Monthly Archives: August 2011
Christian Iconography
Learn how to identify the saints in medieval and renaissance art.
Read the stories that the paintings refer to.
Find out the "why" behind traditional elements in paintings of scriptural events.
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Example: if you’re curious about a picture of a saint shown with a tower, just enter "tower" into the search field (without the quotation marks). You’ll learn she is St. Barbara, and you can read about her, view similar images, and follow a link to the medieval legend about her.
Pablo Delgado’s miniature street art and street scenes in London
Street artist Pablo Delgado continues to produce more and more tiny street art scenes across London. Over the past few weeks Street Art London has been scouring the streets for as many as we could find. In this latest collection, we also present some of his earlier pieces that we missed the first time round. Some of these now have a lovely weathered look which makes them seem even more at home on the street. This time we have included some clues as to location to help you hunt them down yourselves…
via Pablo Delgado’s miniature street art and street scenes in London.
The Antics Roadshow – The Antics Roadshow – Channel 4
An hour-long special made by Banksy charting the history of behaving badly in public, from anarchists and activists to attention seeking eccentrics.
Contributors include Michael Fagan talking about breaking into the Queen’s bedroom: ‘I looked into her eyes, they were dark’; and Noel Godin, who pioneered attacking celebrities with custard pies: ‘Instead of a bullet I give them a cake’.
Explaining his reasoning behind the show, Banksy said: ‘Basically I just thought it was a good name for a TV programme and I’ve been working back from there’.
How youth-led revolts shook elites around the world | World news | The Guardian
Elites have yet to grasp that hunger for meaningful grassroots change and the desire to reclaim agency over a future that appears depressingly predetermined, be it under the crony capitalism and police brutality of Middle Eastern despots or the more sanitised platter of unemployment and austerity being handed down by governments in the west.
via How youth-led revolts shook elites around the world | World news | The Guardian.
Percolator – The Chronicle of Higher Education
The way you gain people’s trust is to earn it over time by repeatedly proving that you deserve it. That, or grow a beard.A recent study in the Journal of Marketing Communications found that men with beards were deemed more credible than those who were clean-shaven. The study showed participants pictures of men endorsing certain products. In some photos, the men were clean-shaven. In others, the same men had beards. Participants thought the men with beards had greater expertise and were significantly more trustworthy when they were endorsing products like cell phones and toothpaste.But, oddly, men with beards were slightly less effective than smooth-cheeked fellows in underwear advertisements. Apparently we don’t want Zach Galifianakis selling us boxers.
BETWEEN THE NAVEL AND THE KNEES | Madame Pickwick Art Blog
BETWEEN THE NAVEL AND THE KNEES | Madame Pickwick Art Blog.
There is an ongoing paranoia, a dread that high culture will be corrupted if new cultural manifestations will be permitted to enter the gene pool- even in the shallow end, ”no jews, negroes and dogs” could be permitted to question the dominance of the mentality of precious object in a gilted frame that separated the cultures through monetary exclusiveness.
Riot anyone?
social inequality derives from the distinction between the haves and the have-nots, and the maintaining of the hierarchy is fundamental in safeguarding status as Thorstein Veblen explained. In our present advertising filled and brand driven world, having luxury objects seems more intensely desired and equally resented than at any other time. Hence, we have this growing anger driven by absence of possession and an equal impulse to obliterate what you can’t. Perhaps looting and burning are based on identical impulses that seek to gratify similar desires. For these have-not dysfunctional shoppers not buying, not participating in the consumer game is a kind of open wound permeating an identity of zero self-esteem and the stigma of marginalization. In a roundabout way its equated with an absence of individual dignity and of meaning in their lives.
via London calling : just leave a message | Madame Pickwick Art Blog.
london : read them the riot act? | Madame Pickwick Art Blog
Brian Alexander:Psychologist and social scientist Dacher Keltner says the rich really are different, and not in a good way: Their life experience makes them less empathetic, less altruistic, and generally more selfish.In fact, he says, the philosophical battle over economics, taxes, debt ceilings and defaults that are now roiling the stock market is partly rooted in an upper class “ideology of self-interest.”“We have now done 12 separate studies measuring empathy in every way imaginable, social behavior in every way, and some work on compassion and it’s the same story,” he said. “Lower class people just show more empathy, more prosocial behavior, more compassion, no matter how you look at it.” Read More:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44084236/ns/health-behavior/t/rich-are-different-not-good-way-studies-suggest/?fb_ref=.TkLUSw51rS5.like%3B.TkK415dmJdV.like&fb_source=home_oneline#.TkXrEIJJLfJ
via london : read them the riot act? | Madame Pickwick Art Blog.