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REVIEW: Marina Abramovic – Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
About Marina Abramovic and her book Marina Abramovic is a performance artist, known for pushing her limits with her body by pain and stillness. I’ve known her artwork for a while now and, although I am not a big fan of this kind of art, I always appreciated the fact that she explored other ways of expressing the emotions. By pushing her limits she also pushed the boundaries of art, and for that I appreciate her very much. When her book, titled Walk Through Walls: A Memoir, was released (25th October 2016), I was keen to read it. I bought it from Amazon for about 20$. It is not cheap, but not…
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The original source of inspiration for the Starbucks Logo (12th Century)
While reading the History of Beauty by Umberto Eco I came across to what it seems to be the source of inspiration of the Starbucks logo. There are many representations of two tailed mermaids, but they mostly date to 15th and16th Centuries, while the engraving I found in this book dates to 12th Century. I was really excited to see it because, if you remember well, there’s been a funny debate about the true meaning of the Starbucks logo. In the picture below you can see the original Starbucks logo (1971) and in the second picture there is the logo used since 1992. It was slightly change in 2011, but I think…