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07/10/2015

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Robert Cunningham

You sent a child to an Adam Sandler movie ? Have you no heart ? I have seen two Adam Sandler movies-I know,fool me once ,etc- and I still regret having done so. I am in my sixties and I have seen more than trailer inflated into a movie but to send an innocent child to see such a thing.

Mike Peterson

Well, yes, but it also stars Kevin James.

sean martin

All through school, all I knew of Monet's art was small reproductions in books — small because when I finally saw them and realized they were freaking ENORMOUS, the experience changed immediately. I try to walk a bit of a line with my cartoon, only because I do get a bit wordy sometimes: large enough that you dont have to futz with it IF you're looking at it on a tablet. But a phone? Screw that stuff... LOL

nothstine

This always makes me giggle.
https://youtu.be/wKiIroiCvZ0

Julia

I was truly lucky, a few years back, to see an exhibit of George Stubbs' horse paintings at a Baltimore gallery. I've loved Stubbs since he before he was allowed into Fine Art collections, but I was still blown away at both the size ("Whistlejacket" is a painting at life size) and depth and clarity of the colors and mesmerizing detail in even the more mundane paintings - the shine of a phaeton's wheel spoke, for instance, much like those cobblestones.

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