Archive for December, 2010
Arvo Part – Repin and Lugansky
Posted by J. Quigley in classical, music, Uncategorized on December 29, 2010
EGON SCHIELE
Posted by J. Quigley in art, Egon Schiele on December 29, 2010
Egon Schiele, Kleiner Baum im Spätherbst, 1911
Oil on canvas (via Primero Be, Artes Plásticas, arsvitaest)
Tarkovsky’s Mirror Set to Arvo Pärt’s Mirror in the Mirror
Posted by J. Quigley in classical, film, music on December 18, 2010
Tarko
JUN KANEKO
Posted by J. Quigley in ceramics on December 14, 2010
untitled
jun kaneko
glazed ceramics
2005
ANSELM KEIFER
Posted by J. Quigley in Anselm Keifer, art on December 14, 2010
Palmsonntag by Anselm Keifer
NEYSA GRASSI
Posted by J. Quigley in art, painting on December 14, 2010
Nest
Neysa Grassi
2005
Oil on Canvas
FAMOUS THINKERS ALSO GET IT WRONG AND ADMIT IT
Posted by J. Quigley in Craig Venter, global warming, human genome, life and death, science on December 11, 2010
When the world’s great scientific thinkers change their minds
One hundred and sixty-five eminent thinkers, researchers, and communicators, at the annual request of the edge.org website, answered the following question: “What Have You Changed Your Mind About? Why?”
Global warming is not an urgent problem
Craig Venter, human genome decoder, J. Craig Venter Institute
Like many or perhaps most I wanted to believe that our oceans and atmosphere were basically unlimited sinks with an endless capacity to absorb the waste products of human existence. I wanted to believe that solving the carbon fuel problem was for future generations and that the big concern was the limited supply of oil not the rate of adding carbon to the atmosphere. The data is irrefutable. We are conducting a dangerous experiment with our planet. One we need to stop. Now.