NOTCOT.ORG (Free subscription) | yesterday
Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa has been celebrated and ridiculed- by world-famous artists such as Fernando Botero, Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, Rene Magritte, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and many others.
Uncertain Times (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
The Many Incarnations of the Mona Lisa Fernando Botero wiki
blog it on the boogie (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
It’s ridiculous. Still going through photos from Paris and getting them onto flickr so feel free to stroll over now and then. I quite like this one. It’s funny going into the room where it is because there’s suddenly this mass of people who you just know are only there to see the Mona Lisa and [...]
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Offers 30% Off Best Available Rate Through 2008 ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The new Mona Lisa Suite Hotel () today announced that the all-suite hotel and its Galerie Restaurant and Bar are open and welcoming guests. The luxurious 240-room property is conveniently located in the award-winning town of Celebration, Fla., at the intersection of Interstate 4 and U.S. Highway 192....
HotelChatter - (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
There's tons of hotel news flying around this week and we don't have time to give each and every story the love and attention it may deserve, so you will have to settle for some news briefs. · Mona Lisa Suite Hotel Opens in Celebration, FL : An all-suite hotel named after Da Vinci's famous portrait sitter has opened in Celebration FL aka near Orlando. The hotel is offering 30 percent...
Dave Barry's Blog (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Posted by judi on August 13, 2008 at 11:00 AM | (smiles secretly at being FIRST) | 11:08 AM on August 13, 2008Sharpen that Batman pencil veeery carefully. | 11:10 AM on August 13, 2008You gotta haggle!Great column. Sounds like Chinatown in NYC. Now I know where they get their training. | 11:11 AM on August 13, 2008Haggling is great! My last trip to China not only did I get the Mona Lisa...
Endsights (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
... material without destroying what has already been established. So, instead of painting over the Mona Lisa, they could paint their own painting while drawing inspiration from the original. For example, the Final Fantasy movies. In Spirits Within, a brand new, animated movie was created from scratch and, although it’s far from being Oscar-worthy, it stuck to the mythos while delivering...
RegnYouth Archives (Free subscription) | yesterday
... stream of madcap bile and guitar punctuation of You Will Die and I Will Take Over or the swelling Mona Lisa Overdrive to appreciate. MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/britishindia Download: British India - Thieves Watch: British India - Said I’m Sorry Purchase: via Insound , via eMusic
The Smoking Section (Free subscription) | yesterday
... would, but would Hillary take part? Great minds think great thoughts Pictures I paint, make the Mona Lisa look like fake art I feel the pain of Nelson Mandela Cuz when it rains, it pours, I need Rihanna’s “Umbrella” For Coretta Scott’s teardrops When she got the phone call that the future just took a fuckin’ headshot… I wonder why Jesse Jackson ain’t catch him before his body dropped…...
Information Policy (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... to browse the British library without going to London, or an Irish art lover to get close to the Mona Lisa without queuing at the Louvre." On Monday (11 August), the commission said more funding needs to be allocated to digitalisation by the bloc's 27 member states calling efforts so far "small scale" and "fragmented." For its part, Brussels promised €69 million of EU money for 2009-10...
Maitri's VatulBlog (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... and, to her helpless and onlooking daughter, it seemed like an invisible someone taking a knife to Mona Lisa, a hammer to David, a match to a monument. Why does life build us up just to take us down? I want to say you can’t imagine my anger and frustration, but you’re a child, too. You know. Before leaving the area, D and I spent some time with my 92-year-old grandmother who taught...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
... art that I had really come to see. If I get time, I will come back and see the rest. La Joconde (Mona Lisa) is everything I thought she would be, except smaller. I think that most of the hundreds of people there, just came to see her. A beautiful painting by Leonardo. Could be my namesake, NOT!!! I was not disappointed, and definately a must see for every first time visitor to Paris....
The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
... Some other hot searches TinEye points out include the Uncle Sam “I Want You” poster, the Mona Lisa, the U.S. dollar bill, and the Hello Kitty character. Canada-based Idee is behind this new startup. The company focuses on image identification software and has created a few other products utilizing similar concepts. Its founders say their technology can handle low-resolution or grainy...
Counterbalance (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
... tell you that the value of a book doesn't depend on how many people read it. The brilliance of the Mona Lisa doesn't depend on how many people file past her every year. The greatest of books have few readers, because reading them requires an effort. But it's precisely that effort that gives rise to the aesthetic effect. Literary junk-food will never give you anything of the kind.'"...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
... Mum and I spent 2 hours looking around this amazing building the three big things to see were the Mona Lisa, Egyptian area and the Venus de Milo. It was so easy to get around but I can see how you could spend a week there. Great to see everything but it was a busy day and we had to push on, the next thing on the list was to see the sites of Paris, so Mum and I jumped on this Tour...
