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POPSUrban Camouflage Art You’ve seen those ugly utility boxes city around the city right, wouldn’t you really rather see them looking like these?
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POPSHow to Use Your Feminine Wiles To use feminine wiles in your everyday life truly will bring you closer to people of quality, who respond to warmth, wisdom, and wit. Advanced wiliness? I can't believe eHow has instructions on how to be wily! .:p
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POPSGuggenheim turns 50 a legacy of spirals passion spirit and art on the fifth "I think the legacy of this building is in the message that architecture does not have to lie down and play dead in front of art," says Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New Yorker. "That there are other ways to show art than in a neutral space. That an architect can do something that's powerful in itself and that enhances the experience of looking at art."
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POPSRon Mueck: Hyper-Realist Sculptor "He so nearly captures that extra bit, what we call the soul or spirit, that flame inside that makes us ourselves. He takes one to the very edge of the idea of life, calls into question what it is to be a person, what it is to be human. - Marina Warner."
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POPSAssorted Quotes from a blog sidebar... MORE: “Never believe in a meritocracy in which no one is funny-looking.” (Teresa Nielsen Hayden) “True religion invites us to become better people. False religion tells us that this has already occurred.” (Abdal-Hakim Murad) “To live is to war against the trolls.” (Henrik Ibsen) “No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” (Samuel Beckett)
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POPSstrange bridges i like to look at funny bridges to nowhere-but fear of heights keeps my feet of firmer more stable ground- especially if you can see through the darn thing- lol.....where doodle dare not tread! skiffs work well- and they eliminate the need for screaming
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POPSThe Romance of Objects "If we attend to young scientists' romance with objects, we are encouraged to make children comfortable with the idea that falling in love with things is part of what we expect of them. We are encouraged to introduce the periodic table as poetry and LEGOs as a form of art."
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POPSAlfred Wallis: Painter and Mariner A life story, by the way, which I read some years ago after visiting an exhibition, which is amazing. As I recall, his main media were six pots of acrylic paint from the local hardware store, and the backs of cereal boxes.
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POPSWhy do people overbid in auctions? "The art of auctioning is an ancient one. The concept of competitively bidding for goods has lasted from Roman times, when spoils of war were divvied up around a planted spear, to the 21st century, when the spoils of the loft are sold through eBay. But despite society's familiarity with the concept, people who take part in auctions still behave in a strange way - they tend to overbid, offering more money than what they actually think an object is worth".