Why "Kiss me" you might ask?

Well simply put, I think everyone wants and needs to be kissed and to kiss. Thus, "Kiss me".

I must admit, I'm enjoying how sensual these pieces are turning out. Of course they're even better in person.

The camera just doesn't capture the richness of tones or texture that's in each piece. See, this is why you should buy or commission one ;)

Anyway, here it is.

And because I think it's only fitting, here are a few videos to get you in the mood to go kiss someone.

#1  Des'ree "Kissing You"

#2 New Found Glory's cover of "Kiss Me"

Well that's all for now. I'm hoping to get another one done tomorrow.

So go kiss someone already ;)

Cheers,

A

To commission artwork from the artist, contact her at themilkeway@gmail.com

And, oh yeah, Thakoon for Tarjay, yippee kay yay etc. Another reason to visit my parents! (Added to a list that includes hot tubs, ocean views, nicknames based on the word "poop," and lots and lots of puppies.)

Dengan sebanyak itu cinta, apakah kamu memiliki satu diantaranya? beberapa? atau semuanya?

"Memiliki cinta" itu, apakah sebuah phrase aktif atau pasif atau saling?
Kamu memiliki cinta, karena kamu dicintai? atau karena kamu mencintai? atau saling mencintai? Sebagai contoh bila kamu seorang ibu, apakah kamu yang mencintai anakmu? atau kamu yang dicintai oleh anakmu? atau kalian saling mencintai satu sama lain?

kalo dengan harta, saat kau mencintai hartamu apakah hartamu itu balik mencintaimu juga?

Lalu saat seorang Romeo mencintai Juliet, Apakah juliet juga balas mencintainya? Tentu saja, karena itu yang ada dicerita. mereka saling mencintai satu sama lain sampai mengorbankan nyawa.

Lalu bagaimana dengan mu? apakah kamu memiliki cinta sebagai orang yang dicintai atau mencintai, atau kalian memang saling mencintai? mungkin kalo masalah dicintai dan mencintai itu bukan hal yang rumit. tapi bagaimana dengan masalah saling mencintai?

Darimana kamu bisa yakin ketika seseorang yang kamu cintai itu juga mencintaimu? menanyakannya? Mungkin benar, kalo kamu cukup berani melakukannya. Tapi bagaimana jika ketika keberanian itu ada, seseorang itu tidak mau mengakui perasaannya itu, atau sama sekali tidak paham dengan apa yang dirasakannya.

Ide, "love will find the way" kah jawabannya? bagaimana jika cinta itu telah tersesat jauh dan tak dapat menemukan jalan kembali? Apakah harus menyerah dan memilih jalan baru untuk ditempuh? melupakan sesuatu yang telah menatinya dijalan yang lama?

tapi, bagaimana dengan sesuatu yang masih menanti kepulangannya di jalan yang lama? apakah karena telah terlalu letih menunggu sesuatu yang sepertinya tak akan kembali, hingga sesuatu itu memtuskan untuk juga memilih jalannya sendiri?

Cinta tak harus memilikikah jawabannya?

lalu, kalo memang dari awal cinta itu tidak bisa saling memiliki, kenapa harus ada cinta dari awalnya? biar segala sesuatunya lebih mudah.

Kenyataan, banyak orang yang saling mencintai, tapi karena takut cintanya tak berbalas dan menanggung perasaan sakit hati malah menyimpan perasaannya itu dan memilih untuk tetap berteman. dilain pihak ada seseorang yang berusaha memaksakan cintanya pada seseorang yang tidak mencintainya lalu berkat usaha kerasnya dapat menyakinkan sang sasaran bahwa ia juga mencintainya.

kenyataan lain, ada seseorang yang terlalu banyak melihat indahnya cinta yang sempurna membuatnya selalu memimpikan mendapatkan hal yang serupa dan tidak bersedia menerima yang kurang dari itu. Dilain pihak ia juga banyak melihat tragisnya sebuah kisah cinta, banyaknya cinta palsu dan permainan atas nama cinta membuatnya tak percaya pada cinta.

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Aku percaya pada cinta tapi juga tidak percaya. entahsampaikapan.
*unstable mind and feeling*

It's even called the "Julietta" dress.

By designer Sophia Tolli.

today i went to see The Dark Knight, which was fantastic. heath ledger was amazing in it, and i thought gary oldman was brilliant, as was morgan freeman. really, i loved it.
i'm such a film geek, i only realised recently; my last blog was just me rambling about films.
my brother and his girlfriend are staying at the moment and we watched the baz luhrmann version of romeo and juliet, which i'd forgotten how much i liked, it's so beautiful and probably one of the best modernised shakespeares i've ever seen. i know loads of people shy away from modernised shakespeares, but i think that if they're done well and thoroughly, then they are incredible, because there's always a way that the storylines still relate to the modern day, but presenting it in the modern setting makes it so much more obvious and easier to draw parallels between, i love that.
okay....rambling on and on here, oh well. must point out though i DO [i]love[/i] the traditional play of romeo and juliet, it's still incredibly beautiful and timeless etc etc

*thinks* what else has been going on in my world?
hmm, well i've dyed my hair red. it's pretty faded now mind, but yeah :)

curly

straight

i have a load more i should say, but it's late and i can't remember, so i'll post again soon

love and all that :)
x x x

"Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face
And find delight writ there with beauty's pen.
Examine every married lineament
And see how one another lends content;
And what obscured in this fair volume lies,
Find written in the margent of his eyes.
This precious book of love, this unbound lover,
To beautify him only lacks a cover.
The fish lives in the sea; and 'tis much pride
For fair without the fair within to hide.
That book in many's eyes doth share the glory
That in gold clasps locks in the golden story.
So shall you share all that he doth possess,
By having him, making yourself no less."

- From Romeo & Juliet, spoken by Lady Capulet

Let's start with freshman year. Maybe it didn't help that my English teacher was a bit... loony and passive-aggressive. We were forced to read Romeo & Juliet or at least the ones in the normal English class. The honors English classes got to read Julius Caesar, which I am told is one of Shakespeare's greatest and there were a few that expressed that they did enjoy it.

First off, I believe English classes tend to kill anything in the required reading. Being forced to read something is not something very appealing to anyone. In addition, there is also the tendency that overexcited English teachers make their students overanalyze every single word. That kinda kills the magic of reading critically and finding things out for oneself at a leisurely pace without the badgering of a crazed person using grades as a threat incentive.

To start off, Romeo & Juliet was most definitely not one of Shakespeare's greatest works. I don't care what anyone says, I find the main characters to be whiny and overly hormonal teenagers who need a good smack in the face. I don't understand the connotation of Romeo being the poster boy of romance, when he was really a whiny brat who is in dire need of common sense. Seriously? Falling in love lust with someone whom you have met five seconds ago and then running off to get married. That's not love, that's just an inability to keep one's trousers on.

Yes, it's a tragedy that is supposed to be some sort of lesson to use your brain and common sense. But is there anyone really that stupid? Wait... don't answer that question.

The next year, most of the students were forced to read MacBeth. This one I didn't mind too much and I don't really remember any sort of aggravation associated with that particular play.

There wasn't any required Shakespeare reading for my junior year, but instead we were forced to read more John Steinbeck and to say the least I would have been more than willing to go back to Romeo & Juliet than read any novels by Steinbeck ever again. Even though I had a very awesome English teacher, it was the most painful thing we ever read... actually, no that's a lie. We read many painful things that year.

And finally senior year. I was fortunate enough to have another amazing English teacher... not so fortunate to be forced to read Hamlet. I believe Shyaporn of YouTube sums up my feelings about Hamlet quite nicely:

Hamlet - Emo Prince of Denmark. But less painful than Lord of the Flies that was part of the required reading that year.

The Happening av M. Night Shyamalan.

Filmen får mig att sitta förundrad. Först för att jag fylls av en känsla av "vad är det här". Sedan för att jag faktiskt fattar budskapet och gillar det. Sedan för att jag tycker att den är riktigt läskig. Och till sist för att den faller samman totalt.

Shyamalan har gjort filmer som "Sjätte sinnet", "Unbreakabel", "Lady in the water", "The village" och "Signs". De tre första filmerna är riktigt bra. De två sista är ok, om jag minns rätt. Men mitt minne är blekt och de kan inte ha gjort något större intryck. 

Det som får mig att förundra nu är inte att jag faktiskt tyckte att filmen var läbbig. Shyamalan är en av de få som lyckas få det att rysa längs min ryggrad. Och efter The happening är han den enda som fått mig att hoppa i biostolen på äldre dar. Nej, det är däremot det usla skådespeleriet och den uppenbart usla regin han givit. Mark Wahlberg har aldrig varit någon stor skådespelare men han är betydligt bättre än detta. Och den kvinnliga huvudrollen Zooey Deschanel, som spelar Wahlbergs flickvän, gör den sämsta skådespelarprestationen jag någonsin sett. Det är riktigt pinsamt. Och i sommar lovar jag att se om några av Shyamalans filmer, för jag har aldrig tidigare reagerat så starkt på skådespeleriet i hans filmer, och jag måste se om jag varit blind eller om han helt enkelt arbetat med bättre skådespelare tidigare. 

En annan djupdykning i filmen är en dialog mellan Wahlberg och Deschanel i slutet. Den är så otroligt påklistrad och töntig. Den verkar mest vara där för att Shyamalan inte velat "kill his darlings" utan så gärna ville ha med en symbolhistoria i filmen. Hur som helst, ett riktigt bottennapp. Nästa gång får han gärna jobba med någon som vet hur man rensar en film, utan nåd.

Däremot vill jag höja John Leguizamo. Jag har följt honom sedan hans sköna prestation som Tybalt i Romeo + Juliet och hans fantastiska rollprestation som Toulouse-Lautrec i Moulin Rouge. En evig birollsinnehavare som förtjänar betydligt mer erkännande än han fått. I den här filmen är han lika bra som han brukar trots allt. 

Så, ska man se filmen då? Jag vet faktiskt inte. Visst är den sevärd. Budskapet om att människan är naturens största fiende och någon gång kommer vi att få igen är riktigt bra. Manuset tror jag, förutom dialogen, faktiskt är riktigt bra, men tyvärr föll den platt. Men visst, se filmen, men se den hemma i soffan.

Betyg: AA 

Idén är så pass bra att trots filmen suger så måste den få två A:n.

Come promesso, con qualche giorno di ritardo dovuto ai mille ritocchi grafici (per togliere la panza e le acconciature strampalate) e sonori (per mascherare qualche stecca) eccoci qua con alcune foto e video della prima serata live dei wALL sTRAITS al Geleo' di Morrovalle!

Ringraziamo tutti quelli che hanno partecipato, ci ha fatto molto piacere, per tutto. Ricorderemo ancora con più gioia questo momento perchè molte persone per noi importanti erano li quella sera... e poi l'atmosfera particolare del Geleo', la cordialità della gente, la disponibilità ed il supporto dei Blue Vanilla, è stata veramente una serata magica! E' da qualche giorno online il nostro canale wALLsTRAITSband su dove, quando possibile pubblicheremo alcuni video dei nostri live, per ora ci sono questi 4, cliccate sulle immagini qua sotto per vederli e a presto! Per chi volesse ascoltarci dal vivo, il prossimo appuntamento è l'8 luglio a Pollenza in piazza della Liberta' ore 21:00 (locandina), vi aspettiamo!!

!!!

Clicca nelle immagini e guarda i video della serata

Money for nothing -	Tunnel of love -	Romeo and Juliet -	Sultans of Swing

]]> http://crowbarred.wordpress.com/?p=426 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:47:22 +0000 The Definitive 1000 Songs of all Time 1955 to 2005 http://crowbarred.wordpress.com/?p=426

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Number 610

Dire Straits

"Romeo & Juliet"

(1980)
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Genre:Rock

27 years ago .. can you believe that? Mind you, when this song was released John Lennon was still alive and Kurt Cobain probably had no weird thoughts about offing himself. The Number 1 film from that time was "Ordinary People" which was OK but "Raging Bull" should have won and the Grammy for 1980 for best performer was *drum roll please* .. Billy Joel. As for the rest of 1980? Well JR from Dallas got shot, Ronald Reagan became, believe it or not looking back now, but a more credible President than the one America have now and Nasa found a spare new moon orbiting Saturn (was 47 not enough?) and finally, December 9th 1980 is the day music died for a lot us (remember it was the 9th here in NZ).

Dire Straits emerged during the post-punk era of the late '70s, and while their sound was minimalistic and stripped down, they owed little to punk. If anything, the band was a direct outgrowth of the roots revivalism of pub rock, but where pub rock celebrated good times, Dire Straits were melancholy. Led by guitarist/vocalist Mark Knopfler, the group built their sound upon the laid-back blues-rock of J.J. Cale, but they also had jazz and country inflections, occasionally dipping into the epic song structures of progressive rock. The band's music was offset by Knopfler's lyrics, which approximated the winding, stream-of-conscious narratives of Bob Dylan. As their career progressed, Dire Straits became more refined and their new maturity happened to coincide with the rise of MTV and the compact disc. These two musical revolutions from the mid-'80s helped make Dire Straits' sixth album, Brothers in Arms, an international blockbuster. The band -- along with Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, and Steve Winwood -- become one of the leaders of a group of self-consciously mature veteran rock & rollers in the late '80s that designed their music to appeal to aging baby boomers. Despite the band's international success, they couldn't sustain their stardom, waiting a full six years to deliver a follow-up to Brothers in Arms, by which time their audience had shrunk significantly.

Dire Straits established Dire Straits as a major force on album-oriented radio in America, and their second album, Communique (1979), consolidated their audience, selling three million copies worldwide. As the group was recording its third album, Knopfler left the band to pursue a solo career; he was replaced by former Darling member Hal Lindes. Like its predecessor, Making Movies was a sizable hit in America and Britain, even though the band was criticized for musically treading water. Nevertheless, the record went gold on the strength of the radio and MTV hits "Romeo and Juliet" and "Skateaway." Dire Straits followed the album two years later with Love Over Gold, an album filled with long, experimental passages, plus the single "Private Investigations," which became a number two hit in the U.K. The album went gold in America and spent four weeks at number one in Britain. Shortly after the release of Love Over Gold, former Rockpile drummer Terry Williams replaced Withers.

During 1982, Knopfler began exploring musical avenues outside of Dire Straits, scoring the Bill Forsyth film Local Hero and playing on Van Morrison's Beautiful Vision. Apart from releasing the Twisting by the Pool EP early in 1983, Dire Straits were quiet for the majority of 1983 and 1984, as Knopfler produced Bob Dylan's Infidels, as well as Aztec Camera and Willy DeVille; he also wrote "Private Dancer for Tina Turner's comeback album. In the spring of 1984, the band released the double album Alchemy: Dire Straits Live and by the end of the year, they had begun recording their fifth studio album with their new keyboardist, Guy Fletcher. Released in the summer of 1985, Brothers in Arms was Dire Straits' breakthrough album, making the band international stars. Supported by the groundbreaking computer-animated video for "Money for Nothing," a song which mocked music videos, the album became a blockbuster, spending nine weeks at the top of the American charts and selling over nine million copies; in England, the album became the biggest-selling album of the '80s. "Walk of Life" and "So Far Away" kept Brothers in Arms in the charts through 1986, and Dire Straits played over 200 dates in support of the album. Once the tour was completed, Dire Straits went on hiatus for several years, as Knopfler produced records by Randy Newman and Joan Armatrading, scored films, toured with Eric Clapton, and recorded a duet album with Chet Atkins (Neck and Neck, 1990). In 1989, he formed the country-rock group Notting Hillbillies, whose sole album, Missing...Presumed Having a Good Time, became a British hit upon its spring 1990 release. During the extended time off, John Illsley recorded his second album; the first appeared in 1984.

In 1990, Knopfler reconvened Dire Straits, which now featured Illsley, Clark, Fletcher, and various session musicians. The band released On Every Street in the fall of 1991 to great anticipation. However, the album failed to meet expectations -- it only went platinum in America and it didn't crack the U.K. Top 40 -- and failed to generate a hit single. Similarly, the tour was a disappointment, with many tickets going unsold in both the U.S. and Europe. Once the tour was completed, the live album On the Night was released in the spring of 1993 and the band again went on hiatus. In 1996, Knopfler launched his solo career with Golden Heart. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

For Van Morrison see Number 987
For Tina Turner see Number 756
For Randy Newman see Number 958
For Bob Dylan see Number 929 & Number 841
For Steve Winwood see Number 622
For John Lennon see Number 639
For Billy Joel see Number 849
For Phil Collins see Number 684
For Eic Clapton see Number 537

What did Rolling Stone think of Dire Straits
Singer, songwriter and ace guitarist Mark Knopfler is the impressive sum of several very appealing parts. His voice is a smoky mixture of Bob Dylan's acidic whine, Tom Waits' tubercular snore and JJ Cale's breathy, marbles-in-the-mouth whisper. He writes such songs as "Sultans of Swing" and "Once upon a Time in the West" with the cinematic flair of Bruce Springsteen, the hall-of-mirrors imagery of classic Dylan and the slashing thrusts of Neil Young's bayonetlike realism. Finally, Knopfler's guitar style is a shotgun wedding of jazzy chording and harmonic tangents descended from Django Reinhardt and Wes Montgomery, the no-nonsense electric blues of BB King, Jimi Hendrix' string-bending sensuality and James Burton's country-pop sheen.

Guitar freaks who genuflected over every riff on Dire Straits and Communiqué may be disappointed at what seems like a shortage of raveup Knopfler solos on Making Movies. There are a few (in "Tunnel of Love" and "Solid Rock"), but the beauty of the artist's current playing is that each note and phrase is woven into the fabric of the tales he tells. Unlike the other LPs, this one boasts songs, not solos.

More important, Making Movies is the record on which Mark Knopfler comes out from behind his influences and Dire Straits come out from behind Mark Knopfler. The combination of the star's lyrical script, his intense vocal performances and the band's cutting-edge rock & roll soundtrack is breathtaking–everything the first two albums should have been but weren't. If Making Movies really were a film, it might win a flock of Academy Awards. (RS 336)

For Bruce Springsteen see Number 817
For Neil Young See Number 677 & Number 938
For Jimi Hendrix see Number 718

Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs ranked this song at Number (C'mon.. Dire Straits?) and the Album ranked at Number (However there was this album....)

Yea Right

This song has a crowbarred of 71.7 out of 108 pts

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I'm also nearing the end of the school year (yaaaay), which means more end of the year projects that have to be turned in to get final grades up to a respectable GPA. I'm fucking bored, though, and want to just finish this bullshit. I have a couple projects, one involving a ridiculously atrocious organization method and another dealing with Romeo & Juliet.

I'm gonna go read, I forgot how annoying it is to remember school.

While riding in the car today, I turned on our local classical station, Blue Lake Public Radio.  With the lovely spring trees budding out my window, the William Tell overture began to play.  I got teary-eyed...love the power of Rossini!

Then, Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky.  I played this years ago in my high school orchestra and it is amazing how the memory of the violin positions comes right back.  Here is a link to hear Romeo and Juliet from the Peabody Institute.  Enjoy!

Lovely music day!

You still don't have a clue? Try this:
Ever watch Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo & Juliet" before? The one with Leonardo DiCaprion in it. You *must* know "Love Fool" then! It's their hits during those years.

The vocalist (Nina Persson) giving the band her vocal presence just the way I adore it. But not like all other "female-voiced", this one really come with great interplay between members. So totally, they are one of the kind.

To which I would defiantly reply, "But Mo-om!!! I'm reading! I bet tons of parents just WISH that they could yell at their kids for reading too much!"

Yes, I was a real rebel back then.

Fast forward to a high school graduation with honors, two B.A.'s from the University of Iowa in four years, an undergraduate teaching position with the department chair, and a job at the largest independently held commercial real estate firm in the world. Hmmm...something tells me that reading late into the night wasn't so bad for me after all. :)

I've gotten off track and slighly vain- sorry. My point is this: I love to read and to share my love of books with others. Here are a few of my personal favorites:

"Dress your family in courduroy and denim" by David Sedaris (hilarious)
"Me talk pretty one day" by David Sedaris (ridiculously hilarious)
"Naked" by David Sedaris (so freakin' ridiculously hilarious)
"How to lose friends and alienate people" by Toby Young (I giggled wondering what people thought when they saw me reading this book)
"Kitchen Confidential" by Anthony Bourdain (I will never again order eggs benedict)
"Dirt" the memoir of Motley Crue (Fitz STILL has my copy)
"The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold (a tearjerker)
"Lucky" by Alice Sebold (even more tears with this one)
"Smashed" by Koren Zailckas (frightening)
"He's just not that into you" by Greg Beherendt (funny and insightful)
"Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein (my childhood fave)
"Romeo & Juliet" by William Shakespeare (a beautiful, tragic love story)
"The Firm" by John Grisham (I love suspense- can easily recommend 40 other Grisham books)
"Murder in Brentwood" by Mark Furhman (I am a huge forensics nerd and love true crime stories)
"Beautiful Boy" by David Sheff (true story about a father who's son is addicted to methamphetamines)
"It's not about the bike" by Lance Armstrong (inspiring)
"Ultra Marathon Man" by Dean Karnazes (makes you want to run and run and run some more!)
"She's come undone" by Wally Lamb (touching)
"Wins, Losses, and Lessons" by Lou Holtz (just brilliant)

I could list about 900 more. As I'm sure you can tell, I read a myriad of different books. I typically stick to nonfiction, as I have always believed that everyone has a story to share with the world, but occasionally I will venture out. I am currently reading about five different books- a financial book by Suze Orman (from my mom), Eat/Pray/Love (an Oprah book club pick that I loaned out), Memoirs of a Geisha, a true crime book about the murder case of JonBenet Ramsey, and Tweak (the brother book to "Beautiful Boy").

So why did I pick today to discuss my love of literature and words?! Because today was a busy day! I am laughing like a school girl right now because growing up, my little sister had a book called "Busy Day," in which cats were dressed up as peasants and had to do a bunch of weird chores like dishes, sweeping, laundry on a washboard, etc. Now that I think of it, any chore is weird for a cat. But I LOVE animals in people clothes. I could laugh all day about it. So I did a google search to see if I could find "Busy Day" and low and behold...

Just go to:

http://www.shakespearecomplete.com

for full details.

But hurry! The competition ends on April 30th!

1. The roof of Duomo in Milano. Milano's cathedral is the largest Gothic cathedral in the world and it is massive indeed. From inside, it is just another Gothic church - just with a bit bigger columns. But when you get to the roof of it, that is heaven. Am not talking about any religious experience of mine, but I just cant help myself of thinking about all the craftsmen who dedicated their lives - sometimes literally - to build these massive and beautiful monuments. On the roof, you can easily see all the lace of marble carvings and statues, all the delicate details and skill of the craftsmanship and sculpting. In 14th century, those were not meant to be shown to mortal eyes. That was their best gift to give on a hope of afterlife.

2. Castello Sforzesco in Milano. Paintings and other stuff is naturally interesting, but somehow the biggest experience was the museum of musical instruments. We were lucky to be present just when an expert was testing the claviercembalos. (Oh, it seems to be harpsichord in English - i learned a new word...) Baroque music somehow brought the castle alive and it felt like there would have been shadowy figures dancing in the corners of eyes. Maybe there were.

3. Verona. Shakespeare obviously never went to Verona but he managed to got at least something right: there is lots of larks singing. Juliet's "tomb" is situated in the old Capuchin convent outside the town walls. The empty and open sarcophagus itself is quite unimpressive. The garden outside, on the other hand, has some sort of authentic feeling of lost love and sorrow with its mossed statues and cypresses. Larks singing, and the misty mountain tops in horizon.

Says Romeo:

"It was the lark, the herald of the morn,
No nightingale: look, love, what envious streaks
Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east:
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
I must be gone and live, or stay and die."

-Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (act 3 scene 5)

4. Scrovegni Chapel in Padova. Giotto, my Giotto. Giotto's paintings on the chapel inside walls was one of my absolute favourites in art history classes. Getting in the chapel was an hard task - seems to be protected as well as crown jewels. No wonder, the simple chapel is like a box of jewels from inside. It is unbelievable to imagine how people had felt in 1305 to see these paintings - they had used to see static Byzantine and Gothic paintings of humans, not this flesh and blood with gestures and feelings on their face. The tears rolling down of the mothers' face, the gossiping people around Josef and Mary on their way, astonishment of the shepherds... And everything absolutely 3-dimensional, especially the clothes which you could almost touch. From where he got the idea of paint like this? No one did that before and not even after him for almost 200 years. Beats me. Amazing guy.

But enough art, am gonna go to drink some wine. Hippies have stolen my husband to the kitchen, God knows what bacchanals they are having there... with Will Smith movie.

Maiku