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Clifford Stoll: 18 minutes with an agile mind

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Larry Lessig: How Creativity is being strangled by the law

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Lost Treasures of the Ancient World: The Seven Wonders

Discover extraordinary Greek and Roman architecture such as: the Pyramids of Egypt, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, The Statue of Zeus, the Temple of Artemis, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Pharos of Alexandria through new location footage, stylish period reconstructions, 3D graphics and animation sequences, and interpretations and analyses by the world’s leading authorities.

[ link,text source: ursi’s blog ]

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Wikis

i love it.

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The Visionary Art of Gil Bruvel

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Gil Bruvel’s visionary style grew out of the dream of making intuitive art. “I have no interest in recreating reality”, he says; instead his work emphasizes the imaginative aspects of the mind and body, along with intuition.
After a childhood spent making art and studying at Laurent de Montcassin’s Restoration Workshop in France, the classically trained Bruvel emerged as a defining force in the Visionary Art Movement.

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POMME CHAN

Pomme Chan’s portfolio

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David Spriggs: Paradox of Power

subject: The Paradox of Power

Art Mur Publication May 2007

Text by Andria Hickey
Indeed, all things move, all things run, all things are rapidly changing. A
profile is never motionless before our eyes, but it constantly appears and
disappears. On account of the persistency of an image upon the retina,
moving objects constantly multiply themselves; their form changes like
rapid vibrations, in their mad career. Thus a running horse has not four
legs, but twenty, and their movements are triangular.
Umberto Boccioni

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Natalie Shau

Natalie Shau

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Kerry Skarbakka

” Heidegger described human existence as a process of perpetual falling, and it is the responsibility of each individual to “catch ourselves” from our own uncertainty. My work is in response to this delicate state. It questions what it means to resist the struggle, to simply let go, and the consequences of holding on. The images stand as reminders that we are all vulnerable to losing our footing and grasp, symbolizing the precarious balancing act between the struggle against our desire to survive and our fantasy to transcend our humanness.

: in the The Struggle to Right Oneself

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James Jean

James Jean

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Art by Vitche

at the Jonathan Levine Gallery

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Kitab al-Bulhan

The ‘Kitab al-Bulhan’ (Book of Wonders) [MS. Bodl. Or. 133] manuscript is a collection of Arabic divinatory treatises produced in the late 14th century hosted by the Oxford Digital Library.

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Vladimir Gvozdariki

Illustrations © Vladimir Gvozdev at the Gvozdariki site.

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