Resolutions for 2010

Resolutions for the new year.

• Transition from the 3.5+ level to the 4.0 level at tennis, playing more 4.0 guys.
• Take a lot of pictures
• Explore city parks and state parks and lakes
• Explore downtowns of cities in the Kansas City Metro
• Capture winter, spring, summer and fall
• Do some street photography and include people in pictures.
• Explore Kansas
• Pick up ice skating - be able to do the hockey stop, gliding on one foot with ease
• Get better at swimming - be able to do 3 laps without halting
• Do two half marathons and attempt a full if knees can take it.
• Use the road bike to work in good weather. Do Tour De Shawnee or similar.
• Do some dirt trails on MTB
• Do more sketching
• Explore the Rockies

Test the mail-in your post feature

This seems to be a nice little feature, though I don't think its something I'll end up using much. If I have access to email, I will have blogspot around too. Some of the use case I can conceive are - 

1. I'm on the go with an urge to blog some irretrievable thoughts, and with my iPod, I might use email than go to blogpsot on it. I'd imagine that Blogger should have an app for it though.

2. Posting an email I received

3. Post and email it to others in one shot.

4. You like your email client more than you like Blogspot.

5. Be at work, composing an email in Outlook, when you are really blogging!!

A brief history of art

My visit to the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, spurred an interest in understanding the way art has evolved over time.

Cave painting is where it began some 32,00 years ago. We do not know the purpose of these paintings. Looks like human kind has an innate desire of expression. We started off crude and got smarter over thousands of years. Primitive techniques include spitting or blowing pigments onto the rocks.

There is Eastern painting and Western painting. Eastern seems to have been around longer than western but later as travel increased each influenced the other.

Eastern Painting - Chinese, Japanese, Korean

• Water-based
• Less realism
• Elegant & Stylized objects
• Preference for landscape over human subjects
• Importance of white space/negative space
• Ink & Color on silk or paper, gold on lacquer were common.

Art is very much inspired by and a reflection of the ideology.

Chinese Painting

Indian Painting

Western Painting

-Egypt, Greece & Rome

Painting in Americas

Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_painting