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John Maeda is a world-renowned artist and graphic designer; he's also
a computer scientist and an electrical engineer. He's a recipient of
the National Design Award and has work in the permanent collection of
the Museum of Modern Art.
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It's not every day that a little girl can transform into Super Mario,
ride a flying bicycle, or let down her hair like Rapunzel (and then
have her sister swing from it). But when your dad's a photographer
and you're adorable, the magical becomes possible
According to The
Daily Mail, Jason Lee was inspired to start documenting his daughters'
growth when his mom was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 2006.
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Parisian-born Lise Sarfati has shown internationally and her
predominantly female subjects are utterly uneventful and hugely
momentous at once. Rose Gallery will show back to back venues, first
opening Feb.
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Many would agree that a child deserves to see the entire world and to
know that he or she can be anything that they want to be. This is
what we are taught in elementary school, and yet, the primary options
are always limited.
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Cindy Sherman is both one woman and an infinite number of real and
imagined women. She is not only one of the most influential
contemporary photographers but she is also her own makeup artist, hair
stylist and subject.
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DALLAS — The bulk of a man's childhood comic book collection
that included many of the most prized issues ever published has sold
for about $3.5 million.
Lon Allen, managing director of comics for
Dallas-based Heritage Auctions, says Billy Wright's 1939 copy of
Detective Comics No. Batman got the top bid at the New York City
auction Wednesday.
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If heights aren't your thing, than this epic freefall YouTube video is
probably not for you. Devin Graham has created what he calls the
world's largest rope swing, which boasts a whopping 130 foot drop, the
Sun reports.
Shot over two days in Bootlegger Canyon, Moab Utah, the
video features Graham's friends flying through the air, secured only
by rock climbing ropes.
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Just imagine you're sitting in your own living room and it's nice and
cozy and quiet, and across from you in two comfy chairs are Dion
DiMucci and Steven Van Zandt talking, for 90 minutes, about Dion's
long and amazing career. That's what it felt like last Sunday night
at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, as Van Zandt engaged DiMucci in
conversation about everything from the songs that excited him on the
radio as a child, to the time that Jerry Lieber called him "the best
white blues singer he had ever heard." This remarkable evening was
part of the 92Y's lecture series and is yet another reason why, if you
have some spare cash lying around, you should put it into an envelope
and send it their way.
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Do you suppose she's wearing underwear?" Lola whispered, her query
only loud enough for my ears.
The woman in question was a statuesque
Greek goddess of a gal, sitting bewitchingly on a stone outcropping
with her elbow poised on one shapely knee. Just below her, coming up
the path, strode a handsome youth with love, or at least lust, in his
eyes.
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Heggie, librettist Gene Scheer, director Leonard Foglia, set designer
Robert Brill, costume designer Jane Greenwood and the projection
designer Elaine J. McCarthy (who is responsible for much of the
visual razzle-dazzle) take no chances.
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Although it not the first time Michael O'Connor has been nominated for
an Academy Award for Best Costume Design, the Brit confesses he was
"like a child" when he heard the news that he was up again for his
work on "Jane Eyre." "It's a strange feeling," O'Connor says, "It
feels a little different [than the first time I was nominated], but
not too different. You donâ??t expect it, but then people say, 'I
knew this would happen.' Itâ??s quite an honor.
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The exhibition for The Queen's Diamond Jubilee held at the Victoria
and Albert Museum in London, illustrates a long period in the history
of England through the portraits of young Elizabeth realized by Cecil
Beaton from the '30s to the '60s.
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Everything had started years
earlier, when Elizabeth, Queen Consort of King George VI, appointed
Cecil Beaton to take portraits of the family and the very young
princesses, as Cecil Beaton recalled in his diaries. Besides the
pictures, letters, notes and invitations illustrate the long-lasting
friendships, which bonded the queen to her favorite photographer.
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We first checked in with filmmaker Lucas McNelly last July, just four
months into his project A Year Without Rent. For a year, McNelly has
been acting as the indie film world's embedded journalist, traveling
around the country and beyond and working for free on just about any
project that would have him.
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His role as an embedded journalist means that he sometimes
painted projects in a less than flattering light, which he thinks made
some filmmakers reluctant to bring him on board.