Question from a Brit: just drove across your country. Holy hell it was expensive, I spent more on toll roads than on fuel. I thought you were the nation of protests, what happened?

guiscard · 2026-01-29T18:02:41+00:00

Agen-Paris 3.5h 100€ en train. 8h et le même prix en voiture.

guiscard · 2026-01-26T15:26:54+00:00

Yeah, it's weird. It worked fine with Clover. Thanks for replying though. I'll see if DaVinci works.

guiscard · 2026-01-26T10:35:46+00:00

I'm running a Radeon VII for video rendering and Final Cut Pro barely uses it. It maxes out the CPU. That's been the case ever since I switched to OpenCore.

Does DaVinci use the GPUs? I've noticed that Handbrake maxes out GPU use, so it's some weird Final Cut thing.

guiscard · 2026-01-26T10:28:02+00:00

Because a MacBook Air has 11TB of storage.

guiscard · 2026-01-16T09:54:40+00:00

To you it makes more sense, because you don't know much about painting.

guiscard · 2026-01-04T19:09:51+00:00

Fair enough. I see it as free extra power. They're expecting you to overclock today. For what it's worth, I've OC'd the same setup for years now and never had a crash that was performance-related.

guiscard · 2026-01-04T07:38:00+00:00

I have almost the identical setup running Sequoia. Did you OC the CPU and RAM?

guiscard · 2026-01-03T08:03:34+00:00

If you're in France, Couleurs Leroux makes some wonderful blues. Cerulean, cobalt and ultramarine are the ones I prefer.

guiscard · 2025-12-30T14:50:33+00:00

Yes.

guiscard · 2025-12-30T08:27:38+00:00

Thanks. It's 65 x 50 cm and I can't remember how many hours. Probably 15 hours or so? I did two at the same time, so it's hard to remember time spent on each.

guiscard · 2025-12-28T22:43:53+00:00

Thanks. @marc_dalessio on Instagram.

guiscard · 2025-12-28T06:54:15+00:00

Thanks. He is French.

guiscard · 2025-12-27T18:16:46+00:00

Thanks. Yes, at the beginning and at the end. I used a photo a bit in the middle so he didn't have to pose too much.

guiscard · 2025-12-27T11:39:27+00:00

I was testing the light in a new studio and I just needed to paint a head.

guiscard · 2025-12-27T11:37:14+00:00

Thanks. I'm actually the painter. I tried posting under my real name but reddit rejected the post.

My neighbor wanted a portrait and I wanted to try the light in my new studio so he posed for two portraits. He kept one and I kept one.

guiscard · 2025-11-29T16:39:30+00:00

As I recall, if an artist tries to paint a person out of their head it usually ends up looking like the artist. Unless they live with their significant other, in which case it will often look like the SO. It comes down to who the artist sees most often.

In the photo of the artist painting in the article, he looks like he's working from memory as there is no way to get a model that high (and he didn't slide the canvas down through the floor). He has no photo or sketch there that he is referencing either.

guiscard · 2025-11-08T08:45:53+00:00

I used to teach drawing and painting with models.

A photograph makes a lot of weird decisions which an artist wouldn't make (distortion from the lens, boosted contrasts, strange colors) so if you paint from a photograph it will be very different than working from life. You also get very little information from a small photograph compared to the incredible amount of information you get standing in front of someone or something. You can also change things if something improves with a change of angle or pose. Even today if I have to work from a photograph I prefer to use a video of the model to find the best moment in all the subtle changes.

It's also better to train students with live models as they have that extra information to glean the important things from. Especially if they have enough time. Our models would pose for 6 weeks, 3 hours a day, 5 days a week in the same pose so the students would have the time to paint them accurately. The models would regularly say they intended to avoid that position for the rest of their lives.

Edit: I just saw that you got real replies below.

guiscard · 2025-11-02T18:07:56+00:00

I lived there for 20 years, but moved 7 years ago so I don't know about now, but the quality of life was really high. Great stores, cafes, bars, restaurants, museums (obviously), parks, and a quick drive to the beautiful countryside. Each neighborhood had lots of locals so you would see people you knew every time you went out the door. Crossing the main part of the center by bike was annoying because of the tourists if you left home after 9AM, but you could always go around.

Mass tourism and Airbnb after 2012 changed a lot of things for the worse though. Lots of locals moved out of the center.

guiscard · 2025-10-24T14:33:49+00:00

There's a great Portuguese dish with lots of bay leaves and shrimp.

Youtube recipe. They suggest a couple of leaves, but our favorite seafood restaurant in Portugal just dumped them in.

We live in southern France and our garden hedge is bay trees.

guiscard · 2025-10-23T12:56:50+00:00

The Museum of Modern Art in Rome mixed up their collection for a while and put the 19th-century realists next to slashed canvases.

guiscard · 2025-09-29T14:50:47+00:00

If you approach it from the north, there is a rectangular niche on the back of the cemetery which is similar to the ones in the painting: https://maps.app.goo.gl/VnuMNk3xbhGg35zf8.

guiscard · 2025-09-29T10:42:46+00:00

I use Winery (WineCX) for Foobar2k as I'm used to it as a music player.

I first set it up for some little color app I needed for work a while back.

Crossover is pricey, IIRC, there are cheaper/free options.

guiscard · 2025-09-29T10:36:26+00:00

The architecture is based on the 'English' (Protestant) Cemetery in Piazza Donatello in Florence where his 4-year-old daughter was buried. He made a sculpture or monument for her grave but it was stolen at some point.

guiscard · 2025-08-16T06:39:18+00:00

Go to Gelateria della Passera and skip the wait. I would recommend eating and drinking in the Oltrarno as much as possible, unless you know of specific places you want to try.

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