This is not a photograph.
— James Lucas (@JamesLucasIT) September 20, 2026
Every leaf and every reflection was put there by hand, in oil, by the Danish painter Peder Mørk Mønsted in 1894.
It is called Wooded path by a river, and it captures the hardest thing there is to paint: a forest in full sunlight. Light through trees… pic.twitter.com/I5ICRUXjtQ
Sunday, September 20, 2026
Woodland scene by Danish painter Peder Mørk Mønsted
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HOW??? This is remarkable.
ReplyDeleteThe first painting I bought was a hyper real acrylic of nasturtiums in shade and sunlight, painted from a picture the artist Joanna Logue had taken. Not pointalism... line-alism. Every shade was painstaking stroked in with a couple of sable hairs width brushes. Total realism and when looking hard, an unbelievable attention to detail via hair width paint application.
ReplyDeleteHope all is well Bill.
Thought you'd appreciate Justin Neuman's article on removing agôn in playing games and "... when my kids disassembled the board and turned it into a world, they were doing something older and stranger. They were engaged in what the French sociologist Roger Caillois, in his taxonomy Man, Play and Games(1958), called paidia:"
Seems to be invoking "Caillois disputes Huizinga's emphasis on competition in play"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man,_Play_and_Games
"More nothing now
We are most human when we play freely, imaginatively, pointlessly. Gamification risks atrophying that most precious capacity
by Justin Neuman
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"It took me a while to realise what I really needed to do: build up the courage to ask if I could sit in and build with them. That was the moment something shifted – not for the kids, who were already there, but for me: a 48-year-old professor sitting on the carpet, making islands and building bridges without a point in sight.
"You can play a game or you can play in a game. When you follow the official rules, pursue the stated objective, and measure yourself against opponents or a scoring system, that’s competition: playing a game. The Greeks had a word for this kind of play: agôn, from the god who personified conflict, struggle and contest. But when my kids disassembled the board and turned it into a world, they were doing something older and stranger. They were engaged in what the French sociologist Roger Caillois, in his taxonomy Man, Play and Games(1958), called paidia: free, spontaneous, unstructured play. The kind with no winner, no score, and no optimisation. The kind of play that has almost no place in adult life and, arguably, the kind we need the most, especially now, when even our leisure comes with leaderboards.
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"The gamification of leisure has turned into work everything that used to exist as its counterpoint. Leisure has become a third shift with its own metrics, its own guilt, and its own sense of falling behind.
The philosopher C Thi Nguyen callsthis ‘value capture’: the process by which a game’s simplified, legible values start to colonise the real-world activity the game was supposed to serve.
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https://aeon.co/essays/play-is-doing-its-work-even-if-were-not-keeping-score
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