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Graphics

Fake giants in archaeology photographs: fun or deceit?

February 11, 2010
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Michael Heiser posts some photos he’s been emailed of archaeologists excavating the skull of a giant. He also notes some reasons why they are fake. (That’s apart from the obvious one that there’s no such thing.)
I’d like to add a couple of others. One of the first things I check when I suspect fakery is [...]

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The campaign for real type

February 9, 2010
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David Lang raises a design issue issue today on the Accordance blog – it’s one where I largely disagree with him. So first, this is David:
Every long-time Mac user knows that not everything in OS X has been an improvement. For example, OS X has some incredibly cool typographic capabilities, yet it still cannot italicize [...]

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Candlemas images

January 30, 2010
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Looking for some images for a Candlemas reflection, I found myself pondering lines from two songs. First there is the Timothy Dudley-Smith Christmas hymn “Child of the stable’s secret birth”;

whose are the hands and the fingers curled
but his who fashioned and made our world

Then there are the (perhaps more familiar) lines of Graham [...]

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Big ears and Jesus

January 9, 2010
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I was listening to an artist who was also involved in teaching children. Speaking about this famous picture of the Baptism of Jesus by Piero della Francesca, she relayed a child’s comment.
You can see God’s voice.
When she questioned the child about what he meant, he said:
Only Jesus has got ears.
That’s not strictly true: one of [...]

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Christmas picture and poem: Greetings

December 24, 2009
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This is a version of the image I created for my “by hand and snail mail” card this year. It was accompanied by this poem by Robert Southwell, Jesuit poet and martyr in the Reformation era.
As I in hoary winter’s night stood shivering in the snow,
Surprised I was with sudden heat which made my heart [...]

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Dawn: today’s Advent calendar

December 24, 2009
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