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CoV is up and rolling along. Bestof is up for your pleasure
Those interested of just what peril the NHS faces might be interested in a new report from the CNE.
Guy Fawkes has started a blogger league for those us playing Polidex’s MP shares.
Over at Harry’s there is an apologia to evil completely unfair death tax.
And Al Barger (who is running for Senate) has posted a series of answers to 10 questions.
Read more Comments are off for this postRoses Of Picardy
and the roses will die with the summer time
and our roads may be far apart
but there’s one rose that dies not in Picardy
‘tis the rose that I keep in my heart
—Weatherley/Wood
A remarkable set of color photographs from World War I by Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud. I at first thought that they were hand-painted, but the technique actually predates the war:
Louis Lumire had already invented instant photographic plates and the Cinematographe when, in late 1903, he and his brother Auguste patented a new process for producing colour photographs : the Autochrome.
Before the invention of the Autochrome, colours were separated using a complex three-colour process whereby three successive exposures had to be taken and then superimposed onto each other. Louis Lumire, however, devised a method of filtering light by using a single three-colour screen made up of millions of grains of potato starch dyed in three different colours. This mixture was then laid out on a varnished glass plate, which would be ready for use once it was coated in a black and white emulsion. Developing the plate entailed applying the same process as was used for black and white photographs at the time, with the impression being processed to reversal.As with pointillist painting, the colour effect is rendered by viewing the image in its entirety, since the colours are created from the juxtaposition of the multitude of dots; indeed, the essential charm of these photographs derives from that very juxtaposition.
You can view the others here.
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