“SIN” by Michael Ward, 2010
☛ Michael Ward: “SIN”, acrylic on canvas, 24″ x 30″, 2010. © Michael Ward. On his blog, Michael Ward added the following comment to this painting: One in a series of partial paintings of signs. This one is the Sincere Trading Company in Chinatown in Los Angeles. Cropping it, and changing the sign color from […]
“Q Train” Nigel Van Wieck (1990)
☛ Nigel Van Wieck: “Q Train” from the Working Girl series pastel on paper, 22″ x 30″, 1990. Nigel Van Wieck is an American painter who lives and works in New York. In 1995 his work was exposed at The Venice Biennale’s Centennial Exhibition, in Venice. For the past five years, he had three exhibition […]
Gerard Schlosser’s Paintings
☛ artnet.com: “Tu avais quel âge quand tu es parti” by Gerard Schlosser, acrylic on sanded canvas, 59.1″x59.1″, 1978 Gerard Schlosser is a French painter born in 1931. He’s known for painting hyperrealist fragments of fictional stories. He uses photographs to frame a specific part of a scene: woman’s legs crossed while she’s sitting on […]
Egypt and Internet: some caution
☛ Arbor Networks Security: “Egypt Loses the Internet” by Craig Labovitz, January 28th, 2011 Labovitz, chief scientist for Arbor Networks –a “provider of network security and monitoring solutions for global networks”– explains: Following a week of growing protests and periodic telecommunication disruption, Egypt suddenly lost all Internet connectivity at approximately 5:20pm EST Thursday. The [above] […]
