Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2013 April 7

= April 7 =

schooner art
I've seen a picture of a three-masted schooner on several episodes of Hawaii Five-0. The picture is nice, but is it actually a painting? If yes, who painted it?142.255.103.121 (talk) 05:22, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Just to confirm - is it the picture in this photo of the set? I can't identify it immediately, I'm afraid, but I just wanted to check which picture it was. Tevildo (talk) 11:48, 7 April 2013 (UTC)


 * This page identifies it as a painting of The Great Tea Race of 1866 by Montague Dawson. I can't find a link to that specific painting online. There do seem to be a number of other paintings of the same event, by other artists, which resemble this, including one by J Steven Dews and another by Arthur Victor Gregory. -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 12:57, 7 April 2013 (UTC)


 * I should say that page talks about the original series (which I can't remember) not the new one (which I haven't seen). The photo Tevildo linked to is clearly the new one, as it has a flat-screen TV on the wall. But it does look like they've used the same or similar decor - the map behind that TV could be the Mercator one the page I linked to talks about.  It's impossible to say, really, with a photo as low resolution as that. -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 13:03, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Yes, that's the one. Thank you so much.142.255.103.121 (talk) 13:48, 7 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Here is a better view -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 13:54, 7 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Unless the painting has changed, I have to disagree with that website, and I think they've misidentified the painting. If Dawson did several paintings of the race, then I would assume each of the paintings had more than one ship in them. Going by the set photo linked above (I haven't seen the show), there appears to be only one ship by itself. Montague Dawson apparently has multiple paintings that are somewhat similar, with either one ship on the left or the right, and either leaning to the left or the right. I was not able to find an exact match (the sails in the painting the IP is looking for doesn't have sky showing through them) and I wasn't able to match clouds either. But I'm 100% sure that's not the Ariel and Taeping racing each other. – Kerαu noςco pia ◁ gala xies 17:03, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Ip Man fruit
In the movie Ip Man, what's the fruit eaten by Ip and the other coal workers? It seemed to have a brown exterior and a yellowish interior. --Lazar Taxon (talk) 12:11, 7 April 2013 (UTC)


 * I believe not a fruit but a Sweet potato Dmcq (talk) 17:55, 7 April 2013 (UTC)


 * How did I not realize that? --Lazar Taxon (talk) 21:12, 7 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Yes, I yam amazed that you missed it. StuRat (talk) 05:29, 9 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Not yams, that's just people in America making a mistake. Dmcq (talk) 12:07, 9 April 2013 (UTC)


 * (Close enough, for pun's sake.) StuRat (talk) 19:42, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Metal music
Why is the English word "of" occasionally replaced with the word "ov"? For example Ov Fire and the Void. Th4n3r (talk) 23:57, 7 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Perhaps to be eye catching in the manner of Toys R Us? It seems rather pointless to me, but I'm not really the target audience. Alansplodge (talk) 00:02, 8 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Perhaps to avoid the increasingly frequent confusion of 'of' with 'off', which nicely matches the increasingly frequent confusion of 'to' with 'too' . (They say we're making progress.  Me, I'm not convinced.)  --   Jack of Oz   [Talk]  00:30, 8 April 2013 (UTC)


 * I ov no idea. Clarityfiend (talk) 00:52, 8 April 2013 (UTC)


 * I think it goes along the same lines as why most black metal artists have mononyms (list of musical artists with one name): it's just one more thing to make them sound (although in the case of "ov", look) dark, evil, cool. It could also be inspired by Latin, where v replaces certain letters to emulate an old-fashioned, gothic appearance in their album/song titles or appellations. – Kerαu noςco pia ◁ gala xies 02:25, 8 April 2013 (UTC)


 * This is an example of what is known as "TOPY cant". It derives from the writings of Genesis P-Orridge and the modern pagan cult he founded, Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth.  As well as "ov", you would see "thee" for "the", "butter" for "but" and a few others I can't remember right now.  The idea was to make language strange. --Viennese Waltz 07:43, 8 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Thank you. Th4n3r (talk) 15:09, 8 April 2013 (UTC)


 * "Uv" seems to be more phonetically correct, but "ov" is certainly closer to how we say it than "of" is. StuRat (talk) 05:28, 9 April 2013 (UTC)