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Dynamic Painting is Artificial Art

Dynamic Painting — inspired by the human eye and then endlessly morphed by a computer CPU — is in no way True Art.  It is computer modeling, but there is no driving human spirit in the end result.

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Intellectual Elitism: The Fake Foreign Policy Genius List

How do you feel about a new “Genius List” of the “top 100 public intellectuals” that was decided by — and then published by — Foreign Policy in May?  Yesterday we had a curious, and oddly strange, addition to that list as voted by their readership to create the “top 20 public intellectuals.” 

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Wearing Cat Ears but Never Becoming Feline

In celebration of the impending Halloween holiday, I was given a set of funky cat ears.

Cat Ears!

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Joaquin Phoenix is No Johnny Cash

Joaquin Phoenix plays the genius country singer Johnny Cash in the Hollywood production of Walk the Line and Phoenix is getting rave reviews for singing Cash’s songs and “sounding just like him.”

If you have spent any time at all listening to Johnny Cash, you know just how much Phoenix DOES NOT sound like Cash at all. It isn’t even close!

There is no terror, depth of despair or rain in Phoenix’s voice and the movie would have been better served if he had lip-synched the great Johnny Cash instead of just aping him.