Once I coded a module to completion with no errors. I still wake up with night terrors that I missed something.
:(, this is one of the ones I was writing a huge description on... I'll just post my research here.
Ophelia
Ophelia is a character in Hamlet.
Long story short, she goes crazy after discovering Hamlet, her betrothed (who is acting crazy to see what his enemies will do), killed her father (by accident, thinking he was someone else - but she doesn't know that). Then, she's walking around a forest in shock, unable to comprehend the horrible events, singing these songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcmN1zBSf4c. A few scenes later Gertrude said she drowned, and they're not sure if it was a suicide or accidental.
In the painting she is laying down in the water, either still singing or recently dead (depending on your interpretation).
Pre-Raphaelites
This is another work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood - a group of British painters that rejected the at-the-time notion to follow Raphael's prolific output. They thought it was formulaic and made for dull paintings. They were basically the emo kids of the mid-1800s art world. They thought only the most dramatic subjects should be painted, and detail should be given to stuff like the background - Raphael largely ignored anything but the main subjects of the painting.
In this painting you can see a lot of time was spent on the trees and flowers surrounding her.
Compare that with Raphael's most famous work:
There's a background and some foreground, but it's in service of the main characters -who are the only elements with bright colors. Ophelia seems to be inseparable from the other elements in the painting, and the flowers around her are brightly colored.
The Pre-Raphaelites were also a precursor to the Impressionists, who would pop on the scene 20 years later in France.
The plants, most of which have symbolic significance, were depicted with painstaking botanical detail. The roses near Ophelia's cheek and dress, and the field rose on the bank, may allude to her brother Laertes calling her 'rose of May'. The willow, nettle and daisy are associated with forsaken love, pain, and innocence. Pansies refer to love in vain. Violets, which Ophelia wears in a chain around her neck, stand for faithfulness, chastity or death of the young, any of which meanings could apply here. The poppy signifies death. Forget-me-nots float in the water. [2]
Siddal
Elizabeth Siddal posed for hours in a tub while Millais painted. She stayed, motionless despite the oil lamps keeping the water warm burning out, and she nearly died from the resulting illness (that's the story, but she also seemed like a sickly person that may have had tuberculosis). Siddal was a model for many of the Brotherhood, and eventually married one. She later died from overdosing pain meds before it was cool (although it may have been a suicide).
Here's a more extreme version of a Pre-Raphaelite background I was talking about earlier:
See how the main characters are the center of the painting's attention, but almost no one else is paying attention to them. There seems to be something going on stage right. Note: it also has Siddal as a model.
Obligatory, thanks for posting this, I've never seen it before and I love it. (I feel like I say that so much I need an abbreviation. Perhaps TFPTINSIBAILI? It kinda looks like Tennisball... maybe that would be better.)
Anyway, I did some research...
If you go here https://association-emile-friant.fr/index.php/en/november-2021, you can see even more detail. It shows the woman is actually wearing a veil, as if at a funeral. There is also an interesting interpretation of the piece, although a little too "this is what you're looking at" for my liking.
The Franco-Prussian War
In case you didn't know (because I didn't know until this research), Prussia basically means Germany. Prussia began as a united group of kingdoms occupying parts of today's northern Germany.
And they had this really smart Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, who had risen through the ranks of the political structure of Prussia. This chancellor wanted to add more German kingdoms to Prussia, so what did he do? He provoked Napoleon III (Napoleon's Nephew) into starting a war with Prussia over areas formerly held by the Austrian Empire.
And France took the bait. If you can believe it, they invaded Prussia! So what did Prussia do? They mobilized their army quickly and invaded Northeastern France, near Dieuze, where the artist, Friant, was living at the time.
Friant
Friant grew up with his parents, in Dieuze. His mother was a dressmaker, and one of her best customers was a rich couple (the Parisots) who never had any children of their own. When Prussian forces invaded, the Parisots took Friant while his parents stayed behind, and fled to another city, called Nancy. His parents would come later, but the Parisots semi-adopted young Friant. This gave him unprecedented access to cameras, which he used to aid him in his art.
During this time Nancy quickly became known as the second home of art (after Paris), because the invasion caused many French to come to the area. This was during the Art Nouveau period.
Friant painted a self-portrait at 15 and became a minor celebrity in art circles.
This is the self-portrait:
He would go on to wow the Salon and win many prizes. He finished his career as a teacher.
Pompeii
In 79 AD about 2 hours southeast of Rome, Mount Vesuvius erupted. The sun couldn't be seen through the ash clouds. Pompeii was right in the path of the ash. It literally rained fire and brimstone for days. Pompeii was buried under 20ft of ash.
For 1500 years it sat, dormant and mostly undisturbed. It was rediscovered by accident in the 1500s, but kept secret so the erection of an aqueduct could continue unfettered. Official excavations began in the 1600s, uncovering art of the classical period. The discovery became an essential part of the "Grand Tour" (a trip wealthy students would take to visit cities in France and Italy to study art).
Because of these discoveries, and as a reaction to the lavish ornamentation of the Baroque, Neoclassicism was born. A rededication to the simplicity, realism and symmetry of classical art.
This piece has elements of both Baroque and Neoclassicism. The drama of the Baroque and style of Neoclassical. You might even call it part of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood movement (the emo of art styles) if it was 20 years earlier and british.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Friant
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Prussian_War
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Friant
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Prussian_War
- https://rehs.com/eng/default-19th20th-century-artist-bio-page/?fl_builder&artist_no=115&sold=1
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii#Rediscovery_and_excavations
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoclassicism
- https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/grtr/hd_grtr.htm
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Raphaelite_Brotherhood
Wow, what a beautiful painting. Thanks for posting this. I went to her site and I think she is now my favorite contemporary artist.
Did we learn nothing from The Call of C'thulu?
Back in the day we used to stuff dryer sheets in an empty toilet paper roll.
I just googled it and it's called a "sploof."
Anyway, you blow your exhale through that, and it smells like dryer sheets.
I have used AHK for this, and it works beautifully.
I've seen this one before, and it's still great. But I wonder who those models are. Do they know they're an internet meme?
Have you had a steak from walmart recently? Who needs a printer?
Never give up!
Never Surrender!
I don't know anything about working at reddit, but I've worked at enough software companies to know generally what people do all day
HR - hires employees, deals with insurance and other perks, fires employees, probably communicates with the board or governing body.
Software - there are a few departments here, the most interesting of which is programming new features. Most will never see the light of day, but they're working on them.
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QA - tests new features and bug fixes and patches before they go live.
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IT department for when developers computers do unexpected things.
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Tickets - a team of developers/systems engineers to fix bugs and issues in the production source code. They will typically have 1-10 people on call at all times outside of normal business hours.
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Systems Engineering - they decide how and what systems to implement, upgrade, retire etc. They need to coordinate with developers to plan software/hardware upgrades to make sure they don't mess anything up unexpectedly (but it almost always happens during an upgrade)
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Accounting - Accounts Payable (when you pay money for something, like AWS); Accounts Receivable (when you receive money, like for artificially inflating posts to the front page for money); Finance - should and how much money should be borrowed/invested to run the business; and a ton more depts honestly, any of which without the business would crumble.
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Advertising - Both advertising Reddit in other media, and arranging sponsors to put their ads all over the place.
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Executives - they plan the strategy for each dept listed above. Although this being an internet service, the CIO might be slightly more inflated than a typical company.
And there's probably a lot that I'm forgetting. But really, all this is just to illustrate about one of the most trafficked websites every is "How are they running a business with only 2,000 employees"
I hope you don't. And I'm sorry.
I lost my best friend in February. It fucking sucks.
He was a big partier. Once he hit his late 30s he ballooned to probably over 300. He took a nap one day and had a heart attack in his little attic room of his friend's house, where he had lived for 10 years. Our big friend group from back in the day is wondering who will go next.