Jul 4, 2008
Rene Marie's unexpected choice at a mayor's event where she was asked to sing the more traditional song has prompted a chorus of criticism.
By DeeDee Correll
DENVER — The jazz singer, invited to perform the national anthem before the Denver mayor's annual state of the city address, stood at the microphone and let loose her voice.
What came out were the lyrics of the song known as the black national ...
Apr 16, 2008
These are some amazing pictures!
Download the powerpoint slideshow here.
Mar 20, 2008
by Sebastian Horsley
The parade of dressing up came from Mother. If she had been Queen of England she would have worn her crown at breakfast. I can remember her dressing once with great care in front of the mirror before going out, demanding that one of her children accompany her. "Which child?" The nanny asked. "I don't care" Mother snapped. "Whichever one goes with red velvet." (Naturally it ...
Jan 25, 2008
Bon Kulman interviews Kazimierz Holubowicz, inventor of the gun engine, which was designed with the objective of increasing engine efficiency from 20% to much more than that.
by Bon Kulman
for Pure Energy Systems News
Kazimierz Holubowicz shows the gun engine he invented.
Source: Robyn Stubbs; 24 hours; Canoe
MQ: I suppose we should start by first getting a little information on yourself. What is your background and what lead you to start ...
Jan 23, 2008
These amazing photographs are from a project called Silent Portraits released in 1984. The music for "Portraits" was created exclusively for the project by Vangelis and involved Italian photographer Gian Paolo Barbieri. The photographs are a series of black and white's, mostly all portraits, of the inhabitants of the nation of Seychelles, a series of about 115 small islands, about 1000 miles away from the eastern African continent ...
Dec 14, 2007
Ron Mueck is a London-based photo-realist artist. Born in Melbourne , Australia, to parents who were toy makers, he labored on children's television shows for 15 years before working in special effects for such films as Labyrinth, a 1986 fantasy epic starring David Bowie.
Eventually Mueck concluded that photography pretty much destroys the physical presence of the original object, and so he turned to fine art and sculpture. In ...
