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Mouse Lemurs and a Satellite View of a Flood - The New York Times &62; Science &…
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3:01pm
2 reviews
science
•http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008...
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Carbon beads from asteroid impact. Carbon cenospheres, like this one less than 50 millionths of a meter in diameter, are a product of the industrial age: carbon-rich particles produced by the combustion of coal and oil. But they are also found in the layers of rock corresponding to the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, when an asteroid slammed into Earth. In an article in the journal Geology, scientists concluded that these cenospheres were formed by the pulverization of Earth's carbon-rich crust. Supporting that idea, the cenospheres were largest near the impact crater, off Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, and became smaller at sites more distant from the crater. The scientists calculate that the impact may have produced up to 900 quadrillion kilograms of cenospheres. The findings run counter to the view that the carbon particles were produced by worldwide forest fires.
Thanks Vaneeza.
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Astro Photo
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2:51pm
0 review
photography
•http://www.astrophoto.com/LunarRing.htm
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Winslow Homer Biography
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May 10, 3:26pm
1 review
arts, biography, artist
•http://whitemountainart.com/Biographi...
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Winslow Homer
Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 - September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th century America and a preeminent figure in American art.
Largely self-taught, Homer began his career working as a commercial illustrator. He subsequently took up oil painting and produced major studio works characterized by the weight and density he exploited from the medium. He also worked extensively in watercolor, creating a fluid and prolific oeuvre, primarily chronicling his working vacations.At the age of 19, Homer was apprenticed to J. H. Bufford's lithographic firm in Boston. Although the superior quality of his work earned him more and more responsibility, he found the work stifling and tedious, and upon attaining his majority he left the shop to become a freelance illustrator. In 1859 Homer moved to New York City, where he studied briefly at the National Academy of Design, took a few painting lessons with Frederic Rondel, and set up a studio at the 10th Street Studio Building. For the next 17 years, his major source of income came from drawings for illustrated weekly magazines, such as Harper's Weekly, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly Newspaper, and Appleton's Journal. He devoted increasing attention to painting, however, and in 1865 was elected a member of the National Academy of Design and was further distinguished by the exhibition of his Prisoners at the Front in the Paris Exposition of 1866. Homer went to Paris that year, but little is known of his activities during the ten months he spent abroad. Domestic travel for the next 15 years included trips to the White Mountains in the summers of 1868 and 1869, the Adirondacks, and Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1873. It is significant that, when Homer returned to Europe in 1881, he did not go back to Paris, which was bursting with American art students at the ateliers. He chose, instead, the small fishing community of Tynemouth, on the cold gray northeast coast of England. Following his return home in 1882, Homer moved from his New York studio to the rugged coast of Prout's Neck, Maine. For the remainder of his life this was his home, though he continued seasonal travels to Quebec and the Adirondacks in the summer months, and to Florida, Bermuda, and Nassau in the Bahamas in the winter.
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Museum Syndicate: Daisies by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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May 8, 2:03pm
1 review
arts
•http://www.museumsyndicate.com/item.p...
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau
William-Adolphe Bouguereau was considered to be one of the greatest painters in the world by the Academic art community, and simultaneously he was reviled by the avant-garde. He also gained wide fame in Belgium, Holland, Spain, and in the United States, and commanded high prices.
Near the end of his life he described his love of his art, "Each day I go to my studio full of joy; in the evening when obliged to stop because of darkness I can scarcely wait for the next morning to come...if I cannot give myself to my dear painting I am miserable".
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ArtSpace Gallery Dubai featuring artist Amin Gulgee
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May 5, 12:42pm
1 review
arts
•http://www.artspace-dubai.com/amin_gu...
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Sculptor Amin Gulgee is an innovator of tradition. His medium is metal, his inspiration the varied and rich spiritual history of his native Pakistan. In the more than ten years that the artist has been exhibiting, his work has followed many different directions, from the purely abstract to work that is inspired from Hindu mythology, Buddhist civilization and Islamic calligraphy. Although diverse, these directions influence and nourish one another for they all attempt to depict the spirituality of man.
Well-established in Pakistan, the artist has also exhibited extensively in the USA, Europe and the Middle East. The artist's forty-odd shows include Open: Prima Esposizione di Sculture e Installazioni in Venice, where he showed alongside Cesar and ten other international sculptors, and a solo show at the IMF Gallery in Washington. Chief art critic of the Washington Times, Joanna Shaw-Eagle, wrote on January 1, 2000 in her review of his one-man show at the IMF: "Mr. Gulgee is an artist to watch both for the originality of his ideas and the sensuous, handsome quality of his work."
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YouTube - Peera ho - Khalid Anum
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Apr 28, 2:06pm
1 review
music, video
•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wmbIR...
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It has the most incredibly haunting melody to it. I was completely entranced by the tune and the lyrics from the first moment I heard it some ten or so years ago. I have no idea what the lyrics mean. They are, I believe, sung in punjabi.
It is a song about a race to own and conquer the world. And when you have done that, it is still all meaningless. You are still unfulfilled, still lost, still unhappy... Despite all you have, and all you have achieved you still have nothing at all. It is a song about a struggle to find inner peace. A quest for belonging. A search for the self. It is about an elevated plane of understanding, where your link to the supreme being is actually about knowing yourself. And in knowing yourself you know Him. Once you have known Him, you cease to be. All ceases to be. Then there is just Him. The love for Him. The search for Him....
At this plane of existence one has no earthly desire or understanding left. There is no recognition of child or parent, love or loss, food or cold. There is merely a sense of urgency. A frenzy. A trance in which one is in ultimate communion with the One. Your living, breathing moments weld into one everlasting second of existence. Momentary and endless at the same time. There is nothing of value left to tempt you in this world. You exist simply to praise and exalt Him. You "are" simply so you can "know" Him
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Apr 28, 1:41pm
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Bit by bit the heart turns to stone
Steadily thrumming- life's constant drone
Drop by drop all feeling funnels into the abyss
Layer by layer I seal it tightly closed
No more fear
No longer any pain
Not even a need to blink
As I stare straight ahead
Into the eyes of fate...
I am aware.
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Apr 24, 1:50pm
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A Message
It's the same weather.
The rain's laughter
rings in the trees, echoes.
Their green branches
wear golden flowers
and smile thinking of someone.
The breeze is a scarf, again the light-pink.
The path to the garden that knows us
is looking for us.
The moment of moon-rise
is waiting for us.
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OR 02 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
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Apr 24, 11:55am
1 review
graphic-design, photography
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/orprojec...
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OR is a photoreactive installation which reacts to sunlight.
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Flickr: christophklemmts Photostream
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Apr 24, 11:52am
1 review
graphic-design, photography
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/orproject/
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The polygonal segments of the surface react to ultra-violet light, mapping the position and intensity of solar rays. When in the shade, the segments of OR are translucent white. However, when hit by sunlight they become coloured, flooding the space below with different hues of light. At night, OR transforms into an enormous 'chandelier', disseminating light into the surrounding courtyard, an atmospheric space for events and gatherings.
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