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You can’t just build a website and wait for people to come. If you want more visitors, take a lesson from all the ways I direct you to ArtBizCoach.com (which is just one of my sites) and then adapt these to your situation. Shoshanna Bauer, Going Home
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Jon McNaught ’s new graphic novella from Nobrow Press, Birchfield Close , is a most perfect little treasure of a comic. Printed with a restrained three colours, the short book is a gentle, unassuming reflection on time, place, and sound.
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Jon McNaught – Birchfield Close
The Festival Kuala Lumpur this year, KLFest2010, will have more than 140 activities throughout the month of July which will be more interesting than in the previous festivals. Information Communication and Culture Ministry Secretary-General Datuk Wira Kamarudin Siaraf said FestKL2010, with the theme ‘Where the Arts Come Alive!’, not only displayed …
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KLFest 2010 To Be More Interesting
Jump to the full entry & travel map Florence, Tuscany, Italy May 29th I arrived in Florence the in the evening and since I hadn’t done a real load of laundry since Paris, that was the first thing on my mind. I did that, hung out with some people, and went to sleep in my 18 person room.
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Risktaking in Tuscany — Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Jump to the full entry & travel map Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 26/5/10 – Tanzania Well it was time to leave Malawi and make our way to Tanzania. It was a very auspicious start with us going along the road works in pouring rain and we had a whole bunch of other vehicles to get pet past, but the locals were telling us to go ahead, when all of a sudden out truck got stuck in the mud right by another big truck. Things weren’t looking good and I wondered how we were going to get out of this one
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Benji: The Driving Diaries Part Deux. — Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Your computer driver helps your computer run smoothly along with its other parts or hardware such as its hard disk, its CD or DVD drive, its video card, USB and other components of your computer. Without an updated driver, it can cause problems in the operation of some of your applications.
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Update PC Drivers – How to Update PC Device Drivers Quickly?
It is strange how putting a number on something makes it seem either so much better or so much worse. The presence of a chemical causing cancer in food is scary even though only in a few parts per million. Just the thought of the risk is enough to frighten people away
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Is The Health Of The Nation Being Put At Risk?
Do check out this new blog by the very prolific artist, Kagan Mcleod , focusing on his favourite musicians (above = Freestyle Fellowship). Says Kagan, This is just a random collection of fan art, mostly done in the hour before I go to bed, for fun. My tastes are pretty wide so I hope there will be something for everyone — I’d say my favourites are almost everything ’50s, ’60s and early-’70s, along with ’80s and ’90s rap and R & B, and a scant helping of more recent stuff
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Music-themed ink drawings by Kagan Mcleod
Illustration: Chinese Ornament from Owen Jones The Grammar of Ornament 1856 Although Owen Jones was to publish a volume entirely dedicated to Chinese ornament in 1867, The Grammar of Chinese Ornament , he had included only a slim chapter on the subject in his 1856 volume The Grammar of Ornament . The earlier chapter was a much smaller affair than the 1867 book, but was also relatively small compared to some of the other chapters in the book. Only four colour plates were included along with one page of text.
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Owen Jones and Chinese Ornament
All good things come to an end, and today, one of the best in recent memory wraps up at the end of the day when Marina Abromovich takes her leave of her months-long performance piece, ” The Artist Is Present,” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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The artist will leave the building, finally: Marina Abromovich wraps up at MoMA
“…from the point of view of technology, a code generated within a digital computer is now self-replicating as the genome of a line of living cells. From the point of view of biology, a code generated by a living organism has been translated into a digital representation for replication, editing, and transmission to other cells.” – George Dyson in response to Craig Venter’s announcement of “synthetic” life. Commentary via John Robb : “Now that we have a self-replicating biological platform (yeast — likely one of many different platforms that will be floated over the next couple of years) that can accommodate a completely synthetic genome, the race in on: towards an abundance in nearly every material or process that can be enabled via biological means
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Craig Venter synthetic life fallout: P2P pharmaceuticals and fuels?
You may feel that your art isn’t selling as well as you’d like. Take a moment to review these 7 key points about remembering to persevere in this week’s Art Marketing Action podcast–an audio version of the newsletter/post of the same title
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Art Marketing Action Podcast – Remember to Persevere
Post by Marianne Bernstein In his book The Empathic Civilization , economist Jeremy Rifkin, investigates the evolution of empathy. Recent scientific studies suggest that we are wired for collaboration. Our natural impulse is to get along with our native kin; which over time have evolved from our fellow cave men, to our state, country, or religion, to the planet at large.
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Tripping across the pond – No Soul for Sale at the Tate Modern
Philadelphia artist Jordan Griska’s ambitious solo show, Nowhere Fast —his first since winning the 2008 International Sculpture Center Outstanding Student Award—showcases his ability to turn an understanding of industrial fabrication into seriously high-impact sculpture. Unfortunately, whether due to the particularities of the University Science Center’s Breadboard space—more of a corporate lobby than an art gallery—or attempting to combine older work into a new theme—Griska’s ISC Award-winning Ad Infinitum piece is back—Griska’s show does not live up to the potential the best work suggests he has. Griska’s title, Nowhere Fast , sets a tone just this side of mid-20th century existential angst.
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Guest blogger: Kathy McComb Swift You want to sell your paintings or photographs of gardenias to the local garden club members, but they won’t give you the time of day. Have you stopped to consider it might not be your art but your approach? Kathy McComb Swift, Cow Charm.
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Marketing to Your Niche the Donnie Brasco Way
Illustration: John Illingworth Kay Rose Stripe wallpaper design 1906 The decorative work of the English designer John Illingworth Kay is often seen as both expansive and original, with large areas of foliage clustered throughout his work being a particular theme of his style of decoration. However, these examples of wallpaper work produced by him in the first decade of the twentieth century also show the ability of an artist or designer to control, or at least to temper, personal tastes or excesses to those of the larger public taste, or at least to that of their perceived taste. Kay produced these examples for the English influential wallpaper manufacturer Essex & Co.
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John Illingworth Kay Wallpapers
Filed under: Beauty , Celebrity , News , Celebrity Beauty Model Veronica Webb at the Eucerin Skin First Council meeting in NY. Courtesy photo
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Veronica Webb Talks Skin, Yoga, and Losing 60 Pounds After Babies
ComicCrazys was forced to take down the Charles Schulz cartoons I linked to the other day, but here’s another treat: some Looney Tunes background paintings . It’s a small selection, but includes some great examples, including a few from Maurice Noble , who I think was the finest of all of the Warner Brothers background artists, and defined the look of Chuck Jones’s cartoons almost as much as Chuck Jones himself. Another great source for Looney Tunes background paintings is the aptly-named Animation Backgrounds blog.
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Looney Tunes background paintings
I’m a big proponent of most nerdy things, but I have to admit that the idea of LARPing is still just so silly to me. I’ve seen the documentaries, and I can really get behind the community aspect of live action role playing, but it doesn’t stop me from giggling at grown adults running around a park, in costume, hitting each other with foam bats.
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A cartoon guide to LARPing
Unless you’ve visited the Musée Marmottan , Paris, or are old enough and fortunate to have seen the exhibition drawn from its collections many decades ago at the Met, get yourself to Gagosian Gallery by June 26 to see Claude Monet Late work . That is, go if you love painting
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Late Monet at Gagosian Gallery and Painting Light; The Hidden Techniques of the Impressionists