On the night of July 28, 1994, after the Schirn Kunsthalle in
Frankfurt had closed for the night, a security guard was grabbed by a
masked man. A second man handcuffed him and bound his eyes with tape.
The thugs pushed him into a closet and warned him to keep quiet.
They took two paintings by J. M. W. Turner, Shade and Darkness—the Evening of the Deluge and Light and Color,
and a painting by Caspar David Friedrich. The Turners had been lent for
an exhibition by the Tate Gallery in London. The Friedrich belonged to
the Kunsthalle Hamburg.
Another guard who was unable to reach his colleague by radio set off
the gallery’s alarm. The thugs ran through the delivery entrance and
escaped in a stolen car.
The whole point of this article was to offer argument that offering rewards for stolen paintings may just encourage more thefts, because the thieves will then find a way to return the painting and collect a hefty reward. It has been happening in the past, and what is the point of stealing a painting you cannot popularly sell? I think the no reward idea would help deter would be thieves.
Art
Here is a picture of a drawing I have been working on quite some time, and I keep finding myself taking breaks from it. Its a...ship.
So when the slits are not being observed, and one particle at a time is
fired at them, in this case an elektron, you get counter intuitive
results.
An interference pattern is created, when this should not be possible,
since we are firing single particles, so they somehow form a wave, wich
is an
interference pattern.
This is known as Wave/Particle duality. A commonly known term, but it is
just a description of the phenomenon without a real explanation.
As the vid explains, the inescapable conclusion is that the single
particle is everywhere, goes through both slits and interferes with
itself. This is remarkable enough on its own.
So when they measure with slit the particle actually goes through, it
goes through only one of the slits, and the interference pattern is no
longer
there. You could say, that because of observing, the particle has to go through
one of the slits, because we are looking, the wich path information is
present. Because of our consciousness having acces to this this information, the wave of potential is destroyed.
This is were the skeptics come in. Now pay attention, cause this is the meat of this thread. Skeptics, to this day always claim that this is total BS, just look at
some of the comments on that YT vid, that's exactly what I mean. They say the interference pattern is not destroyed because of our
consciousness knowing the wich path info, but because of the physical
act of
measuring. Because of the interaction of the particle with the measuring device, the so called Observer Effect.
A painting by Leonardo da Vinci that was lost for centuries has been
authenticated by distinguished scholars in the United States and Europe
and will be exhibited at London’s National Gallery as part of a Leonardo
show that opens November 9, ARTnews has learned.
The painting, Salvator Mundi, or “Savior of the World,”
depicts Christ with his right hand raised in blessing and his left hand
holding a globe. It is painted in oil on a wood panel and measures 26 by
18 1/2 inches in size. “It’s up there with any artistic discovery of the last 100 years,” said one scholar.
The work is owned by a consortium of dealers, including Robert Simon,
a specialist in Old Masters in New York and Tuxedo Park, N.Y. It was
bought at an auction in the United States in 2005.
When ARTnews first broke the story of the discovery on June
22, Simon declined to comment about the painting, the price, or how it
was acquired. “I’ve been asked not to discuss it,” he said.
On July 8, Simon issued a news release through a public relations
company confirming the story. He stated that the study and examination
of the painting by a number of scholars “resulted in an unequivocal
consensus that the Salvator Mundi was painted by Leonardo da
Vinci, and that it is the single original painting from which the many
copies and versions depend. Individual opinions vary slightly in the
matter of dating. Most place the painting at the end of Leonardo’s
Milanese period in the late 1490s, contemporary with the completion of The Last Supper. Others believe it to be slightly later, painted in Florence (where Leonardo moved in 1500), contemporary with the Mona Lisa.”
My Art
This is a charcoal drawing of a lion. I used several reference images to complete this.
This project took several weeks to complete, custom making the sky, geometry that makes up the level, the textures. The first version was lost due to errors in the modeling of the level, that were not able to be fixed, so I had to recreate it from the beginning.
"Using a variety of natural and common materials I create temporary site
responsive installations and interactions in nature and architectural
environments. Motivated by a desire to reconcile physical and spiritual
realities, I explore ways to connect thought and action while creating
visual metaphors. I’m interested in bringing the inside out, and the
outside in, both in nature and psyche. My intention is to invoke a
deeper connection to the worlds within and around us."Artfully blending her love of photography with a passion for the
outdoors,
Gloria Lamson's art is, in her words "a vehicle for exploration".
She incorporates fire, water, earth, chalk, survey tape, twine, flour
and other materials to create temporary forms in the landscape.
Many of her photographs are the result of repeated interactions with a
site and involve a series of images over time marking the disintegration
or alteration of a piece through natural forces.
Waves wash flour forms off a beach and rearrange a kelp circle.
A gunpowder flash creates a mushroom cloud of fire on a sheet of paper
floated onto still waters. Gloria Lamson's art documents her experience of place and allows the
rest of us to join her.
Simple lines, circles and markings on the land magically activate the
space around them and reveal underlying patterns and forms. Gloria Lamson began processing her own black and white photographs in
1970. Since 1975, she has published and exhibited her work extensively
in Washington and California, through one-person shows, installations,
group exhibitions, and slide presentations. In 1995, while living in the
San Francisco Bay area, she began working in nature, exploring art
making as interaction with time, place and self. She pursued the idea of
the environment as her studio and human conversation as a creative
model. Wanting to integrate nature and culture, art and life, solitude
and community, love and work, she has evolved a unique way of working
which generates singular imagery.
Monsanto's position? We shouldn't even be attentive to studying the effects of GMO foods in humans.I think its funny, mother nature has spent
millions of years creating the things that keep us
alive, and making the things we
enjoy. We have spent millions of years adapting to what has been
created for us. And a group of people think they can do better for a few
bucks. Additionally, the health hazards of GM foods are mostly unknown because
biotechnology companies do not allow independent researchers to publish
studies done on GM seeds. In order to obtain the seeds, scientists
must sign an agreement to only publish studies in peer-review journals
that
have been approved by the company. These companies essentially
produce consumer propaganda, putting public health at risk. Thus, the
health and
safety risks associated with GM foods are significant enough to prevent
it from becoming the solution to global problems and must be assessed.
According to this list, there have been 81 resignations of major bankers/political figures since
November 7th, 2011. More precisely, there have been 75 resignations since February 15th, 2012. This is, as of today, an average of 6.25
resignations a day.
Please notice we're not talking about small and random bankers here. We
are talking about high influential figures, such as the head of the
World
Bank, the Romanian PM, Haiti PM, Pakistan PM, German President, and MANY
CEOs of major banks. We also know that Goldman Sachs' CEO will resign
somewhere this summer.
And I’m also wondering whether these mass arrests and chief executive resignations are linked to a speech
that Lord James of Blackheath delivered to a practically empty House of
Lords a few days ago, in which he revealed his suspicions, backed by a
convincing paper trail, of a huge fraud to the tune of $15 trillion
dollars possibly involving “a major American department agency …gone
rogue and … seeking to get at least 50 billion Euros as a payoff.”
Hopefully this will cleanse the greed and help restore some stability to the financial structure of the entire world. I have to speculate that these bankers are being told to resign by someone even higher than they are, or they are trying to get out while they can, before the entire system collapses. Maybe they all know something we don't?
I decided to highlight another article on street art, I found a lot of stuff I have never seen on Street Art Utopia, and thought it would be nice to share it here. "In an anti-establishment movement that’s taking the art world by
storm, 6 of the world’s most famous Street Artists whose work is
intricately connected to the urban environment were commissioned to
paint the iconic river façade of Tate Modern exterior walls with 45 foot
(15 meter) high towering artworks for the first major public museum
display of Street Art in London." - taken from Lifeinthefastlane.com. I could talk about specific work in the link, but you just have to see it for yourself.
Art for this week
Since I haven't been able to attend class for the last few meetings, and since I was unable to attend the field trip, I will share this happy little painting I did a few days ago. I rediscovered the old "The Joy of Painting" show and had pretty much all of the materials I needed to attempt it, except I used Acrylics instead of oil (which proved difficult because they dry very quickly). It turned out pretty nice, I will be doing a lot more in the future once I get some oils to work with, the paintings will be a lot softer then.
The problem, known as the "spectrum crunch" threatens to increase the number of dropped calls, slow down data speeds and raise prices.
It will also whittle down the nation's number of wireless carriers and
create a deeper financial divide between those companies that have
capacity and those that don't.
Wireless spectrum is the invisible infrastructure over which all
wireless transmissions travel is a finite resource. When, exactly,
we'll hit the wall is the subject of intense debate, but almost everyone
in the industry agrees that a crunch is coming. The U.S. still
has a slight spectrum surplus. But at the current growth rate, the
surplus turns into a deficit as early as next year, according to the
Federal Communications Commission's estimates.
"Network traffic is increasing," says an officialat
the FCC's wireless bureau. "[Carriers] can manage it for the next
couple years, but demand is inevitably going to exceed the available
spectrum."
By starving the successful operators of the oxygen they
need--spectrum--the government is creating conditions that force a
company to provide inadequate service. Everyone agrees that this is an
imminent problem: The most successful operators will run out of spectrum
by 2015. When that happens, the reduced download speeds and connection
reliability will push customers to leave in frustration and switch to
other providers. I don't use a smart phone, I mean they are appealing, but if I start dropping calls on my phone that doesn't use hardly any spectrum and the guy sitting there with his Ipad is watching a movie over it, I might be a little pissed.
