Kit Wallace

@kitwallace
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Yachtsman, datasmith, tree hugger, aspiring 3d potter. Life depends on XML, XQuery and eXist-db
Websitehttps://kitwallace.co.uk
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I recently discovered an online game hosted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Each day there's a set of 10 objects with anywhere from 1 to 10 photos and you're asked to identify the place from which they come & their approximate age on a timeline, with up to 5,000 points each for location & date. If you guess the opposite side of the world you might get 2 points out of 5k (as I did today) but despite my ignorance I usually total 60k-70k. You might enjoy it! https://anthropeum.com/.
Anthropeum

A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.

Anthropeum
A cat I met yesterday (running towards my friend Jerry)

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Burton-WonderfulProdigies/pages/p092a-barefoot-for-three-days/

A 1680s book i apparently bought for $60 years ago... about horrid people like atheists, popes, apostates, tyrants, sailors and more. Here, a pope makes a king stand barefoot in the snow for 3 days, along with his wife and son. In the end the pope’s mistress interceded.

#woodcut #vintageEngraving #pope #king #barefoot #blackAndWhite #pope #king #fobo #GIMP #GIMP3 #xsane

Lichens illuminated with UV light at dusk on the Solway shore, South West Scotland. Seeing the world in a different light.. #lichensubscribe

Yesterday I followed Bristol’s Jack in the Green from start to rain-soaked finish. It had everything from painted noses and morris dancing to the final scramble for lucky leaves 🌿

I’ve written it up properly over on Substack, including the full poem from the end and a bit more of the story along the way.

If you fancy a read, it’s up now

#bristoljackinthegreen #jackinthegreen #bristol #folkcustoms

https://open.substack.com/pub/ghostcatcherisles/p/chasing-bristol-jack-in-the-green

Add to the "things I will do when finally elected Galactic Emperor" list: insist that all king size sheets have a bloody great big yellow arrow painted on them so I don't accidentally line up the short side with the long side and spend five minutes trying to work out why it's so difficult to put the sheet on

The Poetic Harmony of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Filmmaking: A Video Essay

https://www.openculture.com/2016/05/the-poetic-harmony-of-andrei-tarkovskys-filmmaking.html

The Poetic Harmony of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Filmmaking: A Video Essay

Tarkovsky film?' asks Lewis Bond, creator of the cinephile video-essay Youtube channel Channel Criswell. He offers a few right away:

Open Culture

"Alice Through The Looking Glass" statue at Guildford Castle ground in England by sculptor Jeanne Argent.

#Art

2026-05-02 #mayke 2: soldered an STM32F405 microcontroller in TQFP-64 package to the Igloo64 prototyping board. 0.5mm pitch pins