Omega Days – By, David Valensky – Book Reviews

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David Valensky’s book “Omega Days” drew me in as if passing the event horizon of a black hole. That’s the point when the gravity of “Omega Days” pulled so strongly, so compelling, even the idea of placing the book down temporarily was no longer an option. I was “hopelessly doomed” to forego any other plans I had for the day necessitating me to spend hours engulfed within this masterpiece.

When I first picked up this book I was perplexed. I noticed the hand-drawn title with the original colored pencil drawing cover art of a meteor or asteroid streaming to earth while winged angels take flight, imagery clearly foreshadowing apocalyptic doom. Then opening the book I was further surprised by the galley text being entirely laid out with 2 columns per page and terse 4 line copy text each sequentially numbered. So my eye randomly picked out one verse and I read it to myself. “Lambic pentameter” I thought, “with a clever and mature rhyme pattern.” I flipped some pages and was further intrigued by the complete layout of the entire book, each page displaying the same 2 columns of 4 line numbered poems. “So much for character development,” I whimsically thought to myself. How wrong I was.

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Buying Art Online

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by Marcio Cabral de Moura

The ability to now buy art online and to buy original art prints this way has made the whole process of enjoying and sampling art much simpler. This now means that its possible to own almost any work of art you wish without having to move from your chair and that means many more people can start to take part in the buying and selling of art and of enjoying fine works that they may otherwise have not had access to. There are many aspects to consider when you buy art online or otherwise however, and here we will look at a few of them why to buy art online, and which examples to choose when you do.

Why buy art online?

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Art Collecting With an Art Consultant

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Article by Wendy Hermann

Working with an art consultant can help you negotiate the tricky waters of the art collections world. If you’re nervous or unsure of your ability to choose fine art pieces and barter for fair prices, an art consultant can help to make the entire art buying process a breeze.

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Buying Guide of Art Deco Ring

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Steel Drums

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Have you ever seen people playing music from any unused steel container? Does it seem weird? I hope it does not because the man is playing a steel drum. Steel drums or steel pans are the musical instrument made from metal oil barrels. The metal sheet is 0.8 to 1.5 mm thick. The area from where it is struck to produce sound is in the shape of a bowl.

Traditionally these drums were actually made from oil barrels. The difference in the modern drums is just that they can be tuned to a certain pitch. Different oval-shaped points on the bowl produce different pitches of sound. Larger ovals produce lower tones. Via this a melodious tune can be struck. Now a day’s various sizes are available. They are chosen according to the need.

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Philosophy in a Nutshell – Freedom Versus Determinism

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Two of the most important and most noble purposes of philosophy are to promote intellectual independence and to awaken the thirst for wisdom. Put simply, philosophy aims to get individuals to think, hopefully to ponder deeply about more fundamental issues than those which occupy most of our everyday lives. A brief examination of the issue of freedom versus determinism helps to define the scope of philosophy and related controversies.

Theories concerned with the issue of freedom versus determinism seek to discover the cause of human behavior. Are human actions predictable in a scientific manner? In other words, are there laws of nature, though complex and largely unknown, which would tell us exactly what a person will do in a given situation and which completely rule out any other possibility? This view, known as determinism, has been bolstered since the sixteenth century by the scientific principle of universal causation: every event has a cause and predictions of results can be made with total accuracy.

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Western Art – Plop Art – The Pejorative Form of Art

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Plop Art – The Concept
Plop Art is a negative term, used to describe Public Art from different genres, like Abstraction, Modernism, or Contemporary Artworks, mostly sculptures, created in the front of office buildings, corporate plazas, parks, and other public venues. The masses did not appreciate Plop Artworks, as they were considered unattractive or unsuitable for their installation places or the related surroundings.

Plop Art – The History
Alexander Calder’s (American – 1898-1976) sculpture ‘La Grande Vitesse’ set up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1966, is considered as the turning point in the art history. It got a great response and created a huge impact on the city’s urban renewal process. Among the mixed reactions, full of criticism and appreciation, the artwork led to the invention of a whole new industry of ‘Plop Art.’ The term ‘Plop Art’ referred to any large object or sculptures placed, mostly inaptly, in the front of public places. Through its intrinsically random tilt, ‘Plop Art’ shows the ability, creativity, and imagination of the related artists to use a space in a way to dominantly affect (positively or negatively) the local people.

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Eco Art and Environmental Art Subjects

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Environmental art can be used to define any art that deals with ecological issues as well as anything in the natural context. Environmental art is also a movement that began in the late 60s, and was then associated with sculpture such as land art or site specific art. Now, this category of art holds many types of media and is not limited to the earth soils as a medium alone. Also known as sustainable or green art, environmental art is now used to recognize and bring awareness to challenges for contemporary art.

One artist named Robert Smithson create a piece called Spiral Jetty in 1969 that raised awareness regarding recycling at the time because he did damage to the area. While constructing this piece, he used a bulldozer to scrape the land for his art, thereby damaging the lake nearby. Another artist by the name of Richard Long, has used all natural materials found at a site to create art and not have any detrimental effect on the environment as a dedicated environmental artist.

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Recycled Art and Found Art Styles

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Recycled art can be described as art that is created with reclaimed materials incorporated into the piece. Found art is classified as any art that is modified or made from undisguised objects that are generally speaking, not normally considered art due to their proper functioning.

Recycled art and found art are becoming more and more popular with artists, to create awareness with the general public about reusing and recycling their unwanted or no longer needed items. Artists will commonly use objects such as broken saw blades, old sinks and other objects to create art. Found art was originally described by Marcel Duchamp in 1915, when he used the word readymade to describe his own art creation called the Bicycle Wheel that was made in 1913. A fountain that Duchamp created was made from an old urinal that he then signed R. Mutt. This is only one example of an artist using old objects to create found art or recycled art.

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