Category: Art, Entertainment, Sports & Music
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Shunya’s latest post about the Sikh Gurdwara (temple) Anandpur Sahib took me far down the memory lane. I had visited this beautiful place in my late teens. I don’t remember too many of the details now. But I did make a sketch of the lovely structure which amazingly is still in my possession (most of…
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Alfred Hitchcock’s films are among my all time favorites. I have seen quite a few. Even with modern cinema’s technological advances and the modern mind’s ability to calmly process the gruesome, Hitchcock movies remain hypnotically chilling, rising above the unnecessary blood and gore commonly associated with the genre of horror and suspense films. Hitchcock’s magic…
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I have no good ideas for a meaningful post. I also have to report for jury duty today. So here are a few links to some stories that caught my eye in the past couple of days. I think there is something for everyone here. What’s in your wallet? : That pocketful of change you…
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Here is another one of those science/art stories which will raise my co-blogger Dean’s hackles. "A starter violin costs about $200. A finely crafted modern instrument can run as much as $20,000. But even that’s loose change when compared with a violin made three centuries ago by Antonio Stradivari. His 600 or so surviving violins can…
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(Edward Hopper’s People in the Sun and Room by the Sea) Edward Hopper is an artist I admire immensely. This review by Professor Donald Kuspit of Hopper’s art currently on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York irritated me to no end.…
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The most regrettable waste of my twenty dollars happened last Saturday evening when my husband and I unwittingly went to see the movie, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan." Why unwitting? Because of reviews such as these. Most misleading perhaps was David Ansen of Newseek, with whom I agree…
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(The Twittering Machine, Paul Klee 1922, MoMA) Last Thursday, on a beautiful, crisp autumn day in Houston, a friend and I visited the Menil Collection where some eighty of Paul Klee’s colorful, delicate and small sized paintings are currently on display. All the paintings are from American collections. Born in Switzerland in a musical family,…
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Exactly a year ago I launched Accidental Blogger with an equal amount of excitement and trepidation. In my very first post I explained the motivations for starting a blog. I was not quite sure then for how long I would be able to keep up the effort and one year seemed a long time. I…
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Stupid? So far into the season, the New Orleans Saints are 5-1 and the Houston Texans are 1-4. Perhaps you remember that the Texans passed over Reggie Bush and Vince Young as their first draft pick and went for Mario Williams. The Saints picked Bush. (Young is the rookie Q.B. for the Tennessee Titans) Not…
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Nike is cashing in on the most famous moment of 2006 World Cup Soccer. A new ad shows the head butted Materazzi returning to the fray – braced for Zinedine Zidane or any thing else that might await him on the soccer field. This time Materazzi sports a shaven head – a new style of…
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Now millions of them will be – after the US postal system is done printing this year’s holiday stamps. Every year in October – November, I look forward to the issue of Christmas stamps. I am partial to the secular edition. I love the colorful images of everyday, cheerful objects. This year the Christmas stamps…
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Another interesting article about shrewd application of art to influence perception of reality – this time about war and peace. (click to enlarge) LONDON, Aug. 7 — It was not a happy coincidence that the Victoria and Albert Museum’s splendidly refurbished Islamic art gallery opened here in late July, just as the Middle East was…
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