Reviewing an upcoming show of Henri Matisse’s paper cut-out artwork the critic, describing the pieces, wrote ‘seaweeds wave and swallows soar’ – sending me off on an image search of the artist’s waving seaweeds. I hadn’t until this point been much interested in Matisse’s work – but have long been interested in the various shapes that seaweeds take. A quick search did not disappoint.
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Art imitating life, Dilbert edition
Coworker sends me a Dilbert cartoon in the morning. Me: “Ha ha – yep, that’s you all right.” We laugh, work goes on. Later that same day: he stops by my desk to comment on a recent document I wrote that he’s been using for some marketing materials and says, completely forgetting this morning’s exchange, “Great documentation – I love it when the requirements are all there.” As in, I love it when your completed requirements have complete requirements.….um, yeah. So today I got to be Wally.
Commemorating Shakespeare’s 450th birthday
Hamlet Act IV, Scene II (clue to this blog’s tagline)