Yikes!
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Image: (Murine) via medexsupplu.com; (Van Gogh) via thesartwolf.com
Archive for the 'Art' Category
Vincenzo Kolchak sent me this piece from the online New York Times.
Saturday, July 25th, 2009OPINION
Timothy Egan - A New York Times Blog
July 20, 2009, 11:05 pm
Methland vs. Mythland
Like a brief, intense summer squall, a media storm passed over small-town America a few years ago, stripping away what was left of the myth of the rural idyll to reveal a cast of hollow-cheeked white people smoking meth behind the corn […]
2 Ex-Timesmen Say They Had a Tip on Watergate First–New York Times headline, May 25, 2009
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009*
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In other news, Doug Corrigan was honestly confused…
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and Saint Thomas (a.k.a Doubting Tom) really believed in the Resurrection, but after having seen David Cronenberg’s VIDEODROME at the Jerusalem Golgotha-Plex on Saturday evening, wounds intrigued him. Caravaggio’s painting demonstrates.
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Images: (Post) via worldpeacethroughtbeer.org; (parade) + (book) + (movie) via 100megspop3.com;(sheet music) via smithsonianlibraries.si.edu;(James Woods) in david […]
It’s about time!
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
via cnn.com
LONDON, England (CNN) — A sculpture of a giant white horse taller than the Statue of Liberty is set to tower over the countryside as part of an unusual scheme to help revive the fortunes of a depressed region of England.
The 50-meter high horse will dominate the landscape around Ebbsfleet.
The 50-meter high horse will […]
I just read the Good Book, the Farmer’s Almanac and Celestial Mechanics Monthly.
Monday, August 4th, 2008‘Gravity tractor’ could deflect asteroids* 22:55 28 July 2008
* NewScientist.com news service
* David L Chandler
A “gravity tractor” could deflect an Earth-threatening asteroid if it was deployed when the asteroid was more than one orbit away from the potential impact, according to a new study. If the space rock was found heading straight for Earth, a […]
The zip codes should have given them away.
Saturday, July 12th, 2008Tue Jul 8, 8:20 PM ET
Art of deception: Crystal skulls in British, US museums were fakes
by Richard Ingham Tue Jul 8, 8:20 PM ET
PARIS (AFP) - How about this for the next instalment of the Indy franchise: “Indiana Jones and the Dodgy Antiques Dealer”?
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Crystal skull which is displayed in the British Museum’s Wellcome Trust Gallery. […]
I am happy that I did not show outrage in my comments which mirrored Vincenzo Kolchak’s certainty that the artist was only foolin.’
Friday, April 18th, 2008Shvarts, Yale clash over project
By Zachary Abrahamson, Thomas Kaplan and Martine Powers
Aliza Shvarts ’08 was never impregnated. She never miscarried. The sweeping outrage on blogs across the country was apparently for naught — at least according to the University.
“The entire project is an art piece, a creative fiction designed to draw attention to the ambiguity […]
For Senior, Abortion a Medium for Art, Political Discourse–Yale Daily News headline
Thursday, April 17th, 2008Titian had started this way…
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Martine Powers
Yale Daily News
Staff Reporter
Published Thursday, April 17, 2008
Art major Aliza Shvarts ‘08 wants to make a statement.
Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself “as often as possible” while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce […]
Pedro Martinez: Daily urine tests are fine with me–New York Daily News headline, February 14, 2008
Thursday, February 14th, 2008Now I am really confused!!
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Pedro, Marichal denounced over cockfight
Practice banned in U.S., but it’s legal and popular in Dominican Republic
updated 1:02 p.m. ET, Thurs., Feb. 7, 2008
Now it’s New York Mets pitcher Pedro Martinez and Hall of Famer Juan Marichal who are being denounced for animal fighting.
A video of Martinez and Marichal at a cockfight […]
Florida woman auctions pancake with image of Jesus on eBay–Yahoo headline, 11/14/2007
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007*
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Images: (Vermeer) via artemis.austincollege.edu;(monitor) reviewdesk.com; (Jesus Alou) baseball-almanac.com; (pancake) orugallu.net;