#micron!sans

[starstruck-des]

XI: Justice

Ink: meybi/ comyet

Micron/Temperanceverse: starstruck-fanatic

[shogun-paints]

“Palenqueras I” 🇨🇴

Markers, watercolors, micron pen. No AI.

[helshades]

NACRON | Bande-annonce officielle VF | Metflix France" sur YouTube

[blueiscoool]

Michelangelo’s Masterpieces Are Getting a High-Tech Makeover

An experimental exhibition in Denmark is intended to spark debate about the future use of 3D-printed replicas in museums.

When it comes to critically-acclaimed museum shows, a high premium is usually placed on the uniqueness and rarity of the objects on display. Back in the day, however, copies of an ancient masterpiece would often have to do. This was how the marvels of Greek art made their way to workshops across the Roman empire, in due course influencing the Renaissance masters and Western culture at large. Not only would ideas spread far via reproduction, but otherwise site-specific art could be appreciated in new contexts.

Carrying this spirit into the 21st century, the National Gallery of Denmark (SMK) will present the most comprehensive Michelangelo exhibition since 1875, featuring a groundbreaking blend of 19th-century plaster casts and state-of-the-art 3D-printed replicas. Opening March 29, the show will reassemble scattered masterpieces and showcase works that rarely, if ever, leave their original locations, offering visitors a unique opportunity to experience the Renaissance master’s art.

Plaster cast after Michelangelo Buonarroti, Medici Madonna. Original made ca. 1526–1532, cast in 1897. Photo: SMK – National Gallery of Denmark.

Using technology from Factum Arte in Madrid, the museum will enhance its collection of 19th-century plaster casts of Michelangelo masterpieces, such as the head of David and the Medici Madonna, with newly created 3D-printed replicas. These replicas provide access to works that are otherwise unattainable due to immobility or location. For instance, Michelangelo’s depictions of Saints Peter, Augustine, Paul, and Gregory are fixed elements of the Piccolomini Altarpiece in Siena, Italy installed so high that they cannot be easily viewed up close. Other works, like Cupid, are in high demand and geographically restricted, currently on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York from France until 2029.

The show’s curator, Matthias Wivel, said he is not concerned that the use of replicas might be off-putting to audiences. “We will achieve a beautiful exhibition with them that will be compelling to the public,” he said. “The appreciation and study of art has always relied heavily on reproductions. Without them both would be much more limited. Used responsibly, there is huge potential and value in using reproductions.”

He conceded that the show is an experiment, and he will measure its success on its ability to “stimulate debate and prompt refinement or rejection, and innovation.”

Perhaps the strongest argument for the use of reproductions is greater freedom to build art historical narratives unbounded by practical limitations. For example, the show in Denmark will bring together several pieces originally produced for the tomb of Julius II that have since scattered across different locations. These include the Boboli Prisoners at the Accademia and Genius of Victory at the Palazzo Vecchio, both in Florence, and Rachel and Leah at San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome.

Plaster cast after Michelangelo Buonarroti, Day. Original ca. 1524-26, cast 1897. The Royal Cast Collection, SMK – National Gallery of Denmark Photo: SMK.

Factum Arte have also been able to reconstruct Infant John the Baptist from Ubedà, which was smashed during the Spanish Civil War. Though the statue has been restored, it still bears the scars of its destruction; the new 3D model was made by referencing archival photographs of the work from before the restoration. Wivel hopes it will “convey some of the wonder of the original.”

The exhibition will also reveal how much reproduction technologies have evolved over the centuries. According to Wivel, Factum Arte’s facsimiles made using digital techniques are accurate down to the micron level, resulting in pieces of “much higher fidelity than the plasters, in that they reproduce the color, surface, and detailing such as veining, of the marble.”

He also noted that digital facsimiles like those made by Factum Arte provide highly detailed records of artworks that may be valuable to researchers and restorers for centuries to come. Wivel noted that traveling as part of exhibition loans can cause significant physical strain on fragile objects as well. In other contexts, high-tech replicas have also played an important role in facilitating repatriation agreements, allowing museums to keep a copy of an object that they decide to return.

Together, these reproductions, both old and new, will enable the most comprehensive monographic exhibition dedicated to Michelangelo since 1875, when the 400th anniversary of his birth was celebrated in Florence. Running through August 31, the exhibition will also include a selection of Michelangelo’s original drawings, correspondence, models in wax and clay, and several bronzes made after models that are now lost.

Plaster cast after Michelangelo Buonarroti, Head of David. Original made in 1501-1503, cast in 1890. Photo: SMK – National Gallery of Denmark.

By Jo Lawson-Tancred.

[francaistoutsimplement]

7 bâchées en vélo à qui il a fallu quand même 5 heures de cours pour chevaucher le destrier offert avec vos impôts (5h pour apprendre à freiner sans se vautrer... ?) Rendez-vous aux Champs-Montants, pour assister au spectacle des bâches prises dans les rayons....! Passons!

Le maire d'Audincourt lui, n'est autre que Martial Bourquin, ancien communiste, puis ancien communiste dissident pour naturellement finir socialiste; maire, conseiller comcom, conseiller rgional puis Sénateur, socialiste, copain de Moscovici puis suppléant du même, roi de la gamelle, vieux cheval de retour de la gauche locale, un peu mis en examen 2022 pour "violation du secret de la correspondance" pour une histoire mettant en cause une autre élue de gauche dans le marigot local....! Il est vrai que la gôche étant tellement irréprochable qu'aux législatives de juillet 2024, une inconnue candidate RN a été élue député avec 55% des voix.... No comment!

Ah!! que les électeurs sont ingrats dirait micron...!

[lilycrylique]

Jour 29 : Navigateur

Day 29 : Navigator

Dessin traditionnel tracé au crayon à papier puis encré avec les stylos Pigma Micron, de la taille 005 (0,25 mm) à la taille 8 (0,50 mm) avec trois pinceaux de lettrage créatif United Office (vert, gris, anthracite).

"No charge!"

Au cours de son enquête, Sherlock (Sherlock BBC) enquête sur le mystérieux Moriarty, plongeant tête première dans une vaste toile d'araignée criminelle. Sans savoir que pendant sa pause récréative de lecture de vidéo de conte, le principal concerné est son chauffeur de taxi.

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Traditional drawing traced with pencil then inked with Pigma Micron pens, from size 005 (0.25 mm) to size 8 (0.50 mm) with three United Office creative lettering brushes (green, gray, anthracite) .

“No charge!”

During his investigation, Sherlock (Sherlock BBC) investigates the mysterious Moriarty, diving headfirst into a vast criminal spider's web. Without knowing that during his recreational break from reading a story video, the main person concerned is his taxi driver.

[sketchiefoxie]

Gen & Scrap: Drawn on 12/18/2023

Medium: Markers, micron liner, and gel pen

Characters: Gen (Geno!Sans variant owned by me) and Scrap (Ink and Error fusion owned by @boxed-soup).

Inspired by the song Dandelions

[council-of-beetroot]

So at @angie-massei and @trzmielik have informed me of the fictional country created by polish foreign minister Witold Waszczykowski called San Escobar and if Hima is fixated on non-existent countries and micronations to add to Hetalia canon my question is when hima?

[noncompliantcyborg]

Let's Talk Sea Slugs: Rostanga pulchara

Rostanga pulchara is a small species of dorid nudibranch commonly found grazing on the red sponges that give it its color.

The adult below was 16mm long and 8mm wide, but they can grow to as large as 33mm long (Jensen et al 2018).

Above - Adult Rostanga pulchara collected from Cattle Point Intertidal, San Juan Island by Babonis Lab, Summer 2022.

Above - Closeups of Rostanga pulchara. Left - mantle showing the texture and shape of the tubercles. Center - gills. Right - rhinophore.

Along with size and color, a defining characteristic of the nudibranch is its uniquely shaped rhinophores (Jensen et al 2018). One is pictured above on the right.

A good way to find them in the wild is to look for the sponges that they eat. Two of these species are the velvety Clathria pennata and the "volcano-shaped" Acarnus erithacus (Jensen et al 2018). Both sponges are encrusting and highly pigmented.

The pigments from the sponge not only color the adult nudibranchs, but also their eggs (Jensen et al 2018). This can be seen in the early embryos below.

Above - Rostanga pulchara embryos, 2-cell and 4-cell stages. Viewed on 6/21/2022 under 40x magnification. The center 2-cell embryo was 111 microns across.

A week and a half later, these embryos had developed close to the point of hatching.

Unhatched veliger larvae, with visible shell anViewed on 7/1/2022 under 40X magnification. The center embryo measured at 125 microns across.

These nudibranchs, like many others, have a larval form called veligers. These veligers have shells and big ciliated lobes.

Hatched veliger larvae. Viewed on 7/7/2022 under 40X magnification.

Hatched veliger larvae from the same clutch of original eggs. Viewed on 7/13/2022 under 20X magnification. The larvae on the right was measured as 194 microns across the veler lobes and 178 micros from the top of the shell down to where the veler lobes exit the shell.

Sources:

Personal lab notes and obervations.

Jensen et al. Beneath Pacific Tides. MolaMarine, 2018.

All photographs by JA Fields, do not repost without express written permission.

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[littletroggo]

Art Masterpost

all my art is under #troggo draws or #troggo doodles. below are just the collections

art summary 2024

zine work:

pris-m-agic | [zine link]

Red Zone Volume 3 | [zine link]

The Three Musketeers | [zine link]

Seeking the Truth

art prompts/fan events:

ichizhaoweek2024

p3girlsweek2024

techtober2024

crosscember2024

The Great Galactic Gift Gathering 2024

troggo's follower celebration:

thrawn | hunter and omega hugging | cadet batch | danzo | crosshair and omega | ali'sen and spence | echo blowing a kiss | bowser | kalino and chip | smirking fives | lybra san disu | hunter tying his hair up | beatrice

bad batch impersonation saga:

tech as hunter

wrecker as tech

crosshair as wrecker

hunter as crosshair

what i use:

software: Clip Studio Paint | Procreate

main csp brushes:

sketching, lineart, main brush - sol (content id: 1778145)

sketch coloring - gouache (default brush with color jitter enabled; 8 hue, 8 saturation under "change brush tip color"; 4 hue, 4 saturation under "randomize per stroke")

clean up - erase along edge (content id: 1800143)

main procreate brushes:

sketching, lineart, main brush - SOL procreate brush

sketch coloring - gouache (default brush with rendering set to "uniformed glaze;" 2% hue, 4% saturation under "stamp color jitter"; 2% hue, 1% saturation under "stroke color jitter)

traditional supplies:

fineliners - sakura pigma micron

markers - blick illustrator, copic, tombow abt pro

white highlights - kuretake zig fude white brush pen, uni-ball signo white gel pen

[bunsakashitaamericapaintings]

Yesterday, Meetup had a group organizing Paint-Out at Historic Park around 5 PM. I took the metrolink downtown and then hopped to china town to find nobody there. I waited at the Cafe at the end of the park and did a sketch. Then I dropped by a Vietnamese restaurant in China town, had dinner then caught LYFT back to Union Station riding the San Bernadino line home. I was surprised at how pleasant the entire trip was. No driving, no stress despite the heat. I gotta do these kinds of late outing more often. The train surely takes the stress away. Cargo Snack Shack Micron Pen and Gouache 6.1x8.3x Etude Butterfly sketchbook Sketched live on location from 5:24 PM to 6:05 PM Tuesday July 2 2024

[doesthismapincludemicrostates]

What is your opinion on unrecognized micronations, such as Talossa, Sealand, Wy, Seborga, or Kugelmugel?

I love when they're a little silly and unserious (especially bc if you think about it, nationhood as a whole is a little silly. We'll all pinky promise to draw lines in the dirt and stay on our side or get stabbed about it*). I'd heard of Sealand, but not the others, so thanks for the research rabbit hole :).

I think its great when microstates commit to the bit and have to figure out how nations function, like Seborga's currency. It makes sense that they're not recognized, they're not anywhere close to self-sustaining or having resources that lets them stand mostly on their own. And the divine right of kings not being a big deal anymore kind of puts a damper on declaring yourself head of some principality and everyone accepting that or turning you into an arrow pincushion)

There's a lot that goes into nation building, (sometimes that's making Italy pinky promise to leave you alone bc you have no enticing resources, like San Marino; oftentimes it's a lot more complicated than that) and the average person doesn't think about what goes into nation building, especially in this modern age when those lines in the sand feel more concrete than they did in previous centuries.

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*this is a major understatement and trivialization of the grim reality of land conflicts. History is much more complex than that. As a whole, it's a little grim that people and countries are so possessive over land that they won't let new ones crop up or recognize others' sovereignty (Kosovo and Hong Kong are what comes to mind for me, this is not about Israel)

[mcnjushcge]

other hetalia opinions of mine I haven’t yet mentioned. if you disagree ok:

1) Good god I hate nyotalia. at the risk of sounding like a misogynist all of these women are MID. except for miss prussia she’s sooooooo. amelia looks like she would say slurs and pretend being a bimbo is feminist

2) I don’t care for 2p!talia at all. it reminds me of one of those 38472636373 aus of sans undertale

3) FUCK the micronations except seborga, kugelmugel, and slowjamastan

4) Feli with his eyes open is prettier than francis argue with your mama. ofc no one will top yao as ultimate pretty boy in hetalia but feli is up there! 😙

5) Between portraying ivan as the two extremes of either bloodthirsty freak or a silly uwu soft blushy boy (^し^) the first option is infinitely less annoying.

[maximummuses]

[THE WORLD] - How would they define a utopia? What would it consist of, and do they see it as something achievable? (for scott, and for logan)

THE MAJOR ARCANA

Utopia is/was a micronation/fuck-off fort on the coast of San-Francisco, created by the X-Men -- okay okay I'll stop being facetious.

Scott and Logan actually share very similar ideas of what a Utopia would be: a just world freed from fear, hatred, conflict, and undue suffering. They're both believers in Xavier's Dream of that utopia for man and Mutant, and both fight to see it as something that could exist maybe not in their lifetimes, but in the lifetimes of their children and grandchildren.

To the both of them, Utopia is safety. It is the promise of being a Mutant in a world which no longer fears or hates you, only treating you as a part of the world, no different than other people.

[ame-sea]

what would you want a character song for sealand to be about?

JOKE'S ON YOU HE ALREADY HAS SOME!!!!

Make a Wish to Santa-San - best song ever (im lying /affectionate) (i performed this live in sealand cosplay for a lipsync battle this summer and it was the most miserable 2 and a half minutes of my life LOL)

Marukaite Chikyuu - certified classic

Micronations Jet

BUT if he were to have another one in the future (please) (he deserves it for carrying the show) i think he should have a little sea shanty about how he works so hard and fights for his recognition as a country. one of those real "im determined and everything tries to keep me down but im sooo strong and cool and will persevere despite it all!" types. u know.

or it would be funny if he had one of those "say random cultural words" songs that plague the hetalia character song scene and they just start throwing out random shit like "pirate radio" "international waters" "jus gentium" and BONUS POINTS if there is an emotional interlude about the 1978 coup and the efforts to retake the platform from the like 2 dutch guys that showed up (actually this in the first song could go crazy) (actually both of these ideas are the exact same song?) (consider it.)

[ravenkings]

The air in New York City on Wednesday wasn’t just bad by the city’s standards. It was historically bad, even compared with places around the world that generally experience much more air pollution.

The chart above shows the concentration of a particularly dangerous kind of air pollution, as measured by the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation from a network of sensors around the city.

Those sensors measured levels of particles 2.5 microns in diameter or smaller, brought by wind from wildfires in Canada. Wednesday’s daily average was the highest since recording in New York began in 1999. (The second-highest level was on Tuesday.) Wednesday’s level of pollution was also higher than the worst daily average record in San Francisco — on Nov. 16, 2018, when wildfires were blazing in Northern California — and it approached average pollution levels recorded in Portland, Ore., on Sept. 13, 2020, during the worst of its pollution from nearby wildfires.