Sean Daniel

artist

[Sean Daniel @artnuttie]

@TelkomZA why are we being charged for a 20 meg line?

[Sean Daniel @artnuttie]

@MercedesBenz when are you going to bring back the pagoda?

[Sean Daniel @artnuttie]

graphite on paper…

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

You might not know that cellophane, the clear plastic used to wrap some foods, is 100% biodegradable and produced from wood pulp

[read more: https://t.co/akNMvmSUo4]

[Dr. Bendor Grosvenor 🇺🇦 @arthistorynews]

This unfinished portrait by William Dobson made £486,000 at Sothebys. Look at that hand, British painting rarely gets better.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Claude Monet in his studio, 1920. At the time of this photograph, Monet was 80 years old, had experienced two losses through the passing of his wives, and had been renowned for so long that many assumed he had already departed from this world.

In 1914, at the age of 73, he embarked on a remarkable series of expansive paintings featuring water lilies. As the sole surviving French impressionist, he battled periods of extreme self-doubt during this phase, often going so far as to destroy entirely finished artworks.

The artworks displayed in this collection, known as "Les Nympheas," comprise a series of 250 oil paintings that capture his flower garden in Giverny, his home in France. These works are widely regarded as one of the most remarkable concluding chapters in the history of art. It's worth noting that many of these paintings were created while Monet was dealing with cataracts.

[Artnet @artnet]

Artist David Shrigley has pulped 6,000 copies of ‘The Da Vinci Code’ to create new editions of ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’. https://t.co/WkGMkHRoVq

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve."

— Max Planck

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

I reread this often.

Every word of it is perfect.

We spend so much of our lives obsessing over building businesses, sometimes we lose sight of why we do it.

This is your reminder.

It reminds me of the Leo Tolstoy quote from his short story Family Happiness

"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness"

The cool thing is you can "get off the grid" and be useful working 8-80 hours a week building profitable internet businesses.

You choose how much you want to work, and what kinda life you want.

It's your call.

The leverage of an audience, community and software can build you the balance if you want to take it.

I tend to think a balance in life is key to true happiness.

I love when I retreat to my cabin in the mountains in Quebec where I can reconnect with my mission, purpose and recharge.

I ended up building more interesting products when I'm feeling that way too.

It reminds me to seek "elegance rather than luxury" and to chase being "wealthy, not rich".

This resonates with me and maybe it does with you too.

[Pioneer Works @PioneerWorks_]

Arnold Schwarzenegger (@Schwarzenegger) went from being a bodybuilder to an actor to a politician. Liz Linden reports on how his friendship with Andy Warhol helped him along the way. https://t.co/KF39jOHiMk

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Dr Johnson spent nine years writing the first proper English dictionary. It had 140,871 definitions, and some of them were... interesting:

Trolmydames — Of this word I know not the meaning.

Monsieur — A term of reproach for a Frenchman.

Lunch — As much food as one’s hand can hold.

Twitter — To be suddenly moved with any inclination. A low word.

Politician — A man of artifice; one of deep contrivance.

Belly-timber — Food; materials to support the belly.

Abecedarian — He that teaches or learns the alphabet.

Kickshaw — A dish so changed by the cookery that it can scarcely be known.

Oats — A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

Sock — Something put between the foot and shoe.

Ruse — Cunning; artifice; little stratagem; trick; wile; fraud; deceit. A French word neither elegant nor necessary.

Finesse — Artifice; stratagem: an unnecessary word which is creeping into the language.

Chymist — A professor of chymistry; a philosopher by fire.

Poetaster — A vile petty poet.

Goose — A large waterfowl proverbially noted, I know not why, for foolishness.

Bum — The buttocks; the part on which we sit.

Jobbernowl — Loggerhead; blockhead.

Fopdoodle — A fool; an insignificant wretch.

Slubberdegullion — A paltry, dirty, sorry wretch.

Hickup — To sob with a convulsed stomach.

Sciomachy — Battle with a shadow.

Backfriend — A friend backwards; that is, an enemy in secret.

Tea — A Chinese plant, of which the infusion has lately been much drunk in Europe.

Chess — A nice and abstruse game, in which two sets of men are moved in opposition to each other.

Birthnight — The night annually kept in memory of any one’s birth.

Excise — A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.

Jiggumbob — A trinket; a knick-knack; a slight contrivance in machinery.

Utis — A word which probably is corrupted, at least, is not now understood.

Ventriloquist — One who speaks in such a manner as that the sound seems to issue from his belly.

Dull — Not exhilaterating; not delightful; as, to make dictionaries is dull work.

These idiosyncratic definitions make up only a very small portion of Dr Johnson's Dictionary; this was not a small or jovial undertaking. What Johnson achieved was remarkable, and his influence continues to shape not only what English words mean but also how they are spelled. Still, even in those long nine years of labour, Johnson found an outlet for his legendary wit. Where better to end, then, than with his famous definition for lexicographer?

"A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words."

[Paul Gauguin @artistgauguin]

The morning 1892
https://t.co/DE5147qaH8

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

The Statue of David was bricked inside this cone to protect it from bombs during WW2

[Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety]

Judging from the great response to yesterday’s post, it seems that many, understandably, weren’t familiar with Flemish painter Michiel Sweerts ~ so here’s his Boy in a Turban Holding a Nosegay (c1660) https://t.co/lC3bvHVm0I

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

How to tell how tall a tree is.

h = Tan(α) ⋅ d + Hₑᵧₑ

where h is the tree height, d is the distance from tree, and α is the angle to the top of the tree. Hₑᵧₑ is height of your eye above the ground

[John Pitchford🌹💙 @Johnnypapa64]

Very sorry to hear of the death of the great Sir Michael Gambon aged 82, here in an interview explaining why he didn’t like being interviewed. RIP Michael.

[Benjamin Carlson @bfcarlson]

What can an unfree society teach you about freedom?

In 6+ years living in China as a journalist, I was informed on, spied on, tailed when traveling.

This is nothing compared to what Chinese go through if targeted.

Here are 14 lessons—and warnings—that many need to hear:

[Claude Monet @artistmonet]

The Bodmer Oak, 1865 https://t.co/LyUqvL9AkK

[Sean Daniel @artnuttie]

@ElliottTreves tx for what u do… 🤍

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

Another literary giant has left us.

“People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.”

—Milan Kundera, (1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023)