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Entries from May 2008

Thank you Richard Florida for giving The Bohemians so much power. Now please tell us - when will we ever benefit from it?

May 30th, 2008 by Trout · No Comments

Richard Florida’s latest book, Who’s Your City?, has a lot of interesting ideas. It is a continuation of his work which started with the often quoted, celebrated and vilified Rise of the Creative Class.
In essence, the original book argues that economic greatness in any given place depends on the place’s ability to […]

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Tags: Art Life · Big Business · Controversy · Economics · Government · Philosophy · Society · The World

An elephant paints a self portrait

May 15th, 2008 by Trout · No Comments

In this post I pondered whether dolphins blowing bubble rings were a form of art.  After all they serve no purpose except aesthetic ones - the dolphins are having fun and stare at them.  So now we have this video of an elephant painting a self portrait.
Whether methodically trained to do this or not, how is it […]

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Tags: Animals · Drawing and Illustration · Myanmar / Burma · Painting