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How An Inverted Photo May Help Design Bonsai
If you like drawing, you may have tried to draw a family member from a photo, and then you may know how hard it is to find a likeness. You finish it, and the nose, eyes, and eyebrows are all in their proper places, but Aunt Jane it is not. We all have a basic […]
How To Clean Up Juniper Foliage
You may find the soft “clouds” of mature juniper foliage pleasant. Eventually this gets out of hand and we have a big thundercloud of foliage obliterating the structure of the tree. Which you may have spent a lot of effort wiring and setting. At this juncture some retooling is in order. This juniper has outgrown […]
How Limitation Can Spark: Keith Jarrett’s Köln Concert
Keith Jarrett arrived in Koln, Germany to discover the grand piano he’d requested for his concert wasn’t there. By mistake, a baby grand sat on stage at the opera house, in a condition a lot worse than just out of tune. The pedals didn’t work. And it had poor bass and a tinny upper register. […]