Cat People

Greatest Opening Film Lines (Cat People - 1942):
Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.

I liked this one.

Classics Of Everyday Design

(via The Guardian) Jonathan Glancey's classics of everyday design:
Classics of everyday design No 16
Classics of everyday design No 17
Classics of everyday design No 18
Classics of everyday design No 19
Classics of everyday design No 20

I liked it.

New Breed Of Entrepreneurs

New Business Models: Bryan Gardiner writes about Nicholas Reville + Participatory Culture Foundation, a 501(c) (3) non-profit, making and distributing a popular internet video platform, to promote and build an entirely new, open mass medium of online television + revenue models, and other viewpoints @ http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/news/2007/10/nonprofit_software

The Branding Of Damien Hirst

Pernilla Holmes writes about Damien Hirst, the creator of today’s priciest artworks, curator, collector, entrepreneur, restaurateur, and clothing designer + other viewpoints
@ http://artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=2367&current=True

Portrait Painter Of The Republic

Bonnie Barrett Stretch writes about works by enormously talented and complicated Gilbert Stuart (1755–1828), the father of American portraiture + the original work's enormous prestige and value + other viewpoints @ http://artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=1602

A Rare Diamond

It has been reported by Sotheby's that a diamond weighing 84.37-carat brilliant-cut, D-color with flawless clarity (GIA) could fetch $12 million - $16 million. The diamond will be auctioned at its 'Magnificent Jewels' sale in Geneva on Nov. 14, 2007. The diamond, along with other highlights from the Magnificent Jewels sale, will be on view at the following locations in advance of the sale: Hong Kong, Oct. 3-8; Paris, Oct. 11-12; New York, Oct. 14-17; Rome, Oct. 18-19; Los Angeles, Oct. 22; London, Oct. 24-26; Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Oct. 29-30; Bahrain, Oct. 31-Nov. 1; Geneva, Nov. 10-13, selected lots, Nov. 14. The winning bidder will have the honor of naming the stone.

Visions Of A Driven Man

The Observer writes about Luigi Colani, 'arch eccentric' and organic futurist who put the curve into Sixties design (s) + his mood and style + other viewpoints @ http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/design/story/0,,2031092,00.html

Jewelry Savvy: What Every Jewelry Wearer Should Know

Ken Gassman writes about Jewelry Savvy: What Every Jewelry Wearer Should Know by Cynthia Sliwa/Caroline Stanley + other viewpoints @ http://www.idexonline.com/portal_FullMazalUbracha.asp?id=28097