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1x.com - Photo: life by Beppe02

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:58:30 -0800

Life - Beppe02

Moon and sea - George Dmitriev - Sale of paintings and other art works

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:13:22 -0800

George Dmitriev

Sea Art

Moon and Sea

Waves At Rocks

At Coast #8

About The Artist

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3quarksdaily

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:51:15 -0800

A Man Is Only As Good

A Saturday Poem by 3 Quarks Daily

A man is only as good
as what he says to a dog
when he has to get up out of bed
in the middle of a wintry night
because some damned dog has been barking;

and he goes and opens the door
in his vest and boxer shorts
and there on the pock-marked wasteground
called a playing field out front
he finds the mutt with one paw

raised in expectation
and an expression that says Thank God
for a minute there I thought
there was no one awake but me
in this goddamned town.

By Pat Boran

From New and Selected Poems
Dedalus Press, Dublin, 2007

Image: George Booth, About Dogs

Silhouettes of Jazz

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:47:19 -0800

Silhouettes of Jazz

The Creators

"This animated short movie outlines the history of traditional jazz music in a virtual walkthrough of a shadow art museum.

Shadow art is a unique form of sculptural art that exploits the fact that we can recognize objects from their shadows or silhouettes. Improvisation, a key ingredient of jazz music, is mirrored in the ambiguity of a shadow sculpture: many different 3D shapes can cast the same 2D shadow.

The movie highlights five different milestones in the evolution of jazz: the early songs of field workers, ragtime, New Orleans jazz, swing, and bebop. Each era is represented with a room containing 3D sculptures which cast multiple shadow images at the same time. This unique property is achieved using a novel computational method for the interactive creation and manipulation of shadow art. Given a set of desired silhouette images, a global geometric optimization builds a 3D shadow volume that can subsequently be edited by the artist using a set of 3D modeling tools.

The reinterpretation of jazz and non-jazz music is crucial in jazz pieces - in the same way, a shadow object can be seen as a 3D interpretation of the desired 2D shadows."

Stream or Download High Definition Video Here

On YouTube here

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1x.com - pmorgan

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:01:39 -0800

Paul Morgan

Blurred Visionz

Flowing Fields

Storm's Passing

There May Be Trouble

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Sun Dance & Lights in the Dark

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:44:11 -0800

Sun Dance

Solar prominence animation by Alan Friedman

Lights in the Dark

"This mesmerizing animation by photographer Alan Friedman shows a solar prominence as it changes structure over the course of 78 minutes.

Solar prominences are eruptions of hot gases extending from the sun's surface, held together by magnetic forces which constantly shift and move. They can last for days or months, and extend thousands and even hundreds of thousands of miles into space, sometimes looping back down onto the sun or breaking off entirely in what's known as a coronal mass ejection (CME). The shimmying structure shown above is probably several thousand miles high -- easily as large or larger than the Earth!"

Alan Friedman

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Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection -- New York Magazine Music Review

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:00:56 -0800

Miles of Miles

The astonishingly diverse jazz legend gets the boxed set he deserves.

Fred Kaplan, New York Magazine

"Here it is, the ultimate boxed set, a completist's wet dream that makes the recent Beatles trove (thirteen CDs, in mono and stereo) seem a piddle by comparison. Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection, Sony's stab at the gargantuan-reissue sweepstakes, consists of 70 CDs, comprising all 52 albums that the dark prince of jazz trumpet laid down for Columbia Records over a 30-year span, plus the customary array of alternate takes and previously unissued tracks (available only from Amazon for $364.98, just over five bucks per disc). What makes this truly valuable, and not just another marketing trick to squeeze more money from a dead jazzman, is that Miles Davis was a perpetual pioneer who transformed the music four or five times in the course of his career. And so these discs lay out the evolution not only of Miles Davis but of modern jazz itself."

Miles Davis Official Site

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Tim OBrien at Drawger

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:11:47 -0800

Out Of The Alley

Tim O'Brien

"Staring out a window I drew a giraffe. Why? I have no idea but I must have been thinking of past successes, such as my elephant painting. This giraffe was sketched on a piece of paper on a message pad. We all know the feeling; when an idea is just born. It felt good.

Slowly over that winter and year my doldrums lifted. Many things factored into this change, some of it the energy I got out of teaching at the University of the Arts, some of it helpful shrink visits and most of it from leaning into life and looking forward.

In the subsequent years I added this sketch to a sketchbook and added many more ideas. The career took over again as it often does and I was again busy and fulfilled. The sketchbook ideas give me a deep satisfaction and comfort but I'm starting to think of my unrealized sketches as false bullets. I feel safe having them but they kind of make me a TV cowboy. Shiny silver holster and a sure shot but not a real cowboy. It's time to get them out and risk having to reload. I guess all artists have to do this."

Paintings and Illustrations

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Hastings Park, 16 July 1955 (2008) | PDN Photo of the Day

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:33:31 -0800

Hastings Park, 16 July 1955 (2008)

Stan Douglas

Large Format

"Hastings Park" 16 July 1955 (2008) is from Stan Douglas's project "Humor, Irony, and the Law" in which the artist re-stages historic moments of unrest in his native Vancouver. This particular image recreates a scene at a Vancouver horse track in 1955 using models dressed in period clothing selected to match the look of color film at that time. The models were photographed between takes while they were off guard. This image is composed of 30 separate shots.

David Zwirner Gallery

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DCMP Image Gallery

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:34:01 -0700

Two Tracks: A Fish Tale in Five Parts

Tapwater Jackson

Image - Division of Condensed Matter Physics

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