Word: mayan
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...even if the world is saved in September 2012, don't these people know the deductions made from the Mayan calendar - that the world will end on Dec. 21 of that year? They have only three months to live...
...here's why. In 1997 he needed to have some landscaping done at his home near the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he has worked as a professor of civil engineering for more than 20 years. He picked a company out of the Yellow Pages, called, and three Mayan Indians from Belize appeared on his doorstep. Amadei, 53, an amiable Frenchman who is quick to connect, listened as the men told him of the poverty back in their home village of San Pablo. He stayed in touch and a few years later accepted an invitation to visit their families...
...Rajasthan, India, among others. The show is organized thematically rather than chronologically or geographically. The seemingly incongruous juxtapositions create a surreal space in which a punch bowl from a 1931 Cowan Pottery Studio Jazz Bowl Series is a blaze of blue and black abstraction behind a case containing Mayan cylinder vases and Greek oil flasks. Ackley cites two original sites of inquiry: his desire to look at a Goya drawing next to a Hokusai print and his desire to consider Maya drawings on ceramic vessels next to more familiar ancient Greek drawings. Fittingly, they are also two of the most...
...those who are not familiar with Japanese art, “wabi-sabi” seems a fitting description of Kouzo’s jagged-shaped porcelains. Having graduated from the Tajimi Municipal Ceramic Design Institute in Gift Prefecture in 2003, Takeuchi, now 30, was inspired by the Mayan ruins that he once studied in school. In his studio, he began to create large pieces made of many rectangular, hollow tubes. But he could not get past that phase. “Before all of this, all I had was a perfect square. It was too perfect. I couldn?...
Today, the skull measuring has stopped, and the museum is now a nice quiet place filled with replicas of Mayan stone reliefs and ceremonial objects from the different natives of Oceania. And if you venture up to the fifth floor you can watch one of the miracles of the academic world: how a concentration dies...