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Galileo: Secure satellite navigation for emergency and security services
A special Galileo navigation service will be set up for better management of critical transport and emergency services, better law enforcement (police), improved internal security (border control) and safer peace missions.
These are the core objectives of a European Commission proposal published last week on the Public Regulated Service (PRS) access rules.
Using highly encrypted signals, PRS will offer protection against threats to infrastructures dependent on satellite navigation technology so that PRS users can receive vital, often life-saving, information even when other infrastructures become unavailable.
PRS is one of the important features of Galileo that adds value compared to other satellite navigation systems. The access to PRS will be limited to authorised governmental bodies.
Antonio Tajani, European Commission Vice-President in charge of Industry and Entrepreneurship, said: "The safety and security of each and every European citizen lies at the heart of this proposal. Given our increasing reliance on satellite navigation infrastructures, there is an urgent need to ensure that key services, such as our police forces and rescue and emergency services, continue to function in moments of crisis, terrorist threat or disaster. Furthermore, the market for PRS applications offers an important opportunity for Europe's entrepreneurs".
Galileo is Europe's initiative for a state-of-the-art global satellite navigation system, providing a highly accurate, guaranteed global positioning service. It will offer a total of five services, the PRS being one of these, the others being the Open Service, the Search-and-Rescue Service, the Safety-of-Life Service and the Commercial Service. Satellite navigation is about providing accurate positioning, but also about providing a secure, robust and reliable service at all times. Today's proposal outlines a strict control framework for the implementation of the PRS access rules.
PRS protects against threats
The development of PRS, with its highly robust encrypted signals, is a response to an increase in threats to infrastructures dependent on satellite navigation technology. PRS secures these infrastructures against such threats, often called spoofing. Spoofing can distort signals guiding a car or a ship, and provide inaccurate positioning to e.g. a police car or an ambulance. Small jamming devices are now widely available to buy on the internet with the potential to cause damage in the wrong hands. PRS could be used in crisis situations where it is important that emergency and security services continue to function even when other services have been cut as part of security measures.
PRS is restricted to public users
Galileo is a civil system under civilian control. Decisions for the use of PRS and its application lie with each Member State. PRS use will be controlled and restricted to authorised governmental bodies in the EU Member States and the European institutions. Third countries and international organisations who conclude the appropriate agreements with the European Union may qualify to use the service.
Business opportunities and better services to citizens
The manufacture of the PRS receivers will create business opportunities for European industry and entrepreneurs. European citizens will benefit indirectly from better and safer emergency and security services as a result of PRS.
Tight control framework to ensure trust
For Member States' governments to place their trust in PRS, its security must be maintained. This will be done through the establishment of a control framework covering the following:
users of the service;
the production of PRS receivers;
the potential export of PRS receivers.
Each Member State wishing to use PRS will set up a "Responsible PRS Authority". This authority will manage and control end-users as well as the manufacture of PRS receivers. It will also ensure adherence to clearly-defined security standards.
Coordination on a European level will guarantee consistency and conformity with the high level of security required.
The legislative proposal will be forwarded to the European Parliament and the Council for approval as part of the ordinary legislative procedure. If approved, the PRS could be available in 2014, when Galileo is expected to become operational, together with two other initial Galileo services, the Open Service and the Search-And-Rescue Service.
Background: Why Europe needs Galileo
Galileo guarantees Europe's independence in satellite navigation, a sector that has become critical for its economy and for the well-being of its citizens. Galileo also helps Europe develop its know-how in the space, receivers and applications sectors, securing economic revenues and jobs. The combination of Galileo and GPS signals in dual receivers will open the door to new applications that require a higher level of precision than available today with GPS alone.
Galileo is expected to deliver €90 billion to the European economy over a period of about 12 years in terms of additional revenues for the industry and in terms of public benefits, not counting the benefit of independence.
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LITCHFIELD, Conn. (AP) — An 18-year-old Connecticut woman cited the 1999 Columbine school shootings in her diary alongside plans to shoot up her high school last month, according to court records released Tuesday.
The Register Citizen reports (http://bit.ly/1dL8ipP ) that records show Natalie Carpenter wanted to take revenge for being bullied at Danbury High School and then commit suicide in the school cafeteria.
An arrest warrant unsealed Tuesday in Litchfield Superior Court says she tried to carry out her plan, including filling out paperwork to obtain a firearm. Carpenter and Peter Thulin, 19, both of Torrington, are accused of plotting to shoot up the school.
Carpenter's mother, Wendy, said her daughter wouldn't "hurt a fly" and was acting out while trying to cope with the loss of two close friends.
Carpenter was arrested March 4 and pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit first-degree assault and criminal attempt to commit first-degree assault.
She wrote in her diary she wanted to "follow in the footsteps" of the Columbine killers.
Natalie Carpenter told police she and Thulin were drunk when they contemplated the shooting, saying, "What would happen if we all did this?"
She wasn't able to buy a gun after she was turned away by a Torrington gun store and was told by Wal-Mart to wait two weeks while paperwork was being processed, according to the court records.
Carpenter is being held at Niantic Corrections Institute. Thulin will be turned over to authorities after he is treated at a psychiatric facility.
Some who know or were familiar with Carpenter suggest the woman was bullied and isolated from peers.
A neighbor in Stratford, where Carpenter attended public schools, recalled brushes with her. Nick Forrest said his family considered installing surveillance after Carpenter crashed her mother's vehicle into the family's garage door when she was a minor.
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In a windowless room on the University of California, Berkeley, campus, two undergrads are playing a Monopoly game that one of them has no chance of winning. A team of psychologists has rigged it so that skill, brains, savvy, and luckthose ingredients that ineffably combine to create success in games as in lifehave been made immaterial. Here, the only thing that matters is money.
One of the players, a brown-haired guy in a striped T-shirt, has been made rich. He got $2,000 from the Monopoly bank at the start of the game and receives $200 each time he passes Go. The second player, a chubby young man in glasses, is comparatively impoverished. He was given $1,000 at the start and collects $100 for passing Go. T-Shirt can roll two dice, but Glasses can only roll one, limiting how fast he can advance. The students play for fifteen minutes under the watchful eye of two video cameras, while down the hall in another windowless room, the researchers huddle around a computer screen, later recording in a giant spreadsheet the subjects' every facial twitch and hand gesture.
T-Shirt isn't just winning; he's crushing Glasses. Initially, he reacted to the inequality between him and his opponent with a series of smirks, an acknowledgment, perhaps, of the inherent awkwardness of the situation. Hey, his expression seemed to say, this is weird and unfair, but whatever. Soon, though, as he whizzes around the board, purchasing properties and collecting rent, whatever discomfort he feels seems to dissipate. He's a skinny kid, but he balloons in size, spreading his limbs toward the far ends of the table. He smacks his playing piece (in the experiment, the wealthy player gets the Rolls-Royce) as he makes the circuitsmack, smack, smackending his turns with a board-shuddering bang! Four minutes in, he picks up Glasses's piece, the little elf shoe, and moves it for him. As the game nears its finish, T-Shirt moves his Rolls faster. The taunting is over now: He's all efficiency. He refuses to meet Glasses's gaze. His expression is stone cold as he takes the loser's cash.
For a long time, primatologists have known that chimpanzees will act out social dominance with a special ferociousness, slapping hands, stamping feet, or charging back and forth and dragging huge branches, as Jane Goodall once wrote. And sociologists and anthropologists have explored the effects of hierarchy in tribes and groups. But psychology has only recently begun seriously investigating how having money, that major marker of status in the modern world, affects psychosocial behavior in the species Homo sapiens. By making real people temporarily very affluent, without regard to their actual economic circumstances and within the controlled environment of a psych lab, the Berkeley researchers aim to demonstrate the potency of that one variable. Putting someone in a role where they're more privileged and have more power in a game makes them behave like people who actually do have more power, more money, and more status, says Paul Piff, the psychologist who designed the experiment. The Monopoly results, based on a year of watching inequitable games between pairs like Glasses and T-Shirt, have not yet been released. But Piff believes that they will support and amplify his previous provocative research.
Earlier this year, Piff, who is 30, published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that made him semi-famous. Titled Higher Social Class Predicts Increased Unethical Behavior, it showed through quizzes, online games, questionnaires, in-lab manipulations, and field studies that living high on the socioeconomic ladder can, colloquially speaking, dehumanize people. It can make them less ethical, more selfish, more insular, and less compassionate than other people. It can make them more likely, as Piff demonstrated in one of his experiments, to take candy from a bowl of sweets designated for children. While having money doesn't necessarily make anybody anything, Piff says, the rich are way more likely to prioritize their own self-interests above the interests of other people. It makes them more likely to exhibit characteristics that we would stereotypically associate with, say, assholes.
These findings, in combination with a researcher eager to promote them, reverberated online. On message boards, detractors accused Piff of using his lab to promote a leftist agenda; that his home base was Berkeley only fueled those suspicions. Piff's e-mail box filled with messages calling him a liberal idiot and his work junk science. I would wager, says Wharton business-school psychologist Philip Tetlock, that a congressional committee chair who favors redistribution of wealth would be far more likely to call these experts in as witnesses than would a committee chair who opposes redistribution.
It is easy to see Piff's research as ideologically motivated. The point is to shed light on some of the consequences of social class, he says. But whatever his goal, the results are apolitical, he says, and the data point in a clear direction. Would I be less excited if we found that higher-status people were more generous? he asks. I'd probably be less excited, but that's not what we found.


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Tom Sims, an innovative skateboarding and snowboarding pioneer and former world champion who helped bring snowboarding to the masses by pushing ski resorts to embrace the fledgling sport in the 1980s, has died. He was 61.
The founder of Sims Skateboards and Sims Snowboards died Wednesday at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital after suffering cardiac arrest, said his sister, Margie Sims Klinger.
"He was the godfather of all board sports," Michael Brooke, publisher of Concrete Wave Magazine, said Friday. "He literally helped build the professional skate industry, and he was one of the giants in the history of snowboarding."
Pat Bridges, editor of Snowboarder Magazine, said Sims "not only pioneered snowboarding, but he also popularized what has come to be known as the action-sports lifestyle. He had a different modus for having a good time standing sideways, depending on the season."
As Brooke said, "He wasn't just a business guy selling this stuff. He lived it."
"He was the true first pioneer of what's called longboarding — riding a skateboard over 4 feet in length," Brooke said. "He'd ride enormous longboards and cruise down the hills. He was doing this way before anybody else. He liked taking this surf kind of feeling and putting it out there on skateboards."
A New Jersey transplant who also was a surfer and wakeboarder, Sims moved to Santa Barbara in 1971 and began entering and winning skateboard contests, including the Skateboard World Championships.
"He became someone that all the kids looked up to and wanted to emulate and wanted his boards," Sims' sister said. "So he realized there was such a demand, he set up a business and began producing products. His specialty was the 4-foot-long skateboard that he started out making himself."
A few years after launching Sims Skateboards in the mid-'70s, he founded Sims Snowboards.
Sims, who became a world snowboarding champion in 1983, was responsible for the creation of the first snowboarding halfpipe made of snow and used in competition, in Lake Tahoe, and the first permanent halfpipe of snow at a ski area, at Snow Summit in Big Bear Lake.
"He not only championed this activity," said Bridges, "he really changed people's perceptions of the fledgling sport, one resort at a time."
He also was the main snowboarding stunt double for Roger Moore in the 1985 James Bond movie "A View to a Kill."
In a 1995 interview with Snowboarder Magazine, Sims said: "The world has woken up and realized that the best way and most enjoyable way down a mountain is on a snowboard. Prior to 1985, I had to beg a ski area owner to let me on their precious chairlifts. The same guy that kicked me off the hill 10 years ago now begs me for a board for his grandson."
Born in Los Angeles on Dec. 6, 1950, Sims moved to the East Coast when he was 2, and his family settled in Haddonfield, N.J. when he was 6.
While visiting his grandparents in Los Angeles during the summer of 1960, Sims saw his first skateboards when he watched half a dozen kids rolling down the sidewalk.
"I was absolutely in a trance," he told Concrete Wave in November. He begged his father to buy him a skateboard at Sears and "from that day forward I lived on my skateboard. I just loved it beyond belief. By the end of the second day I was good as any of the kids out there on the sidewalk. I just found something I really loved to do."
In 1963, Sims built his first crude snowboard in his junior high school wood-shop class. He called it a "skiboard."
"I was trying to solve a dilemma that I had," he told National Public Radio in 1998. "I couldn't skateboard on the snow-covered streets in the wintertime in south New Jersey. And the simplest solution was to make a skateboard for the snow."
In addition to his sister, Sims is survived by his wife, Hilary; his children, Sarah, Tommy and Shane; and his stepdaughters, Alexa and Kylie Wagner.


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"Mr. Micawber was waiting for me within the gate, and we went up to his room (top story but one), and cried very much. He solemnly conjured me, I remember, to take warning by his fate; and to observe that if a man had twenty pounds a-year for his income, and spent nineteen pounds nineteen shillings and sixpence, he would be happy, but that if he spent twenty pounds one he would be miserable. After which he borrowed a shilling of me for porter, gave me a written order on Mrs. Micawber for the amount, and put away his pocket-handkerchief, and cheered up."
I am the Mr Micawber of time, being that I'm over-spending just slightly this month. Hopefully I'll make it up this year!
If I had more time I might blog about a small revival in minimal geeky location-based fun stuff that's happening with sites like noticin.gs and blockchalk.com. I might also note that foursquare got funding which is good because even though I'm not particularly attracted to the service it's a better experience than its competitors by a long way (and much less creepy, I think). And I'd note that opengeodata.org has stopped being about OpenStreetMap exclusively and that if you want to get Steve Coast's attention there are a million things he's thinking about these days.
If I had more time to blog and more time to think, I'd stop leaving cranky comments trying to answer Manuel Lima's false dichotomy and Robert Kosara's straw man and I'd stop worrying about definitions of data and aesthetics and analysis and I'd be happy to frame the argument in terms of prickles and goo instead.
"it is inevitable that there will soon be a large number of hybrid designer-engineers that shall radically reconstruct the visual landscape." – John Maeda
This debate isn't new and it's not going away either. John Maeda and friends have been pointing out the rise of gooey-prickles and prickley-goo for years. I wonder if prickly folks at RISD are getting gooier, and vice versa.
My money's on the middle ground too, which is why I find narrow and divisive definitions so frustrating. Why can't we have aesthetically pleasing data analysis? (Of course there will be pure analysis with no emphasis on aesthetics, just as there will be pure aesthetics with no emphasis on data. Sometimes the latter with be art to make a point. That's cool!)
If I had more time to think and blog, I'd have told you about our intern Amy Martin and how she worked with us over the summer on some Wikipedia stuff to hone her hybrid designer-developer skills, and how that seems to be paying off nicely. And I'd mention the new GAFFTA space in San Francisco that is running workshops also recognising this kind of work without worrying overmuch about definitions. We'll be there next month.
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
Playing in the Woods
Without the luxury of abundant neighbor kids and the infrastructure afforded by suburban playgrounds, my brother and I wandered aimlessly through the hundred acre woods that surrounded our house. Shooting slingshots, dirtying clothes, playing like cowboys and Indians, and making forts and dams, we passed our time in the forest.
Western Maine.
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12 comments:
- Skip said...
Great post! I'm going to miss these gems.
- April 22, 2010 at 10:37 AM
- Foster Huntington said...
thanks skip. i really appreciate your loyal readership,
- April 22, 2010 at 10:43 AM
- Angelo said...
Love it. I try to play in the woods as an adult as often as possible. I need to get back into fort-building though.
- April 22, 2010 at 11:33 AM
- Foster Huntington said...
playing in the woods keeps you honest and grounded. the fort building is an added bonus,
- April 22, 2010 at 11:38 AM
Definitely had me some LA Lights. Those, along with Reebok Pumps and every incarnation of Penny Hardaway's shoes made up my entire childhood shoe collection.
- April 22, 2010 at 11:52 AM
- Foster Huntington said...
i liked what LA lights were selling. what a cool idea for shoes. anyway, nikes or vans couldnt hold a candle to them. If i was familiar with the pumps i would have gone with them but i was a little to much of a country boy,
- April 22, 2010 at 11:55 AM
- NSW said...
on earth day no less. excellent post brother.
- April 22, 2010 at 4:55 PM
- Foster Huntington said...
great point about earth day, its a complete coincidence haha,
- April 22, 2010 at 7:21 PM
- d said...
it's been fun living vicariously in maine thru you.Please continue to take us along with you, as you become a garmento in New York !
- April 22, 2010 at 7:41 PM
- Foster Huntington said...
i will do my best but i dont think i will have time to update with any real regularity. i am going to be giving my new job all my efforts. it will be tough. thanks for the support,
- April 22, 2010 at 7:46 PM
- sinnlighet said...
Your blog ..... it's amazing and soooo inspiring. Nice to find you!
A small footprint from Agneta & Sweden
- April 23, 2010 at 7:52 PM
- Foster Huntington said...
how did you find my blog? you have an amazing eye. what do you shoot with? thanks for the kind words,
- April 23, 2010 at 8:01 PM


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This is your place to shine, aspiring baker! Show the people what you can really do!
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Friday, September 24, 2010
Orange + Aqua = Love
In the sunroom, Tobi painted mismatched vintage frames the same coral shade and displayed simple shells within, treating them as shadow boxes rather than traditional frames. This a trick that's been used to great effect by a number of designers -- and even on HGTV, but I still like the look. It's a great and inexpensive way to fill a big wall. And of course I love the hit of KWID Imperial Trellis in that great spice colorway.
So yes there are a lot of throw pillows on this daybed, but I make an exception for daybeds as they're deep enough both to accommodate a plethora of pillows and a person (or two), especially if they're backless as here. The embroidered teal pillows are particularly gorgeous -- would love to know the source if anyone knows it. But is it just me or does that art look an awful lot like a chalkboard?
36 comments:
- emily said...
Such great inspiration! I love the lamp in the third picture. And I totally agree about how the close, but not an exact match, tones work well together. I sometimes find myself trying to match things perfectly, but need to remember that it doesn't have to be exact to still look good.
- September 24, 2010 at 4:20 PM
- Karena said...
Averill, I too love Tobi's design work. That bench, the daybed with the orange throw and fabulous art, the silver gilt frames, all of it! Fun and fresh!
Art by Karena
- September 24, 2010 at 4:38 PM
- Anonymous said...
Fun colors! Daydreaming of a weekend getaway here!
- September 24, 2010 at 4:49 PM
- Liz @ It's Great To Be Home said...
The adjectives you picked to describe Tobi's design, fresh and happy, are perfect and exactly what I love! These rooms are going in my inspiration files, stat. And I can't wait to see how you design the nursery, it will be fab!
- September 24, 2010 at 5:09 PM
- Elise Lowerison said...
I came across your post this afternoon while browsing interior design blogs and the topic of window treatment selection was very interesting to me. I love the window treatments in this house, they are stunning. It is true that you must dress your windows appropriately to bring out their true beauty. Thank you for writing and as a special thanks to you and your readers, I would like to offer a 20% off coupon using this code upon checkout: BLG20.
- September 24, 2010 at 5:18 PM
- Christy said...
Oh I feel your no-alcohol and no-diet soda pain! That was such a pain!
And Averill - OMG I LOVE LOVE LOVE this post and these rooms. I'm in heaven. Gorgeous! You know I love aqua (Cal's room) and orange (Fi's room) and have them all over our house. If you really end up decorating your nursery in those colors I might have to fly to Houston for your shower just to see it in person. HAHA! Stalker much?!
But seriously I can't wait to see what you do, and I even want to dedicate a post to it on my blog, when the time comes!
These inspiration rooms are gorgeous, and your post is so informational. I LOVE IT!
- September 24, 2010 at 5:36 PM
- Pigeon said...
This is my favorite color combo--and its the colorway of my favorite (cliched but I love it anyways) fabric, chiang mai dragon in aqua. Am putting this room in my inspiration file. As usual :-)
- September 24, 2010 at 5:38 PM
- Acanthus and Acorn said...
Yes, orange + aqua = LOVE! I have looked at these pics so many times already! And, such a good post to put with them...thank you!
- September 24, 2010 at 6:00 PM
- Mackenzie {Design Darling} said...
Don't you love when that happens? I think aqua and orange will be a fabulous color combo for the little one's first pad. Have a great weekend, love!
- September 24, 2010 at 6:14 PM
- Anonymous said...
You beat me to it! :-) I just saw these rooms the other day too and saved them for a future post. I'm with you on all of the points you made. I love what she did here! I think a nursery in this scheme would really be fun. Can't wait to see what you do.
- September 24, 2010 at 8:10 PM
- Emily A. Clark said...
What a perfect color combo for a nursery (or any room for that matter!). It will be great, I know!
- September 24, 2010 at 9:29 PM
- Cristin @ Simplified Bee™ said...
Tobi is brilliant! Love how she painted those mix-matched frames and lamps. Love it.
- September 24, 2010 at 11:58 PM
- Fran said...
Averill, I love this color palette and it is perfect for a nursery. Perfect!! BTW, Tobi is so talented...I need to find some of the sources for the paint colors she used. Anyway, I love what she did and can totally envision a nursery in this color palette. I used a same color palette for my BF's baby shower (but, I threw in fuschia & chartreuse) as well.
I also posted about this nursery which has accents in orange & aqua which you might like for inspiration: http://greenstreetblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/lindsay-anyon-brier.html
- September 25, 2010 at 6:26 AM
- Pemberley said...
I love this color combination as well. I agree about the tones not exactly matching! You have to be brave and say I know this is going to work! Stop by Pemberley if you have time. I just posted a fall wreath giveaway.
- September 25, 2010 at 7:02 AM
- Couture Carrie said...
Really cool color combo, darling A!
Love these spaces!
- September 25, 2010 at 12:34 PM
- Susie @ Maddie's Nest said...
I loved this feature and also the color combo. I think I used pops of both in one of the mood board parties a while back. Exciting this is the direction you plan to take with the nursery...cannot wait to see what you do. I finally found a crib this week and am waiting on finish samples so I can order and just bought an old dresser to double as a change table at a barn sale locally this am. Feels good to be planning...and in my case, better late than never. Enjoy your weekend.
- September 25, 2010 at 1:17 PM
- Poindexter said...
What a fabulous choice for your baby's room. Very fresh and visually stimulating!
- September 25, 2010 at 2:35 PM
- Dumbwit Tellher said...
I adore Tobi's work here as it is realistic, plus she's a great lady. I love your idea of using these colors for baby's nursery, brilliant. Not cliche' and extremely happy.
Have you ever tried SanPellegrino all natural soda's? They make an orange that is so good. Not too sweet. Hope you are feeling well Averill. Again, so excited for you & Dave!! xx
- September 25, 2010 at 4:33 PM
- Daniela said...
I think their might be a subliminal Gator message here......
- September 25, 2010 at 5:17 PM
- Angela said...
OMG! These are the colors I'm using to decorate my bedroom as we speak. This is so neat!
- September 25, 2010 at 8:45 PM
- Sarah Klassen said...
Averill, I think this is a fabulous idea! Not only will it be refreshing, but very flexible. When the little one gets old, he or she will have some great pieces and can certainly add a beautiful fuschia and deep plum, or grey... the possibilities are endless! I bet you must be so excited!
Enjoy the weekend, Averill,
p.s did you know, I have worked in children's fashion for years? I help manage a fine children's fashion boutique, so if you have any questions or might need anything at all, ever, please don't hesitate to email me :)
- September 25, 2010 at 8:46 PM
- Angela said...
These are colors I'm using for our bedroom and bath as we speak! Thanks for sharing!
- September 25, 2010 at 8:46 PM
- Bromeliad said...
What a nice light and bright touch with these colors. I confess to having grown a bit weary of Imperial Trellis, but it looks fresh again in orange.
- September 26, 2010 at 4:04 PM
- Karen@StrictlySimpleStyle said...
What an unexpected combination.
- September 26, 2010 at 7:17 PM
- Ann said...
Oh what lovely images. And yes orange is slowly becoming a fave color for interiors these days... and why not? orange gives such a cheerful and vibrant feel.
- September 27, 2010 at 4:40 AM
- mandi@interiordesignmusings said...
I love it too! I posted on an orange/aqua/gray fabric board for a child's room using Spoonflower.com. I am so thrilled for you on your news! Such a special time in your life.
- September 27, 2010 at 9:14 AM
- Connie @ SogniESorrisi said...
Love this colour mix. So happy!
- September 27, 2010 at 9:18 AM
- LindsB said...
Oh yes please- I will take this color combo anyday of the week, I just love how bright and happy it feels!
- September 27, 2010 at 3:44 PM
- Laura@JourneyChic said...
Tobi has such gorgeous taste. I love that color combo and think it will look awesome in a nursery. I love anything that's not the traditional powder blue/pale pink/sage green.
- September 27, 2010 at 4:09 PM
- Rene said...
Oh how I love this color combination. What fun colors to decorate a nursery with and very gender neutral, no?
- September 27, 2010 at 7:11 PM
- Hello Lover... said...
Love it! I plan on doing coral and turquoise for our guest room/office (whenever we get our acts/budget together for it). I think I love turquoise with any color - great inspiration images.
- September 27, 2010 at 8:10 PM
- Sanity Fair said...
LOVE LOVE LOVE these examples! This is such a fabulous combination - I like it all year round. And orange in Autumn is so perfect...
- September 27, 2010 at 8:59 PM
- Anonymous said...
Are you kidding? Tobi is the most "matchy-matchy" decorator out there. Yes, her interiors are pretty, but they lack a personal feeling, and most importantly, look like they were done by a "decorator."
- September 27, 2010 at 9:17 PM
- VICTORIA BELLOW said...
Wow so airy-feeling about this bedroom,I adore the way the sunlight is seen in this room, I love the way the light radiates through the sheer drapes.The color palette is magnificent.Unexpected color combo!stunning!everything is to die for.Great shots as well as the Blog!Inspiring. :)
- September 28, 2010 at 4:55 AM
- The Zhush said...
Your inspiration for the nursery is pure perfection! I an now officially in love with this color combo thanks to you and the super talented Tobi! xx
- September 28, 2010 at 6:37 AM
- Kathysue said...
Averill you already know I can not do orange but I know good design when I see it and these images are great design and I agree fresh and young. It will make a darling crisp fresh nursery!!! Love the drapery panels fabric so pretty,Kathysue
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Mark/Space, creators of the ever-popular Missing Sync software for a variety of handheld gadgets such as Palm, BlackBerry, and PocketPC devices, has announced that it plans to release a version of the software for the iPhone. Upon first blush, it may seem like such a piece of software will be unnecessary and redundant, but Mark/Space promises to bring a number of useful functionalities that are currently lacking from Apple and other third parties.
For one, the Migration Assistant will be able to walk users through transferring contacts, calendar info, and cameraphone pictures from Palm, Windows Mobile, or BlackBerry devices to the iPhone. That's certainly very helpful for people who don't normally sync their contacts with Address Book. Perhaps more usefully, however, Missing Sync will allow the syncing of SMS messages from the iPhone as well as call logs—for those of you who conduct serious business over SMS (hey, I know some of you exist—that's me sometimes too), being able to save all of those text messages is nothing to sneeze at. You'll even be able to "view, sort and search them in an iChat-like threaded view on your Mac." Completely not required, and eye-candy-licious.
One of the main features, in my mind, is that users will be able to transfer their notes from the iPhone to the Mac. Currently, this is a feature that is curiously missing from the iPhone and its software, and it's been theorized that such a functionality will come with the final release of Leopard. Still, people don't have Leopard now, and some people won't upgrade to Leopard right away when it's finally out. As some readers have pointed out to me in e-mail, the syncing will only go one-way (from iPhone to Mac), so you won't be able to write yourself notes that will later appear on your iPhone. Boo.
For those of you who got worked up into a tizzy over that description, I'll have to break your heart by saying that Mark/Space doesn't plan to release the software until the fourth quarter of the year (the beginning of which is a mere week away, at this point). It'll sell for the same price as other versions of the software, $39.95 when it's released. By then, we might even get to see two-way Note-syncing, and we'll hope that Leopard won't render the thing obsolete the minute it drops.


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Wow, is Jay Cutler bad. This morning, I had this exchange with a friend regarding da Bears' QB:
Me: sulksulksulksulk
Friend: that guy is a one trick pony
me: sulking?
Friend: interceptions
hey.. i'm known for my interceptions
here's why
Me: haha
everything you've heard about me is true
Friend: maybe he has another undiagnosed disease: he needs glasses
me: hahaha
"ya know, this would be a lot easier if there were some way to tell the teams apart"
Friend: haha
he's tryin to read names
is that my johnson or theirs?
that doesn't sound right
man.. why are three of my receivers all next to each other?
oh well.. one of them will get it
all the great qbs must really be good with names
me: guys, spread out!
In short, Jay Cutler = really, really bad. How bad?
"He threw an interception to Frank Walker" bad.
"He threw TWO interceptions to Dominique Foxworth" bad.
"His 7.9 QB rating was the worst EVER by a Ravens' opponent" bad.
Edit. Thanks to Matt for reminding us that Eli Manning recorded a 0.0 rating against the Ravens in 2004
That's some kinda bad. Especially that last one, considering some of the great defenses the Ravens have had over the years, defenses that the current version does not even sniff. Jay Cutler, fittingly, made the Ed Reed-less 2009 Ravens look like the 1985 Bears.
Cutler was made to look even worse by comparison, thanks to the nearly perfect day turned in by Ravens' quarterback Joe Flacco.
Flacco set single-game career highs for touchdown passes (4) and quarterback rating (135.6). His two touchdown passes to Todd Heap in the first quarter, both of which were set up by Cutler-ceptions, gave the Ravens a 14 point lead that ended up being more than enough for the day. For the second week in a row, Flacco's day was done early, as the second-year starter was sent to the bench after helping build up an insurmountable Ravens' lead. Natty Joe will need to continue his stellar play of the last two contests, over the next two (against much stiffer competition), for B'More to hold on to their still-precarious Playoff spot.
Speaking of Heap, it was his first touchdown since Week 2 in San Diego, and his first two-touchdown performance since Week 10 of 2008 in Houston. Welcome back Todd. Now please, try not to limp off the field after every single catch.
Still more praise to go around, especially to the guys catching passes.
Demetrius Williams made a beautiful catch in double coverage for his first score since Week 8 of last season against Oakland. His four grabs were his most since the Colts game last year, and his 71 yards marked the most he has amassed since his only career 100-yard game – in Week 15 of his rookie campaign, waaaaaay back in 2006. A very warm welcome back to you as well, Mr. Productive Demetrius Williams. Two requests for #87:
1. Stay healthy.
2. Don't do whatever the heck you did to land in John Harbaugh's ridiculous "dog house" ever again.
Finally, a congratulations to Derrick Mason, who caught his 850th career pass, along with 5 others on the day, for 86 yards and a touchdown. Ho hum, just another day at the office for the Ravens' oldest player.
Moving on to the ground guys…
Ray Rice had two nice 28-yard gains, one on each of the team's first two scoring drives, on his way to 87 on the day. He looked to be in for another MONSTER performance, but the Bears did a nice job of putting the clamps on him after a few big chunks (of course, that just opened the door for all of the above mentions). Tack on 17 receiving yards, and Mighty Mouse was good for 100+ from scrimmage for the 11th time in 15 games this year.
Troy Smith, in his first "wildcat" action of 2009, ran the option well for 8 yards on his first try. After that, he was mostly unremarkable. Why Cam Cameron decided on this game to throw in the gimmick plays is anybody's guess. Guaranteed we don't see any more of that against Pittsburgh.
Unfortunately, that was about it for the running game. Willis and Pain Train combined for just 15 yards on 7 carries. Hardly the kind of 3-headed monster we had in mind, especially against the league's worst run defense. When you get four scores through the air though, it's hard to complain too much. And those two should be nice and rested for what should be another grinder in Pittsburgh next week.
It wasn't all good news, though. The Ravens' special teams had a rough day. First, they allowed the Bears' only touchdown of the day, a punt return by Earl Bennett, robbing the defense of what should have been a shutout. Much, much, worse was that they are now without a kick returner, as Lardarius Webb injured his knee in the third quarter, and is expected to miss the rest of the year.
The loss of Webb hurts not only on special teams, but in the secondary, where he had quickly became the team's best cornerback. The presence of #21 back there was a big reason for the improvement over the last month or so. It really is a shame for the rookie out of Nicholls State, and it could be potentially disastrous for the Ravens. Baby Ben threw for like 900 yards or some ridiculous mess against Green Bay's strong secondary, and the Ravens' comparatively weak one will look all the more appetizing to that big dummy without Lardarius roaming. The return of Ed Reed just got much more urgent.
We wish Webb a full and speedy recovery, and can't wait to see him starting for the Ravens in 2010.
By virtue of the Denver Broncos' loss to Oakland, the Ravens moved up to the #5-seed in the AFC, and now have some margin for error, albeit a razor-thin one. A loss next week in Pittsburgh will not be totally devastating, as the Ravens will still hold the edge on the evil ones thanks to a better conference record.
Screw that noise, though. According to Heap, the Ravens were already thinking black-and-yellow (it's not gold, you tools, the Saints are black and gold) thoughts in the post-game locker room.
It's Steelers week again, B'More. Let's not let our festive and joyful holiday spirit get in the way of some good old-fashioned Hapalochlaena-grade venom spewing towards those towel-waving heathens. They probably don't celebrate Xmas anyway.


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Life After An EMP Attack: No Power, No Food, No Transportation, No Banking And No Internet
Life After An EMP Attack: No Power, No Food, No Transportation, No Banking And No Internet
"The consequences of lack of food, heat (or air conditioning), water, waste disposal, medical, police, fire fighting support, and effective civil authority would threaten society itself."
I want to revisit a scenario that to me is the sum of all fears. I'm speaking about an EMP or Electro Magnetic Pulse Weapon. May I suggest that you click the link above and take a few minutes to read the riveting article. An EMP exploded over the heartland of this country would wipe out the electric grid as we know it. Think about this, your refrigerator would stop running and your food would begin to rot in about 48 hours. Your car would not start, your cell phone wouldn't work, no lights, no microwave, no TV, radio, or any of the modern conveniences that we take for granted. And here's the worst part, they wouldn't come back on …. ever. In other words the life that we all enjoy, and in some ways take for granted, is gone in a flash, literally. This is a real threat and it could happen at any time. It is THE game changer and we would do well to begin to prepare for an event like this. So how do we prepare? Why not stock-pile 6 months worth of food and water. Why not team up with like-minded people who want to be prepared for such an emergency. Why not have a meeting place where folks will congregate in the event of a disaster. It's good to prepare.
Recently I was at a conference and one of the speakers was assuring everyone that there was nothing to worry about as we were all going "home" soon; that Jesus was going to save us. The crowd cheered and I sat there dumbfounded. The reason for this is simple… Katrina. All we need to do is look at what happened when hurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast. The Federal government was nowhere to be seen and lawlessness ruled the day.
In closing today's post: We don't know how long we have here until we are taken out, raptured as we are told. I believe in the Rapture and hope it's sooner than later! However, I fail to see the harm in preparing for disasters. An EMP is a real threat and we would be remiss, in my opinion not to prepare for it.
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Obama's options
President Barack Obama once again finds himself in a standoff with Russian President Vladimir Putin — with no good options for getting out of it.
He's not likely to send in the U.S. military, economic sanctions will take time to hurt Putin and so far the international condemnation has amounted to sternly-worded statements, not substantial action.
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U.S. officials taunted Putin on Sunday while Secretary of State John Kerry, who is headed to Ukraine for meetings on Tuesday, lectured him during a tour of the Sunday morning news shows.
( Also on POLITICO: Why Russia no longer fears the West)
"This chapter has proven decisively that when it comes to soft power, the power of attraction, Vladimir Putin has no game," one senior administration official said on a call with reporters. "So he's left with hard power. It's a very dangerous game to play in Ukraine because the Ukrainian people are not going to stand for it and neither is the international community."
But what the international community will do exactly remains to be seen. U.S. officials said there would soon be a statement from all 28 NATO members decrying Russia's incursion of the Crimean peninsula, but one official said not to expect major change "in the next 24 hours."
So like during his staredowns with Putin over National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden and chemical weapons in Syria, Obama's choices are limited. Here are five:
1) Kick Russia out of the G-8
This would be the biggest test of Obama's ability to rally international support for isolating Putin. Russia's 1998 entry into what was then the Group of Seven industrialized democracies was seen as a coup for Russia, giving it entrée into the club of major Western democracies.
( A lso on POLITICO: Kerry to travel to Ukraine)
Sunday night, the White House released a joint statement from the seven non-Russian G-8 countries. They're all halting preparations for the planned Sochi summit in June and call on "all parties concerned to behave with the greatest extent of self-restraint and responsibility."
It may not matter much: Putin hardly places the emphasis on his international esteem as did Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader who began the country's integration with the West.
So when Kerry warned that Russia's behavior in Ukraine does not befit a G-8 nation, that message is intended as much for the other G-8 countries as it is for Putin.
"He is not going to have a Sochi G-8," Kerry said on "Meet the Press." "He may not even remain in the G-8 if this continues."
( Also on POLITICO: Odds slim for U.S. military action in Ukraine)
Instead Putin offers lip service to the idea that Russia is a peaceful democracy while taking advantage of Europe's reticence to stop him from expanding Russia's influence over former Soviet republics like Georgia in 2008, and now Ukraine.
"Vladimir Putin talks the talk of Russia being a normal modern state that has a democratic form of government and obeys the rules," said Strobe Talbott, the president of the Brookings Institution and chairman of the Foreign Policy Affairs Board that advises Kerry. "But he has a classic zero-sum view of the world and an atavistic idea of geopolitics. What he's doing here is he is playing ethnic geopolitics, which extremely dangerous for peace in Europe. It's devastating to the prospect of Russia being accepted into the international community."
2) Take Rubles from Russia
The value of Russia's currency has declined 8.3 percent this year, and U.S. officials said Putin's actions in Ukraine will lead to further deterioration of the Russian economy.
"He may find himself with asset freezes on Russian business," Kerry said on NBC. "American business may pull back. There may be a further tumble of the ruble. There is a huge price to pay."
Russia risks being cut off from Western banking and finance networks if it does not reverse course on Ukraine, a senior administration official said. "What he needs to understand is that in terms of his economy he lives in the 21st century in an increasingly interdependent world. … It is going to be very difficult to maintain that kind of relationship with the outside world when he is using his military forces to threaten and intimidate a neighbor."
Already the White House has cancelled a series of trade, military and energy meetings between the two countries, including a planned visit this week by the U.S. trade representative to Moscow, officials said.
Keeping everyone together won't be easy. Obama would have to put together a broad enough coalition — and keep it together long-term — to cause the harm that would likely have an impact on Putin.
At the same time, the U.S. is building an International Monetary Fund assistance package for the new Ukrainian government.
"The United States is prepared to supplement IMF support in order to make successful reform implementation more likely and to cushion the impact of needed reforms on vulnerable Ukrainians," Treasury Secretary Jack Lew told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference Sunday.
3) Void the visas
As Putin looks inward, the country's elite is looking outward. They have become significant players on the world stage, making high-profile investments, including in professional sports franchises in the United States and England. Their children attend U.S. and European universities.


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Charlie Sheen Breaks Up with Another Goddess
So much for winning: TMZ is reporting that Charlie Sheen's last and final goddess, Natalie Kenly, moved out on the troubled actor sometime last week.
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Ashgate Pub., 2004 - Religion - 369 pages
Roger Beck, a world authority on Mithraism, brings together his major writings on the Mysteries of Mithras in the context of the culture and religions of imperial Rome. In these studies he opens new vistas on myth making, ritual, symbolism, the role of astrology in the cult, recently discovered Mithraic monuments and artefacts, and the emergence of Mithraism and Christianity concurrently in the first century. Beck offers new introductions to his thematically framed groups of writings and adds six entirely new essays published here for the first time. These essays link his research to contemporary studies in cognitive science of religion and anthropology of religion. This collection will appeal particularly to scholars exploring contemporary aspects in anthropology of religion, astronomy and astrology, cults and myths, images and symbols, as well as traditional scholars of Greco-Roman antiquity and Christian origins.
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VIDEO: An Electrifying Storm Last Night in Northern Colorado
Last night around 9:30 - 10 there was quite a show! I believe this was the most lightning that I have ever seen at once in an hour's time.
As usual, we were outside hanging out and talking to our neighbors. That is when we noticed the storm appeared to be moving north and possibly a bit to the west. I decided it was time to grab my camera, tripod and trigger to capture some of the lightning.
The beauty of having a shutter trigger is that you can just let it run and that is exactly what I did! I took well over 300 photos. Many of which have bolts of lighting in them. When you look at the photos individually, you can see the clouds moving by and the storm spinning. This is my first attempt at a time lapse using anything other than my GoPro or Iphone. I suggest you watch it in HD mode as you will see more detail:
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The World Organization for Human Rights USA has just filed a federal lawsuit against Yahoo over the company's decision to release dissident e-mails to the Chinese government. Alleging that Yahoo's actions were directly responsible for Wang Xiaoning's detention, abuse, and current 10-year prison sentence, the group claims that Yahoo is liable under both the Alien Tort Statue and the Torture Victim Protection Act.
Wang Xiaoning's "crime" was to publish, for several years, two electronic journals that advocated a multiparty political system and increased democratic reform in China. His Free Forum of Political Reform and his Commentaries on Current Political Affairs were published using Yahoo Groups and e-mail from 2000-2002.
In September 2002, 10 police officers raided his home and took him into custody. He spent the next two years in the Detention Center of the Beijing State Security Bureau, where he was damaged physically and emotionally. According to the complaint, "when his wife was finally able to see him approximately six months after his arbitrary and unlawful detention, Wang was very weak, showed no emotional expression, and exhibited severe respiratory difficulties."
In 2003, based in large part on e-mails turned over by Yahoo, Wang was sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Beijing Municipal First Intermediary People's Court on charges of "incitement to subvert state power." In its decision, the court quoted such subversive material as: "without the multiparty system, free elections and separation of powers, all types of political reform will come to nothing."
Wang is currently serving his sentence in Beijing Municipal No. 2 Prison, a forced labor prison where he shares a cell with nine other inmates and, according to the complaint, is denied "any access to recreation or even sunlight for weeks and even months at a time, even though the standard at the prison is to allow prisoners outside once a day."
His wife, Yu Ling, "cannot eat or sleep due to the emotional distress caused by her husband's absence," and due to the strong element of shame in having one's husband thrown into jail, she did not even reveal what happened to her immediate family. When Yu's mother died and Wang could not attend the funeral, Yu's siblings accused him of being a heartless man, and Yu had to finally confess what had happened.
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As for Yahoo's responsibility, the World Organization for Human Rights says that the company "knowingly and willfully aided and abetted in the commission of torture and other major abuses violating international law" by turning over the messages. They point out that in 2002, Yahoo signed a voluntary industry agreement called the "Public Pledge on Self-Discipline for the Chinese Internet Industry"—a pledge that basically agreed to help the government censor anything that might "disrupt social stability."
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Love & Ground: Interview with Conny Purtill and Friends
As an idea and word, "curator" continues to suffer a death from overdose. Still, I am tempted to place this burdensome phrase upon Conny Purtill and his chosen allies—that is, if we can agree that curating involves working with someone else's objects to elucidate a concept. The exhibition The Ground, recently on view at Adams and Ollman Gallery in Portland, Oregon, began with Purtill gifting[…..]


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LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A global investigation into manipulation of interbank lending rates widened on Friday with Britain's fraud squad taking up the case and sources telling Reuters that Germany's markets regulator had launched a probe into Deutsche Bank.
Authorities in the United States, Europe, Japan and Canada are examining more than a dozen big banks over suspected rigging of the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor). Britain's Barclays has so far been the only bank to admit wrongdoing, agreeing last week to pay a fine of more than $450 million.
The rate-fixing scandal has exploded into the front ranks of politics, especially in Britain, where politicians say the bankers responsible should end up in jail.
Barclays CEO Bob Diamond was forced to resign this week and told a parliamentary committee that some of his firm's former staff could face criminal charges.
The Libor rates, compiled from estimates by large banks of how much they believe they have to pay to borrow from each other, are used to determine interest rates on trillions of dollars worth of contracts around the world.
Germany's BaFin regulator has initiated a "special investigation" into Deutsche Bank, a process which is more severe than a routine investigation initiated by a third party, two sources said on Friday. The sources included a banker and a regulator, both of whom spoke on condition of anonymity.
In Britain, the lack of criminal prosecutions of the rate fixing has been one of the issues infuriating politicians, after e-mails were published showing bankers boasting of fiddling figures and congratulating each other with offers of champagne.
Britain's Serious Fraud Office said in a brief statement that its Director David Green had decided formally to accept the Libor case for investigation.
The SFO will now assemble a case team to pursue an investigation - although it could take years. A spokesman noted that its remit would not be confined to Barclays.
"We don't mention Barclays in our statement, just Libor," the spokesman said.
A source close to the SFO and familiar with its Libor case file said: "A lot of people will be calling around to find lawyers."
The SFO considered launching an investigation into Libor last summer but dropped the plans in September, in part for budgetary reasons, said the source, who spoke on condition he would not be identified.
The SFO has been criticized in the past for failing to achieve convictions in high-profile fraud cases. It gave no further details of how it would conduct its probe.
News of a "special investigation" in Germany also raises the stakes. Deutsche Bank said earlier this year it was cooperating with authorities investigating accusations of manipulation of Libor, the only German bank to make such a disclosure so far.
One of the sources who disclosed the investigation to Reuters said the results were expected in mid July.
The bank declined to comment on Friday but referred to its quarterly report, which said it has received subpoenas and requests for information from U.S. and European authorities in connection with setting interbank rates.
BaFin declined to comment specifically on whether it was probing Deutsche Bank but said it was in looking into suspected manipulation of Libor rates by banks.
"We are making use of our entire spectrum of regulatory instruments, so far as this is necessary," a spokesman said.
Deutsche Bank has disclosed that it is cooperating with the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the European Commission on Libor. These inquiries relate to periods between 2005 and 2011.
As the credit crisis intensified between 2006 and 2008, allegations started mounting that Libor no longer reflected the real cost banks were paying for funds. Authorities have been examining whether traders tried to influence the rate to profit on bets on the direction it would go.
The daily Libor poll asks banks at what rate they think they will be able to borrow money from each other in 10 major currencies and for 15 borrowing periods ranging from overnight loans to 12 months.
The rates submitted by banks are compiled by Thomson Reuters, parent company of Reuters, on behalf of the British Bankers' Association.
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Susan Granger's review of 'Tim's Vermeer'
Fine art and technology combine in this fascinating documentary about how an obsessive amateur was able to recreate an astonishingly precise replica of one of Johannes Vermeer's most famous paintings.
Magicians Penn and Teller introduce their self-made millionaire friend, NewTek computer graphics inventor Tim Jenison, who marvels at how the 17th-century Dutch master Vermeer (1632-1675) was able to paint with a luminous, photographic clarity that rivals photo-realism, long before the modern-day camera was invented. Then -- with no previous training in painting -- Jenison was able to reproduce "The Music Lesson" in 1,825 days. How did he do it?
After reading artist David Hockney's "Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters" and studying the mathematical calculations in architect/professor Philip Steadman's "Vermeer's Camera: Uncovering the Truth Behind the Masterpieces," Jenison decided to explore American photographer Joseph Pennell's controversial 1891 assertion that Vermeer was able to achieve his exceptional effects through projected optical images, using primitive mirrors and lenses.
Directed by non-speaking Teller, Jenison chats amiably with Penn Jillette, while demonstrating how his relentless research unraveled the mystery that has stumped scholars for decades.
After learning to read Dutch, studying Vermeers in Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum and visiting the artist's hometown of Delft, Jenison recreates Vermeer's studio in a San Antonio, Texas, warehouse, complete with window decor, furniture, rugs and costumed models.
To ensure accuracy, Jenison inveigles his way into Buckingham Palace to view the "original" in the queen's private collection; grinds his own pigments, using only ingredients that were available to Vermeer; and spends months hunched over a 29-by-25-inch canvas, squinting through a variety of lenses in the kind of camera obscura that Vermeer must have used. And every detail is duplicated with painstaking precision.
While art history academics debate whether Vermeer "cheated," it becomes obvious that Vermeer was one of the first ingenious artists to combine painting with technology, inventing new techniques.
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On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "Tim's Vermeer" is an intriguing 8, delineating an experiment that should appeal to an art-house audience.