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probablyhi asked: where can I find your themes?
December 2011
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jessicacr asked: What's the story of your oil painting of a girl in a white dress? God Bless~
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toburstbubbles asked: I like your blog, and music. THE END :)
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Original Oil Paintings →
Hey guys! I put some of my original oil paintings on etsy for sale. Ya, just a poor artist trying to survive. Please support me by spreading the word around. It would mean the world to me. I only put a couple of them up to see if anyone would buy, so inquire for any other paintings not on etsy. Check ericpaints.it for my works. There will be a big update on my website too for my recent works, I...
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Photoshopped or Not? Software to Rate How... →
By Steve Lohr, The New York Times, November 28, 2011
The photographs of celebrities and models in fashion advertisements and magazines are routinely buffed with a helping of digital polish. The retouching can be slight — colors brightened, a stray hair put in place, a pimple healed. Or it can be drastic — shedding 10 or 20 pounds, adding a few inches in height and erasing all wrinkles and...
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sunriseboulevard asked: I really like your paintings, please, keep up the good work
November 2011
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“An artist is alone with the brush.”
– Maggie Murphy
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imbabyg asked: I'm telling a story, not asking about your theme. Lol. I linked you on my tumblr as a sign of thank you. You inspire me with your creativity :)
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janju asked: once upon a time, there was a girl who needed help with her theme. only, the guy who created it didn't have time to provide such support. could she convince him otherwise?
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Spotted Horses in Cave Art Weren’t Just a Figment,... →
November 7, 2011, The New York Times
Roughly 25,000 years ago in what is now southwestern France, human beings walked deep into a cave and left their enduring marks. Using materials like sticks, charcoal and iron oxides, they painted images of animals on the cave walls and ceilings — lions and mammoths and spotted horses, walking and grazing and congregating in herds.
Today, the art at...
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imbabyg asked: Just want to say that I love your blog. Love the photos. The writings... And your paintings! I wish I could be painted nude before I die. If there's a like button of the owner of the tumblr itself, I clicked it already. I am in love with your hands :)
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October 2011
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Don’t Give Me What I Want →
Oct. 16, 2011. New York Times
A FEW days before I was dumped, I sat in the campus library. It was the eve of my first chemistry exam that semester. Under the dusty lights of the reading room, I was supposed to be studying. Instead, I stared at the cracked screen of my cellphone, waiting for a call.
Scattered across the table were my textbooks, laptop, pencils and two stacks of index cards. One...
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thedustwhispered replied to your post: Honestly brotherman, people will say what they may about Job’s leadership style but in the end of the day it doesn’t take away from the fact that his style worked. In fact leaders cannot solely inspire and praise, but rather must encompass the entire field including intimidation, humiliation, criticism etc. He ran one of the biggest companies in the world and...
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dnnyca asked: Honestly brotherman, people will say what they may about Job's leadership style but in the end of the day it doesn't take away from the fact that his style worked. In fact leaders cannot solely inspire and praise, but rather must encompass the entire field including intimidation, humiliation, criticism etc. He ran one of the biggest companies in the world and as such you must respond to...
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What Everyone Is Too Polite to Say About Steve... →
By Ryan Tate, Oct. 7, 2011
In the days after Steve Jobs’ death, friends and colleagues have, in customary fashion, been sharing their fondest memories of the Apple co-founder. He’s been hailed as “a genius” and “the greatest CEO of his generation” by pundits and tech journalists. But a great man’s reputation can withstand a full accounting. And, truth be...
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ericpaints.it →
I just uploaded a bunch of paintings/drawings from the last couple months. I finally got hold of a digital camera to photograph them. Please take a look and I hope you like it. Push “L” to see the images large!
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September 2011
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thefactyoureheremeanssomething asked: Your work is amazing!
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My Family’s Experiment in Extreme Schooling →
By Clifford J. Levy, September 15, 2011
The phone rang, and my stomach clenched when I heard her voice. “Daddy? I want to go home,” said my 8-year-old daughter, Arden. Two hours earlier, I dropped Arden and her two siblings off at their new school in a squat building in a forest of Soviet-era apartment blocks on Krasnoarmeyskaya (Red Army) Street in Moscow. They hugged me goodbye, clinging a...
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What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? →
By Paul Tough, September 14, 2011
Dominic Randolph can seem a little out of place at Riverdale Country School — which is odd, because he’s the headmaster. Riverdale is one of New York City’s most prestigious private schools, with a 104-year-old campus that looks down grandly on Van Cortlandt Park from the top of a steep hill in the richest part of the Bronx. On the discussion boards...
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Learn How to Shave Like Your Grandpa →
Proper shaving has become a lost art. Today’s average male has no clue about the fine art of the traditional wet shave that their grandfathers and some of their fathers used to take part in. Instead, they’re only accustomed to the cheap and disposable shaving products that companies market. I’m not sure when or why it happened, but the tradition of passing down the secrets of a clean shave...
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“Whether you’re painting, singing, acting or dancing, do it with passion,...”
– J. Ferrie
http://about.me/erichu →
Vote for me! You don’t need an account. And you can vote once everyday until setp.20. I know i’m probably not going to win. but I might have a chance if every one of my followers here helped. ;)
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Poor Models →
By Ashley Mears, September 14, 2011, The New York Times
AS the designers, stylists and editors of Fashion Week pack up to leave New York City today, one group of participants isn’t going anywhere: hundreds of young models, the surplus labor of the fashion industry.
Ten years ago, I was one of them. When I told my dad excitedly that I would be walking in a fashion show — which paid in dresses...
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Ashley Mears' "Pricing Beauty": What a sociologist... →
By Libby Copeland, September 7, 2001, Slate Magazine
There’s a long tradition among academics of embedding in an occupation to study it. In the middle of the last century, social psychologist Marie Jahoda worked in an English paper factory to learn about about the lives of factory girls. More recently, sociologist Loïc Wacquant studied boxers by becoming one, while Sudhir Venkatesh...
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Walking Out on China →
YUNNAN PROVINCE, in southwestern China, has long been the exit point for Chinese who yearn for a new life outside the country. There, one can sneak out of China by land, passing through pristine forests, or one can go by water, floating all the way down the Lancang River until it becomes the Mekong, which meanders into Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.
So each time I set foot there,...
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Disease-spreading mosquito found in San Gabriel... →
oh I remember these things back in china…
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http://about.me/erichu →
if you would, please vote for me top right. :) you don’t need an account to vote!
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World’s First ‘Blue’ Rose Soon Available in U.S. →
Long a symbol of the unattainable, blue roses will be for sale this fall in the United States and Canada.
Named “Applause,” the rose is genetically modified to synthesize delphinidin, a pigment found in most blue flowers. The rose was first released in in Tokyo in 2009, after 20 years of research by Suntory, a Japanese company that also distills whisky, and its Australian subsidiary, Florigene...
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The Dark Side of the Placebo Effect: When Intense... →
They died in their sleep one by one, thousands of miles from home. Their median age was 33. All but one — 116 of the 117 — were healthy men. Immigrants from southeast Asia, you could count the time most had spent on American soil in just months. At the peak of the deaths in the early 1980s, the death rate from this mysterious problem among the Hmong ethnic group was equivalent to the...
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The Creativity of Anger →
Many of my favorite Steve Jobs stories feature his anger, as he unleashes his incisive temper on those who fail to meet his incredibly high standards. A few months ago, Adam Lashinsky had a fascinating article in Fortune describing life inside the sanctum of 1 Infinite Loop. The article begins with the following scene:
In the summer of 2008, when Apple launched the first version of its iPhone...