Astroturfing? Fauxtography?

Origin:The term "astroturf" is a play on "grassroots". "Grassroot movements" arise organically through the people. "Astroturfing", then, is artificial grassroots,  fake grassroots.Verb: astroturf: 1 to join an online discussion pretending to be an independent member of the community but is...

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Post for dog-people

An unusual silence is the reception you get one day when you enter home. You call his/her name and no reply. You get worried fearing something might have happened and you search the house when you enter the bedroom you come across with the scene of the picture."What on earth... grr... how can you......

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English characters changed?

Maybe it is not a good idea to have more interesting characters or... I don't kn...

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Knitting and embroidering famous painting masterpieces

The group "The Materialistics" based in UK have recreated 50 masterpieces that enchanted the world. Works of famous artists like Kandinsky, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Andy Warhol, Vermeer, Piet Mondrian, Rossetti, Klimt, Picasso, Munch were redone through knitting, embroidery and crochet and started being...

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The Kiss by Gustav Klimt

(right picture: detail)I thought that I had to publish "The Kiss", 1908, by Klimt even thou it is very famous but since Munch's painting is at the post below it is easier to compare them.I could swear that the couple is the same in another place shrouded in gold on a bed made of flowe...

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Munch's The Kiss: "I try to dissect souls"

Right: The Kiss, 1895. etchingLeft: The Kiss, 1897. paintingThese are two versions of Munch's "The kiss" that inspired Gustav Klimt's famous painting with the same title.Some of Munch's quotations explain not only his intentions, and the expressionist attitude, but also distance him from impressionism:"No...

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Auguste Renoir: "your favorite painting is at a private collection"

Right: Self-portrait, 1910Left: Woman with a necklace, 1910I was searching for Renoir's paintings that I do not know and I noticed that many of his paintings are at private collections including the two above and some that I have published.At this site there is a list of Renoir's paintings with the...

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings are historical events

I do not know why some historical events are more remembered than others.These are photos of Hiroshima today and this is what matters.This is the history:"August, 6 1945 -About 140,0000 of Hiroshima's 300,000 residents died from the bombing, including those who died from radiation-linked illnesses.Everybody...

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The insanely astonishing universe of Karin Taylor

This is magical, fantastic, incredible, incredibly beautiful, so cute, these colors!, childhood, elephant in my garden!, amazing, and so many words pop in your head while you are browsing Karin Taylor's portfolio.She is an Australian artist that masters many techniques that she uses to make her pieces...

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Art and reality dialog

Right: Your blind passanger, 2010, by Olafur EliassonLeft: Tai-Chi in a fog day in ChinaI just found out the installation, right picture, of the artist Olafur Eliasson. The "installation is a 90-meter-long densely fogged tunnel in which museumgoers are forced to use senses other than sight to navigate...

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