Category: art
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The Anglo-Belgian Memorial, also known as Belgian Refugees Memorial, is a war memorial on Victoria Embankment in London, opposite Cleopatra’s Needle. It was a gift from Belgium, as a mark of thanks for assistance given by the UK during the First World War, and in particular for sheltering thousands of Belgian refugees who fled from…
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Light Cycles
The trailer of Light Cycles, a movie by Mike Gamble showing night riding wih riders useing LED lights to trace out paths as they shred trails in the Pacific Northwest of America.
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Marino Waltz
The Marino Waltz was written by John Sheahan, of The Dubliners.
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Yes minister at 40
You’d have gotten a kick out of this, Dad. Tonight the BFI had a special event for the 40th birthday of Yes Minister. They of had a screening of Yes Minister episode “Party Games” – in which Jim Hacker decides to run for leader of the party and makes a European issue part of his…
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Is that a Hockney?
Sitting in St. Pancras Station, waiting for the Eurostar. Drinking a hot chocolate (lumps of cocoa dropped into hot milk). Woman walks passed as I dreedle the last chocolate into the milk. “Very nice, is that a Hockney”, she says.
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Me as a unicorn
Before Christmas, while we were having lunch in a lovely Greek restaurant, my nephews and niece imagined me as a 🦄. I particularly appreciate the beard and sparkles.
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Afloat, Brighton torus
Title: Afloat Location: Groyne on seafront, near to the Palace Pier Artist: Hamish Black Date: 1998 ‘Afloat’ is a huge circular donut shaped globe cast in bronze. Situated at the seaward end of the groyne, its centre at eye level allows a view of our world through the sculpture. The donut or torus (a shape…
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Kojon Prieto – A mi me gusta el marisco (Bilbainada)
Los pimientos del piquillo ¡qué pimientos!, las alubias de Sangüesa y la trucha con jamón, cogollicos de Tudela, la cuajada de la abuela y el cordero al chilindrón. ¡Qué bien me sienta el marisco! Con champán, mucho mejor. Me río yo de Jalisco, de mi tierra no me voy. Las cerecicas de Echauri ¡qué…
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Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima is an iconic photograph of six United States Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the final stages of the Pacific War. The photograph, taken by Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press on February 23, 1945 — excerpt from Wikipedia page
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Aliens and brothers
ALIEN By David Breuer-Weil Height: 6m (19’ 8”) An extension of the ‘Visitor’ series, Alien is a vast 6m tall work depicting a humanoid figure crash landed in the earth. It’s circling legs suggest that this a more permanent development as the figure struggles to free itself from the ground. “I have always been fascinated…
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Valencia: Internet Freedom Festival Day 5
La Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Valencia. #InternetFreedomFestival
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Valencia: Internet Freedom Festival Day 4
Valencia, por la noche. La fallas #InternetFreedomFestival
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Le fils de l’homme
The Son of Man (French: Le fils de l’homme) is a 1964 painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. It is perhaps his most well-known artwork. Magritte painted it as a self-portrait. The painting consists of a man in an overcoat and a bowler hat standing in front of a low wall, beyond…
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The Canal People
Location: On Regent’s Canal between Mile End Road Lock and Johnson Lock.
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The mystery of Picasso (1956) trailer
The trailer for Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1956 documentary “The Mystery of Picasso” (1956) ((Open Culture website and article)) which is available on Amazon ((DVD on Amazon)).
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Listen here sonny…..
The guerrilla graffiti artist Banksy is believed to be behind an artwork which has appeared on the side of a house in Cheltenham. The Gloucestershire Echo reported that the owner of the house, Karren Smith, 48, said she saw men packing a white tarpaulin into a van at about 7.30am on Sunday. She said: ‘They…
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Pete Seeger, RIP.
Pete Seeger, activist, singer, songwriter died today aged 94. Ar dheis Dé go Raibh a Anam. Pete Seeger singing “I’m gonna be an engineer”, a song written by his sister Peggy.
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Vhils work, Truman Brewery
Wonderful. Chiseled into the plaster and bricks. This is apparently the work of Vhils, a Portuguese graffiti/street artist Alexandre Farto. “He gained prominence when his work of a face carved into a wall appeared alongside a picture by street artist Banksy at the Cans Festival in London in 2008. A photograph of him creating the…