I should mention that I was in the water with the first two and the third was actively stalking me for quite some time before it made me aware of its presence.

Please go buy mine from MY shop if you want this, it’s so obvious how low quality the aliexpress one is too…

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Oh I’m sure some of them will have to operate an office printer at some point…

We’ve got a second hand behemoth of an MFP in my office that has a motion sensor, and makes a sound like you’re throttling a pit droid every time you approach

If you’re a big nerd like me you can read the process from the primary source, Il Libro dell’Arte by Cennino Cennini, a 15th century manual on everything an artist-craftsman would need to know how to do. I can talk for ages about historic pigments though 🤣

realized how much that would probably destabilize the economics across multiple trade routes, thus changing the course of the entire Renaissance. 🤷🏼‍♀️

French ultramarine has finer particles and is more uniform, and is slightly redder, whereas natural ultramarine trends greenish. I was once asked what I would do if I was magically transported back in time to the Middle Ages and I said “invent French ultramarine 5 centuries early”, but then

French ultramarine is actually a synthetic version that is chemically identical to lapis (kind of like a lab-grown diamond is chemically identical to natural ones). It was developed in 1826 by chemist Jean-Baptiste Guimet for a contest.

the raiment of the Virgin. That association also made the pigment that much more valuable. Patrons commissioning devotional altarpieces would tell the artist’s workshop how much gold and how much lapis, in monetary terms, should be used in the piece, as a means of showing their wealth.

Second, there was more than one source for gold, but as mentioned, the same was not true of lapis. Third, lapis lazuli is a very hard stone, and it took immense effort to hand-grind it to a powder fine enough for painting. Fourth, that intense blue came to symbolize heaven, and was dedicated to

at times worth more by weight than gold is true, and that value came from several factors. First, the cost of importation. Not only was it a hell of a long way to go from Afghanistan to Italy, but also much of the trade was controlled by Venetian merchants, who would take their own cut.

Oh, this is also why the color ultramarine is called that. The word means “beyond the sea”, and describes from whence painters in Italy would acquire the lapis lazuli to grind into that all-important pigment. It had to be imported from across the sea. The oft-quoted factoid that lapis lazuli was

The answer to most of them is probably “undiagnosed something or other”

I used to pour pop rocks in mine in high school so I truly can’t judge anyone else’s mac&cheese preferences

I would say three pies, on the expectation that several other desserts will be available. If no other desserts, then 4, plus ice cream.

Flavors: Honey ricotta, chocolate cranberry, and if you’ll allow it, apple pie pizza. If not, then pumpkin-nut.

The “…you too.” KILLED ME lmaooo

Our cat is not interested in most people food (except Quaker brand lightly salted rice cakes, club crackers, and tortilla chips) but he is aware that the water from a can of tuna is his allocated distribution, payable as a lumpless sum upon any disbursement of tuna to the COO (Can Opener Operator).