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She sat there until daylight, unwearied, and wishing in her heart that the night might prolong itself indefinitely. But time which has brought me age has also brought me leisure, and I have availed myself of it to write my recollections of so much of the war between the states in which my own immediate cavalry command took part. He is one who speaks good English, and wears gloves as if he were used to them.

I googled that graf and found three different sources. There must be a program that scrapes sentences from different web sites - but what's the criterion? These are obscure and literary sources ...

She sat there until daylight, unwearied, and wishing in her heart that the night might prolong itself indefinitely.

is from a short story by Nikolai Gogol;

But time which has brought me age has also brought me leisure, and I have availed myself of it to write my recollections of so much of the war between the states in which my own immediate cavalry command took part.

is from a Civil War memoir;


He is one who speaks good English, and wears gloves as if he were used to them.

is from German travel and adventure writer Karl May:


The context of the last is worth quoting at length:

"I suppose you know what a tenderfoot is. He is one who speaks good English, and wears gloves as if he were used to them. He also has a prejudice in favor of nice handkerchiefs and well-kept finger-nails; he may know a good deal about history, but he is liable to mistake turkey-tracks for bear-prints, and, though he has learned astronomy, he could never find his way by the stars. The tenderfoot sticks his bowie-knife into his belt in such a manner that it runs into his thigh when he bends; and when he builds a fire on the prairie he makes it so big that it flames as high as a tree, yet feels surprised that the Indians notice it." (from Winnetou, the Apache Knight)

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"The Japanese school system is a funny thing; exams happen three weeks before the term ends, meaning three weeks of students rather unwilling to learn anything new. That being so, I decided to corrupt my high schoolers in the most amusing, English-oriented manner possible. I made a short class on American comics with artwork and examples of popular comic books and comic strips. Then came the exciting part: making your own American-style comic!"

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From: For K. Marat
Subject: Squadoosh, cheapest meds around
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 08:07:09 -0400

Guten Tag :))
It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

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A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power
It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together
I suppose.

Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence.

Stupendously B. Blunted
Motherland J. Latticeworky


From: Domesticated S. Grownup
Subject: Squadoosh, Supreme medication for you!
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 08:43:32 -0700

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Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.

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Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.
The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the cafT.
I used to be indecisive now I'm not sure.

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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence.
Let us live while we live.

Bozo and Friends:

"Bozo Capitol Record Readers were originally issued in the late 1940s as beautifully designed 78RPM albums. These colorful 'books that talk' were synchronized with the records so that each time Bozo gave his signal, it was time to turn the page. 45s in boxed sets and paper sleeves followed shortly afterward as well as LPs."

Stasis_Space gallery : present : The Audible Still-Life

"At first, we just thought we would plug in the five oranges as if they were a normal electronic device, (and consequentially to sacrifice their integrity). Assign each one a mixer channel, eq, pan, and volume, and use two contact microphones on the table, and another on the oranges, to increase the spatial values. The resulting sound is almost the same as the one you get when touching a connected jack with your hands. So we started touching and playing the oranges."

Bush Joke Video: DC Humor in Bad Taste | MFA

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall:

"General Sanchez is right about one thing ... this is not Vietnam ... Oh no, its not that easy."

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From: Domesticated S. Grownup
Subject: Squadoosh, Supreme medication for you!
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 08:43:32 -0700

Rise and shine!
Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the
basic tool of the actor's trade.

Squadoosh, searching for a source to buy medication?
Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.
The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of
law to notions born in the cafT.
I used to be indecisive now I'm not sure.

We can send our products worldwide
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language,
and for language.
Your easy solution is here
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You are absolutely anonymous!
Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence.
Let us live while we live.

other correspondents:

Stupendously B. Blunted
Motherland J. Latticework

NBC10.com - News - Performers Whip Easter Bunny At Church Play:

"A church in western Pennsylvania trying to teach about the crucifixion of Jesus performed an Easter show with actors whipping the Easter bunny and breaking eggs, upsetting sever"

IKEA FARTFULL work bench:

"care instructions
Wipe clean with a damp cloth."

Spam poetry of the day

From: Dilettante V. Pillsbury thermometers@usa.net
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 17:58:07 -0400

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We act the way we dress. Neglected and untidy clothes reflect a
neglected and untidy mind.

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life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority. It is
a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies
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You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.
He makes no friends who never made a foe.

Other recent correspondents:

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Hung Out to Dry by David Ng:

"In the not so distant past, watchdog groups like the Media Action Network for Asian Americans eagerly protested the likes of MADtv's Asian manicurist Ms. Swan, as well as Mr. Wong, the animated Web series from the now defunct icebox.com, in which the titular houseboy was repeatedly goaded by his blonde boss into pronouncing words like cotillion. As an erstwhile fan of both caricatures, I find it strange that these groups have remained silent with regard to Hung, who, unlike Swan or Wong, is a real person, and whose cultural impact will be more lasting and potentially harmful. "

SouthernMedia's News Music Search Archive - News theme and news music information!: "
Stations have individual packages. Each station's theme begins with the new, generic Hearst signature, and then their slogan can be heard as a custom signature.
"

CBS | Late Show with David Letterman : Wahoo Gazette:

"Last night we showed a clip of the President giving a speech. Behind him stood a lad who was obviously bored silly. The 14-year-old or so yawned, scratched, yawned, yawned, checked his watch, bent over, stared at the ceiling, and then fell asleep during the President's speech. It was very funny. So funny, in fact, that CNN replayed the clip Tuesday during their broadcasts. But, but, but, the first time is was shown, CNN anchorwoman Daryn Kagan reported that the White House said the clip was a total fake, it was merely the Late Show having fun with their ability to edit and do TV tricks. Dave says what the CNN reporter said was an out and out 100% lie. A couple hours later, CNN anchor person Kyra Phillips reported that the kid was at the speech but not where the Late Show had him. Dave again makes the claim, 'That's an out and out absolute 100% lie. That kid was exactly where we said he was.' It's true. The speech was at a Florida Rally on March 20th at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. Dave is irked that the White House was trying to make him look like a jerk. But he's glad he got his side of the story out in the open. "

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Air America Radio

The Untitled Project:

"The Untitled Project is a series of photographs of urban settings accompanied by a graphical text layout. The photographs have been digitally stripped of all traces of textual information. The text pieces show the removed text in the approximate location and font as it was found in the photograph."

GumPhoto

gum bichromate prints by keith gerling

photos by lisa kereszi

shapes of things:

"The mind-bending effect of soaking a Gummi Bear overnight in water. Unsoaked bear shown for scale."

Aerogel:

"Aerogel is a solid, but it is 99.8% empty space. In fact, it very closely approaches the density of air. It practically IS air."

Yahoo! News - Muppets Bringing Peace to the Middle East:

"TEL AVIV, Israel (Hollywood Reporter) - Where countless politicians and diplomats have failed, Elmo, Cookie Monster and their 'Sesame Street' buddies are on a mission to promote peace and tolerance in the Middle East.

A programming experiment using the Muppet characters was launched six months ago and was widely welcomed by parents, educators and the media. But the Muppets are not without their critics in Israel..."

sleeping by the mississippi:

"'Over and over again I fall asleep with my eyes open, knowing I'm falling asleep, unable to prevent it. When I fall asleep this way, my eyes are cut off from my ordinary mind as though they were shut, but they become directly connnected to a new, extraordinary mind which grows increasingly competent to deal with their impressions.'

Charles Lindbergh, writing about the twenty-second hour of his transatlantic flight in The Spirit of St. Louis"

Bowling Ball From 17th Floor Narrowly Misses 3 Officers:

"The practice of throwing things at police officers from rooftops and other high places is somewhat common in New York, enough so that the targets have a name for it. They call it airmail. Even so, a bowling ball is an unusual piece of correspondence, the police said."

Photography by Alec Soth

Britney Says:

" Have you ever been to the bookstore at MOMA in New York? Man, that's just about my favourite store in the whole world. I can get lost in there for hours. It's great because there's so much to look at and no one ever recognises me because I have this image of being a dumb uncultured blonde. "

guess who endorses Bush?:

"'Kerry will kill our nation while it sleeps because he and the Democrats have the cunning to embellish blasphemy and present it to the Arab and Muslim nation as civilization.'
'Because of this we desire you (Bush) to be elected.' "

www.theory.org.uk -- the media theory site

Tearaway Burkas & Tinplate Menorahs:

Al Franken on his USO tour.

let's pluck away on our twangers: "Rainbow was a credible childrens TV show from the 70's and 80's. This clip was actually broadcast and watched by millions of youngans (maybe). "

MY HELL IN CAMP X-RAY:

"A BRITISH captive freed from Guantanamo Bay today tells the world of its full horror - and reveals how prostitutes were taken into the camp to degrade Muslim inmates."

Abandoned Asylum:

"a pictorial tour through asylum architecture and history"

Exploration of the Decay of Urban Northeast:

"FilmTech is an abandoned building in Western MA. It used to be used to process and store rolls of motion picture film. Opening date is unknown, but closing date appears to have been later 80's, possibly 1987. There are thousands of reels of film remaining on shelves and the floors as well as the old film developing equipment."

The Test Card Gallery:

"The BBC and ITV have over the years used a number of tuning signals, test cards and captions either for engineering purposes, or just to fill time in the days before breakfast and daytime TV. This page shows some of them, and some of the captions used in days past."

Puzzle over three-headed frog:

"The creature - which has six legs - has stunned a BBC wildlife expert who said it could be an early warning of environmental problems. "

MORE:

"'How this administration handled that day, as well as the war on terror, is worthy of discussion,' he said. 'And I look forward to discussing that with the American people. And I look forward to the debate about who best to lead this country in the war on terror.'"

The Atlantic | March 2004 | Rewrite Shakespeare Contest:

"Beginning February 17, 2004, The Princeton Review will accept revisions of the 'All the world's a stage' speech from As You Like It. The revision should be in response to the same assignment given to 'Shakespeare' in the article 'Would Shakespeare Get Into Swarthmore?':"

Lego Color Guide - Britdog Models.

Psycho Studio - Edit your own Shower Scene!:

"Edit your own version of the classic Shower Scene, and now with version 2, save it into the gallery - all you need is Flash 4!"

MC Hawking's Crib:

"Yo! This site is your ultimate resource for information about Stephen Hawking the gangsta rapper."

Eschaton:

"'we Christians have decided that parts of the Bible don't apply to us anymore.'

'So if we can put aside the teachings on women, on divorce, on the Sabbath -- and those are all things that we choose -- then why not on homosexuality, when we don't choose our sexual orientation?' "

today's press gaggle, courtesy Talking Points Memo:

"QUESTION: ... In every speech he gives, President Bush invokes the atrocities of 9/11 and he talks about how that event has impressed on him a determination to always honor the victims of those atrocities in his daily conduct of his office. And I wonder if you could explain with some serious Texan straight talk here, Scott, how it is honoring the victims of 9/11 to restrict the questioning of the President on this subject to one hour?
McCLELLAN: I hope you'll talk about the unprecedented cooperation that we're providing to the commission when you report this, James. Because if you look back at what we've done, it is unprecedented. We have provided more than 2 million pages of documents. We provided more than 60 compact discs of radar, flight and other information; more than 800 audio cassette tapes of interviews and other materials; more than 100 briefings, including at the head-of-agency level; more than 560 interviews. So this administration is cooperating closely and in an unprecedented way with the 9/11 Commission, because their work is very important.
QUESTION: That would have been a very pertinent answer had I asked you about the administration. "

Datamath Calculator Museum:

"Texas Instruments invented around 1977 a novel approach to reproduce human speech with tuned voices stored in ROM's (Read Only Memory). The speech synthesis circuit duplicated the human vocal tract on a single piece of silicon and with the Speak & Spell in 1978 a new talking learning aid for children was introduced. Based on this technology a huge variety of speaking toys and educational games followed. The famous Speak & Spell toy and releated products attracted soon the artists of circuit-bending, a technique to modify electronic soundmaking toys and use them as an experimental musical instruments. "

Telltale Weekly:

"New audiobook provider Telltale Weekly launches with DRM-free audiobooks for under a dollar."

Press Briefing by Scott McClellan:

"Q One more on the threat the President sees from gay marriage. What is, in the President's view, a greater threat to this enduring institution of marriage, a same-sex couple establishing a stable marriage, or the staggering divorce rate, the out-of-wedlock birth level and travesties like Britney Spear's marital fiasco? (Laughter.) What --
MR. McCLELLAN: There are so many different things in there, but --
Q And then what is he going to do -- which is the greater threat?
MR. McCLELLAN: I think -- look back to the President's State of the Union address, and he talked about the importance of values that we hold so dearly in this country. And he talked about the importance of changing our culture, and ushering in a responsibility era. He's long held those views.
Q So he would like to see a lower divorce rate, lower out-of-wedlock births, and Britney Spears behave herself? (Laughter.)
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, actually, I think if you look at some of the steps that we've taken in the welfare reform reauthorization, we have proposals in there to help strengthen marriage and help individuals. "

52 weeks:

"From out of the Penna. Dutch country comes Alice the Queen of the Funnel cakes, singing some of her songs that she wrote while making her famous funnel cakes at fairs, carnivals, festivals and shopping centers etc. "

keetja allard

Really cool photography and audio site. Fashion models play ping pong. White Stripes "mug." Courtesy Coincidences.

Frida Kahlo: Self Portrait with Monkey Coloring Page - EnchantedLearning.com

Cash family blocks haemorrhoid ad:

"The family of late singer Johnny Cash has blocked an attempt by advertisers to use his hit song Ring of Fire to promote haemorrhoid-relief products. "

Inconspicuous Consumption

F.Y.I.: Tiniest Show on Earth:

"Last year, I saw ads for a traveling flea circus in Times Square. Is it still there? Didn't there used to be an old one? And how do you train a flea, anyway?"

Actions of Joyce estate highlight problems with copyright law:

"According to an article in the Irish Times (registration required) the Joyce estate has informed the Irish government that it intends to sue for copyright infringement if there are any public readings of Joyce's works during the festival commemorating the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday this June."

plinth on velvet

"Eight legged piglet

"Fresh to the market direct from a farm in Warwickshire where the granddaughter remembers its birth on the farm in 1917, it lived only for a short time, and here grandfather taking it upon its death directly to the taxidermist."

Jon Haddock

art.

JOKE WIDENS GAP:

"'For the last couple of years I have casually glanced over the mediocre humor of the Nancy comic strip in your Green Sheet. The idiotic things that Nancy and Sluggo said were so trivial that there was no reason to protest until the March 1 episode.
'That was one in which Nancy builds a moronic conglomerate of wood and nails and proclaims. 'It's my own invention,' But then adds, 'but I suppose the Russian will say they invented it first.' "

Out of the Blue, a Lightning Bolt to the Heart

the hazards of being flip:

"Bangungot, though known by different names, is widespread throughout Southeast Asia. In Thailand it is called lai-tai and is estimated to kill one of every 2,500 young men annually in some areas. 'Widow ghosts' take men away in the dead of night, according to local legends, and the men have been known to disguise themselves as women at bedtime to protect themselves."

Weekly book reviews and literary analysis from the Times Literary Supplement

the odds on hamlet:

"Frank Kermode: Looking for problems to talk about in a lecture, I lit upon the duel at the end of Hamlet. Relaying Claudius's challenge to Hamlet, Osric tells him that the King has "laid on twelve for nine" (in terms of "hits") in favour of Laertes. But nobody (including Arden editor Harold Jenkins, in an extremely long note) seems to have figured out the odds. You, Tony, may be able to do so, after all those sweaty nights playing poker in Las Vegas. Quite a problem, I warn you. But you will handle it. "

Calpundit: ARF!:

"ARF!....No, this is not the sound that Barney makes when the White House staff is late with dinner. Rather, it's the beginning of yet another intriguing mystery regarding George Bush's service in the Air National Guard. Read on for more."

Verbal Kung-Fu Generator

Yours Not So Truly, J. Goodspam:

"Mr. Xylophonist wrote trying to sell some pamphlet about maximizing profits on eBay. Or maybe that was what Beiderbecke P. Sawhorse was pitching. It was definitely not the one from Marylou Bowling; she wrote to tell about 'Government Free Cash Grant Programs.' Then again, that might have been from Elfrieda Billman. As for Usefully T. Medicaids and Boggs Darrin, they both wrote about cheap drug sales, no prescription needed. (Of course.)"

also: a random name generator

Mamie Van Doren's Vietnam Diary :

"It is already dark as I put on my makeup in a makeshift dressing room. These Spartan quarters have been set up for me by a senior sergeant and a couple of grunts at this remote fire base. It is really a small trailer that feels like a sauna. It is humid and hot as only Vietnam's Mecong Delta can be, even though the sun has gone down an hour ago. As fast as I put on the makeup, it runs off my face in little brown rivulets of sweat."

Le site officiel de Jacques Tati, Les films de mon oncle, Tativille, Monsieur Hulot, Tatischeff.

Of hedgehogs and
show chickens.
From Conscientious.

starn studio

A Well-Imagined Star:

"Pulling the records out of the sleeves, he was surprised to find that they were made not of vinyl but of cardboard. Each had been cut in the shape of a record, with grooves and a hand-lettered label painted on. Nearly all the albums were credited to an unknown black musician named Mingering Mike, and dated from 1968 to 1976. "

Toycamera.com

The Village Voice: Features: What They Left Behind by Jennifer Gonnerman:
"Suitcases from an insane asylum tell of lives long lost "

Cap'n Tugg:

"Kaptain Kidshow
Saluting Vintage TV Kid Shows
Produced In Washington, DC"

Graphic Design USA - Feature - Corporate Identity - 15 Trends Taking Shape In Logo Design

Dognose Heaven:

"all the dog noses you could dream of, all conveniently located in one place"

William Eggleston at Cheim and Read.

Eggleston was one of if not the first photographers whose color work was taken seriously as art. He finds color and beauty in mundane scenes that aren't typically considered worthy subjects: a refrigerator freezer, shoes and junk under his bed; as well as street photos of people, some of whom regard him suspiciously.

"Precolor" exhibits his less-seen b&w photography. Some of it reminded me of Robert Frank and Gary Winogrand, other street photographers with an eye for dramatic, low-lit scenes of Americans and sometimes American paranoia. Other shots looked just like things he might have shot in color: my favorite was a column of stacking banquet chairs, two-thirds to the ceiling of a non-descript hallway.

There was also a video installation. I had no idea he shot moving images, but there was a half-hour excerpt of b&w video footage shot in 1974, presumably in Memphis, his stomping grounds. "Stranded in Canton" is named by one of the film's subjects, a Meathead-era Rob-Reiner lookalike who goes on an extended drunken riff that included a schpiel on "Canton", which he pronounced with what might have been a French accent. Of the few people who wandered into this installation, most left in a few minutes - the camera work was shaky, jukebox music got loud (a drunk old queen sings along to Zeppelin), Meathead took a piss, Meathead took a dump, some good-old boys watched a geek chew the heads off live chickens (a close-up of the guy's mouth showed his gold teeth); so I guess there was enough there to drive people away. It's an ugly and disturbing slice of the south, more so than his photos really show. There's a black and white still of Meathead on display too: he's slouched on a folding chair and appears to be either praying or sleeping on his folded hands. He looks peaceful but ... well it's hard not to project after watching his scatalogical speaking in tongues.

Thoughts Connect Like Sideburns | Royal Journal of Found Art:

Ananova - Jordan's boobs 'may explode' in jungle:

"Medics have warned that Jordan's breasts could explode if leeches get to suck them in the jungle."

From an interview with William Eggleston:

Q: You never got your ass kicked for taking a picture?

A: Occasionally I will. But usually what I'll say is [in a really upbeat,
ingenuous voice] 'May I take your picture? I'm from Memphis!' ... I just
stumbled on it. You can use it yourself ... You could use some other city, but I don't think it would have the same ring to it. Say, 'I'm from Savannah.' I don't think that would work.

frieze magazine no. 52.

Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things - link-fu 2.0

Eric Doeringer: bootleg art

SCROD PUDDING 3rd SAT BOWDOINHAM DANCE

I just like the title.

Welcome to the International Church of Pie!:

"Do you ever feel alone? Or that your god, whoever that may be, has betrayed you or abandoned you? Fear no more, children! The International Church of Pie has officially opened its doors to the worldwide Internet community. Abandon your hateful, evil gods, and embrace the Pie, who rules all with a gentle hand and a nice graham cracker crust"

www.mnftiu.cc get your war on mars

The toaster museum

Scotsman.com News - UK - US plane bombs Yorkshire village:

"US MILITARY investigators were last night trying to establish how one of their F-15 fighter jets managed to bomb an area of Yorkshire."

Pictures at the Hotel Armageddon:

"Proposals to convert Marienthal and reopen it as a techno-disco, a Bunker Wonderland amusement park and youth hostel or a mushroom farm went nowhere."

bbc's virtual theremin

The Decline of Fashion Photography | An argument in pictures. | By Karen Lehrman

Oddcast TTS Demo

David Crawford - Online Studio:

"The Stop Motion Studies extend my long standing interest in narrative and, in particular, look at the subway as a stage upon which social dynamics and individual behavior are increasingly mediated by digital technology. As one of the most vibrant and egalitarian networks in our cities, subways bring people from a wide range of social and cultural backgrounds into close contact with each other. This process plays a significant role in shaping both the character of a city as well as our individual identities. "

American Newspaper Repository | Home:

"We founded the American Newspaper Repository in 1999 in order to save a unique collection of original newspapers that would otherwise have been destroyed or dispersed. The Repository exists in order to preserve and make available to the scholarly public, and to future generations, these magnificent landmarks of American publishing. "

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Just $209 a bottle ...

LA Weekly: Features: Uncensored Gore:

"Do you not think of Bush and Ashcroft as Americans?
I think of them as an alien army. They have managed to take over everything, and quite in the open. We have a deranged president. We have despotism. We have no due process."

Family albums: figures of intimacy:

"Thanks to photography, a new genre of representation appeared at the end of the 19th century, testifying to family links of affection. It bloomed in the family albums the bourgeoisie and aristocracy prepared for their relatives. Often skilfully composed, these albums also allow the exploration of the aesthetic qualities of this genre. They preserve and promote intimacy, they show faces and lifestyles, while revealing new visual research.

The Musée d'Orsay collection is exceptional as it includes shots taken in artistic circles, sometimes by the artists themselves, that show the intimate side of famous people."

Yahoo! Picks - Top Picks of 2003

JoJo in the stars