A Perfect Day in the Countryside

It was early afternoon, they, Joseito, his eleven year old son, Lee and his wife Rosa, they arrived in a taxi, to the old dirt, and dusty road that led down a shadowy lane to Jose's mother's adobe premises: along this walk were tall adobe thick walls used for fences, and inside these walls were folks getting ready to plant for the season, and would harvest sometime in April through May, in this rural Peruvian landscape outside of the city of Huancayo, Peru. Jose like the writer and poet Lee, had quiet drinking, Lee twenty-four years ago, Jose, had about one year of sobriety, but in that short time he had turned his life around most dramatically.

Abstract Art and Oil Painting Reproductions

Abstract art is an artist's impression of a subject or feeling rather than an exact likeness. If you want a flower that looks like a flower or a house that looks like a house, then abstract art is probably not for you. Abstract art is all about expression of feelings, moods, and perceptions through colors and/or different shapes. Some works of abstract art are very intricate and detailed while others are quite simple. Cubism, Abstract Expressionism, and Neo-plasticism are three important categories of abstract art. Let's look at the origins of this interesting art form so that we can better understand how it came to be.

Fantastic Four

Created in 1961 to rival the Justice League of America, the Fantastic Four centered around the adventures of genius Reed Richards, his fiancé Sue Storm, her brother Johnny, and friend Ben Grimm's ill-fated space mission. As a result of being affected by cosmic rays, the four began developing new powers. Reed could stretch and began calling himself Mr. Fantastic; Sue could turn invisible and accordingly called herself first the Invisible Girl then the Invisible Woman; Johnny's ability to turn his body into flame gave rise to the name the Human Torch; Ben Grimm was turned into a mammoth of a rock creature called the Thing.

Murder At Puno and Real

The Roads, Puno and Real, passes by the Plaza de Arms in the city of Huancayo, Peru, the streets go back to the days of the Inca's, now modern with smooth hard concrete, and dusty on this early Saturday morning. Surrounding this city are the Andes, high mountains, green and brown. At the corners of Puno and Real are two wooden huts, each having a woman proprietor inside them, selling several different newspapers; this Saturday morning, the sun was dropping down over the mountains onto the city, the altitude 10, 500 feet above sea level. Outside the city, in the valley of Mantaro, are several villages, with adobe houses, and hard dirt streets: children and parents, doing their shopping, and so forth.

Do it Your Way - Performing Magic Trick in a Crowd

Watching a live magic show is really amazing. You can't help but be amaze how these magicians perform such impossible things. Cutting woman's body in half is somewhat a puzzle how this magician do it. Or even simple magic like how hankies turn into a dove on a magic hat. Simple magic but really astonishing, it is not hard to perform magic in a big crowd. There might be someone in a crowd that can distract your concentration and failed to perform the magic well. Usually having a big crowd is really a big challenge for a magician. The distraction that can bring by a single person is really different having a lot of voices having a big crowd.

Dutch Fashion Design at the Barbican

The House of Viktor & Rolf - Dutch fashion design arrives at the Barbican 18 June 2008 - 21 September 2008 at Barbican Art Gallery. If you are planning to get married visit The Barbican and Get inspiration for a couture wedding dress at The House of Viktor & Rolf at the Barbican This summer Barbican Art Gallery showcases the work of Dutch fashion designers Viktor & Rolf. This is the first time in the United Kingdom that an exhibition has been devoted to this highly influential duo. Over the past 15 years Viktor & Rolf have taken the fashion world by storm with their particular blend of cool irony and surreal beauty.

Magic Tricks - Impossible is Nothing

There is really something that plays in our mind after seeing a magic show. And we sometimes can't admit that is really true and amazed in way how they present a magic. A big question of how they dot that is constant question of people who've watched great magic shows. The worse thing that an observer might think after seeing impossible things that has been done by a magician is that they are affiliated to some evil spirits and what he did is a black magic. It is funny to hear those kinds of comments when people seem to be very doubtful about the abilities of the magician. After being entertain and all, they still question on how they do those things and think of bad impression about their performance.

Gomorrah - A Book and a Film That Together Describe the Modern Plagues of Naples

Roberto Saviano's 2006 book, "Gomorra" has had enormous success in a very short time. In it he tells the stories of organized crime that circulate through the Italian consciousness like vaguely remembered recurring nightmares. The book describes the activities of the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia, considered the oldest criminal organization in Italy, as it has evolved in the Twenty First Century. This is where cocaine, sweatshops, loan sharks, illegal immigrants and toxic dumps all come together to create a modern day horror of biblical proportions. The book has sold over one million copies in Italy and has been published in numerous translations, illustrating not only Italian readers' morbid interest in the subject, but also the alarming parallels for so many other societies suffering the ills of modern life.

The Story of Bra Spider s Enjoyment of Bra Cunny Rabbit s Flight of Success

Bra Spider and Bra Cunny Rabbit have always been friends. So close were they that not a day passed without one of them calling on the other. But of the two, Bra spider was the least educated, for he was greatly reluctant to go to school and improve himself. So in effect he never attended any school whatsoever. Whenever he was sent to school, he would swear and protest as if he was going to be lynched. In his heart he felt it was useless and a sheer waste of time. So while his friend Bra Cunny Rabbit took delight in going to school and in learning, in general, Bra Spider remained out in the street playing football.

The Major s Secret

(Flash Fiction) Outside the bar it was dark, twilight had come and left, you could see the gibbous moon setting in from the window; it was high in the heavens. The Major leaned heavy on the bar, reflected on his war wounds from Vietnam, it was 1971, and he had been there in 1968 through 1970, now stationed at Fort Rucker, Alabama. He was an instructor within a helicopter unit. His eyes had been badly cut, damaged, now scared, hit from hot flying bits and pieces of metal, during his war years. The scars ran deep, one in the middle of his forehead, the others under his right eye, another along the upper part of his right jaw bone, it had ripped the side of his face off, stitch marks from his nose, around his mouth to his chin.