Art
Published: 29/08/2008
One of the hardest parts of being an artist is getting exposure. The rules of the game often seem unfair, with your credibility being based on who you know and where you live. If you're a Native, Aboriginal and Indigenous artist or craft person, you may feel entirely out of place and unable to...
Published: 28/08/2008
Getting a tattoo is not a recent phenomenon as the practice has existed for thousands of years. Perhaps the most famous archaeological discovery was that of the discovery of the Iceman who had 57 tattoos on his body. Archaeologists estimate that this man lived about 5000 years ago.
Tattooed...
Published: 28/08/2008
When you look for free tattoo designs, it is important to know which ones are the most popular if you are in the tattoo business. The most popular designs today are:
* Stars
* Butterflies
* Fairies
* Flowers
* Dragons
* Celtic and Christian crosses
* Angels
* Skulls
*...
Published: 27/08/2008
Africa is a truly unique Continent. With over 53 countries, and about a thousand different languages; this is a land where diversity is normal. While in Africa, one finds different unique ethnic groups living within ten miles of each other to be normal.
Even though group loyalties run very...
Published: 25/08/2008
“ Who’s got the time for entertainment?” Have you heard people say this very frequently? Are you one amongst those who say so? With work hours stretching beyond the conventional, it’s only natural. Watching a TV show or heading out for a movie seem to be too much...
Published: 24/08/2008
Transporting players to a surreal world, cartoon video games rule the era of virtual reality. As the most sought after means of entertainment, they hold sway over the crowd, which has immersed itself in the ocean of games online. From brain-teasers to adventures or from...
Published: 23/08/2008
As the Roman Empire distintegrated amid war and rebellion, living standards in western Europe declined precipitously, and so did the population - to a third of what it had been. Poverty and lawlessness were universal. Marauding pirates converged on the West from Africa, Scandinavia and the...
Published: 23/08/2008
At the same period in the late 1920s, three houses were designed which encapsulated the differing strands within the new view of architecture, by then often called "Modernism": the Dymaxion House by Richard Buckminster Fuller in the USA; "Les Terraces" outside Paris by Le Corbusier for the Stein...
Published: 23/08/2008
Out of the immediate military reach of the great empires of Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria and Persia lay the Aegean coast (now western Turkey), the Aegean islands and the valleys of the hilly Greek peninsula beyond. The communities here developed their own small economies and benefited from the...
Published: 23/08/2008
A late period work by Claude Monet was recently purchased for over 80 million US dollars at Christie's in London. The painting, entitled 'Le Bassin aux Nympheas' set the record for a painting by Monet. The previous record for one of the impressionist master's works was 41 million dollars. This...
