Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem - Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. (Horace)
Age. Fac ut gaudeam - Go ahead. Make my day
Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est - Yes, that is a very large amount of corn
Amicus verus est rara avis - A true friend is a rare bird
Brevis ipsa vita est sed malis fit longior - Our life is short but is made longer by misfortunes. (Publilius Syrus)
Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam - I have a catapult. Give me all your money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head
Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre? - Is that a scroll in your toga, or are you just happy to see me?
Liberate te ex inferis - Save yourself from hell
Mater tua criceta fuit, et pater tuo redoluit bacarum sambucus - Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries
Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione - I'm not interested in your dopey religious cult
Non vereor ne illam me amare hic potuerit resciscere; quippe haud etiam quicquam inepte feci - I don't think anyone knows I love the girl; I haven't done anything really silly yet
Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae - There is no one great ability without a mixture of madness
Obscurum per obscurius - The obscure by means of the more obscure
Omne initium est difficile - Every beginning is difficult
Postatem obscuri lateris nescitis - You do not know the power of the dark side
Quid agis, medice? - What's up, Doc?
Scio me nihil scire - I know that I know nothing. Certain knowledge cannot be obtained. (Socrates)
Sit vis vobiscum - May the Force be with you
Sona si latine loqueris - Honk if you speak Latin
Stultus est sicut stultus facit - Stupid is as stupid does
Suntne vacci laeti - Are your cows happy?
Te audire non possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure - I can't hear you. I have a banana in my ear
Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur - Oh! Was I speaking Latin again? Silly me. Sometimes it just sort of slips out
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Words to live by
"I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself."
– "Self-Pity" D. H. Lawrence
sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself."
– "Self-Pity" D. H. Lawrence
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Noted photographer probed in misuse of Buffalo State cameras
By Phil Fairbanks NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: April 09, 2010, 7:45 am
Published: April 09, 2010, 12:30 am
Leslie Krims is known across the world as a surrealist photographer with a dark, satirical style.
Unfortunately for Krims, a longtime professor at Buffalo State College, there’s a new unwanted wrinkle on his international resume: allegations that he took two school cameras worth $45,000 and used them solely for personal and private business use.
Krims, a professor for 41 years, could face disciplinary action as a result of the state investigation into his use of school equipment.
“Krims used both cameras to create photographs for sale and used a Buffalo State College printer to print these pictures,” according to a new report by State Inspector General Joseph Fisch.
The inspector general goes on to claim that “these cameras, to date, have been used exclusively for Krims’ personal purposes, and neither camera has ever been used in teaching a class at Buffalo State College or for any school-sanctioned purpose.”
Krims declined to comment Thursday when contacted by The Buffalo News.
The New York Times in 2004 described Krims as “the bad boy of photography in the late 1960s and ’70s.”
The paper also suggested that Krims was a major influence on photography during the Modernist era and cited his photo of a “screaming, legless man on a small table in a windowed alcove” and the “image of his naked mother seated at a distance on the sofa in her dimly lighted, busily decorated living room.”
The Times credited the 67-year-old Brooklyn-born artist with opening photography to “possibilities of imaginative, formal and technical invention that countless artists continue to explore today.”
In 1993, then-Buffalo News Art Critic Richard Huntington described Krims as “something of a surrealist with an absurdist bent.”
Buffalo State College officials declined to comment on the possibility of disciplinary action against Krims, although the inspector general’s report indicates the school has initiated an investigation.
In addition, school officials are reviewing the inspector general’s recommendations on how it can improve its monitoring of college-owned equipment and property.
“We are reviewing our processes,” Stanley Kardonsky, vice president for finance and management at Buffalo State, said Thursday.
source
Updated: April 09, 2010, 7:45 am
Published: April 09, 2010, 12:30 am
Leslie Krims is known across the world as a surrealist photographer with a dark, satirical style.
Unfortunately for Krims, a longtime professor at Buffalo State College, there’s a new unwanted wrinkle on his international resume: allegations that he took two school cameras worth $45,000 and used them solely for personal and private business use.
Krims, a professor for 41 years, could face disciplinary action as a result of the state investigation into his use of school equipment.
“Krims used both cameras to create photographs for sale and used a Buffalo State College printer to print these pictures,” according to a new report by State Inspector General Joseph Fisch.
The inspector general goes on to claim that “these cameras, to date, have been used exclusively for Krims’ personal purposes, and neither camera has ever been used in teaching a class at Buffalo State College or for any school-sanctioned purpose.”
Krims declined to comment Thursday when contacted by The Buffalo News.
The New York Times in 2004 described Krims as “the bad boy of photography in the late 1960s and ’70s.”
The paper also suggested that Krims was a major influence on photography during the Modernist era and cited his photo of a “screaming, legless man on a small table in a windowed alcove” and the “image of his naked mother seated at a distance on the sofa in her dimly lighted, busily decorated living room.”
The Times credited the 67-year-old Brooklyn-born artist with opening photography to “possibilities of imaginative, formal and technical invention that countless artists continue to explore today.”
In 1993, then-Buffalo News Art Critic Richard Huntington described Krims as “something of a surrealist with an absurdist bent.”
Buffalo State College officials declined to comment on the possibility of disciplinary action against Krims, although the inspector general’s report indicates the school has initiated an investigation.
In addition, school officials are reviewing the inspector general’s recommendations on how it can improve its monitoring of college-owned equipment and property.
“We are reviewing our processes,” Stanley Kardonsky, vice president for finance and management at Buffalo State, said Thursday.
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