These are an interesting selection of articles/ads that I have found in the various newspapers delivered to the office. I find most of them amusing and find hard to believe that they are actually news.

The picture below is cut from the NYDaily News, which is quite untrustworthy to me. I went online to validate the site and I found these two articles: (BTW< they're both kind of disturbing. Don't read while eating.
1) http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/07/09/2010-07-09_exlover_eliza_samudio_of_brazil_soccer_star_bruno_fernandes_das_dores_de_souza_k.html
2) http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/06/11/2010-06-11_nebraskan_man_strangled_to_death_by_constrictor_in_states_first_record_of_fatali.html?obref=obinsite

You got to wonder....

So this jem of a photo reads: "PEN MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD? DON"T TELL THAT TO TAIWAN POLITICIANS" The caption reads: Lawmakers in Taiwan shove and punch each other in Taiwan's legislature yesterday after speaker rejected opposition bid on debate for contentious trade pact."


But this is nothing compared to the lawmakers in Ukraine during the ratification of the Black Sea Fleet deal with Russia. People had eggs and smoke bombs! Now that is klassy with a K.
The photos were titled: LAWMAKERS BRAWL IN UKRAINE PARLIAMENT

This dude just implicated himself. Look at the smoke bomb in his hand.




Ohhh look at that! an egg right in the face. BAM! his day is ruined. Btw, the security detail is protecting parliament speaker Volodymr Lytvyn from the eggs. I bet protection from flying eggs wasn't in the job description!




Look at those guys in the back just looking. I bet they're making bets to see who will win.









I also feel like afterwards, they all should have been put in time-out.
My question is how they managed to sneak the eggs and smoke bombs with them into the Parliament. Just imagine: *security officer is checking a member in. "Hey, how are you doing today, mr. Member? And whats with all those eggs in your bag? Making an omelet in the office today?*

The next two articles just make me wonder too: first of all, it's a horrible pun on red-handed. Dead-handed, really? Someone must have been low on caffine and creativity when they thought up that title. Secondly, there is a typo. I didn't know that the DA uses icanhazcheezeburger speech. Sez is slang.




This one is from the Weekly Standard. It reads: "GETTING SQUEEZED BY OBAMA POLICIES? SQUEEZE BACK! WIth our soft, mushy Obama Stress Head, you can crush those half-baked liberal ideas before they do anymore damage."
That just made my day when I saw it.

Museum day! AGAIN Part 2

Part 2!!!!
Here is another picture of the sculpture gallery. I think If i cleared out the gallery, it would make a really good room. I like the brown wood floors. And all the light. ;)


Hey look, curly hair not straight hair.









There was this rotunda thing in the middle of the 2nd floor. My pictures don't do the rotunda justice. The columns were made of dark green marble. It was really nice.






There was also these sections separating certain parts of the exhibits on the second floor. Now this is what I want in my house when I get one. I like having water and plants in a room; having plants and water in a room is a rich person thing, a luxury item kind of thing. Bottom line; its cool.








This is the second little room with a fountain on the second floor of the museum. I really liked the flowers in this one.






There are soo many more pictures but the picture uploader for blogspot is being really slow so I will finish up the pictures later when it is faster.

Museum day! AGAIN

Sry for the delay. It is obvious that I am a horrible blogger in the sense that I never blog on time. Cest la vie.

So back to the museum.

I had finished the chester dale: from impressionism to modernism exhibit and wandered into another exhibit. I had to ask a museum guide. It turns out that the exhibit was a sculpture exhibit, one of the permanent exhibits of the museum.
According to the National Gallery of Art the exhibit is: EUROPEAN SCULPTURE OF THE 14TH-19TH CENTURIES. The National Gallery of Art holds approximately 2,100 works of Western sculpture. This selection includes many of the finest examples from the period 1300-1900. It covers a wide range of materials and techniques and gives some idea of the variety of purposes that sculpture has traditionally served.









This one is for Ian. Look at that dude stomping his foot on the other dude's head. Ooooo!






If you just take out the extra a, Atalanta could be Atlanta! Go ATL!










I saw this, and besides being the only 'black' statue in the exhibit, this disturbed me somehow. Images of colonialism kept coming up in my mind...






Below is the Degas statue. I think it is a plaster cast. I'm unsure because they had a "copy" of the statue right across the way.
At the sixth impressionist exhibition in the spring of 1881, Edgar Degas presented the only sculpture that he would ever exhibit in public. The Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans, the title given by the artist, has become one of the most beloved works of art, well known through the many bronze casts produced from this unique original statuette after the artist's death. She was not so warmly received when she first appeared. The critics protested almost unanimously that she was ugly, but had to acknowledge the work's astonishing realism as well as its revolutionary nature. The mixed media of the Little Dancer, basically a wax statuette dressed in real clothes, was very innovative, most of all because she was a "modern subject": a student dancer of the Paris Opera Ballet. Marie van Goethen, the model for the figure, was the daughter of a Belgian tailor and a laundress; her working-class background was typical of the Paris Opera school's ballerinas. These dancers were known as "rats de l'opéra," literally opera rats, presumably because of the scurrying around the stage in tiny fast-moving steps. But the derogatory association of rats with dirt and sewage is unavoidable. Though privileged as a servant of art, the Little Dancer was viewed in morally unfavorable terms by her contemporaries. Young, pretty, and poor, the ballet students were understood as potential targets of male "protectors." Degas understood the predicament of the Little Dancer -- what the contemporary reviewer Joris-Karl Huysmans called her "terrible reality." The Little Dancer is a very poignant, deeply felt work of art in which a little girl of fourteen, in spite of the difficult position in which she is placed, both physically and psychologically, struggles for a measure of dignity: her head is held high, though her arms and hands are uncomfortably stretched behind her back.

Sry i forgot, there are a ton more pictures from the museum, but since I have to go, I will continue to post them later. Stay tuned for more lovely pictures on your virtual tour of the National Gallery of Art and the National Portrait Museum! And have a happy 4th of July today!

Museum day!

So yesterday, since it was hot and I didn't want to go to the mall and spend money, I decided to go to some of the many interesting and free museums in DC. (they even have a textile museum which is on my list of museums to see.) So the first museum I went to was the National Gallery of Art, which is huge!

The National Gallery of Art was created in 1937 for the people of the United States of America by a joint resolution of Congress, accepting the gift of financier and art collector Andrew W. Mellon. During the 1920s, Mr. Mellon began collecting with the intention of forming a gallery of art for the nation in Washington. In 1937, the year of his death, he promised his collection to the United States. Funds for the construction of the West Building were provided by The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust. On March 17, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted the completed building and the collections on behalf of the people of the United States of America.

It has a lot of big name artists along with smaller/less recognized ones, but no matter the name recognition, all deserve to be there.

The first exhibit was the Chester Dale Exhibit "From Impressionism to Modernism."





This one is called Odalisque as well I believe. I'm learning how to take pictures at a museum with the light/angle and all, so please excuse the bright light spot intruding in this pic and if in others.


I liked this one because its a fairly normal painting till you see that the artist has included the underarm hair. I know that everyone has it but usually, the artist does not include things like that unless it is in his style or it is that type of painting/art school. It just took me a moment to register, and when it did, I was like oh!




BTW, the plaques for each photo detailing the basic info will be found below each picture!