Nov. 21st, 2011

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I've been attempting to discover the title for my favorite Vermeer painting for a couple years, with no luck, so I thought i would post a description and find out if any of my friends could identify it.

The subject of the painting is a young woman, side view facing to the left, wearing a white apron and carrying a white pitcher. She is a little to the right of the painting, with a wall behind her. The wall and the stones beneath ehr feet are sunlit, giving them a slightly creamy gold color (for some reason, this always makes me think that it is early morning in the painting). The wall behind the young woman ends, leaving the upper left corner of the painting open to reveal a background showing a wooden ship with a bright blue sky behind it.

I don't think this is one fo Vermeer's most well-known paintings, but I love the color of the wall and that Vermeer blue sk
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From the Dharma Web site
Silk batik scarf tutorial you can make in your kitchen in an afternoon
http://www.dharmatrading.com/html/eng/10181838-AA.shtml
The Facebook post also mentions being able to use their Setasilk paints for the batik, and I know they sell tie-dye silk scarf kits that you can do in the microwave.
This sounds relatively simple but...chartreuse and violet?? Oh my eyes!
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Arthur Ganson, renown for his kinetic sculptures at the MIT Museum leads the 14th Annual Friday After Thanksgiving Chain Reaction Event!


Friday, November 25th
Rockwell Cage Gymnasium at MIT
1 - 4 p.m.

This year we're celebrating the number 14 (where else but here do we have such fun with numbers?) by also running simultaneously a number of Sonnet/ poetry activities.


Join in this afternoon public/community art & engineering event with friends and family - escape the commercial pressures of the world to shop - and come express yourself, enjoy the teams who bring wildly imaginative contraptions to get connected up with each other, and just have fun.
Admission includes admission to the MIT Museum 9open till 6 pm on Friday) a few blocks up the street, as well.


http://web.mit.edu/museum/about/pr/2011/fat.html


Discounted tickets available until 11/23 at
http://mit.universitytickets.com/user_pages/event.asp?id=188&cid=28

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