Category: Art/Skill/Techne
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What Is The Isleworth Mona Lisa?
Two years before the death of Leonardo da Vinci, the aging artist was visited by Cardinal Luigi d’Aragona to survey his works. A diary written by the Cardinal’s secretary suggests da Vinci showcased a Mona Lisa portrait different than the one now on display in The Louvre Museum. Published in…
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A Shot And A Book: How To Read In Bars : NPR
Reading requires — especially today — intense discipline and the capacity to sit still and engage. It’s a skill you can develop, this quieting of the mind. Some books make it easier than others, sure, but the fact remains: A strong reader is a champ at refusing the sweet mutter…
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Dumb Movie About Brain Capacity
I cringe whenever the trailer for LUCY shows up online or at the theater. The notion that humans use only 10% of our brain is so silly. It is passed around because of a popular equivalence: the mind = the brain. So, here is the problem. If the mind is the brain,…
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Sweet Bloom Coffee Roasters
After ten years in the specialty coffee industry, Andy Sprenger returned with his family to his home town of Lakewood, Colorado to start a new chapter in his coffee career. Formerly the head roaster for Ceremony Coffee, he brings a wealth of sourcing and roasting knowledge and titles such as two-time…
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Toby Froud’s Lessons Learned: No CGI whenever Possible
In case you missed it last week, Toby Froud, the baby in the striped PJs from the movie Labyrinth, grew up, moved to Portland for a job at LAIKA, and premiered his own fantasy puppet film on Saturday in collaboration with Jim Henson’s daughter, Heather. He might not have been…
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Skin Aflame – A Poem and an Abstract
For that beautiful youth Health in your hands… Thanksgiving! For me let there be An intercession! Another deep night Called to this vigil Not by a soul on fire With the compulsion To peer into Abyss But awake, alert Beneath the harsh yoke Of that all too old long time companion: Irritated skin…
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The Writings On The Wall Put in Perspective
OKGO’s new video… And a conversation including the making of it over at NPR This video is all about perspective; the illusions are real, so to speak, and that’s what makes this jaw-dropping. Perspective images such as something called the Necker cube, a flat line drawing that looks three-dimensional but…
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Miss American Dream — Matter — Medium
Britney sat there with a polite, blank expression. This is the job, right? She knows there’s a lot she has to do so that she can continue to do the thing that she loves. You can’t just sing and dance anymore. You have to prepare to sing and dance, which…
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Dorothea Tanning, Surrealist Artist
Dorothea Margaret Tanning August 25, 1910 – January 31, 2012 was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor, writer, and poet. Her early work was influenced by Surrealism. She was also married to fellow Surrealist Max Ernst. via Dorothea Tanning – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Maya Angelou, Resquiat in Pacem
Archive of a great in-depth interview with the great Maya Angelou over at the Paris Review. This interview was conducted on the stage of the YMHA on Manhattan’s upper East Side. A large audience, predominantly women, was on hand, filling indeed every seat, with standees in the back . .…
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Robert Campin, the Master of Flémalle
Robert Campin (c. 1375 – 26 April 1444), now usually identified as the artist known as the Master of Flémalle, is usually considered the first great master of Flemish and Early Netherlandish painting. This had been a matter of controversy for decades; Campin’s life is relatively well documented for the…
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Hilma af Klint
Like Vassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich, who have previously been regarded as the main protagonists of abstract art, Hilma af Klint was influenced by contemporary spiritual movements, such as spiritism, theosophy and, later, anthroposophy. Hilma af Klint’s oeuvre builds on the awareness of a spiritual dimension of consciousness,…
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Blacks in Western Art: Gemini Sculpture With Black and White Twins a Symbol of Racial Harmony – The Root
…A particularly impressive achievement of the artist is found in the sensitively rendered heads of the figures. The intention seems to have been to racially distinguish the twins. The facial traits of the figure on the right exhibit pronounced black features, while the aquiline nose of his companion is normative…
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Mutants and Mystics
Cool book… Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal Jeffrey J. Kripal Offers a brilliantly insightful account of how comic book heroes have helped their creators and fans alike explore and express a wealth of paranormal experiences ignored by mainstream science In many ways, twentieth-century America was…
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Injecting Computation Everywhere
At this year’s SXSW Conference, Stephen Wolfram introduced Wolfram Language. Now, video of his presentation shows some of the profound implications of this new technology.
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