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With some clever recycling derring-do and a strong dose of whimsy, he resurrects the rejected, which makes perfect sense: if ars longa, vita brevis, why not the same thing with the materials that made the paintings?
James Scarborough: PHOTOS: 'Paint Tube People' Use Every Part Of The Paint Tube
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What you can't see in this shot is that my feet are actually cut, and (for additional grossness) I can pump up my extensor digitorum brevis muscle so that it's ripped and the veins over it pop.
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Keeping oneself in the public eye, which helps maintain at least the financial aspect of the success going, is vital in the media age where memory is so short, inverting the old Roman adage, "ars longa, vita brevis."
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Alas, the aforesaid parking situation (ars longa; meter brevis) meant I had to leave before one of my favorites, the BWV 1052 D-minor concerto.
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Alas, the aforesaid parking situation (ars longa; meter brevis) meant I had to leave before one of my favorites, the BWV 1052 D-minor concerto.
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Keeping oneself in the public eye, which helps maintain at least the financial aspect of the success going, is vital in the media age where memory is so short, inverting the old Roman adage, "ars longa, vita brevis."
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With some clever recycling derring-do and a strong dose of whimsy, he resurrects the rejected, which makes perfect sense: if ars longa, vita brevis, why not the same thing with the materials that made the paintings?
James Scarborough: PHOTOS: 'Paint Tube People' Use Every Part Of The Paint Tube
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Miamibrit said ... thank you for an insightful and amusing account of some concerts I wish I could have attended ... ars longa meter brevis - I shall have to remember that one
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Mommy thumb mainly affects two tendons — the abductor pollicis longus, or long thumb abductor, and the extensor pollicis brevis, or short thumb extensor.
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In the ducal library, an entry for Raymond Lull's Ars brevis (the abbreviated version of his art of memory) is dated 1485: Urb. lat.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
sakhalinskii commented on the word brevis
Latin, 'brief.'
July 31, 2008