Monday, October 11, 2004

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Gigablast Search - Albq. New Mexico At Least They Didn't Move to the Valley. News from last week: The heralded one man search engine is getting bigger - both in its index, and its staff. Gigablast increases its index to 650 million pages....and is growing its staff and office space as well. I'm kind of a little sad to see it, in a way, as it was always fun to point to Matt's work as evidence of what one guy in New Mexico can do. Now it's a few folks. Still not bad....... [John Battelle's Searchblog] 7:13:21 AM

More on Podcasting From Italy --- In Italia, Qix.it è stato il primo sito ad accorgersi del podcasting ed a segnalarne l'esistenza, tanto da venire menzionato da Doc Searls, da Adam Curry (DJ di MTV e pionere del podcasting) e da Mediaburn. Tra pochi giorni Qix.it sarà anche il primo sito ad offrire al pubblico italiano un podcast di qualità e contenuti paragonabili a quelli americani. --- - WebmasterPoint.org - Speciale: Podcasting, si ripeterà il successo dei blog? 7:04:28 AM

Focus on Tempe, AZ MCC Media Arts Students in Presidential Debate Corps When the national press corps descends on Tempe for the last presidential debate, three Arizona high school students will be right there with them. These students are ALSO students in three of MCC's Media Arts classes. Alissa Irei, Seth Rollins and Philip del Real are earning college credit while they're still in high school. Clearly they are committed, determined teens with an eye on their future. They're the only young people granted press credentials to cover the debate Wednesday. The trio will be in the "spin room," where representatives for the campaigns give their reaction and analysis to the debate. They will produce a 10-minute segment that will appear later on C-SPAN, most likely providing a teen perspective on the national debate. You can read more about it at AZ Central.Com. David Cornelius, their instructor at Arcadia High School, came to MCC last spring looking for a way that the students could advance on their career paths. I am pleased to say the MCC Media Arts stepped up to meet the community need. Now, the MCC Art Department is developing a new degree path that serves the Arcadia students and the rest of the Valley. We extend congratulations and kudos to Dave and the Arcadia for their great work! [Cyndi Greening's Radio Blog] 6:45:07 AM

Contemporary Fresco Painting The grinding of pigments.... To the sounds of classical music, I sat down last Sunday, and I poured out my dry pigment of Verdaccio into a little pile, onto my glass top table, making sure as Wolf said, that everything was kept very clean and pure. I made a small well in the center of the pigment, and poured a small amount of distilled water into this center. There were no chemicals. Just the essence of the pure earth pigment, the water, and me. And so I began. I started with Verdaccio, because to me, it is the "mother" of all the paints and most importantly will be what I use for my underpainting. Verdaccio is a dark green, brown earth substance. I am mixing a limited amount of pigments for my palette; ochres, sienna, umber, red, terre verde, ultramarine, and bianco san giovani. In fresco, not many colors are needed, as the colors are kept simple, and beauty grows out of the underpainting and the different layers of paint which form depth. [Contemporary Fresco Gazette] 6:40:55 AM

Christopher Reeve CHRISTOPHER REEVE, 1952-2004 [dTheatre.com - Movie News] 6:37:49 AM