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1,001 Books to Read List

Posted by kmooney on November 4, 2010 at 5:39 pm

The problem of what to read next is one I, like most I am sure, have on a frequent basis. Piles of books dominate my small apartment, but sometimes I just can’t seem to find something I want to read in them. All of them I want to read, or read again, that is why [...]

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Mindfulness Film site

Posted by kmooney on June 16, 2010 at 11:24 am

http://www.mindfulness.nl/content/content_talvi.htm
buddhist contemplative film style. very meditative.

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New Abstract Photos

Posted by kmooney on May 6, 2010 at 9:55 am

Just added a bunch of new photos to the galleries. Mostly industrial abstracts, but there is some other stuff too. Here’s a link to the galleries:
Link to Photo Gallery

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Photo Organization thru Online Gallery

Posted by kmooney on March 31, 2010 at 1:30 pm

Last night I consolidated my photos into one browsable gallery. Here’s a link:
Link to Photo Gallery
The gallery uses minishowcase, a small and simple php/javascript online photo gallery, powered by AJAX, that allows you to easily show your images online, without complex databases or coding, allowing to have an up-and-running gallery in a few minutes.
http://minishowcase.net/
I like [...]

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Video Player

Posted by kmooney on March 17, 2010 at 2:46 pm

Here is a link to my youtube player.

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Minimalism

Posted by kmooney on March 11, 2010 at 4:16 pm

I have always been a proponent of minimalism. I partly received this from my father, an architect with early modernist sensibilities. Part of this also came from visiting Tibetan monasteries before I went to college. And part of this is watching people around me being bogged down by their stuff, physical and non. More recently, [...]

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Modern House

Posted by kmooney on March 6, 2010 at 1:09 am

House designed using google’s sketch up program:
View model on this site
Click to go to model on google site

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Plagarism Article in NY Times

Posted by kmooney on February 12, 2010 at 10:32 am

Here is a recent article by the NY Times on a young German author who has pulled from multiple sources indiscriminately without attribution and is being praised by many, and harangued by others. Given the nature of the last projects I have worked on, I found the response from critics as well as from readers [...]

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Kemp’s Gallery

Posted by kmooney on January 27, 2010 at 9:45 am

Put together a website for my dad so that he can display some of his drawings. Right now it is just a template to show him a couple of different ways to show the images. Hopefully he’ll like one and I’ll set up the site with his images, which will be building portraiture. Here’s a [...]

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Conceptual Art in NY Times: Jumping the Shark

Posted by kmooney on October 16, 2009 at 2:00 pm

Denis Dutton, a professor of the philosophy of art at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and the author of “The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure and Human Evolution”, has written a poor and limited view of concpetual art for the NY Times. He asks if conceptual art has jumped the shark by placing too [...]

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