Xaide’s Blog

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I’ve decided to name the painting “In adancuri” or “Into the depths” because it depicts power and sexuality, the two facets of women that most often are hidden from sight. I’m still not sure whether I should have added a flower too, on the right, as a sign of fragility, since most often women have to hide that as well to be able to survive.

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It’s generally not such a big surprise to find any of these words in works of social interaction, diplomatic institution policies, laws and belief systems. Question is, how do we get from the 4 word PLUR acronym meaning peace, love, unity and respect to a visual pattern that occurs across centuries, is included in visual designs and depicted on walls, posters, books, t-shirts, but most importantly in people’s minds.

Today I am going to continue a discussion we had about using multiple fonts and colours with respect to some Web 2.0 design trends, this time focusing our attention on colour (diversity) and why would someone incorporate it into design. First, let’s define PLUR:

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Today I was trying to continue an article about a Neuroscience presentation when I found an old love letter… an unsent love letter, to be more exact. I was a bit surprised, to be sincere, as old thoughts I thought gone suddenly rushed through my brain and made me reconnect to that state of mind.

I’m gonna share it with you and hope you’ll share some with me. The author of the best “poem” will get 3-5 hours of lucid talking from me, while I’m in my best neuro-shape

At the end of the contest I’ll make some graphs to show the mood of the love letters. Read more

If you’re a chinese-japanese art fan or just a Photoshop-effects regular user, you might have heard of Sumi-e. If not, greater should be your curiosity to what I am about to show you.

Based on ink and wash painting, Sumi-e, or shui-mo hua as it is named in Chinese, its place of birth, is one of the most relaxing brush painting techniques, whether you engage in the painting act itself or just watch the splendour of the outcome of every brush move on the blessed sheet of paper. Read more

Thought I’d better spoil you with some insides on the story, since the final act is gonna take a while.

Acrylic on canvas - sweet mistery of life

Acrylic on paper - cause some of you demanded a coloured painting….

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Before you start yelling that I’m out of my mind and that my math background should have made me come to my senses let me first state some facts:

1. The British really make a fuss over Stonehenge and launch „no-evidence” theories every decade.
2. It’s surely not been just one time you watched a Discovery Channel Program about Atlantis/ an ancient civilization that taught us a lot of stuff we wouldn’t normally know etc, etc
3. Jung is the one who introduced the theory of synchronicity, the idea being that similar things that happen in the same time actually DO have a connection that our minds see.

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they cost about 25 euros. not much for what I’m planning to make of them.

is the best way for me to start any morning.

what was once the best saddest classical song and the highest selling piece on iTunes, now, equiped with beat and electrical sounds, it brings power, strength, vitality and joy of living. Watch Dj Tiesto’s cover of Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings”:

in all forms it is a masterpiece.

Up to the moment that I started using facebook, I had a really good opinion about it. After all, it’s used by the important people, unlike other social networks like hi5 and yahoo 360. When you hear about CEOs and successful entrepreneurs crawling a social networking site, well, that actually says something about the quality of the network, or does it? I mean, it would come only natural that the more serious people having serious backgrounds and serious leisure activities would make their own network, wouldn’t it?
Nevermind all the questions, here are some answers: Read more