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Silent Monks Sing
Merry Christmas! Here’s an appropriate video that hopefully will bring laughter and joy in the spirit of the season and Kick Start your weekend. Check Monday’s upcoming post for a few more scenes from the blizzard that hit us early last week and stranded my son in the Nashville airport. Surprisingly, my husband was able to make it back from Copenhagen. I later learned that they were only allowing international flights to land. My older son will be back by the time of this post and fortunately we’ll have our family together for Christmas. That’s a very good gift right there. As I was clearing out stuff I ran across…
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Liu Bolin the Invisible Chinese Artist
Liu Bolin is quite literally the invisible man in that he paints himself into his photo compositions and you have to look hard in some case, like the second to last photo, to find him. I thought this was a phenomenal new way to view trompe l’oeil. His work is in protest against the Chinese government, who shut down his studio in 2005 when the area with people’s homes was bulldozed to make ready for the Olympic Games. His work represents not fitting into the norm. I received this in an email so do not have a credit for all the photos but here is a resource. I’ve updated the…
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Laptop Art
I’m a sucker for these trompe l’oeil laptop skins. I would love to carry around my box of pastels without getting messy.
