Portion Sizes in 'Last Supper' Paintings Grew Over Time | LiveScience
march 2010 by bkerr
From the 52 paintings, which date between 1000 and 2000 A.D., the sizes of loaves of bread, main dishes and plates were calculated with the aid of a computer program that could scan the items and rotate them in a way that allowed them to be measured. To account for different proportions in paintings, the sizes of the food were compared to the sizes of the human heads in the paintings.
The researchers' analysis showed that portion sizes of main courses (usually eel, lamb and pork) depicted in the paintings grew by 69 percent over time, while plate size grew by 66 percent and bread size grew by 23 percent.
Both Wansinks suggest that as food has become more available over the last millennium, the way people, including artists, view and depict food has changed accordingly, with the same dinner scene being viewed as having more on the table in more recent decades and centuries.
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The researchers' analysis showed that portion sizes of main courses (usually eel, lamb and pork) depicted in the paintings grew by 69 percent over time, while plate size grew by 66 percent and bread size grew by 23 percent.
Both Wansinks suggest that as food has become more available over the last millennium, the way people, including artists, view and depict food has changed accordingly, with the same dinner scene being viewed as having more on the table in more recent decades and centuries.
march 2010 by bkerr
A Very Haeckel Christmas - a set on Flickr
december 2008 by bkerr
"Ernst Haeckel's 1904 'Kunstformen der Natur' [Artforms of Nature] is a classic of biological illustration. What is less generally known is that the artist started as a Christmas card designer. The book was originally simply an album of holiday designs."
bio
art
christmas
illustration
via:vaguery
december 2008 by bkerr
Ask MetaFilter | What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization within your field) for laypeople?
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october 2007 by bkerr
books popularization toread accounting advertising animation architecture art astronomy astrophysics blacksmithing children's-books-editorial cognitive-science comedy comics computer-science construction cooking design directing economics editing egyptology electrical-engineering fencing filmmaking firefighting forensic-entomology game-design geology glassblowing graphic-design gynecology homebrewing husbanding hydrology hypnosis immunobiology industrial-design integrated-circuit-design investing journalism juggling knitting language language-acquisition law lexicography librarianship linguistics lisp marine-ecology materials-science mathematics medicine microfabrication molecular-biology mortuary-science music-publishing nanotechnology neuroscience oceanography organizing painting pathology philosophy photography planning playwriting poetics population-biology preservation programming psychometrics psychotheraphy radio sales scenery-painting screenwriting speculation teaching trading typography ubicomp
october 2007 by bkerr
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things magazine humans spaces dwellings networks images design change future extinction apocalypse endings machines samplings art architecture prices towers secondlife games nostalgia explanations lack-thereof arcana passageways taxidermy cities tours wonders glass-houses
september 2007 by bkerr
things magazine humans spaces dwellings networks images design change future extinction apocalypse endings machines samplings art architecture prices towers secondlife games nostalgia explanations lack-thereof arcana passageways taxidermy cities tours wonders glass-houses
september 2007 by bkerr
U-M A&D -- Distinguished Visitor Series
august 2007 by bkerr
Fall 2007 schedule.
umich
a&d
art
design
media
etc
events
august 2007 by bkerr
Neighborhood Notes | Creative Expression
june 2007 by bkerr
"This car was spotted parked near the Armory on Memorial Weekend, and shows why it pays to have a digital point and shoot in your pocket. I don't know why I like art cars, but I do."
portland
automotive
art
transportation
artifacts
june 2007 by bkerr
Jack Warren, Towers Open Fire
may 2007 by bkerr
"Using loose pages from found books, journals and historical files as a backdrop, the drawings and paintings included in this exhibition comment on the boundaries of language and engage in ... dialogue between the artist's work and the source material."
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gallery
events
burroughs
collage
decoupage
drawing
abstraction
towers-open-fire
may 2007 by bkerr
Brandon Bird: "Bad Day on the High Sea"
april 2007 by bkerr
britta sez: "it is hard to resist a fight between a tyrannosaurus rex, a sperm whale, and a pink squid." There has to be a rock-paper-scissors variant embedded in here someplace.
visual
art
depicting
aquatic
combat
giant
squid
sperm-whale
tyrannosaurus-rex
ocean
send-your-armies
april 2007 by bkerr
Robert J. Bolesta | Value Pack
april 2007 by bkerr
"Alphabet made of raw hamburger. Each character hand-shaped, packaged, and photographed individually."
meat
art
typography
via:schollm
april 2007 by bkerr
GNO
march 2007 by bkerr
"Global Noise Online (since 2005.10) is an information centre for sound art and new media art, with an emphasis on China and other developing areas in the world."
sound
music
newmedia
word-falling
photo-falling
art
weblogs
china
via:msittig
march 2007 by bkerr
cpb::softinfo | google groups search terms hack
march 2007 by bkerr
AWESOME: "When making Google Art, you post to Usenet entirely in plain ASCII text ... You then indicate within your post the search queries (and their order) for which users should search Google in order to see the post appear in the proper colors."
google
groups
usenet
text
color
art
search
highlighting
subversion
via:britta
march 2007 by bkerr
Barcelona ACCESSIBLE
march 2007 by bkerr
"40 people with disabilities use mobile phones to photograph every obstacle they come across on the city's streets. By means of multimedia messages they create a map of inaccessible Barcelona on the internet."
barcelona
urban
mobile
accessibility
maps
art
march 2007 by bkerr
MONSTER BRAINS
february 2007 by bkerr
Collecting monstrous representations in media and history.
monster
images
art
weblogs
via:hrheingold
february 2007 by bkerr
Ann Arbor Area Krappy Kamera Club - Cheap Shots
february 2007 by bkerr
Exhibition, March 23--April 6 in Nickels Arcade. "The work in this show was created by seventeen artists from the Michigan area who call themselves the Krappy Kamera Club. This will be their first public showing in Ann Arbor."
a2b3
annarbor
photography
art
gallery
krappykamera
via:anikarenina
february 2007 by bkerr
Catherine Garnier :: Table for Two
january 2007 by bkerr
Interactive comic prototype, play with and send in feedback for this person's MFA thesis.
net
art
comics
interaction
january 2007 by bkerr
Social Design Notes | Negative Campaigning
january 2007 by bkerr
"A great action in NYC, taping placards over those outdoor video billboards attached to subway entrances. The typography is composed of holes in the board, illuminated by the video ad beneath."
urban
advertising
art
nyc
january 2007 by bkerr
MoMA.org | Exhibitions | 2007 | Doug Aitken: sleepwalkers
january 2007 by bkerr
Saw some pretty awesome footage of this today
nyc
visual
art
buildings
mashup
january 2007 by bkerr
A&D Galleries | IF OTHER, PLEASE EXPLAIN…
january 2007 by bkerr
exhibition @ Work gallery on State Street.
identity
art
events
january 2007 by bkerr
Wikipedia | Falcoon
december 2006 by bkerr
Artist responsible for godawful artwork in Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin.
games
ds
castlevania
por
lousy
art
december 2006 by bkerr
Composition on the Table
december 2006 by bkerr
Review of "Composition on the Table", of which Electroplankton's "Luminaria" is the handheld version.
art
music
toshioiwai
electroplankton
december 2006 by bkerr
Wired 5.05 | Portrait of the Artist as a Young Geek, May 1997
december 2006 by bkerr
"Toshio Iwai has the soul of an artist - but the head of a nerd. He's using both to invent interactive, digital art."
games
art
music
toshioiwai
december 2006 by bkerr
Bill Watterson at Kenyon College Commencement (May 20, 1990)
may 2006 by bkerr
"If you ever want to find out just how uninteresting you really are, get a job where the quality and frequency of your thoughts determine your livelihood."
comics
work
art
etc
via:thedaniel
may 2006 by bkerr
Ironic Sans | "Animated Manhattan" Archives
april 2006 by bkerr
Collected reviews of animated (TV and movie) depictions of New York.
newyork
tv
design
art
animation
images
april 2006 by bkerr
Limbs & Things | Rectal Examination Trainer
march 2006 by bkerr
"Five interchangeable prostates."
$
accidental
art
interior-decoration
march 2006 by bkerr
ZeroOne San Jose & ISEA2006
march 2006 by bkerr
"A Global Festival of Art on the Edge & the Thirteenth International Symposium of Electronic Art."
art
architecture
urban
spaces
design
conference
cities
events
electronic
fun
digital
media
culture
via:vielmetti
march 2006 by bkerr
Roadside America | Giant Jesus Statue, Monroe, Ohio
november 2005 by bkerr
"Jesus has risen near the interstate north of Cincinnati."
urban
religion
art
ideas/bad
via:srah
november 2005 by bkerr
Smithsonian Magazine | Hiding in Plain Sight
october 2005 by bkerr
"A veteran photographer shows the extraordinary knack that some animals have for...disappearing."
science
art
animals
images
october 2005 by bkerr
Never Learn to Type | road trip
october 2005 by bkerr
Sue took some sweet pictures of an art exhibit over the weekend. (She also bought us dinner, yay!)
family
art
glass
photos
october 2005 by bkerr
Sony Pictures - MirrorMask
september 2005 by bkerr
I've been out of touch! The Gaiman / McKean film opens in wide release this weekend (!).
movies
comics
visual
art
design
september 2005 by bkerr
MacOSX向けのバイナリ群
september 2005 by bkerr
Great arcade of little freebie OS X games with excellent visual and audio design. psy-no and Torus Trooper are probably my favorites of the lot.
mac
games
visual
art
REZ
september 2005 by bkerr
THUNDERCUT
september 2005 by bkerr
The person in the crosswalk gets a cute little wardrobe...
urban
pedestrian
art
images
via:boingboing
september 2005 by bkerr
Ninjatoes' papercraft webpage
august 2005 by bkerr
Advance Wars paper craft cute lil' jeeps.
games
diy
art
gba
awesome
august 2005 by bkerr
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