Thursday, November 27, 2008

Gauguin Beach at Le Pouldu

Gauguin Beach at Le PoulduGauguin Arearea No Varua InoGauguin And the Gold of Their BodiesMatisse Young Girl in a Green Dress
Ginny two tables away; she was sitting with her head on her mother's shoulder: There would be time to talk    "It's me," he muttered, crouching down between them. "Will you come with me?"    They stood up at once, and together he, Ron and Hermione left the Great Hall. Great chunks were missing from the marble staircase, part of the balustrade gone, and rubble and bloodstains occurred ever few steps later, hours and days and maybe years in which to talk. He saw Neville, the sword of Gryffindor lying beside his plate as he ate, surrounded by a knot of fervent admirers. Along the aisle between the tables he walked, and he spotted the three Malfoys, huddled together as though unsure whether or not they were supposed to be there, but nobody was paying them any attention. Everywhere he looked, he saw families reunited, and finally, he saw the two whose company he craved most.

Monday, November 24, 2008

Bierstadt Falls of Niagara from Below

Bierstadt Falls of Niagara from BelowBierstadt Deer in a LandscapeBierstadt Cows Watering in a LandscapeBierstadt Falls of St
like an auditory McGurk effect. Because the video is suggesting the pitch goes down, people's average ratings of the pitch is lower despite the fact they can hear exactly how much the pitch is going up.
Experiment 4: This experiment used the fact that sung major intervals (series of notes) sound 'happy' and minor intervals sound 'sad'. In some conditions participants heard a 'happy' series of notes but saw a seemingly unhappy singer. In other conditions intervals were consistent with facial expressions. Participants rated the emotional
These experiments are showing a variety of basic ways in which the facial expression of a performer can have a great influence over our perception of music. Facial expressions and body movements can change the pitch we hear, how much emotion we experience and can interact with the in surprising ways.
That said, it's clear that not all the visual aspects of musical performance are good. Some body language that performers use may actively reduce our enjoyment of

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Johannes Vermeer Mistress and Maid painting

Johannes Vermeer Mistress and Maid paintingUnknown Artist Vanitas Still Life paintingJohn William Waterhouse The Magic Circle painting
Funeral directors are looking at it as the greener alternative to cremation or burial. The process is called alkaline hydrolysis and is already used for dissolving animal bodies and lab specimens. It’s more efficient than cremation and the resulting sludge is safe enough to flush down into the US sewer system. It is also a highly effective way of destroying and decontaminating a diseased body. Still, eurgh.
5. Solar Towers
This 2001-esque monolith would surely by one of the wonders of the modern world. Its simple. The sun heats air via a wide array of panels on the ground. The air then rises up and out through the solar tower, driving internal turbines. The panels also store heat and release it throughout the night.
The technology has been tested and proven with a successful small-scale pilot plant constructed in Manzanares Spain.

Sunday, November 9, 2008

John Collier Lady Godiva painting

John Collier Lady Godiva paintingCaravaggio Supper at Emmaus paintingCaravaggio Judith Beheading Holofernes painting
unsentimental about Salahuddin protested vehemently, and was slapped down hard. "I have lived my ," she informed him. "It is therefore for me only to say." Nasreen Chamchawala was entirely indifferent to the fate of the old place. "One more high-rise, one less piece of old Bombay," she shrugged. "What's the difference? Cities change." She was already preparing to move back to Pali Hill, taking the cases of butterflies off the walls, assembling her stuffed birds in the ball. "Let it go," Zeenat Vakil said. "You couldn't live in that museum, anyway."
She was right, of course; no sooner had he resolved to set his face towards the future than he started mooning around and regretting childhood's end. "I'm off to meet George and Bhupen, you remember," she said. "Why don't you come along? You need to start plugging into the town." George Miranda had just completed a documentary film about communalism, interviewing Hindus and Muslims of all shades of opinion. Fundamentalists of both religions had

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Edward Hopper Summer Interior painting

Edward Hopper Summer Interior paintingEdward Hopper Sailing paintingEdward Hopper Ryder's House painting
analogy her own (in fact somewhat different) sense of impending catastrophe (which had to do not with recurring patterns but with the inescapability of the unforeseeable), but he fixed her with a hurt stare that told her he'd never heard of the writer, let alone The Defence. Conversely, he surprised her by asking, oUt of the blue, "Why Picabia?" Adding that it was peculiar, was it not, for Otto Cohen, a veteran of the terror camps, to go in for all that neo-Fascistic love of machinery, brute power, dehumanization glorified. "Anybody who's spent any time with machines at all," he added, "and baby, that's us all, knows first and foremost there's only one thing certain about them, or bicycle. They go wrong." Where did you find out about, she began, and faltered because she didn't like the patronizing note she was striking, but he answered without vanity. The first time he'd heard about Marinetti, he said, he'd got the wrong end of the stick and thought Futurism was something to do with puppets. "Marionettes, kathputli, at that time I was