Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 69. Sunrise is 6:53 AM and sunset 6:35 PM for 11h 42m 07s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 33.7% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1908, Ford Model T automobiles are offered for sale at a price…
Art
Art, Cats
Friday Catblogging: Galina Bugaevskaya’s Cats as Royalty
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by ??? ???????? ? (@koty_vezde) Via Artist Reimagines Cats as Royalty in Traditional Portraits of People: When looking at old works of art, it’s not uncommon to find a feline companion somewhere in the composition. Artist Galina Bugaevskaya (aka Cat Universe on Instagram), however, reimagines…
Art, Cartoons & Comics, Education, Science/Nature, Technology
From Comic-Con@Home 2021: The Science of Art
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How is STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) used to inspire and create our most beloved popular arts? What do portrayals of science and scientists in popular media get right and wrong? From world-building to special effects and cosplay, IF/THEN ambassadors (www.ifthenshecan.org) Sydney Hamilton (aerospace engineer), Myria Perez (paleontologist), Dr. Samantha Thi Porter (archaeologist), and Dr.…
Art, Confidence Schemes
Film: Made You Look: A True Story of Fake Art
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Filmmaker Barry Avrich (David Foster: Off the Record, Prosecuting Evil) explores how one of the most respected art galleries in New York City became the center of the largest art fraud in American history and was ultimately forced to close after 165 years. Knoedler & Company, under its president, Ann Freedman, made millions selling previously…
Art, Film
The Making of “Hero”
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Art, Cats
Art in Quarantine
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Art
Art: The Origin of Stripes
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Art, City, Culture, Local Government
Newnan, Georgia & Whitewater, Wisconsin
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One reads, in the New York Times, about How 17 outsize portraits rattled a small southern town (‘Not everyone was ready for what they saw’). After a white-nationalist rally in Newnan, Georgia, that town put up 17 large-scale banner portraits, images of the ordinary people who make up the town. They hang from the perches of…
Art, Cats
Friday Catblogging: Watercolor Black Cat Tutorial
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Art, Diversity, History
Recreating a Famous Painting, 241 Years Later
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Art, Cats, History
Friday Catblogging: Not a Real Lion, Yet Impressive Nonetheless
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Art, Cats
Friday Catblogging: Fluffy ‘Ball of Fur’ Cat Illustrations by Kamwei Fong
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America, Art, City, Culture, League of Women Voters, Liberty, Local Government
‘Fortunate’
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Norman Rockwell wasn’t the finest painter of the twentieth century (to express the matter gently), but at least when he created a painting capturing the spirit of free speech as one of Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms, he understood speech as a right, not a privilege, lucky break, or favor from government. So it is with government,…