July 27 2021 - Inside Hillary Clinton's mansion where she lives with her partner

 

What a bizarre headline.  It looks like the algorithm did a search on popular celebrities and filled in the name to the standard headline.  It always has a mansion and a partner. On the other hand, the Cintons do have a mansion. Location of Whitehaven in Washington, D.C. Whitehaven is a Clinton family-owned mansion in Washington, D.C. used by Hillary Clinton when she is in residence in the capital. (The primary Clinton home is in Chappaqua, New York.) Built in 1951, the Georgian-style house is located near Washington's Embassy Row. And there are lots of headlines about their homes: "A look at Hillary and Bill Clinton's homes" HERE. This is a NY Times article, so may be inaccessible to you. There are lots of homes, and the price they paid for each one is identified.   It turns out their house purchasing is very popular in the headlines. Of course, she was running for president when many of these articles appeared.  And they have owned a lot of houses, and do own a number of properties that are fascinating.  Perhaps the articles are ironic, given the ultimate home for any American is the White House.   Too bad she didn't become President, it would have made for great decorating news. These pictures were created from the Lily Plates that Brian had me taken pictures of.  They went through the Flexifly plugin with the Mandelbrot output.  To me they look like something the White House would use as China.

July 9 2021 - Almost Done Tattooing

 

What else should we look at with the topic of tattoos.  I wonder how tattoos have become so popular in our lifetime. Itturns out that it was the electric tattoo machine, invented in 1891, a modification of Thomas Edison's electric pen. This brought tattooing into American culture.  Before that, tattooing was painful.  Before that it was popular amongst sailors and circus performers.   By 1936, 1 in 10 Americans had a tattoo. This seems such a high number.  The 1960s and 1970s were the time that tattoos went mainstream.  Janis Joplin is famous for her tattoo.  It is known as a milestone. It is claimed tat tattoos have "undergone dramatic redefinition" and shifted from a form of deviance to an acceptable form of expression.  Does this make tattoos 'normal' today?  I guess so if we consider 30 percentage of the US population has one.  Do they remain in the deviant/deviation space?  I ask that as there are countless articles on creepiest, weirdest and strangest tattoos.  An example is teeth tattoos. They are placed on crowns which are then put in the client's mouth.  And there are DNA tattoos. That's a DNA extraction process that allows you to turn your relatives or pets, dead or alive, into tattoo ink. The sales lady at the wine store at Harvest Barn in St. Catharines has a tattoo dedicated to her son that contains her son's ashes.  She is very talkative about this tribute and happy to show you anytime.  Is there a most famous tattoo in the world?  There are no famous tattoos listed.  You can find answers for things like: Which celebrity has the best tattoo? Which celebrity has a lot of tattoos? Which movie starts have tattoos? You get the trend. What about: Who has the most tattoos? That would be Lucky Diamon Rich (Gregory Paul McLaren) age 49, a tattoo artist/performance artist.  He holds the Guinness Record.  "He began by having a full collection of colourful designs from around the world tattooed over his entire body. But not content with stopping there, Lucky next opted for a 100% covering of black ink, including eyelids, the delicate skin between the toes, down into the ears, and even his gums. He is now being tattooed with white designs on top of the black, and coloured designs on top of the white! From the pictures, is he missing a tooth in the front or is it tattooed black?  It is creepy. See him HERE.   A heart shape is such a strong image to us.  The originating abstract image was soap suds in the car wash.  It was Flaming pear's Flexifly that created the patterns.  All seem to match with the tattoo theme of the day.

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June 4 2020 - Horoscopes Vs Bridge

Some days I do a search on what is the daily news.  I know the news today so don't really know what made me search for   "News today June 4 2020."  The top retrieval will be coronavirus.  What was the second one?  It was the daily horoscope,  and just down the page is this surprise: Bridge: June 4, 2020 - The Mercury News.  Playing today's four spades, he ruffed West's ace of diamonds and took the A-K of trumps... Like a horse race, I wonder if bridge has made it to the front of the line. But don't underestimate the horoscope as news;  there are two more horoscope headlines.  So for today, it looks like horoscope wins by at least a head, and maybe a neck.    How popular is bridge if we compare it to horoscopes? Worldwide 200 million people play bridge.  25 million people in the U.S. are bridge players. The American Federation of Astrologers put the number of Americans who read their horoscope every day as high as 70 million, about 23 percent of the population. So wouldn't that mean that horoscopes has won by 3 lengths in the horse race of news.  Or maybe it is much more.  Secretariat won the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths - an astonishing record that will remain for decades. It takes skill to play bridge while it only takes basic reading for a horoscope. So much easier to play at horoscopes.  And we have a lot more invested in what's going to happen to us each day.  So my bet stays with horoscopes as winning by a lot. Our pictures today are courtesy of special effects software by flaming pear  - flexifly for bending and twisting images and flood for creating wave reflections.

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