The Tech Industry's Double Moat -- July 7, 2024

Locator: 48066TECH.

Double-moat: in a July 7, 2024, post on the magnificent seven, I noted the "double-moat." Someone is reading the blog. Story today about the "human resources" moat, link here.

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The Book Page 

One wonders if Joe Biden is doing any more reading -- other than government / bureaucratic documents placed in front of him, most for signature, I suppose.

I first came across the term "Onondaga" when we were buying Stickley furniture for our new apartment in north Texas. We fell in love with Stacy Furniture, Grapevine, TX, and fell in love with Stickley's Onandaga line of furniture. Wow.  

Kathleen DuVal mentions the Onondaga in the first paragraph of chapter four in her excellent book:

Native Nations: A Millennium In North America, Kathleen DuVal, c. 2024. 

The chapter begins:

The Hiawatha belt has a background of deep purple wampum (shell beads) interwoven with symbols made of white wampum representing the five Haudenosaunee nations, also known as the Iroquois Confederacy or the Iroquois League.

The Mohawk nation is awhite square on the right, signifying the easternmost Haudenosunee nation.

The others, moving from right to left, are the Oenida, Onondaga (in the middle, represented by a white Tree of Peace), Cayuga, and Seneca nations, connected in a row on the belt.

Since the eighteenth century, the Haudenosaunee have nluded a sixth nation, the Tuscaroras.

Wampum: beads, from shells.

It's interesting that "purple" is the most valuable, just as it for royalty in the UK, and for the Phoenicians long before that. 

I like to think of the "Haudenosaunee" as the "Haudeno-Shawnee" -- right, wrong, or indifferent.

To see the details of the graphic below, one will have to zoom in quite a bit. 

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The Art Page
Ft Worth's Kimbell Museum

One wonders if Joe Biden is visiting any museums any more but I suppose if asked, he would say that he sees a portrait of himself in his own museum every day he looks in the mirror.

From The Wall Street Journal today:

From the article:

So, too, the weavings (c. 1528-31) in “Art and War in the Renaissance: The Battle of Pavia Tapestries,” on loan as a complete set to the U.S. for the first time from the Capodimonte Museum in Naples, capture a swerve in style.

Designed by Bernard van Orley (1487-1541), the premier tapestry artist in Brussels when it was the leader in tapestry production, these glittering panels represent a transition from medieval to Renaissance artistry.

Made from wool and silk yarns and highlighted with threads of gold and silver, they abandon the flat, decorative, patterned narratives of the past, and instead feature modeled, nearly life-size figures, set amid many additional narrative elements in a spatially accurate background. In this, Van Orley drew inspiration from Italian tapestries epitomized by Raphael’s groundbreaking “Acts of the Apostles” created more than a decade earlier, and added a density of details highly prized by Northern Renaissance artists.

Decades ago we were fortunate enough to acquire a tapestry from Brugges, outside Brussels.

The original:

It seems to be fairly rare to see both "panels" together, and I could be wrong, but there may also be a third panel.

We had seen this tapestry in the Cluny and when we spotted this reproduction in Brugges, we were astounded. Perhaps the best art we have ever possessed, though the all-silk prayer rugs from the Mideast may be worth a whole lot more.