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...Miller and Wilson raised more than $1 million each in contributions in the days after the outburst). However, most single-serving sites are not designed with money in mind. Brooklyn, N.Y., artist Damon Zucconi launched SometimesRedSometimesBlue.com in 2007 as a "poetic gesture." The site summons a screen filled with color that drew Zucconi for its beauty and simplicity. The 23-year-old has been creating websites since 2006; he's now up to 18. "It's a nice way to make a piece of artwork," he says, "but my domain bill is getting pretty high at this point...
Thomas’ decision to rotate the piece 90 degrees, as well as her near-complete color reversal (greens are pinks, and most symbolically, bright oranges become blues), speaks to multiple beliefs: the color reversal, to the historic mistreatment of black people in Western societies; the correspondence in shape, to a fundamental common ground between all peoples’ experiences. In short, Matisse may have gotten some credit where credit was perhaps not due, but this fact did not impede Thomas from either being inspired by or relating to his work. This notion is further illustrated by her second painting...
...book “Alma W. Thomas: A Retrospective of the Paintings”, she notes, “Through color I have sought to concentrate on beauty and happiness, rather than on man’s inhumanity to man.” Many argue that it was just this relatable and hopeful approach to the politics beneath her work that allowed her to break so many barriers in the art world. Sound like anyone you know...
Ibrahim J. Domian, the first author on the paper and an HMS instructor, said color receptors were used to tag heart cells in a genetically-modified mouse embryo. This color-coding approach was used to identify and purify a rare daughter cell of a master heart stem cell that the researchers then used to make a an actual working heart muscle cell...
...BEDFORD POST Fall brings an explosion of color to the dense forests and backcountry trails of Bedford, a posh village just an hour north of Manhattan that's a favorite with the horsey set. Bedford is also home to such bold namers as Glenn Close, George Soros and Richard Gere, who recently opened the Bedford Post, BedfordPostInn.com, with wife Carey Lowell. With its in-house yoga studio and elegant gardens, Gere's B&B is the town's most ambitious stab at a true luxury hideaway. Housed in a 247-year-old building, each of the Post's eight rooms...