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Contemporary Tibetan art
Contemporary Tibetan art is exciting to me. The art works I've included below have a lot of exuberance, a sense of play and fun. They use the Tibetan traditional religious art techniques, then add all...
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Elise Hill aka Lee Rogers, artist and homeless person
Photo credit: Julie Glassberg for The New York TimesPhoto credit: Julie Glassberg for The New York TimesPhoto credit: Karen GehresBegging Naked, trailer for a documentary about Elise Hill, artist and...
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Walter Spies and Balinese art
Bali is an island in Indonesia that attracted Walter Spies, a Russian born, German artist who settled in the colonial Dutch East Indies from 1923 on. Adored by the Balinese, Spies was the co-founder of...
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Some Indian miniature paintings
I love Indian miniature paintings of all kinds. the more abstract ones have a marvelous sense of space and color. The romantic ones are charming, often depicting moods so well, I love the ones of the...
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Last day of June 2015
Saul Steinberg. Untitled, 1948.Love this vid. A Samoan schoolboy leads the tribal style morning prayer with verve.The Leonid meteor showers, expected this November 17thA moral tale of the evils of the...
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July 1st 20115, Summer and Frank Brangwyn
Summer days. The month of July, my feet in the sand at the beach, swimming. Delight in flowers and richly green trees. Big skies, heat, thunderstorms, the moon and the sun.Jessie Willcox Smith Little...
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Holiday in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas at the Bunker Hill Hotel
So, a year or so ago, it was my 60th birthday. The present I gave myself for living this long, St. Thomas, American Virgin Islands for 10 days on my own in a budget hotel. $69 per night in the Bunker...
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Fourth of July 2015
July 4th. the web is calm.Independence Day, the historical event.What's Inside Fireworks: Glitter, Starch, and GunpowderFourth of July FireworksAbout Fourth of July Fireworks"July 4, 1776 was the day...
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A selection of street foods around the world
Street foodpeeling a pineapple clean and easyIndian fast chapati makerThe king of cotton candy. Dancing and working at the same time.  His name is David Shtorm. Can't get enough of this fun street...
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July 5th 2015
Free internet services that should be taken advantage of via Reddit member osculatorEntertainment:Project Gutenberg - Free books  OpenLibrary - download out-of-copyright books, borrow in-copyright...
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July 7th 2015 hodgepodge
Pretty astounding reading the diabolical malice in creating false reasons for the United States government to invade another country, Cuba, in 1962, all listed here. Declassified: Operation Northwoods...
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July 8th 2015
Constrained Wings by artist Dukno YoonShe teaches metalsmithing at Kansas State UniversityMore on This Is ColossalEarly Wi-Fi System...Steve Jobs Revealed The Secret of Life In 46 Seconds Endre...
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Some wonderful 17th Century illustrations by Athanasius Kircher in the book...
Gioseffo Petrucci was a student, an assistant and protégé of the German Jesuit scholar, Athanasius Kircher, a polymath, scientist, traveler, author. In 1677 Petrucci published a synthesis of what he...
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July 10th 2015
Nine hours of a Cassandra flower blooming24 hours in the life of ten Daydream flowersAntimatter flowersArizona Sunset flowersTen hours of Eroica flowersFascination flowersFour Yes flowers blooming over...
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Some Mongolian pop and contemporary art
Solongo Mellecker, Mongolian pop artist. One can buy prints here."I was born and grew up in Mongolia. After receiving my BFA in Mongolian Traditional Painting, I moved to Atlanta to pursue illustration...
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A happy assortment, Thursday, August 6th 2015
A real treat, a large archive of Old Time Radio.There are shows, advertisements, songs, talks, comedy, talks, historic speeches, all free.Wonderful for doing housework, company while one does chores or...
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Exquisite illustrations of life in India about 200 years ago
About 200 years ago in the early 1800's, there was an Anglo-Indian man, an adventurer, James Skinner, who commissioned portraits of people doing various jobs, fulfilling various roles, in India. When I...
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Sunday in mid October 2015
Photographs by Isabelle ChapuisDying Zoo Worker Gets Goodbye Kiss From GiraffeCLICK to 5:40 In the video, If you just want to get to the Giraffe Kiss.A terminally ill zoo worker got a goodbye kiss from...
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Late January afternoon, 2016 culture creatures
Japanese Mexican. Japanese artist Kenta Torii, currently based in Mexico.Painting by Kenta ToriiPainting by Kenta ToriiPainting by Kenta ToriiPainting by Kenta ToriiPainting by Kenta ToriiPainting by...
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Berkeley 1968-1973 Poster Collection
A great collection of political posters on the University of Berkeley website. Here. Link via Pat Brownlee with thanks. The UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections holds 250 posters concerned...
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