Friday, January 12, 2007

Bobby Neel Adams: Artist

“Much of Adam’s photographic work addresses the transformation of the human body by aging and circumstance. In the late 1980s he began a photomontage technique he termed, ‘photo-surgery’, in which [photographs were altered through manual excision, collage, and sometimes defacing of the subject.”


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My sister is in Italy - and is trying to use an italian (Wind) SIM card in her American cingular GSM phone. It's asking her for a PAC and PIN number - which she doesn't know. What does she do? [more inside]
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Greek US Embassy Attacked

Local residents called in to state television saying they had felt the explosion. However, a US embassy spokesperson said that no injuries had resulted from the blast.


Quotation of the Day

“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”

-- Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

That photographer's "Couples" freaked me out! But, I'm glad to see you found a way to include the quote of the day. And a nice one!

1:14 PM  

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