Damaged Picasso

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has housed Picasso's "The Actor" since 1952. However, just a few weeks ago the 105-year-old painting was injured. A woman accidentally fell into the famous painting, tearing it. The six-inch vertical tear is located along its lower right-hand corner. The painting is now being cared for in the Met's conservation laboratory. Thankfully, the tear isn't located in the focal area of the painting so the painting should be able to be restored. This piece dates back to the early years of Picasso's career and has an estimated worth of well over $100 million. I understand that a mistake is a mistake but... if I were the woman responsible for tearing this rare and wonderful piece of artwork I would be feeling pretty darn guilty right about now, wouldn't you?

Grown up Digital

Summary:

In Don Tapscott’s book, Grown Up Digital, he discusses coming of age of the Net Generation. While, Tapscott may not agree with all of these statements, he chose to include a list of the top ten issues relating to this generation’s character. One of the main bullet points voices concern about the amount of time people of the Net Generation are spending online. It claims that the Net Generation is made up of a bunch of internet addicts who lack social skills. People of the Net Generation rely on non-personal forms of communicating. Text messages and e-mails have taken the place of face-to-face conversations. And that rather than engaging in physical or healthy activities they spend their time staring at the screens of computers and televisions. Therefore, members of the Net Generation are out of shape both physically and socially.

Response:

I neither fully agree or disagree with this argument. I admit that people of the Net Generation, myself included, do spend more time with technology than any of the other generations. However, I do not agree with the idea that our use of technology is totally negative. Many of us do prefer texting to phone conversations in certain situations; however, that is not to say that we never carry on phone conversations. Text messaging is best for short questions/comments and quick responses. In addition, this list makes it seem that only the Net Generation uses these methods of communication when in reality many members of the older generations are just as guilty.