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With Bill Murray's excellent supporting work in the limited release Get Low (expanding to other cities soon; watch for our upcoming review and an interview with director Aaron Schneider), it got us thinking about the history of Saturday Night Live and the actors who graduated from that school of super-stardom. Who has done the most with their degree? Who has used the show as a launching platform to the most notable film careers?

We decided to stick with SNL alumni who jumped from TV to film simply because it's near-impossible to compare what Tina Fey is doing on 30 Rock with what Will Ferrell has done on the big screen. Making that distinction leaves out the great Fey, Phil Hartman (who never did anything as great as his work on Newsradio; sorry Houseguest fans), Sarah Silverman, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Amy Poehler. We love them all but a small role in School of Rock and starring in Baby Mama aren't getting you on this list. We also tried to look at the entire career. If this was 1990, Chevy Chase and Dan Akyroyd would probably top the list but recent career choices haven't been as kind. Finally, we tried to divorce the opinion from their work as a part of the not-ready-for-primetime players. These aren't our ten favorite "Best of" DVDs from the SNL catalog. (Chris Farley would be number one.) So, with the dozens of actors who have tried to make the jump from the world of Lorne Michaels to that of the big screen, who has achieved the most air?

While more than 14.5 million Americans are out of work, tattoos are becoming less of an obstacle to finding employment, according to a Challenger Gray Christmas report released earlier this week.

From Otzi the Iceman to Angelina Jolie, humans have tattooed themselves for centuries as a form of healing, self-expression, remembrance and even advertising . They’ve also been affiliated with criminals and gang affiliation, making it difficult for those with stamped skin to find jobs in the past.

But today, tattooing has become so common employers are increasingly forced to choose between rejecting inked employees or having a severely limited job candidate pool, said John A. Challenger, CEO of the outplacement firm.

“Today, even in this tight job market, most companies are not going to view tattoos too harshly,” he said. “One reason is that with everyone from soccer moms to MIT computer science graduates sporting tattoos, preconceptions about tattooed individuals are no longer valid. Secondly, and more importantly, companies have a vested interest in hiring the most qualified candidate.”

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, more than 45 million Americans have at least one tattoo. The younger you look, the more ink you’ll find. Only 15 percent of Baby Boomers have tattoos, while 32 percent of Gen X and 38 percent of Millennials have body art, according to a 2010 Pew Research Center study. Half of those tattooed Millennials say they have two to five tattoos.

Human resource workers have been seeing more job applicants with tattoos, including more with prominent art placement such as on the face, said Sue Murphy, association manager for the National Human Resources Association.

Tattoo-friendliness often depends on the position, employer and industry the worker is in, she said. Employees having frequent face time with customers are more likely to be forced to cover up than those working a cubicle desk position, according to Murphy.

If you’re anything like me, at any given time you have a dozen to two dozen tabs open across multiple web browser windows. It’s great to have all these webpages open and ready to click on at any second, but it’s a nightmare to try and remember where each is with so many open. I shudder to think how much time I waste on this each day. Luckily, Mozilla is working on a solution.

A new feature called Tab Candy is in the works. It’s still early in testing mode, as Mozilla’s Aza Raskin points out on his blog today, but it looks to be exactly what I need.

Be sure to watch the video below for a full overview — from the looks of it, it seems as if Tab Candy is sort of like Apple’s Expose feature mixed with their Spaces feature, both of which are baked into OS X. For those who don’t use a Mac, basically these features allow you to zoom out and get a bird’s-eye-view of all your windows (or tabs, in this case) that are open — and you can also arrange open windows (or again, tabs, in this case) in certain spaces so they’re clumped together. This allows you to more easily find what you’re looking for with so many tabs open.

For example, when tabs are organized into a group, you can select that group and see only those tabs you put in there. The other tabs you have open (in another group) are still open, you just won’t see them when you’re focused on this particular group. And you can change the sizes of these groups in the bird’s-eye-view mode to highlight certain ones. “Make the group with your calendar and email bigger so that you can see what’s new just by zooming out to Tab Candy. Hide the group with distractions in a corner,” Raskin writes.

The best part is that you can actually test out Tab Candy right now. If you click on this link, you’ll download a special “super-early” build of Firefox (Firefox 4 beta, to be specific) with Tab Candy. Again, it’s early so there are bugs and performance issues, but this is a very, very good idea.

The most important source for understanding the most comprehensive Van Gogh as an artist is a collection of letters that passed between him and his younger brother, the art dealer Theo van Gogh. It lays the foundation for much of what is known about the thoughts and beliefs of the artist. be supplied continuously brother Theo both financial and emotional support.

Its long-standing friendship, and most of what is known about Van Gogh's thoughts and theories of art is recorded in hundreds of letters exchanged between August 1872-1890. Most were written by Vincent to Theo began in the summer 1872nd More than 600 letters from Vincent Vincent and Theo Theo 40 still exist, and although many are undated, art historian in the position, much of the correspondence shall be organized in chronological order.

Remainmainly problems from the time of Arles. But during this time, it is known that Van Gogh wrote 200 letters to friends in Dutch, French and English. The period in which Vincent lived in Paris, is the most difficult for art historians to study because he and Theo shared hosting and does not match, so that little or no historical data of the time.

In addition to letters to and from Theo, kept other documents which Van Rappard, Bernard Miles, sister of Van Gogh and his friend Wil Kruysse online. The letters were first recorded in 1913 by the widow of Theo van Gogh-Bonger, Johanna. In his preface, they issued the fear because the drama in the life of the artist wanted his work. Van Gogh himself an avid reader of biographies of artists and other Eclipse, that their lives compatible with the character of his art paintings.

In April 1881 Van Gogh moved Etten, the country with his parents, where he continued drawing, as many subjects with residents. During the summer months he spent much time walking and talking with his cousin recently widowed, Kee Vos-Stricker. She was the daughter of his mother's older sister and Johannes Stricker, who had shown sympathy for the artist. Kee spent seven years older than Van Gogh had a son of eight years. He beat her, but she refused, saying: No, never, never (niet, Nooit, Never). Later in November, wrote a letter to Uncle Stricker strong, then to Amsterdam, where he crashed repeatedly with Stricker. Kee refused to see him and wrote his parents: Your persistence is disgusting. In his desperation, he had his left hand into the flame of a lamp, with the words, see Let me, as long as I can hold my hand in the fire. I do not remember exactly what 's then turned, but then it is assumed that his uncle blew out the flame. Kee's father said that was not the marriage, the inability of Van Gogh, given to economically sustainable. Van Gogh perceived hypocrisy of his uncle and former guardian, affected him deeply. That Christmas he quarreled violently with his father, how to refuse a gift of money, and went to The Hague.

Shelter, view of the Hague Workshop (1882), watercolor, private collection.In January 1882, was in The Hague, where he called his cousin-brother, the painter Anton Mauve (founded 1838C1888). Malva encouraged to paint, but the two soon, probably because the issue of making plaster casts. Malva suddenly seems cold to Van Gogh and the return of a number of letters. Van Gogh had learned from his new adopted purple interior with a prostitute, alcoholic, Clasina Mary Sien Hoornik (1850Cunknown) and his young daughter. Sien had met in late January, when she was a girl of five and pregnant women. O He was not aware of two children who had died, while Van Gogh was. On 2 July, Sien birth to a son, William. At Van Gogh's father the details of their relationship being discovered, a considerable pressure to have to visit his son and their children. Vincent Defiant was the first face of the opposition. Uncle Cornelis van Gogh, an art paintings, service on 20 Ink drawings of the city, the artist in late May, June completed, spent three weeks in hospital suffering from gonorrhea. This summer, he began painting in oil. In fall 1883, after a year together, laissez-being and two children. Van Gogh had thought of moving the family to the city, but after the break. It is possible that the lack of money had been pushed back, has become home prostitutionthe Sien, the less fortunate and feel good, the Van Gogh family life compatible with his artistic development is not. When he left, Sien gave her daughter to her mother and the baby to his brother William. Later he moved to Delft and Antwerp. Willem remembered taken to visit his mother in Rotterdam at the age of 12 years, where his uncle tried to persuade Sien to marry in order to legitimize the child. Willem remembered his mother said, But I know who the father. He was an artist who has lived almost 20 years in The Hague. His name was Van Gogh. She then turned to Willem and said You are demanded of him. Willem Van Gogh, the son of look, but the time of birth, therefore, unlikely. In 1904 Sien drowned in his own hand on the Scheldt. Van Gogh went to the Dutch province of Drenthe in northern Holland. In December, driven by loneliness, he went along with their parents, who at that time in Nuenen, Noord-Brabant were to live.

Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers (August 1888), Neue Pinakothek, MunichThe Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night (September 1888) Kr? Modeller M眉ller Museum, Otterlo, Holland Joseph Roulin (The Postman) (1888), Museum of Fine Arts, President BostonVan Gogh (1888), National Gallery, LondonGauguin agreed to join him in Arles, Van Gogh, the great hope for the friendship and the Community or artist.

Wait, in August he painted sunflowers. Boch visited again and Van Gogh painted his picture, and the study of the poet against a starry sky. Sister Anna Boch (1848C1936), also an artist, bought the red wine in 1890. On the advice of his friend, the post office supervisor Joseph Roulin, whose portrait he painted, he bought two beds, 8 September, and finally, the first night spent in the quiet, sparsely furnished Yellow House on 17 September. As Gauguin agreed to work and live side by side with the Van Gogh Arles, the working conditions in the Dcoration The Yellow House began, probably the most ambitious attempt ever undertaken. Van Gogh has two paintings Chairman: Chairman of President Van Gogh and Gauguin.

After repeated requests, Gauguin in Arles last 23 October. In November, the two painted together. Gauguin painted the portrait of Van Gogh sunflower painting: Portrait of Vincent van Gogh, and strangely, Van Gogh oil paintings some pictures of Gauguin memorydeferring ideas in this field and the red wine. Their first joint exercise of outdoor painting found in the picturesque Alyscamps.

Paul Gauguin, the painter of sunflowers: Portrait of Vincent van Gogh (1888), visited Van Gogh Museum, AmsterdamThe two artists Montpellier in December and see the works from the collection of Alfred Bruyas Courbet and Delacroix in the Muse Fabre. However, their relationship deteriorated.

They fought hard to art, Van Gogh felt an increasing fear that Gauguin was as a situation which he achieved as an excess voltage described desert a critical point.

On 23 December 1888, frustrated and ill, Van Gogh to Gauguin with a razor blade in front. Panicked left Van Gogh to their barracks and fled to a local brothel.

There, he cut the bottom of his left ear lobe. Cut wrapped in tissue paper and handed it to a prostitute called Rachel and asked her to keep this matter carefully. Gauguin left Arles and Van Gogh was never seen again. A few days later, Van Gogh was hospitalized and left in a critical condition for several days. Immediately Theonotified by Gauguinvisited, as both Mrs. Ginoux and Roulin. In January 1889 he returned to the yellow house, but he spent the next month between hospital and at home, suffering from hallucinations, and delusions that he was poisoned. In March, the police the house after a complaint by 30 neighbors who Roux crazy (crazy redhead is the complainant ). P AUL Signac visited him in hospital and at home, Van Gogh was allowed in his business. In April, the room of Dr. Rey property transferred damaged by floods paintings in his own house. At the time, wrote: Sometimes moods of indescribable anguish, sometimes moments when the veil of time and fate, the circumstances seemed to be broken for a while. Two months later, he left Arles and entered an asylum in Saint-RMY-de-Provence.

Van Gogh moved to Arles, in the hope of a home when he was sick of alcohol and was suffering from smoker's cough. Done on 21 February 1888, and took a room in the H? Tel-Restaurant Carrel, who, ideally, who had hoped that a Hokusai (1760C1849) or (Utamaro 1753C1806) prints. He moved to the city with the idea of establishing a utopian colony and the way the Danish artist, Christian Mourier-Petersen was his companion for two months.

However, it seems exotic and dirty Arles by Van Gogh. In one letter he described how a foreign country, Zouaves, brothels, which is adorable Arl茅siennes First Communion, the priest in his cassock, which, like a rhino's dangerous to drink absinthe appear people, all beings of another world.

100 years after his stay there was 113 years, recalled Jeanne Calmentwho worked as a child of 13, he was in the textile business from his uncle, the Van Gogh wanted to buy paintings, dirty, badly dressed and unpleasant and very ugly , ugly, gross, ill. He also recalled the sale of pencils.

Bedroom in Arles (1888), Van Gogh was MuseumYet through the abstract paintings and the light led. His works from the period are well laid with yellow, ultramarine blue and violet. His portraits of Arles landscape by the Dutch educational system, a patchwork of fields and roads seem flat and brought the prospect of failure, but are distinguished by the intensity of the light vibrating in Arles colour.The excited, and their re-evaluation of the sequence and extent of his to work. He paints landscapes, local, with a grid framework view of Mars. Three of these images in the annual exhibition of the Independent Artists of Socit been issued. In April, he was by the American artist Dodge Macknight, who lived nearby Fontvieille visited. In 1st May has signed a lease for 15 months in the east wing of the yellow house Franks No 2 on the Place Lamartine. The rooms are unfurnished and unoccupied for some time. He had stayed at the H? This restaurant Carrel, but the rate charged by the hotel was 5 francs a week, which seems excessive. We discuss the price, took the case to a local referees and received twelve franc reduction on your bill.

The red grape variety (November 1888), Pushkin Museum, Moscow). Sold to Anna Boch, 1890The Night Caf茅 (1888), Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Paul Gauguin's Armchair (1888), Van Gogh last MuseumHe H? Tel Carrel at the Cafe de la Gare, 7 May, where he befriended the owners, Joseph and Marie Ginoux. Although the Yellow House had to complete before he will be provided in, Van Gogh was able to use it as a studio. In the hope to show a gallery of his art paintings, his great project to date, there have been a number of paintings, including the following: V

Visited Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in June, where he taught drawing to a Zouave Milliet lieutenant, Paul-Eugne. Macknight introduced Van Gogh Eugne Boch, a Belgian painter who temporarily stayed in Fontvieille, and the two exchanged visits in July.

On 8 May 1889, accompanied by a nurse, committed to the Reverend Salles, the hospital in Saint-Paul-de-Mausolus. A former convent of Saint-RMY less than 20 miles (32 km) from Arles, the monastery in an area of grain fields, vineyards and olive groves at the time of a former Navy doctor, Theophilus Dr.Th Peyron tip located. Theo roomsadjoining organized two small cells with barred windows. The second was how a study will be used.

During his visit, the clinic and its garden, the main themes of his oil paintings. He has several studies within the hospital, including the lobby of the asylum in Saint-Remy (September 1889). Some of the works from this period is marked by one of his most famous swirlsincluding the starry night. He could run short supervised walks, the images of cypresses and olive trees, and olives with the Alpilles in the title information, 1889, Cypress 1889, cornfield with cypresses (1889), land of Provence Night (1890). Limited access to the world outside the clinic to a shortage area. He worked on the interpretation of images by other artists, such as the sower and the breaking C MilletThe work 00.00 (after Millet), and changes in his own earlier work. Van Gogh was an admirer of Jules Breton Realism, Gustave Courbet and Millet, and against his copy to the interpretation of Beethoven, a musician. Many of his most fascinating works date from this period, and its cycle of prisoners (1890) after an engraving by Gustave Dore (1832C1883), the prisoner's face in the middle of the picture and we painted on the Van Gogh viewers.

The Arlsienne (Madame Ginoux) (1890), Kr? Miller-Mller Museum Portrait Dr. Gachet (1890), sold U.S. $ 82,500,000 in 1990. Round collectionThe private prisoners (1890). In September this year, he has produced two other versions of holiday in Arles, and in February 1890 he painted four portraits of L'Arlsienne (Madame Ginoux), produced on a charcoal sketch Gauguin had been based at Madame Ginoux satellite for both artists in early November 1888th His work was supported by Albert Aurier the Mercure de France, vowed in January 1890, when he was described as a genius . In February, invited by Les XX, a society of avant-garde painters took in Brussels, in their annual exhibition. In

In May 1890 Van Gogh left the clinic to get closer to the physician Dr. Paul Gachet (1828C1909) in Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris, where he will be closer to Theo. Dr. Paul Gachet, was Van Gogh, Camille Pissarro (recommended 1830C1903); Gachet had treated several artists and was an amateur artist himself, the first impression was that Gachet Van Gogh was worse than ... I am, I think or should we say the same extent. In June 1890, he painted Portrait of Dr. Gachet, and two portraits of Gachet in oils, and a engraving thirdhis only. In the three Emphasis is on Gachet's melancholic mood.

The door to eternity (1890), Kr? Miller-Mueller Museum, OtterloThe Church at Auvers (1890), Muse d'Orsay, a Paris his last weeks at Saint-RMY, van Gogh had thought of their memories came back to the north was, and painted many of the approximately 70 oil during his 70 days in Auvers-sur-Oise, as the Church of Auvers, reminiscent of scenes from the North.

Wheatfield with Crows (July 1890) is an example of the unusual double square canvas painting that has developed over the last weeks of his life. In its turbulent intensity, which is among his most disturbing and elementary. It is often wrongly said that his last work, but Van Gogh scholar January Hulsker seven scenes that were added later lists. Barbizon painter Charles Daubigny moved to Auvers in 1861, which in turn has attracted many artists such as Camille Corot, Daumier, honor, and in 1890, Vincent van Gogh. In July 1890, Van Gogh, two paintings of the garden did Daubigny, and one of them is more likely to be his last work. There are also tables showing the evidence of the unfinished, like a thatched roof on a hill.

Van Gogh drew and painted in watercolor in the school, some of these works have survived and are questioning the paternity of some of those who do. When employed in the art paintings as an adult, began on a fundamental level, copy the drawing lessons, under the direction of Charles Bargue and published by Goupil & Cie In the first two years, he began to research committees. In the spring of 1882, his uncle, Cornelis Marinus (owner of a gallery for contemporary art with a good reputation in Amsterdam) asked for drawings of the Hague. Van Gogh's work was not equal to the expectations of his uncle. Marinus Commission offered a second, this time stating the matter in detail, but was again disappointed by the result. Nevertheless, Van Gogh persevered. Improve the lighting in his studio (studio) by variable shutters, and experimented with a variety of materials drawing. prepared for over a year, he worked in a study figureshighly black and white , which in turn brought him only criticism. Today, as his first masterpieces recognized.

In 1883, at the beginning, the work in the compositions of several figures, based on the drawings. It was photographed some of them, but when his brother, pointed out that the vitality and freshness missing Van Gogh and destroyed the oil painting. In the fall of 1882, he was brother used to finance his early paintings, but spent all the money Theo could soon provide. Then in the spring of 1883, Van Gogh turned to the artists of The Hague and the school as Blommers Weissenbruch and receive technical support from them, and painters like De Bock and Van Weele, two artists of the Hague School from the second generation. When he moved to Nuenen, after the intermezzo in Drenthe, he started a series of large paintings, but most of them destroyed. The Potato Eaters and his partner piecesThe Old Cemetery Tower at Nuenen and Cottageare the only ones who survived. After a visit to the Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh was aware that many decisions were due to lack of technical expertise. So I went to Antwerp, then to Paris to learn and develop their skills.

From the White House in the Night (1890), Hermitage, St. Petersburg, painted six weeks before the artist deathMore or less familiar with the impressionist techniques and theories and neo-impressionist, Van Gogh went to Arles to develop these new possibilities . But reflect, within a short time, the old ideas of art and work again, ideas like the series on the topic or the contrast on the meaning of art. In the course of work, he painted many self-portraits. Already in 1884 in Nuenen he had worked in a series that would decorate the dining room of a friend in Eindhoven. was also in Arles, in the spring of 1888 held its flourishing gardens triptychs, began a series of figures that met his end in Roulin family, and eventually work as Gauguin and agreed to live on the side of Arles with Van Gogh, he began work in the Dcoration The Yellow House, which was, according to some estimates, the most ambitious efforts ever undertaken. Most of his later works, is involved in developing or revising its fundamental values. In the spring of 1889 he painted a small group of fruit trees. In a letter to Theo, in April, said: I have six studios in the spring, including two large orchards.

The art historian Albert Boim was the first to show that the compositions of Van Gogheven fantastic Nightrelied apparently crashed into a reality. The White House on the night shows, a house in the dusk, surrounded by a prominent star with a yellow halo in the sky. Astronomers at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos believes that the star of Venus, which shines in the evening sky in June 1890, when Van Gogh is believed to have painted the picture.

The oil paintings from the time of St. RMY are often characterized by swirls and spirals. The reasons for the brightness of the images have to be a part of the statistical model of Kolmogorov turbulence.

Van Gogh created many self-portraits throughout his life, was a prolific self-portraitist, the thirty-seven times painted between 1886 and 1889. In all these self-portraits, it is surprising that the painter sight rarely speaks to us, even if it is a glance, look elsewhere. These pictures are in their intensity and color, and some representatives of the artists with a beard, shaved, some with bandages, the episode in which he struck him an ear. Self-portrait without beard, is the end of September 1889, one of the most expensive paintings of all time, selling 71.5 million in 1998 in New York. At that time, was the third (or fourth for inflation) the most expensive painting ever sold. All Van Gogh self-portraits done in Saint-RMY show that means the head of the artist from the left, the other side of the mutilated ear, only shows his good side.

In the last weeks of his life in Auvers-sur-Oise, although it has produced many paintings, Van Gogh did not paint self-portraits.

Asylum Hall (September 1889), Saint-Remy, Van Gogh Museum, a brush and oils, black chalk, pink laid paper .A self-taught with little training, was Van Gogh far from academic, painting and drawing techniques. Recent research has shown that the work generally as an oil painting or drawings were known better known are described as mixed-media. to 'Bridge Langlois Arles sample from the pen to draw and ink drawing, while several works by Saint-RMY and Auvers, so far as drawings and watercolors, as the hall Asylum of Saint-Remy (September 1889), was effective in diluted oil are painted with a brush.