![]() ![]() At least I didn't attempt to totter around Florence in those killer heels that Debrant mentions - someone else in Arts must have beaten me too them when the kit was being handed out. I'm sorry that Debrant found the programme banal and vulgar: I must say I share the view of other contributors here who thought we got the tone about right - I suppose I would say that, wouldn't I?! But the truth is that we wanted to make a watchable and (with luck) entertaining film without indulging in double entendre and innuendo. True?Īs the presenter of the 'Fig Leaf' programme, I'm grateful to the contributors to this forum who went to the trouble of watching the film and voicing their thoughts. One question, though - whether it's from my early visits to the British Museum, or whether it dates from the days I had Greek art history lessons there, i can't recall - but I've always believed there was a room in the British Museum which contains the willies (privy members, to you, debrant) of ancient figures, placed there during the Victorian era to spare the blushes of the lady visitors. I have noticed that there is, sometimes, occasional dumbing-down, but this programme wasn't guilty of it. I didn't see the Anglo-Saxon programme to which you refer, so I can't comment. The entire discussion about society and allowing representation of the male (and female) genitalia was amusing, educational and enjoyable. (I've had as my pc and phone wallpaper for some time now - and was feeling rather smug about my taste in statuary.) There's absolutely nothing - repeat nothing vulgar or banal about it. (My one and only nit-pick was the equation of 'priapic' with 'phallic' - the former expressing an innate enthusiasm not necessarily carried in the latter.)Īnd I thoroughly enjoyed the discussion of Bernini, and it was a pleasure to hear the curator of the Galleria Borghese. So as well as being entertaining, it was certainly educational. I studied Classics at college, and yet I didn't know the reasons for the representation of the phallus on ancient statues was to reflect the virtuosity of reasonable restraint (a value reflected in the laws, aimed at protecting the solidity of the household unit). ![]() Maybe the presentation was a little too light-hearted at times for your taste, but it was neither too earnest nor too 'carry on'. I can only assume it was the subject matter to which you refer as being banal or vulgar so perhaps you shouldn't have watched it. It was fairly clear what the programme here was going to be about. Stephen Smith is the presenter of Fig Leaf: The Biggest Cover-Up In History.įig Leaf: The Biggest Cover-Up In History is on BBC Four at 9pm on Thursday, 10 February, and is part of Focus On Sculpture, a season of programmes on BBC Four.Ĭomments made by writers on the BBC TV blog are their own opinions and not necessarily those of the BBC.ĭebrant, if you go to see a movie called Snakes on a 'Plane, there's a good chance you'll see some snakes and a fair chance they'll be on a 'plane. And it's not stretching things too far to say that it can still be a snug fit for 21st century sculpture. Nature's jockstrap remains an impressively elastic device, two millennia after it was first twanged into place. If only he'd clothed him in a fig leaf instead, I couldn't help thinking. Yes, contemporary artists can - and do - present sculptures of naked figures in exhibitions now if they wish.īut, as Sandy told me, he could face prosecution if he left Priapus as he'd intended, fully endowed and ready for action. That lies 350 miles away, in a drawer in Paisley, where it was reluctantly stashed by its creator, the sculptor Sandy Stoddart.Īs Sandy showed me around his studio, the manhood of Priapus was the elephant in the room, if that's the phrase I want. ![]() In a square elsewhere in the capital, a statue of Priapus, the god of fertility, is complete in every detail - apart from the all-important one of his defining feature. Not for the royal person herself, you understand, but to shield her eyes from the full glory of a replica of Michelangelo's David, which she used to inspect in the galleries above. In a little-visited vault under the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, I gazed agog at an outsize fig leaf made especially for the monarch. In fact, historians now think she was much more amused in that department than we give her credit for. You might imagine that Queen Victoria took a similar line on the naked form. On the carved façade of Orvieto Cathedral, for example, the lost and the damned writhe in hell, without so much as a stitch on. The only time the Church encouraged bare flesh was to reinforce the eternal message that the wages of sin are death. In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I have searched the logs to see whether xscreensaver was started and it doesn't appear in the log, which to me, means that not only was it not loaded, but also could not have failed to load either. So, it doesn't appear that xscreensaver doesn't work because Cinnamon screensaver is running, it's not even being started. It should be able to startup from the startup program manager, but doesn't. If I start xscreensaver manually, no problem, it just has to be done EVERY TIME I START. I have even tried to "Browse" for the program and use the result to feed the start up program entry. I've tried xscreensaver & which was also ignored. Just as an aside, whoever thought that combining a load of unrelated stuff together and screwing with the normal everyday usage of Mint, must be a bit. xscreensaver still doesn't load on startup. I've done this, but it hasn't made a difference. ![]() Some people have suggested disabling cinnamon screensaver, but now that's not even a standalone program, so it cannot be disabled other than by telling the Power Management settings NEVER on turning off the screen or suspending. ![]() Now type startx and bspwm in the terminal. Example to access the file: vim /home/(your user name)/.xinitrc. I have recently upgraded to 20.1 and now xscreensaver doesn't even get loaded at startup. To execute bspwm on startup, edit /home/(your user name)/.xinitrc and add. The problem is, xscreensaver ran perfectly well on cinnamon 20, added to startup programs and configured in the normal way, giving me an ever changing screensaver. I do apologise if this is a question that has been posted before, but I have only found answers that relate to releases of Cinnamon prior to 20.1. ![]() ![]() For instance, both games share the same futuristic cyber aesthetic that became synonymous with Rocket League's overall design. RELATED: 10 Excellent Sports Games That Aren’t Based On A Real Sport When Rocket League Meets Mario KartĪs mentioned, Turbo Golf Racing has many similarities in overall game design and the basic game mechanics compared to Rocket League. Incorporating actual racing gameplay with course hazards and power-ups familiar to the karting subgenre of racing, it would actually be more fitting to describe Turbo Golf Racing as the lovechild of Mario Kart and Rocket League, all tied up in the bow of the sport of crazy golf. Developed by Halfcalf Studios and expected to release later this year across PC and Xbox platforms with Xbox Game Pass availability, Turbo Golf Racing could well be a contender on the esports scene with its engaging formula and high-octane action.Īt first glance, the game seems like the spitting image of Rocket League, leading many online to draw comparisons between the two, but while Rocket League follows season releases of new content and focuses on player competition, Turbo Golf Racing is set to deliver an altogether different racing experience. Turbo Golf Racing is projected to be exactly that kind of game, with its distinctive style and gameplay reminiscent of its forebear. With the meteoric success and popularity of Rocket League, it was only a matter of time until a new iteration of the racing-sport genre would come along. ![]() ![]() ![]() When you're done with the single player modes, you can also try the all-new Ghost Race mode where you can challenge your friends and see who is the fastest racer on every available track. Using these power-ups efficiently and at the right time is also the key to win every race in the game, provided that you also own a powerful boat to compete with. High-speed tracks and awesome power-upsĮach track was designed with a high-speed approach and comes with lots of cool power-ups that can increase your boat's speed or allow you to jump over obstacles. While in Ring Master, you will need to drive through all the rings placed on the track as fast as you can, in Gauntlet mode, rings and competitors will be replaced with explosive barrels that can destroy your boat in an instant.įinally, the Championship mode will throw at your a mixture of tracks and modes in which you will have to prove that you're the best racer out there. Moreover, each boat comes with different stats that may give you the upper edge in various races.īesides the classic race mode where you'll be competing against fifteen other racers, the game also comes with three other modes that can be unlocked by winning as many races as possible. ![]() The boats also come in various flavors some of them resembling dragsters, high-speed airplanes, and even UFOs. Besides the unique setting of the tracks, each one of them features lots of shortcuts that can help you catch up with the competitors in front of you much faster. Hydro Thunder Hurricane comes with eight different tracks that will offer intense races on any of the modes you choose to play. Hydro Thunder Hurricane is a boat racing game packed ,with intense tracks lots of awesome power-ups and physical transformation options for all your boats. ![]() ![]() ![]() He said Bonin did not respond, but a member of his staff did speak with him. Moeller has contacted city officials like Councilmember Mike Bonin. He said the store did $120 in sales in 8 hours one day, and their sales are down 90% from last year. Not one of them comes anymore because as soon as they leave the store, some transient would come up to them not wearing a mask and asking for change and food and they're like look we're not taking our little kids to the boardwalk," he said. ![]() "We had a lot of families that live here that have kids and they would come and eat ice cream. However, the shop lost "half" of its clients because of the lack of tourism during the pandemic, and the other half do not want to return. Moeller said in February of 2020, their sales were up 40% before the pandemic. "I've had everything stolen. All of our bicycles, our patio furniture, and police are like, 'What do you want us to do?'" he said. Moeller said the problem is the crime and drugs. We close before dark because we can't have the kids walk home in the back alley in the dark and it's just really sad," he said. "A lot of the kids that used to work for us, their parents don't allow them to work for us because it is just so dangerous and I get it. Moeller said some parents of his employees do not want their kids to work at the shop anymore. We've had someone on meth jump over the counters and hit the kids in the face with a gas can saying they're going to torch the building to the point where it's just not safe," he said. We've had - I don't even know - how many people that have accosted staff and stolen things. We've had two people shot dead outside of Ben & Jerry's. "People are like there have always been drugs in Venice. And yeah, people would smoke pot, skateboard and sell dreamcatchers. Now, it's meth and heroin that people are doing and dealing. Moeller said the area has seen a rise in drugs and crimes. Word spreads because everybody has an iPhone nowadays, and literally they closed the boardwalk down and in two weeks, it was a sea of encampments and it never recovered from that," said Moeller. They started saying look it's winter - it's not tourist season - and we're going to start housing people on the boardwalk where they can semi socially distance, and they're away from residential neighborhoods, and we didn't think much about it then. And then in March, they closed us down and as soon as the boardwalk was completely closed, everybody came in. "When COVID hit, they decided to turn the boardwalk into a shelter for the homeless. However, when the pandemic hit, the area changed drastically, according to Moeller. We are the only store on the boardwalk that hasn't had graffiti on it," he said. They were basically protecting our store from taggers. They're just people who have fallen on hard times. ![]() We give them coffee and ice cream, and they're really darling. "The homeless that have always been there are fantastic and sweet. Moeller said he always had a good relationship with the homeless community in Venice Beach, and would allow them to sleep in front of his store before the pandemic. Our security guard is a homeless guy who lives in a tent and has been working as our security guard for two and half years and is phenomenal," he said. 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