The pictures of the home of an American expat family living in Spain
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Come, Let’s Create Kusudama
It’s indeed sad that people resort to lifting content from another site passing it off as their own. As far as I know, when the ‘source’ of an article is given, it only means that you can take the idea from that source and interpret in your own way and […]
{Update} Honey, my blog post has been plagiarized!
Hi, thanks for your tremendous response and suggestions. This is an update on yesterday’s post. After I asked the offenders to either give adequate clickable links back to The Key Bunch, or just delete the post, they sent me an email saying they have deleted it. I just went back […]
Honey, my blog post has been plagiarized!
Imagine my surprise when Rekha pasted this link in my chat window. http://www.sinlung.com/?p=5019 It opened up on a page that had the exact same content as this post of mine dated November 11, 2008. To my surprise, the post also had the same date as mine. How clever was that! […]
Warli Art: Simplicity Redefined!
Complicated art is a big NO for me. I would rather have something on my wall that I can relate to and feel in-sync with it; that’s the reason why I am attracted to folk/tribal art. It’s amazing how people those days came up with simple ideas to re-do their […]
A bit of Nagaland in my Salon
Seyie has introduced some tribal/ethnic inspired elements such as woven bamboo or rattan that are very commonplace design elements in Northeast India.
Alistair Heseltine’s Functional Art
Functional art has always been a fascinating subject for me. I love the fact that art embraces functionality to enhance the aesthetics of the product and adds excitement to the otherwise run-of-the-mill products. Award winning artist Alastair Heseltine draws inspiration from nature and comes up with some stunning functional art. […]
Art Easel: Paintings by Swapna Malvade
When I visited a friend’s home recently I saw a beautiful painting of a tribal woman. I found out that the artist was Pune-based Swapna Malvade. I tracked her down, and left her apartment in Kothrud rather impressed by her work. Growing up in a small village in Maharashta, Swapna […]
Indian deities get luxe!
“Vakratunda Mahakaya Suryakoti Samaprabha Nirvignam Kurume Deva Sarva kaala sarvada” Yes, no Indian will start his day without prayers; all events, big or small start only after the prayers. The puja room, dwelling of the deities is the most important part of an Indian home. However, the deities these days […]
Flickr Find: Poetic Benches
Benches are an integral part of the front porch decor. Gossip, selecting wares from door-to-door salesmen, afternoon siestas and informal entertaining, studying, reading, you name it…it’s all done on the bench in most houses back home!