Ana Luiza

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My first Thanksgiving

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 26, 2009, 6:36 am
I had a glimpse of what thanksgiving means for Americans at Cypris Village. I published this video with some pictures of the lesson, and also enjoyment, given by Professor Merryman and the other tutor...
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Van Gogh's boots and shoes

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 26, 2009, 3:32 am
Shoes and boots were often painted by Van Gogh and generated many studies by philosophers and other scholars. Martin Heidegger was the first to present his thoughts when he saw the "Boots with laces"...
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Charlie Chaplin - "The table ballet" and "The Great Dictator"

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 25, 2009, 8:07 am
Forever in our minds and souls.
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Having fun with Judith Leyster's "Self-portrait"

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 24, 2009, 4:49 am
I took this from this site and you can do this appreciation there where it is complete. There are "exercises" from other painters like Van Gogh, Gauguin, Vermeer at NGA Classroom: Online Resources fo...
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Escher - "Relativity"

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 23, 2009, 9:24 am
This is "Relativity" a 1953 lithography by Escher and one of his most famous works. It is amazing that his work is so well known and inspired not only artists but also propaganda, graphic designs and...
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Keith Haring's universe - joy and movements

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 23, 2009, 2:39 am
I was thinking that the post to end the "Piranesi's effect" would be Escher and Mark has left a comment with a good link. But I remembered it is Monday and thought that people are going back to wo...
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Francisco Goya - 'The dream/sleep of reason produces monsters"

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 22, 2009, 7:14 am
This is "The Dream of the reason produces monsters", 1797, one of the eighty etchings entitled "Los Caprichos", published in 1799. It is always so hard to know which was the original intention of som...
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Funny signs about water...

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 21, 2009, 3:18 pm
...at Second Life. For those who don't know you cannot drown or slipper in Second Life. You even don't die. Have a great weekend! (click to enlarge)
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi - Impossible and imaginary structures being studied by architects

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 21, 2009, 5:41 am
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1720-1778, was an Italian whose engravings and etchings of Rome and imaginary structures are being studied now by universities. However in an exhibition of his work in the ...
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MIT's Courses on the Internet and the still polemic Stata Center

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 20, 2009, 5:05 am
"The Stata Center's main pieces are about twelve 120-foot towers and an assortment of adjoining small elements””about six or seven by my count””that accommodate lecture rooms, class rooms,...
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Feed the fishes

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 19, 2009, 9:38 am
Click at the water and the food will be given. I am putting some fun posts this week because a little bit amusement is fine. Hope you enjoy it for 40 seconds.
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Magritte "Empire of Lights"

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 19, 2009, 7:22 am
The Empire of Lights, 1954 by René Magritte “Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.” “Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.” ...
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Focus as optical illusion

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 18, 2009, 11:40 am
If you stare at the word "focus" the image will start moving. When you browse your eyes you can read some words and pieces of phrases.
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Colors seen from optical illusions

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 18, 2009, 4:01 am
Colorful circles appear rotating after same seconds staring at the circle. Hope you like it.
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I am a selective procrastinator, in other words a faker?

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 17, 2009, 12:04 pm
As a selective procrastinator know how to procrastinate but only do it when you feel you can afford to. You're a faker! Take this quiz: How Bad A Procrastinator Are You? I took this quiz...
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Lion couple

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 17, 2009, 1:39 am
I don't know the name of the photographer. I loved this picture.
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Kazimir Malevich - White on White

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 15, 2009, 6:11 am
White on White, 1917, by Kazimir Malevich I will say nothing. Later... Have a great Sunday!
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Ana Luiza has rated Furious Seasons 10 out of 10

Ana Luiza - His is the most important blog about mental health and psych-drugs that are on the market.The journalist Philip Dawdy is approaching all that is related to mental health: politics, psychiatry, diagnosis, harms of psych-drugs, FDA and regulatory agencies from other countries, violence in mental institutions or drug=induced related... name it. It's all there. You should hurry up to read it if you are taking or considering taking any psych-drugs.
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Philip Dawdy - Independent Journalism Award

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 14, 2009, 9:45 am
Hella Heaven Independent Journalism Award for Philip Dawdy at Furious Seasons. You don't know about Philip Dawdy's work because he does not work for the mainstream media anymore. He is doing...
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Duane Hanson - 'Traveler' and 'Tourists'

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 14, 2009, 1:56 am
Right: Tourists II, 1988 by Duane Hanson Left: Traveler, 1988 by Duane Hanson These are life sized sculptures one of the characteristics of Duane Hanson's sculptures. Using bronze, fiberglass an...
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Nasa finds water on the moon

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 13, 2009, 1:23 pm
Close This is Nasas's picture of the day and an official report that they found water on the moon: Water Detected at High Latitudes on the Moon NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper, an instrum...
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Homage to Federico Garcia Lorca

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 13, 2009, 2:02 am
He was an Andalusian poet and a dramatist who liked to draw, made friendship and worked with Buñuel and Dali, is one of Leonard Cohen greatest influence and had political views. Then he was killed. ...
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Swarovski promoting crystal sculptures - Yves Behar and Vincent Duysen

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 12, 2009, 11:34 am
I went to the amazing blog Design Crisis by Karly Hand and Erin Williamson searching for a post they did five months ago. I got lost among so many creative and amazing work they have there. I share wi...
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Monet's house at Giverny

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 11, 2009, 11:16 am
When I joined Second Life I went to Monet's house at Giverny and wrote this post about the place. I went there again a while ago and unfortunately didn't take pictures of the Mary Cassat's...
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Lucky girl finds The Simpsons at the beach

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 10, 2009, 3:10 pm
Not that lucky when she arrived but after a walk a smile appeared on her face.
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How would you name him? Snowball?

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 9, 2009, 5:44 pm
"What are you looking? I like eating."
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How do trees feel in winter?

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 8, 2009, 6:47 pm
I was talking to Mark, an old blog friend, and just read what he has answered for a comment I left at his blog: "The trees still look good. Well looked good, as the leaves have all fallen now and are...
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Ireland black and white photographs by Philip Pankov

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 8, 2009, 10:11 am
I found these amazing photographs by the Russian Philip Pankov. He moved to Ireland at an early age and shows the country with his camera in black and white. It is really amazing how the lights are br...
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet and painter, - "The Blue Bower"

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 6, 2009, 7:02 pm
The Blue Bower I was searching for Dante Gabriel Rossetti's images and poems and came across with the "The Rossetti Archives": THE Rossetti Archive facilitates the scholarly study of Dante Gabr...
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Samba School - Brazilian carnival amazing drumns

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 6, 2009, 3:44 pm
If you listen to this without feel like moving your body you might be deaf. This is Brazilian Bacchus's period of the year. Vai minha Portela! 2010!
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Caravaggio - "Bacchus" or "Dionysus" details

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 6, 2009, 1:05 pm
Renascence brought back Greek and Roman gods. Bacchus or Dionysus, the god of wine and son of Zeus is also known to bring fertility, abundance and voluptuousness was portrayed by some renascent artist...
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Andy Warhol at the Warhol Museum

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 5, 2009, 5:28 am
"The art collection of The Andy Warhol Museum at Pennsylvania includes over 8,000 works in all media-paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and installation. The collection provides an ...
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Project Gutemberg - Top 100 downloads last 30 days

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 4, 2009, 7:09 pm
Supported by ten thousands volunteers Project Gutenberg, created in 1971, has already made available nearly 30,000 free books in their Online Book Catalog. This is a great way to See if your favorite ...
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Browne, my first dog

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 4, 2009, 12:50 pm
He came to me when he was two months years-old so he did all a kiddo do at this age and I didn't know how to teach him. Chewed all he could, destroyed some of the things I like and it took me just...
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Pirats Art Nework - Vernissages's slide show

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 4, 2009, 8:45 am
Find more photos like this on Pirats Art Network I take many pictures whenever I go to a Pirat's vernissage. These are the last six I took but I will be updating it later. It's funny because ...
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Unagi - Japanese and Ross's version

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 3, 2009, 11:49 am
Right: Unagi prepared by a Japanese. Photo taken from the blog Made Halthier. Left: For those who dind't see the American sit-com Friends this is Ross version for the word "Unagi" as he explain to...
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Jan Fyt - "Big Dog, Boy and Dwarf"

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 2, 2009, 4:34 pm
Big Dog, Dwarf and Boy, 1652 by Jan Fyt I just discovered this painting and felt like sharing. For the moment my comment, one of those that will make the scholar and the art's critics hate me mor...
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Selavy Oh - Irregularity

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 2, 2009, 2:23 pm
Yesterday I had the fortune to meet Selavy after the removal of "Irregularity" from an exhibition that has ended. I was amazed, as always when I see and experience her works, and took pictures. You ha...
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Patch Adamns - How many fingers do you see?

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 2, 2009, 11:31 am
Arthur Mendelson: (showing his hands with the thumb hidden) "How many fingers do you see?" Hunter Patch Adams:...... .."Four." Arthur Mendelson:............. "No no! Look beyond the fingers! Now tell ...
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Marcel Duchamp - "Nude Descending a Staircase" at Armory Show, 1913

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 2, 2009, 4:06 am
"Armory Show of 1913 - This was the first large exhibition of modern art in America. It was held in the 69th Regiment Armory building in New York City in 1913. Although the show was soundly critici...
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"Here comes the Sun", Beatles - Welcome November!

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Nov 1, 2009, 9:17 am
I wish you have the sun in your heart during the whole month. Have a great November no matter what is the weather in your country.
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My first Halloween

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Oct 31, 2009, 11:48 pm
(click to enlarge) "Now I got a glimpse of what Halloween is. I remember when I was a child people talking about the "day of witches" as it was translated into Portuguese and now I know that it's ...
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Claude Monet - "Garden at Giverny"

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Oct 31, 2009, 9:42 am
There it goes another month and I have chosen Monet's "Garden at Giverny", 1900, to close it. Happy Halloween and have a great weekend.
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Ana Torrent - "Cria Cuervos" by Carlos Saura

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Oct 30, 2009, 7:17 pm
I saw almost all of Carlos Saura's movies. Cria Cuervos, 1975, is a psychological drama and Ana Torrent is a eight years-old girl who is growing up in a confused home during Franco's dictators...
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James Ensor's "The Bath of Ostends" and Where is Waldo?

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Oct 30, 2009, 3:22 pm
Is it me or The Baths of Ostend. 1890 by James Ensor looks like "Where is Waldo?" The scholar and serious critics of the post below will surely both haunt me tomorrow.
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James Ensor and Halloween

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Oct 30, 2009, 3:15 pm
Halloween in here and skulls, skeletons, death is everywhere. I remembered James Ensor today, The Belgium painter, the painter of masks, is considered as an expressionist. Like happens to many painter...
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Natural Ice Sculpture - Alaska in pictures

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Oct 29, 2009, 4:50 am
Natural Ice Sculpture Alaska Photo Path: Photos: Glacier Photos: There are some amazing photos at the site Alaska in Pictures. I just don't understand the reason to put "sculpture" in the ...
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Are we allowed NOT to be happy?

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Oct 28, 2009, 9:12 pm
*The post below is for those who are seeking for justice. This one is for those who are not happy or in search of some inner peace, emotional balance... name it, or, in other words: living! Lately it ...
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Before the Law - Franz Kafka

Ana Luiza posted an article on - Oct 28, 2009, 10:46 am
Just read it: "BEFORE THE LAW stands a doorkeeper. To this doorkeeper there comes a man from the country and prays for admittance to the Law. But the doorkeeper says that he cannot grant admittance a...
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