What is Giclée?

If you walk into an art gallery or go through their cat­a­logue, chances are you would find a sec­tion reserved for repro­duced art­work. It would come under the strange sound­ing name, gicléeGiclée is a type of dig­i­tal fine-art inkjet print, usu­ally repro­duc­tions of art­work orig­i­nally cre­ated in tra­di­tional media (paint­ings, draw­ing, and so on). You can order Fine Art Giclée Repro­duc­tion or Cus­tom Giclée with your own photo on can­vasCan­vas is an extremely heavy-duty plain-woven fab­ric used for paint­ing sur­face, typ­i­cally stretched. More infor­ma­tion about can­vas you can find at www.Gicleestore.com at www.gicleestore.com (pro­nounced zhee-clay). What exactly is gicléeGiclée is a type of dig­i­tal fine-art inkjet print, usu­ally repro­duc­tions of art­work orig­i­nally cre­ated in tra­di­tional media (paint­ings, draw­ing, and so on). You can order Fine Art Giclée Repro­duc­tion or Cus­tom Giclée with your own photo on can­vasCan­vas is an extremely heavy-duty plain-woven fab­ric used for paint­ing sur­face, typ­i­cally stretched. More infor­ma­tion about can­vas you can find at www.Gicleestore.com at www.gicleestore.com, you might wonder.

GicléeGiclée is a type of dig­i­tal fine-art inkjet print, usu­ally repro­duc­tions of art­work orig­i­nally cre­ated in tra­di­tional media (paint­ings, draw­ing, and so on). You can order Fine Art Giclée Repro­duc­tion or Cus­tom Giclée with your own photo on can­vasCan­vas is an extremely heavy-duty plain-woven fab­ric used for paint­ing sur­face, typ­i­cally stretched. More infor­ma­tion about can­vas you can find at www.Gicleestore.com at www.gicleestore.com is a type of dig­i­tal fine-art inkjetInkjet printer is a type of com­puter printer that repro­duces a dig­i­tal image by pro­pelling variably-sized droplets of liq­uid ink onto a page. More infor­ma­tion about inkjet print­ing you can find at www.Gicleestore.com print, usu­ally repro­duc­tions of art­work orig­i­nally cre­ated in tra­di­tional media (paint­ings, draw­ing, and so on). Before the era of high qual­ity dig­i­tal print­ing, fine art prints were usu­ally pro­duced by con­ven­tional four-color off­set lith­o­g­ra­phy. Since the 1990s, that role has been taken over by gicléeGiclée is a type of dig­i­tal fine-art inkjet print, usu­ally repro­duc­tions of art­work orig­i­nally cre­ated in tra­di­tional media (paint­ings, draw­ing, and so on). You can order Fine Art Giclée Repro­duc­tion or Cus­tom Giclée with your own photo on can­vasCan­vas is an extremely heavy-duty plain-woven fab­ric used for paint­ing sur­face, typ­i­cally stretched. More infor­ma­tion about can­vas you can find at www.Gicleestore.com at www.gicleestore.com printing.

His­tory:

In the late 1980’s, the dig­i­tal print­ing pio­neers were look­ing for a new iden­tity for the beau­ti­ful prints they had worked so hard to achieve.  They wanted a dis­tinc­tion between their artis­tic work and the com­mer­cial pre-press proofs churned out by IRIS printers.

Ini­tially, IRIS prints were not quite top­notch. Their color fast­ness was doubt­ful, and the prints tended to fade within a few years.  It was also not pos­si­ble to achieve a com­pletely smooth tran­si­tion of color gra­di­ents, so impor­tant for repro­duc­ing art­work. After all, they were used mainly to match col­ors before the mass scale print run. (more…)

Giedrius Varnas

When it comes to black and white pho­tog­ra­phy, you will hear the name of the Dutch pho­tog­ra­pher Giedrius Var­nas pop up every now and then. In a world that tends to go over­board with gar­ish col­ors and glossy prints, his black and white prints are refresh­ingly sim­ple, even old-fashioned.

It isn’t as if his pic­tures are over­run with details about the sub­jects he cap­tures in them. Quite the oppo­site, in fact. The lack of details cre­ates a tan­ta­liz­ing mys­tery that is left up to the viewer to deci­pher. The foggy, sur­real envi­ron­ment in his pho­tographs are highly evoca­tive in nature and they trans­port you into a com­pletely dif­fer­ent world alto­gether. Var­nas’ great­est strength lies in mak­ing even the most pro­saic and banal land­scapes inter­est­ing and engaging.

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Meri Kurisumasu: Celebrating Christmas Japanese Style

Japan is pre­dom­i­nantly a Non-Christian nation, with the major reli­gions being Shin­to­ism and Bud­dhism. Only about 1% of the pop­u­la­tion is Chris­t­ian. There­fore, it isn’t uncom­mon for Chris­t­ian cel­e­brat­ing coun­tries to believe that Japan would sleep­walk through one of the most vibrant fes­ti­vals to be cel­e­brated in the world. Noth­ing could be fur­ther from the truth.

Christ­mas is a widely cel­e­brated fes­ti­val Japan, though not for its reli­gious sym­bol­ism. Women and chil­dren are greatly fas­ci­nated by the story of baby Jesus being born in the manger; how­ever, the cel­e­bra­tions in Japan dur­ing the Christ­mas sea­son have more roman­tic con­no­ta­tions. (more…)

The Spookiest Hotels to Spend Your Halloween

Hal­loween is just round the cor­ner. What do you have in mind? Why not do some­thing a bit dif­fer­ent than the rest this Hal­loween? Instead of get­ting some cheap thrills at haunted man­sions that look so obvi­ously fake, why not get a taste of the real deal? Check out some of the spook­i­est hotels the world that claim to be haunted by real ghosts. Well, as real as any­thing can be after it is dead, that is!

His­toric Farnsworth House Inn (Get­tys­burg, Pennsylvania)

When you have an entire town steeped in the vio­lent his­tory of the Civil War things start get­ting inter­est­ing. Add to that a 19^th cen­tury build­ing rid­dled with more than a hun­dred bul­let hills turned into an inn, you can be sure its rep­u­ta­tion is going to spread far and wide. This inn is among the most haunted lodg­ings in the coun­try and spirit of dead sol­diers who lost their lives in the Get­tys­burg bat­tle are said to roam freely around the prop­erty. The inn con­ducts ghost tours that take you around the lit­tle town but begin from the Mourn­ing The­ater in the base­ment. Hal­loween could barely get more inter­est­ing than this.
Price: from $145/night

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Revisiting our Arboreal Habitat

You do remem­ber play­ing in tree houses, don’t you? The excite­ment of clam­ber­ing up the tree to reach your secret perch; the impor­tance you rev­eled in because you had a secret hide­out that few peo­ple were privy to; and the joy that came from the sim­ple knowl­edge that you had a place to call your own.

Today, what can beat the plea­sure play­ing war games in your tree house or sim­ply sit­ting there lis­ten­ing to the call of the birds and watch­ing the trees sway in the wind? Stand­ing at that height you must have felt almost dizzy with the sense of power you seemed to have over all things under your feet – Lord & Mas­ter of all that you saw!

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A Feast For Your Eyes

Opera Houses, a sym­bol of nation’s wealth, are a great rep­re­sen­ta­tion of nation’s culture.

David Lev­enti takes us on an amaz­ing jour­ney around the world.   You are able to stand cen­ter stage as well as expe­ri­ence the van­tage point of the per­former.  This is once in a life­time opportunity.

Our eyes can feast on the incred­i­ble detail from gilt dec­o­ra­tions, to vel­vet seats to the most exquis­ite chandeliers.

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