Sailoz
Recently, i have been trying to find out what I can about my great uncle Sailoz Mukherjea, one of India's best known painters of the 20th century.
He was one of the influential artists of the evolving modern / contemporary Indian art scene and continues to be a source of inspiration long after he passed away in 1960.
The following picture shows the artist's fantastic use of colours to bring his theme alive and touch the emotions.
It is easy to see why his paintings have been declared national treasures by the Indian Government and are not allowed to be exported.
Born in 1907 in Calcutta, India, Sailoz studied art at the Government Art College in Calcutta from 1928-1932 and received his diploma in Fine Arts. He taught at the Delhi Polytechnic and later became art director at the Indian Tobacco Company. He travelled to Paris in 1937 and travelled around Europe.
In 1946 Sailoz exhibited at the Unesco World Art Exhibition in Paris, Retrospective, New Delhi in 1950, in 1951 at the Salon de Mai in Paris.
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IcerocketLive Soul Stories
Maalo and the Funk Fellows, an international band from Vienna, dished out some fabulous soul / funk on 15 February 2008 in Nüziders, Austria to promote their brand new "Soul Stories" album. Their mix of contemporary funk, soul and R&B with a good mix of up tempo numbers and ballads, was well appreciated by the audience.
The cool vocal and horn arrangements enriched the music harmonically and rhythmically. The wah-wah guitar, Fender Rhodes piano and Moog synthesizer give Maalo's sound an authentic 70s touch.
Click on the pictures below to see a gallery of pictures of Maalo playing live in Nüziders.
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Would OS X for PCs be good business for Apple?
As some of you may be aware, it is possible to run Apple's Mac OS X operating system on regular PCs. Apple's licensing agreement currently does not permit this but its viability has been amply demonstrated (search for "OS X on x86"). The conventional wisdom is that Apple doesn't want to start licensing it's OS X / Mac operating system for PCs because they make a lot of money selling high margin Macintosh hardware and an OS X for PCs would cannibalize this. This analysis will show that there is potential to generate in excess of USD 3 billion in additional income for Apple, nearly doubling its latest income figures.
Let us start by assuming a USD 100 price tag for each home license. Based on OS X's simplicity, ease of use, superior features and "Mac halo" this is a realistic price when compared to Microsoft's Vista offering.
Let's assume that Apple is able to convert 3% or 30 million of the installed base of 1 billion PCs every year, that would add 3 billion dollars in revenue annually.
Joe Zawinul in Lugano on his birthday 2007
I had the privilege of seeing one of Joe Zawinul's last concerts at the Estival Jazz in Lugano, Switzerland in July 2007 on his birthday. Here is a video clip of Joe playing Scarlet Woman in Lugano: http://youtube.com/watch?v=rnw5z76xZzU
It was a classic Zawinul concert as usual but I was struck by the fact that he didn't look his usual cheerful self. He promised to be back again in five years for his birthday. He must already have been sick and when the news of his death a few weeks later was announced it was little consolation that I had been able to see one of his last concerts. He was full of promise of new things to come and his time as a composer and musician were certainly not over, but he was robbed of the opportunity to contribute much more.
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Thanks Joe for all the fabulous concerts and the incredible music - we will keep listening.
Is "Internet Domain Estate" worth it?
NameMedia just filed for an IPO (filing). They are looking to raise upto $172.5 million based on the initial filing. Potential investors will soon have to find answers to the big question of how valuable "Internet Domain Estate" really is. The real estate (real world) market is in a crisis right now after a prolonged period of ever increasing valuations. Is this a harbinger of things to come for Internet domain estate as well? Let's first take a look at where the value of real estate (real world) comes from and we will then analyse whether this applies to so called internet domain estate as well.