June 24 2021 - In a Nutshell

 

You can find a lot "in a nutshell."  But mostly history. It started with Roman writer Pliny's description of Homer's Iliad being copied in so tiny a hand that it could fit in a nutshell. That is such a wonderful image, isn't it? Kurzgesagt is German for "in a nutshell" and it is a German animation and design studio started in 2013.  I was attracted to the more literal translation of the name:  "shortly said."  The company has explained many things in 10 minutes or so - things like The origin of consciousness, Wormholes, How to build a Dyson Sphere.    These are termed explainer videos. They did extremely well explaining the Coronavirus in 2020. Without YouTube, where would this all be? YouTube has made some many things possible. What is the top youtube channel?  One place says T-Series with 185 million subscribers, another says PewDiePie with 102 million. (PewDiePie is Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, Swedish comedian).  The rankings are by Series or Personalities.  They are all in the multi-millions.  Imagine writing something and it goes out to 185 million people.  Wouldn't that involve a lot of replies and comments, requests for brand representation, and other things like this?   I guess so as there are lots of YouTube videos on the day in the life of a YouTuber, so I expect I could find this out - the videos listed say things like "10 key moments in this video" or "7 key moments in this video", and so on.   I am a YouTube viewer with Millie. She likes to watch cat and dog videos, and responds particularly well to other Cavaliers talking.   It is Martagon lily season - these are small down-facing lilies - many on a tall stem - maybe 3 feet tall.

Floral Fire

Pioneer Flowers in St. Catharines has a major fire that started Friday night and burned until Saturday evening. y.  The road was blocked at our favourite cherry tart winery.  Pioneer is just south of 13th Street Winery, so everything was off limits.  The smoke was billowing from the area when I was there in the morning.  There were hotspots at 7:00pm Saturday evening. Here are the St. Catharines Standard pictures of the fire on Friday night at 11:00pm and then Saturday in the day.   Their facility had 300,000 square feet of greenhouse space and three acres of cold storage. There were packaged tulips and peat moss.  Can you imagine?  Peat is still used as a fuel in parts of the world.  And then there are the chemicals, plastic pots and wraps that are used in a greenhouse operation - that could be toxic. The living quarters and all the belongings of the migrant workers were destroyed, so people have been donating to rebuild their homes and personal lives.  What I notice about breaking news is it gets reported over and over, and then all goes dead or just a few updates.  The Pioneer Flower Farms website has a statement on their home page of the website.   It is HERE.  They say they are continuing to harvest their outdoor flower crops. These are the sunflower fields where I never get to take a picture of blooming sunflowers - they get mechanically picked before the bright sunny heads open up.  The Star Wars-looking machines hulk their way over the fields, seemingly leaving everything devastated  (To the photographer's eye). Here is a pretty stem of the Martagon Lily.

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Waifs and Strays Society

I saw a shadow on the wall and the shape made me think of a 'waif' - a child with dishevelled hair, big wide-open eyes and a heart-shaped chin. In the 1800's, homeless people and children were known as 'waifs and strays' - the definition has a few possibilities: 1. a person, especially a child, who has no home or friends. 2. something found, especially a stray animal, whose owner is not known. 3. a very thin, often small person, usually a young woman. 4. a stray item or article: to gather waifs of gossip. 5. Nautical. waft. It likely is the Miserables poster that made the look so familiar.  And also Annie.  The start of waif look in modelling can be attributed to Twiggy in the 1960's. "Twiggy’s large doe eyes, long mascara-coated lashes and waif-like frame defined the era.  Her leggy androgynous look became the ideal mannequin for mod fashion and is still referenced today on the runway and in editorials." So one might expect to see techniques for creating 'those huge eyes'.  Of course, Google has an answer for that question.  There are a few answers - varying between 8 and 11 ways to make your eyes look bigger. Here's how. Define your brows. ...  Add dimension to your crease. ...  Add shimmer at the inner corner of the eye. ...  Use light, neutral colors on the lid. ...  Line the inner rim of the lower lid with a flesh-toned pencil. ...  Apply mascara to lower lashes. ...  Curl your eyelashes. ...  Apply mascara to top lashes. Apply false eyelashes