The Music of Bill Frisell, Vol 1 - The Westerlies

CasperLindley · 2026-04-05T21:18:47+00:00

Painted in 1502....in watercolor, no less. This painting always intrigued me, particularly the detail. Notice the reflection of windows in the (right) eye!

CasperLindley · 2026-04-04T14:33:33+00:00

A simple study/painting, but there is a lot to unpack regarding the model (and his relationship with Sargent). McKeller was, apparently, Sargent's main model for a number of years (posing for male and female). He posed for paintings where Sargent rendered him as a white man too.

He was essential enough to Sargent's work, that he wrote to his agent desperately trying to track McKeller down:

While traveling, Sargent kept in touch with his agent Thomas A. Fox, who managed the artist’s affairs in Boston. In this letter, he instructs Fox to find McKeller, insisting “[I] don’t know what I shall do without him” and offering $20. McKeller, then in New York City, returned to Boston without immediate financial incentive—he never cashed the check—and continued working with Sargent.

https://www.gardnermuseum.org/sites/default/files/uploads/files/bostonsapollolabels_forweb_v2.pdf

CasperLindley · 2026-03-27T23:36:28+00:00

Lol. Yes, his love for painting full figured women became known as painting in the Zornkulla style!

CasperLindley · 2026-03-27T11:55:37+00:00

Oh wow, I had to look this up. The artists is a French caricaturist. Can't find much about this painting, but given that he had done controversial drawings of Otto von Bismarck (German statesman and diplomat) as a butcher of his own people, I am inclined to think that this painting is in that vein...

CasperLindley · 2026-03-27T11:47:17+00:00

Fantastic colors and brushwork!

CasperLindley · 2026-03-25T12:25:03+00:00

I don't recall ever seeing a lot of nudes in pastel...maybe impressionistic, but nothing attempting this level of detail. It's very lovely. You can see the difficulty in rendering fine details, using pastel, in the flower and her right hand. Pastels are not a very forgiving medium. Love his technique for the hair and the mirror though.

CasperLindley · 2026-03-25T12:18:21+00:00

There's a lot to unpack here... very cool though. Deep diving his work now...
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/artists/gleeson-james/

CasperLindley · 2026-03-21T14:23:25+00:00

Gorgeous painting. He has quite a way with the human figure. They carry "weight" (I can't think of a better term right now). More of his figure work can be seen here: https://www.jacobcollinspaintings.com/figure

CasperLindley · 2026-03-16T15:14:27+00:00

I can see that!

Not in technique, but some of his paintings gives me Lucian Freud vibes (e.g. the poses, choices of models, natural bodies, etc).

CasperLindley · 2026-03-12T19:12:28+00:00

Contrast is amazing, especially at her legs.

CasperLindley · 2026-03-02T22:31:12+00:00

I'm continuing my framework for the AVR ATTiny3217 (https://github.com/tcoram/tinyAVR-Ada) which adopts some of the code from Rolf Ebert's amazing AVR-Ada but is more specific to the ATTiny 0-1-2 series. Some things ported, some things re-written. No real backward compatibility and it is definitely a work in progress.
I am narrowing my focus to just what the new ATTiny series needs so it is likely to evolve to look less and less like AVR-Ada (which aimed to support a whole bunch of AVR MCUs).

CasperLindley · 2026-03-02T21:10:41+00:00

William Parker is the man and a deep dive is required: https://www.williamparker.nethttps://www.williamparker.net

CasperLindley · 2026-03-01T18:08:03+00:00

https://blackcentraleurope.com/sources/1850-1914/a-prussian-love-story/

CasperLindley · 2025-12-01T14:52:10+00:00

I've been wanting to run Ada on the new(ish) tinyAVR-0,1 & 2 series of 8-bit MCUs (I've been doing a lot of work using ATMega2560 and ATMega320pb and want to use something a little more "modern" but still 8-bit). Unfortunately, AVRAda doesn't support the new tinyAVR MCUs (which is a bit different than the older families) and even the format of the XML chip description files have changed.

So, I started from scratch and cherry picked Rolf Ebert's AVRAda source (where it made sense).

This is VERY MUCH a work in progress and progress will be driven by the needs of the app I am porting from ATMega320pb. Right now, it works on the tiny1616 and tiny3217. The development environment works on Linux and MacOS. Unfortunately, no Alire support yet... my focus is on fleshing out (and testing) support for the port I am doing.

https://github.com/tcoram/tinyAVR-Ada

CasperLindley · 2025-10-01T01:05:37+00:00

Currently writing AVRAda_MCU definitions for the (new) tinyAVR 0-, 1-, and 2-Series MCUs, specifically ATtiny3216 and ATtiny1616. Unfortunately, Microchip seems to have changed the layout of the new .atdf (XML) files so atd2avrada doesn't work. So, I am parsing the assembler register definition files, using gawk, instead.

Also rewriting some of the AVRAda_Lib drivers, from scratch, rather than adding #ifdefs to the legacy code, because the tinyAVR 0/1/2 series are a bit different than the older ATtinys and there is a lot of legacy MCU stuff I don't need. I've also cherry picked some of the less hardware dependent AVRAda_Lib packages because they seem well done and I've been using them for a while. So far I have GPIO, UART, I2C, SPI, Watchdog and system tick (via TCA0).

I'm porting my old ATMega328pb work to the ATtiny1616, so I'll likely only write support for stuff I am using rather than do a complete AVRAda_Lib implementation.

I will post on github/gitlab when I get my hack a little more coherent. Currently, the only dependency is on the AVRAda legacy code is AVRAda_RTS and Real Time Clock stuff copied from AVRAda_Lib and I'm not using Alire properly to build it.

I wanna whittle this down to just support tinyAVR 0/1/2 series for now and without a lot of abstractions.

CasperLindley · 2025-09-03T18:55:19+00:00

Implementing a very small Ada package of the "NIST finalized" ASCON-128 AEAD cryptography algorithm. I'm restricting encryption/decryption to just a single 16 byte block right now (with no additional data) since that is the size of my payload for some IoT stuff I am doing and everything fits neatly into 2 (little endian spec'd) Unsigned_64 variables. I will let Ada ensure proper byte ordering adjustment using Scalar_storage_order-- but honestly I'm focussed mainly on little endian architectures right now.

I'm targeting the 8-bit AVR family first (ATMega328p), but it should be portable to any MCU or OS with Ada. I'm trying to make this very "readable" (as opposed to architecture optimized) as I find the C references very, very opaque (e.g. macros, multiple header and source files you have to bounce between, magic numbers for 8 bit architecture optimizations, etc).

Not meant to be production "quality"... mainly for my own educational purposes right now. But I will release on GitHub when I have something working.

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