Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Wednesday, March 20, 2019, T+77, Part 1 -- Kamala Harris To Visit Grapevine, TX

Kamala Harris: first visit to Texas will be to the city where we live -- Grapevine, TX. Grapevine is at the apex of the triangle formed by Grapevine, Dallas, and Ft Worth. Dallas is in Dallas County, pretty much a blue county; regardless of who runs against Trump in 2020, Dallas County will vote for his opponent. Ft Worth and Grapevine are both in Tarrant County. Right now, Tarrant County is a toss-up, and it's very, very likely that Tarrant County would also vote for a Trump opponent. Kamala Harris is hoping to flip this county. She won't have time to visit the border 

Busy, busy day, but not shale related:
  • Why did the owner of the New England Patriots visit a strip mall spa rather than a high-end, low-risk alternative? Texas talk radio came up with plausible explanation; more later
  • NOAA: "last month among the eight warmest Februarys on record." Link here.
  • how to solve global warming overnight. Link here.  
  • Arctic ice refuses to melt. Link here
  • NYC restaurant recession? Link here.
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Bellotto At The Kimbell Museum Of Art 
In Fort Worth Texas

The other day we saw the Bellotto exhibit at the Kimbell. Bellotto painted landscapes and cityscapes of Dresden in the late 18th century. 

From wiki:
Bernardo Bellotto, (c. 1721/2 – 17 November 1780), was an Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching famous for his vedute of European cities (Dresden, Vienna, Turin and Warsaw). 
He was the pupil and nephew of the famous Giovanni Antonio Canal Canaletto and sometimes used the latter's illustrious name, signing himself as Bernardo Canaletto. 
In Germany and Poland, Bellotto called himself by his uncle's name, Canaletto. Bellotto's style was characterized by elaborate representation of architectural and natural vistas, and by the specific quality of each place's lighting. It is plausible that Bellotto, and other Venetian masters of vedute, may have used the camera obscura in order to achieve superior precision of urban views. 
I've never had a "good feeling / understanding" of German history -- the Holy Roman Empire made it more confusing for me. This map at the Bellotto exhibit was very, very helpful:


 Meanwhile, another photo of Sophia working on her project after viewing the exhibit:


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