December 2010
5 posts
Enjoying Art While Waiting for Your Flight
It is so refreshing to see famous artists at display in places that you least expect them to appear. In a recent trip to London I had the privilege of staying at the newly improved Toronto Airport, and to my delight I encountered a great work from Richard Serra greeting me as soon as I descended from the escalator that took me to the gates. It was a great sight to see, for a work of this stature...
7 Decades of Anonymity is No More for Carmen...
Seven decades of anonymity unravels for Carmen Herrera when she sells her first painting for $50,000. Now every museum and gallery in the world is scrambling to get their hands on her minimalist paintings. She used to paint in peace and enjoy the lifestyle of an anonymous artist but her work is just too good to be kept a secret any longer. Now the world has the opportunity to cherish her work...
Alexa Meade Making Paintings Come Alive!
A few months ago we were privileged enough to be exposed to Alexa Meade’s incredible art. Eventhough the finished product mesmerized us, we were more blown away by here ingenious and innovative implementation. What she is doing is not that new as far as technique is concerned. Some artists in South East Asia have been doing it for quite a while. Yet Alexa took the Trompe-L’Oeil...
Who is Going to Win the Smartphone War?
According to James Altucher of the Formula Capital Apple and Google will win the smartphone wars. It seems like BlackBerry and the rest of the smartphone manufacturers are going to loose market share rapidly.
Altucher believes that computing has become to most sought after feature that the users of smartphones are looking for these days. That is the one area where RIM, Nokia, Motorola and...
Why is this taking so long?
We all have had to deal with waiting at some point or another. We sit in traffic. We wait in checkout lines. We wait for stuff to download. But, we are getting more impatient as days go by and “I want it now” syndrome is slowly creeping into our lives and taking hold of our actions and emotions.
I have had some encounters with impatient people in my line of work and as long as I...