In this episode, your hosts Steve and Mal hurtle from Point A to Point B while mulling over the dance between slog and art, as well as the possible origins of the bagpipe.
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Show notes:
With regard to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, per Wikipedia: “Abraham Harold Maslow (… April 1, 1908 – June 8, 1970) was an American psychologist who created Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization…. He stressed the importance of focusing on the positive qualities in people, as opposed to treating them as a ‘bag of symptoms’.”
Willard Wigan may be the guy that Mal referred to as the one who makes miniature sculptures and paints them using flies’ hairs. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Wigan and https://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/southwest/series6/micro_sculptures.shtml
And speaking of notable versions of The Last Supper, we would be remiss if (just when one is tempted to lose faith in humanity) we did not quote the article appearing at https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2011/01/14/woman-recreates-da-vinci-s/24084326007/ in full:
“1/14/2011
Woman recreates da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’ with lint
Staff Writer | The Columbus Dispatch
ROSCOMMON, Mich. (AP) — A northern Michigan woman has put her own spin on Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” by making a replica out of laundry lint.
Laura Bell of Roscommon collected lint from her dryer and fashioned it into a 14-foot-long, 4-foot tall reproduction of the Italian Renaissance painter’s masterpiece.
Bell says she needed about 800 hours to do enough laundry to get the lint, and 200 hours to recreate the mural. She bought towels of the colors she wanted and laundered them separately to get the right shades of lint.
Her artwork has caught the eye of Ripley’s Believe It or Not! The company plans to put it on display at one of its museums.
Ripley’s says it also has Last Supper replicas made from a grain of rice, a dime and burned toast.”
Regarding the manualist, consider revisiting the discussion about that virtuoso in Ep 6.
Regarding the possible origins of bagpipes, an article at https://baggypipes.com/history-of-bagpipes/ begins with this notable sentence: “The bagpipes are a powerful instrument. When played in tune with star quality and not like a cat being run over by a London bus they’ll grip and thrill your guests…”
As mentioned in the show notes to Episode 7: for an interview with the real Gary Schwartz, Steve’s artistic cousin, read the article at https://canvasrebel.com/meet-gary-schwartz/.
For a bit more about the nine muses see https://www.greekmyths-greekmythology.com/nine-muses-in-greek-mythology/#who-were-the-nine-muses