Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Friday, June 1, 2012
Monday, May 28, 2012
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Friday, May 18, 2012
Friday, April 20, 2012
Monday, April 9, 2012
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Happy Easter
Easter (Old English: Ēostre; Greek: Πάσχα, Paskha; Aramaic: פֶּסחא Pasḥa; from Hebrew: פֶּסַח Pesaḥ) is a Christian feast and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion at Calvary as described in the New Testament. Easter is preceded by Lent, a forty-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance. The last week of Lent is called Holy Week, and it contains the days of the Easter Triduum, including Maundy Thursday, commemorating Maundy and the Last Supper, as well as Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus. Easter is followed by a fifty-day period called Eastertide or the Easter Season, ending with Pentecost Sunday. The festival is referred to in English by a variety of different names including Easter Day, Easter Sunday, Resurrection Day and Resurrection Sunday.
Easter is a moveable feast, meaning it is not fixed in relation to the civil calendar. The First Council of Nicaea (325) established the date of Easter as the first Sunday after the full moon (the Paschal Full Moon) following the northern hemisphere's vernal equinox. Ecclesiastically, the equinox is reckoned to be on 21 March (even though the equinox occurs, astronomically speaking, on 20 March in most years), and the "Full Moon" is not necessarily the astronomically correct date. The date of Easter therefore varies between 22 March and 25 April. Eastern Christianity bases its calculations on the Julian calendar whose 21 March corresponds, during the 21st century, to 3 April in the Gregorian calendar, in which the celebration of Easter therefore varies between 4 April and 8 May.
Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover by much of its symbolism, as well as by its position in the calendar. In many languages, the words for "Easter" and "Passover" are etymologically related or homonymous. Easter customs vary across the Christian world, but attending sunrise services, clipping the church and decorating Easter eggs, a symbol of the empty tomb, are common motifs. Customs such as egg hunting, the Easter Bunny, and Easter parades are observed by both Christians and non-Christians.
Friday, March 2, 2012
Drawing
DRAWING is a
form of visual art that makes
use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium.
Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inkedbrushes, wax
color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, markers, styses, and various
metals (such as silverpoint). An artist who practices or work in drawing may be
called adraughtsman or draftsman.
A small amount of material is released into the two
dimensional medium, leaving a visible mark. The most common support for drawing
is paper, although other materials, such as cardboard, plastic, leather,
canvas, and board, may be used. Temporary drawing may be made on ablackboard or
whiteboard or indeed almost anything. The medium has been a popular and
fundamental means of public expression throughout human history. The relatively
easy availability of basic drawing instruments makes drawing more universal
than most other media.
By AGAPI GEVORGIAN
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
FLOWERS
A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
Monday, February 13, 2012
PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. Typically, a lens is used to focus the light reflected or emitted from objects into a real image on the light-sensitive surface inside a camera during a timed exposure. The result in an electronic image sensor is an electrical charge at each pixel, which is electronically processed and stored in a digital image file for subsequent display or processing. The result in a photographic emulsion is an invisible latent image, which is later chemically developed into a visible image, either negative or positive depending on the purpose of the photographic material and the method of processing. A negative image on film is traditionally used to photographically create a positive image on a paper base, known as a print, either by using an enlarger or by contact printing.






























