Will Derham

Had the great pleasure of seeing some of Du Noyer’s original sketches and watercolours … absolute treat!
#History #Heritage #Art #Dublin #Ireland

The RSAI (Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland) really is one of Dublin’s hidden gems, both in terms of collection and “spirit of the place”.
#History #Heritage #Dublin #Ireland

Apsely House (No. 1, London) could be aptly summed up with one word, ‘lush’. The picture collection is excellent and the rooms finished (largely) to a luxurious degree, with just enough wear to suggest their age.

#History #Heritage #Art #London #England

Also enjoyed this pair of stunning portraits of the Empress Josephine and Napoleon who, aptly enough given the location, looks a little deflated.

#History #Heritage #Art #London #England

Soldiers everywhere, in the Striped Drawing Room at Apsley House. I particularly enjoyed Wellington contemplating a bust of Napoleon (last image).

#History #Heritage #Art #London #England

“Apsley” House - damn you autocorrect! 🤦🏻‍♂️

A man sitting on a big chair, his hands are folded in praying. Four other men are around him, spitting on him. This is a detail from the Speculum humanae salvationis (1471 printed in Utrecht, nowadays the Netherlands). https://data.onb.ac.at/rep/10036309

Dealing with #hatespeech before the internet.

Monkeying about in London …
#Design #Architecture #London

In a similar way to the story of “The Emperor’s New Clothes”, it’s like somebody is saying the quiet part out loud …

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

I’m sure it would great in my 1950s hallway in Ballyfermot 😜

Now THAT’S a frame!

What the job? I totally want to do this tour 🤣

Irish Independent: Man stole three coffee machines in a week from Monaghan department store.

How does he sleep at night?

Hi Mark, Back in the day, we barely went a day in school without passing handwritten notes to our friends in class and in the hallways. And just like hair scrunchies, handwritten notes are making a comeback—but with a hi-tech twist. Handwrytten has created a card and letter sending service that will learn your handwriting and signature. It also utilizes AI that will help you write the card, and robots that will put the pen to paper and put on the stamp, giving handwritten notes the revival that it needs. Would you be interested in learning more about Handwrytten and trying it out for yourself?

Love this new AI "handwritten note" service that takes everything special out of sending/receiving letters in the mail.

LS Lowry believed his paintings would be worthless, interviews reveal Exclusive: Sir Ian McKellen portrays artist in BBC documentary that draws on trove of previously unheard recordings

Fours years worth of previously unheard interviews - an historian’s exhilaration!

Also beautifully touching in what they reveal.

#History #Heritage #Art #UK #Lowry

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So many countries reminding the USA of all the things the USA is supposed to be…

But you catch yourself just in time, yeah? 🫣

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Ultimately, we are all our own bin men.

My everyday life has so much rubbish I don’t even get that far. You, Sir, are on another plane 👏🏻

And, double misfortune, sometimes one posts something only to realise that on reflection.

I never noticed the mosaic during the daylight hours (probably never properly looked). I was wondering if they were a light effect tonight. What a lovely detail.

The zesty lighting atop Liberty Hall this evening #Dublin

(zoom in to appreciate the pattern on the soffit, which I had never noticed before) 🩵

Brad Pitt shooting One For All a thriller about a man racing against time to spend vouchers as they're losing value but hardly any shop he likes will take them.

Pretty much what I was getting at yesterday …

#SocialMedia #FreeSpeech

Who gets to read or hear us online is decided by algorithms. If speech were truly free, algorithms wouldn’t exist. We’d just see and hear from those we followed in the chronological order they posted things.

#SocialMedia #FreeSpeech

You can almost say or type what you want, but speech is a two way thing. If nobody can hear you say it, does it even count as speech?

#SocialMedia #FreeSpeech

“the EC means to strangle free speech by a systemic assault on US companies"

Am I in a minority by thinking that anything posted on any social media platform is more “controlled” speech than free speech?

Every post everywhere is controlled in the way it appears to others.

#SocialMedia #FreeSpeech

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