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Jouster.
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, from "Dictionnaire raisonné du mobilier français de l'époque carlovingienne à la Renaissance," vol. 2 Paris: 1874 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/jouster/ -
Jouster.
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, from "Dictionnaire raisonné du mobilier français de l'époque carlovingienne à la Renaissance," vol. 2 Paris: 1874 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/jouster/@oldbookillustrations wow, shapes so unfamiliar as to be rendered abstract.
Is the bird perching on the helmet meant to be a live bird or part of the armor?
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@oldbookillustrations wow, shapes so unfamiliar as to be rendered abstract.
Is the bird perching on the helmet meant to be a live bird or part of the armor?
@AmateurExpert It's part of the helmet. According to Wikipedia, it served as a target for the other jouster to aim at. That was the goal: take down the other guy's crest.
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As luck would have it, the timing didn't work your way. A re-post hit the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47473178
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@alice @garyseven cool username!
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Hi @garyseven, #Welcome to the community!
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I thought the middle one was the most interesting — it’s pre-1927, made with a sharpened nail for the barb instead of a sliver of bone (as became common), was likely made by, sized for, and used by someone just a bit bigger than I am (see the linked article, above), and is beautifully carved with an octopus and two otters — you can see photos of it online:
https://collection-online.moa.ubc.ca/search/item?keywords=A137
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Was asked today, as an icebreaker, to share what I was currently obsessed with.
My answer: The design and function of these wooden (Pacific) halibut hooks that have used by the communities of the northwest coast of the US for thousands of years: https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-halibut-hook-revival/
I went to see these examples, from the Haida, at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, yesterday.
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Tony Hoare passed away.
This quote has stuck with me since I first read it as a teen. It sparked a decade-long obsession with simplicity later expanded by Rich Hickey's Simple vs Easy.
"I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies" https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._A._R._Hoare#The_Emperor's_Old_Clothes
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@IanAMartin @the_turtle @catsalad yeah I know, but I mean
It was a gimmick
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The War on Iran must stop.
