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Revenge: Shakespeare-Style
“IF YOU PRICK US DO WE NOT BLEED? IF YOU TICKLE US DO WE NOT LAUGH? IF YOU POISON US DO WE NOT DIE? AND IF YOU WRONG US SHALL WE NOT REVENGE?” - William Shakespeare It started innocently enough. Edd Joseph was in the market for a PlayStation 3 (PS3) and took to the internet to find one. He found one for £80 and sent off the money to the seller. The PS3 never showed up and Joseph got pissed. To revenge the failed transaction Joseph began texting the complete works of Shakespeare to the seller. Yep, the complete works, all...
Anne Frank was not alone: Holocaust diary of 14-year-old Rywka Lipszyc finds the light
What seems like a divine series of events has culminated in the publication of the Holocaust diary of a 14 year old girl. Here's what we know: -When Rywka Lipszyc began her diary, she had lived in the Lodz ghetto for more than three years and had already lost both of her parents. -her diary cover six months in the Lodz ghetto starting in 1943. -Zinaida Berezovskaya, A Soviet Red Army doctor found the diary beside a crematorium at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945. - Berezovskaya kept the diary hidden in a closet in her home in Omsk (in southwestern Siberia) until her death...
Visual Libris: Part Two
Infinite Jest – Dave Adams 11′ x 14′, created digitally using the Procreate iPad app and Adobe Photoshop There is just too much good stuff in this exhibition to cover in one post so here is another healthy sampling from Ex Libris: 100 Artists, 100 Books Enjoy! Venus of the Great Northwest (Another Roadside Attraction) – NoMe Edonna. Oil (on acrylic underpainting) on canvas. 12″ x 16″ inches. Moby Dick – "Ahab" by Mark Daughhetee. Pigment on paper. 45 x 45 inches Papillon - 'Cavale' by Todd Jannausch - steel, plywood, lightbulb. (Photo credit Ish Ishmael) The Fountainhead – “Howard and Dominique” by Lana Gentry. 11″ x 14″. Graphite and colored pencil on bristol board The Amazing...
A Heavyweight For Illiteracy
Wladimir Klitschko is the World Heavyweight Champion. He currently holds 4 different championship belts and is pretty much considered the undisputed king of the ring. His latest fight might be his toughest yet - illiteracy; the global scourge that effects over 250 million children who do not have access to education. The project is called Klitschko vs. Illiteracy and it is the brainchild of the Klitschko Brothers Foundation in cooperation with the German charity organization BILD hilft e.V. Ein Herz für Kinder. For the project Klitschko dipped his gloved hands in blue paint and punched the 26 letters of the alphabet individually on canvas. Why blue? Because "blue is the ink of writing"...