LOCATE THE SKULL...Holbein the genius of rendering!

This is a spectacular exemplar in rendering. I must show this to my friend Nikki, who will only tell me she already knows it, because she is an artist (Her Majesty deigned to make my portrait on my 24th birthday while Nalini held a torch under my face-due to the power cut-and thanks to them that the portrait came out better than the object.;) ). Have a look at this pic, it is a very celebrated one!! And also locate the skull while viewing it from an Acute angle!! Voila!!

DISCOVERY!

No, it is not that great a discovery like found water on Moon...or in a municipalty tap...!!
Okay, enough of my insensible unadorned wit. But you will bless me for what I have found for you.
One is http://www.onelife.com/; a website dedicated to an age old question about our Culture, questions are enlightening. Haven't read all of it, but will write a feedback as and when I do.
Second in http://bedouina.typepad.com/doves_eye/2008/10/hello-kind-world.html ,It is really moving how this lady writes. Fab!!

Hats Off McQueen!

I Dozed off with McQueen in my hands!!

It was the year 2006. My first year in NIFT, New Delhi (Masters in Fashion Technology-AP). The very honourable and an oracle in matters of spotting fashion trends-Ms. Bani Jha of the FD(Fashion Design Dept) took some of our lectures on Overview Of the Global Fashion Industry. It was from her that I first heard about Lee "Alexander" McQueen. It Definintely did not impress me much at that time, because I wasn't much interested as I understood little due to my own immature portrayal of Apparel Design and overmuch dependence on technicalities, which no matter have tehir own place in the sun but not before Inspiration and Imagination...but what struck a chord was the Man's originality and how he never repeated "Anything" . His level of committment is what I would like to reach to. From Savile Row to Puma Alexander McQueen, he was A Class Apart.

But I was not any good for OGFI lectures (for that matter any lecture after lunch), i usually tried & occupied a far off seat in the lengthy PJ Hall (it is "PJ" ie;Pupul Jaykar so that i do not let you make nerdy guesses :)!!), so that I save myself from being spotted dozing (and there was a fair chance i would be spotted). But I know what I have missed when I dozed with Mcqueen's design appreciation notes in my hands, and Bani Ma'am, was too genteel a women to humiliate me, spoilt a bit, I am,but only to make amends.

Mcqueen was a genius...My tribute to him...I will learn Appreciation Of Design.

P.S. Once I got a bit embarassed by my own sleeping habits and I used to carry a cup of tea to ALL classes after Lunch break(keeping in mind the faculty).