technical anxieties

There's something strange going on with this blog in that it was imported back from Wordpress and while all the post text made it across the blogosphere successfully, many of the images did not. But even though I keep cleaning out the Wordpress photo code and replacing the images and reposting to make sure all is right, a week later I'll look through the entries and the images show up as little white boxes. And the Wordpress code is back again! Bizarre -- but hopefully all the cryptic white boxes will soon be gone.

painting of the month

On the Beach -- Georges Lemmen, 1891 (Musee d'Orsay)

early edgar

This Degas self-portrait from when the artist was in his early 20s has an interestingly bohemian look -- Degas always seems detachedly serious in his self-portraits, but there's a hint of something else here that's kind of intriguing.

Pictured: Self-Portrait, c.1857-58 (Edgar Degas, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute)

back to the blogger bowl

Was over at Wordpress for a while but it didn't seem like the best fit for this blog, so I was able to export all entries made there and have swum (swam?) home to Blogger again. Some of the links may have been lost in translation but I'll double-check them all later, and, unrelatedly, while I like these Matisse goldfish I just noticed that it is a bit crowded in there. He was probably focusing more on color and composition than actual fish well-being, though.