Quote of the day

'Our emotions are the most crucial part of our lives because they directly determine the kind of people we will be. If you have a bad temper that regularly erupts, you are an angry person. If you act kindly with a soft heart, you are a compassionate person. Whichever emotion you most often exhibit will become the defining characteristic of your being. Thus understanding and controlling our emotions is key to becoming the people we want to be.'
Shmuley Boteach, Kosher emotions

Flattery perfected

Thanks to CulturalOffering.com for posting this on The art of brown-nosing.
Sheer genius. I have doubts in being able to use it, but at least now I can see who does!!

There is nothing…

I don’t love about this picture:
From My iPhone: It May Be NY, NY - Nicholas Bate

Inside artist Ben Johnson’s studio

Working and creating within boundaries is intrinsic to art. A writer uses paper and pen to awaken our senses (i.e. smell, hear, feel), a poet needs to fit the words into a row no longer than a few words, and a painter needs to reduce reality to two dimensions. And that’s why Ben Johnson’s work is admirable. You almost want to step inside his pictures and wonder around…
In the below video he ‘takes us on a tour of his Hammersmith studio, where he creates his haunting, half-real and half-imagined interiors and cityscapes’. (wallpaper)

The British artist is most famous of his city landscapes, mainly that of Liverpool (see how that one was created here) that took 11 assistants, 24,000 hours to complete.

Execupundit.com: The Other Side

‘The best managers, like the best lawyers, know how to argue the other side of the case.’
Execupundit.com: The Other Side