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January 20th, 2014 - 10:49 am § in America

Christie Meets The Boss

Hilarious! Chris Christie,was a target of “Late Night,” Jimmy Fallon and  Bruce Springsteen …. Jimmy: In the day we sweat it out on the streets stuck in traffic on the GWB They shut down the tollbooths of glory because we didn’t endorse Christie Sprung from cages on Highway[...]

January 18th, 2014 - 4:34 am § in China, Misc.

PHOTOGRAPHY: China

Huangshan, China, 2012 George DeWolfe[...]

December 20th, 2013 - 11:19 am § in Misc.

The Healer … a wife?

Isn’t This Gif Awesome? It reminds me of the frustrations of resolving feuds … whether they are personal or huge scale diplomatic issues. This image could be an attorney trying to get the parties to work together or a diplomat talking with the Israelis and the Palestinians. Is this heale[...]

November 6th, 2013 - 1:09 pm § in Misc., The Ave Scene

THE Ave Challenge: What Is This?

What is this?                a. Art stolen by Nazis b. Japanese anti nuclear poster                c.  Garbage dump outside Damascus                d. Painting by George Bush                e. Scenery from new Avatar movie  [...]

August 6th, 2013 - 9:48 am § in Uncategorized

ART

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July 26th, 2012 - 9:43 am § in America

Detroit

Last year I visited this same place.  I was in Ann Arbor to celebrate a bat mitzvah but spent as much free time as  coud “seeing Detroit.” In the past, the death of an American city  have beem translated into iconic works by Capa, Smith, Frank, or their modern equivalents working for [...]

April 6th, 2012 - 11:34 pm § in Uncategorized

Will Tablets Change Art?

David Hockney’s iPad art By Martin Gayford, The Telegraph One day last summer I got a text message from David Hockney. It read: “I’ll send you today’s dawn this afternoon, an absurd sentence I know, but you know what I mean.” Later on it duly arrived: pale pink, mauve and apricot cloud[...]

April 6th, 2012 - 4:42 am § in Jews, Politics, Schools & Colleges

Printing has been replaced by posting. Owning and profiting from “News”

In a country where people pause what they’re doing and turn up the news on the hour without thinking about it, the need for quality online journalism is obvious. ….. Jerusalem Post. About 4000 years ago the ancient Hebrews, my ancestors invented the first phonetic alphabet. The result wa[...]

March 22nd, 2012 - 12:05 pm § in Uncategorized

Enjoy This

Immaterials: Light painting WiFi * Written by Einar Sneve Martinussen * Tuesday, 22 February , 2011 The city is filled with an invisible landscape of networks that is becoming an interwoven part of daily life. WiFi networks and increasingly sophisticated mobile phones are starting to influence how u[...]

November 28th, 2011 - 11:06 am § in China, Politics

CHINA: Ai Weiwei Interview

from Spiegel SPIEGEL: Last week you made a €970,000 ($1.3 million) payment to the bank account of the Chinese tax authorities. You consider it to be a kind of guarantee, a deposit. Do they consider it to be an admission of guilt? Ai:I cannot speak for them. But I can tell you a lot about […[...]