Just to warn you that normal service - who giggled? - may be slightly interrupted over this weekend because my IT Manager (aka: SoD) is descending and is threatening to sort out our entire computer system here at Chateaux Duff. It is possible that I might be forced onto MS10 which will probably mean several weeks of night school to get the hang of it. Sometimes I can't help thinking that stasis is much to be preferred to progress!
Anyway, to cheer you all up on this wet and windy Friday I am going to offer you another selection from Paul Klee, my favourite artist. Don't bother trying to understand them or analyse them, just enjoy the colouring and the concepts and let your imagination do the rest. Actually, if you look at them long enough you begin to see a sort of inner reality:
OH MY GAAAAAAARD! Clicking through a Klee site, I've just stumbled on a reproduction of the tiny Penguin book cover that first introduced me to Paul Klee's work! I still have it and I can remember exactly where I bought it - W. H. Smith in Guildford High Street, circa 1958 and it cost 2/6! I had never heard of Paul Klee but the cover picture just took my eye and when I looked inside - I bought the book instantly:
Not boring you, am I? I could go on - and on - but that's enough for today.
Plenty just like that at the old folks home down the road. Keeps them relaxed and cheaper than pills.
Posted by: Lord T | Friday, 30 October 2015 at 10:33
MS 10 is a couple of prompts to start, then go away for a couple of hours or so, then some final prompts. Then a nap.
Posted by: Whitewall | Friday, 30 October 2015 at 12:08
Followed by a long holiday if my experience of up-dating is anything to go by!
Posted by: David Duff | Friday, 30 October 2015 at 12:14
I think, m'Lud, that is why the 'Memsahib' allows me to hang several of them on our walls!
Posted by: David Duff | Friday, 30 October 2015 at 12:18
In the third Klee painting, start at the upper left corner, count down three squares, then count right 5 squares. That's my favorite square!
Posted by: Dom | Friday, 30 October 2015 at 12:32
Dom, it is rather stylish now that you mention it.
Posted by: Whitewall | Friday, 30 October 2015 at 12:43
"Chateaux Duff" - you have more than one?
Anyway, sorry but I really don't care for Klee. Please can we have a proper post denigrating the frogs or the krauts or the tories or something.
Even some more from the Swan of Avon (and I don't mean the pub)
Posted by: Cuffleyburgers | Friday, 30 October 2015 at 13:01
And also, Dom, it is deeply meaningful!
Cuffers, that do be Zummerzet French!
Posted by: David Duff | Friday, 30 October 2015 at 13:18
Nice!
Posted by: Andra | Friday, 30 October 2015 at 19:28
Don't worry about Windows 10 David. It's a bit like Windows 7 and very easy to learn.
Posted by: Richard | Friday, 30 October 2015 at 20:10
Your local paint seller will give you similar colour charts.
Posted by: john malpas | Friday, 30 October 2015 at 20:45
Beautiful stuff, David, but then I'm currently on a rather heavy dose of lysergic acid diethylamide.
Posted by: Bob | Friday, 30 October 2015 at 23:44
Not boring you, am I?
Yes. I've seen more exciting colour charts at the paint shop.
:-)
Posted by: AussieD | Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 06:04
Bob, that would explain your politics!
Posted by: David Duff | Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 12:43
Or yours, David. "Inner reality"? Are you Obi-Wan Kenobi?
Posted by: Bob | Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 13:40
https://youtu.be/L2KLIO7WRm0
Whitewall, think I found it!
Posted by: jimmy glesga | Sunday, 01 November 2015 at 00:38
Jimmy, that's it. A true story. The final crash on Kingston Pike just below Knoxville, Tennessee is where I mentioned. The origin of the moonshiner was Harlan, Kentucky...where the setting for the series "Justified" is found. Moonshining goes on even today way back in the mountains.
Posted by: Whitewall | Sunday, 01 November 2015 at 12:31