<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30721903</id><updated>2011-12-15T03:43:15.648+01:00</updated><category term='mission statement'/><title type='text'>muse-amuse-blog</title><subtitle type='html'>The  original rather verbose  description of this blog had to make way for a  new visual one. See my mission statement below. Dawned upon in the early morning hours of  the fated 11th September,  as a  live recording of  Joan Baez,  performing  the bards  ballad: &lt;em&gt;Lily Rosemary &amp;amp; the Jack of Hearts&lt;/em&gt;  was playing in the background,  the relevance to  the tragic  event. though appropriate in our opinion,  may or may not be coincidental. Who knows? The  Muses? Muse Amuse Browse!</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://muse-amuse.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30721903/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://muse-amuse.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>museAmuse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13105454536396962698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hLLVLVbJx8c/SwIf3aNWfrI/AAAAAAAAAG8/d6j_yjDfmBE/S220/mushou_log8.png'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>4</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30721903.post-7942308749742847836</id><published>2007-09-11T04:23:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-13T21:06:38.317+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mission statement'/><title type='text'>Mission Statement   &amp;  A Tribute To An American</title><summary type='text'>
Here, for archival reasons only, the original verbose description of this blog and below the new visual one 

An amused to comfortable numbness  hi-tech  rock-solid  heavy-fossil-fuel-fired journey through the scandal-scam-spam-pornography-infested, fact-fiction info-overdosed  cyberspace as well as through the  cemented and asphalted  terrestrial  biotopes and   bank-bourse-blessed  </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://muse-amuse.blogspot.com/feeds/7942308749742847836/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30721903&amp;postID=7942308749742847836' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30721903/posts/default/7942308749742847836'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30721903/posts/default/7942308749742847836'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://muse-amuse.blogspot.com/2007/09/mission-statement.html' title='Mission Statement  &lt;br  /&gt; &amp;  &lt;br /&gt;A Tribute To An American'/><author><name>museAmuse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13105454536396962698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hLLVLVbJx8c/SwIf3aNWfrI/AAAAAAAAAG8/d6j_yjDfmBE/S220/mushou_log8.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30721903.post-115706232308018260</id><published>2006-09-01T00:11:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-12T01:45:12.178+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Why The Muses?</title><summary type='text'>The overt homage paid by the modern enlightened post-industrial Self-Awareness, which is generally regarded as the consciousness of the modern human being¹ to it's own achievements, although having played absolutely no part in its genesis, and manifested amongst other things in it’s disregard of the Muses, is according to my, predominantly an artists point of view, a reflection of the ignorance </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://muse-amuse.blogspot.com/feeds/115706232308018260/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30721903&amp;postID=115706232308018260' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30721903/posts/default/115706232308018260'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30721903/posts/default/115706232308018260'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://muse-amuse.blogspot.com/2006/08/why-muses-why-muses-overt-homage-paid.html' title='Why The Muses?'/><author><name>museAmuse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13105454536396962698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hLLVLVbJx8c/SwIf3aNWfrI/AAAAAAAAAG8/d6j_yjDfmBE/S220/mushou_log8.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30721903.post-115638660191019574</id><published>2006-08-24T04:22:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-12T02:21:55.682+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Art? For Whose Sake Please?</title><summary type='text'>I have an instinctive inhibition of protesting against any historically inherited episteme, not because I think they may be eternal but because I am too well aware of the fact, that such a protest it is quite often just a methodology to:

to prize one’s wares, 
to justify one’s own work, 
to promote one’s own self, 
to cater to a public looking for new sensations, especially in modern information</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://muse-amuse.blogspot.com/feeds/115638660191019574/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30721903&amp;postID=115638660191019574' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30721903/posts/default/115638660191019574'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30721903/posts/default/115638660191019574'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://muse-amuse.blogspot.com/2006/08/art-for-whose-sake-please-i-have.html' title='Art? For Whose Sake Please?'/><author><name>museAmuse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13105454536396962698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hLLVLVbJx8c/SwIf3aNWfrI/AAAAAAAAAG8/d6j_yjDfmBE/S220/mushou_log8.png'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30721903.post-115638221620093581</id><published>2006-08-24T03:16:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-12T01:33:43.095+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The Image of The Artist _Then &amp; Now</title><summary type='text'>Mark Irving's article: Artists on the road to martyrdom 
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Times Online UK (06.07.2006)

about the exhibition:
Rebels and Martyrs: The Image of the Artist in the Nineteenth Century, National Gallery, London WC2 (www.nationalgallery.org.uk ), June 18-August 28

and commented upon in  Art-News Blog 

The above article and the comments that it gave birth to, are the factors that inspired </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://muse-amuse.blogspot.com/feeds/115638221620093581/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30721903&amp;postID=115638221620093581' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30721903/posts/default/115638221620093581'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30721903/posts/default/115638221620093581'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://muse-amuse.blogspot.com/2006/08/mark-irvings-article-artists-on-road.html' title='The Image of The Artist _Then &amp; Now'/><author><name>museAmuse</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13105454536396962698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hLLVLVbJx8c/SwIf3aNWfrI/AAAAAAAAAG8/d6j_yjDfmBE/S220/mushou_log8.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
