Odd Nerdrum online

ODD NERDRUM'S AMAZING PAINTINGS. I'd like to look more in his books, too... But this entry is about Odd Nerdrum works online. He is both on Facebook with interesting photo albums (also of other painters) and he expresses in multiple media via several webpages. Discovered this today, so now I will visit him online, a good opportunity to enjoy his highly moving paintings. For example this new one.


You see we are blind, 2010 CREDIT PHOTO & PAINTING ODD NERDRUM

Interestingly, he is now using FB to interact and communicate.
For example, suggestions for a painting's title (See above: You see we are blind).
In March, he added this invitation on FB: Unfinished painting.Can you help me with the title?
First proposal is: "You se we are blind " - Thor Kristiansen
the picture: (260x188)

Here is more on Nerdrum's works: http://www.nerdruminstitute.com/main.php

Stekare before and now (in Swedish)

Courtesy to You Tube and user122aa — October 31, 2008 — Exempel på stekare på 00-talet och 50-talet
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Comedy
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stekare bergman Sommarnattens Leende Packat och Klart

The Four Freedoms, listen to Stallman

Photo courtesy of Think Ubuntu.

SOFTWARE AS COOKING. Freedom for computer use can be compared with cooking, according to Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation. You should be able to do four things:

0. Freedom to use the recipe (or software) when you want
1. Freedom to look at ingredients and change them
2. Freedom to copy recipes and share with your friend
3. Freedom to write down your version of a recipe and give it to the community

These are four essential freedoms for software use as well.
Learn more from GNU website (courtesy http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html):

“Free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer.”

Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. More precisely, it means that the program's users have the four essential freedoms:

• The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
• The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
• The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).
• The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this. (END of citation)
  

THE PHILOSOPHER. Richard Stallman is behind the GNU project that Linux became a part of. He says nobody knows how people actually use software. Indeed, he does not want tracking of free software.
Stallman rather wants you to defend the four freedoms of free software.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:051118-WSIS.2005-Richard.Stallman.ogg

Barefoot running

Ever been impressed by Masai barefoot runners? Read a brief note in a recent Times magazine issue about barefoot running and the fivefingers' support, probably better for a modern runner not so used to run entirely barefoot. Then I stumbled over this concept again on a physiotherapist student's blog and finally I found a Scandinavian distributor, if anyone is interested (* I have no commercial interests in this).

http://www.head2foot.se/fivefingers/

"Why we protest"

Elegant slideshow, anonymous post, from "Why We Protest: Iran" http://bit.ly/11b4tr
Found it via Twitter@TimOBrienNYT

Iran today: what is happening now?

I can only say, stop the killing. Respect the dignity of people, along the lines Obama said.

Mousavi yesterday, Sat 20.6.2009

http://different-ways.co.cc/?p=332

Mousavi message on Twitter:
- I am prepared For martyrdom, go on strike if I am arrested #IranElection
(about 17 hours ago from web)

Yet, there is much confusion now in Tehran. The big Q is, what happens next?

Now people asks, acc to twitter sources, where is Mousavi?

And 5 members of the Rafsanjani family (he was expresident) is said arrested. Worrying news.

What is happening behind the scenes?

People suffers in the streets.

BBC News covering Iran protests

Who has tasted freedom... Rolf Fisk is reporting from Iran

Robert Fisk: Fear has gone in a land that has tasted freedom
In defiance of the ban on foreign reporters, The Independent's Middle East correspondent ventures out to witness an extraordinary stand-off on the streets of Tehran

Wednesday, 17 June 2009
AP
Supporters of Mirhossein Mousavi protest on the streets of Tehran yesterday


http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-fear-has-gone-in-a-land-that-has-tasted-freedom-1706912.html