Art20

Art20 = 20th-century art. Go to www.sanfordsmith.com for further info.

New Wines From India

Go to Nashik. The whole experience is immersive: taste + smell + sound.

Useful link:
www.sulawines.com

Heard On The Street

What I would like to say about gemstone traders is that they learn nothing, and they forget everything, really.

Crisis Mitigation At De Beers

Chaim Even Zohar writes about planned media blitz by De Beers to boost diamond value messages + DTC Sights + the state of the diamond industry @ http://www.idexonline.com/portal_FullEditorial.asp A must read. I think it would interesting to see how the value-conscious and cash-tight consumers are going to respond to diamond ads.

Andesine Treatment Update

David Federman's article on andesine treatments + John Emmett's viewpoints @ http://www.colored-stone.com/stories/nov08/andesine-copper-diffusion.cfm was educational and insightful. I think Dave was spot on. Instead of relying on traditional gemological methodologies, replication in a lab should be the way to learn more about treatments.

Diamond Market

Dilip Kumar Jha's opinion piece in Rediff News on India's diamond industry @ http://www.rediff.com/money/2008/nov/07bcrisis-global-crisis-has-hit-50000-jobs-in-surat-alone.htm was interesting. More pain ahead for the industry, really.

Edward Vogel + Trafton Drew Viewpoints

Edward K. Vogel + Trafton Drew's insightful opinion piece in Scientific American on memory @ http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=why-do-we-forget-things was brilliant.

Useful link:
http://psychweb.uoregon.edu/~pk_lab/vogel.htm

Paintings In Proust

Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to In Search of Lost Time by Eric Karpeles is a magnificent book. I liked it.