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CoquinaDaily.comMonday, May 26, 2008
Let me in.
Short animated video.
Still Life by Sam Taylor-Woods
Caption information:
Still Life is one of the most classical works of contemporary art I know. It inscribes itself in art history with hardly any commentary. This is not just a Still Life. It is a vanitas, a particular type of still life developed in the 16th and 17th centuries in the Flanders and Netherlands. Its specificity was the showing of the vanity of the worldly things through often subtle signs of elapsing time and decay. Some of the vanitas had obvious references like skulls, but others yet had simply a watch, or a slightly rotting fruit. Sam Taylor-Wood's work is another step in that direction: the image, beautiful as ever in Taylor-Wood's universe, decomposes itself. By the end, nothing is left but a grey amorphous mass. On closer inspection, one thing distinguishes this picture from its predecessors. The ball-point pen. A cheap, contemporary object. One that doesn't seem to decay. That is not part of the universal, self-disappearing life. Is it here to stay? This nothingness, this ridiculous signature of us? This is a poor vanitas. We are more accustomed to rich interiors with gold and crystal. But we don't need more: we got the point. And nothing more is necessary. A simple basket, some light. Time. And a cheap pen. Oh, and lest I forget: an extremely good camera, top of the line, to catch this delicate, beautiful insurgence of death.
Fireworks battle
Not a Memorial Day event, but an Easter celebration in Greece.
Today's Activities Schedule
7:30 Men's Golf 4 Shores7:45 & 8:45 A. Aerobics
9:00 Pickle Ball
10:00 Shuffleboard
12:00 Memorial Day Cookout
4:00 Pickle Ball
7,00 Ladies' Poker
7:00 Euchre/Mah-jongg
Tomorrow's Activities Schedule
7:45 & 8:45 Aqua Aerobics8:00 Tennis
9:30 Men's Bible Study
10:00 Watercolor/Beginning Tap
12:30 Bowling
1:00 Quilters/Rummy/Mah-iongg
2:00 Band Practice
4:00 Ballet/Jazz/Tap Dance
7:00 Billiards/Needlework
7:00 Square Dance
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Smudge by John McKnight - link
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MMM...MMM...GOOD by shankool - link
Sunset
Murray River Sunset by Nick James - link
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Jigsaw hints:
If you are having trouble finding puzzle pieces that may be lost under pieces already assembled, click "Shuffle Pieces" periodically as you are putting the pieces together.
If there are more pieces than you want to work with, click "Change Cut" and select a smaller puzzle. You can select puzzle cuts from 6 pieces to 247 pieces.