Diversity in Randomness
Today's Top of the Show was The railway station, Redfern by Arthur Streeton. It is a very peaceful early street scene from Australia.
Today brought us a diversity in our random selections. We started with Arthur Boyd's Nebuchadnezzar on fire falling over a waterfall. While the subject is a bit apocalyptic the bright colors were very appealing. The next piece of art, Festivals of the Twelve Months by Miyagawa Chōshun. It very much looks like a woodblock print but looking up the artist after the show I discovered that he is one of the few few ukiyo-e artists to have never created woodblock prints.
We also had a great painting by Jennie Augusta Brownscombe called Love’s Young Dream. It shows a young woman anticipating someone arriving on horseback while she waits on the porch with her parents.
As my web bonus I demonstrated the online game Geogussr. The game used to be completely free but now only allows you to play one game a day for free. A game consists of 5 locations so it can take a while to complete the 5 locations. The way the game works is it places you in street view in a random location in the world. From there you can move and look around to try and figure out where you are. The location can be anywhere in the world. Sometimes it is next to a great landmark such as the Eiffel Tower or on a backroad in the Yukon territory. I don't consider Google searches cheating so keep it handy for translations or business searches. Thanks to Barry's knowledge of Polish we didn't need that for the demo game. Be warned that the game can be addictive. Fortunately it is only $3.99 for a month of unlimited games.
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