The brush of a painter is an important tool through which the artist wields his power and expresses his emotions. The canvass, the oil, and all the other painting media are important too, but these leave the artist when the work is done. Only the paint brushes stay, faithful and willing to participate in the making of the next masterpiece. Painters need two kinds of brushes. One is stiff and the other is soft. A painter usually has a range of sizes for both types of bru...

The OSI Model was developed by the International Organization for Standardization in order to provide a standard for computer networking. In 1984 the organization accepted the model as an international standard documented in ISO 7498.

The Tower of the Winds (Horologion) built in Athens by the astronomer Andronicus around the first half of the first century BC is apparently the oldest surviving weathervane if not the very first in human history. The weathervane itself was destroyed long ago, a beautiful bronze merman warrior known as a Triton. The compass rose however, the very tower itself has survived, and many artists throughout the later half of the last millennium had the chance to draw the tower in it...

I always know when April makes its yearly debut without consulting the calendar because my wife usually says, �Let�s clean out the garage today.� Trust me on this one, it is no April fool�s joke, but someone gets fooled. And believe me, I�m just not anybody�s fool. I�m my wife�s fool.

Describes the role of the orca killer whale in Pacific Northwest Coast art.

The Internet has expanded our world in many ways. Today, through the use of an online art gallery, we can buy, or just enjoy, works of art. If we are good enough, we can even sell our art work. No one wants to be a starving artist, but can be hard for an up-and-coming artist to get enough people interested in his or her projects to want to purchase some of it. That�s only one of many reasons an online art gallery might be a godsend for those artists looking for their big b...

Stock images and prints allow those who need the services of a photographer - either as publishers or consumers - to have more choices than ever before.

I recall many years ago when people were saying that movies were a thing of the past, that people would be entertained with the internet and video games. Well, not so! In fact, the movie business (including movie rental) is big business and it's not likely to go away anytime soon. Let's take a look at the two "500 pound guerillas" in the movie rental business: Netflix and Blockbuster. We have a brief description of the programs outlined here: Netflix launched its online...

Upcoming movie trailers are sometimes as entertaining as the feature movie itself. I find myself spending a large amount of time watching just the trailers. Then I'm satisfied and don't even need to watch a full featured movie!

What Are Movie Download Services? Movie download services are exactly what they sound like: a service that allows you to download movies from the Internet onto your hard drive or a DVD. Though this isn't a new concept, it is relatively new to the legal world of consumerism. Though 'pirates' have been making free download of movies available for quite some time, movie studios are now getting in on the action and offering access to their movies for download the day they hit th...