I saw this at Math Morph. It looks like someone crossed a 3D printer with a pasta machine and loaded the extruders with tomato- and spinach-flavored pasta. Look at all the surface area for the sauce to cling to! Think of the texture as you bite your way through two interlocking space-filling lattices.
So I’m reading this historical novel (The Lords of the North, by Bernard Cornwell), set in England in the time of Alfred the Great, and it occurs to me that this is basically a Western, with the Christian Saxons as the settlers and the pagan Danes as the Indians. No, wait, the Saxons are already there, and the Danes are trying to take their land, so the Saxons must be the Indians and the Danes must be the settlers. Although… the Saxons took the land away from the Romans, who took it away from the Britons, who took it away from the people who built Stonehenge.
Not to defend my barbarian ancestors, but fighting for land makes a certain kind of sense. I wonder what they would think of modern wars, like the one in Afghanistan. They understood blood feuds, which is how it started. The Taliban wouldn’t give up Osama bin Laden, so we brought them down. The Saxons and Danes would understand that. But staying there for 7 years, not following bin Laden into Pakistan, not plundering the cities, not seizing the land and farming it… incomprehensible.
Wow, an extreme sport I’d never even heard of. Castells in Catalonia go back to the end of the 18th century. From the Castellers de Vilafranca:
Els Castellers de Vilafranca som una associació cultural que tenim com a objectiu aixecar castells.
Los Castellers de Vilafranca son una institución cultural y deportiva catalana que tiene como principal objetivo hacer castells (castillos, torres humanas).
Les Castellers de Vilafranca sont une institution culturelle et sportive catalane qui a comme principal objectif construire des castells (constructions humaines).
The Castellers de Vilafranca is a cultural and sporting association whose main objective is to build castells (human towers).
Note that the board is positioned incorrectly. The lower right hand corner should be a light square. You can also see a support bar between the table legs that suggests the correct orientation of the table. Of course, this isn’t about chess, it’s about art, but if you’re going to appropriate the game of chess as part of your art, get the chess right. I use real sudokus for my sudoku art.