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CHILDREN OF OTHER LANDS
I'm packing up my books in preparation for a move and to make the load lighter I have to sell books that have been on my shelf for decades. Geez, it's hard. It's like getting rid of old friends. These...
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RECENT ASTRONOMY PHOTOS 8/2015 [EXPANDED]
Hold your hats because this (above) is a much more significant picture than it seems. It's the Andromeda Galaxy, AKA M31, as seen recently on a clear night over the Swiss Alps. "So what?" you say....
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NEW IDEAS FROM IKEA
"I was at IKEA yesterday and I thought I'd put up a few of the pictures I took there. Most of them are from an exhibit showing how IKEA might furnish low cost, low square footage apartments and homes....
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TRIP TO ITALY
I just saw "Trip to Italy" on Netflix and enjoyed it immensely. There's not much plot. It's simply a travelogue about two British actors who are paid to take a motor trip through Italy and write about...
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DID THEATRE CREATE THE CIVIL WAR?
Yes, my guess is that media of all kinds, but especially theatre and adventure novels, contributed to the outbreak of the American Civil War and influenced our behavior right up to the Hippie...
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RAMBLING THOUGHTS ABOUT BACKGROUND ARTISTS
I know nothing about the fashion business but I know a little about one of the big designers because there's so many books about him. I'm talking about Christian Lacroix (above). He's evidently in love...
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MORE ASTRONOMY PICS 8/2015
This is Puppis A, a supernova remnant seen through a gap in a large foreground nebula, the Vela Super Nova Remnant. If you're a longtime reader of the astronomy posts here then you probably realize...
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THE SECRET HISTORY OF FARMING
I'm a city boy and I have no idea what real farming is like. I only know it can't be the paradise that you see in jigsaw puzzle art and sentimental posters. My guess is that it's hard...so hard that...
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ROADSIDE RUINS [EXPANDED]
Another Theory Corner architecture post: I'm always amazed when I catch a glimpse of roadside ruins (above). It's sad to think that families lived and worked in those places and were forced to abandon...
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HOCKNEY LANDSCAPES
I'm not a fan of Hockney's minimalist paintings of naked guys in swimming pools, but I like the landscapes he did later in life.I think this (above) is from Yorkshire in England. It's an example of...
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WORKING FOR THE RECLINER INDUSTRY
In a few months I'll be moving to a small town in the farm belt. I'll have to see what kind of work I can rustle up there. Small towns don't have much need for art. I hate to think about it, but...
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AROUND THE WORLD WITH ORSON WELLES
Shortly after WWII Orson Welles did a show for American TV called "Around the World with Orson Welles." It was never shown here because half way into the filming Welles got a feature film okayed and he...
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HOW WILLIAM STEIG ENDED THE LITERARY NOVEL
For those who don't recognize the name, William Steig was a wildly popular New Yorker cartoonist in its heyday in the 1930s. He eventually left the magazine because they were lukewarm about a new style...
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GEPPETO'S WORKSHOP
Sometimes I wonder if Gustaf Tenggren was indirectly responsible for Disneyland, His paintings of Geppeto's workshop were so appealing and so real that they must have created a desire in the viewer to...
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THE OTHER BEATRIX POTTER
Whenever I show this picture to artist friends they invariably respond with something like "I know who did that...it was Beatrix Potter, right?" Wrong. The artist was Jill Barklem, who deserves to be...
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HALLOWEEN 2015!
It's Halloween season again and my first task for the holiday is always to search the Halloween sites for old-time die-cut window decorations. I had a collection of them even when I was a kid. That's...
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EUROPEAN HALLOWEEN
Where did Halloween come from? According to Halloween sites on the net, the version that Americans and Canadians celebrate is influenced largely by Celtic traditions, especially those from Ireland...
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SEPTEMBER ASTRONOMY PICTURES
Here's a composite view of Pluto taken by the New Horizons probe on July 14th. Most of the closeup pictures taken then are still stored on the spacecraft and are only now being sent back slowly. Above,...
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A CONTEMPORARY LIVING ROOM
I love the updated craftsman-type houses (above) that are popular now. They're pricey, though. All that wood and stone...the irregular room shapes, the architect's fee...they don't come cheap....
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THE IDEAL WOMAN
There's a topic we've never discussed on Uncle Eddie's Theory Corner, and it's time to do that now. I speak of the Ideal Woman, the woman that all men dream about and who all women aspire to be....
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