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via swissmiss: ‘Lipsticks’ is a series of large-scale photographs of lipsticks near the end of their lives as consumer products, worn away through use.
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Year: 2007
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“Which parts of the human body could you design better?”
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Using prisoners to train guide dogs. Which helps both the dogs and the prisoners. Via Metafilter.
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Just a little Memling
Do you like Memling? I don’t know, I’ve never tried it. [boom boom]
Gotta love that Northern Renaissance.
I went to a lecture about fabric and fashion in art recently which used as an example a painting which I think wasn’t actually this one, but was very very similar. Possibly Memling painted various versions of it. Anyway, I can tell you that the black and gold cloth behind the Virgin and on the skirt of one the kneeling saints would have been made in Italy.
While I’m here posting about nothing in particular, I’ll throw in one of my occasional plugs for my photoblog, Clouded Drab. There’s a cute cat picture on the front page…
» The painting, Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara, is in the Met, and this photo is from their website. It was painted in 1479 by the Netherlandish painter Hans Memling as an altarpiece.
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A video introducing the new design for the main stadium for London 2012. Not overwhelmingly exciting, frankly.
A big-budget Hollywood version of Beowulf is obviously going to either be a travesty of the poem or commercial suicide.
When you hear that Angelina Jolie is embarrassed about her nude scenes in the movie, I think it’s pretty clear which one.
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‘This close up of an active region on the Sun that produced a powerful X-class flare was captured by the orbiting TRACE satellite. Clicking on the image should bring up a movie that shows the evolution of Active Region 9906 over about four hours.’