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     Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 6991 Registered: 4-1997  |
A friend living in northern Italy sent me this snap from the top of some mountain. He said it looks like Mordor at sunset and I'm inclined to believe him.  | ||
| Lucy Supporter Username: Lucy Post Number: 134 Registered: 5-2005 |
Takes your breath away. | ||
| Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 7014 Registered: 4-1997 |
Michael Palin's travel books online for free http://www.palinstravels.co.uk/static-7 | ||
| Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 7111 Registered: 4-1997 |
Juxtapositions. Volume 1. Issue 1  I'll paint you a profound picture an action painting a gestural painting nothing but pure gesture I'll write you a far-out song of common people If I take off my mask I'll see the real world for the first time But I won't take it off It fits too well It's a perfect fit It's too comfortable And I've got my career to think of my life to think of We only live once and living well is the best revenge Get your own blindfold You can't have mine You'll have to face the world without it And anyway I'm too young to die I'm an American and Americans don't die We're the conquerors We're the new roman emperors We're conquering the world with global capitalism I can see it but you can't see it It's the Invisible Empire And democracy is capitalism No more poor people No more Huddled Masses in our empire The rising tide lifts all boats! No more people starving and dying No more hunger and torture and death So get smart, get with it Hang my painting! Publish my poem! (poem (excerpt) by Lawrence Ferlinghetti) | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2463 Registered: 5-2001  |
In my medicine cabinet the winter fly has died of old age | ||
| Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 7122 Registered: 4-1997 |
In case you thought you had too much time on your hands http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/45938?&print=yes#4 6167 | ||
| Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 7404 Registered: 4-1997 |
Here's one way I won't be seeing the Grand Canyon (yikes, it's only glass!) http://mrjarchitects.com/MRJArchitects%20Canyon%203.htm | ||
| Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 7405 Registered: 4-1997 |
Another perspective http://mrjarchitects.com/MRJArchitects%20canyon%202.htm | ||
| Earlster Supporter Username: Earlster Post Number: 1320 Registered: 8-2003  |
You want to enjoy the canyon, put on your boots and hike down. Glass bridges are for sissys. Cool engineering, though. | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2653 Registered: 5-2001 |
 Don't Thimk.... Drimk! | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2795 Registered: 5-2001 |
 Dave - look what they did to Alex! | ||
| Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 7670 Registered: 4-1997 |
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| Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 7671 Registered: 4-1997 |
It's always interesting how you can take a person's face, bisect it, mirror it, and see two very different emotions. One is typically positive, the other not.  | ||
| monster Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 1435 Registered: 7-2002  |
It's called Hemifacial Photography
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2405/is_1_128/ai_72412325 | ||
| TomD Citizen Username: Tomd Post Number: 274 Registered: 5-2005  |
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. Francis Bacon but, then again, perhaps Bacon was mistacon http://goldennumber.net/face.htm | ||
| Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 7732 Registered: 4-1997 |
Jackie Chan's iTunes playlist (link requires iTunes) http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewMix?id=83315856&s=143441&w m=1 Many people in the west don't know JC is as popular a singer as he is an actor in Asia. | ||
| CLK Supporter Username: Clkelley Post Number: 1545 Registered: 6-2002  |
Jackie Chan has a music video on the DVD of "Mulan." It's the song "I'll Make a Man Out of You" in Mandarin. It's ... something to see. | ||
| Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 8080 Registered: 4-1997 |
Very fine page design/typography.  Bruce Rogers, book designer | ||
| Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 8177 Registered: 4-1997 |
http://www.rebargroup.org/projects/parking/index.html | ||
| Spare_o Supporter Username: Spare_o Post Number: 332 Registered: 9-2003 |
Very creative...I love this idea! | ||
| Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 8185 Registered: 4-1997 |
What's it like to live at Shakespeare & Co. in Paris? http://www.mobylives.com/radio/mobylives122005.mp3 (book news at first; interview at about 1/3rd way in) Time Was Soft There : A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co. | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 5420 Registered: 12-2001  |
HAPPY NEW YEAR | ||
| Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 8267 Registered: 4-1997 |
Happy New Year, Duncan. Lunch was fun. We'll have to do it again sometime. Observed for 1/4/06 -- Popmatters Best Books of '05 http://www.popmatters.com/books/features/best2005/fiction1.shtml -- Advice you'll never get from OnStar http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/4LynnellEdwards.html -- Google's logo today celebrates Louis Braille's birthday.  | ||
| Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 8303 Registered: 4-1997 |
 Ten Wonders of the New China http://images.businessweek.com/ss/05/12/china_wonders/index_01.htm | ||
| LazyDog Citizen Username: Lazydog Post Number: 108 Registered: 6-2005  |
cool building. Reminds me of Escher | ||
| Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 8320 Registered: 4-1997 |
It does look like an Escher. Good eye, Lazydog. -- G33k Stuff: Steve Wozniak (the guy who also invented the Mac) speaketh: http://cdn.itconversations.com/Steve%20Wozniak%20Part%201%20-%20Gnomedex%204.0.m p3 | ||
| Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 8325 Registered: 4-1997 |
I'm listening to Woz and he's mentioning his desire for a computer that compiled Fortran so I was curious to see if there's a Fortran compiler for Mac. Yes, there is: http://www.absoft.com/Products/Compilers/Fortran/Macintosh/OSX/OSX.html | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 3626 Registered: 5-2001 |
Dave. Knowing you are an art historian, I was wondering if you have any comments on these actions: Attacker of Duchamp's Urinal Sentenced By PIERRE-ANTOINE SOUCHARD Associated Press Writer PARIS (AP) -- A court has convicted a 77-year-old French man for attacking artist Marcel Duchamp's famed porcelain urinal with a hammer, rejecting the defendant's contention that he had increased the value of the art work by making it an "original." The court gave Pierre Pinoncelli a three-month suspended prison sentence Tuesday and ordered him to pay a $245,490 fine. Pinoncelli also was ordered to pay $17,616 to repair "Fountain," a work worth millions of dollars that was chipped in the Jan. 4 hammer attack at the Pompidou Center. The work was part of an exhibit of the early 20th century's avant-garde Dada movement. The Pompidou Center had sought more than $523,930 for the damage. Pinoncelli - who announced that he plans to appeal the decision - told reporters that what he had done was not vandalism but a "wink" at Dadaism that had Duchamp's blessing. "I told him in 1967 that I would do something," Pinoncelli said. "I added to its value," he said, assuring that Duchamp would "have had a good laugh." Duchamp, who died in 1968, emphasized the creative process, and a role for the spectator. The work has an estimated value of $3.4 million, said Marie Delion, a lawyer for the Pompidou Center. The original was lost but in 1964 Duchamp created eight other versions of the work. After buying his ticket to the exhibit on Jan. 4, Pinoncelli attacked "Fountain" with a hammer before writing "Dada" on the sculpture. Pinoncelli, a former salesman who calls himself a participant in the creative process as conceived by Duchamp, said that his hammer attack was an artistic endeavor. During questioning, he had told police his attack was a work of performance art and said then it might have pleased the artists of Dada. The January urinal attack was not the first for Pinoncelli. He urinated on the piece during a 1993 exhibition in Nimes in southern France. "The day that you understand that what belongs to someone else does not belong to you, things will go better between yourself and society," the court said after handing down the sentence. Pinoncelli's actions are not limited to the Dada movement or works of art. He cut off his own finger as an expression of solidarity with Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt, held hostage by leftist guerrillas since 2002. Duchamp's idea to transform a urinal into a work of art first appeared in 1917 when he tried to display the piece at a New York show using a pseudonym, R. Mutt. It was refused. A 2004 poll of 500 arts figures ranked "Fountain" as the most influential work of modern art- ahead of Pablo Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," Andy Warhol's screen prints of Marilyn Monroe and "Guernica," Picasso's depiction of war's devastation | ||
| Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 8468 Registered: 4-1997 |
That was one expensive day at the museum for him. Duchamp would have liked it, I guess, but who knows? Maybe Duchamp would create another fountain and auction it off to raise money to help Pinoncelli pay the fine? | ||
| Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 8469 Registered: 4-1997 |
 At first I liked this house. Then I thought it was too... too... fortressy. Now I kind of like it again, but I think I like the photo, not the house. It's called Art Collectors' Residence and it's in Toronto. But I don't see any art inside. Maybe they collect it somewhere else and just live here? Someone somewhere awarded it "best house" of '05 | ||
| LazyDog Citizen Username: Lazydog Post Number: 131 Registered: 6-2005 |
ground floor for recieving guest; 1st floor looks like it it has walls that are conducive to hanging pics, etc, i.e. no regular windows ?? | ||
| Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 8472 Registered: 4-1997 |
One of the better print ad campaigns I've seen recently.  | ||
| monster Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 1932 Registered: 7-2002 |
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| ffof Citizen Username: Ffof Post Number: 4398 Registered: 5-2001  |
Nice ad, but...the guy's pants are too tight, if ya know what I mean! | ||
| monster Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 1945 Registered: 7-2002 |
That's a man baby! | ||
| Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 8529 Registered: 4-1997 |
Switzerland's neue banknoten. (Can you imagine the US having a notes featuring skulls, the AIDS virus, and embryos?)  | ||
| monster Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 2014 Registered: 7-2002 |
We only wish our money could be that cool looking.... | ||
| LilLB Citizen Username: Lillb Post Number: 1252 Registered: 10-2002  |
How cool is that?!?! I'm actually jealous of another country's currency. What a weird feeling. | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 3753 Registered: 5-2001 |
I will say that our new nickels are pretty cool - the ones w/ the retro buffalo look. | ||
| LilLB Citizen Username: Lillb Post Number: 1253 Registered: 10-2002 |
buzzsaw - the new nickels freak me out. When I first had one, I got excited because I thought it was one of those instances where they had a "mistake" in the printing because it was off-centered. Figured it might actually be worth a lot. Then...I realized that it was new nickel that was supposed to be that way. Very disappointing  |
