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Monthly Archives: January 2009
Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
On Perception
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Follow the hosts directions on this video carefully for a VERY interesting experience.
If you like this video, you might like the website TED Talks.
Here is the link to the Perception film.
Serious Eye Candy
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
This is a website that is simply delicious to visit if you enjoy visual stimulation.
God bless the internet and these designers who share their work with us.
The images below come from the site’s “most viewed” selection at:
http://www.behance.net
A Violinist in the Metro (true story)
Friday, January 23, 2009
Pearls Before Breakfast - washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html
A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousands of people went through the station, most of them on their way [...]
Globe-trotting Technology Allows Works of Artists to be Seen in Finest Detail
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Velázquez’s Las Meninas can be seen down to the individual brush strokes online
Photograph: Bridgeman Art Library
The article below is from The Guardian. I have Google Earth and have visited the site and seen the extraordinary detail of the works online. It is simply amazing to see the individual brushstrokes by the painters.
Armchair tourists who are [...]
Second Lives at the Museum of Arts and Design
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
The museum of Arts and Design inaugurated in its new home at Columbus Circle with the exhibition, Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, a special thematic exhibition featuring 51 contemporary artists from 17 countries who transform discarded, commonplace or valueless objects into extraordinary works of art.
Some of the works of in this exhibition are the reason [...]
Notes taken from “The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa,” by Michael Kimmelman
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
My friend Beth Kaplan is a writer who lives in Toronto. We often discuss the creative process and our craft of writing together. She sent me the notes below. Vist her blog.
To live intensely is one of the basic human desires and an artistic necessity.
Sol LeWitt had encouraged that attitude [of ardour and commitment in [...]