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Sunday, 30. April 2006
Creative Syria
 | See Syria today through a large database of quality photographs. Browse the image database which includes hundreds of pictures. |
Asian Games: The Art of Contest
| Using both the paraphernalia of games and paintings, prints, and decorative arts that depict people playing games, Asian Games: The Art of Contest is the first major exhibition to explore the role of games as social activity and as indices of cultural values in the diverse societies of pre-modern Asia. It will highlight the paramount importance of Asia as a source of many games ? chess, backgammon, Parcheesi, Ludo, Snakes and Ladders, playing cards, polo and field hockey ? now played worldwide. By exploring the evolution and social functions of games in Asia and their transmission to other regions, Asian Games will illumine important yet unfamiliar aspects of Asian culture and their ongoing legacy. Asian Games: The Art of Contest |
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Eagle Eye Cam
 | Do you remember the Bald Eagle Nest in Hornby Island, posted on march 30th? |
Saturday, 29. April 2006
The Big Cats
The Big Cats
This site is designed to be a tribute to the big cat family.
Here you can find facts, photos, news, and other items related to the big cats and the small wild cats.
Contemporary American Indian Art
| This online exhibit of contemporary American Indian art is the culmination of a three-month internship project undertaken by Lindsay Jones, a graduate student in the Museum and Field Studies program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. During her residency at the Academy in the summer of 2005, Lindsay contacted and interviewed Indian artists living in California. They talked about their art, and what it means to be Indian in today?s society. Lindsay selected the artwork and curated the exhibit, which gives the artists a voice?and their messages come across loud and clear. Contemporary American Indian Art |
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Professor Fizzwizzle
 | It seems to mostly be a puzzle game, but it certainly has a couple of arcade elements here and there. Funny! |
Friday, 28. April 2006
CalPhotos
Agave shawii; Coastal Agave
CalPhotos is a collection of 109,332 images
of plants, animals, fossils, people, and landscapes.
Marco Tempest
| Adventurer, Scientist, Showman, Dreamer and Hero? There?s no one quite like Marco Tempest. His imaginative combination of computer-generated imagery, video, music and stagecraft with his unique vision of future life is creatively unique and unequalled within the performing arts. No one else combines the incredible technical savvy with the showmanship, the physical skills and the charisma of Tempest. With all that talent, it?s amazing that he seems to enjoy poking fun at himself, and all those marvelous toys! Marco gets a kick out of bending reality around the edges. Is that image IN the screen, or just in front of it? Marco Tempest - Magic for both sides of your brain. I know him (a Swiss guy) personally. He is incredible. There are a lot of videos and clips at the website (always at the right side). Check it out! |
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News nishikie
 Click the picture for a larger view | Saigo Takamori: |
Thursday, 27. April 2006
Henri Eskenazi Photography
Henri Eskenazi Photography
Mediterranee ? Mer Rouge ? Caraibes ? Atlantique
Ocean Indien ? Indo Pacifique ? Ocean Pacifique
901 images in 72 galleries. All are incredible!
John Ebner - Northwest Watercolors
| "My paintings are a contrast of soft and hard edges, warm and cool colors, light and dark values. My goal is to capture the mood and essence of the scene." John Ebner Northwest Watercolors |
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Virtual Globetrotting
 Forbidden City | Virtual Globetrotting is a community-driven web site that shows and categorizes cool locations around the world with satellite pictures from Google Maps, Windows Live Local and Yahoo Maps. At this time, Google Maps has better world-wide coverage than Windows Live Local, but Live Local offers a great Birds-eye view (taken from a low-flying plane) that can get some amazing detail. Yahoo Maps is still in beta, but looking good. |
Panik in Pogoland
| Help Panik to cross the matrix on his pogo stick, jumping from tile to tile, without falling into the void. Move him with the arrow keys. Panik in Pogoland |  |
Ornithologie by François Nicolas Martinet
 | François Nicolas Martinet engraved illustrations of birds for books by some of the most influential ornithologists in 18th-century France. Born in 1731, Martinet was trained as an engineer and draftsman. Engraving illustrations for books probably began as a secondary profession, but as his popularity and output grew it must have consumed the majority of his time. |
Ornithologie by François Nicolas Martinet [1773-1792]
The Music Animation Machine
| The Music Animation Machine display is a score without any measures or clefs, in which information about the music's structure is conveyed with bars of color representing the notes. These bars scroll across the screen as the music plays. Their position on the screen tells you their pitch and their timing in relation to each other. Different colors denote different instruments or voices, thematic material, or tonality. And each note lights up at the exact moment it sounds, so you can't lose your place. The Music Animation Machine |
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