Military Advice

If one is battling the Russian Air Force, it is best to be under no Ilyushins.

Social Networking

Yesterday a work colleague was discussing Social Networking websites. He said something quotable:

Social Networking draws people closer together; it just doesn't get them out of the house.

I can't vouch for the truth of this statement, but it certainly made me laugh!

"Non-objective" art

Last year I got an opportunity to visit the Guggenheim Museum in New York. I found this quote from Hilla Rebay:

Non-objective paintings as companions to our daily life will spread spirituality, rest, pleasure, beauty, and earthly forgetfulness, but most important, a joyful subconscious influence, to develop in us the wonderful faculty of intuition.

I wouldn't have thought this, but do recall having an experience along these lines after looking at some Ad Reinhardt paintings at the MCA in Chicago.

The idea of having such paintings as companions is intriguing; who could afford it? Would prints suffice?

This brings back the memory of an experience I had in a furniture store when I was a child. When admiring an abstract painting in one of the displays, a lady came by and asked me if I liked it. I said that I did, and she replied to the effect that school children could do better paintings than that.

Perhaps Rebay should have added "arouse feelings of hostility" to her list!