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Then came Photoshop

Did you ever question how tools in Photoshop like, "cut" "paste" (literally cutting and pasting negatives) "dodge" "burn" (literally blanking out or intensifying light during exposure) got their name?

We've been Photoshopping since the early 1900s. Have a picture of a man juggling his own head which predates the world war: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhi...

Link to the collection: http://www.metmuseum.org/art/c...

I think you're meant to go through the website, and download the images from there. The photography looks to be high quality, and fairly high resolution-- though not spectacularly so.

For example:

The Death of Socrates. Click on "download", and you'll receive a a 3811 × 2528 pixels JPEG.

Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland. You can download a 1457 × 1861 JPEG.

As far as metadata is concerned-- the EXIF contains a link back to the catalog page. Camera specific metadata has been stripped.

I think you're meant to go through the website, and download the images from there. The photography looks to be high quality, and fairly high resolution-- though not spectacularly so.

For example:

The Death of Socrates. Click on "download", and you'll receive a a 3811 × 2528 pixels JPEG.

Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland. You can download a 1457 × 1861 JPEG.

As far as metadata is concerned-- the EXIF contains a link back to the catalog page. Camera specific metadata has been stripped.

Like a Shaker chair - there's exactly enough there to be a chair, nothing extra, nothing less.

I couldn't figure out why you were talking about this as simple design. Then I realized what you were talking about.

In the mid-1950s abstract expressionism was the rage. Congo was a successful artist. Here are some of his paintings. Some sold for about $30,000. Most impressive, given Congo was a chimpanzee. It’s not surprising if Neanderthals did early cave art, cave art surpassing its contemporary human art. After all Congo has already established, artistic talent isn’t restricted to Homo sapiens sapiens.

Oh, how my heart yearns to see this happen.

Romeo, oh Romeo. [Buy the NEW Alfa Romeo Mito ]
Wherefore art thou Romeo? [Visit The Metropolitan Museum of Art ]
Deny thy father, and refuse thy name, or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love and i'll no longer be a Capulet. [Need your ads to be seen? Visit Capulet Communication today!]
Thou are thyself though not a Montegue. What's Montegue? [Is your bicycle taking up too much space? Get a Montague folding bike ]
It is not hand, nor foot, nor arm, nor face....nor any other part, belonging to a man. Oh be some other name. What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet. [Why not surprise your partner with a large buquet of roses? Order online from Fleurop Interflora ]
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called, retain that dera perfection which he owes without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, and for thy name which is no part of thee, take all myself.

I suppose Macbeth would fare even worse:

Is this a dagger which I see before me, [Need a new kayak? Visit Dagger Kayaks]
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. [Are you suffering from erectile dysfunction? Ask your doctor about Viagra]
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. [Halucinating again? Why not try Zophitin? An Amazing 100% Guaranteed Treatment for Schizophrenia!]
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? [Don't miss Heatstroke tonight on HBO]

I have to leave the stage to Bill Hicks and his thoughts on marketing

I guess the Met makes more sense than the Met.

Or the Met. I read your post and couldn't figure out what the Three Tenors would be doing in an art museum.

Interesting thought.

Culture influences what you think of as "attractive" as much as anything else. Compare Indian pornography to Japanese, to Chinese, to European, to American, to South American, to African, and compare not only from the 20th/21st century but also go back in history in the various places.

Compare modern Persian culture from Iran (heavily influenced/controlled by Islamic "thought") to the much richer, more vibrant Persian culture prior. You'll find that the Persians were much more open about sexuality and what they considered erotic, and you'll find just as much that the "tastes" have been changed.

Consider the cultural issues that made Westerners have such a weird place when the Japanese first saw them - to a culture where moderately dark skin and hair are the norm, but where the art forms venerated the lightest skin and hair tones as beautiful, to all of a sudden see very pale people and a number of red and gold hair tones among them.

Take the phenomenon of black males in America (as opposed to most African nations) who carry a sexual fetish for paler, light haired women. Amazing amounts of pornography are devoted to this, but only in America. Why is this? Because in America, those women are put forth as the ideal of "beauty", and with very few exceptions, even the successful models of black/african heritage have lighter than normal (for their genotype) skin tone and tend to do things like color their hair, towards either golden tones or golden highlights.

Now, take even a second-generation (child of immigrant parents but born in, or imported before say age 5) individual. What do you find? More likely than not, they do not as a rule share their parents' cultural kinks, either in regard to sexuality or otherwise, unless they've been held in an environment that is very similar to where their parents grew up (for instance, chinese raised in a "chinatown" area, or latino raised in a largely latino neighborhood).

Given the preceding, why is it unfair that parents (whose interest is in seeing their kids marry and produce the next generation) would be worried about their kids being told that homosexuality was "perfectly normal", "acceptable", or something else? You can propagandize impressionable minds into thinking that "sexual attractiveness" is a schoolgirl in a fuku. Or, for that matter, something a little more realistic of most of the population. Why, if homosexuality is "fixed", are pro-gay groups working so hard to get books promoting their lifestyle into kindergartens if not that they're trying to propagandize kids the same way and pick up some numbers?

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Oops.

This law is *stupid*. Providing links to material that is copyrighted is routine, and there is no way to easily tell whether the people following those links are *actually* infringing or not. For example, if someone downloads a copy of copyrighted material that they have already purchased, is that still infringement? What if the particular usage falls under "fair use"?

If the copyright owners want to prosecute people to protect the rights they get under copyright, then the obvious targets are the people who A) actually host/distribute the files, and B) people who actually download them. Links to material are like providing a list of books in a library -- somebody could use those to find them, borrow them (all fine), and then photocopy them (probably infringing). Should the library then be sued as a contributory to the act?

Sure, I could have worded my last post better - you are mistaken. How's this?

For more design history of the thinkpad, check out the "Thinkpad Genesis Series" on:

http://www.thinkpads.com/Genesis3.htm
http://www.thinkpads.com/Genesis%204.htm

Richard Sapper is the German designer who designed the famous Artemide Tizio lamp (which also shares the Thinkpad's red controls and silver hinges).:

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/11/euwcm/ho_1988. 236.10.htm

Consider the Tizio lamp, by Artemide. it is tall enough to get out the way of your monitors but extremely bright . It is also elegant with no exposed wiring and balances beautifully with its counter balances. Finishing touch is that it was designed by Richard Sapper, the original designer of the IBM Thinkpad, and has influences like the red colored controls and aluminum axes (think red trackpoint nipple and exposed ibm metal hinge).

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/11/euwcm/ho_1988. 236.10.htm

OMG you have just explained this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Actually, I thought public museums have "strongly recommended donation policies" in lieu of "required admission". At least that's how it was at the American Museum of Natural History, Metropolitan Museum of Art, or actually, a lot of places...

The problem is that big nasty corporations have managed to "own" a large part of our cultural history.

The Metropolitan art museum also "owns" (or at least is the only place where you can go to see) several pieces of American culture (and others), yet they get to charge admission.

I'll grant you I don't like the idea of anybody "owning" a piece of our history or culture anymore then you do -- but it's hardly unique to the music industry.

Wwhose going to distribute it on CDs? Obviously a record label of some sort. They also distribute classical music -- you can even pay $0.99 to download "Flight of the Valkyries" on iTunes if you really want to -- though why you would is beyond me.

When salt was traded for gold and the Soninke ruled the Ghana empire.

I have been hearing more about Europe in the last 2 years than ever before.

Actually ... Europe has been around for millenniums (I know because it's been reported on Slashdot several times already). This link shows the existence of prior art.