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...drawing skills, at first glance, may seem to resemble a 6-year-old's. But her work has unique twists: she often incorporates photos into her comics, lending them another layer of reality. And her tone is refreshingly caustic. Saibara's fictional characters are delinquents and outcasts, and her nonfiction characters, mostly her friends, family and herself, aren't much better. And yet Saibara's intimacy with the characters allows readers to laugh with the unsympathetic lot, not at them. "I grew up watching women get beat up by their drunken husbands, raising kids fathered by different men, never smiling...
Research over the past decade has shown that the film covering your eyes is quite complicated. There's an inner layer of sugary proteins, followed by a more watery middle layer and then an oily layer on top. Chronic dry eye can result from an imbalance in any part of the film. For example, the oily layer, which is produced by glands at the base of the eyelashes, keeps tears from evaporating too quickly. If you don't make enough oil, you may need one of the thicker over-the-counter eyedrops to bolster that layer, along with warm compresses...
...Titan is a chemical cousin of Earth, it's an Earth gone terribly wrong. The surface is etched with riverbeds and shorelines carved by the methane rains. The ground seems to be a thin, frozen crust over a smoother, softer layer. "Kind of a creme brulee consistency," says John Zarnecki, a principal science investigator. The atmosphere produces plenty of wind and weather, and there is even a flicker of a greenhouse effect, but with sunlight a thousand times dimmer than on Earth, it doesn't amount to much...
...varied view on the contemporary art scene." tel: [49-30] 32 41 591; www.galerie-schultz.de KIOSKSHOP BERLIN Rump calls German artist H.N. Semjon's "Product Sculptures" a "completely crazy but very sensual exhibition." This permanent, privately funded installation shows everyday articles like milk cartons and newspapers preserved inside a thin layer of transparent beeswax. As the objects can be purchased, the venue is both gallery and shop. Says Rump of Semjon: "He wants to slow down in a [fast] modern society and replace the simple usage of objects with artistic purity." tel: [49-30] 78 41 291; www.kioskshopberlin.de
...KIOSKSHOP BERLIN Rump calls German artist H.N. Semjon's "Product Sculptures" a "completely crazy but very sensual exhibition." This permanent, privately funded installation shows everyday articles like milk cartons and newspapers preserved inside a thin layer of transparent beeswax. As the objects can be purchased, the venue is both gallery and shop. Says Rump of Semjon: "He wants to slow down in a [fast] modern society and replace the simple usage of objects with artistic purity." tel: (49-30) 78 41 291; www.kioskshopberlin.de