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Christmas in Painting: Titian

Titian, The Adoration of the Shepherds, 1533, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy

A rather sombre interpretation of the subject of Adoration by Titian directs the viewer to the bottom right corner of the painting where the cloth and the baby Jesus emit light on the hands and face of Mary. Joseph is making a silencing gesture to the visitors, indicating that the newborn is asleep.

 

See How They Run…

Do you remember a famous cartoon of a few years ago when a single pencil was drawing a woman in real time on a small screen? It was starting with a sceleton, later dressing the woman up in human skin. “A woman from inside out” was quite a chiller, so I joked and said that this is how the thriller films of the future would look like. They would start with a blood-chilling skeleton, carry on with a sheet-burning romance, and end all buttoned-up.

What Pelourinho.com gave us was practically a 3D film, and everyone is quite mad about this new possibility. So much so that in France, le pays d’amour par excellence, there is now a video-on-demand 3D porn service, pushed forward by Marc Dorcel.

I remember attending a workshop at the BBC once in 2005 where the speaker was talking about smartphones and pocket PCs, how they’d be used regularly by around 2008. The gap seemed immense in 2005, but these devices began their onslaught on a traditional way of communicating even before 2008. Those who were watching “A Woman Inside Out” in 2006 could be thinking how good it could be to always be seeing a woman from this angle, almost in 3D. Flip forward to 2010, and there you have it.

What else is there that have we been waiting for?

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