Sugar Plums In A Chinese Bowl



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Ian Martin
20 cm x 20 cm
acrylic on board ₤450

IAN MASTIN was born in Leicestershire in 1949. His family subsequently emigrated to Australia and he grew up in Queensland. He had no involvement with art during his school days and it was only in the mid 1980s that he began to sketch for recreation. He had an obvious gift and was invited to exhibit his work in a Brisbane gallery where he first experienced success. In 1991, he returned with his family to Britain and settled in East Lothian. Remarkably, it was here that he picked up a paintbrush for the first time and after a year of experimentation in fundamental techniques, he committed himself to painting full time. Since then he has continued to develop his understanding of art, choosing to follow a path of self discovery rather than copy the views of others in determining what is "right". He has chosen to concentrate on Still Life and writes that his aim in all his work is simple but never easy - "to apprehend the indefinable quality in a painting that both breathes life and gives pause for reflection."

In 2000, Ian and his wife returned to Australia but he continues his association with Tolquhon Gallery shipping work over for exhibitions.


http://www.tolquhon-gallery.co.uk/Exhibitions/summer%20exhibition%2004.htm

Teahouse Trouble at INTERNET ARCHIVE

The Internet Archive is working to prevent the Internet — a new medium with major historical significance — and other "born-digital" materials from disappearing into the past. Collaborating with institutions including the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian, Internet Archive is working to preserve a record for generations to come.

The Internet Archive is opening its collections to researchers, historians, and scholars.


Teahouse Trouble (2004)
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Director/Producer: Dirk Boettcher
Production Company: Boettcher Productions
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Contact Information: www.boettcher-productions.de
Run time: 01:55

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NASA Tells Earth's Story


Everyone knows that NASA studies space; fewer people know that NASA also studies Earth. Since the agency’s creation almost 50 years ago, NASA has been a world leader in space-based studies of our home planet. Our mission has always been to explore, to discover, and to understand the world in which we live from the unique vantage point of space, and to share our newly gained perspectives with the public. That spirit of sharing remains true today as NASA operates 18 of the most advanced Earth-observing satellites ever built, helping scientists make some of the most detailed observations ever made of our world.




The Blue Marble: Next Generation is a series of images that show the color of the Earth’s surface for each month of 2004 at very high resolution (500 meters/pixel) at a global scale. This image shows South America from September 2004. (NASA image courtesy Reto Stöckli and Robert Simmon)


Earth scientists around the world use NASA satellite imagery to better understand the causes and effects of natural hazards. The goal in sharing these images is to help people visualize where and when natural hazards occur, and to help mitigate their effects.

NASA TV provides real-time coverage of agency activities and missions as well as resource video to the news media, and educational programming to teachers, students and the general public.

Click the image to launch the website or watch NASA in action by clicking the link below.

+ Watch NASA TV live with RealPlayer (Captioned)

Success in Spelling--Chapter 4

It's All Relative

SIDELIGHTS ON RELATIVITY
By Albert Einstein

ETHER AND THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY
An Address delivered on May 5th, 1920, in the University of Leyden

...we may say that according to the general theory of relativity space is endowed with physical qualities; in this sense, therefore, there exists an ether. According to the general theory of relativity space without ether is unthinkable; for in such space there not only would be no propagation of light, but also no possibility of existence for standards of space and time (measuring-rods and clocks), nor therefore any space-time intervals in the physical sense. But this ether may not be thought of as endowed with the quality characteristic of ponderable media, as consisting of parts which may be tracked through time. The idea of motion may not be applied to it.


GEOMETRY AND EXPERIENCE
An expanded form of an Address to the Prussian Academy of Sciences
in Berlin on January 27th, 1921.


...the question whether the universe is spatially finite or not seems to me decidedly a pregnant question in the sense of practical geometry. I do not even consider it impossible that this question will be answered before long by astronomy. Let us call to mind what the general theory of relativity teaches in this respect. It offers two possibilities:

1. The universe is spatially infinite.
This can be so only if the average spatial density of the matter in universal space, concentrated in the stars, vanishes, i.e. if the ratio of the total mass of the stars to the magnitude of the space through which they are scattered approximates indefinitely to the value zero when the spaces taken into consideration are constantly greater and greater.

2. The universe is spatially finite.
This must be so, if there is a mean density of the ponderable matter in universal space differing from zero. The smaller that mean density, the greater is the volume of universal space.

PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SIDELIGHTS ON RELATIVITY
This file is named slrtv10.txt or slrtv10.zip
Produced by David Starner, William Fishburne
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.


More on Einstein

Click the picture to visit NOVA's profile of the man with the BIG IDEA.







Even more?

Click the picture below to visit the official homepage of the Albert Einstein Archives.




Success in Spelling--Chapter 3
















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Download the Sheet Music for Mozart's Sonata in A Major.

Success in Spelling--Chapter 2

Super Girls

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PROVERBIAL WISDOM


World English Bible selections.
(Click each scripture to listen--mp3 format)


Proverbs 9:1-18
Verse 1: Wisdom has built her house...

Proverbs 31:1-31
Verse 10: Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

Success in Spelling--Chapter 1

















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FREE WORDS


COSTUMES WELL-LIT CHANGING
RISING REST LIFTED FACE MASK ROLE FAIR-SKINNED CHILD
RED FLUSH SKIN KABUKI GLOSS EVER-SINCE IN-THOSE
AND-ALWAYS IF-WE-KNEW I-SUPPOSE CONSIST PAIR-OF
HANDS RANK FLAT BOARD HIPS BUTTOCKS ASS PHYSIQUE
STICK SUBSTANCE POLE PRAISE HIDDEN CONCEALING
PATINA BURNISH UNSANITARY PITCH TRANSPARENT FEET
TOES TOENAIL CLIPPING GASLIGHT OFFENDS COAT BELOW
PURE WAVERING TANGIBLE SMALL FOG ARISTOCRAT ASHEN
SOAKED ELECTRIC TENFOLD COLLAR FOLDS WASTE INNS
HOTELS TRAINS CANCELED REFRESH BLAZE BALLS HOT
DEVOID RED PILLARS MOSAIC IRAQI OIL-FIRES SAKE
SALMON LEAF PERSIMMON MOISTURE BITE-SIZE BEGIN ANDSO-
AS THE-SAME-IS-TRUE-OF WHENEVER FAR-OFF PILLOW
BEDDING GRASS BOWL STILL CONTEMPLATION STANCE
SUBSTANCE COLOR REVEALED ANYONE AS-I TRADITIONAL
CAMPHOR INDULGE ENTERTAIN FLOWER-BOMBS HORSE MARE
GELDING STALLION RIDE CANTER TROT SADDLE SNUFFLE
WITHERS GREETS LAUGHS




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THE FREE WORDS PROJECT

FREE WORDS is a book which belongs to whoever finds it. 3000 copies have been produced by artist Sal Randolph
and are being distributed free worldwide. The books are placed on the shelves of bookstores and libraries creating an art situation that infiltrates public and commercial space.

A Thousand Words?


(click the illustration to visit the website)

CONTACT
le thô
Thomas Cadène, lives and works in Paris

mail :: contact@lethorama.com

tel :: +33 (0)6 63 06 76 71
Red Cloak loves stories. So I guess it's no surprise to learn that Red Cloak especially likes real life stories.


This American Life

"Each week we choose a theme and put together different kinds of stories on that theme. We're not really formatted like other radio shows at all. Instead, we do these stories that are like movies for radio. There are people in dramatic situations where things happen to them.

There are funny moments and emotional moments and – hopefully – moments where the people in the story say interesting, surprising things about it all. It has to be surprising. It has to be fun. There are shows on public radio with no sense of fun or surprise and we hate those shows."



The Apology Project
The Apology Line began as an art project by Allan Bridge in 1980 which he ran until his untimely death in 1995. The project consists of over 1,000 cassette tapes filled with confessions and people’s innermost thoughts and feelings, which were recorded over the telephone during this fifteen year period.

Over the course of the project, the Apology line received more than ten thousand confessions. Transcripts of a few calls appear on the website or click here to listen to a segment on This American Life."




Transom.org is an experiment in channeling new work and voices to public radio through the Internet, for discussing that work, and encouraging more.



"StoryCorps is a national project to instruct and inspire people to record each others' stories in sound.

We've tried to make the experience as simple as possible. And since we want to make sure your story lives on for generations to come, we'll also add your interview to the StoryCorps Archive, housed at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, which we hope will become nothing less than an oral history of America.

To us, StoryCorps celebrates our shared humanity and collective identity. It captures and defines the stories that bond us. We've found that the process of interviewing a friend, neighbor, or family member can have a profound impact on both the interviewer and interviewee. We've seen people change, friendships grow, families walk away feeling closer, understanding each other better. Listening, after all, is an act of love."

These projects and the stories produced are my inspiration. Just click the logo to visit the websites. You will find detailed information, streaming audio and, so much more.

Have a pleasant, safe and, fulfilling holiday.

Happy Listening!

100 Words--A Writing Project

Red Cloak reads three selections from 100 Words --A Writing Project

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The selections are printed below (in the order in which they were read) because this cold lingers and the presentation is a little rough. Please click the member's name for the full month of entries.

Posted by threebee

April 6, 2005
It occurs to me that no one really
knows me. I suppose that's true of everyone-- there's only so much of ourselves
that can be conveyed to another.

Does everyone feel this loneliness? I
won't call it desperate; it's simply hopeless.

I don't aspire to hope
that anyone will ever 'get me' -- facets of me, perhaps, but not much more.

To you, I am only the simulation that resides in your head; however, I
can't be angry because that's all you are to me.

I pretend that you
won't reject me if you understand me. I want to feel safe.


April 7, 2005
No words want to come this
evening. I'm so tired, and not at all myself. Things are askew lately, and I
don't have the energy nor the wherewithal to set them sraight. So I sit in it,
feeling more numb than I'd like to admit. I know better; you have to feel deeply
or not at all.

I kind of feel like I'm on the edge of self-destructing,
but I can't because there are two beautiful boys asleep in the other room who
need their mommy. I can't because there are too many things I still want to do
here.

April 5, 2005
One of my biggest faults is
getting overwhelmed too easily. I take on too many tasks (always a yes-girl from
day one) and then start to crumble under the weight of it all. The walls start
closing in; I feel panicky, short of breath, anxious, angry, avoidant and
incompetent. It's not a happy place to reside. After seeing this same pattern
again and again, you'd think I'd stop doing this to myself. That, or just skip
straight ahead to the "whew, I'm done" stage and bypass the trauma of the
inevitible panic attack. I always finish in the end. Always.


Until tomorrow...Happy Reading.

The Wouldbegoods

The Wouldbegoods
by E. Nesbit
Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers

This reading may sound a little rough--I am getting over a cold.

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After listening to the audio, please click the title to download a complete copy of this story. You may also click on the author's name to find more information at wikipedia.org.
This is the first in a variety of readings. We plan to feature works from many genres and many sources.
Happy reading!

What's It All About?

I love stories. I love writing stories. I love reading stories. I love having stories read to me. I love reading stories aloud.

That's what this blog is all about: stories.


STORIES come in many forms. Some will be written. Some will be read. Some will be sung. Some will be visualized.

Stories. I love them. I hope you do, too.


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