As an artist and painter creating visual impact though modern art and abstract in oil paint and mixed media paintings on canvas that I know! make any home come alive with color and energy.
Traditional wall art, modern or abstract painting not only fills a room with colour but tells a story. The unique story of the canvas itself is revealed but also about the artist who painted it and what drew you to the painting as well as how you found and acquired the painting. All original quality abstract paintings or modern artwork brings this story alive and develops its own value as a focal point in narrating this story making it distinctive, informed and intellectual, generating conversation and defining a scene of place within any gallery or modern home.
Art and especially Modern Art communicates Abstract ideas and concepts through contrast and contradictions that the modern world presents to us. Drawing on a number of artistic movements like Cubism, Abstract Expressionism, Modernism and Impressionism. I often find myself drawn to those emotional and expressive abstract paintings that fill a rooms with colour, energy and tranquillity. Preferring a limited palette of oil paints or earthy colours and simple clean lines to convey an image or abstract view point that challenges our perspectives on art and the modern world around us.
Creating useful links to my artwork, artist, modern art, Modern Oil Paintings,museums and art galleries develops our appreciation of art and its value to humanity as a whole.I believe that understanding Modern art and Abstract painting is a journey of constant discovery both into painting and ourselves as individuals.
2015年2月27日 星期五
2015年2月25日 星期三
Why cheap smartphones won’t be nearly enough
Android One followed the launch at the end of August by Mozilla, the non-profit behind the Firefox browser, of its own cheaper smart phones for the Indian mobile market. By making smartphones more affordable, Google and Mozilla hope to take the lead in connecting the estimated five billion people worldwide – primarily from emerging markets – who still have yet to join the developed world online.
Consider as well the manner in which mobile users in emerging markets usually purchase their mobile plans and data packages. It’s a multi-step, time-consuming process that involves either a physical trek to a retailer to top up a data plan, or the dreaded and unreliable multi-sequence USSD call-and-response. This often fails in areas of poor data connectivity, driving consumers to abandon the entire process in frustration.
Consumers, when presented with sponsored data in increments they understand – say, an hour of a popular social media site or a day of full access to the mobile web – are quick to respond. Our work with sponsored data in developing markets over the past two years shows that offers such as these need to be simple to access.
There are the mobile operators themselves. They know that they often lack the capabilities to deliver sponsored data in a cost-effective manner, and further recognise that vague and confusing bundles of megabytes simply don’t work for all consumers, particularly those who are coming to the internet for the very first time. This is where the crucial role of data compression from third parties can make the economics of sponsored data much more viable.
Mobile data becomes infinitely more affordable, understandable and attractive when there’s something to be gained by multiple interested parties. This potential is now beginning to be realised by sponsored data, which mobile operators from Pakistan to Nigeria to Malaysia have begun to embrace as both the business models and technology to support it have fallen into place.
By supporting even these paid offers with invisible-to-the-consumer data compression technology, operators can not only keep data pricing low: but also at the same time utilise the same infrastructure that allows for sponsored data to trial their own innovations in 21st-century premium data packaging.
Consider as well the manner in which mobile users in emerging markets usually purchase their mobile plans and data packages. It’s a multi-step, time-consuming process that involves either a physical trek to a retailer to top up a data plan, or the dreaded and unreliable multi-sequence USSD call-and-response. This often fails in areas of poor data connectivity, driving consumers to abandon the entire process in frustration.
Consumers, when presented with sponsored data in increments they understand – say, an hour of a popular social media site or a day of full access to the mobile web – are quick to respond. Our work with sponsored data in developing markets over the past two years shows that offers such as these need to be simple to access.
There are the mobile operators themselves. They know that they often lack the capabilities to deliver sponsored data in a cost-effective manner, and further recognise that vague and confusing bundles of megabytes simply don’t work for all consumers, particularly those who are coming to the internet for the very first time. This is where the crucial role of data compression from third parties can make the economics of sponsored data much more viable.
Mobile data becomes infinitely more affordable, understandable and attractive when there’s something to be gained by multiple interested parties. This potential is now beginning to be realised by sponsored data, which mobile operators from Pakistan to Nigeria to Malaysia have begun to embrace as both the business models and technology to support it have fallen into place.
By supporting even these paid offers with invisible-to-the-consumer data compression technology, operators can not only keep data pricing low: but also at the same time utilise the same infrastructure that allows for sponsored data to trial their own innovations in 21st-century premium data packaging.
2015年2月14日 星期六
Oil Painting Reproductions on Canvas
Fine art has always been known to project a light, positive effect to an individual’s well-being, whether he owns the art and proud to have it displayed on his walls or he’s just a passerby appreciating the art and what it is trying to tell him. Many observe how hospital institutions everywhere invest heavily in various art pieces and exposing them to their patients. They are perfectly aware of how fine art would affect and improve their patients’ conditions.
Take a moment to imagine an exquisite oil painting reproductions hand-painted to the likes of your favorite Van Gogh, Monet, Renoir or even Rembrandt hanging majestically within the dining room or adorning the powerful walls inside your corporate office. That would be a sight indeed! Getting one is not really that hard; oil painting reproductions on canvas is an affordable way to decorate your walls with such masterpieces.
Oil painting reproductions are the next best thing to fine art. With these, you can furnish your house with fine art masterpieces from great artists of the past and from our time. Of course, these reproductions will never be of the same worth as the original ones, but it will not be made too obvious on a canvass platform.
It is perfectly understandable that not all people can afford the original paintings; what art enthusiasts do is settle for high-quality oil painting reproductions, and everyone seems to have accepted it for what it is and what it means to them. Unlike prints and its complexities, oil painting reproductions do not really present an obvious difference to the original ones. You can even surprise yourself with museum-quality reproductions as long as you can get your hands on the right dealers.
To appreciate the beauty that your art painting on your wall is trying to preach you, you have to understand first the essence of oil reproductions and what these represent. For starters, there are various levels of quality presented in oil painting reproductions. Understanding the four different quality grades is the key to your purchases based on your actual needs and desires.
Take a moment to imagine an exquisite oil painting reproductions hand-painted to the likes of your favorite Van Gogh, Monet, Renoir or even Rembrandt hanging majestically within the dining room or adorning the powerful walls inside your corporate office. That would be a sight indeed! Getting one is not really that hard; oil painting reproductions on canvas is an affordable way to decorate your walls with such masterpieces.
Oil painting reproductions are the next best thing to fine art. With these, you can furnish your house with fine art masterpieces from great artists of the past and from our time. Of course, these reproductions will never be of the same worth as the original ones, but it will not be made too obvious on a canvass platform.
It is perfectly understandable that not all people can afford the original paintings; what art enthusiasts do is settle for high-quality oil painting reproductions, and everyone seems to have accepted it for what it is and what it means to them. Unlike prints and its complexities, oil painting reproductions do not really present an obvious difference to the original ones. You can even surprise yourself with museum-quality reproductions as long as you can get your hands on the right dealers.
To appreciate the beauty that your art painting on your wall is trying to preach you, you have to understand first the essence of oil reproductions and what these represent. For starters, there are various levels of quality presented in oil painting reproductions. Understanding the four different quality grades is the key to your purchases based on your actual needs and desires.
2015年2月11日 星期三
3G smartphone portfolio with the launch of Aurus Android 4.1 OS device!
The new 3G smartphone from Idea, which is once again priced affordably, at just Rs. 6,490, is targeted at existing 2G users who wish to upgrade to 3G in semi-urban and rural markets, across the country.
Encouraged by the good response to its previous 3G smartphones, Idea Cellular, country’s 3rd largest telecom operator has launched yet another Android based 3G smartphone – Aurus 2 – its first Jelly Bean based device. Aurus 2 is a stylish, dual-SIM phone, powered with a 1 GHz processor and offers video-calling facility.
Idea Aurus 2 has a 3.5 inch capacitive touchscreen with superior display that supports 320 x 480 pixel resolution. The new 3G smartphone boasts of high internal memory of 4GB ROM along with 512 MB RAM. The smartphone sports a 3.2 megapixel camera with digital zoom along with a front facing VGA camera and supports video calling.
Idea Aurus 2 is a delight for those who wish to stay connected and active on their social network as it offers easy access to Gmail and other basic social networking activities on this device. Users can enjoy thousands of applications supported on the latest Android technology, Jelly Bean.
Idea’s new dual-SIM Aurus 2 comes packed with an attractive data usage offer for Idea 3G users. For a pack of Rs. 261, Aurus 2 users can get 1.6 GB of 3G data and Idea TV subscription free for the first 3 months. The new 3G smartphone from Idea is available at all major mobile retail stores and Idea outlets across the country.
Encouraged by the good response to its previous 3G smartphones, Idea Cellular, country’s 3rd largest telecom operator has launched yet another Android based 3G smartphone – Aurus 2 – its first Jelly Bean based device. Aurus 2 is a stylish, dual-SIM phone, powered with a 1 GHz processor and offers video-calling facility.
Idea Aurus 2 has a 3.5 inch capacitive touchscreen with superior display that supports 320 x 480 pixel resolution. The new 3G smartphone boasts of high internal memory of 4GB ROM along with 512 MB RAM. The smartphone sports a 3.2 megapixel camera with digital zoom along with a front facing VGA camera and supports video calling.
Idea Aurus 2 is a delight for those who wish to stay connected and active on their social network as it offers easy access to Gmail and other basic social networking activities on this device. Users can enjoy thousands of applications supported on the latest Android technology, Jelly Bean.
Idea’s new dual-SIM Aurus 2 comes packed with an attractive data usage offer for Idea 3G users. For a pack of Rs. 261, Aurus 2 users can get 1.6 GB of 3G data and Idea TV subscription free for the first 3 months. The new 3G smartphone from Idea is available at all major mobile retail stores and Idea outlets across the country.
2015年2月10日 星期二
Introduction of contemporary interior design
Contemporary interiors are mostly zero clutter affairs mostly with no charm whatsoever. Not a patch on the simple Japanese interiors that it could be argued inspired them. “Japanese?”, you cry. Yes it all came from Japan. Some of the ideas came from Laozi, a philosopher and the founder of Taoism, who held to the “aesthetic ideal of emptiness”. Designers in the Bauhaus and elsewhere saw Japanese tea sets and writing sets all of which would look fine in one of todays so called contemporary spaces.
I sometimes think the whole modernist movement is the avoidance of criticism. If you merely splash paint randomly on your canvas, or paint it a single colour or one colour with two stripes then you are reducing the number of things that can be criticised. With no reference points no concrete judgement can be made. If I draw a Gallery Oil Paintings this is not the case, proportion, economy of line, quality of line, tonal arrangement, relation of the figure to the page, character, balance of light and shade, the list is really depressingly long! With a minimalist painting with only a fews elements the placing of those features is inevitably overwhelmingly important, which is why in my opinion good minimalist painters are so vanishingly thin on the ground.
One of my own experiences in the design world is that if you put anything interesting in it will be commented on, if it gets commented on people will have opinions, those opinions will differ and whatever was interesting will get cut. Something that inspires no comment will however slip by without really being considered. This all promotes a blank grey average which we can see today all around us. Partially it is due to democracy. We have this idea that if we take a broad spread of opinions about something and average them it will result in an improvement. This is not the case however with art or design. Much in the same way if you took everyone’s favourite colour and mixed them together you would not come up with anything other than muddy greeny grey.
Contemporary art tends to discourage intelligent opinions. People are reduced to saying, “Oh a child could do it!” often not because they are stupid or unsophisticated, but because the work itself has shut out all possibility of a worthwhile stance to take in regard to it. For me if it is not possible for a viewer to inhabit a work in some way, then it is poorly done.
I sometimes think the whole modernist movement is the avoidance of criticism. If you merely splash paint randomly on your canvas, or paint it a single colour or one colour with two stripes then you are reducing the number of things that can be criticised. With no reference points no concrete judgement can be made. If I draw a Gallery Oil Paintings this is not the case, proportion, economy of line, quality of line, tonal arrangement, relation of the figure to the page, character, balance of light and shade, the list is really depressingly long! With a minimalist painting with only a fews elements the placing of those features is inevitably overwhelmingly important, which is why in my opinion good minimalist painters are so vanishingly thin on the ground.
One of my own experiences in the design world is that if you put anything interesting in it will be commented on, if it gets commented on people will have opinions, those opinions will differ and whatever was interesting will get cut. Something that inspires no comment will however slip by without really being considered. This all promotes a blank grey average which we can see today all around us. Partially it is due to democracy. We have this idea that if we take a broad spread of opinions about something and average them it will result in an improvement. This is not the case however with art or design. Much in the same way if you took everyone’s favourite colour and mixed them together you would not come up with anything other than muddy greeny grey.
Contemporary art tends to discourage intelligent opinions. People are reduced to saying, “Oh a child could do it!” often not because they are stupid or unsophisticated, but because the work itself has shut out all possibility of a worthwhile stance to take in regard to it. For me if it is not possible for a viewer to inhabit a work in some way, then it is poorly done.
2015年2月5日 星期四
Samsung entered the dual-SIM smartphone game
Samsung introduced its first Android smart phones dual sim on Thursday, the Galaxy Y Duos and Galaxy Y Pro Duos.
This combination of affordable features paired with dual-SIM capabilities, however, could appeal in countries where handset costs push some to share handsets, which is one of the uses of a dual-SIM device. One look at the targeted countries for the new Galaxy Y smartphones illustrates this: China, India, Latin America, and Africa, to name a few.
One phone can easily be used by two or more people thanks to the multiple SIM functionality: a feature Nokia has offered in the same regions. Nokia is still offering low-end devices with two SIM slots, but its move to Windows Phone opens the door for Samsung to broaden its audience in emerging regions. Essentially, the new Galaxy Y handsets allow Samsung to experiment in a new market to see if it’s a viable area for continued sales growth. In fact, I noted five reasons in June why Samsung will be the next smartphone king; dual-SIM support could become reason no. 6.
its Galaxy line into the higher end phones, and that feature could be supplemented with Samsung software customizations to allow for “work” and “personal” modes. During the workday, the phone environment would be geared toward corporate activities, while off-hours, games and social networking apps would be accessible. In both cases, the dual-SIM feature would ensure both work and private communications continue to flow.
This combination of affordable features paired with dual-SIM capabilities, however, could appeal in countries where handset costs push some to share handsets, which is one of the uses of a dual-SIM device. One look at the targeted countries for the new Galaxy Y smartphones illustrates this: China, India, Latin America, and Africa, to name a few.
One phone can easily be used by two or more people thanks to the multiple SIM functionality: a feature Nokia has offered in the same regions. Nokia is still offering low-end devices with two SIM slots, but its move to Windows Phone opens the door for Samsung to broaden its audience in emerging regions. Essentially, the new Galaxy Y handsets allow Samsung to experiment in a new market to see if it’s a viable area for continued sales growth. In fact, I noted five reasons in June why Samsung will be the next smartphone king; dual-SIM support could become reason no. 6.
its Galaxy line into the higher end phones, and that feature could be supplemented with Samsung software customizations to allow for “work” and “personal” modes. During the workday, the phone environment would be geared toward corporate activities, while off-hours, games and social networking apps would be accessible. In both cases, the dual-SIM feature would ensure both work and private communications continue to flow.
2015年2月3日 星期二
Choosing The Oil Painting That Fits Your Home
If you are thinking about decorating your home, acquiring an oil painting is a great way of accomplishing this. It doesn't matter what style your home is, be it modern, classical or Victorian there is an oil painting that will fit your style. With the explosion of galleries, online art websites and auction houses the chances of not finding the perfect piece of art for your home is nearly impossible today.
Understanding colors and layout of the room - When looking at the room make note of the wall space. Is there enough room to hang the painting, are the walls mostly windows? What are the colors of the walls, will they make the painting standout? Each room is different, the family room is a place where the family congregates and usually watches TV or other activities. So a relaxing or serene painting might not fit into this type of room. Take in the room in, look at the color, the furniture, the lighting and use this information to determine what type of painting would be right for the room.
Room style - The furniture in the room defines your style for that room. Is the room modern, Victorian or traditional. Choosing a Modern Oil Paintings and placing it in the modern will not have the desired effect. The painting you choose should complement the room and the room should complement the painting. The painting you choose should enhance and complete the room's style.
Room color - There are so many paint colors on the market today that many people have changed their wall color to one of these fancy new wall colors. Choosing a painting that consists of many colors and hanging it on a colorful wall the painting will most likely get lost. Using neutral colors in a room will allow your painting to standout. Neutral colors are in the family of whites and tans. Using these colors will allow your painting to "pop" on the wall. Before changing the color on the wall take a photo of painting and use it to see what the painting would look like on the wall in the room. This will help you make a decision on the wall color and the painting you choose.
Painting size - Many people make the mistake of purchasing a painting that is either too small or too large for the room. Oil paintings are much different than prints, posters or any other type of medium, to appreciate an oil painting, artists normally paint them on a larger scale. These paintings need to be viewed from a distance to be appreciated. When acquiring an oil painting make sure the wall size is large enough to fit the oil painting. You need to have enough space around the painting for the artwork to look proportionally correct.
Understanding colors and layout of the room - When looking at the room make note of the wall space. Is there enough room to hang the painting, are the walls mostly windows? What are the colors of the walls, will they make the painting standout? Each room is different, the family room is a place where the family congregates and usually watches TV or other activities. So a relaxing or serene painting might not fit into this type of room. Take in the room in, look at the color, the furniture, the lighting and use this information to determine what type of painting would be right for the room.
Room style - The furniture in the room defines your style for that room. Is the room modern, Victorian or traditional. Choosing a Modern Oil Paintings and placing it in the modern will not have the desired effect. The painting you choose should complement the room and the room should complement the painting. The painting you choose should enhance and complete the room's style.
Room color - There are so many paint colors on the market today that many people have changed their wall color to one of these fancy new wall colors. Choosing a painting that consists of many colors and hanging it on a colorful wall the painting will most likely get lost. Using neutral colors in a room will allow your painting to standout. Neutral colors are in the family of whites and tans. Using these colors will allow your painting to "pop" on the wall. Before changing the color on the wall take a photo of painting and use it to see what the painting would look like on the wall in the room. This will help you make a decision on the wall color and the painting you choose.
Painting size - Many people make the mistake of purchasing a painting that is either too small or too large for the room. Oil paintings are much different than prints, posters or any other type of medium, to appreciate an oil painting, artists normally paint them on a larger scale. These paintings need to be viewed from a distance to be appreciated. When acquiring an oil painting make sure the wall size is large enough to fit the oil painting. You need to have enough space around the painting for the artwork to look proportionally correct.
2015年2月1日 星期日
The history of oil painting
Oil paints may have been used as far back as the 13th century. However as a medium in its modern form, Belgian painter, Jan van Eyck, developed it during the 15th century. As evidenced by the innumerable masterpieces Gallery Oil Paintings exhibited on gallery walls of the most prestigious museums worldwide, perhaps it is the medium of oil that has created the most significant impact on the development of painting as visual art form. Painting with oil on canvas continues to be a favored choice of serious painters because of its long-lasting color and a variety of approaches and methods. Because artists were troubled by the excessive amount of drying time, van Eyck found a method that allowed painters an easier method of developing their compositions. By mixing pigments with linseed and nut oils, he discovered how to create a palette of vibrant oil colors.
Over time, other artists, such as Messina and da Vinci, improved upon the recipe by making it an ideal medium for representing details, forms and figures with a range of colors, shadows and depths. During the Renaissance, which is often referred to as the Golden Age of painting, artists developed their crafts and established many of the techniques that provided the medium of oil to emerge. The refinement of oil painting came through studies in perspective, proportion and human anatomy. During the Renaissance, the goal for artists was to create realistic images. They sought to represent all that was caught by an artist’s detailed eye, as well as capture and present the intensity of human emotions.
Easily removed from the canvas, oil allows the artist to revise a work. With its flexible nature, long history and large body of theories, oil painting has created a most significant impact on visual art. New developments in oil paints continued into the 20th century, with advent of oil paint sticks, which were used by artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Anselm Kiefer. Since the Renaissance, the masters used oil to create works that continue to inspire, intrigue and delight, and today, artists continue to use this significant medium to express their visions, goals and emotions.
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Xiaomi's Phones Have Conquered China
Xiaomi, the four-year-old high quality chinese phone manufacturer, has found just such a sweet spot, and as a result is taking the smartphone industry by a storm. Pundits claim that Xiaomi is just a Chinese copycat of Apple, and not without some reason. Some point to Xiaomi’s product introductions, which are eerily just like Apple’s. Others point out the strong similarities between Xiaomi’s operating system (named MIUI) and Apple’s iOS. What’s more, Xiaomi’s products rank among the best in the industry in terms of performance.
So far from being a copycat, Xiaomi presents a knotty disruptive challenge to the largest smartphone manufacturers. As it continues to expand in developing economies by marketing to the emerging middle class, it remains sheltered from the competition by its margins and the way it makes products profitable. Sooner rather than later, as it continues to propagate its new business model, this disruptive competitor is going to change how this industry works.
Xiaomi is one of the fastest-growing tech companies in the world. It’s the sixth-largest handset maker on earth and No. 3 in China, behind Samsung Electronics and Lenovo Group, according to research firm Canalys. Xiaomi’s recent growth is impressive, and its potential is even greater. In 2013, the company says, it sold 18.7 million smartphones almost entirely from its own website, bringing in $5 billion in revenue. Earlier this year, Lei set an internal goal of selling 40 million smartphones in 2014, then raised it to 60 million. In a financing round last August, venture capitalists gave Xiaomi a $10 billion valuation, about on par with 30-year-old PC maker Lenovo and Silicon Valley darlings Dropbox and Airbnb. At the same time, Xiaomi has branched out from smartphones to tablets, the large-screen HDTVs, a set-top box and home router, phone cases, and portable chargers.
While the phones and tablets have obvious echoes of better-known products from Apple and Samsung, they’re not clones. Xiaomi’s Mi 3 smartphone, its flagship, is appropriately light and thin (8.1 mm), with nicely beveled curves. A color-popping display from LG and a high-performance Qualcomm (QCOM) processor give buyers the same components they’d find in other top-of-the-line phones. The device runs MIUI, Xiaomi’s own version of the Android operating system. Regular software updates, which come at the end of each week, often incorporate ideas from users.
Xiaomi’s real invention is its business model. It sells online, never in stores, and avoids conventional advertising, devoting only about 1 percent of its revenue to marketing. Instead, the company relies on China’s social networks, Weibo and WeChat, and the free press Lei gets as a national tech hero. The money Xiaomi saves on marketing lets it buy top-notch components while keeping retail prices down.
So far from being a copycat, Xiaomi presents a knotty disruptive challenge to the largest smartphone manufacturers. As it continues to expand in developing economies by marketing to the emerging middle class, it remains sheltered from the competition by its margins and the way it makes products profitable. Sooner rather than later, as it continues to propagate its new business model, this disruptive competitor is going to change how this industry works.
Xiaomi is one of the fastest-growing tech companies in the world. It’s the sixth-largest handset maker on earth and No. 3 in China, behind Samsung Electronics and Lenovo Group, according to research firm Canalys. Xiaomi’s recent growth is impressive, and its potential is even greater. In 2013, the company says, it sold 18.7 million smartphones almost entirely from its own website, bringing in $5 billion in revenue. Earlier this year, Lei set an internal goal of selling 40 million smartphones in 2014, then raised it to 60 million. In a financing round last August, venture capitalists gave Xiaomi a $10 billion valuation, about on par with 30-year-old PC maker Lenovo and Silicon Valley darlings Dropbox and Airbnb. At the same time, Xiaomi has branched out from smartphones to tablets, the large-screen HDTVs, a set-top box and home router, phone cases, and portable chargers.
While the phones and tablets have obvious echoes of better-known products from Apple and Samsung, they’re not clones. Xiaomi’s Mi 3 smartphone, its flagship, is appropriately light and thin (8.1 mm), with nicely beveled curves. A color-popping display from LG and a high-performance Qualcomm (QCOM) processor give buyers the same components they’d find in other top-of-the-line phones. The device runs MIUI, Xiaomi’s own version of the Android operating system. Regular software updates, which come at the end of each week, often incorporate ideas from users.
Xiaomi’s real invention is its business model. It sells online, never in stores, and avoids conventional advertising, devoting only about 1 percent of its revenue to marketing. Instead, the company relies on China’s social networks, Weibo and WeChat, and the free press Lei gets as a national tech hero. The money Xiaomi saves on marketing lets it buy top-notch components while keeping retail prices down.
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