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China: Happy new year
Happy Chinese New Year! It’s the year of the pig – the last of the 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac – that symbolizes good luck, but as well turbulence. And it is also the year of the Golden Pig, which falls once every 60 years. Many women in China were still the one child per family rule is in place, are now trying to give birth to their child and managers in companies around the country are already complaining about staff shortages as so many seemingly have chosen this year for their pregnancy. Chinese “fortune tellers” are saying that while it will be a lucky year to get born, for the rest of us it might be…
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Time: 150 Years of the Atlantic Magazine
To celebrate its 150 years anniversary U.S. Magazine “The Atlantic” has put together a selection of the best articles from its vast archives. As The Atlantic was always popular with the best writers you find well known names like W. Heisenberg, A. Miller, J.D. Watson, C. S. Lewis, N. Mailer, H. Münsterberg, A. M. Schlesinger, M. Twain, V. Bush, V. Woolf, A. Camus, R. D. Kaplan, R. Frost, J. M. Keynes, P. F. Drucker, M. L. King Jr., T. Roosevelt, J. F. Kennedy – just to name a few.
We have put together the pretty long overall list of the articles selected by area of interest. And the best of course is that most of those articles are available online without a subscription…
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Comix: All Tintin cars with real world counterparts
If you like “Tintin BDs” as much as we do this “web site” is a must. It shows all cars used in the comic books – currently 154 – sorted by album and their real world counterparts…
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Giant Robot: New exhibition announced
San Francisco based art gallery has today announced a new exhibition with artists from indie comics, crafting, street-art, and fine-art backgrounds. The 8×10 show at GRSF will be on display from February 17 – March 14….Giant Robot is proud to present 8×10, a group art show with a diverse, dazzling array of participants using the rawest of writing instruments (pencils, pens, crayons, markers, etc.) and a stock frame size. Contributors come from…
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Urban Life: The Touch project in Brussels
Touch was an urban interactive installation by LAb[au] that took place from 26 December 2006 until 15 January 2007 on the Dexia-Tower and Place Rogier in Brussels, Belgium. The 145 m high Dexia-Tower with 4200 windows each individually color-lightened by RGB-led bars was turned into an immense display…
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Art: Shary Boyle’s miniature sculptures
You might call a porcelain sculpture holding its own head a bit morbid, but the work of Canadian artist “Shary Boyle” is definitely outstanding. A selection of her miniature sculptures from the last seven years is currently on display at the…
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