User talk:Lambiam

Thanks for your message. I did not know him. The subject appealed to me on various different levels and I often write about California-related history topics, particularly when they intersect between art and tech. So it was only a matter of time! [[User:Viriditas|Viriditas]] ([[User talk:Viriditas|talk]]) 22:18, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for your message. I did not know him. The subject appealed to me on various different levels and I often write about California-related history topics, particularly when they intersect between art and tech. So it was only a matter of time! [[User:Viriditas|Viriditas]] ([[User talk:Viriditas|talk]]) 22:18, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

:Given that you enjoy this kind of thing, I think I should take a moment to explain how exactly I ended up writing about Buz. It was October 2024. I had just become aware of the [[Valparaiso University deaccessioning controversy]]. I wrote that article (first appearing as a subsection in another article) in a series about the controversy. This included three new articles on the paintings involved in the dispute: ''[[Rust Red Hills]]'', ''[[Mountain Landscape]]'', and ''[[The Silver Veil and the Golden Gate]]''. While researching the backstory on this series of paintings, I begin to notice a pattern with artist [[Childe Hassam]] (''The Silver Veil and the Golden Gate''). It turns out, he had created a series in California, but nobody had ever written about it on Wikipedia. Curiouser still, there had been some kind of unspoken rivalry between the coastal art worlds. One author made the claim that New York art critics had ignored California Impressionists and other modernists on the west coast. Naturally, this led me to create the [[California series by Childe Hassam]]. It was while working on this article, namely the works of Childe Hassam unique to that region, that I came across Buz's original Tigertail website, which I believe still exists in the [[Internet Archive]]. That led me down a [[Wiki rabbit hole|rabbit hole]], and I started wondering who exactly had created this great and informative site that nobody else had managed to duplicate? It turns out his name was [[Robert Uzgalis]], and I was impressed by the information I found about art history, info that had been largely ignored by everyone else. This was not the first time I ran into Buz, because I probably would have forgotten about it right then and there had I not moved on to another topic altogether, that of [[Jules Tavernier]]. I was trying to trace all the Hawaiian paintings by Tavernier in May and June of 2025, and lo and behold, I could only find one site that did so: Tigertail. I eventually created a short bio about Buz himself in my sandbox, where it sat until I created it in mainspace in September 2025. Seemed like the least I could do for someone who was helping me so much from the beyond. And that, as they say, is the rest of the story. [[User:Viriditas|Viriditas]] ([[User talk:Viriditas|talk]]) 22:53, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

:Given that you enjoy this kind of thing, I think I should take a moment to explain how exactly I ended up writing about Buz. It was October 2024. I had just become aware of the [[Valparaiso University deaccessioning controversy]]. I wrote that article (first appearing as a subsection in another article) in a series about the controversy. This included three new articles on the paintings involved in the dispute: ''[[Rust Red Hills]]'', ''[[Mountain Landscape]]'', and ''[[The Silver Veil and the Golden Gate]]''. While researching the backstory on this series of paintings, I begin to notice a pattern with artist [[Childe Hassam]] (''The Silver Veil and the Golden Gate''). It turns out, he had created a series in California, but nobody had ever written about it on Wikipedia. Curiouser still, there had been some kind of unspoken rivalry between the coastal art worlds. One author made the claim that New York art critics had ignored California Impressionists and other modernists on the west coast. Naturally, this led me to create the [[California series by Childe Hassam]]. It was while working on this article, namely the works of Childe Hassam unique to that region, that I came across Buz's original Tigertail website, which I believe still exists in the [[Internet Archive]]. That led me down a [[Wiki rabbit hole|rabbit hole]], and I started wondering who exactly had created this great and informative site that nobody else had managed to duplicate? It turns out his name was [[Robert Uzgalis]], and I was impressed by the information I found about art history, info that had been largely ignored by everyone else. This was not the last time I ran into Buz, because I probably would have forgotten about it right then and there had I not moved on to another topic altogether, that of [[Jules Tavernier]]. I was trying to trace all the Hawaiian paintings by Tavernier in May and June of 2025, and lo and behold, I could only find one site that did so: Tigertail. I eventually created a short bio about Buz himself in my sandbox, where it sat until I created it in mainspace in September 2025. Seemed like the least I could do for someone who was helping me so much from the beyond. And that, as they say, is the rest of the story. [[User:Viriditas|Viriditas]] ([[User talk:Viriditas|talk]]) 22:53, 22 April 2026 (UTC)