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Among the first paintings Htein Lin made during his 61/2 years in a Burmese prison was a self-portrait. The likeness is only passing - he had no mirror in his cell - and the line is uncertain: in lieu of a brush, he used the pieces of a disassembled cigarette lighter. The theme couldn't be clearer, however. The artist's face is enshrouded by prison bars. Yet sprouting from his head is a verdant tangle of vines that sprawls to the painting's edge - a fierce assertion that the mind, unlike the body, will not be held captive. "While...
Everyone has done it: you’re sitting at your computer, plugging away at a response paper for that Lit & Arts core, when you catch yourself forgetting to capitalize, omitting punctuation, using abbreviations—and even, god forbid, emoticons. While you brush it off as a result of sleep deprivation, a new study says that you’re not to blame—technology is. A report, published last week cooperatively by the Pew Internet & American Life Project and the College Board’s National Commission on Writing, found that two-thirds of high school students...
...portraits in the second room were created as tools of state which depict images of ideal monarchs. Philip’s wife, Queen Margarita, wears a sumptuous dress in her portrait, painted with painstaking detail, while her face is mask-like. Gone are El Greco’s expressive brush strokes, replaced with a new artistic naturalism that focuses on the realistic representation of fabric folds and shadows.Velazquez’s first work in the exhibit is a psychologically intense portrait of the famous Spanish poet Luis de Góngora y Argote, whose somber dress dramatically emphasizes...
...editing features, which surpass those of any free program currently available. Beyond the standard red-eye removal and cropping features, Express lets you dabble with more advanced options like altering a single color on your image (while leaving the rest of the picture unchanged) or using the touch-up brush to fix multiple problems at once. On the downside, Express ran a little slowly in my tests and was not quite as intuitive to use as another competitor, Picnik...
...above the surface of Enceladus, Cassini sampled an icy exhaust that researchers didn't even know existed until the spacecraft spotted it three years ago. NASA expects to release detailed composition information soon, but the ice hints at subsurface water and the attendant possibility of life. Seven more close-brush flybys are in the offing, including one high-wire plunge that will drop the spacecraft a scant 15 miles (24 km) above Enceladus' surface. Says JPL's Spilker: "We're going to taste and sniff everything...