Friday, October 7th, 2005
at 8:29 p.m.
Hahaha:
Tired of waiting for his copy of book six, a German HP fan threatened to kill people unless he got a book. The 24-year-old stole six copies of the book from a shop in the Hanover railway station, ran into another shop to get a bag, punched a customer in the face, and ran across a train platform, threatening to kill anyone in his way. Officers tackled him, and informed him that "he will likely have plenty of time for reading long books in his jail cell."
Speaking of Harry Potter, today my friend and I went over to the National Portrait Gallery and saw the brand new portrait of Jo Rowling, which turned out to be one of my favorite in the gallery--not because of the subject, but for the art itself; it was really intriguing in the way it is made, a strange sort of 3D. . .
"Barefoot on a plain wooden floor in a room empty but for an aloe vera plant, light switch and radiator, Rowling is seen in a white dress beneath a window in front of an illuminated painted sky. Through a compressed and disconcerting distortion of space, the portrait suggests a passage of time and illusion with echoes of Alice in Wonderland and the parallel world created in the Potter stories.
The portrait alludes to Rowling's life as both a mother and a writer who has made an enormous impact on children's imagination worldwide. Three eggs seen in the composition are a reference to each of Rowling's children. In creating a three-dimensional setting, the artist has been influenced by eighteenth-century toy theatres, the boxes of Joseph Cornell and the early drawings of David Hockney."
P.S.
I updated '101 things' because seriously, it was outdated.
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