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cartoon life: Monet at Musée Marmotton
Two for one Monet day. Once again, you can get so close to these things. You can’t photograph them, but you can look: you can look and draw. Filed under: art
Continue readingThings Are Good: Artists Better Protected Against Cognitive Decline
People who engage in music or visual arts are better protected against dementia and other cognitive decline issues. Nows the time to pick up that instrument you keep meaning to learn how to play! Artists compared with non-artists are better protected, he added. “Due to their art, the brain is
Continue readingcartoon life: Laundry in Venice
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Continue readingcartoon life: Ice cream in Paris
“Hell is riding, endlessly, a bus through different parts of the city, looking all the same, indistinguishable one from another, for the best ice cream, near the house of Victor Hugo.”Sartre I think I’m the only one in the world who saw the cat walk along that ledge six stories
Continue readingcartoon life: Orvieto
If you get a chance to bop around Italy, don’t overlook the villages and towns outside the major well known ones. Orvieto was on our route, so we planned a stop anyway. Orvieto is profiting from the tourist trade, but it is still, clearly a working living city, picturesque, and
Continue readingcartoon life: At the Trevi Fountain
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Continue readingcartoon life: The heat, the cake, the Cappucino.
The cappuccinos, the dehydration, the heat and the crowds make you very dizzy. To top that off, the church facades are all sweet cakery decoration. Stop putting crap on your building already. Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence Filed under: art
Continue readingcartoon life: The foot of Fortitude, by Botticelli
No one lingered to worship at the feet of this masterpiece, but all rushed on to gawk at the Birth Of Venus, roped off from at least 6 ft away. How is it it possible people can rush on to see what they have been told, rather than stop, to
Continue readingThings Are Good: Making People Laugh in The New Yorker
The New Yorker is one of my favourite magazines and the first thing I do when I open it is to read all the cartoons. Some are hilarious and others just don’t resonate with me and in the TED Talk below you can see that having a mixed bag of
Continue readingcartoon life: The foot of Faith by Piero Del Pollaiolo
I’ll be posting in some kind of loose random reverse order images from the trip. Here, Piero Del Pallailo’s foot of the figure of Faith. Once again, rooms in the Uffizzi – hot, crowded, and even as I don’t have words – it was so astounding to see these works
Continue readingcartoon life: Ariadne at the Uffizi
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Continue readingcartoon life: Ucello’s Santa Monica at the Uffizzi
After drilling my eyes into The Battle Of San Romano panel, I turned to the right and found the Santa Monica. Charmed again, then saw it was also, as I should have remembered, an Ucello. Filed under: art
Continue readingcartoon life: Galileo at the Uffizzi
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Continue readingcartoon life: The David outside the Uffizzi
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Continue readingPostArctica: Adrift
I have yet to see anything that so sublimely and elegantly shows how mankind and nature can cohabit this planet, yet we continue to lay a massive pounding on the earth, oblivious to the wreckage, as we struggle blindly through the fog of our own heads and hearts. ADRIFT It
Continue readingcartoon life: Police station, Venice, at Rialto
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Continue readingPostArctica: Christo – Big Air Package
Big Air Package, an indoor installation for the Gasometer Oberhausen, Germany, was conceived in 2010 and is on view from March 16 to December 30, 2013. 90 meters high, with a diameter of 50 meters and a volume of 177,000 cubic meters, the work of art is the largest ever inflated
Continue readingcartoon life: Cycling in Paris
Spotted this elegant young woman riding her bike in Paris. Filed under: art
Continue readingThings Are Good: Lovebots Invade Toronto
Lovebots are a fun art project that aims to fill Toronto with little concrete robots. The goal is to remind people that the city is a lovely place filled with nice people. No fewer than 100 2′ tall concrete statues of Lovebot will be put on display in “secret locations”
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