Being thin is what ages us most, according to by Dr Bahaman Guyuron, one of the world's leading experts on the subject.
I'm battling the ageing effects of thinness one helping of french fries at a time.
This blog shows photos of Japan between the 1860s and 1930s. In 1854, Japan opened its doors to the outside world for the first time in more than 200 years. It set in motion a truly astounding transformation. As fate would have it, photography had just been invented. As the old country vanished and a new one was born, daring photographers took photos.
A selection of handmade and delicately stencil-printed playing cards, made by inmates of Russian prisons, ca. 1980s - 1990s.
Though photographs have a symbolic aspect, they don't rest easily in the category of “symbols.” This is primarily because they are not really arbitrary. We couldn’t substitute, say, the letter “b” for any element of the photograph above and expect for it to “mean” the same thing. If we replaced each figure with “b” the photograph wouldn’t mean anything at all, other than “I’m abstract art; try to understand me.”
I put the bears/worms/fish into the glass dishes. Then I poured in vodka until it reached the top of the candy. Using that much vodka makes the candy swell and take on a noticeable but not unpleasant “burning” alcohol sensation. If you don’t want the alcohol that strong, use less vodka. (The amount of time you let the bears soak has no impact on how alcoholic they are. They will suck up nearly every drop of vodka you put in, so the trick is to use the right amount for your taste. You can always add more if you taste them after a day or so and think they’re not alcoholic enough.)
With her long blonde hair, micro-dresses that may incite the prurient to hope for an occasional fleeting glimpse of her underwear and photographs on her book jackets of her in leather dresses, arms akimbo, like a stern but voluptuous school mistress, she is not, as Mr. Moore wrote, “faux glam.” She is eccentric, alluring and slightly outrageous, with a hint of being a bit gamey.
Work by South African artist William Kentridge from 1994. Kentridge uses charcoal and pastels for his drawings in which he erases and redraws parts to create stop motion style animations.
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Cosmetic surgery is now so popular that even young, healthy, attractive women are choosing to be “enhanced.” In a quest for insight into this $13 billion industry, the author—a five-foot-nine, 120-pound 27-year-old—went undercover, asking three plastic surgeons what they’d do to her nose, her breasts, and her, uh, “banana rolls.” The answers were as different as the doctors themselves.
Members of Quilters of South Carolina have created one-of-a-kind bras for Breast Cancer Awareness. The exhibit consists of fifty original works of art which are unique, entertaining, humorous, and beautiful to make the public aware of breast cancer, to memorialize those lost to the disease, and to honor survivors.
There is no mention to be found of female leprechauns in traditional Irish legend, so as to how they came to be .. your guess is as good as mine.
These apparently aged, diminutive men are hard-working cobblers, turning out exquisite shoes for other sprites. If you happen across an industrious little fellow hammering out a shoe, look closely - for he may be a leprechaun. Step quietly, for leprechauns will avoid humans, knowing us to be foolish and greedy. Read on to find out how to make Leprechaun Traps
Your result for The Ultimate TRUE IRISH Test...
On This Day Sammy Davis Jr., in Toronto for two weeks of performances, is a guest on CBC's The Way It Is because of his opposition to the Vietnam War. After asking him about his stance on playing for the troops, interviewer Barbara Frum tells Davis: 'When you came to Toronto you expressed a desire to, in fact, meet some draft dodgers and they've brought some draft dodgers to the studio to talk to you.' Davis greets the two men with enthusiasm.
Revered as the baroque master of lifelike portraits and light and shadow, the 16th-century painter Caravaggio is now being touted as the first master of photographic technique, two centuries before the formal invention of the camera.
The Italian artist has long been suspected of turning his studio into a giant camera obscura, punching a hole in the ceiling to help project images on to his canvas. But new research claims that Caravaggio also used chemicals to turn his canvases into primitive photographic film, 'burning' images he then sketched on to for works such as St Matthew and the Angel. Read more at The Guardian
Dabora Gallery and Phantasmaphile's Pam Grossman are presenting the group show 'Fata Morgana: The New Female Fantasists,' on view from March 14th through April 12th, 2009.