A Collection of Landscapes

Landscape comprises the visible features of an area of land, including physical elements such as landforms, living elements of flora and fauna, abstract elements such as lighting and weather conditions, and human elements, for instance human activity or the built environment.

[edit] Etymology

The word landscape comes from the Dutch word landschap, from land (directly equivalent to the English word land) and the suffix -schap, corresponding to the English suffix "-ship".

Landscape, first recorded in 1598, was borrowed as a painters' term from Dutch during the 16th century, when Dutch artists were on the verge of becoming masters of the landscape genre. The Dutch word landschap had earlier meant simply 'region, tract of land' but had acquired the artistic sense, which it brought over into English, of 'a picture depicting scenery on land'.

Polish Riot Police Try New Mindf*ck Technique

"Polish Riot Police Try New Mindf*ck Technique"

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KATOWICE, Poland (AP) -- A Polish court on Tuesday acquitted 22 former riot police

The verdict in the southern city of Katowice ended a two-year trial, Poland's second attempt to convict the officers for their role in the most deadly incident of bloodshed during the 18-month crackdown.

Judge Aleksandra Rotkiel said prosecutors failed to provide ``indisputable proof.''

Chief prosecutor Piotr Skrzynecki said he would appeal.

It was another setback in a decade-long ...

Polish riot police used batons to break up a protest by nurses in Warsaw on Wednesday, escalating an already bitter stand-off between the conservative government and health workers demanding better pay. charged with gunning down striking miners during the old communist regime's 1981 martial-law crackdown on the Solidarity movement.

Hundreds of hospitals have been affected by strikes for six weeks. Strikers are also calling for reform of the creaking state health service and threaten to join the exodus of Polish workers to Western Europe if their demands are not met. Police forced several dozen protesters, mostly women, off a street in front of Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski's office, where they had camped in tents overnight. A police spokesman said minimum force was used to clear the illegal protest.

"They treated us like hooligans in a stadium," said Izabella Szczepaniak, president of the Association of Nurses and Midwives. "They pressed us against the barriers so hard we could hardly breathe ... police should not treat health workers like criminals."

Protest leaders said several nurses had been roughed up.

On Tuesday, several thousand doctors and nurses marched through Warsaw, waving signs reading: "Protest of white slaves" and "We want a decent wage".

The prime minister, who met union representatives on Tuesday, has offered pay rises of 15 percent per year over the coming three years, but protesters say wages were low to start with and those for other professions are rising faster.

A wave of young Poles heading west since Poland joined the European Union in 2004 has already created bottlenecks in other professions and that could easily spill over to healthcare. Polish doctors and nurses earn salaries way below counterparts in Western Europe.

Kaczynski has said he is ready to negotiate but would not deviate from "economic realities". Polish wages rose almost 9 percent year-on-year in May, raising expectations that interest rates would go up again soon.

Opposition leaders said parliament should investigate the police action against the protesters.

"Sending police at nurses is not the way to solve this conflict," said Donald Tusk, comparing it with the way armed riot police dealt with protestors under the communist regime.

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Momento Mori by Olli Moss

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I Love Dust

28 Apr

ILD PRINTS

Brand new ilovedust prints! We were invited down to Portsmouth University to give a talk on branding and before we knew it we ended up in the print room, covered in paint, bashing out these lovely prints. Limited to 30 prints, these were based on food and most were given away to friends in New York...

link: http://ilovedust.com/

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16 Jun

THE RIDE JOURNAL - NEW!!!

‘The Ride’ is brand new bicycle magazine which is out next week. We were asked to contribute with a couple of illustrations and if your in London next Tuesday 24th they are having a few beers and a little launch party in The Rugby Tavern pub.

Official site coming soon: www.theridejournal.com

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Duster: Paris Street Art

We hit the road last Sunday from Burgundy en route to Carcassonne in the south of France. We took a little detour to check out the Le Viaduc de Millau / Millau Viaduct, which was open to the public in 2005. I thought I’d share some photos.

To cross the viaduct you must pay a toll, which is higher during the summer! The summer rate is: 7.40 euros ($11.62) - and the non-summer rate is 5.60 euros ($8.79).

The actual bridge crossing is supported by the cables attached to the top of each tower, which is why, I supposed, they call it a “Cable-Stayed Bridge.” Probably the most common view of the viaduct is from this viewpoint (above).

The bridge connects the autoroute from Paris to Beziers at the point where it is bisected by the Tarn River, which runs through a wide gorge between two plateaus.

The Millau Viaduct took 4 years to build. It stands 280 meters (919 ft) tall (which is higher than the Eiffel Tower and is considered the highest bridge in the world) - and is 2.5 kilometers long (1.55 miles). It cost €394 million ($619 million) to construct.

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Leslie Grimes (affectionately known as Grimey)

Two Competitors in the Tourist Trophy Race Fight It out Amid the Hills of the Isle of Man

Leslie Grimes was born in 1898. Went to Kingston Art School and later studied in Paris. He joined the army in 1915 though under age and was a 'runner' on the Somme Campaign. He then transferred to the RFC. In the 20's he was a graphic Artist.. Clients included Douglas Motorbikes, MG Cars and the LCC. He also covered Brooklands and the racing circuit doing illustrations for Motorcycle Magazine. He also raced as a sidecar passenger. He married Nancy MacDonnel Ewen and had 6 sons and a daughter. In 1927 he succeeded David Low as political cartoonist for the 'Star' and in 1938 began his series of 'All My Own Work' which ran until his retirement in 1952. His paintings were exhibited at the RA. In the early '50's he went to a then almost unheard of island called Ibiza and with a wonderful studio high up in the Old Town he spent his time painting. He died in London in 1983

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The man with the iron masks

Graffiti artist Neck Face opens his first-ever New York solo show tonight, and his timing (as in Halloween) couldn't be more appropriate. After all, he has already tagged his bloodthirsty goth creatures—beloved by collectors like Beck—from New York to Tokyo, and the exhibit includes eerie metal masks (above), a toddler-sized pair of witch's hands, and sculpted neon-yellow devils. And then there's the show's title and theme: Closed Casket, which is loosely based around the idea of Satan. "I'm inspired by the dark, the blackness of the night, the things you ain't supposed to laugh at, the evil in the world today," he says. (Cue Vincent Price chuckle here.) But consider yourself warned: If you plan on going to tonight's opening, costume is required.

Also, Londonist claims to have "unmasked" Banksy, but we're not convinced that blurry, tilted-angle shots taken from a distance really count.
Closed Casket, Oct. 31-Nov. 24, Dactyl Foundation, 64 Grand St., (212) 696-7800, dactyl.org. RSVP for the opening to rsvp@dactyl.org

JONATHAN DURBIN

Photo: Neck Face/Courtesy of Dactyl Foundation

11:26 AM, October 31, 2007
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Tangentjude
4:23:08 PM on
11/05/07

The face only a mother could love!

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Subway - Prog Rock

When American Born singer/songwriter Irvin Mowrey came to London in the early 70’s “to check the scene out”, he ended up playing in the subway to pay his rent, and soon met a classically-trained local violinist named Malcolm Watson, fresh from concerts in Abidjan (Ivory Coast) with a trio. They jammed in the subway and started adapting Mowrey’s songs to a duo format. The duo’s sound was rather unusual, mixing an acoustic eerie violin with a 12-string guitar, mixed with a great voice and intriguing lyrics. They returned to the subway to play out the three songs and a radio-producer walked by and proposed them a live appearance on the radio. After that, the duo went to the Borders (next to Scotland) for a week and turned up with over 90 minutes worth of material, worked from existing songs from Mowrey.

Visa problems made that Mowrey had to leave England for France (Daevid Allen anyone?) and headed for Paris, finding an open stage show and clinching a gig two weeks later. Calling Watson to the rescue, the duo practiced in the Paris subway (Watson making more cash by playing classical music interludes between the duo’s repertoire), and wouldn’t you know it, a record producer walked by and immediately offered to record them in one of Paris’s best studios. The duo then naturally called themselves Subway and after recording toured with SupertrampBahendel and a few radio shows before disappearing, later briefly resurging as Busker.

Released in 72 on the Epic label with only 200 copies pressed, it seems that most were destroyed once the unsold copies were returned to the label. This made Subway’s only record one of acid-folk’s most sought-after rarity.

Both musicians now live in the USA, Watson playing in a jazzy/new age duo and Mowrey works for a computer game company and still writes the odd song. Musically the group/duo sounds like a quiet Comus, Jan Dukes De Grey’s debut album, Mormos’ first album (as well) and Spirogyra’s quiet moments. and

(source: progarchives.com)

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Lee Moyer

Inspired

by the 20th century's great illustrators and the glories of Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Arts & Crafts, propaganda art and the Pre-Raphaelites, Lee tailors his work to the specific needs and tastes

of his clientele. He excels

in art direction, design, collaboration, and illustration - whether classical, vintage, modern, or post-modern.

Embracing digital media in 1989, Lee swiftly learned to mix traditional and digital painting seamlessly. He spent a decade as a Docent & Naturalist Illustrator at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. The New York Times nominated his work for a Webby in 1999.

He lives in Portland, Oregon with his talented photographer wife Annaliese and their dog Lego. He also designs games, sculpts, writes, performs, and plays a mean game of Scrabble.

Found Here: http://thelittlechimpsociety.com/theape/lcs-interview-lee-moyer/

Astronomy Picture of the Day | mcnaught3_kemppainen

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

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Lorenzo Geiger

Hello world! This is the website of the Swiss typographicdesigner Lorenzo Geiger. Have a look at my werkschau which consists in web design and printed matter with a range from corporate identities, record covers, editorial design and knowledge visualization as well as the design of typefaces.

Don’t hesitate to contact me in case of any questions and feel free to sign-up for news. I'm pleased to meet you!

Don't ask people for their number if you know you wont call them anyway. Don't be afraid of the dark. Don't be afraid of dancing spontaneously in environments that are not normally used for dancing. Don't be afraid to dance in clubs where no-one else is dancing. Don't be afraid at all. Don't be ashamed of being proud of your country of origin. Don't be intimidated by bright colors. Don't be politically correct. Don't be sarcastic. Don't be scared of change. Don't be so van about bicycle helmets. Don't bite your nails. Don't buy enormous rounds of drinks for people you don't know at all. Don't buy music through the iTunes music store unless you are sure you will not ever have the urge to play it at party. Don't stop buying CDs. Don't buy new clothes that are exactly the same as the clothes you bought six months ago. Don't buy things on credit except in emergencies. Don't cry for me Argentina. Don't dodge pay the fare. Don't drink as much as last year. Don't drink beer at home. Don't drive an ugly car. Don't drive drunk. Don't talk on the phone when driving. Don't smoke in the car whilst talking on the phone whilst driving. Don't forget that fiction is not real. Don't forget to do what you told everyone you were going to. Don't forget to floss and rinse with a fluoride based mouthwash at least twice a day. Don't generalize. Don't get angry with cyclists. Don't get into fights. Don't get upset that everyone is into apple now and there aren't that many windows users left to argue with. Don't go out with wet hair. Don't ignore important global issues. Don't just take digital photos. Don't lie out in the sun until you get burnt. Don't listen to a word anyone says about your look. Don't listen to In- and Out rankings. Don't do In- and Out rankings. Don't make excuses. Don't miss. Don't over think things. Don't overdo the color coordination thing. Don't let your electronic equipment on standby. Don't pee in public. Don't really like music. Don't ride a bike at night without lights. Don't run over pedestrians. Don't be rude to people on the phone. Don't be rude at all. Don't run with scissors. Don't save. Don't say oh my god. Don't say yes if you mean no. Don't say no if you mean yes. Don't say yes that easy. Don't waste time. Don't forget eating breakfast before you boot your computer. Don't be late. Don't forget to breathe. Don't get addicted to TV series. Don't eat that much pasta. Don't stay up late during the week. Don't smoke as much as last year. Don't smoke the whole cigarette. Don't sneeze in public in Japan. Don't spill other people's drinks. Don't spit on cars. Don't stop exercising once January has passed. Don't stop exploring. Don't stop reading books. Don't stop swimming in the sea through an irrational fear of sharks. Don't tell your partner that dolphins are sharks. Don't mistake dolphins as sharks. Don't waste water. Don't swear in front of children. Don't swear at all. Don't take up expensive hobbies. Don't think about money a lot. Don't talk about dieting at the dinner table. Don't stop till you get enough. Don't think that people do it on their own. Don't say yes that easy. Don't watch too mach TV. Don't wear clothes just once. Don't wear suits with white sneakers unless they are Converse. Don't write songs about your mother. Don't go. Don't go to Lisbon. Don't smoke on the dance floor. Don't underestimate the power of Web 2.0. Don't underestimate at all. Don't pick up the phone in bed. Don't check your mail excessively. Don't drink cheap wine. Don't even buy cheap wine. Don't underestimate the power of love. Don't send newsletters to people who haven't really asked for. Don't believe the hype!

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Anka Dabrowska

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ARTIST: Anka Dabrowska

WORK DATE: 2008

MATERIALS: Mixed media

SIZE: Dimensions variable

REGION: Polish

STYLE: Contemporary (ca. 1945-present)

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GALLERY: Sartorial Contemporary Art +44 (0) 20 7792 5882 Send Email

ONLINE CATALOGUE(S): 4 X 4 - Chris Tosic, Marcus Freeman, Anka Dabrowska, Martin McGinn Aug 7 - Aug 30, 2008

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Adam Haynes

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Patricia van Lubeck

My work is predominantly oil on canvas, I also do illustrations and create sculptures. While my paintings have realist aspects, the improbable forms I depict offset this. I call my landscapes with unusual plant species ‘psychedelic gardens’. My works have a smooth texture and are rich in detail, within a broad, unlimited colour range. It is the meticulous detail in my work that have the power to draw the viewer in. I have not received a formal training and have exhibited throughout The Netherlands, Switzerland and in New Zealand.

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I am Patricia van Lubeck, born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and presently living in the beautiful Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. This site shows a selection of my most recent art works. If you would like to purchase one of my works or want to be informed when new ones are added, feel free to email me or use the contact form.

I consider my work an invitation to explore the ways we experience our environment. My paintings have realistic elements, but above all an alienating atmosphere. My works in recent years show brightly colored landscapes and weird plant species which I call my ‘psychedelic gardens’.

My inspiration comes from the ordinary things around me, the artist in me just sees things in an unusual perspective. Picture a baker looking at a corn field. He sees bread, cookies and pies. I see shapes, patterns and colors. I like to zoom in on an everyday object such as the pins of a hair brush and imagine a tiny landscape with rows of hairy trees.

I’m a self-taught artist and seek to achieve a high level of craftsmanship. It takes me eight hours just to prepare the surface on my smaller canvases. The oil painting itself can take up to 10 layers to achieve rich colors and a smooth finish.

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