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The Clock Moved Too Fast

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

I don’t want to write this entry, but I feel the need to so that I can record my feelings for the sake of memories.  This past eight weeks lasted only a millionth of a second.  I have no clue how time flew by so fast.  It seems like it was just a few minutes [...]

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Gordes: A Village in the Sky

Friday, November 6th, 2009

There are some villages in Provence that are must to see again and again every time I revisit Provence, and Gordes is one of those villages.  Gordes is a village in the sky.  While it’s a typical village being perched on a cliff, it is a very unusual village because of the way it was [...]

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Vincent van Gogh’s Inspirations

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Many works of art is created without an inspiration by another artist.  Artists at the Fondation Vincent Van Gogh in Arles is a perfect example as many works of arts displayed at this place depicts the obvious influences of van Gogh’s work.  When one holds up a painting of brightly colored brushstrokes painted in unique [...]

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The Necessity to Photograph While Traveling

Friday, November 6th, 2009

This blog post is a response to a tweet by @Journeywoman who wrote a tweet recently: “JW Tip of Day Put your camera down for a while. Now you can create travel memories in your mind.” I am going to copy and paste a comment that I wrote on Greenheart Travel’s blog entry on why [...]

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The Beauty of Seeing Art in Person

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

“To be sure, the reproduced work of art is much more accessible.  Thanks to photographic technology, any schoolchild can see a pretty accurate picture of The Last Supper in a book or the Internet.   No expensive airfare or museum admission needed.  The reproduction democratizes art.” – Life Inc. by Douglas Rushkoff As an artist who [...]

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