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...love him for his nimble skating and fluid style. We love him for his diamond stud and long hair. We love him for these things you can see and sense...
...Matsumotos have worked in Kagami, on the southern island of Kyushu, for three generations; it was igusa that turned a poor country backwater into a modern middle-class town, one of the wealthiest farming communities in all of Japan. The farmers had a nickname for their prized crop: Blue Diamond...
...Warhol used income from celebrity portraits to fund experiments, including huge abstracts. They consist of scaled-up camouflage material or giant Rorschach blots: patterns intended to confuse the eye or to suggest things that aren't there. Smaller, darker paintings from the same period sprinkled with real diamond dust record shadows falling across his studio...
...number of court decisions support Griffin's argument. In the famous Sony Betamax case in 1984, the Supreme Court refused to block the sale of vcrs even though they might be used in some instances to make illegal copies of shows. And in the 1999 Rio lawsuit, Diamond Multimedia (whose corporate name, perhaps not coincidentally, happens to be Sonicblue) won the right to continue marketing the first portable MP3 music player, the Rio, even though many people used it to play pirated copies of copyrighted music. As long as Sonicblue and Morpheus can demonstrate just two legitimate uses of their...
Another ostensibly disconcerting painting that becomes more and more pleasing to the eye if one spends time with it is “Black, White, Grey Cityscape I” (1994) by Martha Diamond (VES 4abr, “The Art of Color”). Filled with large—even careless—brush strokes, the first of Diamond’s two paintings exudes a dark, smoggy, compact atmosphere, evoking the scene of hazy, indistinct skyscrapers. “Untitled (City)” (2001), on the other hand, blazes with brilliant hues: oranges, yellows bleeding onto...