Author Archives: Virtual Brush Box

Week By Week, Virtual Tevis 2024

Awareness of the outside world. Helmet Watch. TV Commercial has helmet. I think western saddle. Brief clip at the beginning with paint horse. You Tube: Twenty Years of Making an Impact | Wounded Warrior Project’s 20th Anniversary. ~~~ Rodney – 6 miles this week, 24 miles totalMilton – 7 miles this week, 24 miles totalTuesdayContinue reading “Week By Week, Virtual Tevis 2024”

Feed Buckets, Colors, and Once Again Proving That The Brain Is Weird

Awareness of the outside world. Helmet Watch. TV Commercial has helmet & western saddle. RINVOQ: Disrupt :60 TV ~~~ Remember back when I was having trouble telling the difference between the red feed bucket and the green feed bucket? [Feed Buckets and Color Theory] We got a gray bucket. [On A Day About Food Another PostContinue reading “Feed Buckets, Colors, and Once Again Proving That The Brain Is Weird”

Fractal Alphabet Q, Graphic Art

Art of the outside world. Museum of the American Revolution: Rare, Newly Discovered Eyewitness Sketch of Continental Army Sheds New Light on Wartime Life, March 26, 2024. Also articles in The Washington Post & The Philadelphia Inquirer, both of which I could read, then were behind paywalls. YMMV. Hat tip to M. ~~~ Color isContinue reading “Fractal Alphabet Q, Graphic Art”

Fav Flight Bag, Non-Fiction

Awareness of the outside world. The Tiffany Problem. Non-fiction that you can’t use in fiction. Tor: Putting the Historical in Historical Fantasy, Walton 2019. Medium: The Tiffany Problem — When History Makes No Sense, Povey 2020. Limited access but interesting example before the cut-off. A search on the phrase turns up other examples. Update. SecondContinue reading “Fav Flight Bag, Non-Fiction”

Road Closed, Photography

Photos of the outside world. The New Yorker: A Photographer’s Old College Classmates, Back Then and Now, by Eren Orbey, photography by Josephine Sittenfeld, 2017. I like that the photos are recreations rather than duplications, “A red Solo cup has become a crumpled bottle of Smartwater.” [ibid]. ~~~ 21st Street BridgeBirmingham AL, USAApril 2024 AL.com:Continue reading “Road Closed, Photography”

I Owe My Cat An Apology, Other Animals

Awareness of the outside world. “If you want to help your child’s immune system, get them vaccines and a puppy.” Your Local Epidemiologist: Kids don’t need to get sick to be healthy, Kristen Panthagani, MD, PhD, Apr 18, 2024. ~~~ Dogs are fine. Status is quo. [Shifting From Low to High} Rose took a tripContinue reading “I Owe My Cat An Apology, Other Animals”