09-26-2005, 01:59 AM | #481 | |
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Mork From Ork has said: "Reality, what a concept". Think on it. You may not be able to handle it right now.
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09-26-2005, 08:22 AM | #482 | |
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OH! Happy: I found this lovely book of The World's Greatest Art and it has, I think, one painting each for a whole lot of art masters. Yayyyy. It's only $20 so I'm going to get it tomorrow. It even has Vermeer's 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' which I have sentimental attachment to because I'm studying the text with the same name now. Can't wait till exams are over and then I can become an art freak too. I hate talking to artsy people with my limited knowledge of art...I'd love to talk with them more but I can't. Happy: just had a really good day today, if tiring at about 8 pm...*Brain shuts down* Last edited by Linaewen : 09-26-2005 at 05:35 PM. |
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09-26-2005, 05:04 PM | #483 |
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Ciao, Linaewen! Welcome 2 the wonderful world of art... once you enter this world, it enters you, and you will never be able to live the same way without art again. I keep meaning to start an Art Appreciation thread, here... one of these days. Girl With a Pearl Earring was so sublime, it has even inspired a film. That movie (starring Scarlett Johanssen) was the bomb, BTW. I'm sure you know that already!!
I am ecstatic today, because I realised that I can still register at the last minute for a creative writing class at UCLA, which starts next week. Happyhappyhappy!! Well, maybe I shouldn't count chickens, but still...
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I have experienced a little bit in the art world. I went to see the Dutch Masters at the National Gallery of Victoria and I got to see "The Love Letter" by Vermeer. The curator explained so many details about the paintings that I was blown away. That's why I want to delve more into the art world- because there's all this stuff you can miss unless your eye is directed towards it (like literature.) Oh, and you should start that thread!!!! Quote:
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09-26-2005, 11:18 PM | #485 |
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Thank you, Linaewen; I shall, I hope!!
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09-26-2005, 11:20 PM | #486 |
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Anti-happy (since I'm too lazy to find the venting thread ): All of the good players on my Volleyball team in PE were not there or moved.
Happy: George Carlin is funny!
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09-26-2005, 11:26 PM | #487 |
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No red frownies allowed here - what is WRONG with you?! Get off your lazy butt and find the venting thread; I am TRYing to get happy here dammit.
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09-27-2005, 06:20 AM | #488 | |
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no frownies allowed: that includes Sir doc grey wolf's (TM), happy red-frownies... even if they are having a sound of music momment ...
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09-27-2005, 06:40 AM | #489 |
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I guess I'm happy because I got a good deal on a camera and I'm motivated to create art with it.
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09-27-2005, 11:35 AM | #490 | |
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09-27-2005, 11:50 AM | #491 |
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Lotesse-from the golden oldies
You don't own me,
I'm not just one of your pretty toys. You don't own me, You don't own me, Don't try to change me in any way. You don't own me, .........you get the idea RESPECT as Aretha said is owed to all.
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09-27-2005, 01:44 PM | #492 |
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*leans back in chair* happy day! Nice, warm autumn day... today only one boring class out of the three... and finally I bought the dictionaries I wanted to. Yes, a happy day.
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09-27-2005, 02:12 PM | #493 |
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Minimal boring classes are always a good thing, Littleadanel!
It stoppped raining here and it is actually supposed to get cooler this week! Woooooohooooooooooooooooo
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09-27-2005, 03:11 PM | #494 |
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I was on a really interesting lecture yesterday. Richard Dawkins, a professor from the University of Oxford, talked about 'Is evolution predictable?'. It was popular science, but somehow it was nice to hear it that way too, and not only with technical terminology. The lecture was so popular, they had to put some of us in another room, to watch it via video connection..
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Sounds interesting!
So what's his answer? (is it predictable?) happy - both my husband and I were sick on Saturday, and we were lying in bed feeling miserable, and my oldest son (15) came in with lunch on a tray for us, all on his own initiative! Chicken soup and grilled cheese sandwiches.
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09-27-2005, 03:17 PM | #496 |
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How can it be predictable when it takes eons? Illogical.
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He didn't only approach it from a geographical level though. As an example, he said that eyes have evolved separately about 40 times, so if evolution started all over again (in this same world), it'd be probable for the eye to evolve. At first, the question might sound stupid, since evolution doesn't have a direction, but there might be an idea behind it (the question, that is).. Since the alternatives aren't infinite, the probability that quite similar species evolve entirely separately, is present.
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it was really interesting.. everyone should've come. he didn't make it complicated at all - actually he simplified it quite a lot. popular science.
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