Miscellany of Randomness
From the sublime to the ridiculous...
Tuesday, 20 April 2021
Blind ballot
Sunday, 11 April 2021
The difference
"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - CS Lewis
"His name unfortunately was Eustace Scrubb, but he wasn't a bad sort."The Silver Chair - CS Lewis
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!"2 Corinthians 5v17
Thursday, 25 March 2021
Same problem over 100 years later
"But exactly the whole difficulty in our public problems is that some men are aiming at cures which other men would regard as worse maladies; are offering ultimate conditions as states of health which others would uncompromisingly call states of disease."~ GK Chesterton
Monday, 8 March 2021
Women's work
Google's doodle today is for International Women's Day.
It shows a series of women's arms doing various things: writing, science, being an artist, winning the Nobel prize*, voting, singing, typing, making a political speech, climbing a mountain, conducting an orchestra, getting a degree, making a film, being a judge, astronaut, pilot, animator, footballer, photographer, architect, etc...
I'm glad that women have so many opportunities today.
But I was disappointed that, in all the pictures, there was not a single domestic thing represented. No cooking. No cleaning. No childcare.
Are women not worth celebrating when they're doing stereotypically 'feminine' things? The things that no-one will particularly notice, or applaud them for?
"Honour her for all that her hands have done,
and let her works bring her praise at the city gate."Proverbs 31v31 (emphasis mine)
*At least, some medal like that
Monday, 1 March 2021
Thursday, 25 February 2021
Etymological Coincidence 🤔
Friday, 12 February 2021
Space
I thought I needed to do some art just for the sake of it - not for anything at all.
Came across a photo of a painting I did in school, so I thought I'd see if I could do it better now.😁
I've
changed as little as possible, but I have made it a flat plain, because
that's how it was meant to be. My teacher got me to add the hills to
show distance, but now that I'm grown up I can do it how I want! ('Can'
as in allowed to, but also as in am able to.)
It's not easy to do
a picture with dark sky during daytime - presumably meaning there is
very little atmosphere. I'm really not sure how that would affect the
lighting, particularly the aerial perspective.
Done in Clip
Studio. I think my settings may have been a bit wrong, because the paint
never dried, which was interesting to work with...
Not going to get a job as a concept artist any time soon, but it was fun!