VIZ Pictures has announced its acquisition of distribution rights to the six NEW PEOPLE Artist Series documentary films profiling important contemporary Japanese modern artists. The films will be screened at the new VIZ Cinema in San Francisco as part of the fall program titled LIFE ≈ ART. DVD releases will follow this fall and into 2010.TRAVELING WITH YOSHITOMO NARA captures a journey that the artist Yoshitomo Nara took during the creation of his exhibit, AtoZ, in his hometown of Hirosaki, Japa

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VIZ Pictures Acquires New People Film Series

M-Tel Contemporary Art Awards exhibition opened the 10th of July in Storehouse №7 at the Port of Varna and is open till the 10th of August. 45 bulgarian artists will expose their installations, sculptures, paintings and pictures there. Here some of the artists I liked: Alla Georgieva http://www.arcprojects.org/main/artists/georgieva/index.html Daniela Liahova Neno Belchev http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile//15669.html

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M-Tel Contemporary Art exhibition at Varna Bulgaria

  as you descend to the crypt in st. sernin (toulouse) you will meet this comical creature, made of stone.   pardon me dear readers, if you have been following me and i trailed off into the woods and left you withn nary more than a few crumbs for almost 8 weeks. cotton headed ninny muggins is one of my favorite lines from the movie “elf” and at least got me started with this blog on skulls, their symbolism (eleone makes a significant discovery that involves a skull) and why i often fe

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Green roofs are a growing trend in the U.S., with buildings as diverse as the California Academy of Sciences, Minneapolis’ Target Center and the New York Mets’ Citi Field adopting roofs topped with dirt and living plants. But PNC Financial Services Group is taking the lead on green walls, with the largest Green Living Wall in North America scheduled to be constructed on the south side of the bank’s Pittsburgh headquarters

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by James Moore Choosing a painting contractor could actually begin with your friends, neighbors, or relatives experiences with their painting contractor. If you speak to one who was inordinately pleased with their painting contractor, ask to see their house. Look carefully at how well the trim work was handled around windows and doors, and ask questions about how the contractor prepared the work surface.

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VIZ PICTURES LICENSES A DIVERSE COLLECTION OF INSIGHTFUL NEW DOCUMENTARIES PROFILING PROMINENT JAPANESE MODERN ARTISTS WITH THE NEW PEOPLE ARTIST SERIES   Six Films Show The Passion And Inspirations Of Acclaimed Visual Artists Pushing The Boundaries Of Modern Art; Theatrical And DVD Releases Planned   San Francisco, JULY 21, 2009 – VIZ Pictures, an affiliate of VIZ Media, LLC that focuses on Japanese live-action film distribution, has licensed a series of six new d

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Author: vicked.vicky Subject: Buddhas of Bamiyan: Indo-Greek Art – Afghanistan Posted: Jul 22, 2009 (GMT 0) The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two monumental statues of standing Buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamiyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, situated 230 km (143 miles) northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2500 meters (8,202 ft). Built during the sixth century, the statues represented the classic blended style of Indo-Greek art. The View Full

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You may have heard of this by now, but if not you should do. There’s a charity fundraising drive going on at the moment called ‘Get Dring Mobile’, which is aiming to raise enough money to sort the legendary Mike Dring of Art-el fame out with a a modified vehicle he can drive himself. For those as don’t know, here’s the backstory from the fundraising website ; Michael Dring was 23 years old when he broke his neck in a road traffic accident, resulting in paralysis from the upper chest down –

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by Esti Edwards With the failing economy and the falling wages of worker, perhaps the solution to giving your car a different look will be to give your car a complete new paint job. If the mechanics and the engine of the car is in good shape, but you do not fancy the car body, then painting it will be the ideal answer. Its a fantastic money saver, but even more so if you do it yourself as opposed to having it professionally done up in the workshop.

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What If You Can Spray Paint You Car in 6 Easy Steps?

(By Nalini S Malaviya) In the last few years awareness about art has increased substantially, and these days, most people are familiar with artist’s names, local galleries and prominent auction houses as events, art shows and auction reports are widely publicized in the media. The number of people who are buying art has also grown with time, although their reasons for owning it might be different. Most people still buy art for dressing their walls – to match the sofa or a particular wall colou

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Source: Bernama 2009-07-13 KUALA LUMPUR, July 13 (Bernama) — The 2009 Kuala Lumpur Music Festival that enters its fourth year like in the previous years is the curtain raiser for the one-month long Kuala Lumpur Festival. The KL Music Festival this time was held in two stages, the first from 1-5 July and the last on July 10. During the first stage five concerts were staged – “Lelaki Ini” by Anuar Zain, “Ahmad Nawab Goes To Life Centre’, “Generasi Baru”, “Sound of Malaysia”, “Ruhani” – and the

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For those of you who haven’t checked out the magazine LoftLife – The Loft Style Guide to Life in the City , it is a must read.  And I don’t say that only because I am on their ‘Board of Experts’ – the Editors and Creative Directors are top notch.  Their style and editorials are fresh, relevant and timely.  Last fall Kyra Shapurji, Managing Editor and Linden Hass, Photo Editor paid me a visit at my office in Vancouver to firm up a feature they were doing on favourite shopping spots of mine and a few other Design Professionals in Vancouver (see Spring 2009 Travel/80 Victorious Vancouver: Canada’s design & architecture capital.) Linden Hass shot a few pictures of me and the drawing below is what resulted. LoftLife Magazine Board of Experts I love the illustrations by the talented Graham Smith from San Diego.  He illustrates the masthead and the Panel of Experts for LoftLife magazine. This month LoftLife is going to be on national newsstands: Borders, Barnes and Noble, as well as Hudson News.  So pick-up your copy and read their articles.  In the current Summer 2009 issue I particularly like: Travel/74  Allure of Amsterdam: Dutch Design Beyond Droog.

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So remember how tight that concept was of that one Charleston, SC artist , who decided to make a civil rights coloring book, then have actual kids color it, then turn those into paintings a couple of years ago? Yeah, well, turns out Glenn Ligon, one of the leading African American artists outside of Charleston had almost the exact same idea as early as 1999. That’s when Ligon was an artist-in-residence at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, where he studied the contemporary history of b

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Ruh Roh! Glenn Ligon Colored [sic] Coloring Book Paintings

Wendy McCarthy’s new show at the Anchor & Palette Gallery in Bay Head, New Jersey, just opened last Saturday… but I’ve already found my “dream gift” for Mother’s Day 2010.  Her newest painting in the Mer-Moments series is “Mer-Mom” and it just leaves me weepy.  I don’t know if you can see the detail in the photo at left, but it is an absolutely HUGE canvas.  The littlest mermaid in the center is sad because her sister ruined her sand castle.  It reminds me sooo much of London and Maddie at t

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Roxy’s Wish List for Mother’s Day 2010: Mer-Mom by Wendy McCarthy

A lot of American children from the past were introduced to a variety of arts as school children. It was typical for students to learn about music through singing and even playing a variety of band instruments in grammar school rather than by having private Cincinnati music lessons . They also used to be introduced to other arts like painting, drawing, sculpture from their art teachers as younger kids

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Why Budget Cuts Have Greatly Influenced The Number of Kids Getting Involved in The Arts

New details on id Software’s open-world shooter-cum-racer Rage has surfaced via this month’s issue of Game Informer, painting a picture unlike any previous id game. A whole host of details are revealed in the article, including the following features: An engineering system to craft devices including sentry turrets and RC car bombs, if you have the blueprints and parts

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Rage Details: Regenerating Health, Designed for Controllers, Car Upgrades, DVD vs. Blu-ray

Here is a picture of the artists at the Passport and Palette talk at Utrecht’s Chelsea store. The four artists shared their stories about the making of the series, their work and the art of plein air painting. Audience members were invited to join them the following day for an outdoor painting event in Central Park.You can find out more about the series and see more of their art on their website:  www.passportandpalette.com « Stretch Your Dollars With Utrecht Gesso This entry was posted

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ABC News’Sarah Tobianski reports: What started as a battle of words Monday when President Obama hit back at Republican Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina for saying health care could be Obama’s “Waterloo,” has now turned into a full blown war to rally support and money behind the president’s health care policies.Obama’s “Organizing for America” and MoveOn.org are ramping up their campaigns to curtail – what they say – are the same old Republican “scare tactics and outright lies to stall reform

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Inspired by Hula Seventy’s fabulous “38 things before I turn 39 list”.I have till October 16th… moo cardshave friends over for Korean style bbqgo to Asian MarketPortland Art Museum or something “art” in P-townswim in a lakeget a tattootake family to real Chinese foodmake freezer jamplant a gardensilk screen somethingplant a rhubarbape caves with familysubmit workshop proposalssomething for charityride 100 miles (a century)Museum of Contemporary Art La Jolla, CA (or Queen Califia’s mosaics)D.C,

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Suprematist Composition (1916) – Kazimir Severinovich Malevich On November 3, 2008 a work by Malevich entitled Suprematist Composition from 1916 set the world record for any Russian work of art and any work sold at auction for that year, selling at Sotheby’s in New York City for just over $60 million U.S. (far surpassing his previous record of $17 million set in 2000). – Source Hmmm, was it worth the astronomic price tag

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