For the horse people

Just saw this offering on Facebook from one of our Montreal art friends . . .

Patti just viewed your blog lovely so enjoyed it

Stone Age Orkney

a very interesting video

Horse Tale One

                    Here's my first attempt to upload a video to Blogger.

                    I also uploaded the video to Vimeo for better quality 

                    but haven't figured out how to link it to the Blog yet.

         

Horse Tales One

Donna Giles

Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline

For all who love maps and mapping, came across this on the net today.
There are some inspiring visuals:
http://www.brainpickings.org/2012/02/07/cartographies-of-time/?utm_content=buffere03f1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Shelley

Face of Siberian tattooed princess finally revealed

This may be of interest to some of you. Tattoos as mark making on the female body. When iI looked at the image of the tattoo it might be a horse. Still need to actually read the article.  Rika Balke shared with you:   Face of Siberian tattooed princess finally revealed archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com - Taxidermy expert uses painstaking techniques to create first ever replica of the ice maiden found preserved in the Siberian high altitude plateau. 'The face is very accurate to how Princess Ukok actually looked' [Credit: The Siberian Times/Marcel Nyffenegger] The first replica face has been created of the famous tattooed Siberian princess found mummified and preserved after almost 2,500 years in permafrost. A Swiss expert has used special taxidermy techniques to build an accurate reconstruction of the ice maiden who was uncovered by archaeologists in 1993. Known as Princess Ukok, after the high altitude plateau on which she was discovered, her body was decorated in the best-preserved, and most elaborate, ancient art ever found. While her discovery was exciting, particularly given how intact her remains were, her face and neck skin had deteriorated, with no real clue as to what she once looked like. Available on the App Store.

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33  ARTISTS IN 3 ACTS    by Sarah Thornton

Is a fun-to-read book filled with artist comments and ideas about what they do.   Thornton asks them all, What is an Artist?, and the responses all differ one from another!  Just try to answer the question for yourself if your name and a quotation of your response was going to be published in a well read book!  I loved reading it,  although I occasionally became a bit tired of some of the very entitled artists comments like Damien Hirst - and I do like SOME of his work.  The book is made up of the experiences and ideas, usually commented upon from Thornton's perspective,  of very successful and mostly very interesting artists who seem to be surprisingly candid in their  responses to Thornton.
It's readily available from all the usual sources.