There was a thread on another forum that I follow about killing a character in a book and getting away with it. The character in question was a musician in popular music, so my first thought was a drug overdose. Then I realized that there are many ways to do that same thing. Some of the methods are as relatively easy, while some are difficult and even messier. We all know the old standards, loose stones on the castle walls, leaky flues, and such. But some of the most interesting ...
It has come to our attention that most people do not know what art is. In its broadest sense art is anything that is not natural, but many people seem to think that only the fine arts are art; all else is something else. That use of the word “art” is less than two and a half centuries old. Just reading the etymology tells most of the story. From Online Etymological Dictionary art (n.) early 13c., "skill as a result of learning or practice," from ...
Sometimes I wonder about designers of various things, including architects, designers of consumer goods, industrial goods, computer software, and so on. I have known for a long time that they seldom use the things designed, so they don’t know how to get things to work correctly. But that’s old news. I am wondering now if it might be a good idea to train people who design things to consider how those things will be used. I recall having heard that Marcel Breuer said something along ...
Updated 12-26-2013 at 09:16 PM by PeterL
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Updated 10-04-2013 at 06:06 PM by stlukesguild
Already I am back with my latest artistic effort. This painting came together more rapidly than any I have worked on for quite some time. Two weeks total from start to finish: not bad for a painting that measures 80x44"... especially when one considers the unbearable heat and humidity in my studio as of recent. I had initially intended a clothed figure... something perhaps based upon the theme of Isabella and the Pot of Basil (Boccaccio and Keats) but all of the preliminary ...
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