Jackson Pollock, Guardians of the Secret, 1943
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Girl in Museum on Jackson Pollock's Guardians of the Secret :
It restates the negativeness of the universe, the hideous lonely emptiness of existence, nothingness, the predicament of man forced to live in a barren, godless eternity, like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void, with nothing but waste, horror, and degradation, forming a useless bleak straightjacket in a black absurd cosmos.
"Play It Again, Sam", 1972
The Philosophers' Football Match is a Monty Python sketch depicting a football match in the Olympiastadion at the 1972 Munich Olympics between philosophers representing Greece and Germany.
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A model of the set being built in the Olympic Stadium & Teletubbyland
The Olympic Stadium will be transformed into the British countryside for the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Games on 27 July.
A cast of 10,000 volunteers & farmyard animals will help recreate country scenes!
"If it doesn't rain, we have created our own," Danny Boyle said as he revealed the latest details of the ?27m ceremony,
pointing to the four huge clouds suspended on wires overhanging a model set of the Olympic stadium.
An Indian women watch the transit of Venus in Chennai, India &
Venus is passing the sun behind clouds in Losevo, north of St Petersburg, Russia.
None of us is likely to see Venus pass, like a moving bindi, across the face of the sun again. The next transit of Venus will not be for another 105 years.