http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/arts-chat/ en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:51:42 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418100/posts If you're a fish danger can come from any direction. Those claws are almost as long as a man's finger and needle sharp. self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418100/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:51:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2417695/posts He paints six pictures a week and his last exhibition sold out in 14 minutes...Kieron Williamson kneels on the wooden bench in his small kitchen, takes a pastel from the box by his side and rubs it onto a piece of paper. 'Have you got a picture in your head of what you're going to do?' asks his mother, Michelle. 'Yep,' Kieron nods. 'A snow scene.' I ask: because it is winter at the moment? 'Yep.' Do you know how you want it to come out? 'Yep.' And does it come out how you want it? 'Sometimes it does.' Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2417695/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:21:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416740/posts MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416740/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:14:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416729/posts Artist Peter Callesen proves he is a cut above the rest with these dainty models made using glue, a scalpel - and just one sheet of A4 paper. Peter, 41, cuts intricate patterns from a white sheet of paper and uses the cutout to fold breathtaking designs such as skeletons, insects and buildings. The precision work transforms a piece of paper worth only a few pence into a piece of art that sells for £2,800. Each model takes up to two weeks to sketch, cut and fold. If Peter makes a wrong cut or realises he is unable to achieve... DailyMailUK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416729/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:49:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416351/posts A public art installation depicting Russian Communist leader Vladimir Lenin and a feminized Chairman Mao Zedong in the heart of Richmond's business district has the whole town talking. “When I went to the gym at 5:30 this morning it’s all people were talking about,” said Richmond city Coun. Derek Dang, who saw the piece for the first time Wednesday. “People just can’t believe it.” The large stainless steel sculpture is part of the Vancouver Biennale, a city-wide celebration of public art. The piece — Miss Mao Trying to Poise Herself at the Top of Lenin’s Head — was created by... Canwest News Service via The Times Colonist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416351/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:16:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416144/posts Space Shuttle Spied En Route to Hubble—Photograph courtesy NASA/Thierry Legault Using a telescope with a special solar filter, photographer Thierry Legault captured the tiny silhouette of the space shuttle Atlantis crossing in front of the sun in May. The tightly cropped shot shows Atlantis in orbit--a day before the shuttle latched on to the Hubble Space Telescope so that astronauts could perform a series of spacewalks to repair and upgrade the iconic instrument. NatGeo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416144/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:41:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415549/posts Found: The Clue To Van Gogh’s Ear Richard Brooks [Pic in URL] Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear, 1889 by Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) The mystery behind the most famous mutilation in art history may finally have been solved. A scholar has found evidence that a distraught Vincent van Gogh slashed his ear after learning that his brother, Theo, on whom he depended financially and emotionally, was about to get married. Martin Bailey, who has written a book on van Gogh and curated two exhibitions of his work, devised his theory after meticulous detective work on a letter in a painting... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415549/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 01:25:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415478/posts This is a trailer video for the new movie "Daybreakers" coming out Jan. 8th. It reminds me of real life, with "vampire rights", a sympathetic media and a police force hunting down the remaining evil humans to drain their blood. I don't know about you, but I sure feel like I'M being drained. Youtube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415478/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:06:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415354/posts Pictures of the Year 2009: Cute Animals Two five-week-old leopard cubs named Chant and Sloka sit with a one-year-old orangutan named Rishi, at T.I.G.E.R.S. (The Institue For Endangered Species) in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Telegraph(UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415354/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:08:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415337/posts Anyone have any info on Home Security Cameras? I'm looking specifically for a Day\Night camera with excellent long range nightime capabilities - 60 feet and beyond. I've read numerous reviews on various cameras but I was wondering if anyone had any specific favorites they would recommend. Thanks ! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415337/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:29:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415199/posts Following is my tongue-in-cheek review of "The Wizard of Oz" which I posted on Amazon in 2003. It's gone unnoticed until late this year. Customer comments follow. THE WIZARD OF OZ "Troublesome film marred by vague subject matter", by A Customer This film is troublesome on too many counts to list here but I will try. First, the story is implausible. Oz is not the sort of place children dream of, usually they dream of running or flying or getting lost. The "Oz" story was already a tired conventional hackneyed subject and should never have been filmed in the first... Amazon.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415199/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 05:18:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415132/posts A new catnip mouse! self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415132/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:39:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414870/posts Just an observation. Watching it just now the "blind Ralphie" scene was cut. The movie (at least the 2 AM showing) is missing the scene after Melinda Dillon tastes the soap when it should have cut to Ralphie. Offensive to the sight-impaired I guess, not that they'd have seen it. I told you not to use "Lifebuoy." Major Award destruction. Household accident or domestic violence by proxy? TNT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414870/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 08:54:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414480/posts It’s fitting that James Cameron’s “Avatar” arrived in theaters at Christmastime. Like the holiday season itself, the science fiction epic is a crass embodiment of capitalistic excess wrapped around a deeply felt religious message. It’s at once the blockbuster to end all blockbusters, and the Gospel According to James. But not the Christian Gospel. Instead, “Avatar” is Cameron’s long apologia for pantheism — a faith that equates God with Nature, and calls humanity into religious communion with the natural world. NYT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414480/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:20:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414355/posts If you've never seen the 1954 holiday classic "White Christmas," you really won't have an excuse any longer: AMC will be airing the movie seven times in a row, starting at 7 a.m. on Christmas Eve. In case you've been buried under a snowdrift, for, oh, half a century or so, the movie features Irving Berlin's music and concerns two former Army buddies (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye) who put on a show with a sister act (Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen) to save their general's Vermont hotel. Here are five things you may not have known about "White Christmas." The... Deseret News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414355/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:56:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2413293/posts self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2413293/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:44:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2412660/posts The city of Baltimore declared today Frank Zappa Day in honor of the iconoclastic rock musician and composer, who was born there 69 years ago on Dec. 21, 1940. Last week the city's public art commission also announced that a bronze statue of Zappa would be erected outside of a public library sometime next year...... Brand X http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2412660/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:37:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2412211/posts http://lenslinger.blogspot.com/2009/12/eagle-has-landed.html http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2412211/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:56:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2412117/posts DURHAM, N.C. -- The Egyptians supposedly used it to guide the construction the Pyramids. The architecture of ancient Athens is thought to have been based on it. Fictional Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon tried to unravel its mysteries in the novel The Da Vinci Code. "It" is the golden ratio, a geometric proportion that has been theorized to be the most aesthetically pleasing to the eye and has been the root of countless mysteries over the centuries. Now, a Duke University engineer has found it to be a compelling springboard to unify vision, thought and movement under a single law of... Duke University http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2412117/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:53:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411768/posts The Firecrackers named Best Touring Act/Halftime Show of 2009 Video: Half-time show at the U.S. Naval Academy(almost 10 million - yes, million hits!) The Kings Firecrackers http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411768/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:53:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411709/posts Exactly what is NATO doing in Afghanistan? And exactly what are the NATO countries doing in Iraq? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411709/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:50:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411547/posts Celtic Woman / Chloe Agnew - "O Holy Night" YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411547/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:35:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411470/posts Do you want the unique baby accessories for your baby? Well, this one is pretty unique. As you can see this is stainless steel baby accessories, includes toys, walker, cradle and many other. I didn’t saw something weird and bizarre in the last time, you must be weird person to make buy some of these. But you are not going to be in opportunity to buy something like this, those stainless steel are only art examples. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411470/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 02:20:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411346/posts I really enjoyed the responses from last week's "What Are Your Favorite Movies Made Before 1950?" thread (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2406295/posts). So here's another movie topic - favorite foreign language films of any era. (Hey, we need a pleasant distraction from the debacle going on in DC!) If you know the date or even decade of the film and the language, please include it. Thank you and enjoy! Self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411346/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:01:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411309/posts Wonders of The Deep: Stunning Pictures of Strange and Unique Antarctic Sea Life [Beautiful Color Pics in URL] By DAILY MAIL REPORTER 19th December 2009 Amazing pictures of Southern Ocean marine life captured by scientists working in the Antarctic were released today. The inhabitants of the continent's seas were captured as part of a study on biodiversity carried out by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). Images of the marine creatures, which were taken in the Bellingshausen Sea, West Antarctica, include ice fish, sea pigs and crustaceans. The underwater images also show giant sea spiders, rare rays and beautiful basket stars. Daily Mail (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411309/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:31:04 GMT