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[minstrels] The More Loving One -- W. H. Auden: May 10, 1:55pm 1 review poetry •http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstr...; W. H. Auden was a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 1954 to 1973, and divided most of the second half of his life between residences in New York City and Austria. He died in Vienna in 1973.

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Schiphol - Rijksmuseum Amsterdam - National Museum …: May 1, 3:40pm 1 review arts, museum •http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/tentoonstel...; 9 April to 7 July 2008

Eight paintings by Vincent van Gogh, including the famous Almond Tree in Blossom (1888), will be presented at Rijksmuseum's branch at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol from 9 April to 7 July 2008 in an exhibition entitled Vincent van Gogh: Nature Close-Up. All the paintings have been provided by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The show highlights how Vincent van Gogh took his own remarkable approach to nature, by effectively zooming in on his subject. The presentation can be seen at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (airside area, between piers E and F) and offers a unique opportunity for passengers at the airport to view the artist's work away from the Van Gogh Museum.

Apr 25, 5:12pm: My laptop gave up on me, permanently, so I did buy a new one and I should have it within days, until then I'm using a friend's computer and I am not installing the SU tool bar; too bad because I would like to share with you 2 very decent sites.

Still waiting and I am slightly becoming frustrated...

Barcode Design Gallery | Bar Code Revolution: Apr 3, 4:13pm 3 reviews graphic-design •http://www.barcoderevolution.com/gall...; Why Has the Barcode Never Changed?

This is the question the design team at Design Barcode asked itself when it set out to innovate a new way for companies to think about how their valuable product real estate gets used.
After endless study of Barcode technology standards, a process was invented that allowed a design element to be integrated into the barcode.

In 2005 Design Barcode was awarded the Good Design Award in the Communication Design Category, and has since created designed barcodes for major Japanese brands such as Suntory, Calbee, Wacoal and others.

Now, Design Barcode has partnered with PACARC, LLC, a leader in bringing the most innovative products from Japan to the United States. Together, we aim to make Design Barcode available to great brands across the United States.

Penguin Reading Guides | The Sea, The Sea | Iris Murdoch: Mar 31, 4:31pm 2 reviews philosophy, novel •http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rgu...; Around this barb of (unheeded) reflection swirls the rich maelstrom of fantasies, plots, delusions, mind games, and awakenings that makes up Iris Murdoch's popular 1978 Booker Prize-winning novel, The Sea, The Sea. As both a philosopher and a novelist, Murdoch always concerned herself in some way or another with the struggle to develop moral goodness and the concomitant effort to vanquish obsessive self-regard. In The Sea, The Sea, she dramatizes this characteristic moral concern to great effect on a stage crowded with self-absorbed artistic Londoners out of their element in a small seaside village.

As she explores the potent mixture of power, illusion, and self-delusion in retired actor, playwright, and theater director Charles Arrowby, Murdoch weaves a rich tapestry of startling events: old love affairs revive and die again, friendships sour into attempted murder, hallucinations (or are they?) portend ominous happenings, and the drowning embrace of the sea waits restlessly in the background. As Charles negotiates the turbulent swirl of events, an intricate portrait develops of a man bewitched and bewildered by his own powers of self-promotion and manipulation...

Note: When reading I underline passages or sentences I like, learn from etc.

Millays Poetry in A Greenwich Village Context--by Nina Miller: Mar 24, 12:36pm 1 review poetry •http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poet...; ...Such dramatic national success had tangible effects on Millay's status among New Yorkers, naturally enough. Yet in this fact we also glimpse the dynamic circuit in which New York took cues from the national culture even while dictating most of its terms. Millay had an enormous literary and personal influence among the New York literati. Greenwich Village regarded her "with awe" even before her arrival there, on the strength of one passionate poem; John Peale Bishop and Edmund Wilson, young poets and literary editors at the middle-brow journal Vanity Fair, made it a personal mission to bring her work before a wide reading public; Genevieve Taggard and the other editors of the high-art little magazine Measure took Millay as their unofficial poet laureate; Countee Cullen, favorite son of the Harlem Renaissance, wrote his undergraduate thesis on Millay and pursued his professional career along distinctly lyrical and traditional lines; and even Dorothy Parker, embodiment of midtown urbanity , described her own significant (and significantly national) career as a matter of following Millay's example. In short, in the era literary criticism has taught us to see as dominated by avant-garde formalism, Millay's passionate sonnets were widely admired and imitated by writers of all kinds...

Flickr: Photos from Simon Pais-Thomas: Mar 11, 2:25pm 1 review photography •http://www.flickr.com/photos/simonpai...; "Esthetically rich, seductively dark, masterfully colored, Simon provokes its viewers with every click.

His plastic and histrionic photographic productions, invite us into his own personal world and guide us trough what seems to be his deepest, darkest dreams and desires with a smile.
Fashionable, cold and sweaty, you can see the passion and hear the air."

Im Explaining a Few Things by Pablo Neruda: Mar 10, 1:52pm 1 review poetry, politics, war •http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-m-ex...; Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), whose real name is Neftal� Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, was born on 12 July, 1904, in the town of Parral in Chile. His father was a railway employee and his mother, who died shortly after his birth, a teacher. Some years later his father, who had then moved to the town of Temuco, remarried do�a Trinidad Candia Malverde. The poet spent his childhood and youth in Temuco, where he also got to know Gabriela Mistral, head of the girls' secondary school, who took a liking to him. At the early age of thirteen he began to contribute some articles to the daily "La Ma�ana", among them, Entusiasmo y Perseverancia - his first publication - and his first poem. In 1920, he became a contributor to the literary journal "Selva Austral" under the pen name of Pablo Neruda, which he adopted in memory of the Czechoslovak poet Jan Neruda (1834-1891). Some of the poems Neruda wrote at that time are to be found in his first published book: Crepusculario (1923). The following year saw the publication of Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada, one of his best-known and most translated works. Alongside his literary activities, Neruda studied French and pedagogy at the University of Chile in Santiago...

MUSAC ::: Museo de Arte Contempor&neo de Castilla y Le&n: Mar 1, 6:21am 1 review arts, museum •http://www.musac.es/index_en.php?obr=147; The museum aims to become a fundamental piece in the development of Contemporary Art on a national and international scope. It maintains a broad experimental outlook when conceiving and developing exhibitions and projects in all levels...