My Microsoft accepted it just fine. Could it be text only that is the problem?
REH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of pete Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 5:30 PM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION Subject: Re: [Futurework] FW: Google Art Project I don't know what others have recieved, but in my mail program, the text is hopelessly scrambled and incomprehensible, and seems to be missing some important bits. I thought it might have been quoted from the site linked, but I don't find it there. Maybe this was lifted from an article in another language, and subjected to a horrible google-translate accident. -Pete On Sun, 21 Aug 2011, Arthur Cordell wrote: > This may be of interest. > > > > arthur > > > > > > > > <http://www.googleartproject.com/> http://www.googleartproject.com/ > > Google opened 17 museums in the world for the virtual visiting > Google Art Project - a seventeen museums from nine countries, > 385 showrooms, 400 artists and 1060 pictures in high > resolution. Anyone who has Internet access, now > can visit the Metropolitan Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery, Tate and Hermitage > exhibits and view them in such detail that no > available even in real life. > Do fans as long as Google does not specialists photographed at high > resolution picture of the famous "Harvest > (August) "by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, director of the Tate Gallery in > London. Did not know that it depicts the traditional Fat Tuesday for a game > during which the peasants throw a stick tied to a pole in the goose. > The actual size of the figures of these people in the background does not > exceed > a few millimeters, so consider them in a picture that is stored > Metropolitan Museum, almost impossible. Rather, it was impossible. > Google Art Project was launched eighteen months ago > the usual format for the company: most of the day staff perform > their duties, but a fifth of working hours they are allowed to > to spend on side projects that interest them. So in some > point, all art lovers to unite and decide to Google > use available technology. No one has ever collected in a single database and > systematized the work of the various museums in the world, creating more > than just a collection of reproductions. Secondly, the Google project is > interactive: > You can create your list of masterpieces and share them with friends. > Third, Street View allows you to literally "walk" through the halls famous > museums. The image of each of them consists of approximately seven billions > of pixels, that is, their resolution is a thousand times higher than that a > simple digital photo. Because of this increase can be consider not only the > peasant Bruegel, but the thinnest strokes minute details and cracks in the > paint. There are other features - to example, a picture, "No, woman, no cry" > of the Tate Gallery can be Watch a special "night" mode to see its hidden by > Chris Ofili inscription is visible only in the full darkness. > > Pictures Google Art Project, available at high resolution: > > "Bedroom at Arles Artist" Vincent Van Gogh > "Starry Night" Vincent Van Gogh > "Madame Manet in the greenhouse," Edouard Manet > "Princess Porcelain Kingdom" James Whistler > "St. Francis of Assisi in the Desert" by Giovanni Bellini > "Portrait of George Gittsa" Hans Holbein the younger > "Council" Frantisek Kupka > "Harvest (August)," Pieter Bruegel the elder > 'Bottle' Anis del Mono "," Juan Gris > "The young knight in a landscape," Vittore Carpaccio > "Ambassadors" Hans Holbein the younger > "Marie Antoinette with Children" Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun > "Night Watch" Rembrandt > "" The Return of the Prodigal Son Rembrandt > "The Appearance of Christ to the people," Alexander Ivanov > "No, woman, no cry" Chris Ofili > "The Birth of Venus" by Sandro Botticelli > > > > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
