Month: July 2004

This is an Italian Toy Store in Siena Italy.

A view of the rooftops of Florence. This picture was taken from the Campinale in the center of Florence.

This is a picture of St. Peters and Paul Chuch in San Francisco in North Beach. This is the church where Joe Dimagio married Marilyn Monroe.

This is the inscription on the South face of Old Saint Mary’s Chuch. Allegedly this inscription was aimed at the gambling houses and brothels down below. In 1854 this was the largest building in California. It is on the corner of Grant and California.

This is a picture of a Victorian on California St.

Wired News: Group Warns DVRs Endangered: “Television fans who like to choose when and where they watch their favorite programs are in for a rude awakening next year when new copy controls encoded in digital television streams will limit such freedoms. ” This whole broadcast flag idea is such a bad one.

From the Floor: A More Rational Art Market: “Fernwood is a new hedge fund, run by an experienced investment manager and supported by art market experts. It uses fine art as an alternate asset class to give its investors portfolio exposure outside the traditional stock and bond markets. ” Barron’s had a similar article a few months back about the rapid rise in prices for contemporary art.

The New Yorker: The Critics: The Art World: “The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has withered the pride of handworked mediums. Painting survives on a case-by-case basis, its successes amounting to special exemptions from a verdict of history. Ruscha?s importance looms in this context. He may be the first artist who, as he recently remarked, ?came to painting through photography.? ” Interesting.

helmintholog: Where the money went An interesting look on whether or not we are better off today financially than we were back in 1970.

Microsoft Monitor: Microsoft’s New Media Group: Interesting move. Looks like a giant Trojan Horse gift to the entertainment industry to me.  From Chris Lanier’s blog http://msmvps.com/chrisl/