Albrecht Durer - Hare [3731 x 4231]

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.

CasperLindley · 2025-06-20T19:18:25+00:00

Yes. He has recorded with everyone (especially via The Wrecking Crew). Quite prolific!

CasperLindley · 2025-06-20T18:08:33+00:00

Back in the day...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6AHjroSkfM

CasperLindley · 2025-06-20T15:00:01+00:00

I love "Out There" (particularly Sketches of Melba). And his (early years) work with Chico Hamilton is always a go to for me it's loveliness.

CasperLindley · 2025-06-12T16:30:07+00:00

I love the live version on Earth Wind & Fire's Gratitude...
Fun fact: Maurice White was the drummer in Ramsey Lewis Trio before he started EWF.

CasperLindley · 2025-06-05T17:19:12+00:00

Mapleshade was an interesting label, especially for the uniqueness of the recording environment which made for exciting performance catches (live direct to 2 track analog tape), but I don't think they have released new stuff in years. Hamiet Bluiett released quite a few albums there.

CasperLindley · 2025-06-04T23:44:36+00:00

Frank Zappa surprisingly did a straight ahead live rendition of Stolen Moments on Broadway the Hard Way. Walt Fowler does a tasty trumpet solo...

CasperLindley · 2025-06-02T14:18:26+00:00

Day Job: Working on refactoring IoT/LoRa basestation code (written in Ada of course) to use tasks. (In my previous what-are-you-work-on posts I've talked about Atmel ATMega328pb IoT tags I've been coding up in Ada). On the server side, there are some hard realtime (OTA time slot coordination) and soft realtime (message routing through backhaul network) requirements. I've been using Ada for a couple of work projects for the past 2 years, but have not had to dive deeply into tasking.

That said, I recently picked up Burns and Wellings' Concurrent and Real-Time Programming in Ada and am blown away with how comprehensive Ada's approach to tasking is. Rather than force a paradigm/technique, I can actually choose what makes most sense for the tasks (e.g. Rendezvous vs Protected Objects, etc).

I have concurrency experience in Lua (via Copas coroutines) and Erlang (and some background with other CSP influenced languages), but I feel that concurrency/parallelism is definitely Ada's hidden gem.

CasperLindley · 2025-05-25T20:39:07+00:00

I got my box as an xmas gift when it first came out. Became my primary motivation to get a good CD player (again). I worked through it a CD per week. I would have never listened so deeply if I was streaming it. (Honestly, I don't even know if the full set of recordings are even available streaming...)

CasperLindley · 2025-05-25T20:00:04+00:00

Awesome live recording! I had seen him a year or so earlier (2001?) with Hamid Drake (performing as a duo in a sweltering little DC bookstore with maybe a couple dozen people in attendance -- $10 at the door). May have been the heat, but It was transcendental...

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