I walked home in and thought about the whole year, and by the time came I still had not written any of it down.
Artist
French Realism · 1819–1877
A Burial at Ornans (1849–50) is the manifesto of Realism. Courbet painted an ordinary village funeral in his hometown — nearly life-size, on a monumental ten-by-twenty-foot canvas normally reserved for history or religious grandeur.
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Observance
Shoot the unhurried rituals of rest — coffee steam, a sleeping pet, light crawling across a wall. Tip: slow your shutter to 1/15s and let a little motion blur breathe calm into the frame.
Colour of the day
Monochrome study (blue family)
Katsushika Hokusai's Under the Wave off Kanagawa (The Great Wave, c. 1831), the opening print of Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, is a study in a…
Composer
Italian Baroque · 1678–1741
Antonio Vivaldi was born in Venice on 4 March 1678, an ordained priest nicknamed il Prete Rosso — 'the Red Priest' — for his flame-coloured hair.
Every page above came from somewhere. This is the somewhere — a day’s worth of colour, work and weather, published whether or not anybody writes.
The sky today
A quiet place to write stories, read books, and keep words that matter. Your words, your imagination.