"For Nanny I have devised a receiver with the capacity to pick up signals from hidden video cameras used to spy on neighbors, nannies, husbands and wives, or to survey back yards and baby cribs. I drive around the suburbs and collect material. This is a work in progress."John Delk
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an endless series of ecstatic moments
Concert PitchThroughout the first half of the 19th century, there was a tendency for the pitch used by orchestras to rise. This was probably largely due to orchestras competing with each other, each attempting to fill increasingly large concert halls with a brighter, more "brilliant", sound than that of their rivals. They were helped in this endeavour by the improved durability of the violins' E-strings - in the 16th century, Michael Praetorius had rejected various high pitch standards as leading to snapped strings, but the new strings could take the higher tension without breaking.
The rise in pitch at this time can be seen reflected in tuning forks. A 1815 tuning fork from the Dresden opera house gives A = , while one of eleven years later from the same opera house gives A = . At La Scala in Milan, the A above middle C rose as high as .
The most vocal opponents of the upward tendency in pitch were singers, who complained that it was putting a strain on their voices. Largely due to their protestations, the French government passed a law on February 16, 1859 which set the A above middle C at 435 Hz. This was the first attempt to standardize pitch on such a scale, and was known as the diapason normal. It became quite a popular pitch standard outside of France as well.
Wikipedia has a 440 A you can hear online
In Hannover: Clairvoyance
will favor you? We strive for abundance, for perception.
You have a soul, an entelechy, you must do
as you are called to do. Where will you turn?
Fraudster of Light pees on Pooh
The main reason Thomas Kinkade's successful is the people who buy his stuff have never been exposed to the artists he's ripping off - so they have that hit of opening discovery that's unique to the virginal art encounter.
Ahh, beauty.
Compared to the flash and tease of commercial imagery, and the little bit of "modern" art the average folk encounter, Kinkade seems gentle and sweet.
But he's a thief and an aesthetic charlatan.
The American Impressionists alone, not to mention their French predecessors, left us a body of work that's parallel in every regard and superior to anything of Kinkade's, as well as diverse enough to provide for everyone who turns to his dreck for something of beauty to keep at home.
Le Jeu du Billeboquet (detail)
François de Poilly, the younger
(page confuses de Poilly the younger with Jean Baptiste de Poilly)
Royal Academy of Arts, London
Lyskamm ridgeSummitPost: a collaborative content community focused on climbing, mountaineering, hiking and other outdoor activities. This site is built by its members, and we welcome you to contribute...
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Volcán Osorno and Lago Llanquihue after sunset
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Rough weather is waiting link fixed
Edvard Munch Summer Night in Aasgarstrand
Musée d'Orsay
Google links for Munch Summer night
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Artcyclopedia Summer Night
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Winslow Homer A Summer Night
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Wolf Kahn My Barn on a Summer Night
"No painting has ever touched me in the way this one has"story Guardian UK
Alma Mahler's lifelong sorrow at the loss of "Sommernacht am Strand" by Edvard Munch
ARTBBQ is another reason I'm more than happy to have some immediate Dutch ancestry
Someone Reading a Book Is a Sign of Order in the World
Reading is hazardous. Here is a true story that proves it: a Chinese student, having read The Scarlett Letter, saw an American in China wearing a high school letter jacket with the letter A on the front...Mary Ruefle at The Academy of American Poets
Six at the BeginningDeborah Bogen
...in her hand as he
comes downstairs. The curls fall
like ribbons, filling the hollow
at her neck. And though...
Lewis Hine
LoC
Abject apologetic update
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You don't have permission to access /pnp/fsa/8b30000/8b30100/ on this server.Browsing those directories
