Archive for April, 2008

Art Resource

A site definitely worth bookmarking! “Art Resource is the worlds largest Fine Art stock photo archive, licensing authorized images to all media.”  With over 250,000 digitized images and over 3 million in archive. I did a quick search for “Matisse” and it returned 425 images!! WOW
Art Resource website: www.artres.com
link via: artmoco
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Biggest Painting

What is the biggest painting you have ever viewed up close?

©2002  C. Cooper - Outside Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

© 2002 C. Cooper - “Night Watch” Rembrandt
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam  11ft 10in x 14ft 4in
When I was visiting The Netherlands in 2002 we made a stop in Amsterdam at the Rijksmuseum. I vividly remember trying to fight the crowd to [...]

April 8, 2008 • Tags: , , • Posted in: Artists • No Comments

Online plagiarism, content protection

This might seem a bit off-topic but I came across a few websites lately who displayed a little banner that stated:
“Page copy protected against web site content infringement by Copyscape”
“Do not copy content from the page. Plagiarism will be detected by Copyscape.”
Being a curious person, I googled them to fine out what their service was [...]

April 8, 2008 • Tags: , • Posted in: Misc • 2 Comments

Holy Fire. Art of the Digital Age

poster image from iMAL Center for Digital Cultures and Technology
Holy Fire. Art of the Digital Age
curated by Yves Bernard & Domenico Quaranta
19 - 30 April, 2008 - Vernissage 18 April, 18:30 - 23:30
iMAL, 30 Quai des Charbonnages / Koolmijnenkaai 30, 1080 Brussels
“Holy Fire, Art of the Digital Age is a collective exhibition featuring a unique [...]

Weekly FFF: Side effects

Side effected - Carol Cooper 2008
I don’t know about you, but have you ever watched the American TV stations and caught an ad that features a new med on the market? Sounds fantastic eh! A cure for maybe an ailment you are suffering! AND… did you notice how near the end they reel off all [...]

Spot of tea?

I am a coffee drinker, milk no sugar please. But my daughter has a liking for flavoured teas. So everytime I go shopping I look for those sampler packs, you know the boxes that have an assortment inside. So far she has not really liked the ones I have picked up, too minty, too [...]

April 3, 2008 • Tags:  • Posted in: Misc • No Comments

1233 prints by 474 artists from 51 countries

Naestved International Exhibition of Contemporary Mini Prints
Opening Reception March 28, 2008 - Naestved, Denmark
I was thrilled this morning to receive an email from Torben Soeborg, the Project Co-ordinator in which he included some photos from the exhibition’s opening reception. It would always be a dream to have attended, but as the saying goes, [...]