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29 April 2009

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Ansvarsfördelning ekonomiskt, materiellt (om detta ska räknas som värdebärande i den ekonomiska fördelningen av driftkostnaderna) och arbetsansvar.

Specifikation på båten, tillverkningsår, typ, modell, ev. tidigare regnr. osv.

En liten klausul om vad som händer vid meningsskiljaktighet, om t.ex den ena parten vill sälja. Risken är annars att det blir en tvist om reellt marknadsvärde, och då båtar har en tendens att öka i värde kan det bli struligt.
Om den ena parten vill plöja ned pengar för att upprusta, ska det då påverka ägareförhållandena?

Co Ownership Agreement Aircraft / Boat / Marine Vessel

The Contract includes the following provisions -

  • Cost of Co-Ownership.
  • Meetings and Records.
  • Co-Ownership Policies.
  • Maintenance
  • Usage
  • Sale Or Withdrawal From Co-Ownership.
  • Arbitration.
  • Severability.
  • Waiver Of Contractual Right.
  • No Representations.
  • Interpretation.
  • Advice Of Legal Counsel.
  • Invalid Provisions.
  • Further Assurances.
  • Entire Agreement.
  • Applicable Law.
Having lived his life as the gardener on a millionaire's estate, Chance (Peter Sellers) knows of the real world only what he has seen on TV. When his benefactor dies, Chance walks aimlessly into the streets of Washington D.C., where he is struck by a car owned by wealthy Eve Rand (Shirley MacLaine). Identifying himself, the confused man mutters "Chance...gardener," which Eve takes to be "Chauncey Gardiner." Eve takes him to her home to convalesce, and because Chance is so well-dressed and well-groomed, and because he speaks in such a cultured tone, everyone in her orbit assumes that "Chauncey Gardiner" must be a man of profound intelligence. No matter what he says, it is interpreted as a pearl of wisdom and insight. He rises to the top of Washington society, where his simplistic responses to the most difficult questions (responses usually related to his gardening experience) are highly prized by the town's movers and shakers. In fact, there is serious consideration given to running Chance as a presidential candidate. Both a modern fable and a political satire, Being There was based on the novel by Jerzy Kosinski and costars Melvyn Douglas, who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar as Eve's aging power-broker husband.

Being There 1979

Astronomer har spanat in världens hittills äldsta kända ljusglimt — ett utbrott av gammastrålar. Utbrottet skedde när Universum fortfarande var i sin barndom 640 miljoner år efter Big Bang som inledde alltsammans.

En satellit som tillhör USA:s rymdflygstyrelse Nasa fångade in utbrottet den 23 april. Satelliten hade då spanat nästan tillbaka till tiden för Big Bang för 13 miljarder år sedan.

- Detta är det mest avlägsna utbrottet av gammastrålar som registrerats, säger Nial Tanvir vid brittiska Leicesteruniversitet.

- Detta har vi väntat på i fem år.

Utbrott av gammastrålar är Universums ljusstarkaste explosioner.

28 April 2009

Bath & Personal Care / Towels, Bathrobes, Pestemals / Pestemal

Traditional Bath Towel – Cream

Traditional Bath Towel – Cream, Eğin Tekstil
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The Turkish towel is essentially a bath towel measuring approximately 90cm x 110cm. Made of cotton or linen originally, later and especially in the 18th century, it was constructed with a looped pile section in the center.

It was a very important part of Turkish social life and continues to be so, but originally it was meant for ceremonial bath for a bride before her wedding and for important occasions later in life. The Turkish `hamams` too have an undeniable relationship with these towels. For a complete set of towels were available and is still available which consisted of different towels for the shoulder, hips and head. This elaborate arrangement was made keeping the special Turkish baths in mind.

The towel would still have been the drab piece of bath accessory if the Ottomans did not intercede. They brought style, design and fancy weaving to the towels with the help of their well-honed carpet weaving skills in the 17th century. Their towel was different in the sense that their 2/2-twill weave had extra-warp loop pile. It actually means that apart from the warp and weft of any other woven cloth their towel also had pile or loops of thread standing up from the rudimentary cloth.

The towels that we use all over the world actually were first woven in modern day Bursa in the 18th century. Weavers invented different techniques for these towels and the towels known as `havly` at the beginning are now known as `havlu`, which is actually the Turkish word for towels. The specialty and much of the fame of these towels naturally rest on the fact that these towels were hand woven, which limited their manufacturing to 3-4 towels a day.

As they say the discovery of the Silk Route was one of the most lucrative discoveries made by the West, without its discovery much of the Eastern wealth would remain unknown to the West for a long time. The credit of finding the Turkish towels goes back to Henry Christy who first took this extraordinary loop pile fabric with him to England in 1840. In around 1851, his brother Richard found out a way to reproduce these materials by the help of machines and thus made the towel. Greatly liked by Queen Victoria, Christy towels have maintained its popularity till date.

Kurt Schwitters, the great dadaist of Cumbria

Kurt Schwitters, a star of the dada movement, wanted to turn this barn into 'the ultimate artwork'. Now Damien Hirst is campaigning to get it restored. By Philip Oltermann

Panoramic exterior of the Merz Barn

Panoramic exterior of the Merz Barn. Photograph: Nick May/Littoral

In the Sprengel Museum in Hanover, there is a cheekily doctored portrait of King Edward's eldest son, Prince Albert Victor. Half of his mustachioed face has been blacked out, and a razor blade has been glued across his chest in a reference to the (discredited) claims that the prince was Jack the Ripper. It looks like a piece of pop art, not unlike the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper LP, and so the date comes as a shock: 1947. A scrawl explains that this used to be a portrait of HRH, adding: "Now it is a Merz picture. Sorry!"

The prankster who wrote these words was Kurt Schwitters, one of the most innovative and eccentric artists of the 20th century. In his native Germany, there are schools and streets named after him. In Britain, where Schwitters spent his final 18 years, his legacy has been all but forgotten. Now a group of artists and academics, including Damien Hirst, Antony Gormley and Anish Kapoor, want to change that - by building a Schwitters museum in the crumbling barn near Ambleside in the Lake District where he worked.

Such a picture-postcard setting might seem an unlikely spot for a museum devoted to an artist now seen as one of the leading lights of the very urban dada movement; but Schwitters' life was anything but straightforward. Born in 1887 and brought up in Lower Saxony, he became Hanover's official typographer, establishing a bourgeois lifestyle by the time he came into contact with the more anarchic figures of the Weimar Republic's art world, such as George Grosz and Tristan Tzara.

Schwitters shared their techniques - cutting up newspapers, magazines and photographs and glueing them back together - but not their politics. His approach was also more wide-ranging, incorporating performance poetry, sculpture and architecture. A compulsive hoarder, he gradually transformed his home in Hanover into a sort of walk-in collage of detritus, incorporating paintings, abstract sculptures and found objects. The Merzbau, as Schwitters called this, grew so big that he had to ask his tenant on the floor above to move out so that he could break through the ceiling. (The term Merz was a contraction of the word Kommerz, and became a prefix for his collages.)

Schwitters fled Germany after one of his collages was included in the Nazis' exhibition of "degenerate art". He found his way to Britain, but most gallery directors refused to meet this tall eccentric with a German accent who only occasionally wore socks. To make matters worse, in 1943 Schwitters found out that his old home in Hanover, and with it the Merzbau, had been destroyed by Allied bombs. Depressed, Schwitters left London to holiday in the Lake District and never returned.

There, he earned a living painting portraits of Ambleside locals. One sitter, a retired gardener and landscape artist called Harry Pierce, offered him a disused barn as a studio. Schwitters accepted and, in 1947, began work on a new walk-in collage, christening it the Merz Barn. Pierce helped him gather ingredients: stones, pieces of glass, metal, broken picture frames, a china egg, gardening tools, all of which were to be plastered into the walls. "I am working three hours a day," Schwitters told a friend. "But I'll need three years."

In January 1948, Schwitters died of pneumonia. The Merz Barn, a one-hour walk from Wordsworth's cottage, soon became a secret pilgrimage spot for artists and academics. Damien Hirst remembers that a former teacher at Goldsmiths chanced upon it while rambling. "When they went inside," Hirst says, "it was filled with loads of old farming equipment; the windows were low down with grass growing outside, giving it an eerie green light throughout. To me, as a student, that was a very inspirational story."

In the 1960s, with the explosion of pop art, there was a renewed interest in collage. Richard Hamilton was given a grant to look into preserving the decaying Merz Barn. A whole sculpted plasterwork wall - as far as Schwitters had got in creating his "ultimate artwork" - was transported to Newcastle's Hatton Gallery. But once the work was gone, the barn was forgotten.

More than 40 years later, Ian Hunter, an artist from Northern Ireland, received a grant to buy the farm. His charity, the Littoral Arts Trust, now plans to restore the barn, install a replica of the wall (the original is now estimated to be worth £15m) and open a community gallery. It is hoped that an auction at the Royal College of Art next month will raise the necessary £500,000.

Schwitters would have enjoyed being so valued in his adopted country. "England," he once wrote to a friend, "is idyllic, romantic, more so than any other country." And he would certainly have appreciated the unlikeliness of his revival. As his gravestone in Germany says: "You never know".

• More details at merzbarn.net

26 April 2009

Natural remedies for hypothyroidism

Natural remedies for hypothyroidism are effective method. The herbs used in the natural remedies for hypothyroidism help to maintain healthy thyroid functioning. The herbs used in the natural treatment for hypothyroidism are Fucus vesiculosis, it is a sea vegetable it contain iodine. Avena sativa is used for nerve disorder it is known as nerve tonic.



Coleus forskohliiv is an ayurVedic medicine it mainly used for to reduce blood pressure and also helps in the natural remedies for hypothyroidism. Some of the other herbs that are used in the preparation of natural remedies for hypothyroidism are Acornus, Dioscorea Poria, Paonia Ginseng, and Cinnamon, these herbs improves the metabolism of the body.To cure thyroid weight imbalance, the herbs that are commonly used in the natural remedies for hypothyroidism are ginger, kelp, and cayenne. The herb cayenne used in the natural remedies for hypothyroidism it helps to increases the circulation and improves the metabolism of the body.

Nettle is also one of the herbs used in the natural remedies for hypothyroidism. The herb nettle gives sufficient amount of iodine; iodine deficiency is one of the major causes for hypothyroidism, herb nettle gives sufficient amount of iodine. The next natural remedies for hypothyroidism is Nutrition, nutrition helps to depress the thyroid. Avoid eating caffeine sugar, dairy products, and refined foods. Eating fruits and vegetables that contain Calcium and magnesium are the best natural remedies for hypothyroidism.

To cure the hypothyroidism, the herbs bladder wrack, Iceland, moss, oat straw calamus root, parsley root, watercress are the ingredients used to prepare in the form of tablets, these tablets are the natural remedies for hypothyroidism because Herbs are used to make it in the form of tablets and tonic. Essential fatty acids are also used as the natural remedies for hypothyroidism. In the natural remedy for hypothyroidism, Flaxseed oil is very effective one. Above said are the some of the natural remedies for hypothyroidism.

  • Include lots of salt water fish, shellfish and sea weed in your diet as these are rich in iodine – essential for healthy thyroid functioning
  • Avoid cruciferous vegetables (cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, brussels sprouts, kale) as these contain a natural thyroid blocker
  • Try to do regular physical activity or exercise

Recommendations For Wellness

  • Reduce soy consumption. Soy can depress thyroid function and has been shown to cause goiters (an enlargement of the thyroid gland) in healthy individuals.

  • Alkalinize the body! This may help to prevent thyroid dysfunction in the first place.

  • Get rid of the saturated fats from your diet. Saturated fats have been found to inhibit thyroid function.

  • Work to balance your estrogen levels. Estrogen slows down the thyroid gland.

  • Eat organically raised meats to avoid meats that are loaded with added hormones that have been introduced to increase the weight of livestock prior to sale.

  • Begin a hormonal balancing program using progesterone cream to help bring your body back into balance.

  • Vitamin B3, (niacin), which is often taken to reduce cholesterol levels, has been shown to also lower thyroid hormone levels.

  • Gentian is known to normalize the function of the thyroid gland.

  • Incorporate kelp and other sea vegetables that are high in iodine. Iodine is needed by the body to produce thyroid hormone.

  • Radishes have historically been used to treat thyroid problems and have been known to keep the levels of thyroid hormones balanced.

  • If depression due to hypothyroidism is a problem, try taking St. John’s Wort to help elevate your mood.

  • Chronic constipation can be addressed by adding additional dietary fiber such as psyllium to your diet. Herbal laxatives, such as cascara sagrada or Nature’s Sunshine’s LBS II can also be used as required.

  • Try supplementing with zinc and selenium. Studies indicate that severe zinc or selenium deficiencies can cause decreased thyroid hormone levels.

  • Coconut oil stimulates the thyroid gland and is a good choice for those suffering from an under active thyroid.

  • One of the most effective supplements for hypothyroidism is desiccated thyroid gland that comes from pigs. It was used long before synthetic forms of thyroid medications became available and is processed by the body more naturally.

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Natural Remedies for Hypothyroidism

Ryan English
Hypothyroidism is a condition in which, the thyroid gland produces inadequate amount of thyroid hormones in the body than required. Thyroid hormone is closely related to the metabolism of the body and play keyrole in maintaining all bodily systems to perform their works without any interruption.

Hypothyroidism is a condition that is to be treated as early as possible to avoid its forthcoming complications. There are many ways to treat hypothyroidism but natural remedies are safer and effective too. Apart from supplying the lacking hormone in the body as a ´supplement´, natural remedies refine the body and help to remove toxins from the body. Natural remedies restore the hormonal levels in the body and make bodily organs to produce good and enough enzymes for quicker and better digestion.

Herbs play keyrole in bringing thyroid gland in normal position. One of the best herbs is Fucur vesiculosis. This is a sea vegetable that contain natural iodine. Avena sativa is another herb that is used to help curing various nervous disorders as it is the best nervine tonic. In hypothyroidism, depression and anxiety is common and therefore, Avena sativa can help calming the mood and restoring the brain chemistry.

Another great ancient Indian medicinal system called Ayurveda suggests that Coleus forskohliiv is one of the most effective herbs that can bring your blood pressure down and the herb is equally effective for hypothyroidism. Some of the other herbs that give wonderful favorable results in hypothyroidism include Acornus, Paonia Ginseng, Cinnamon and Discorea poria.

One of the commonest symptoms in hypothyroidism is gaining the weight. It really becomes difficult to treat hypothyroidism and obesity at same time. Some of the herbs like cayenne, ginger and kelp are great way to treat both of those adverse conditions. The herb cayenne is used to treat various endocrine system related problems. This includes curing hypothyroidism condition too as it helps to increase the circulation of the blood and improves the metabolism of the body that is highly affected due to thyroid gland malfunctioning.

Apart from treating hypothyroidism with various herbs, natural remedies also include balanced but healthy diet. One should restrict eating caffeine sugar, excessive dairy products and refined foods. Eating fresh fruits and vegetables that contain calcium and magnesium are the best natural sources to help thyroid gland back into its action.

Some of the naturopaths and herbalists favor the nettle as an effective herb curing various disorders including hypothyroidism. The nettle gives sufficient amount of iodine and iodine deficiency is the major condition due to which, hypothyroidism might have occurred. However, iodine can also be supplied by a common salt (iodized).

Some of the other herbs like Bladderwrack, Moss, Oat Straw Calamus root, parsley root and watercress are those herbs that really support thyroid to produce enough thyroid hormones that is quality product. Fortunately, those herbs are now available in tablets or pills form and can be taken as daily health supplements or general health tonic. Essential fatty acids and flaxseed oils are also helpful treating hypothyroidism.
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Forsvarets marsjstøvel, utviklet av Alfa allerede i 1976. Svært populær blant uniformert personale (politi, vektere med flere), men brukes også som fritids- og jaktsstøvel.

Det er en lett, uforet støvel i fullnarvet skinn, bygd opp etter Alfa's grunnverdier: Anatomisk utformet lest, stabil hælkappe og kraftig, fuktabsorberende binnsåle med innebygd stålgelenk som sørger for at foten ikke trykkes ned i steget. Ekstra tåvolum gir god plass til ekstra sokker.



She is Spring Jointed! Solid Wood Body! Solid Wood Head! Mohair Wig! Original Dress! Original Knicker Undershorts! 1 Original Shoe! Original Decal Eyes! Original Schoenhut Label on Back!

"Astronomiska Sällskapet Tycho Brahe", a society open for all interested in astronomy, both professionals and amateurs, was founded in 1937 by Knut Lundmark. "The Tycho Brahe Observatory" at Oxie (Malmö), and the Swedish publication, "Populär astronomi", are valuable elements in its activities today.

The bronze bust of Tycho shown here was made by V. Bissen for the 300 years anniversary of Tycho's death, originally placed in front of "Lundagårdshuset" in Lund, but was moved in 1904 to the then existing observatory at Svanegatan. Today, it has followed the astronomers to the new astronomy house at Sölvegatan. The text on its pedestal reads

TYCHO
BRAHE

* PÅ KNUTSTORP
1546 14/12

+ I PRAG
1601 24/10


NON HABERI
SED ESSE

The last lines are a motto of Tycho, probably hinting at the idea, that one should be mild in manners but strong in reason.

In Western culture the White Stork is a symbol of childbirth. In Victorian times the details of human reproduction were difficult to approach, especially in reply to a younger child's query of "Where did I come from?"; "The stork brought you to us" was the tactic used to avoid discussion of sex.[citation needed] This habit was derived from the once popular superstition that storks were the harbingers of happiness and prosperity, and possibly from the habit of some storks of nesting atop chimneys, down which the new baby could be imagined as entering the house.

The image of a stork bearing an infant wrapped in a sling held in its beak is common in popular culture. The small pink or reddish patches often found on a newborn child's eyelids, between the eyes, on the upper lip, and on the nape of the neck are sometimes still called "stork bites". In fact they are clusters of developing veins that often soon fade.

The stork's folkloric role as a bringer of babies and harbinger of luck and prosperity may originate from the Netherlands and Northern Germany, where it is common in children's nursery stories.



The Bugatti Type 41, better known as the Royale, was a large luxury car with a 4.3 m (169.3 in) wheelbase and 6.4 m (21 ft) overall length.
It weighed approximately 3175 kg (7000 lb) and used a 12.7 L (12763 cc/778 in³) straight-8 engine.
(For comparison, the Royale is about as heavy as a large modern commercial pickup truck, such as a Ford Super Duty F-450, but it is about 10% longer.)
Ettore Bugatti planned to build twenty-five of these cars, and sell them to royalty.
But even royalty was not buying such things during the Great Depression, and Bugatti was able to sell only six.



None were eventually sold to any royals, and Bugatti even refused to sell one to King Zog of Albania, claiming that
"the man's table manners are beyond belief!"
All six production Royales still exist (the prototype was destroyed in an accident in 1931), and each has a different body, some having been rebodied several times.
A Bugatti specialist told me that each of the 7 cars or chassis had a double,
and that makes six left wich disappeared when the company closed down its automobile operation in the late 50s.


I have an elephant sculpture by Rembrandt Bugatti, Etrore's younger brother, who was a strange person but one of the two or three most famous animal scuptors of all ages.
This elephant is probably the most famous of them all.
The silver elephant mascot that sits on top of the radiator of the Bugatti Royale was cast from Rembrandt's original sculpture.
During World War I the Antwerp Zoo was forced to kill most of its wild livestock.
This deeply affected Bugatti because he had used many of these animals as objects for his sculpture.
In 1916, at the age of 31, he killed himself.
The sculpture is in my house in Paris where I go back for some days in some weeks.
I'll bring it back to the states.

Carving Out a Destiny


Davis never doubted the spiritual, material and aesthetic worth of his art, but he chose to keep it close and to make his living cutting hair. More than a career in art, he wanted a legacy — and he got it.

April 24, 2009
Art Review | Ulysses Davis

A Barber’s Carved Legacy, Finished With Rhinestones and Shoe Polish

Most artists have day jobs at one point or another, sometimes for life. A few are lucky enough to enjoy their work as well as their art. Rarely do they achieve the symbiosis of creative and occupational activity enjoyed by Ulysses Davis (1914-1990), a Savannah, Ga., barber who whittled and carved wooden sculptures in his shop when business was slow.

In the catalog for the excellent show “The Treasure of Ulysses Davis” at the American Folk Art Museum, he is quoted as saying: “I love to barber. It’s something that keeps your mind together. If I had to choose between cutting hair and carving, I don’t know which one I would choose, because I love to cut on wood.” Art and life were inseparable and interchangeable. Sometimes Davis used his hair clippers on the wood; sometimes he gave impromptu lessons in art history to his clients in Savannah, Ga.

Davis was self-taught but savvy about the ways history crowns artists. He had visited enough museums to know that his sculptures would be most impressive if they were kept together. He rarely sold a piece, turning down many collectors. After his death his son Milton arranged for the King-Tisdell Cottage Foundation in Savannah, dedicated to local African-American history, to acquire most of the sculptures.

About three-quarters of the 100 or so works in this exhibition are first-time loans from the King-Tisdell. “The Treasure of Ulysses Davis,” which comes from and was organized by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, is by far the largest presentation of Davis’s sculpture to be seen outside Savannah.

It makes clear that he wasn’t just a patriotic folk artist, or an African-American artist affirming his heritage, or an inward-looking visionary artist. He was all of these, which is to say that no single cliché of “outsider” art quite fits him.

Until now Davis has been best known for his carvings of historical figures: a set of mahogany busts of all the presidents (through George H. W. Bush) and similar portrait heads of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Kennedys and other leaders from the civil rights era. These works, which make up the first section of the exhibition, mix caricature with ardent patriotism. They make you wonder what Davis might have done with the image of the 44th president.

Yet they’re hardly his most inventive sculptures. As this show reveals, he also portrayed biblical characters, strange beasts and hydra-headed figures. Some of these creations show the influence of African art and history, filtered through printed images and reconfigured by Davis’s imagination.

Davis worked with many kinds of wood, including mahogany, cedar and poplar, sometimes obtained from friends who worked as longshoremen on the Savannah docks. He typically worked without the aid of preliminary drawings, using hatchets and band saws to rough out the form before picking up a chisel or knife. He fashioned some of his tools himself, using metalworking skills he learned during a stint as a railroad blacksmith.

Some of his carvings are painted, stained or rubbed with black shoe polish and adorned with rhinestones and pearl beads. He also used metal punches and stamps, of his own design, to create lizardlike surface textures, as in the pair of serpentine sculptures “Beast With Wings” and “Created Beast With Many Heads.”

Other figures seem to have sprung from B-movies or circus sideshows. These include the self-explanatory “Creature From Another Planet With Two Noses” and “Two-Headed Bearded Man.” A futuristic hybrid titled “Emperor of Mars” has Yoda’s face and two extraneous, swanlike heads.

Davis took a similar approach to the African art he studied in library books, synthesizing motifs from different parts of the continent. His “Makonde,” a version of the “Tree of Life” found in sculpture from Tanzania and Mozambique, includes a Janus-like divinity out of Yoruba cosmology.

He also relied on popular representations of Africans, basing one series of sculptures on illustrations of warrior kings from a 1970s Anheuser-Busch promotional calendar. (For the presidents he used a similarly down-to-earth source, a paper schoolbook cover.)

And he wasn’t looking only to Africa. Included here are a potbellied Buddha and an armless figure with features resembling those on Himalayan masks (“Red Lips”).

His most intricate works are the decorative objects he referred to as “twinklets”: tiered boxes that look like wedding cakes, adorned with beads and crystals. He also made canes, tables and other functional pieces. “The Garden of Eden,” his last and largest work, depicts Adam and Eve nestled between the legs of a table. A grinning serpent rises from the tabletop.

The installation, by the American Folk Art Museum curator Brooke Davis Anderson, stumbles a bit toward the end. Groups of related sculptures (including the African kings) are distributed among several wall-mounted cases. This creates variety but makes Davis seem more eclectic than he was.

Throughout the show there’s a powerful sense of deferred gratification. (In a self-portrait, the only one here, he’s a diminutive figure with a pipe and glasses.) Davis never doubted the spiritual, material and aesthetic worth of his art, but he chose to keep it close and to make his living cutting hair. More than a career in art, he wanted a legacy — and he got it.

“The Treasure of Ulysses Davis” continues through Sept. 6 at the American Folk Art Museum, 45 West 53rd Street, near Sixth Avenue, (212) 265-1040, folkartmuseum.org.

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April 24, 2009
Art Review | 'The Pictures Generation'

At the Met, Baby Boomers Leap Onstage

Apart from a few years in the 1960s when the New York culture czar Henry Geldzahler tossed some stardust around, the Metropolitan Museum was a fusty backwater for contemporary art, and an object of scorn in the art world. New work seemed to arrive only in bland job-lot batches. Exhibitions kept being awarded to angsty British painters who had peaked before World War II.

A few years ago things began to sharpen up. Modest but on-the-ball displays of recent photography quietly appeared, and, for the first time, video. Damien Hirst’s silly shark arrived. Kara Walker was invited in as a guest curator. And now with “The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984,” the museum has finally made a big leap into the present, or near-present. A decades-long snooze may be over.

The show is a winner. It tackles a subject — an innovative and influential body of art produced between two major American economic booms — that has been begging for museum attention. It does so at a time when the work in question has particular pertinence to what’s being made today. And it gives the subject something like classic old master treatment (decent space, big catalog) at probably a fraction of old master cost.

As for the art itself — painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video, installation, prints and books by 30 artists, most of them still active and caught young here — it looks terrific. Some of it has become famous. But a lot of it hasn’t been seen since it was made in the post-Vietnam 1970s.

The word “generation” in the title is a bit tricky. The artists included here represent only one aspect of art being made at the time, though they are presented as if they were the whole story. No larger context for their work is suggested, though they shared a set of social and political experiences.

They were born in the mid-1940s to early ’50s, in a prosperous but paranoia-prone cold war era. They were the first kids to be raised with television, fast food and disposable everything. As teenagers they were soaked in Pop Art, rock and rebel politics. As art students, even in traditionalist programs, they felt the effects of Conceptualism. Ideas replaced objects and images. Painting was pushed to the side. The movement questioned what art was for and redefined what could be art.

John Baldessari, who taught at the California Institute of the Arts near Los Angeles, was one of Conceptualism’s more unorthodox gurus. Once art had been emptied of visual matter, he wanted to fill it back up with images, specifically with images lifted from the mass media.

Where art was once assumed to reflect and even shape culture, the mass media — television, film, advertising — was overwhelming and shaping art. For Mr. Baldessari that was a phenomenon worthy of critical investigation, and some of his students — like Jack Goldstein, Barbara Bloom, Matt Mullican, David Salle and James Welling, all big presences in the Met show — agreed.

Similar ideas were being explored by artists elsewhere: by Charles Clough, Nancy Dwyer, Robert Longo and Cindy Sherman in Buffalo; by Paul McMahon in Boston; and by Barbara Kruger, Sherrie Levine, Louise Lawler, Richard Prince and Laurie Simmons in New York City.

They were all making art that combined elements of Pop and Conceptualism with social concerns about consumerism, political power and gender. Their work kept ideas to the fore but rematerialized them as images. Many of those images were photographic, extracted from everyday life, a life that was increasingly a creation of media culture, as Andy Warhol well knew.

Reductive accounts of the period pinpoint these trends as coalescing in a 1977 group exhibition called “Pictures” at Artist’s Space in SoHo, an event that has also come to define a “generation.” In reality, this was a smallish affair, mostly of brand-new work, with only five artists — Mr. Goldstein, Ms. Levine and Mr. Longo, along with Troy Brauntuch and Philip Smith — with work by Ms. Sherman installed elsewhere in the gallery. The show’s real influence probably derived from a related essay written by its curator, Douglas Crimp.

A few original “Pictures” pieces are in the Met exhibition, which has been organized by Douglas Eklund, an associate curator in the Met’s photography department. They give evidence of certain highly individual styles and signature images almost at full development.

A small sculptural relief by Mr. Longo of a nattily dressed man bending backward as if struck, was modeled on the figure of a gangster shot to death in a Rainer Fassbinder film. In true mediated fashion Mr. Longo took the image from a newspaper reproduction of a film still, and it anticipates his monumental 1981 drawings of similar figures, three of which are hanging in the Met’s Great Hall.

Mr. Brauntuch, now well known for working with archival fascist imagery, had a dim, dark photographic image of Hitler stamped onto a one-color ground like a spot of acid eating into a modernist abstraction.

And we also see Ms. Sherman, already creating the sort of fictional self-portraits, inspired by movies and girlie magazines, that would lead to her renowned “Untitled Film Stills.” Her debt to early feminist art is profound, but her combination of staged self-debasement, cool wit and formal control is her own.

Mr. Smith, a painter, dropped out of the generational story early — he is barely mentioned in the catalog and there is none of his work in this Met show — but Mr. Goldstein, who was born in 1945 and died, a suicide, in 2003, is one of its most versatile figures. By 1977 he had explored performance and sound art, and made a series of short films illustrating the manipulative mechanics of commercial movies. Some of those are here at the Met as well as one he finished a year later called “The Jump,” in which generic figures sparkling with lights dive and float through darkness like moving constellations. The work has the charm of cartoon animation — a kid would love it — and the weight of an open metaphor.

What’s most striking about the Met show, though, is the stylistic diversity of the work, even by artists you think you know. Mr. Salle, familiar as a painter, is seen here as an installation artist. Mr. Mullican, the creator of large-scale prints, is represented by a little collage made up of dead figures cut from action comics.

Playing with advertising is common: in Ms. Bloom’s ersatz travel posters; in rock band concert posters designed by Michael Zwack; in Mr. Welling’s collages of Marlboro ads and Mr. Prince’s later ones.

There’s lots of music, heard and unheard. Artist bands were constantly forming and breaking up in the 1970s and ’80s. Mr. Longo’s charcoal figures, leaping spasmodically in their chic black suits, could easily be downtown club dancers.

The television is always on, of course, with Dara Birnbaum’s “Wonder Woman” video running on one channel, Ericka Beckman’s mordant Super-8 childhood skits on another and Mr. Smith’s infantile dramas on a third. Bad news periodically intrudes, as in Thomas Lawson’s painting of a battered child or Sarah Charlesworth’s blurry photograph of plunge-to-the-street suicide. But even without it, escapist possibilities seem bleak in Ms. Simmons’s photographs of claustrophobic Father-Knows-Best dollhouse interiors.

The view these artists took of American culture, a mix of cynicism, anxiety and nostalgia, is second nature now. You find it almost everywhere you turn in “The Generational: Younger Than Jesus” at the New Museum, an up-to-the-minute, internationalized echo of “The Pictures Generation.” Its artists are as young as the “Pictures” artists were then. They do with digital images from the Internet what their older colleagues once did with images cut from magazines. The generational parallels are so many as to be worrisome. Has new art come no further than this? Is it still tilling fields all but farmed out in the past?

That these two shows are available for comparison is a stroke of luck. And that the Met, so long out of the contemporary loop, produced one of them is particularly good news. The museum should involve itself more fully with new art in the years to come, but involvement doesn’t necessarily mean flashing hot new names. It means doing what the Met has always done best with older art: producing exhibitions based on deep, detailed history.

“The Pictures Generation” can, with some adjustments, stand as the working model. The Met should keep doing exactly what it did here: get a contemporary subject that needs attention (I can think of dozens), get to it first, and get it right.

“The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984” remains through Aug. 2 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (212) 535-7710, metmuseum.org.

Awoke with the word healing.
Changed settings to show time of the day.
Mi still gone since yesterday evening with diarrhea.
The last days of rain seems to have stopped. No, it did not.

25 April 2009

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Swedish Schwarzwald Cake

Cakes have a very long history. They are attributed to a famous baker, Thearion, living in the 5th-century-BC....

Egyptians offered animal-shaped cakes to their ancient gods.....

The bourgeoisie of medieval Amiens in Northern France paid homage to their king with cake.

A long time ago, the recipe of the German Schwarzwald cake was brought to Sweden. When and by whom, I don't know. For some reason, the original recipe was changed.

Today, there are many types of Schwarzwald cakes. In Germany and worldwide, the Black Forest Gateau (Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte) is the best known. Cherries and Kirschwasser are important ingredients of the real Schwarzwald cake.

So, as you can see, the Swedish variant has very little in common with the original Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte. Merely the name.

24 April 2009

Therias & L 'Econome  Special Cook's Utility Paring Knife - LE150500
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The handle is high impact plastic and the full tang blade is high carbon stainless.



This is a great French made knife!

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Multi key-holder with design sticker, motive: "SHOES" of the 3rd Limited Edition
ANDY WARHOL PERSONAL ACCESSORIES

Limited to 3,000 pieces. The limited number xxxx/3000, the text "3rd Limited Edition" and the famous Andy Warhol signature are engraved on the back side of the key-holder.

Material: Metal, shiny chrome plated, high polished.
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With hook and 6 exchangeable rings.
Dimension: Diameter of the motive "DOLLAR SIGN" 2.3 cm.
Weight: 50 g.

By 1980 Warhol was ready to revisit one of his favorite subjects, women's shoes. With the Diamond Dust Shoe paintings he was able to combine some of his favorite themes - movie star glamour, high fashion and money.

You will receive the limited key-holder in the shown Andy Warhol Personal Accessoires gift box. Each item of the Andy Warhol Personal Accessories Collection will be delivered in a gift pack whose design is based on Warhol's original artwork. The provided product manuals contain information about Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation.

Andy Warhol Artwork and associated marks and logos are trademarks of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts licensed by The Beanstalk Group (UK) Ltd. to TROIKA 2008.

23 April 2009


på fyra ben går den som jag gillar allra mest
gillar gillar gillar allra mest
en man så mjuk som sammet det har min lilla häst
har min lilla häst
va du är söt min kära lilla ponny
va du är söt min kära lilla häst
du säger ingenting min kära lilla ponny
men du är den jag gillar bäst!

Bro, bro, breja


Detta är en sånglek som jag tror att många redan känner till. Det är en gammal folkmelodi som oftast lämnats över i muntlig tradition. Det kan hända att vi sjunger den olika, vi får väl se ;-)

Orden i sången är så här:

Bro, bro, breja

Stockar och stenar

Alla goda renar

Ingen kommer här fram, här fram

Förrän hon säger sin kärastes namn

Vad heter han

Din fästeman

...Och lite annorlunda om det är en pojke som fångats.

Och sången fortsätter med någon infångad i porten och ringen stilla:

Har du tagit prästens ko,

(eller ska det vara sko? Min fundering…jag sjöng sången när jag var liten)

prästens ko,

prästens ko

Har du tagit prästens ko

GULD eller SILVER

Så här går leken till:

Alla utom två bildar ring.

De två bestämmer om de ska vara guld eller silver.

De två bildar en port som ringen ska passera igenom.

Ringen går igenom porten medan alla sjunger.

När sången låter ”Vad heter HAN, fälls porten ner, ringen stannar och en är fångad.

Sången fortsätter medan porten ”vaggar” den infångade och när sången är slut ska den infångade välja guld eller silver.

Han/hon viskar det till en av dem som är port och får ställa sig bakom den av de två i porten som har valt det samma.

Till slut är ringen slut och alla står på två led istället och då avslutas leken med en liten dragkamp.

Man håller om den som står framför och drar!
Smoking sov inne fffg natten till idag. Längst in i hörnet under klädhängaren.

22 April 2009

24 Direkt veckotablå v.17

FN:s klimatpanel och religioner för fred

Hej och välkomna till en fullmatad vecka med 24 Direkt!

Vi börjar på måndag 9.30 med Nobelpristagaren Jean-Pascal van Ypersele från FN:s klimatpanel IPCC, som diskuterar de senaste rönen med polarforskaren Yves Frénot och meterologiprofessor Erland Källén (svensk text). Eftermiddagen fortsätter på samma tema med föreläsningar från klimatkonferensen - Ett nytt grönt kontrakt för Sverige.

På tisdag får vi möta TV-kocken Sara Begner och koldioxidbantaren Staffan Lindberg, som diskuterar varför svenskarna slänger så mycket användbar mat. Detta följt av het debatt i riksdagen om jobbkrisen och bonussystem mm.

På onsdag ska vi visa ett unikt möte mellan tre världsreligioner: kristendomen, judendomen och islam. Biskop emeritus Bengt Wadensjö har samlat till rådslag om religionens roll för att skapa fred i världen. Vi får se samtal mellan ärkebiskopen av Syrien Isidore Battikha, Hassan Hanafi, professor i filosofi, Universitetet i Kairo och Daniel Rossing, chef för judisk-kristna centret i Jerusalem. Detta varvat med intervjuer av reporter Sara Arvidson. Allt är textat till svenska.

Torsdagen inleds av direktsänd debatt om gränsöverskridande sjukvård i EU-parlamentet, följt av ett seminarium om hur de sociala trygghetssystemen fungerar över gränserna i EU-länderna. Vi repriserar därefter den efterfrågade debatten om äldrevården, När blir det kul att bli gammal? med avbrott för direktsänd frågestund i riksdagen.

Fredagen inleds med ett seminarium om hur framtidens studiestöd bör se ut, följt av ett samtal om USA:s och Kinas roll i den nternationella klimatpolitiken.

Veckans författare är Per Gahrton, som skrivit boken Befria EU och som intervjuas av Karin Andersson.

Mycket nytta och nöje!

Vänligen

Sara Arvidson
redaktör 24 Direkt
SVT


Onsdag 2009-04-22

09:30 - 15:30 Religioner för fred
Bevittna ett unikt möte mellan höga representanter för tre religioner: kristendomen, judendomen och islam. Biskop emeritus Bengt Wadensjö har samlat till rådslag om religionens roll för att skapa fred i världen. Med bland andra ärkebiskopen av Syrien Isidore Battikha, Hassan Hanafi, professor i filosofi, Universitetet i Kairo och Daniel Rossing, chef för judisk-kristna centret i Jerusalem. Reporter Sara Arvidson.

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