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How Creativity Can Ease Your Nervous System and Help You Manifest Money Faster
For years, I treated manifestation like a mental exercise. I repeated affirmations. I visualized outcomes. I tried to “think rich” and “stay positive” all the time. And yet, money often felt slow to arrive. Something was missing.
By Edina Jackson-Yussif a day ago in Art
When Images Refuse Ownership
The history of modern art repeatedly demonstrates a stubborn truth: no image can ever be owned absolutely. Forms circulate, poses migrate, gestures recur, and meanings survive only insofar as they continue to work on people. Copyright, originality, and authorship may function as legal or institutional devices, but aesthetically they are always provisional. What ultimately matters is not where an image comes from, but whether it generates a lived response — a mood, a tension, a sense of story. Few contemporary paintings illustrate this more clearly than The Singing Butler (1992) by Jack Vettriano, a work that has become both one of the most reproduced images in Britain and one of the most contested.
By Peter Ayolov2 days ago in Art
The Painter Who Captured Souls
The small gallery at the edge of the city was easy to miss. A faded sign swung gently in the wind, and the windows were streaked with dust, yet inside, it held a world unlike any other. Visitors said that stepping into the gallery was like crossing into a different time, a place where colors spoke louder than words and silence carried its own weight.
By Sudais Zakwan2 days ago in Art
Pakistan deploys helicopters, drones to end standoff with Baloch rebels. AI-Generated.
Pakistan Deploys Helicopters, Drones to End Standoff With Baloch Rebels Pakistan’s security forces have intensified operations in Balochistan by deploying helicopters and surveillance drones to break a prolonged standoff with Baloch rebel groups, underscoring the growing complexity of internal security challenges in the country’s largest and most volatile province. The move reflects Islamabad’s determination to restore control while balancing military pressure with political and social sensitivities in a region long marked by unrest.
By Sain Hafiz3 days ago in Art
Marshall McLuhan: Philosopher of Media
Marshall McLuhan did not study media to understand television or newspapers. He studied media to understand *us*. Long before smartphones, social media, or constant connectivity, this Canadian philosopher saw that technology does not merely deliver information—it reshapes perception, thought, and society itself. McLuhan’s ideas remain disturbingly relevant because he grasped a truth many still resist: the most powerful effects of media are invisible.
By Fred Bradford3 days ago in Art
Echoes of Place and Feeling: The Art of Ida Shaghoian. AI-Generated.
Painting can be many things at once: a record of what the eye sees, a trace of what the heart remembers, and a mirror for the inner life of the viewer. In the work of Ida Shaghoian, landscape becomes a vessel for emotion rather than a literal description of terrain. Her paintings feel suspended between recognition and reverie, offering spaces that suggest hills, water, and sky while remaining open enough to hold personal meaning. What emerges is a body of work that invites contemplation, asking viewers not simply to look, but to feel.
By Ida Shaghoian3 days ago in Art
House. AI-Generated.
She closed her eyes and squeezed her knees to her chest like if she made herself smaller maybe the world would feel less heavy pressing against her ribs. The room was loud with silence, the kind that hums in your ears and reminds you of every word you never said out loud. She wondered if people could see the cracks in her the way she felt them spreading, thin lines like glass about to give.
By Brittany Smith3 days ago in Art
Choosing the right thickness for stainles steel sculpture
When planning stainless steel sculptures, many people initially focus on shape, surface treatment, or size, while overlooking the thickness of the stainless steel itself. In practice, thickness directly influences structural safety, visual proportion, fabrication difficulty, and long-term performance. Selecting the right thickness is not simply a matter of “the thicker, the better,” but rather a process of matching material properties to design intent and environmental conditions.
By Shenzhen Ruiheng Crafts3 days ago in Art
Nighthawks Urban isolation
Nighthawks by Edward Hopper in 1942 is truly one of my favourite paintings of all time. My interpretation of this iconic painting is accurate. Another interpretation of my own is that these people are lost souls and Nighthawks an seemingly unassuming diner is actually purgatory. This painting gives me chills because it’s about isolation in an urban area or rural area you can be isolated anywhere. This artistic triumph holds relevance in today’s world due to our cell phones and social media. Nighthawks is a work of fine art and there is no question about that and Edward Hopper created a masterpiece.
By Revista Miko3 days ago in Art
