10.3.10

arctic--fishing village, norway

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American Maestra

American Maestra Marin Alsop holds forth on Americans vs. Europeans, the enduring gender gap, and the evolution of the orchestra.

By Ben Finane

The Shuffle Effect

Postmodern composers shuffled tunes long before the iPod era.

By Menon Dwarka

Retuning Classical Radio

A tradition at a crossroads.

By Thomas May

On Compact Discs

By Ben Finane

Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian
Blurs Boundaries

{And back-issues, too.}

Belgian paper, Le Derniere Heure, makes 3D paper

**Belgian paper, Le Derniere Heure, makes 3D paper**

Posted by Robert Eisenhart on March 10, 2010 at 2:20 PM

La Derniere Heure, a Belgian daily newspaper, treated readers to a special 3D edition of their paper Tuesday. Those who obtained copies were given 3D glasses making advertisements and images come to life. This is the first time a European newspaper has used 3D technology in a publication.

The idea to make the paper 3D came from the recent popularity of 3D technology employed in movies, such as Avatar, and other popular media forms. The newspaper's editor, Hubert Leclercq, stated, "the goal was to make the whole paper 3D."

While readers found the 3D concept interesting, some complained that the images were blurry and difficult to focus on.

The paper's editor noted that the 3D edition was just "a trial" and that there are no "further plans" to create another 3D edition. The simple costs of producing the special edition and the glasses prohibit further experimentation with the enhanced media.

Source: AFP

"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl

is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."

~ Albert Einstein

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photos

Rob Hefferan oil paintings

http://www.amusingplanet.com/2009/08/amazing-oil-paintings-of-rob-hefferan.html

Amusing Planet

Born in Manchester in 1968, Rob Hefferan's unbelievably beautiful and sensual oil paintings are beyond words.

beth moon

Pixdaus
beth moon
post by fedrus

Wulff: Moonlight Blue

http://pixdaus.com/index.php?pageno=29

Pixdaus * Wulff: Moonlight Blue

9.3.10

Video Stripes

http://www.gutschera-osthoff.com/moving-images/
Video Stripes

ANGEL

ANGEL -- xrea.com

she is frank--photos

http://www.blog.sheisfrank.com/

SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT FRANK:

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Don’t dismiss distortion
Monday, February 15th, 2010

(Always good advice . . .)(G)

8.3.10

Animals, Flickr

Is Anybody Out There? --
Uploaded on March 8, 2010
by Ąиđч

Jeopardy Is My Job / Stephen Marlowe

http://salmongutter.blogspot.com/

Paperback 96: Jeopardy Is My Job / Stephen Marlowe (Gold Medal s1214)
Paperback 96: Gold Medal s1214 (PBO, 1962)
Title: Jeopardy Is My Job
Author: Stephen Marlowe
Cover artist: uncredited

Best things about this cover:

"Jeopardy Is My Job: The Alex Trebek Story" - exciting!
If you cover up or otherwise ignore the dot on the "i" in SPAIN, it really really looks like SPAM. I imagine that Chester Drum there is putting on his spam-handling gloves.
What is he doing with that glove? Is he about to commit a crime? Or give some kind of probing examination? The whole thing is very O.J.
I like how he's balancing Madrid on the very tip of his index finger
Best things about this back cover:
Ugh, too much text
"They were paid a monthly stipend to do their drinking on foreign shores" - How do I get that job
This whole description sounded boring to me until I got to "... the cave where Ruy lived with a gypsy woman ..." That has narrative possibilities.

vintage paperback collection

http://salmongutter.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html

{This guy is really funny, he makes fun of all of his vintage covers . . .and he adds new ones all the time.}(G)

About Me

Rex Parker: I am the 44th Greatest Crossword Puzzle Solver In The Universe!

This site is dedicated to my vintage paperback collection. Every couple of days, I pull a book off the shelf and write about its cover. That's it.

Best things about this back cover:

* "Booby sexed" - furthermore, "booby sexed." How am I supposed to pay attention to anything else on this cover?
* "... an organization that was making men feel queer and women feel like men" - OK, I'm going to have to read this if only to figure out how "booby sexed" fits into this whole queer / transgender theme. Do men grow boobies? Do women start ogling boobies? Are we sure that Ed Wood didn't write this?
* This is perhaps the only back cover in my collection that ends with an honest-to-god orgasm.
* This book is grimy. Solid, but covered with a thin layer of grime. I can't imagine what could have soiled it in precisely this fashion. It's as if it's been artfully basted with mud.

Page 123~ (this better be good...)

"When she mounted . . . ."

robertamsterdam.com

http://www.robertamsterdam.com/BP_art.jpg

ustseeds.org: Art Against Empire:

Art Against Empire

Posted February 23, 2010 by jmacphee in Events

Art Against Empire: Graphic Responses to U.S. Intervention Since World War II
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
3/10 to 4/18/10

LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) is proud to present Art Against Empire—Graphic Responses to U.S. Intervention Since World War II, curated by Carol A. Wells from the archives of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG). Featuring works by Josh MacPhee, Corita Kent, Jay Belloli, Cedomic Kostovic, Stephen Kroninger, and more.

Art Against Empire uses the power of posters to document 60 years of opposition to U.S. interventions into the domestic affairs of sovereign nations. Political, economic and military interventions, many of them covert, have repeatedly resulted in unacceptable deaths and misery for millions. These posters show hopes and dreams, and the pain of dreams destroyed.