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POPSSurrealism - pics May 21 2008: The manuscript draft of the first surrealist manifesto is being put up for auction in Paris today. Take a look at photographs of some of the godfathers of the movement
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POPSPay Attention to the Pope’s Onion but is rather its best ally in the fight for reason to survive the postmodern belief that truths worthy of being transmitted down the generations don’t exist. For him this is not a mere abstract, philosophical issue. He believes it is a tragedy when kids at school ask what car Napoleon was driving in Marengo, or if Salvador Dali is a relative of Muhammad Ali (by the way, I didn’t make up these two examples). Benedict is convinced that if the new generations have nothing important to learn at a deeper, human level, both faith and reason lose. Even worse, humanity loses. My humble suggestion: pay attention to what the pope says, but pay special attention to his less quotable words. Those will not be cotton candy.
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POPSCruel Women From Celtic Mythology by A. Cotterell: "The enchanted forest of Arthurian legend was alive with beguiling fairy maidens, who often taunted errant knights. One such, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, was a banshee who attracted mortal lovers for her own amusement. inspiring them with a hopeless infatuation and then leaving them bereft of will of purpose until they withered on the lake, 'alone and palely loitering.' As the languishing knight here sleeps, he dreams of the pale kings and warriors whom La Belle Dame 'holds in thrall' (ref. to last image, same site)
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POPSDali Atomicus I found it interesting how they got the shot and how many tries it took to get it.
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POPSS. Dali Esq. "Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being Salvador Dalí - and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things this Salvador Dalí is going to accomplish today?" - Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí
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POPSMost Famous Optical Illusions. What do you see? Have you ever seen the illusion of 'Message of Love from the Dolphins,' as of yet I can not even see a dolphin can you...let me know where?
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POPSKnowing me, knowing Moo Cow art by Caroline Shotton. I refer to myself as the "Madcow", and my father calls me "Moocow", so I was delighted to discover this "Mooart". I think it's rather cute.
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POPSThe acid test "It may be that we can use LSD to answer questions like: what is a religious experience? What is consciousness? What is sense of self? What stops us spending a whole afternoon looking at one leaf on a tree?" McGregor adds
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POPSAfter 60 years, Dali's animated cartoon was born 等了60年的达利的动画-destino Salvador Dalí（1904-1989），萨尔瓦多·达利。你是否也是通过他开始认识西方现代艺术的呢？在但是去看那些现代艺术，总觉得印象派看上去很传统，都是静物，立体派以及其前后的那些流派让人看不懂，而超现实主义比如达利和马格利特，相对更能让你多看几眼。这个名为destino的七分钟动画片开始于1946年，完成于2003年，现在在英国Tate Modern（泰德现代博物馆）在以Dalí & Film 为主题的展览上初次公演。因为达利非常热衷于电影，他也是当时那些认为电影将会成为创造力表达的重要媒介的先锋之一，年轻时喜欢好莱坞喜剧，比如Harry Langdon, Charlie Chaplin和Buster Keaton，他认为这种大众娱乐是那些自负的高雅文化的解毒剂，展览还展出他的其他大量作品（绘画，照片，线稿，电影），还可以看到他和其他著名电影人的合作，比如Luis Buñuel（著名的UN CHIEN ANDALOU–《一条叫安达鲁的狗》，相提并论的还有后来者–Pink Floyd–The Wall，如果你看过，可以从这两个动画中找到熟悉的感觉。）, Walt Disney, Alfred Hitchcock 和 the Marx brothers。这个让人等了60年的destino是由Disney来完成的，在上世纪40年代因为太奇特和制作昂贵而被Disney搁置，知道7年前被Roy Disney（Walt Disney的侄子）重新拾起并制作完成（详细见这）。两个视频为预告片。
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