Category: Art

Art, News & Politics

Indiana University and Uffizi Gallery Partnership

Shelly

Jackie sent me a story about the partnership, and we just got an official announcement at work. Very cool!

“The project between the Uffizi, one of the oldest and most renowned art museums in the world, and IU’s Virtual World Heritage Laboratory will create high-resolution 3-D digital models of the Uffizi sculptures and make them freely available online by IU’s bicentennial in 2020.”

Source: IU and Uffizi Gallery partner to digitize in 3-D the museum’s Greek and Roman sculpture collection: Headlines: Inside IU Bloomington: Indiana University Bloomington

Journals

Happiness

Shelly

Happiness #artjournal

I hate the saying that money can’t buy happiness. I suspect it was created by filthy rich people to gaslight poor folks into thinking they didn’t get a raw deal.

The thing is, it almost sounds reasonable, taken at face value. But lurking under the surface is the ugly fact that poverty–and I do not mean temporary or situational poorness–kills joy to death. The constant, overwhelming stress of waiting for the other shoe to drop is incompatible with happiness.

So, maybe money can’t actually buy happiness, but it can remove otherwise insurmountable barriers to it.

Art, Pets

The Shop’s Still Open

Shelly

Frances had her second surgery to remove the remaining mammary tumors two days ago. As I mentioned, her pre-op exam turned up an unrelated tumor on her vulva. A fine needle aspirate showed mast cells, and the vet removed it during her scheduled surgery, since she was already going to be anesthetized. He also wanted to get it off her ASAP, because mast cell tumors are malignant.

We’ll know more about that and the remaining mammary tumors when the histopathology report comes back next week. In the meantime, this surgery ended up costing about $500 more than anticipated. That’s a huge chunk of money for me, especially given that I’d already used up all my padding with the previous surgery.

But guess what? You can help by buying stuff! Everything shipped to US addresses will be sent Priority Mail with tracking, usually the next day (same day when possible), and if you order soon USPS swears it will be delivered before December 25th.