Category: Art

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Convicted forger A. Schiller was serving his time in Sing Sing prison in the late 1800s when guards found him dead in his cell. On his body they found seven regular straight pins whose heads measured the typical 47/1000ths of an inch or 1.17 millimeters in diameter. Under 500 magnification it was found that the…

I love Murakami. If you are anywhere near New York…you should see this show… (Thanks Leon!) cd The Warhol of Japan Pours Ritual Tea in a Zen Moment By CAROL VOGEL The unmistakable aroma of incense wafted through the Gagosian Gallery on Madison Avenue one afternoon last week. It wasn’t the only hint that business…

This is one of my term papers. The semester is through for me except for a final exam in Arabic next week. cd Like Sands Through an Hourglass Figure by Chris Damitio In the battle for the hearts of minds of future anthropologists, behaviorists, and popular science buffs, two competing camps have risen to the…

WAYNESBURG, Ky. – Miss America 1944 has a talent that likely has never appeared on a beauty pageant stage: She fired a handgun to shoot out a vehicle’s tires and stop an intruder. Venus Ramey, 82, confronted a man on her farm in south-central Kentucky last week after she saw her dog run into a…

A Memento of Henri Bergson by Chris Damitio You may think that you are free, but you are not. You may think that each action you take is an unrestrained choice, but it is not. You ( and everyone else) are incarcerated in a prison that controls every action you take and every decision you…

I’ve been playing with art again. I’ve put what I have up at my myspace page, but this is what I have done lately. cd

(Thanks Digby!)