Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall…

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… who’s the most ferocious of them all? What better form of morning meditation than to comb your hair and tie your tie while visualizing yourself with the thick skin of a crocodile. You’d be ready to face any obstacle...
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Einstein’s Desk

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This is Albert Einstein’s desk as he left it on the day he left the Earth in 1955. It looks like the desk of a man who was active and mentally fertile until the end. I hope I leave the...
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It’s Curtains For James Bond: An Interview With Artist Coco de Paris

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Really, how did we get along before the Internet? While performing a search recently for a completely unrelated item, I stumbled upon the Etsy shop CocoTwo, where I found, of all things, James Bond as a zebra on a shower...
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Penn State Dorm Room, 1915

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A college student’s dorm room a century ago. Haphazardly decorated, just like a student’s room of today. Only difference is the… Buy a copy of the image here via FineArtAmerica.com.
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Elapsed Time: Rod Taylor & HG Wells’ Time Machine

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When actor Rod Taylor died last week, I was in the midst of reading a short story by Georges Rodenbach called “The Time” about a man trying to synchronize a roomful of clocks and thereby his life. From the same...
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