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http://sploid.gizmodo.com/being-pranked-with-a-lifelike-robot-dinosaur-must-be-te-1766841852
 
How would you react?

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/being-pranked-with-a-lifelike-robot-dinosaur-must-be-te-1766841852
 
How would you react?

Rome's latest mural, ephemeral art made just by washing dirt away.
 
Based on charcoal drawings of the frieze’s figures, which are on view in the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and videos on the Tevereterno website, “Triumphs and Laments” tackles Roman history and culture in all its brutality and glamour. Kentridge’s drawings, which will appear in more boldly outlined, simplified forms when converted to stencils, include scenes of war, kings, victory, mythology, and devastation. Even Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastroianni make an appearance. Kentridge explains: “It’s about taking fragments and constructing what could be a possible history.”
 
Although the work’s themes seem eternal, the nature of its creation ensures ephemerality — a subtle way to comment on the current crisis of environmental degradation. The limited lifespanof “Triumphs and Laments” is in direct contrast to Rome’s many monuments created by failed empires in times of hubris. It suggests that the permanence of the manmade is increasingly an impossibility. As Kentridge says: “It gets much more complicated as one gets to a more contemporary era as to what is the triumph and what is the lament.”
 
http://hyperallergic.com/233209/william-kentridge-plans-massive-vanishing-mural-in-rome/
 
 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/video/under-years-filth-art-history-164454961.html
 
http://artobserved.com/artimages/2016/03/Powerwashing-the-Tiber-Banks-via-The-OFFICE.png
 
http://www.tevereterno.it/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/2_Toro-test-Foto-Marcello-Melis.jpg
 
http://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/02_wk-day-2-LR-def.jpg
 
http://www.tevereterno.it/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/1_Minerva-Test-Foto-Marcello-Melis.jpg
 
Reminds of this also ephemeral art in Rome
 

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http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2016/03/16/dog-presumed-lost-at-sea-found-alive-on-san-clemente-island-5-weeks-later/

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2016/03/16/dog-presumed-lost-at-sea-found-alive-on-san-clemente-island-5-weeks-later/

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2016/03/16/dog-presumed-lost-at-sea-found-alive-on-san-clemente-island-5-weeks-later/

These animal stories are breaking my heart....love the endings but how many people treat animals so terribly, I just want to SCREAM.

https://www.thedodo.com/lion-tiger-bear-15-years-1627302473.html?utm_content=bufferb9729&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Yeah, yeah, post anything and right away you get someone claiming "my organ is bigger than your organ." It is purdy, though.

Love it, and it plays Bohemian Rhapsody ! By the way, my Verbeeck is bigger than your Marenghi
 

I don't know if this is low, high or no culture - it's definitely kitschy - but it's also kind of marvelous. From a private collection, a 1905 81 key Marenghi organ playing an arrangement of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody."

You should write a review. Your post seems suspicious to me. . Just a thought.

Recently re-visited the Getty Villa in Malibu. Feels like a movie set for all those swords and sandals flicks. Beautifully done and nice collection of ancient art.

In your opinion, what exactly is junk? The Met collects in depth, for a particular artist and within a particular period or style. What this means is that there are going to be greater and lesser pieces, but all the pieces are still representative in some way and therefore academically important.
 
At the Getty, Meier tailored the building to the collection. The first floor was reserved for light-sensitive objects (e.g., illuminated manuscripts). The second floor for everything else, mainly the painting collection. Furthermore, the museum was divided into pavilions because that is how curators wanted to group/divide the parts of the collection. It is possible to see most of the painting collection by just moving between the pavilions on the second floor.
 
The stairs at each pavilion lobby are there to create another way of experiencing the museum and the art. Some people don't have an interest in surveying the entire painting collection, all at once or at all. The building is actually quite democratic; the stairs are not a form of torture.
 
In my opinion, the illuminated manuscripts are the best thing about the museum. The painting collection is a masterpiece collection, meaning the piece represents the peak of each artist's work. (People in LA should be proud of the collection.)
 
As to the garden, I don't like it. It is pure spectacle and entertainment. It doubles down on the play already inherent in the design of the building, but not in a good way.
 
In general, art takes patience. The work is on display for a reason, even if I have no preference for the artist, the genre, or period. Major museums don't display junk.
 
But more to the point, at LACMA recently, I rode the elevator up from the garage with a very hot guy. We smiled at each other and exchanged a few words. I noticed he had big feet. I was there to pick something up from a friend who is a curator. I had forgotten how much else there is to see. ; )

I taught Advanced Placement Art History yet I have very mixed feeling about various art museums.
 
1. Louvre – I absolutely HATE this museum. I hate the constant crowds besides 75% of the contents is pure shit. The other 25% is quite wonderful if you can get close enough to enjoy it.
2. D’Orsay - I absolutely LOVE this museum. Although I’m not a great fan of Impressionism the lay out and setting are great.
3. Uffizi – Probably my favorite art museum. 90% of its contents are wonderful. Crowds can be daunting but if one goes early or late it’s fine.
4. New York Metropolitan – Some really wonderful things but also a good amount of junk. Its special exhibitions are frequently outstanding. The price is right – donation only requested.
5. J. Paul Getty – A perfect example where the building architecture takes precedent over the contents. One spends a great deal of time going up and down and up and down. Richard Meier could have cared less about properly displaying the art works. It was all about his building. He absolutely hated Robert Irwin’s garden design and walked off the site when he could not get it changed to meet his idea of what it should be. As far as I'm concerned the best thing about this museum IS the garden.
6. The Norton Simons – Is a very nice small museum in Pasadena, CA that has a few really nice things and very small crowds.
7. British Museum – Not really an art museum but has a large numbers of very interesting things including the Elgin Marbles (now for the sake of political correctness called the Parthenon Marbles), and the Rosetta Stone.
All of the above are great places to guy watch.
 
P.S. I have always wanted to visit the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and they are both on my bucket list.

Love the Huntington. Lunch or tea in the Tea House is a delightful experience. For those of us who are "movie queens," they have the Sarah Siddens, The Tragic Muse painting which was the basis for the award figure in "All About Eve." An amazing house-museum and gardens. Highly recommended.

I feel a little differently. My trips to museums are carefully calculated journeys. I am determined to create for myself a calm, quiet and enriching experience. That usually means spending the better part of a day, alone, and focused on the exhibits. It takes all available brain cells to absorb the information...so cruising men has never been on the agenda... well.... there was that one time when I was teaching art at LACMA, but that really doesn't count, I was young and cute then, so you could hardly blame him.

Let me throw in another small yet important venue to visit... The Huntington Library and Gardens in San Marino. . Home to Blue Boy and Pinkie...

Let me throw in another small yet important venue to visit... The Huntington Library and Gardens in San Marino. . Home to Blue Boy and Pinkie...

I think that's a question that should be asked of everyone who replied on this thread with different outlooks, and not just me as I replied on different post is that taking the "high road" is best. Some people think vengeance another answer, some say it's best to forgive, but not forget. Isn't just me.
 
I say it's best in the end to take the "high road" forgive, and forget without creating vengeance of any kind. Like you said, isn't worth holding onto the negativity.

Well as a Sicilian I understand the genetics of "you are dead to me" but that usually comes with a matching gene of "well now that we have that settled let's have something to eat"

Well yes, but those must be other Cancers......can't be me....

Slightly random, but related:
 
Part of forgiveness is apology [receiving, not giving, in the case of the forgiver]. A previous Dean and Chancellor of my Medical School wrote a book, On Apology.
 


http://www.amazon.com/Apology-Aaron-Lazare/dp/0195189116/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1454037800&sr=8-1&keywords=on++apology
 
Two of his points on apology include (a) expression of guilt, and (b) promise to improve and sin no more.
 
Do not be brought into the argument with just "I'm sorry." That's not sufficient reason to forgive. Acknowledgment that an offense was committed is necessary.
 
Here endeth the randomness.

The zodiac is bullshit. I'm also Scorpio and I forgive almost everything, forget many things and I am rarely vengeful.