Posts from — July 2010

   With the United States called the godfather of a new generation of hip-hop Kanye West both reputation and market launch in 2008 a win-win album “808s & Heartbreak” , After nearly two years after a lapse of time, the media and fans in the highly anticipated new single was finally released “POWER”.

    “POWER” on the Internet in early June to win the media exposure after the unanimous praise, song samples from the United States itself is well-known 70s rock group King Crimson song, one of the “21st Century Schizoid Man”, In addition, Kanye also invited to attend the hip-hop industry is an acknowledged independent producer S1 to produce a song, but the chorus harmonies are soul singer Dwele please help out. Including the “Rolling Stone”, “Los Angeles Times”, “Billboard and Times” magazine, the authority of the media, almost all of the offensive play-based sub-Kanye brightest high score. The “Entertainment” magazine more directly “POWER” hailed as a masterpiece of epic is a masterpiece not to be missed this summer.

     Since his debut since Kanye West will establish a new hip-hop music industry in the leading position of co-operation of artists including almost all the big front line people, even days later, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Beyonce, and Britney Spears a no less so. He released four solo albums earned him 12 Grammy Awards and two singles champion, in 2005 launched “Late Registration” is the “Rolling Stone” magazine rare five-star hip-hop album, 2008 The experimental works of “808s & Heartbreak” in the world to write more than 4 million of sales.

    “POWER” on July 1 at the Apple iTunes digital store starting with Amazon Amazon sync, sync songs also send units on the same day, in less than 24 hours, the song has climbed to the iTunes singles chart top 10, In the just-concluded on BET Music Awards, Kanye’s superb performance is also a plus a lot of songs.

    Long before the first public announcements of photographic processes in 1839, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, a scientifically-minded gentleman living on his country estate near Chalon-sur-Saône, France, began experimenting with photography.

     Fascinated with the craze for the newly-invented art of lithography which swept over France in 1813, he began his initial experiments by 1816. Unable to draw well, Niépce first placed engravings, made transparent, onto engraving stones or glass plates coated with a light-sensitive varnish of his own composition. These experiments, together with his application of the then-popular optical instrument, the camera obscura, would eventually lead him to the invention of the new medium.

     In 1824 Niépce met with some degree of success in copying engravings, but it would be two years later before he had success utilizing pewter plates as the support medium for the process. By the summer of that year, 1826, Niépce was ready.

     In the window of his upper-story workroom at his Saint-Loup-de-Varennes country house, Le Gras, he set up a camera obscura, placed within it a polished pewter plate coated with bitumen of Judea, and uncapped the lens. After at least a day-long exposure of eight hours, the plate was removed and the latent image of the view from the window was rendered visible by washing it with a mixture of oil of lavender and white petroleum which dissolved away the parts of the bitumen which had not been hardened by light. The result was the permanent direct positive picture you see here—a one-of-a-kind photograph on pewter. It renders a view of the outbuildings, courtyard, trees and landscape as seen from that upstairs window.

     An ultimately doomed attempt to interest the Royal Society in his process—which he called “Heliography”—brought Niépce and the first photograph to England in 1827. Upon his return to France later that year, he left this precious artifact with his host, the British botanist and botanical artist, Francis Bauer, who dutifully recorded the inventor’s name and additional information on the paper backing of the frame that held the unique plate. Niépce formed a partnership with the French artist, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, in 1829, but produced little more work and died, his contributions chiefly unrecognized, in 1833.

     Thereafter, the nineteenth century would see the first photograph pass from Bauer’s estate and through a variety of hands. After its last public exhibition in 1898 it slipped into obscurity and did not surface for over half a century. It was only in 1952 that the photohistorian, Helmut Gernsheim, was able to follow the clues, establish the work’s provenance, and discover where descendants of the plate’s last recorded owner had forgotten that it was stored away. He verified the photograph’s authenticity, obtained it for his collection, and returned Joseph Nicéphore Niépce to his rightful place as the first photographer. When Harry Ransom purchased the Gernsheim Collection for The University of Texas at Austin in 1963, Helmut Gernsheim subsequently donated the Niepce heliograph to the institution.

      It is this heliograph—the world’s earliest-known, permanent photograph from nature—that remains the cornerstone not only to UT’s Photography Collection but also to the process of photography which has revolutionized our world throughout nearly two centuries. Because of its uniqueness and its significance to the fine arts and humanities, it is among the world’s and The University’s rarest treasures.

    The recent action of fresh new Amy Winehouse is preparing an alternative rap band with the U.S. band The Roots drummer Questlove form a new band.The Questlove Ahmir Thompson said, Amy Winehouse intends to join forces with their own songs, plus lyrics writer Raphael Saadiq.

     So far, however, Amy Winehouse has not been able to implement them, because now she is thinking of ways to obtain a visa to enter the United States, aims and record producer contact. October 2007, she was in Norway for possession of seven grams of marijuana. After the United States as a pretext for refusing to enter the United States to receive her Grammy visas.

     Despite this, Questlove insisted that the band will soon begin production of new music. He said, “The band really started to work, she can go to the nearest places from the United States, Jamaica. I soon first trip to the French, and then I catch the last to see her not being there and making people tells us about. This matter, we had to rely on each other.”