2024.04.28
My Retirement at Ury So Far 2021 - 2024
The movie/documentary Tim's Vermeer unexpectedly came up yesterday during the Q&A after Thomas Keel's "When Rich People Spend Good Money on Bad Art" lecture, and I thought more about Vermeer utilizing optical lenses last night. Vermeer was thrilled with the optical lenses the same way I was thrilled with CAD (computer-aided design) drafting. Since Vermeer could 'now' paint with incredible and heretofore unachievable accuracy, the choice of what to now paint with such incredible accuracy became the most essential aspect of his artistry. That's what makes a Vermeer.
Pretty much the first thing I chose to do after acquiring my own CAD system, April 1987, was to redraw Piranesi's Ichnographia Campus Martius.
2024.04.28
My head was in a fog all day; it's wasn't easy having to clean up after another's vomit sickness in the middle of the night.
At least the "timepiece" cad data translated well in Russia.
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