Photo Final

NY Library gets two porfolio

The New York Public Library recieved two important portfolios for its photography collection.

One was Robin Bowman's The American teenager with an extensive showcase of American Youth with over 200 photographs and interviews. Another is the William Meyers Outer Bouroughs: New York Beyond Manhattan, a collection that made up of 86 black and white prints foucusing on the less celebrated neighborhoods of new york like the bouroughs of Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens.

Art and Space

A show entitled Light Years: Photography and Space Open tomorrow at the National Gallery of Victoria. The show focuses on space travel in the '60s and 70's and the picture from it.

"The 1960s and ‘70s were an exciting time for the artistic and scientific exploration of worlds beyond our own. They were ‘light years’ in which people looked up to the skies and beyond, in a real and an imagined sense, and through photography discovered additional dimensions"

This show coinsides with the International Year of Astronomy and the 40th anniversary of the walk on the moon.

A Huge Gift!

New York Philanthropist give donate a huge gift to the Auckland Art Gallery. The Large donation includes well-known paintings by Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Gauguin and Piet Mondrian. There are 12 paintings in this donation and the city as well as the country of New Zealand are overwhelmed with grattitude for these precious gifts.

Time Magazine's 100 most influential people

Leaders & Revolutionaries

Edward Kennedy
Gordon Brown
Christine Lagarde
Thomas Dart
Avigdor Lieberman
Joaquín Guzmán
Nouri al-Maliki
Hillary Clinton
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
Boris Johnson
Norah al-Faiz
Elizabeth Warren
Paul Kagame
Nicolas Sarkozy
Angela Merkel
Wang Qishan
Xi Jinping
David McKiernan
Ashfaq Kayani
Barack Obama

Builders & Titans

The Twitter Guys
T. Boone Pickens
Ted Turner
Tessa Ross
Carlos Slim
Brad Pitt
Meredith Whitney
Suze Orman
Lauren Zalaznick
Timothy Geithner
Nandan Nilekani
Stella McCartney
Jamie Dimon
Sheila Bair
moot
Alexander Medvedev
Alan Mulally
Robin Chase
Jack Ma
Bernie Madoff


Artists & Entertainers

Rush Limbaugh
M.I.A.
Sam and Dan Houser
Kate Winslet
Werner Herzog
William Kentridge
Penélope Cruz
Lang Lang
John Legend
Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio
Gustavo Dudamel
Jeff Kinney
Tavis Smiley
The View
Zac Efron
Tina Fey
Tom Hanks
Jay Leno
A.R. Rahman
Judith Jamison


Heroes & Icons

Michelle Obama
Chesley B. Sullenberger
Richard Phillips
Seth Berkley
Michael Eavis
Leonard Abess
Hadizatou Mani
Rick Warren
Van Jones
Somaly Mam
Rafael Nadal
Suraya Pakzad
Jeff Bezos
Tiger Woods
George Clooney
Brady Gustafson
Sister Mary Scullion
Oprah Winfrey
Sarah Palin
Manny Pacquiao


Scientists & Thinkers

Nouriel Roubini
Amory Lovins
Jon Favreau
Dambisa Moyo
Dan Barber
Yoichiro Nambu
Roland Fryer
Martin Lindstrom
Barbara Hogan
David Sheff
Steven Chu
Paul Krugman
Connie Hedegaard
Daniel Nocera
Stephan Schuster and Webb Miller
Nicholas Christakis
Doug Melton
Paul Ekman
Shai Agassi
Nate Silver

Times Photos of the week

Dancer performs in Eurovision

Demonstrators descended upon Brighton, England on May Day to call upon Britain to close its arms factories and stop supplying Israel with weapons

Duncan Thompson and Sammi Gardiner get married in a Star Wars wedding on the Isle of Wight.

A performer puts her head in the mouth of a crocodile at Thailand's Sriracha Tiger Zoo

Pacific bluefin tuna swim in a fish tank at the Tokyo Sea Life Park.

Computing PowerA scientist checks computer chip sets in a microwave lab in Shenzhen, China.

Viles Testing the swine flu in Mexico

Time Magazine's Top Ten Yo Mama Jokes....

1. Yo mama so fat she fell in love and broke it.
2. Yo mama so stupid, I said Koolaide and she jumped through the wall.
3. Yo mama so fat, she sat on the rainbow and skittles popped out.
4. Yo mama so fat, people jog around her for excersise.
5. Yo mama so old her social secruity number is "8".
6. Yo mama so fat, she eats "wheat thicks".
7.Yo mama so fat she step on a scale and it said "...to be continued"
8.Yo mama so fat she got baptized at sea world.
9.Yo mama so fat she jumped in the air and got stuck.
10.Yo mama so old she knew burger king when he was just a prince.

A Hand Transplant??? What really??

The first person in the United States to recieve a double hand transplant is...

A pastry chef from florida just got a hand transplant. He lost his hand due to a strep infection that spread to his limbs and stopped the blood flow and caused both his hands and feet to fall off. Both him and his family are looking forward to regaining his independence since currently he isnt even able to simple tasks as in brushing his teeth, or combing his hair.

Ok so I know that my generation has a texting problem but this is ridiculous

A girl in Sacramento sent 303,000 text messages in one month...thats 7 messages a min, 420 an hour, 10,080 a day...All with her new iphone.
She is a Straight A student, and has a full time job and is able to keep up with her texting...

She said in her defense..."I cant help if Im popular"...give me a break that is ridiculous. Luckily her parents had the unlimited plan other wise it would have been over three grand.

Stalker of a College Student Caught

The Westleyn University Junior that was slain was killed by her stalker. He turned himself into police after seeing his photo. He apparently stalked Ms. Justin-Jinich one summer when they took a summer course together at NYU. He sent her 38 harassing emails and numerous phone calls. Ms. Justin-Jinich contacted the police but never pressed charges.

Kelli Connel Project

Self Portraits

The Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

This is the most anticipated event of New York high society. This years exhibition was "the model as a muse". Therefore it was no surprise to find a large number of supermodels as the center of attention.

Paris

An Art Teachers Tragic End...

The couple were vactioning in Southeast Asia when near the end of thier trip things took a deadly turn. The couple splurged on a resort hotel and soon both of them fell sick to the point where the womans fiance had to put her in a shopping cart and push her to the hostpital where she later dies from unknown causes.

Water from the spillway

Self Portraits

This is exciting!

The Obama Administration is reopening the crown of the statue of liberty! The Bust Admin. closed it shortly after Sept. 11, 2001