The Greatest Living American Abstract Painter Tourney-ish
It’s been way too long since I did something frivolous here on MAN, so… this week I’m kicking off a mostly silly, substantially whimsical, still-about-art pseudo-endeavor.
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The Greatest Living American Abstract Painter Tourney-ish
ESPNcricinfo in association with General Motors India launches “Legends of Cricket”, a series of videos portraying 25 of the greatest-ever cricketers to have played the game. Starting 15th March, ESPNcricinfo will upload one video every alternate week for the next 50 weeks on www.cricinfo.com Handpicked by a distinguished panel of judges that include former players, commentators and cricket writers, the videos capture historical, awe-inspiring moments delivered by stalwarts of cricket. From Sir Bradman to master blaster Sachin, Sobers to Imran, these are players from all ages and from all parts of the world who have kept cricketing fans on their feet asking for more.
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Relive the greatest moments in world cricket through ESPNcricinfo’s “Legends of Cricket”
This will likely be one of the most interesting art museum blogs ever: Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum has set up a blog that will chronicle the restoration of its masterpiece, The Bedroom. The blog is off and running with two posts: One that details the paintings removal from view and the thoughtful response of some Spanish visitors to its absence; and one that begins to detail the damage that conservators hope to address
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Tuesday links
Are you driving people from your website to your blog and from your newsletter to your blog and website? And is your social media presence closely linked with the rest of your online persona? Be sure you’re thinking of your e-marketing in total.
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Strategic e-marketing: Everything should be connected
The Dallas Morning News has an interesting story this morning, reporting that the number of illegal immigrant college students paying in-state tuition and receiving financial aid at Texas schools is increasing. An excerpt from the story: During the fall semester,…
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Illegal immigrants getting in-state tuition on the rise
Devcon2010 Synapticweb Ver5 Full updated us on his efforts at the DevCon 2010 Conference in which he focused on a presentation he calls the Synaptic Web Joy Tang & Jaromil: 16:34 in The Futurity Long Conversation | transmediale a critique of futurology The Futurity Long Conversation | transmediale The Futurity Long Conversation, a 9-hour relay of one-to-one conversations, brings 21 leading artists, designers, theorists, journalists and media interventionists together to discuss, contextualise and explore a multiplicity of utopias, projects and technologies crucial for the ways in which we conceive the future today. It remains open which turns these dialogues will ultimately take — just as the future itself always eludes our grasp. The processual character of the event creates a framework which allows to experience future without predicting it.
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Recently unhappiness is brewing because of various trains bypassing Cuttack. See the following news item from Samaja. I believe there is a easy solution to this: Develop the Naraj station to have express train stops and develop the accessibility of the Naraj station from the roads that goes from Naraj to Bidanasi side of Cuttack
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Cuttack people unhappy with trains bypassing Cuttack: An easy solution
Just when you thought that you were finally making headway through the riches of the Philagrafika shows, 90 clay shows and events are starting to open all around town. The multiple shows are in conjunction with the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference in Philadelphia from March 21 to April 3. I went to two that were early off the blocks, and they are as different as can be.
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Clay shows begin–Ai Weiwei at Arcadia; bodies at the Mutter
The popular Comedy Central show “The Colbert Report” aired a satirical news piece about the web site SurvivalSeedBank.com on March 10, 2010. Colbert referenced a DomainTools whois record to highlight the creation date of the domain name and showed a screenshot of the record itself.
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Colbert Report uses DomainTools Whois record
~2 Bangaloreans among the Winners.~ In a glittering ceremony attended by dignitaries from across the country, IBN18 India’s leading No 1 News Network in partnership with Reliance Industries Limited India’s largest private sector enterprise honored 24 Real Heroes of India.
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CNN-IBN & RIL applaud 24 Real Heroes from across India
News is slowly trickling out of the White House following today’s big summit between President Obama and pro-immigrant organizations. Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration Forum and chair of the Reform Immigration for America Campaign, was one of…
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Reaction to Obama meeting on immigration reform
In 1971, Guggenheim curator Edward Fry planned a Hans Haacke exhibition. Just before the show was set to open, the Guggenheim canceled it. Why?
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Critiquing the void — and the rest of the Guggenheim
Now that the east coast has finally started to warm up, the sun is shining, birds are chirping…allow me to bring some gloom and doom to your day. It looks like the cost of obtaining / renewing a passport is going to go up. The State Department is proposing a fee hike that would raise the cost of applying for a passport from $100 to $135, and renewal cost would increase to $110 from the current $75
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Passport Cost Increase
Introducing Sean Coleman, fellow blogcatalog blogger known as Scole . Sean loves music! He writes about it on his blog called “pod”. Why did he call it pod?
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Finding My Tribe Online… Music Lovers!
I got mine, did you get yours? It’s March and the Census Bureau is in full gear making sure census forms are delivered to every home in the United States and Puerto Rico. The good news is that it’s easy – when you get your form, just answer the 10 questions and mail the form back in the postage-paid envelope they provide (the form cannot be completed online).
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Census 2010 Forms
A major backlash has greeted news in America that a government department is planning to severely tighten rules surrounding the shipment of small battery-powered items of electronic equipment. Many experts have said that this is going to cause serious problems for customers and that a lot of repacking may well be necessary.
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Outcry Over Proposals to Restrict Carriage of Electronic Items
Fischli and Weiss, Der Lauf Der Dinge (The Way Things Go), video, 30′, 1987 Honda Ad, 2003 OK Go – This Too Shall Pass, 2009 I remember the choreographer João Fiadeiro once showing Fischli & Weiss’s work during some seminar or workshop and talking about what in his mind made it so impressive : necessity. Although it might seem like anything can happen, what happens is exactly what needs to happen
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The Way Things Go and Pass
Mostly everyone in the Blog Catalog community is aware of the basic rules of blogging; hosts, tags, comment management, etc. Bloggers also know that the lifeline of their blog is the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) tool.
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WordPress Gives Blogs a “Push”…
Joel Williams, the Blog Tech Guy , joins us this week to help us understand splogs and why we should worry about them. Lately, I’ve been receiving multiple trackbacks from the same ISP. Different blog post titles, but all pointing to one of my popular blog posts. I became suspicious and contacted Joel to find out what to do.
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Splogs – what are they and should I be worried?
It must be a year of new beginnings, because my life is currently filled with people who are either getting married or having babies. I’m doing neither (already married, don’t want babies), but nonetheless I am often asked about what’s hot for bridal wear or where one can shop for stylish maternity fashion. Honestly, I don’t know the answers.
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Bridal and Maternity Fashion