Congratulations and good wishes to the mysterious eyes who have everything — including me!

Congratulations and good wishes to the loving girl who has everything — including me! 


Happy hellos on happy birthdays




“She is like a butterfly, 
Beautiful to look at 
But hard to catch even on Sunday mornings ;-).” 
― Imrichesque landscapes of Malchken 5:15 backwards

Is It Possible To Take The Ethnic Stereotypes Out Of ‘La Bayadère’? Ángel Corella Is Trying

This Imperial Russian tale of an Indian temple dancer may be the most egregious collection of outdated orientalist caricatures in the entire ballet canon. But it remains popular, and many dancers love it themselves. In developing his new version of the work for Pennsylvania Ballet, Corella has engaged Final Bow for Yellowface co-founder Phil Chan and a Kathak specialist from Swarthmore College. – The Philadelphia Inquirer

How much - how little - is within our power

HAPPY HELLO

I’m Lisa Pollock, Artist, Wife, Mum and Creator of Art From The Heart. We are a small Gold Coast business, creating heartfelt designed decorative pieces.

It is my wish that through my artwork I may in some small way inspire others to believe in the magic of their dreams and to never ever give up.

Each affirmation is created from my heart in the hope of bringing a little more peace, love, gratitude and laughter into our crazy busy worlds.

Always remember… life’s too short, too amazing and too beautiful not to believe in the magic that lies within you. Just go for it!

I thank you all for your beautiful support, belief and being part of my dream. Without each and every one of you it would not be possible… I am deeply touched and so very grateful.

From my heart to yours, I wish you an amazing life’s journey.

                                          — Emily Dickinson 

The New York Times – The latest Apple and Google models have software that automatically enhances your photos, but you can also take control to get your perfect shot

JUDITH WHITE. Whatever happened to Whitlam’s vision for the arts?

In 1972 Gough Whitlam’s election campaign promised “to promote a standard of excellence in the arts, to widen access to, and the understanding and application of, the arts in the community generally, to help establish and express an Australian identity through the arts and to promote an awareness of Australian culture abroad”.

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For First Time, Two Women Win Pritzker Prize, Architecture’s Nobel

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, principals of Grafton Architecture in Dublin, have already racked up some impressive awards in recent years: the World Architecture Festival’s World Building of the Year (for the Università Luigi Bocconi’s school of economics in Milan), the RIBA International Prize (for UTEC in Lima), and this year’s RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture; they also curated the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. – The Guardian

 

This might be the goofiest thing you'll see all day: a tongue-singing choir

Mantel says her weighty new novel has all 'the big important things'

Sex, power, politics, forgery and lies: Eight years later, Hillary Mantel finishes 863 pages in her acclaimed trilogy about Henry VIII's fixer, Thomas Cromwell.

Archivists Are Uploading Hundreds of Random VHS Tapes to the Internet

Vice – “An organization called Vista Group recently uploaded dozens of VHS and cassette tapes from the 90s and early 2000s to the Internet Archive, and the content within is worth a retro-nostalgia trip back to a simpler, weirder, more wavy time. Vista Group uploaded nearly 200 in the last two months, most of which were uploaded on January 5—a rate noticeably higher than their usual 50-70 per month. They’re being added to the VHS Vault, an Internet Archive collection of more than 17,500 VHS scans. Most of the videos are instructional or documentary films, like workout or yoga videos or tutorials on installing vinyl flooring or training a dog. There are also a few audio only cassettes in this most recent batch, like “Is It Worth Dying For?,” based on Dr. Robert S. Eliot’s breakthrough book on stress management…”

A Review Essay of Escape From Rome

Koyama, Mark, A Review Essay of Escape From Rome (February 25, 2020). Accepted for Publication in The Journal of Economic Literature. Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3544313  – “This essay reviews Escape from Rome by Walter Scheidel. It examines the argument that Europe’s persistent fragmentation following the collapse of the Rome empire is responsible for the origins of the modern world. First, I consider Scheidel’s argument that the rise of Rome at the end of the first millennium BCE was relatively overdetermined, but that once Rome fell, it was highly unlikely for any subsequent empire to dominate Europe. Second, I examine the institutional consequences of this divergence in state-building. Finally, I reflect on the role of counterfactuals in history.”