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bookmark_borderStreet Painting

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I received an email yesterday featuring some examples of Street Painting that were truly wonderful, for example:

I forwarded the email onto a few friends, and got a link sent back: Kurt Wenner – Street Painter extraordinaire.

I dug a little further and found that it seems he is continuing/advancing the art know as “Madonnari”.

“In 16th century Italy, artists began transforming pavement into canvas using chalk. The tradition was revived 400 years later, in 1972, when the Italian village of Grazie di Curtatone hosted the first known festival of street painting.”

Other Sites:

Unfortunately this art is never really going to catch on in Scotland. The propensity for random showers would make it a rather futile and frustrating venture.

* Is it just me or does “‘Allo ‘Allo” have a LOT to answer for?

bookmark_borderQuick Mini iPod thought

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A LOT of people are saying the same thing about the Mini iPod

too high a price for too little product. Of course, for an extra $50, the 15GB iPod doesn’t look so bad.

Maybe that’s the strategy? Seems a bit daft in the face of it I agree, but it is a good way to maintain sales of both… It’s a pretty easy sell for a salesman either way – you come in looking for a Mini iPod and he points out the ‘big brother’ model that is only a little dearer but holds much more or you just buy the Mini iPod that you came in for… if the gap between the two products was too big then there would be no ‘sell-on’.

I still expect a lower price, smaller model to appear at some time, as one thing Apple is good at is responding to the market.

bookmark_borderMen!

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So, Friday night 2 a.m. and with most people beginning to show the effects of a LOT of booze, as usual two guys got all hot headed and started the old pushey-pushey prelude to a fight.

The people and circumstances don’t really matter as they weren’t discussed, seemingly deemed unimportant by our two protagonists, after all they were too busy proving that they are ‘real men’. Tough, macho, and willing to stand up when challenged, they also managed to prove that they didn’t have two brain cells between them.

I find it difficult to fathom this kind of behaviour and as I’ve now been caught up in it twice, having the role of peacemaker somehow bestowed on me*, I’m getting royally pissed off.

Now, I’m a big guy, physically capable of looking after myself, and I’m semi-confident that, if I had no choice, then I would hold my own in a fight. However all my instincts and reactions would be against that course of action.

So what makes some men resort to this kind of macho behaviour. This blind rage that seems to erupt and is typically shrugged off as ‘bad temper’. Surely it is more than that. But what?

The guys involved are not thugs, and are both ‘alright’ in the main. Do we just excuse it as laddish behaviour? Boys will be boys? It’s the easy way out of that kind of situation, but if I was more closely involved I would want more than that as a response.

Next time, I’ve decided that if they want to knock lumps out of each other, so be it. Boys will be boys, or should I say, kids will be kids…

*It’s because I’m level-headed but big enough to stand between two guys.. I think..

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Bleuch
Monday morning comes all too soon, especially after a nice relaxing weekend. Coffee first. More later.
(Updates that is, not coffee, well more coffee will be consumed, a LOT more, but that wasn’t my point…)

bookmark_borderLinkeroo

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Rather than post a whole host of differently timed links I’ll just pull them together here (courtesy of w.bloggar):
hydragenic prompts another addition to the MUST BUY list.
spinning-jennie helps raise money, runs really far and gains a LOT of respect! You go girl!
“accidental. screw planning.” The ‘lean, mean packing machine’ has finished her move it seems and is worrying about spiders. I haven’t the heart to tell her that there is one on the ceiling above her head right now!!!
Caterina is building an installation, and letting us all know that Yak milk is Pink. Smart woman that one.
Great Books and Classics (via mybluehouse). A better reason to go blind by staring a computer screen until the wee hours of the morning…
Go get a new wallpaper courtesy of the Hubble space telescope.
A deep philosophical question: What’s Better? Answers can be found here.