Frida & Diego: Art, Love and Life

I had seen Frida's movie, been to Heard Museum during Frida's art display., read Diego: Bigger Than Life and still enjoyed reading this book 'Firda & Diego: art, Love, Life' for its pictures and paintings and the Mexican political landscape during the life of the artists Frida & Diego. I wasnt aware of Diego's effort to save pre Columbian Art and that Diego dabbled with cubism. Dr Atl is another reference that I take away form this book for further study.

The FootLoose American

Before reading this book 'The FootLoose American: Following the Hunter S. Thompson Trail Across South America", I had read the author Brian Kevin's book on Yosemite. Yosemite is a well covered place, yet his book had pictures and events that I hadnt seen in other books. so I was interested in this travel book too.
I liked the author's approach to travel of 'wandering around through the pleasantly pedestrian tableau' and 'grasping around for links with history.. compelled to travel this way, always sniffing around for the cultural-literary-historical significance of this or that'. All this overlayed on Hunter S Thompson's travels, getting an idea of various people of different countries in S America, the role of Peace Corps.
Thompson articles
Nomads from Affluence by Erik Cohen
Along the Gringo Trail

Icecream with many scoops

This icecream cone with many scoops is an out-of-the-box picture for me. The flower boquet kind is what I would come up with stretched imagination.

Pineapple Flan

The idea for Pineapple Flan came from a blender cook book. 
 Pineapple Flan

Even simpler recipe Rozanne golds pineapple flan

Over the River and Through the Wood

 St Nicholas 
Magazine for young folks
The Giraffe
Artful Antics

Artful Antics
The Bashful Earthquake



What Katy did and Katy didnt poems
Naming the Kitten
Wide Awake
On the Tree Top
Swinging on a birch tree 

Child prodigy

Edmund Thomas Clint profile on koumudi radio show.

Three among the Wolves

Have you heard of Shaun Ellis who lived with wolves? Now there are more.
3 Among the Wolves

eAuction

Eauction

Things to do in Qatar

Skeptic in Qatar

From Loney planet's suggestions of Things to do, I like the Souq waqif, Qatar museum of Islamic Art, Falcon Souq, Qatar National museum.

Imitation

To imitate life in a painting is bringing a 3D world onto 2D. A Hyper-realistic drawings by Ruben Belloso brings a portrait to be a protome

Rubiks cube Art

My friend sent this link to  Rubiks cube art
Most people usually have one or no Rubik's cube in their house.
A pattern on one cube would have set off the artist to gather more and coming to the realisation that the artist would need so many Rubiks cube is a crazy Eureka moment. Making icon pictures out of icon material is a hedged tete-a-tete with audience (for lack of a specific term for art readers). 

To read or not to

A First Grader's Dad is in a fix. His son is reading Junie B books but Junie is not upto the english that he wants his son to acquire by reading.

Snakemaster

Have you ever come across an article which matches a book that you are about to read that week. Thats what happened to me with From genes to fangs snake venom recipes remain mysterious and Snakemaster by Austin Stevens

Kalbeliya - Sanke Gypsies documentary

Modernist Women Poetry

The Retreat of Hsieh Kung translated by Amy Lowell
Arbutus
On Tenebris
Grass Fingers  by  Angelina Weld Grimke

All about the iGame

Having read O'Reilly's Building iPhoneand iPad electronic projects , I was interested in their 'iOS Game Development Cookbook'. Instead of specific projects, the book format of problem, solutions and discussion arms you with how-tos that would work for any project. If you know what capability you want to add in your game, it is easy to navigate the book to go that section. If you dont, then the book will give you an idea of the considerations you need to take such that your game wont crash and when its running, it transitions smoothly from active to inactive states, how to use UIKit, SpriteKit for your needs, managing multiple sounds.