gortner’s website where it is clear, in case anyone was in doubt and let me say I was, that these are oil paintings, not photographs, the effects achieved by layer upon layer of “painting and glazing, providing intense depth and richness.” Also an absolutely meticulous attention to detail and extraordinary skill.

Looking finally at the ways in which 21st century artists are interpreting the still life genre, I found a lot of photography and a great deal of commentary on modern life, which is not unexpected although today’s messages are less about our relationship with a god, as with those other gods of commercialism and politics.

This article by Mike Petry in The Guardian (2013) lists ten artists, some of them photographers, some sculpters or painters, and one very definitely replicating the Dutch iconographic style, but most delivering a message of some kind relating to contemporary issues. Rebecca Scott, for instance, comments on “the fictional notion that by buying some new tableware she could or should make her home perfect”, while Martin Collishaw “seemingly remakes a 17th-century Dutch still life but as a contemporary photograph”, and Gabriel Orozco ” used a pencil to mark out a map of a lost life. The starkness reminds us that beneath flesh and blood, our own skulls lie hidden“. A less ostentatious version, perhaps, of Damien Hirst’s diamond encrusted platinum skull.

Artists, as ever, are speaking to audiences even though there are times when the audience is not listening or it doesn’t understand the message. Maybe we should sometimes be clearer.

Rekkati, Z. (2016) Decoding the hidden meanings in still life painting. Mearto.com

Richmond-Abdo, K., (2018) How artists have kept still life painting alive over thousands of years. My Modern Met.

Petry, M. (2013) The 10 best contemporary still lifes. The Guardian, 19th October 2013.

  *For the benefit of frustrated head-scratchers, it’s Kenneth Williams in the 1964 film, Carry on Cleo, protesting “Infamy, infamy – they’ve all got it in for me!”

Project 2, Still Life. Research point 2, Dutch still life painters. Research the still life and flower painting of the 17th century Dutch Golden Age. Make notes on particular paintings you admire and find out about techniques.

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Word Is Bitcoin

The Private Key:

Businesses and leaders ask “Why Bitcoin?”

The answer is “why not!”

Truth is: bitcoin is a conundrum. A mystery. A black box. Bitcoin devastates our natural tendency towards metaphor and simile. Bitcoin is not this or that, it is all of it and nothing at all, simultaneously. Bitcoin is like a text; it's akin to a work of fine art in its wisdom and collectibility. And crucially, what Bitcoin is is not determined by any singular human authority.

Bitcoin exists, and that is all that can be said definitively. Bitcoin cannot be stopped. This I say confidently. Its will to be exceeds that of any human machine.

This book is dedicated to all the enterprises, executives, investors, and sovereigns on the path of success...To those who are fed up, who have watched it happen again and again and know now is the time to jump in and go with the flow...To those who are not “early adopters” but who understand the importance of timing, if you wish to stop reacting to the accelerating waves of disruption and begin to embrace the technologies that are reshaping capital markets, redefining the best practices for efficient operations of complex systems, reimagining planet Earth as a space of shared prosperity, and accelerating the evolution of consciousness...To those who are curious and hopeful, why I write this book is well understood.

  I.

1) Stop Reacting:

Inspect the state of the global economy.

Characterize the paths of success in the world that is

Industry

Stocks and bonds (equity and debt)

Options and Futures (equity derivatives)

Swaps and CDOs (debt derivatives)

Location, Location, Location (real estate 4 dummies)

Finance

Pensions → Corporates → Endowments (AUM, dumb to smart managers)

Value Investing → Prop trading → Market Making (money makers, slow to fast)

Family Offices → Sovereigns → Banks (power players, small to big)

VC → PE → Hedge Fund (fee structures)

Internet

“Software eats the world” (technofuturism is obvious for nerds)

Automation and DevOps (data is an asset and algorithms are leverage)

Intellectual property (is software)

Copyleft and Open Source (ethical capitalism aka skilled labor retention)

2) Begin to Embrace:

Startup Culture

Small teams (Bezos' “2 pizza rule”)

Generalists over specialists

Equity ownership

The Startup Grind (hussle harder)

Growth

Everything grows at its own natural rate. To go beyond the natural, consider doping the hormones of your enterprise with the equivalent of steroids for corporate finance.

Hacking (RTFM, kid)

The codes are Open Source. Read the documentation and test it like your security depends on it.

Growth Hacking (click funnels, content marketing, ads, persuasion)

Mind Hacking (meditation, psychadelics, affirmations)

Social Hacking (politics, persuasion, persistence)

Consistency

Principles (values, virtues, patterns, and Truth as you know it)

Open-mindedness (eager acceptance of imperfection and continuous detachment from self-conceptions)

Alternatives [Illustrate the futility of avoiding money or searching for an alternative to Bitcoin. Perhaps Criticism deserves its own section in Stop Reacting.]

Lifestyle business (requires social media Growth Hacking skills)

Art and collectibles (nostalgia, or “authentic culture is the ultimate asset in a world of abundance”)

Asceticism (ie orthodox religion)

Intellectualism (ie Marxism)

II.

1) Capital Markets:

Disintermediation

Automation and competition over transaction execution lowers fees towards zero (over time)

Tokenization

Assets are standardized for exchange online

24/7 365 global market access

Liquidity

Markets in everything (gambling is a sport)

Dark net markets in everything (Panic or Paradise?)

Money In Politics

Tax havens/finance hubs and jurisdiction shopping

Trade War (Is Bitcoin uncorrelated?)

Audit-ability and the emerging “Anticorruption movement” (not a thing but can we make it a thing?)

2) Operational Efficiency:

Automation

Deep Learning (same silicon as mining, overlapping developer labor pool)

DevOps (continuous integration)

DevSecOps (automated threat monitoring)

Robots

3D Printing

Process Engineering

Co-located teams are Agile (the cult of Daily Standup)

Distributed teams are Remote, Flexible, and Aligned

Remote (work from home or bring your work home?) [contrast with megacorp campuses with perks like “free” doggie day-care]

Flex-time (cultivating freedom mentality in creative knowledge workers)

Incentive Alignment (greasing the gears) [contrast with Principal-Agent Problem]

Data is an Asset Class

Software systems ingest and log data

Logged data from enterprise systems is fed to AI

Blockchains are public data sets, enriching and nourishing today's baby AIs

3) Planet Earth:

Climate Crises

Mining carbon emissions are a problem and technological civilizations solve problems

Increased demand for energy stimulates market for solar and other renewable energy tech!

Solving climate crisis requires global cooperation

Global cooperation implies increased globalization

Wildlife Conservation

Nature is the ultimate inspiration of art, and art is priceless

Cultivating nature is a component of life well-lived

Disregard for nature is contemptible to the Bitcoin Rich

4) Evolution:

Nature and Conscious Nurturing

Education technology is the only better industry than enterprise fintech. Invest in innovative methods to inform current and future generations.

Synthetic biology is the only science more important than computers (physics is the intersection of computer science and math in today's academy).

Reinvention

Success comes with repetition. Good ideas deserve persistence. Bitcoin is not original, but it is different.

Embrace change by appropriating software techniques like iteration and recursion to accelerate your lifecycles. (A lifecycle is an instance of the {do, receive, think, state} mental loop. [Elaboration on this will come later])

The Collective Unconscious

Common dreams are hard to come by. Don't bet against them; join in or standby.

Money is intellectual energy, it's presence felt but hardly seen; it's message heard but sound not made.

The mentality that Bitcoin imparts on the world is one of self-reliance, entrepreneurship, reinforcement of the Truth that ideas matter, and appreciation of the wonderful unknown.

Something Old, Something New

Sharia 101: Intro to Islamic Finance

The Problem of Riba (similar to usury)

Bitcoin is Halal

Orthodox Jews love it too

AI algorithms can transact autonomously, without human or corporate identity

Bitcoin: an engine of globalization and cross-cultural pollination

Soul Contracts

“In the beginning was the word” [John 1:1]

“Be impeccable with your word” [Don Miguel Ruiz]

“Word is bond” [5% Nation of Gods and Earths]

Do you believe in destiny, fate, karma, or justice? If you knew with certainty that all of your actions and moods and mental states were under constant surveillance by a superintelligent entity, how would you live? Do you have any sacred rituals or objects? What makes them special in your eyes? The answers to these questions are where fortune resides.

Appendix A:

Cybernetics [Weiner, Maltz]

Neuro-Linguistic Programming

Natural Language Processing

Databases, relational algebra, Structured Query Language

Distributed systems, security, fault tolerance

Distributed Denial of Service, Byzantine Fault Tolerance, Proof of Work

Proof of Stake and the future (sharding, data chains, interoperability, dapps, etc.)...

What is Blockchain technology? Immutable Record-keeping, Smart Contracts, and Notes on Historiography (a collection of political economy book reviews in light of Blockchain) [this part is a kind of hedge for the educated “Blockchain not Bitcoin” reader]:

Fukuyama's The End of History, about the triumph of liberal democracy, vs.

Davidson's The Sovereign Individual, about thriving during the collapse of the Welfare State;

Keynes' The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, about spending your way out of a recession vs.

Hayek's The Road to Serfdom, about easy money and debt traps;

Smith's The Wealth of Nations, about capitalism, vs.

Marx' Das Kapital, about capitalism

Taleb's Fooled By Randomness, about unfairness, vs.

Piketty's Capital In The 21st Century, about unfairness.

  This is a base structure from which to iterate into a full-length book. The structure serves the function of establishing context inside which an argument is made persuasively. The proposition is that “Bitcoin is the Index Fund of the Internet”. By Internet, I mean a global computer network. Today, if you want to invest in Enterprise SaaS (perhaps the industry with the most investable companies), you are limited by your dealflow. Dealflow is usually regionally segregated, in that you must be closely connected to a company's founding team to be an early-stage investor.

As the new wave of post-global communications networks, (permissionless) Blockchain technologies deliver access to liquid markets to anyone who can operate a phone. In the long term, markets create prosperity. But in the short term, markets often have shocking effects.

The problem of markets is that there are too many choices. A perfect capitalist economy has everything up for sale always. So how could anyone know with certainty that they have bought the right goods? How often do you allocate resources only to discover that your energies are better focused elsewhere? The entire purpose of advertising, marketing, sales, and politics is to convince people to make decisions that wouldn't otherwise occur to them. We live in a world awash in persuasion, and it's increasingly difficult to stand outside of the social field.

In order to make this book real, a great deal of research is to be done, including 8 book reports (plus reviews of Krawisz' Hyperbitcoinization and Carter's Visions of Bitcoin). Furthermore, the entire Western economy must be diagrammed so that the central banking Ponzi is revealed. I believe it is best to adopt an approach of subtlety, perhaps leaving the investigation of some details about the fraud in the non-profit sector as an exercise for the curious reader (think multinational NGOs like IMF and World Bank). Some things, like verbal evisceration of banksters, sound better coming from Elizabeth Warren or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

It is not necessary to be maximally critical of the powers that be; Bitcoin is itself a diplomatic technology. One of Bitcoin's intangible qualities is that it serves as a vehicle for education. Bitcoin is the incentive for a movement of self-education in technology and markets, and it is wonderful that such a thing exists while so many young people are six figures deep in debt to a university system that doesn't prepare them for the working world, a world dominated by financial technologies.

I hope that the arc of the book flows from solid matter (industry) to bits of data (finance) to soul vibration (sovereignty). In the process, the reader takes a journey of self-discovery. If one's outlook coming into the book is to learn how to transform your business with Bitcoin and get rich, one's outlook going out should be how to accept the blessings of fortune and live a dignified life.

  Original Text by Yung Gini. The reader is free to use this text or the ideas therein in any way shape or form, and to engage Gini in open-ended negotiations in pursuance of a book-making contract, accepting that Gini expects no greater than 21% share of book revenues, and thus intends to impart no greater than 21% of book-writing efforts, as his passion is Construction with bits, not Explanations in ink.

As one who believes that books are being outmoded in favor of voice-based digital media (which can be optionally transcribed into book format for old-school readers), I look forward to recording and streaming conversations that cover any of the aforementioned points in depth enough to tickle my mind and edify the audience.

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7 Fun Things to Do in Newport Beach, California

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Located in Southern California, Newport Beach attracts 1000’s of vacationers yearly who’re in the finer issues in life. If that is your first time visiting Newport Beach, please learn on. In this text, we’ll let you know a few of the top enjoyable issues to do in Newport Beach and clarify how to get right here.

The Essential Fun Things To Do In Newport Beach

1. Shop Around Fashion Island

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Other Fun Things To Do In Newport Beach

4. Book a Specialized Tour

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How to Get to Newport Beach

The closest airports to Newport Beach are the John Wayne Airport (IATA: SNA) and Long Beach International (IATA: LGB). However, most individuals flying into California will find yourself at Los Angeles International Airport (IATA: LAX). If you might e book a switch to both SNA or LGB, it’ll prevent a substantial amount of time and aggravation touring into Newport Beach.

For those that land in LAX, it’ll take you about one hour to drive from the airport to Newport Beach. As you exit the airport, you could travel south on the I-405 freeway for about 45 miles. This isn’t a very troublesome experience, however it may be aggravating due to LA’s infamous site visitors.

Final Thoughts

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