lists/now/now.md

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Adding this list as a way to pull info for my main now page @ https://davidawind
 
 ## Log
 
+- **26/01/18** - [dog](/notes/dogs/iris) 🦮 walking and 💀 [doom-scrolling](/posts/monopoly) daily, [projects](/docs/computers/kos) 💻 💰 while it's cold 🥶 
 - **25/11/02** - homey 🏡 cooking 🍲 , night showers 🛁, & early 🛌
 - **25/09/25** - wrapping [master 🛁](/notes/house/bath) & fall trip 🍁 to Shanandoah.
 - **25/07/01** - summer 🥵 - halfway through the [master 🛁/🛏️ reno](https://davidawindham.com/wha/glenridge/#bath) .

notes/art/art.md

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 ## TOC
 
+
+- [paint](paint)
+- [painters](painters)
+- [palette](palette)
 - [design](design)
 - [education/design](education/design.md)
 - [education/education](education/education.md)

notes/art/paint.md

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-# Paint
+# Paint
+
+25/01/04 - reworking my desk so that the right side is usable for painting. organizing a bunch of old ( as in some are 28 years old ) watercolor and oil paints. It's been so long I've forgotten names and the qualities of each so I'm starting a new reference card here.
+
+## Notes
+
+The importance of a good palette can't be understated. I'm a big fan of simple and consistent. I'd rather obscure the actual color and capture the light to retain the feel. Ruined a number of paintings halfway into em by experimenting with a new color.   
+
+
+## References
+
+- _Artists Handbook Of Materials And Techniques_ - Ralph Mayer - https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70073
+- https://www.paintlist.com
+- https://charlescecilstudios.com
+- https://www.artiscreation.com/Color_index_names.html
+- https://www.artiscreation.com/books.html
+
+
+
+## Binders
+
+## Brands
+
+Sometimes different colors for different brands but these are my favorites in order:
+
+- M. Graham
+- Sennelier 
+- Old Holland
+- Micheal Harding
+- Gamblin
+- Lefranc & Bourgeois ( but the tubes keep busting on me - every busted tube in my box is this brand ... also evidently bought out by W&N and can't get em in the US anymore )
+- Windsor & Newton
+
+https://blueridgeoilpaint.com/about-us/  
+https://gamblinstore.com/big-imperfect-tubes-series-1/  
+
+
+## Colors
+
+- Blues
+  - Cadmium
+  - Cobalt
+  - Ultramarine
+  - Phthalo
+- Greens
+ - Veridian
+- Yellows
+  - Ochre
+  - Cadmium
+- Oranges
+  - Cadmium
+- Reds
+  - Oxide
+  - Cadmium
+  - Alizarin
+- Purples
+  - dioxazine
+  - quinacridone
+- Umbers
+- Whites
+- Blacks
+
+## Mediums
+
+### Fat Over Lean
+
+keep cracks from appearing because lower layers dry before top layers. thin lower layers and upper layers should use more oil - hence more fat. 
+
+### Glazing
+
+## Inventory
+
+### Acrylic
+
+### Gouache
+
+### Oil
+
+### Watercolor
+
+- Oxide of Chromium / Veridian 
+
+
+## Reference Cards
+
+![](/img/paint-graham-oil.jpg)
+<div style={{display: 'flex',  justifyContent:'center', alignItems:'center', fontSize:'small', marginBottom:'20px'}}>M. Graham Oils</div>
+
+![](/img/paint-sennelier-oil.jpg)
+![](/img/paint-sennelier-oil-2.jpg)
+![](/img/paint-sennelier-oil-3.jpg)
+![](/img/paint-sennelier-oil-4.jpg)
+<div style={{display: 'flex',  justifyContent:'center', alignItems:'center', fontSize:'small', marginBottom:'20px'}}>Sennelier</div>
+
+![](/img/paint-old-holland-oil.jpg)
+<div style={{display: 'flex',  justifyContent:'center', alignItems:'center', fontSize:'small', marginBottom:'20px'}}>Old Holland Oils</div>
+
+![](/img/paint-graham-water.jpg)
+<div style={{display: 'flex',  justifyContent:'center', alignItems:'center', fontSize:'small', marginBottom:'20px'}}>M. Graham Watercolor</div>
+
+## Toxic 
+
+☠️ https://davidawindham.com/black-oil-stand-oil/
+
+Gamblin safety for schools - https://gamblincolors.com/studio-safety/guideforschools/
+
+**Toxicity**: lead, cadmium, mercury, cobalt, barium, chromium, arsenic
+
+Binus University - [SAFETY OF ARTISTIC PIGMENTS](https://base.binus.ac.id/2017/12/28/safety-of-artistic-pigments/). 
+
+Toxic
+- antimony white (antimony trioxide)
+- barium yellow (barium chromate)
+- burnt or raw umber (iron oxides, manganese silicates or dioxide)
+- cadmium red, orange or yellow (cadmium sulfide, cadmium selenide)
+- chrome green (Prussian blue, lead chromate)
+- chrome orange (lead carbonate)
+- chrome yellow (lead chromate)
+- cobalt violet (cobalt arsenate or cobalt phosphate)
+- cobalt yellow (potassium cobalt nitrate)
+- lead or flake white (lead carbonate)
+- lithol red (sodium, barium and calcium salts of azo pigments)
+- manganese violet (manganese ammonium pyrophosphate)
+- molybdate orange (lead chromate, lead molybdate, lead sulfate)
+- naples yellow (lead antimonate)
+- strontium yellow (strontium chromate)
+- vermilion (mercuric sulfide)
+- zinc sulfide
+- zinc yellow (zinc chromate)
+
+Moderate
+- alizarin crimson
+- carbon black
+- cerulean blue (cobalt stannate)
+- cobalt blue (cobalt stannate)
+- cobalt green (calcined cobalt, zinc and aluminum oxides)
+- chromium oxide green (chromic oxide)
+- Phthalo blue and greens (copper phthalocyanine)
+- manganese blue (barium manganate, barium sulfate)
+- Prussian blue (ferric ferrocyanide)
+- toluidine red and yellow (insoluble azo pigment)
+- viridian (hydrated chromic oxide)
+- zinc white (zinc oxide)

notes/art/painters.md

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+# Painters & Galleries
+
+25/01/12 - I've been taking note of some oil and water color painters for inspiration. I logged into Instagram yesterday because I noticed that it's the most common social media feed for visual artist. Makes sense given the whole image premise but I'm not much of a fan of Meta or even the majority of social media not to mention the fact that the images are small. 
+
+Without being a luddite avoiding social media, I'd like to create a feed of accounts for inspiration that sources the art from galleries, people, shows, and events. The old fashion algorithms were better because it was curated by people. For now, I'm just going to create a list of painters whom I admire for one reason or another. 
+
+* I should note here that this is entirely focused on working artist... or else the list would be super long. I just add em as I discover
+
+## Oil 
+
+- Mark Boedges - https://www.markboedges.com
+- Will Rochfort - https://www.williamrochfort.com
+- Guillermo Garcia - https://www.guillermolorca.com
+- Bryan Mark Taylor - https://bryanmarktaylor.com
+- Zhaoming Wu - https://www.instagram.com/zhaomingwuartist
+- Kimball Geisler - https://www.kimballgeisler.com
+- Daniel Graves - https://danielgravesart.com
+- Charles Cecil - https://charlescecilstudios.com
+- Bill Killebrew - 
+- Brent Cotton - https://www.cottonfinearts.com
+- West Fraser - https://westfraserstudio.com
+- Leng Jun - https://www.instagram.com/lengjunofficial/
+
+
+
+## Watercolor 
+
+- Karen Mai - https://www.karenmaiart.com
+- Joseph Zbukvic - https://www.josephzbukvic.com
+
+## Galleries
+
+- Red Piano - https://redpianoartgallery.com
+- Blue Spiral - https://bluespiral1.com
+- Principle Gallery - https://www.principlegallery.com
+
+## Juried
+
+- https://artascend.com/jury
+
+## Events
+
+- 
+
+## For Sale 
+
+- Manning Williams - https://peteranthonyfineart.com/merl-haggard-drunk-beer-chasing-guns-misery-guns/
+

notes/art/palette.md

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+# Palette
+
+25/01/10 - Lot of opinions here. I used to have a nice off the hip understanding and feel for the palette via professors, instructors, others, study & practice. It's been twenty five years and I just found myself googling the difference between ivory and lamp black so I'm just going to note reference palettes and preferences here. 
+
+My favorite painting instructor from college had me on the only palette I ever really knew. I don't remember exactly what it was but I still have the old tubes of paint. 
+
+
+## Palettes
+
+
+min: 
+- yellow ochre
+- alizarin crimson
+- ultramarine
+- titanium
+
+min deeper:
+- yello ochre
+- cad red
+- prussian blue
+- van dyke brown
+- titanium
+
+primary:
+- yellow ochre/cad light
+- cadmium red/crimson 
+- blue ultramarine/cobalt/cerulean
+- green - viridian/cad
+- burnt umber/sienna/ivory
+- titanium
+
+large:
+- titanium white
+- titanium buff
+- naples yellow
+- cadmium yellow
+- yellow orchre
+- raw sienna 
+- vermillion
+- venetian rouge
+- cadmium red
+- burnt umber
+- alizarin crimson
+- ultramarine
+- cerulean
+- cobalt blue
+- veridian
+- phthalo
+- cobalt green
+- chomium oxide 
+- raw umber
+- ivory black ⚫️
+
+classic:
+- yellows - Orchre/Naples
+- blues - Ultramarine/Prussian
+- reds - Vermilion/Rose Madder
+- greens - Terra Verte
+- dark - van dyke/ivory
+
+split primary ( warm/cool)
+- yellow - cad / lemon or naples
+- red - cad or vermilion / crimson or quinacridone
+- blue - ultramarine / cerulean
+- ivory/titanium
+
+portraiture:
+- yellow - orchre / cad
+- red - cad/crimson
+- blue - ultramarine / cerulean
+- burnt/raw umber & sienna
+
+
+
+
+## Colors
+
+White:
+- ✅ titanium - more powerful - covers better
+- zinc - stiffer brittle - tints and mixes better
+
+Black: 
+- ✅ ivory - warm strong
+- lamp - close to ivory but cooler bluer
+- mars - opaque deep - fast dry
+- chromatic - darkest mean to emulate mixed blacks
+- mixed 
+  - burnt sienna/ultramarine
+  - sap green/alizarin crimson
+  - phthalo emerald/ quinacridone
+
+Grey: 
+- payne's - coolest blue - shadows
+- van dyke brown - 

notes/index.md

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 ## Log
 
+- 26/01/02 - 🎨 [art/paint](/notes/art/paint)
 - 25/08/16 - 🚰 [house/bath](/notes/house/bath)
 - 25/04/26 - 🎹 [music/music](/notes/music/)
 - 25/03/03 - 🎨 [house/studio](/notes/house/studio)

posts/2026/2026-01-06-posts.md

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+---
+title: Peace Walk
+slug: peace-walk
+description: Today I went for a long walk with some Buddhist monks.
+<!--- authors:
+  - name: David Windham
+    title: Something Else
+    url: https://davidawindham.com
+    image_url: https://photo.davidwindham.com/uploads/big/5af13e989a33b7c9be2e6b3d26332464.jpg -->
+tags: [religion, people, events]
+image: https://photo.davidwindham.com/uploads/big/5af13e989a33b7c9be2e6b3d26332464.jpg
+hide_table_of_contents: true
+---
+
+Today I went for a long walk with some Buddhist monks. They're walking from Texas to Washington D.C. on a peace walk[^1]. This was day 73 for them. I went early so that I could accompany them on a rural road to their planned lunch break and then followed them into South Carolina. I wanted to show my support, get some steps in, and mostly make my dog happy.
+
+<!-- truncate -->
+
+<img src="https://photo.davidwindham.com/uploads/big/5af13e989a33b7c9be2e6b3d26332464.jpg" alt="Irs with buddist monk" /><div style={{display: 'flex',  justifyContent:'center', alignItems:'center', fontSize:'small', marginBottom:'20px'}}>the monks seem to enjoy meeting Iris</div>
+
+I'm not a Buddhist, but Buddhism has some good stuff going for it... like Hermann Hess and Lisa Simpson. My first gig in college was at the art department slide library was because I took a particularly keen interest in a Far Eastern Art history class. My professor could tell and nominated me for the position which I kept for several years. 
+
+I noticed one monk yesterday who was seemingly 'over it' - doubling down on the suffering part and kind tilted my head sideways like 'oh well'. I got there early enough to walk a couple of miles down a country road in the opposite direction to meet them. I turned around to follow then passed them so I could lead them back to the old Methodist church for a planned lunch break. 
+
+The crowds gathered everywhere, police escorts, and so on... and a fella with a big sign and megaphone advertising damnation. The first dude I met was on a bike back up the country road so he stops to harass the damnation dude. And because I'm leading em everyone on both sides of the road has their phone cameras up filming me so I'm waving and letting iris greet anyone she chooses as if I'm on route. Some of the monks came to greet iris... soft and nicely and she responding in kind made them smile. I walked around and chatted with anyone Iris wanted to greet. 
+
+Met the pastor of the church hosting the event afterword. I stood with him while he explained to the lead monk organizer fella how it was an honor in such a small town and how his church is now non-denominational and how he was embarrassed of Mr. 'advertising damnation'. I got stuck behind them on the way out so I followed em across the state line into South Carolina. It was solid turnout on the sides or the roads all along the backcountry route. 
+
+I listened to the monk tell his fable. I admire the wisdom and message. I never used the 🙏🏼 hand gesture but I watched a lot of folks do it. I think it's mostly just a spectacle for the majority. I think most were there to support the message of peace and some were there as adherents. Regardless of your beliefs, blessed are the peacemakers.
+
+I do like to use the ✌🏼 symbol, but mostly in it's inverse form[^2]. Iris was there to bless them as much as anything. She got a lot of smiles outa folks. +1 karma[^3] bonus points all around.   
+
+<div><br/><br/></div>
+
+>I don't make time for holy rollers  
+Oh, though they may wash my feet  
+And I won't be their soldier  
+
+>I don't make time for holy rollers  
+There's only you and me  
+They do not make me complete  
+
+--- Spoon - "Inside Out"[^4] - _They Want My Soul_[^5]
+
+<div><br/><br/></div>
+---
+
+[^1]: Dhammacetiya Peace Walk - https://dhammacetiya.com/walk-for-peace/
+[^2]: V sign - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_sign
+[^3]: Karma in Buddhism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_in_Buddhism
+[^4]: Inside Out - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpT5SBg1Mmk / https://vimeo.com/127059759  
+[^5]: _They Want My Soul_ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Want_My_Soul
+

posts/2026/2026-01-13-posts.md

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+---
+title: Monopoly
+slug: monopoly
+description: Today I learned
+<!--- authors:
+  - name: David Windham
+    title: Something Else
+    url: https://davidawindham.com
+    image_url: https://davidawindham.com/wp-content/themes/daw/img/opengraph_image.jpg -->
+tags: [economics, politics, people]
+image: https://davidawindham.com/wp-content/themes/daw/img/opengraph_image.jpg
+hide_table_of_contents: true
+---
+
+Today I read an article in the Wall Street Journal titled _Elizabeth Warren’s Comic-Book Economics_[^1] written by Matthew Hennessey... who's bio states that he "believed the U.S. was an immoral, imperial colossus... until September 11 changed everything"[^2]
+
+<!-- truncate -->
+
+I mention it because I was also somewhat distrusting of others who've had an epiphany like my former pastor who said he found god while high on LSD and then proceeded to migrate from church to church. But that's not what it actually got me thinking about. Sure the article has some decent points and yes, someone has made Warren into a comic book hero. But let's not downplay the seriousness of comics as a high art. I mean... they are the basis of the majority of the highest grossing films. And since I don't have enough education to talk economics, so I'll just focus on monopoly. 
+
+I once made my mother-in-law cry over a game of Monopoly. I'm sure that family fights are a common outcome of Monopoly. Our family used to go late into the evening on rounds of monopoly inventing our financing rules and writing out IOUs with interest rates on em with no clear winner. We played a good bit, so I got good at it. It's just math really. There's some quirks like the fact that players have to restart at certain squares and the odds are raised of any twelve spaces from those. 
+
+It's just a game... and like most everyone else, I play to win. I do it with tennis too. I'll find a single weakness and exploit it over and over until the other player is debilitated. _Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History_[^3] is a documentary I saw some years ago that explains how the game was actually meant to be a critique on capitalism. 
+
+There are countless academic and long form essays on the ills of socialism and capitalism. It's at the heart of a lot of the cultural wars of today. I've also written several essays trying to explain my middle of the road stance on it, but none of them really sum it up as easily as referencing the game of Monopoly because I think it most simply reflects the current U.S. administration's approach. I mean ole' dumpy was a 'real estate developer' by trade so it matches up pretty well especially as it seems he has a 'monopoly' world view given his recent rhetoric on Greenland and South America.
+
+It's no coincidence that the father of that actual creator of the game of Monopoly was a founding member of the republican party. She was a bit of a performance artist[^4]. Her creation of The Landlord game was just espoused Georgism[^5] where all taxes paid to the treasury are used for public improvements. I'm glad the fact that she got hustled on a bastardized version of her game isn't lost. 
+
+Mostly I just want to defend Warren here. The essay was likely just a response to what a speach she gave yesterday pointing fingers at the monopolist[^6]. The economics of Elizabeth Warren are not cartoon'ish. It's more akin to the mom settling the fight breaking out with the kids after dinner of the monopoly board by busting out some snacks for everyone before reminding them to go to bed. Even though I can run the board, I'd prefer a snack and a good nights rest for everyone.
+
+
+<div><br/><br/></div>
+---
+
+[^1]: _Elizabeth Warren’s Comic-Book Economics_ - https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/elizabeth-warrens-comic-book-economics-547827ab
+[^2]: Matthew Hennessey - https://opinion.wsj.com/wsj_author/matthew-hennessey
+[^3]: _Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History_ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAsj9TvK_eI
+[^4]: Lizzie Magie - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Magie
+[^5]: Georgism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
+[^6]: Sen. Warren on Democratic Party Being Called "Too Progressive" - https://www.c-span.org/clip/public-affairs-event/sen-warren-on-democratic-party-being-called-too-progressive/5188399
+
+

sidebarsnotes.js

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         'art/paint',
+        'art/painters',
+        'art/palette',
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src/pages/index.md

@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ description: A place to keep notes and documentation
 
 # Today I Learned
 
+- **2026**
+  - 26/01/13 - [Monopoly](/posts/monopoly)
+  - 26/01/06 - [Peace Walk](/posts/peace-walk)
+  - 26/01/04 - [Paint Toxicity](/notes/art/paint)
 - **2025**
   - 25/11/19 - [SSDs](/posts/ssds)
   - 25/11/02 - [Food Economics](/posts/food-economics)