The Daily Croissant

"From October 6 to November 18 in the Italian town of Como, an exhibition Agora was gathering more and more likes of art lovers. More than 50 artist who worked on textile materials worked on exhibition in a neoclassical mansion name Villa Olmo.

The most notable work of the exhibition was of artist Dowie Gabriel from Texas, This work is a large-size installations of strained colored threads, His new work “Weaving № 19″, only created for the exhibition at the Villa Olmo, He gathered it with the help of two assistant. Special charm of this paper give glow yarns in the sun. Just have a look…."

"Everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky" Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

Yvette Mattern is a Puerto Rican American visual artist who lives in Berlin and New York. Mattern works mainly in temporal media including video and film, which she fuses with elements of performance, public art and sculpture. Recently her work has been involved in exploring the concept of liminality.

by Steven Barringer

A beautiful and colorful small village in Taichung, Taiwan where almost everything in site is painted joyful colors. A sense of wonder and peacefulness is felt as you wander the tiny streets of this modest section of the big city. Bright lively colors call out to your inner child as you find what appears to be an endless seam of creative whimsical imagery. A must-see for any one in Taichung.

From my understanding this tiny village in Taichung, Taiwan was painted by Mr. Huang Yongfu, an original native of Hong Kong, now 90 years old. There are stories/rumors that he painted the village to draw attention to it’s new beauty, thus keeping the old village from being torn down for newer buildings. Another possibility was that he wanted to create something beautiful in his rather drab little retired military village.

by Ed Groth

"The photo above showing a reddened rainbow was taken from Cortland, New York, about one minute before sunrise and with rain moving in from the west. This bow is much redder than a rainbow seen after sunup or before sundown; it's a dramatic illustration of the preferential scattering of blue light by our atmosphere. The violet, blue, green and yellow colors have been attenuated by the greater path length sunlight takes when the Sun is close to the horizon. A secondary rainbow is barely visible to the upper right."     by Ed Groth; Jim Foster

by Herbert Raab  

"The photo above shows a jaunty rainbow stretching over a cornfield near Piberbach, Austria. My shadow clearly shows the direction of the antisolar point -- the only direction where rainbows can be observed. Note that the fainter secondary bow is also visible (at left). This bow is caused by two internal reflection of sunlight in raindrops. Since some light is lost with each additional reflection, secondary bows are only 43 percent as bright as the primary bow."