#gardner's

[mindblowingfactz]

Hedgehogs are known as the gardener's friend, because they will eat slugs, beetles, caterpillars, etc., and do no harm. source

image via livingnorth

[fuckyeahaquaria]

Gardner's Killifish | Fundulopanchax gardneri 

(by bulgari_to)

[johnmahaseth]

New Post has been published on US Top Searches

New Post has been published on http://sansarg.com/wp/2013/10/29/sports-2/stanford-de-ben-gardners-college-career-over-due-to-injury/

Stanford DE Ben Gardner's college career over due to injury

Stanford will have to move on without a key part of its defense — senior defensive end Ben Gardner will miss the rest of the season because of a left pectoral muscle injury, putting an end to his college career. Gardner suffered the injury in the third quarter of the Cardinal’s win over Oregon State on Saturday.

More Stanford football: Rule Of Tree

Gardner’s loss is a significant one for the Stanford defense. He is third on the team with 7.5 tackles for loss and second with 4.5 sacks. Gardner was a second-team All-Pac-12 selection in each of the last two seasons. He will be replaced in the starting lineup by Blake Lueders, who has appeared in six games this season, making 16 tackles. Lueders picked up a sack against the Beavers.

Stanford might also be without defensive end Henry Anderson, who “has a chance to play” against Oregon next Thursday, according to David Shaw.  Anderson’s status won’t be known until Saturday or Sunday at the earliest.

More from SB Nation college football:

Follow @SBNationCFBFollow @SBNRecruiting

• The Alphabetical, Week 10, by Spencer Hall

• Pain is what unites college football fans

• How the NCAA could still beat the O’Bannon lawsuit

• Coach pranks players with fake new uniforms

• Long reads: Chip Kelly’s New Hampshire laboratory | Why we love college football

SBNation.com – All Posts

[twothirtyfourrenaissance]

Artists, Artisans & Patrons: Part II

Domenico Ghirlandaio, Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni, 1488

Domenico Ghirlandaio’s rigid portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni, a wealthy Florentine member of the Albizzi family. Though her rigidity that can be drawn from a side profile portrait can be seen as cold as she is completely disregarding the viewer, the viewer can still convey a sense of character of the sitter to the viewer. The portrait “reveals the proud bearing of a sensitive and beautiful young woman” (Gardner’s, 559.) Even though she is seated in a rigid side profile portrait (a typical pose of the renaissance shows value of culture in Florence,) such a harsh profile can show an established role in society. The stance was often associated with roman commemorative coins (not only a convention of the renaissance.) Quote in background by roman poet Marshall “if you could portray art and spirit…no greater beauty all at once.”

  Timarete painting the Virgin and Child, from Boccaccio’s De Mulieribus Claris, Early 15th Century.

Illustration, from ancient Greece (not wearing clothing though) and she is painting to the virgin & the child (despite saying that she doesn’t paint imperfect figures) laborer making pigment, representation of a workshop.

  Marco polo’s livre des merveilles, 1410-1412

Not particularly realistic but…

  Raphael, The School of Athens, 1509-11

Changing representation of artists more towards members of inteligencia.

Utilizes a 1 point perspective

Commentary on the painting realm of the Quattrocento

Exhibits a balance of horizontals and verticals

Figures are all in perspective

Shows the gathering of great philosophers underneath classical roman arches

Shows the ideology of humanism

Socrates is featured asking question to further nourish his intelligence, in order to stimulate students to respond. Da Vinci is pointing upwards-making connections between heaven and earth.

Raphael places himself with mathematicians as a self-portrait; he is looking outwards at the viewer.

Fully encapsulates the Renaissance value of the rebirth of knowledge.

Orthogonally lead towards the single center point.

“Blends past and present” (Crenshaw, 126) and shows the personality of Raphael as it is a self portrait, his concern with the realm higher things, and the philosophical approaches necessary for understanding a true renaissance man.

Generalizes and shows the High Renaissances obsession with knowledge.

  Patrons: “Paintings are deposits of personal relationships”

Most art was produced on a bespoke basis, artists discussed what was to be made, etc. However, there was no standardized form of contracts (thus we can actually get information about individual artists and patrons. What they were willing to provide as a part of their services, etc., spending money wisely was considered a great virtue.) As a result, paintings that were meant to be donations were very particular. The materials used for pieces of donation are usually of a lesser quality as opposed to the pigments used by royal portraits.

  Domenico Ghirlandaio, adoration of the magi, 1488.

Ghirlandaio is a Florentine painter whose father was a goldsmith. Classicizing style. Usage of hard, stiff outlines around his figures.

  Note: Contracts changed from patron to patron and sometime artists had the final say. From 1410 to 1490 there is lesser importance on quality of pigment and more value is placed on the quality and time spent by the artist.

[hopelesslyavidbookworm-blog]

“Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.” ― Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Death in a Tenured Position

Hit the book sale again this weekend at Garder's! I came home with close to 20 more books. I have no self control. I will probably have a lot less at the next Gardner's event. It's October 19th 8-11 pm, Ladies night. BOGO free on used books, comics, manga and all kinds of stuff for any ladies in the Tulsa area. I will definitely be there! ^__^

[hopelesslyavidbookworm-blog]

“In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

 I'm beside myself. Found out the the tent sale I went to last weekend lasts until the 23! I'm going back for round 3 on my day off tomorrow. Who's excited? This girl =D