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A Peek at Nomi Ruiz After Hours + Free Album Download
If you couldn't make it to the Thursday, May 9 After Hours event featuring performer Nomi Ruiz then do not fear, we have a video that will give you a taste of what you may have missed.
Thursday Inspiration: Laurie Pollpeter Eskenazi
Laurie's vases were my favorites, but she makes all kinds of awesome stuff. Check it out here.Hat tip to Joanna Skolfield of Blarney Stone Pottery.
Local pride
THE Hong Kong art market is strong and prosperous, buoyed by low taxes and free of the censorship that inhibits much of the art on the mainland. But the local scene has long felt overshadowed by the big-name Chinese contemporary artists. Show More Summary
Cooper Update: Trustee Culture and Leak
An exhausted-sounding Peter Cafiero, outgoing President of Cooper Union's Alumni Association, took to the Rose Auditorium stage on Monday night to introduce the annual Alumni Council Forum, noting that “hopefully this will continue the...Show More Summary
Google tests enhanced notifications in Chrome browser
Google has released a beta version of Chrome that introduces what the company describes as "richer" notifications from the browser's apps and extensions. The Chrome browser has been able to display this type of notification for moreShow More Summary
Back in the tropics, with paint
Arrived on the morning boat from Gamboa yesterday morning, after a long day’s travel from Oklahoma which included an unscheduled landing in Cartagena, Colombia (my seat mate looked at the in-flight magazine and said thoughtfully, “American doesn’t actually fly to … Continue reading ?
Henri Dutilleux, modernist composer, dies at 97
Henri Dutilleux, the French composer whose modernist music has received international acclaim and is performed regularly by major orchestras, died Thursday in Paris. He was 97.
We Don’t Need Another Hero
The roll-out of Anthony Weiner’s midlife crisis-cum-mayoral campaign has gone about as well as the candidate could have hoped. He announced it via video, beating the tabloids’ print deadlines, evading eponymous puns for one precious day. Show More Summary
Atrocity Update
The soldier brutally slaughtered in Woolwich has been named as Drummer Lee Rigby of the 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. His commanding officer Lt Col Jim Taylor described him as "an experienced and talented side drummer and machine gunner... Show More Summary
Intel claims Haswell will offer 50 percent more battery life in laptops
Intel's upcoming family of Core processors, code-named Haswell, will offer 50 percent more battery life in laptops than did their "Ivy Bridge" predecessors, Intel said on Thursday. Haswell chips were designed with laptops and tablets...Show More Summary
Paper Drivers: 1942
May 1942. Washington, D.C. "Victory Program salvage drive. Schoolboy volunteers to go from house to home collecting scrap paper." Medium format nitrate negative by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Alaskan volcano's plume as seen from space station
LiveScience reports that "the volcano's ash cloud has reached as high as 22,000 feet" - still at least 200 miles below the International Space Station, from where this picture was taken. Read more...
Jeremy Deveraturda
Jeremy Deveraturda is an illustrator and digital painter who studied at the School of Visual Arts in NYC, and moved from his initial love of watercolor into the appealing freedom of digital art. His light-filled digital seascapes and landscapes have something of the feeling of gouache, and display his admiration for artists like Sorolla and [...]
a road well traveled
This is the first in the Sidewalk series. Which began while I was Whispering White and has now bumped right into my what-iffing Windows. Which is the way it goes while you are just going and not worrying about it....
Durer’s Great Piece of Turf
Like his remarkable Hare, Albrecht Durer’s study in watercolor, pen and ink of a clump of earth containing an assortment of wild plants, known as the Great Piece of Turf, is a remarkable example of the artist’s penetrating powers of observation and brilliant rendering. Like his Hare, the Great Piece of Turf has become one [...]
9 Essential Android Apps for Web Designers
Advertise here with BSA The complex work of web designer requires a number of skills and tools, depending on the project specifications. In current times smartphone usage is increasing and it phones and apps became very helpful for web designers and professionals. Show More Summary
In Bloom Now At The IMA
The Peony. Not only is it the state flower of Indiana, but these herbaceous perennials are also in bloom all around the grounds of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Paeonia lactiflora, also known as the Chinese peony or the common garden peony, flowers in late spring, usually during the month of May. These large, fragrant [...]
The Sony RX100 at Dublin Zoo [USER REVIEW]
by Sarah Hipwell It’s been about four years since my last visit to the zoo. Last week my two girls had a break from school so I decided to take them along with my Mum for a day out to visit the animals at Dublin Zoo. I brought my trusty new Sony RX100 and as [...]Show More Summary
Dear Model..., kindest regards, Other Model. XXX
A short while back Jen Brook wrote an open letter to photographers on behalf of models. Here is a second letter from her to her fellow models. It is actually packed with information for photographers as well.
Dear (new’ish) Model,
My name is Other Model. Show More Summary
We Have a Weiner!
Can Weiner actually win? My sources tell me that this is the plan:
GO BIG! Make yourself “Celebrity-Crazy-Lovable”.
For example:
Like Justin Bieber, walk around wearing a gas mask for no reason. And always wear ugly pants.
Also, like the Bieb, adopt a pet monkey. Show More Summary
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