Category: Art, Entertainment, Sports & Music
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The 2008 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge winners.
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An exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art showcases the works of Nandalal Bose, an Indian painter who was at the forefront of the Indian modern art movement. A life long student of art, Bose’s education was influenced by the Tagore family of Bengal, artist Abanindranath Tagore in particular. Bose drew the inspiration for his…
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The music of Miles Davis’ electric period, which began in roughly 1969 and continued on to his death in 1991, used to be criticized as crude and unfocused in comparison with his earlier masterworks like Sketches of Spain, Kind of Blue, and the albums of his two great quintets. Bitches Brew and In a Silent…
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Came across some funny anti-motivational posters (via Shunya’s Notes). Also discovered that the website lets you create your own parody posters. I designed a few using some photos in my computer archive. Click for enlargement and let me know what your message would be for these photos.
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Before there was television or the Internet, in the days of pamphleteering, public health announcements were often made available through posters. Dangers of malaria, dog bite, bad dental hygiene, poor sanitation and STDs were advertised through eye catching imagery and pithy messages. Some of these posters are now on display at the National Academy of…
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Maria Sharapova, the winner of three Grand Slam singles titles in tennis and the # 3 seed at this year’s Wimbledon, was upset in the second round by a 6-2, 6-4 loss to Alla Kudryavtseva who is ranked # 154 in the world. Among the things that motivated Ms Kudryavtseva to beat the fashionable 2004…
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The weather is hot, blog traffic is down and I am out of ideas. So it’s links time again. The stories here range from extra terrestrial thrills to earthly narrow mindedness, with a bit of not so well known history thrown in the mix. Enjoy! Phoenix Mars Lander unearths (un-Martiates?) Martian polar ice. LOS ANGELES…
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A few days ago, the local media was abuzz with the defacing of a $1.2 million dollar painting at the Carnegie Museum of Art. The painting was Night Sky 2 by Latvian- American artist Vija Celmins. (Click on thumbnail for larger view). From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "I didn’t like the painting," Timur Serebrykov told police…
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I learnt some new facts about my co-author Sujatha in a post she wrote at her blog. Responding to an Internet game of tag among bloggers, she revealed a few hitherto unknown (to me) talents and proclivities. The two that caught my eye particularly are: 3. Languages known: English (best of all), Tamil (really well, but…
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It’s not often that a book or a movie makes me cry. A few weeks ago I watched Fateless, a film that brought tears to my eyes. For quite some time afterwards I could not get over the sepia tinted images of melancholy, gloom and suffering. Even more difficult to shake off was the impression…
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When a car company like G.M. is in the art business, every company in any other industry is, too. Rather than extend a discussion in which I’ve been a vociferous—maybe even loudmouth—participant below the comment line of Ruchira’s post regarding poet-doctor Fady Joudah, I thought I’d take her and Joe’s suggestions to address in a…
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