Lyne Perinciolo Duluc

I’m not a big fan of abstract art, not in painting, not in photography, not in sculpture.  But once in a while something catches my eye and doesn’t let it go.  And that’s exactly what happened in one of the offices I currently work.   There is a bunch of paintings (reproductions?) and photographs on the walls.  Most of them are just fine, but I particularly liked this one.

Of course, it looks way better in real life than on this tiny JPEG.  But technology isn’t all that bad.  In fact, while I was looking at this painting, I was trying to figure out how can I find out the name of the artist and see more of his or her works.  That’s when Google Goggles for Android came to the rescue.  I snapped a quick picture, and a few seconds later my mobile told me that this is a painting by Lyne Perinciolo Duluc.  There is not much in terms of biography of her’s on the web, but there is plenty of her other works.

American freedom and democracy

Russia Today reports:

The terrifying legislation that allows for Americans to be arrested, detained indefinitely, tortured and interrogated — without charge or trial — passed through the Senate on Thursday with an overwhelming support from 93 percent of lawmakers.

Only seven members of the US Senate voted against the National Defense Authorization Act on Thursday, despite urging from the ACLU and concerned citizens across the country that the affects of the legislation would be detrimental to the civil rights and liberties of everyone in America. Under the bill, Americans can be held by the US military for terrorism-related charges and detained without trial indefinitely.

Additionally, another amendment within the text of the legislation reapproved waterboarding and other “advanced interrogation techniques” that are currently outlawed.

That’s exactly the same freedom and democracy that the US is violently spreading to the rest of the world… This is a rather predictable milestone in The War on Terror.  Terrorists are still winning.