Thursday, November 27, 2008

Matisse Tulips and Oysters on Black Background

Matisse Tulips and Oysters on Black BackgroundMatisse The WindowMatisse The Painter's FamilyMatisse The Moroccans
Since he had last seen it, the gargoyle guarding the entrance to the headmaster's study had been knocked aside; it stood lopsided, looking a little punch-drunk, and Harry wondered whether it would be able to distinguish passwords anymore.
   He had one, brief glimpse of the stone Pensieve on the desk where he had left it, and then an earsplitting noise made him cry out, thinking of curses and returning Death Eaters and the rebirth of Voldemort ---    But it was applause. All around the walls, the headmasters and headmistresses of Hogwarts were giving him a standing ovation; they waved their hats and in some cases their wigs, they reached through their frames
"Can we go up?" he asked the gargoyle.

"Feel free," groaned the statue.

   They clambered over him and onto the spiral stone staircase that moved slowly upward like an escalator. Harry pushed open the door at the top.

Monday, November 24, 2008

Bierstadt Western Kansas

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Certainly nowadays many musicians make the majority of their money from live performances of their have you been doing? People have been saying you've just been on the run, Harry, but I don't think so. I think you've been up to something."

   "You're right," said Harry, "but tell us about Hogwarts, Neville, we haven't heard anything."

   "It's been …. Well, it's not really like Hogwarts anymore," said Neville, the smile fading from his face as he spoke. "Do you know about the Carrows?"

"Those two Death Eaters who teach here?"Yeah," said Neville, panting a little now, because the passage was climbing so steeply, "well, you can see their thinking. It had worked really well, kidnapping kids to force their relatives to behave. I s'pose it was only a matter of time before they did it the other way around. Thing was," he faced them, and Harry was astonished to see that he was grinning, "they bit off a bit more than they could chew with Gran. Little old witch living alone, they probably thought hey didn't need to send anyone particularly powerful. Anyway," Neville laughed, "Dawlish is still in St. Mungo's and Gran's on the run. She sent me a letter," he clapped a hand to the breast pocket of his robes, "telling me she was proud of me, that I'm my parent's son, and to keep it up."

   "They do more than teach," said Neville. "They're in charge of all discipline. They like punishmentrather than from albums. Indeed some of them are even giving their albums away for free.
This may be part of a cultural recognition that more than just sound, it is an interaction between singer and audience, a big bit part of which is the artist's facial expressions and gestures. It's this interaction on which we are beginning to place a higher value.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Vincent van Gogh Souvenir de Mauve painting

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mention its in a jar?
9. Solar Powered Bikini
The panels on this bikini charges up and stores electricity that can then be used to power very small things, like an iPod nano. If men don’t want to wear it, they can sit it on the beach next to them.
Though frankly, if they’ve got an ipod nano, they’re not men.
10. Solar powered torch
An old favourite from the “inflatable dartboard” school of alcoholic inventions, this is actually a reality. It charges during the day and shines light during the night.
Thinking about it, it’s actually not that weird. But, as solar cells are expensive and have a reasonable footprint of their own can Greenbang recommend a wind up torch instead.

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Claude Monet Water Lily Pond painting

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published a volume of poems about his visit to the "little temple town" of Gagari in the Western Ghats. The poems had been criticized by the Hindu right; one eminent South Indian professor had announced that Bhupen had "forfeited his right to be called an Indian poet", but in the opinion of the young woman, Swatilekha, Bhupen had been seduced by religion into a dangerous ambiguity. Grey hair flopping earnestly, moon-face shining, Bhupen defended himself. "I have said that the only crop of Gagari is the stone gods being quarried from the hills. I have spoken of herds of legends, with sacred cowbells tinkling, grazing on the hillsides. These are not ambiguous images." Swatilekha wasn't convinced. "These days," she insisted, "our positions must be stated with crystal clarity. All metaphors are capable of misinterpretation." She offered her theory. Society was orchestrated by what she called _grand narratives_: history, economics, ethics. In India, the development of a corrupt and closed state apparatus had "excluded the masses of the people from the

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Edward Hopper Morning in a City painting

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The worst thing about him, she tentatively concluded, was his genius for thinking himself slighted, belittled, under attack. It became almost impossible to mention anything to him, no matter how reasonable, no matter how gently put. "Go, go, eat air," he'd shout, and retire into the tent of his wounded pride. -- And the most seductive thing about him was the way he knew instinctively what she wanted, how when he chose he could become the agent of her secret heart. As a result, their sex was literally electric. That first tiny spark, on the occasion of their inaugural kiss, wasn't any one-off. It went on happening, and sometimes while they made love she was convinced she could hear the crackle of electricity all around them; she felt, at times, her hair standing on end. "It reminds me of the electric dildo in my father's study," she told Gibreel, and they laughed. "Am I the love ofand he answered, just as quickly: "Of course."
She admitted to him early on that the rumours about her unattainability, even frigidity, had some basis in fact. "After Yel died, I took on that side of her as