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An Audience Is An Audience
Sadly, an audience is an audience. Overheard last night, at the opening gala of the Toronto International Film Festival, from a twentysomething woman responding to the words “Burt Bacharach… more →
Notes from Nowhere
Idiots Guide to Wine Classification
italytraveltales wrote 3 weeks ago: Italian wine just waiting to be drunk As Autumn draws near and the harvest and festival season is un … more →
The Italian Post Office
italytraveltales wrote 1 month ago: I used to have an idea that a Post Office was where you went to buy a stamp, post a letter, perhaps … more →
William Blake's Lamb-like Wail (a.k.a. THE TYGER from 1794's "Songs of Experience")
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neatretreat wrote 5 months ago: PLEASE CLICK [THIS] FOR THE NEW VERSION It just happened, really ; like ALL Creation. Hosted at YouT … more →
what is good design....?
flipty wrote 6 months ago: A while back I posted Deiter Ram’s 10 Commandments of good design. Liam then suggested I defi … more →
Design Anthropology
flipty wrote 7 months ago: Dr. Elizabeth ‘Dori’ Tunstall presented at the Design Victoria seminar, ‘The Human Side of Des … more →
Second Type of Object Association: oooo....Ferrari
flipty wrote 7 months ago: The second common discussion of objects and people is how we desire and transform desires into actua … more →
Pyro Neanderthal
flipty wrote 8 months ago: ‘In Western cultures the broad stages of history are marked by the kind of objects people could make … more →
Dutch Realism and opposing realities:
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flipty wrote 8 months ago: THE “REALIST” TRADITION In dutch art, what can be seen or experienced can indeed be known, for there … more →
An Audience Is An Audience
murraypomerance wrote 1 year ago: Sadly, an audience is an audience. Overheard last night, at the opening gala of the Toronto Internat … more →
"People Aren't as Different as We Think"
murraypomerance wrote 1 year ago: Just a few flip little notions about Hillary Rodham Clinton, especially at this historic moment when … more →
Survival of the Most Opinionated
murraypomerance wrote 1 year ago: Art critic Harold Rosenberg by Elaine De Kooning (1967) One of the principal side effects of the rea … more →
Obamalot
murraypomerance wrote 1 year ago: To coin a word: “Obamalot.” The new Democratic myth of promise and utopia, sprang on the … more →
Posthumous
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murraypomerance wrote 1 year ago: Monsieur Dimitri Vladimirovich Nabokov has decided to publish a manuscript his father wrote and begg … more →
The True Voice
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murraypomerance wrote 1 year ago: Listening to Jerry Orbach singing “Her Face” from Carnival! (1961-1963, music by Bob Mer … more →
A Salad That Makes Summer Real
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murraypomerance wrote 1 year ago: Here is a salad I learned to make by watching Craig Claiborne (above) and Pierre Franey (below) make … more →
"Tell me! Tell me!"
murraypomerance wrote 1 year ago: “Greatest American Dog” (CBS) is overwhelming. Standard three-judge panel vetting the … more →
Young!
murraypomerance wrote 1 year ago: It couldn’t have taken long. Paris Hilton has filmed a mock political ad, “responding … more →
Requesting Our Vote . . .
murraypomerance wrote 1 year ago: Joshua Michael Stern’s Swing Vote was paid for by Kevin Costner, the man who made baseball pla … more →
Corny Martha
murraypomerance wrote 1 year ago: Credit should be given where credit is due. Martha Stewart has peppered our popular consciousness wi … more →
