In the past, as one think of a chandelier, images of expensive crystal and glass chandelier found in rich and famous mansions are the ones that come into their minds. Before, the broad impression of people to chandeliers is that they are too expensive and too bold. Though, contemporary chandeliers nowadays are the ‘in thing’. They are not too complicated and too elaborate, and they come with different styles and designs. Certainly, there are a lot of varieties of contemporary chandeliers that one can choose from, the contemporary chandelier that will fit your home. Contemporary ...

So you just got a new digital camera. Congratulations! What are you planning to do with your old digital camera? Many people just forget about it burying it in a drawer or somewhere around the house. There are better things to do with it, here are a few. Digital cameras evolve all the time. New cameras have more megapixels, they have better lenses, electronics and software. It is very common to get a new digital camera every few years and sometimes even more often than that. Every time you buy a new digital camera you need to make a decision as to your old one. You have many options for ...

Since it is Wednesday it’s time for my weekly installment of Celebrity Tattoos. This week I decided to go with Brad Pitt, mainly because so many women and men think he is the sexiest man alive and that a lot of people are not ware that Brad actually has tattoos. To be honest you will probably be shocked to how many Brad has. The first tattoo of Brad’s I’m going to start with is the one on his back. There has been a lot of speculation to what it was. But I’m here to tell you it’s not a map of New Orleans. It is just a bunch of scribbles that Angelina drew on his back one night when they we...

When you think of charities you probably don’t even think about tattoos in the same sentence. Well I was pleasantly surprised yesterday to find out that this one tattoo parlor in Phoenix was holding a A 15-hour long fundraiser for Phoenix Children’s Hospital. A 30 minute session with one of the tattoo artists from Living Canvas Tattoos cost only $15! You honesty can not beat that price when an average 30 minute session would probably start at around $60 and up depending on the tattoo artist. This charity event was a birthday celebration for the tattoo studio. They were celebrating 15 yea...

Seti I - A Mystery I recently took two Russian visitors to one of the most amazing and fascinating, but nonetheless little-known, museums in London. The collections in architect and Royal Academician Sir John Soane’s Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields are housed in what was Soane’s own house, but also an elegant setting for his many antiquities and works of art to which he allowed access to amateurs and students of architecture, painting and sculpture. There is no space in this article to list the many antiquities and items that Soane collected in his lifetime (he died in 1837) because ...

This short story was brought to by: www.thefrap.com ANONYMOUS HEY MA. June 5th 1944 I’m writing to you the night before a mission that is unknown to me or any of the other guys in my company. We are all in good spirits and we are ready to take the enemy down at any cost. Being an American is the most important thing to us all, but we really wonder if what we are doing is right. There is a lot of death on both sides and I wonder sometimes if we even know what we are doing. It reminds me of a group kids running in the street, pushing, kicking, laughing and then someone trips and ...

Authors just don’t spring to mind as the most likely people have to tattoos. But authors are showing their tattoos in publicity shots, they are arriving at award ceremonies with tattoos clearly visible, and they are loud and proud about the words and images that adorn their bodies. Get that stereotyped picture of tattooed sailors and truck drivers out of your head. Tattoos are mainstream and have been for several decades now, plus the literary world actually has a long tradition of wearing tattoos and also writing about them. Herman Melville wrote with humour about South Pacific tatt...

Sunday afternoon on the island is an oil painting by Georges Seurat. Seurat produced many other great paintings including Le Chahut, Circus Sideshow (or Parade de Cirque), View of Fort Samson, The Seine and la Grande Jatte - Springtime, The Models, Gray weather, Grande Jatte, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, The Suburbs, Fishing in The Seine, The Laborers, tudy for A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Bathers at Asnires, The Eiffel Tower and The Circus. Most art followers, including pointilism experts, believe Georges Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the I...