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His unique creativity and confident challenging of paradigms to stay one step ahead will be missed.

The best tribute is emulation.

Anything with ‘monkey’ in the title is usually worth reading for the lulz, but it’s definitely worth reminding ourselves of the serious point he’s getting at here.

Beautiful pics of cats as kittens and then adults, from the excellent Jack Shepherd on Buzzfeed.

It’s summer again so to counter the habitual complaining about the heat (in between rain showers of course) here’s a nice cheery pic I took last December. It’s Fulham Cemetery in the gloom and snow. Nicely atmospheric.

Mind over matter, think cool and stay cool! Plus winter will be back before you know it.

Spot the cat.

We wish you all a happy Easter weekend (and hopefully some relaxing time off work).

The weekend celebrating Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection is a good chance to highlight one of my favourite underrated Quattrocento paintings, Andrea Mantegna’s brilliantly rendered work the Cristo Morto (i.e. “dead Christ”). The sophisticated foreshortening, gritty realism, and the sheer creativity in finding and executing a new powerful way of representing the almost clichéd theme of the Lamentation… Yes, stupendo.

The Italian Renaissance: greatest era ever. Certainly beats the cuckoo clock.

Now this would be great, dawg, an Xzibit exhibit!