My parents run the second-hand shops at their retirement community and are often passing along interesting items. For Easter, they gave us a tackle box (for my husband) and I got all the calligraphy pens that they found in the box. A big pile. And tonight I decided to try out […]

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I’m writing my article for the VEA News and focusing on a random collection of Web 2.0 tools.  I have to include Google Maps since I spent all day yesterday creating my first mash up of our Texas trip.
I went to YouTube and checked out my subscriptions.  Here’s a very cool video from Eclectic Asylum […]

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The American Anthropological Association has a new website entitled, Race - Are We So Different? Interesting way of looking at the way race is constructed historically and personally. The underlying argument seems to be that race is more about how we look than how we act. Here’s a paragraph from […]

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I went looking for the introduction to the book video and stumbled over this Billy Collins poem illustrated by Juan Delcan:
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Leonardo da Vinci in Milan near La Scala Opera House, June 2004
Read Sherwin B. Nuland’s biography of da Vinci.  It is part of the Penguin Lives series, which are short bios (< 200 pages) written by non-biographers.  Nuland is a surgeon who teaches at Yale.  While his biography focuses on da Vinci’s anatomical work, there […]

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tobias
Tobias Wong’s website
The artist/designer was featured in an NPR story recently:  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5548745
In the blurb about the audio story, he is referred to as an “industrial designer” and an “artist” and the short description of him at his website suggests that he is blurring the lines between design and art.  One press clipping suggests he is […]

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