It is an
amazing and shocking video from Japanese hidden camera makers!!! What is your
idea? Is it real? or fake?
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Richard Ramsey king of Digital Photography - 2
At the first glance you may think that these amazing pictures were made by paint and brush but these are art of Digital Photography and creatures of Richard Ramsey, the king of this art.
Ramsey demonstrates a method he's developed and fine tuned over the years to create a very pleasing effects like pencil sketch,... Like a cooking recipe, digital art methods like this one are subject to interpretation by the chef, who may chose to deviate from the original steps by adding his/her own embellishments, ingrediants and/or spices in order to achieve a unique result.
I prefer his portraits that he made about children and babies. Look at them and enjoy.
Breath test may be able to detect common cancers
An
"electronic nose" could be used as a simple breath test to detect
lung, breast, bowel and prostate cancers, Israeli scientists said Wednesday.
Using the sensor to pinpoint chemical variations, the team
found they could not only distinguish between healthy and malignant breath but
also identify the four different common tumor types.
While more work is needed to develop the technology, the early success could lead to the development of a cheap, easy-to-use and
portable test to help diagnose cancer earlier.
"If we can confirm these initial results in large-scale
studies, this new
technology could
become a simple tool for early diagnosis of cancer along with imaging,"
said Abraham Kuten of Technion Israel Institute of
technology.
Kuten and his colleagues studied the breath of 177 people,
some healthy and some with various types of cancer, to detect the different
chemicals emitted from the surface of cancer cells as they grow.
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Heavenly Figures
Look at these super beautiful girls!! Are they angels?? Beautiful girls are they human or us??!! if they are human what the hell are we!!!
Italy, land of beauty - 3
I was in Italy-Rome just for one day and I didn't have enough time to visit this beautiful country but i suggest to every body to enjoy beauty of Italy.
The annual Power of Women event, hosted by Variety
Halle Berry, Katherine Heigl, Stacy
Keibler, Jennifer Garner & Jessica Biel,... intended in 2012
Variety’s Annual Power Of Women event held at the Beverly Wilshire Four
Seasons Hotel in October 5, California, Beverly Hills. A
group of famous actresses engaged in the ceremony.
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Monday, June 18, 2012
Parental love in animals - 4
Paternal love is one the most powerful in our world, as you may see before even animals love their children very much. Although paternal love in animals is different from humans but both of them are powerful and beautiful.
Sony Develops Film-Thin Display
In the race for ever thinner displays for TVs, cell phones and other gadgets, Sony may have developed one to beat them all.
According to a video of the new display, it is being held up by a hand that"s squeezing the 0.3 millimeter, or 0.01 inch, display, while showing color video of a bicyclist stuntman, picturesque lake and other images.
The display combines an organic thin film transistor, or TFT, technology, which is required to make flexible displays, with another kind of technology called organic electroluminescent display.
The latter technology is not as widespread for gadgets as the two main display technologies now on the market--liquid crystal displays and plasma display panels.
Although flat-panel TVs are getting slimmer, a display that"s so thin it bends in a human hand marks a breakthrough.
The company will present the research and video at an academic symposium in Long Beach, California, for the Society for Information Display this week.
Sony said plans for a commercial product using the technology were still undecided.
Some analysts have said Sony had fallen behind rivals in flat-panel technology, including Samsung Electronics Co. of South Korea and Sharp Corp. of Japan.
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WHO: Mobile health goes global
More than 80 percent of countries across the globe are using mobile phone technology in different ways to improve their health services, WHO says.
A survey conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO) showed that only 19 of the 114 studied countries have no mobile health initiative, known as “mHealth.” Many of the government adoptions, however, are at the pilot stage.
While eighty-three percent of the studied countries were involved in a minimum of one mHealth project, most of them had several projects running, said Misha Kay, Manager at the Global Observatory for mHealth at WHO.
The report showed that mHealth has become a point of interest in not only rich and developed countries but also nations with the lowest incomes. Reportedly, 77 percent of the less affluent countries reported mHealth programs compared with 87 percent of high-income nations.
Southeast Asia, the Americas and Europe were benefiting from the related services and programs while about 75 percent of the studied African nations were also among the technology users.
The most popular mHealth programs globally were mobile technology call centers, cited by 59 percent; emergency services management, 54 percent; and telemedicine, 49 percent, the report says.
The most common services used in the low-income countries were the use of mobile networks for conducting health surveys; these programs, however, were the least common programs globally.
mHealth call centers, toll-free numbers and mobile communications for emergencies are among the programs most easily incorporated into the health systems.
There are more than five billion cell phone subscribers in the world and 85 percent of the planet is covered by a commercial wireless signal, noted WHO urging further approach toward using the technology for health improvement.
Speaking at a conference on mobile health in Cape Town, Kay called for a "more strategic approach to planning, development and evaluation to increase the impact of mHealth, and also prove that mHealth does work."
"So what we’re seeing is a fairly healthy groundswell of activity, also considering that we believe that a lot of the reports were understated," he added.
The UN health body cited competing health system priorities as the greatest barriers to mHealth adoption.
"Health systems worldwide are under increasing pressure to perform under multiple health challenges, chronic staff shortages, and limited budgets, all of which makes choosing interventions difficult. In order to be considered among other priorities, mHealth programs require evaluation," the report concluded.
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Surrealism
As World War I came to an end, the Dada movement evolved into a new movement called Surrealism. This medium of art created a palette of purity and hope though automatism and use of dreams. The Surrealists strove for simplicity and spontaneity or as some called it, automatism. They wanted to answer the question "how shall I be free?" and to express thought without any tainted preconceptions. They believed automatism "would reveal the true and individual nature of anyone who practiced it, far more completely than could any of his conscious creations. For automatism was the most perfect means for reaching and tapping the unconscious." (Stangos 125) This free style of expression, first used in literary circles headed by Andre Breton and then by painters like Max Ernst, Joan Miro, Salvador Dali and René Magritte, upheld the Dadaist rejection of traditional forms of art. However, by portraying a field of unconscious thought and thereby, following an uncontaminated reality, the surrealists avoided the horrors of premeditated warfare and political, social and economic lies and injustices. Surrealist theorists found Surrealism to be:
"a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future, the communicable and the incommunicable, the heights and the depths, cease to be perceived contradictably.
Now it is in vain that one would seek any other motive for Surrealist activity than determining this point. (Stangos 134)"
By using one"s unconscious mind, "the imagination in a primitive state," (Stangos 126) Surrealism found a place where contradictory thoughts might not serve as dichotomies. Free of a socially constructed point of view or "raison", a writer or artist travels to a place of thinking that is both irrational and rational at the same time. Through the unconscious or a highly sensitized state of mind, the surrealist brought forth a new manner of seeing and feeling the world as it was understood and negotiated by Western peoples.
Joan Miro
In its development, Surrealism celebrated the art of children, mad people and primitive art. The Surrealists believed in the innocent eye. They found that art produced by young children was more real than that produced by adults-- since the art of adults was usually repressed and contaminated. The Surrealists often played children"s games like the one where each player draws a head, body or legs then folds the paper after his turn so that his contribution is not seen. The strange images resulted (Joan Miro) and others with inspiration for works, such as “The Harlequin"s Carnival”. (Stangos 127)
Max Ernst
In addition to this technique, Max Ernst, in 1925, began using a child"s technique which led him in his direction of art for the next two decades. The technique was termed frottage, or "rubbing". It involved placing a piece of paper over a textured surface and then rubbing it with a pencil to record the texture. Afterwards, the images produced would be rearranged and the results were new images and associations from these initial rubbings. These images would then go on to become inspiration and the groundwork for paintings and sculptures.
Ordinary forms and objects were used to create art. The Surrealists saw an object and created art out of it because of the feelings that object inspired or what that object lent itself to be transformed into. As Miro said, "I begin painting, and as I paint the picture begins to assert itself, or suggest itself, under my brush. The form becomes a sign for a woman or a bird as I work." As a result of these ideas, flea markets boomed because they were the homes of inspiration and otherwise useless objects, perfect for the art of the Surrealists.
Miro was an artist that took advantage and used to full potential the opportunities simple forms offered him.
Miro would often start his canvases with random washes and then build upon the forms generated by the sponges, rags or burlap he used. After he had something down on the canvas, the forms would inspire Miro to carefully work to a full production. As he states, "the first stage is free, unconscious, but the second stage is carefully calculated." (Stangos 130) Miro was not really a product of Surrealism but was rather a necessity for its beginning. Surrealism needed his work in order to define itself as an art movement. Breton said "by his "pure psychic automatism" Miro might "pass as the most Surrealist of us all."" (Stangos 130)
In addition to the childlike innocence the Surrealist sought, Miro looked into his dreams and into his childhood for ideas for his art. The Surrealists looked towards dreams because they believed dreams were thoughts and imaginations in the primitive state. Dreams were part of the unconscious, and the unconscious was untainted. In the beginning of the Surrealist period, artists used hypnotism and drugs to venture into the unconscious state to extract images, word and ideas. Andre Breton said that these images and feelings could not be had in the conscious state. Quite often, the Surrealists would create dream-like scenes and scenarios which would otherwise be impossible in the natural world.
Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali once said the only difference between himself and a madman was that he was not mad. His paintings were often a bizarre and erotic dream world influenced by dreams and his fear of sex. Dali painted with a photographic like accuracy and used bright intense colors that made his works look alive. However, his subjects were obviously static because of the dream like scenes surrounding them. He described the theoretical basis of his paintings as "paranoiac-critical": the creation of visionary reality from elements of visions, dreams, memories and psychological or pathological distortions through the use of familiar objects such as watches, insects and telephone and the primary images of blood decay and excrement. (Wheeler 291) Dali’s images gradually transformed into visual nightmares such as melting watches in “The Persistence of Memory”.
Like the impossibilities of Dali"s scenes, René Magritte painted reality with an illusionistic twist. In The Human Condition and other works, Magritte uses illusion to fool the eye into thinking something is what it really is not.
In The Human Condition, the eye is fooled into believing that the painting is of a landscape being viewed through a window. In reality, the painting is of a painting on an easel in front of a window containing the view outside that window. Magritte also demonstrates this illusionistic quality in The False Mirror where the iris of the painted eye is filled with a sky scene.
"As beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella" (Stangos 126) is a quote that basically sums up the principles surrounding Surrealism. It is this type of dream like scene that the Surrealists were seeking-- pure, untainted and spontaneous.
artworks:
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| Leonora Carrington: Selvportræt, 1938 |
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| Max Ernst (1891-1976): "Temptation of St. Anthony", 1945 |
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| Salvador Dali (1904-1989): Metamorphosis of Narcissus, 1937 |
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