Pierre du Prey
Professor Emeritus & Director of ACT
Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada
pduprey@queensu.ca
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Nice subliminal graphics here. Purple haze colors to reference dope and secondly, look how the magazine title is arranged into two words split or spliffed by Hendrix’s hair. Do the missing letters INGST constitute an acronym for I’m not getting stoned today?
Neil Gaiman Addresses the University of the Arts Class of 2012 on Vimeo
On 18 May 2012 by lane With 0 Comments
- Art History, Canadian, off topic but memorable, Uncategorised
I don’t often use superlatives but this is a MUST WATCH for all students of the arts.
Neil Gaiman Addresses the University of the Arts Class of 2012 on Vimeo on Vimeo
via Neil Gaiman Addresses the University of the Arts Class of 2012 on Vimeo.
Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of the arts | Harvard Magazine May-Jun 2012
Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the evolution of culture
Research > Humanities, Science | Arts
via Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of the arts | Harvard Magazine May-Jun 2012.
So long and thanks for all the fish.
After mice, the second most intelligent species on Earth were the dolphins.The dolphins had long known of the impending demolition of Earth and had made many attempts to alert mankind to the danger…The last ever dolphins message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double backward somersault through a hoop whilst whistling “The Star-Spangled Banner,” but in fact the message was this: “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.”—Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Christo’s Over the River Given Go Ahead (finally)
The self-funded project dates back to 1992, with the vision of filling a valley river with a canopy of flowing silver fabric. After engineering tests, prototypes, environmental reports, many public meetings through the state, and heated debate in the community, the Fremont County Board of Commissioners has voted unanimously to issue a temporary use permit. The project is scheduled to be installed during the month of August 2015,
While in the lavatory on a domestic flight … Nina Katchadourian
While in the lavatory on a domestic flight in March 2010, I spontaneously put a tissue paper toilet cover seat cover over my head and took a picture in the mirror.
via Nina Katchadourian.
Seat Assignment: Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style
Photographs, digital images, video and sound (2010 and ongoing)
What if the old masters nudes were todays skinny models? | Art and design | The Guardian
What if the old masters nudes were todays skinny models?A website that reduces the waistlines and curves of nudes in famous paintings has something powerful to say about our modern ideals of beauty
via What if the old masters nudes were todays skinny models? | Art and design | The Guardian.
Direct link to Anna Utopia Gioddano;s site
ACT – Architecture in the Classical Tradition
On 26 March 2012 by lane With 0 Comments
- Abstracts, Art History, Monuments and Memory, Uncategorised
My good friend, colleague and inspired teacher’s work. Pierre was one of the presenters at our Monuments and Memory conference here at GPRC a couple of years ago.
It is a pleasure to personally welcome you to my web site, Architecture in the Classical Tradition. I invite you to use it, to enjoy it, and to send me your impressions. My purpose in creating this web site starting in 1996 was to share with you my reflections based on over forty years of teaching, photographing, studying, writing about, and helping to preserve our built environment.
The New French Hacker-Artist Underground
Thirty years ago, in the dead of night, a group of six Parisian teenagers pulled off what would prove to be a fateful theft. They met up at a small café near the Eiffel Tower to review their plans—again—before heading out into the dark. Lifting a grate from the street, they descended a ladder to a tunnel, an unlit concrete passageway carrying a cable off into the void. They followed the cable to its source: the basement of the ministry of telecommunications. Horizontal bars blocked their way, but the skinny teens all managed to wedge themselves through and ascend to the building’s ground floor. There they found three key rings in the security office and a logbook indicating that the guards were on their rounds.
The New French Hacker-Artist Underground | Wired Magazine | Wired.com.