"SEND IN THE CLOWNS: Hundreds of clowns, one holding a statuette of the Virgin of Guadalupe, arrived at the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City Wednesday as part of their annual pilgrimage to the sanctuary. (Luis Acosta/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)"
- Kimber Scott
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"At first glance, Simen Johan's photographs and sculptures remind me of the beauty and grandness of the great outdoors. Upon further review, I get this eerie feeling that something dark and strange is going on. Each of his images come from as many as one hundred negatives. The images are then scanned and put together digitally to create masterpieces of light and shadow. It’s a technique that has been described as “painting by photography.”"
- Kimber Scott
from Bookmarklet
I love bison, and this picture is just too perfect. I love the dark ominous feeling, like a storm before it starts.
- Heather
"New York City doesn’t have a lot of real estate to build a full-fledged house. But a few industrious homeowners found space where they could, like these homes atop buildings. It’s penthouse living at its best."
- Kimber Scott
from Bookmarklet
"insatiable ....k, I'm done." There is something wrong with that sentence.
- s t e v e
You didn't, Morgan, but you brought up a Spanish variant in another thread.
- Derrick
yeah, and if you noticed, it was a joke that had nothing to do with you. so if you take things in other threads personally, especially when they are not offensive to anyone else in context, then I guess I need to apologize for everything I've ever posted because either I'm a fucking insensitive prick, or you are a bit too defensive about shit that was never directed at you in any way, shape or form. either way, if you were hurt by something i did or said, i sincerely apologize for that result.
- Morgan Haley
It's a real word. It was a movement set up in England that campaigned against the disestablishment of the Church of England. In other words, they campaigned to keep the Church of England as the official state church
- Ian May
Nice. I've never been very graceful despite my adult love of ballet (in fact, my friends used to call me 'Captain Coordination') but I just knocked over a full cup of tea onto my table, ruining incense, my Gone with the Wind box set case, the Casablanca box set case. I swear this is my medication. I can also barely drive.
RAP, I'm not. It's just frustrating that my brain and body seem so disconnected without any warning. And I have to type things so many times because apparently I cannot spell anymore.
- joey
Is this a new med? Usually, those kinds of side effects will wear off after a while. Hopefully, your set cases will dry. Just relax and be careful until your body gets used to the drugs.
- Kimber Scott
I type at normal speed and then go back and edit
- RAPatton
from iPhone
Take note and discuss it with your doctor and/or pharmacist (pharmacists...real ones...actually know a whole shitload about drugs and will tell you more than your doctor will, oftentimes). It may be that it's a side-effect. If it is, then it's up to you and your doctor to decide whether you feel it's worth it for what it's supposed to be doing. Sorry your stuff got tea'd.
- Spidra Webster
"I came home the other day and there it was. The annual bag with our new yellow pages. The one that we always just take out to the curve…eventually. Sometimes it sits there for a few weeks, get’s soaked or frozen, or both, because really, in the age of Google, what the hell is the point of the Yellow Pages? To take up space?"
- Alex Scrivener
from Bookmarklet
I used to use my DC phone books for packing paper when mailing stuff. Sad, but true. (We usually kept the restaurants section because they had menus, and often places didn't have those online.)
- Jennifer Dittrich
Well in the UK we can now at least recycle the yellow pages, previously it had been a problem (at least for my council) apparently due to the ink or something!
- Halil
Mine goes straight to the recycle bin.
- Kimber Scott
"To a modern eye, the pictures look elaborate, funny, somewhat dated and a little bit naughty. But around 160 years ago, someone in authority was so disgusted by them that the entire album of 40 drawings – including these four examples – was seized and consigned to a vault in the Home Office. There it stayed, forgotten, long after ideas on what was fit for the public to see had liberalised. Then two years ago the Home Office was broken up and many of its functions transferred to the newly created Ministry of Justice. That involved moving personnel, equipment and files to new MoJ headquarters. As a mountain of old files came in from the department that dealt with pornography, David Pearson, an MoJ civil servant, came upon an unusual find which, on examination, turned out to be drawings by James Gillray, one of the greatest political caricaturists in history."
- RAPatton
"Nearly 30 years after his death in 1815, a Victorian publisher named Henry Bohn, bought his plates and reissued his drawings as single prints and in bound volumes. Unfortunately for Mr Bohn, censorship had tightened since the turn of the century and one album of "Curiosa" got him into trouble. Having been lost for so long, it has now been turned over to the Victoria and Albert Museum,...
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- RAPatton
I don't get the last one. Is that the artist?
- Kimber Scott
Yes, the last was an engraving of caricaturist James Gillray by Jos Brown
- RAPatton
from iPhone
"Here we are, back in the 1700's you have logged on to see some wacko display baroque etchings. It amazes me there is any interest in this stuff at all. in fact I think a few years ago there was no interest."
- Kimber Scott
from Bookmarklet
"‘ L Filipe dos Santos (aka Corcoise) was born in the summer of 1978 in Portugal. He grew up in a rural environment but watched too much television and, through his adolescence, he developed his rural-hype self identity. Not knowing what to do with it, he searched for some way to express himself. So, by the age of 16, he started sketching. ‘"
- Kimber Scott
from Bookmarklet
"What is the first thing that flashes through your mind when you hear the name John Singer Sargent? Probably exquisite portraits, for which he is most known. Memorable portrayals of elegant ladies, distinguished men, upper class folk dressed to the nines in their satin and velvet. With Sargent, you don’t generally think of a male nude, let alone a full frontal male nude. But few artists can resist an inspiring subject, even if it deviates from their usual genre. John Singer Sargent was no exception. We all know that a muse can happen upon an artist at anytime, anywhere. A bar, a street corner, a party. In Sargent’s case, the unexpected encounter occurred in 1916, in an elevator at the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston. The striking, muscular young man was Thomas E. McKeller, an African-American bellhop at the hotel. At first sight, Sargent was instantly enthralled by McKeller’s strong physique and facial features. Soon, the young bellhop was posing for the artist, and a large scale oil painting, Thomas E. McKeller Nude Study was produced:"
- Kimber Scott
from Bookmarklet
although Lady GaGa's thriller-like dance disturbs me in her new music video bad romance, those alexander mcqueen shoes definately hurt my eyes . . . "fashion" huh!
ekliycektim yazarken " discothing alınmasın ama..." diye. . . hayır kadını seviorum da ayakkabılar gözümü acıtio.
- asli subasi
aahhah bende direk like ı caktım :D yaa feci taaf bi ayakkabı bu ammmaa yeni moda naparsın gecen bi yerde normal ayakkabıyla karsılaştırmasını gordum bu hakkaten monster ayakkaıbısı yani
- DiscoThing
from email
"The good thing about those pathetic art scammers has been that their story never changes. They're moving from place A to place B, they need some of your wonderful art to hang in their new home, and for some strange reason the stupid woman is always pregnant (God help the world if these people do actually breed). Well, the idiots are evolving now and are starting to change their stories up a bit. Now they're "art dealers" and "art exhibitors" looking to buy your work. Here's an example by the scammer Hanks Thomas.."
- Kimber Scott
from Bookmarklet
"Michael’s ideas about sustainable creativity have to do with finding out how to keep creating despite obstacles. How to keep going, even when you do have to draw in bed. And how to take small steps, and keep taking them until you build up a body of work. Once committed to this process, you find that not only are you building up a body of work, but a supply of disciplines and habits as well that enable you to keep working."
- Kimber Scott
from Bookmarklet
"This example gives a good insight to what Repin finds essential in achieving a portrait likeness. He probably had only an hour or two to work on this study. He quickly stated the big flat tones of the coat, table, and paper. He defined the structural planes of the head like a master woodcarver. The effect almost looks like a blurry photograph. He didn’t paint the small details of eyes, nostrils, and lips, but instead concentrated on the overall structure."
- Kimber Scott
from Bookmarklet
"Matthew Stone is an artist based in London who has practice in photography, performance, video, drawing, and sculpture. Stone is also a long time friend and collaborator with indie-favorite-carnal-lust-inducing fashion designer Gareth Pugh, providing soundtracks to his shows and films. Recent exhibitions and performances have taken place at the Baltic, the Royal Academy, the ICA and Tate Britain."
- Kimber Scott
from Bookmarklet
That's because everyone ran to Greader which has a long way to go before it can live up to FF. Conversations on there are way too hard. Worse than Twitter.
- Kimber Scott
If I ran the world...this would get you a 6 month prison sentence.....
- Stephanie Segel
Our local SCCA chapter has several loaner helmets painted that color. Thefts went down dramatically compared to when they were just black.
- dthree
I'm not so sure. I once saw an old VW bug with a "Girl Power" bumper sticker being driven around by some skin head looking dudes.
- Kevykev
Except that for a thief to steal this, they would have it stripped back and turned into a real Ferrari in around 30 minutes flat (including travel time) so I don't think it would be that much of a deterrent. ;)
- Travis Koger
"I did these pastel paintings about six years ago in college. They were my final assignment in Drawing III class. The rules, create a series of two using items picked out of a grab bag for inspiration. I’d never done a series before and I’d never used pastels. Needless to say, I was a little anxious about how things were going to turn out. As you can see, I picked a candle and a roll of ribbon. The pastels I used were Rembrandt Soft Half Pastels that we were required to buy for the class. I really don’t know how the work came together in my mind. The candle made me think of time and wind. I did a few thumbnails and everything seemed to just fall together. I decided to draw a picture of life."
- Kimber Scott
from Bookmarklet
"We're looking forward to a lecture this coming Tuesday by Peter Trippi discussing the Victorian academician J.W. Waterhouse (1849-1917) and what he has learned while organizing Waterhouse's international touring retrospective, now on view at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts through February 7."
- Kimber Scott
from Bookmarklet
"Florida police say a man arrested for repeatedly calling 911 looking for sex claimed it was the only number he could dial after running out of cell phone minutes. Tampa police said 29-year-old Joshua Basso made sexual comments to the 911 dispatcher and asked if he could come to her house. Investigators say she hung up, but he called back four more times. He was arrested about 15 minutes later at his home late Wednesday and charged with making a false 911 call. Basso reportedly told officers that he didn't think he would get in trouble for calling 911. Tampa jail records show Basso is being held without bond but don't indicate whether he has an attorney. He is listed as unemployed with arrests for theft and other crimes dating back to 2001."
- Katy S
from Bookmarklet