Have you ever wanted to try out a DVD before you buy it?  Have you ever wanted to see a DVD before you decide to purchase it?  Why visit your local video store when you can choose from DVD rentals online and have the DVDs delivered directly to your home?  That’s right; you can try [...]

So, you are looking for information about magic’s history are you? Did you know that the history of magic is dark, unnerving, and at times, deadly? Yes, it is true. Magic, even in its simplest forms, was not a well liked concept. Why is that, you may ask. Magic is meant to confuse, to be [...]

From the time you were a child; did you dream about becoming a magician? Did you love to do simple magic tricks for your friends trying to impress them? Or, did you save those tricks to do in front of that special girl? Many children are in awe over magic. It is a shame that [...]

Old Street is located in central east London, it is a long street that covers areas such as Clerkenwell, Shoreditch, Hoxton Square. The street intersects with Kingsland Road which stretches north to Dalston and Hackney, and Shoreditch High Street that stretches south to Broadgate and Liverpool Street station. Old Street London Underground station is a [...]

Ilford located north east of Charing Cross, north of Thames, is one of the major metropolitan centres. It is not reachable via London Underground, but is fully adequate with its own community. If you live in Ilford and would like to know more or introduce more fun to your social life, why not try meeting [...]

Chingford is a town in Greater London located 10 miles north east of Charing Cross. There are a few landmarks in Chingford, such as the Queen Elizabeth’s Hunting Lodge, All Saint’s Church, and Pole Hill. Queen Elizabeth’s Hunting Lodge used to be called the Great Standing. The building is situated on Chingford Plain in Epping [...]

She’s tall, gorgeous and looks like an Italian Goddess but supermodel Megan Gale was born in Perth, Australia. She is of Italian descent, however, and it was her inherited stunning looks that made the Italian sit up and take notice when her Vodafone commercial was aired in that country in 1999. Megan was jetted to [...]

“Printmaking” may bring to mind ancient presses, copper plates and a very large man with beefy forearms and a long, dirty apron. So it was from about the 12th Century up to the mid-1960’s when modern-day ingenuity brought the printmaking press out of a barn-sized room to a manageable space – and now into your [...]

Many beginning calligraphy books will give you detailed instructions on the tools you “must” have before beginning calligraphy.  These tools, such as a ruler, a calligraphy pen with three or four different nibs, black india ink, powdered colored ink, heavy paper, etc., are certainly important if you want to pursue the interesting aspects of calligraphy. [...]

Tony Corzo has been a tattoo artist for the past 15 years and has seen the industry change with the times. The greatest change in the industry has been in the variety of clientele seeking his services.  When he was an apprentice, Tony’s customers were mostly bikers and musicians and few of them were women.  [...]

In 1912, the artist Matisse visited Morocco. His encounter with the country’s rich strong colours, the exotic architecture and the landscape – both lush and dry – changed his art forever.  Morocco’s cityscapes, atmosphere and society attracted many more artists, including actors, writers and poets, throughout the twentieth century. The architectural styles, majestic residences and [...]

If you’re a beginning graphic designer, or a new desktop publisher looking for clip art to use in a newsletter, it’s important to understand the differences between raster images, which are created with painting programs, and vector images, created with drawing programs. Knowing why these two major formats exist and how they are used can [...]

History contains stories that remain relatively obscure in popular culture until someone flushes them out. In a time when Max Ernst had an affair with another Dadaist and his wife, the Dadaists transformed the intellectual landscape of Europe. While viewed by some as reactionary to World War I, Dada really involved creative intellectuals doubling as [...]

Through the ages, philosophers and religious leaders have been telling us that it’s not just when we lose a loved one that we should think of death. Following their lead, many artists have used their talents to remind us of our mortality. Most prevalent in relation to Christianity, but also seen in other religious art, [...]

Before the advent of the super-powered art agent in the 1950s, and the virtual explosion of art buying for investment purposes in the 1980s and ‘90s, painting and sculpture existed as a means for people to measure themselves against the greater universal order. By applying their hands to clay or pigment, humans could communicate wonder [...]

In Hamlet, Shakespeare wrestles with the themes of betrayal, revenge, and madness. He presents us a situation in which Hamlet, son of one King of Denmark and nephew to another, resolves to determine whether or not his mother, Queen Gertrude, and his uncle (now his father-in-law), King Claudius, had anything to do with the death [...]

So what is it that ensures one graphic, multimedia, and Web design company is awarded a contract over another? It’s rarely about price alone. For a company to succeed in this highly competitive market it has to be able to deliver a complete service that is not only comparable to its competitors in price, but [...]

Whether you are new to the world of art or already an accomplished artist, chances are you are constantly looking for good deals on art supplies. After all, art supplies, such as brushes, oil paints, canvases, easels and shadowboxes can be quite expensive, and it can be difficult for the budding artist to afford the [...]

Zeus has always been an important figure in Greek mythology. He was the most powerful son of Kronos and became king of the gods. His symbol was a thunderbolt, and he carried the aegis, the magical shield used by both Athena and him. In one of his hymns, Homer wrote: I shall sing of Zeus, [...]

When you think of a scarecrow, you most likely think of a straw-filled mannequin of a man in ragged clothes with a straw hat. But scarecrows can come in all shapes and sizes and don’t have to be human. Most practical ‘scarecrows’ these days are simply made of aluminum film tied to a post to [...]