wow factor

This weekend I'm visiting the Turner to Monet exhibition.

The following will no doubt effect my appreciation.....

Record price for Monet at auction - ABC News

A masterpiece by French impressionist Claude Monet sold for $US41.4 million ($AU43.6 million) at auction in New York overnight

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Monet - Le Pont Du Chemin De Fer A Argenteuil

Take Your Time - Olafur Eliasson

Shannon Darrough, Senior Media Developer at MoMA, says...

The site features continually updated images taken by visitors who are given special cell-phone cameras to wear that document their journeys through the show, thereby depicting a candid and experiential view of the exhibition (and one that is in accordance with the artist's practice). These images can viewed by date, visitor name, most recent, and in random order. The site also contains images of the works and Olafur's studio, video, and interactive floor plans.

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Happy happy joy joy.. a Michael Leunig theme is available for iGoogle pages with the release of their Artist themes for iGoogle

Now all I have to do is port this theme to my preferred home page, Netvibes

The gentle folk at Curly Flats

Goated communities beat Gated ones any day.

First the downs..

• Twitter... there's blood on the floor
• Netvibes... over promised maintenance times.

Now the ups

• My beautiful Print from Provence arrived. Thanks to Dean Allen for the tip.
• Netvibes... back faster than ever

In a well planned show of love for China, thousands of Chinese students descended on Canberra with a simple objective... drown out any pro Tibet activity.

This was not a spontaneous outpouring of Olympic love.

I drove she who knows best to work in the city at 7 am and watched organised groupings marching to their designated locations along the torch relay route.

China has a frail sense of confidence if it still believes sheer numbers are the solution to their issues.

At least they had no counter to the sky writer slowly composing Free Tibet across the blue morning sky.

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