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The Prado Museum’s Masterpieces in ultra high resolution

Posted by: gimster on: January 14, 2009

Experience some of the most important Masterpieces from the Prado Museum. In the next two weeks, you will be able to access a new painting every day on Google Maps.
To see them all together in full screen, use Google Earth.

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Quote of the day

Posted by: gimster on: March 5, 2008

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
– Mark Twain (aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens; 1835-1910),
American humanist, humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer

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Quote of the day

Posted by: gimster on: January 24, 2008

‘Good artists copy; great artists steal.’
Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973), Spanish painter and sculptor
 
 
For discussions started using this quote, see this article or this one.
 

Standing on the shoulders of giants

Posted by: gimster on: April 27, 2007

I first got to know of this phrase as part of a quotation from Isaac Newton and I’ve actually posted it as one of my quotes of the day. You’ll find on Wikipedia many contemporary references to the phrase; the dialogue session I attended today reminded me of it.
It was a dialogue session between some [...]

Bought new book

Posted by: gimster on: March 1, 2007

From Borders the bookstore, Larry Gonick’s The Cartoon History of the Modern World, Volume 1. A sample page:

Reviews:
Gonick Does the Modern World 
Laughing All the Way

Quote of the day

Posted by: gimster on: February 22, 2007

Where the world ceases to be the stage for personal hopes and desires, where we, as free beings, behold it in wonder, to question and to contemplate, there we enter the realm of art and science. If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science; if [...]

Russians

Posted by: gimster on: September 25, 2006

In Europe and America,
There’s a growing feeling of hysteria
Conditioned to respond to all the threats
In the rhetorical speeches of the Soviets
Mr. Krushchev said we will bury you
I don’t subscribe to this point of view
It would be such an ignorant thing to do
If the Russians love their children too
How can I save [...]

Quote of the day

Posted by: gimster on: July 19, 2006

The central work of life is interpretation.
–Proverb.

Quote of the day

Posted by: gimster on: April 26, 2006

'Novels are a place where we exfoliate our souls with the rough edges of life'.
- Lev Grossman, in his scathing review of This Book Will Save Your Life in TIME magazine (May 1, 2006)

‘If’ by Rudyard Kipling

Posted by: gimster on: April 8, 2006

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And [...]

Natalie Portman on the definition of terrorism

Posted by: gimster on: April 5, 2006

In a Time magazine article (March 13) discussing the movie V for Vendetta, Israeli-born Natalie Portman is reported to express hope that the movies will encourage debate about the definition of terrorism. She 'name-checks', among others, Gandhi, Elie Wiesel, Menachem Begin, George Washington and the Maccabees. And
She points out, quite correctly, that the question of [...]

‘Both sides now’

Posted by: gimster on: March 21, 2006

A conversation with Cheryl turned to the song by Joni Mitchell. Can't remember why exactly, but we were both thinking how pretty the images were. Then I realised that the first verse contained an allusion to air travel… must have been because I was on a plane recently. Here are the lyrics:
Rows and floes of [...]

‘The Da Vinci Code’ – Fiction, non-fiction and intellectual property

Posted by: gimster on: March 21, 2006

For all of you Dan Brown fans out there. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11808050/
The intellectual property allegedly stolen includes ‘the architecture of [Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh's] 1982 nonfiction book, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail‘.
In the article, you’ll also get a glimpse of Brown’s approach to ‘writing [as] a discipline’.

What is art?

Posted by: gimster on: March 13, 2006

 
Found this quote in Makoto’s post in Subjectif:
“Art is not a mirror with which to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.” – Bertolt Brecht.
Very nice. Should go find out more about Brecht.

Why I buy books and music

Posted by: gimster on: March 9, 2006

I mean, other than being a shopaholic. (I also bought Best Cello Collection, a Chinese parallel import at 8 bucks (non-pirated double CD!) today.)
Books first:

It’s hard to read off a laptop in the loo
Books have more depth (than the typical Internet page)
Books are more reliable (than a Wiki or the typical Internet page)
People are more [...]

‘Would you consider pride a fault or a virtue?’

Posted by: gimster on: March 9, 2006

And other topics (and themes) from the movie version of Pride and Prejudice starring Keira Knightley

Who was Jane Austen?
Women and beauty
Power and wealth
The education of women
The setting of the story – What life was like then – communication, transport, leisure
The value of poetry and dance
Why people marry
Social stratification
The social status of women
The language variety, particulary [...]



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