Art Np2

You see, but you do not observe .    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) A Scandal in Bohemia, 1892.  Copied from  The Quotations Page. 

http://www.wypr.org/news/apple-pushes-interactive-textbooks-ipads Personally I think it is a good idea, but there is an industry built up around the creation and delivery of textbooks to school systems.  And there is an economic component to this change.  Apple will have to lower the $400 price of the Ipad so that everyone can afford to have one. The text book writers will want adequate compensation and makers of paper books will be out of a job.  This change could be painful for some industries. Textbooks are approved by dedicated state school board goverments and Apple will have to work closely with them.  None of this sounds simple or easy.  It will be interesting to watch how the use of the Ipad by school systems unfolds.

Do all things with love.  Og Mandino My Brother's Keeper by Richard Hugh Blackford

Adobe Museum of Digital Media, www.adobe.com/adobemuseum   The Adobe Museum of Digital Media (AMDM) is a unique virtual space designed to showcase and preserve groundbreaking digital work and to present expert commentary on how digital media influences culture and society. The museum is an ever-changing repository of eclectic exhibits from diverse fields ranging from photography to product development to broadcast communications. To inspire fresh conversation on the constantly evolving digital landscape, exhibits are overseen by guest curators, each of whom is a recognized leader in the field of art, technology, or business. The AMDM is a space unlike any created before. Because it is entirely digital, it is an ideal gallery for displaying and viewing digital media, as well as revealing the innovation and artistry within the work. It is open to the public 365 days a year and is accessible from anywhere in the world. source: http://www.adobe.com/adobemuseum/

Featuring Visiting Artists: Myra Greene and Cecil McDonald, Jr. Guest Curator, Susan Aurinko Exhibition Dates: January 9 - February 3, 2012 Closing Reception/Artists' Talk: Thursday February 2 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack. Simon Pegg Untitled Chair 2010 by Gilda Snowden.  For more info on this Detroit Artist click  here.

This website includes selected paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints from the MoMA exhibition de Kooning: A Retrospective (September 18, 2011–January 9, 2012) and related publication, both devoted to the full scope of the career of Willem de Kooning (American, b. the Netherlands, 1904–1997). Among these are some of the artist’s most famous, landmark paintings—including Pink Angels (c. 1945), Excavation (1950), and the celebrated third Woman series (1950–53)—plus examples from all of his most important series, ranging from his figurative paintings of the early 1940s to the breakthrough black-and-white compositions of 1948–49, and from the urban abstractions of the mid-1950s to the artist’s return to figurations in the 1960s, and the large gestural abstractions of the following decade. text and image source: http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2011/dekooning/ Link Credits

Nancy Pearl Picks from NPR.  You might get lucky. http://www.npr.org/2011/12/13/143354443/7-books-with-personality-nancy-pearls-2011-picks

January Prompt for November's Autumn's Classic Challenge. Alice Walker is one of my favorite writers, but I had never read The Color Purple although I had seen the movie and the musica l.   Alice Walker won the Pulitzer for The Color Purple in 1983.  Alice Walker is a short, small boned African American woman who was born in Eatonton, Georgia in 1944. Her skin is the color of rich brown pork gravy.  In addition to novels, Alice Walker has published books of short stories, poetry, essay and novels. After college Walker worked as a social worker in New York City.  Click here  and here  to view her complete bibliography. This  is Alice Walker's official biography.  I could not get a copy of her handwriting but a photo of it is on the Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia Website for Alice Walker.  Emory has housed her archives since 2009. The novel begins with fourteen year old Celie being raped and impregnated twice by her father.  Her father gives her children away and

"Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood. " I bet none of you know the answer without looking it up!  This quote is from a book by a very well known author.

"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough." George Bernard Shaw Anticipation by Angel Otero  http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/59556-angel-otero

I want my hair like hers!

Gyre II, 40x56 and 60x76. Depicts 50,000 cigarette lighters, equal to the estimated number of pieces of floating plastic in every square mile in the world's oceans.  Chris Jordan is an artist based in Seattle, Washington who is best known for his large scale works depicting mass consumption and waste, particularly garbage. He has been called "the 'it' artist of the green movement". Many of Jordan's works are created from photographs of garbage and mass consumption, a serendipitous technique which started when he visited an industrial yard to look at patterns of color and order. His industrious passion for conservation and awareness has brought much attention to his photography in recent years. Jordan uses everyday commonalities such as a plastic cup and defines the blind unawareness involved in American consumerism. His work, while often unsettling, is a bold message about unconscious behaviors in our everyday lives, leaving it to the viewer to draw

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I was supposed to put this on another page, but it is not working out the way I planned.  It is moving to the front page of this blog. "Suicide's Note" by Langston Hughes The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. I love, love, love, Langston Hughes.  I miss him too, although I don't see how a person can miss someone they've never met, and yet it's true.  I slept with him too you know.  Earlier this year I spilled pop on  The Best of Simple,  put the book under my mattress to flatten the warp, and forgot about it for six months.  So in a manner of speaking we have been in the bed together.  Wide Awake Jake won't like this. So let's look at Hughes' brief, brilliant, and pithy poem.  How should the title be interpreted?  My first thought was the poem was written by a person who killed him or herself and left behind a note as an explanation.  Suicide is usually a consequence of depression and depression is exhausting, debilitating, and drai