ruskin was spellbound by its beauty. (ruskin) "it was, i think, when i first saw it...t perfectly beautiful piece of color of all that i have seen produced by human hands." (narrator) shade and darkness - evening of the deluge, painted in 1843, is more about light than a biblical account of noah and the ark. turner's light produces a mystical bent that shows up in several late canvases. layer after layer of pigment, applied to create the vortex of mist and air churning angrily around the blinding light, conjures up the elemental forces of the cosmos. the abstract beauty of turner's late canvases that dissolve into light are especially apparent in some of his unfinished paintings like norham castle, sunrise. returning to a subject he had painted years earlier, he advanced his composition to a point at which the subject is barely apparent. its unfinished state shows how he could stretch the poetic possibilities of color and technique to the threshold of abstraction. even as turner developed his watercolor technique to the level of his oil paintings, he pushed oil painting

ruskin was spellbound by its beauty. (ruskin) "it was, i think, when i first saw it...t perfectly beautiful piece of color of all that i have seen produced by human hands." (narrator) shade and darkness - evening of the deluge, painted in 1843, is more about light than a biblical account of noah and the ark. turner's light produces a mystical bent that shows up in several late canvases. layer after layer of pigment, applied to create the vortex of mist and air churning angrily around the blinding light, conjures up the elemental forces of the cosmos. the abstract beauty of turner's late canvases that dissolve into light are especially apparent in some of his unfinished paintings like norham castle, sunrise. returning to a subject he had painted years earlier, he advanced his composition to a point at which the subject is barely apparent. its unfinished state shows how he could stretch the poetic possibilities of color and technique to the threshold of abstraction. even as turner developed his watercolor technique to the level of his oil paintings, he pushed oil painting

gold let's look back in one of his writings a leading english art critic of the victorian era john ruskin told the story of a man who boarded a ship carrying his entire wealth and a large bag of gold coins now when a storm hit a few days into the voyage and the decision was made to abandon ship the man strap the bag around his waist jumped overboard and sank straight to the bottom of the sea now the man's body was found with the rock of the ship many years later and reflecting on this ruskin asked now as he was thinking had he the gold or had the gold him now i'm telling this story to emphasize the enduring value that gold is held in the minds of people throughout the centuries it's represented not only a store of value but a means to an end and any end evidently including one that is at the bottom of the sea now for much of western history gold has been synonymous with money listen closely to the characters counting their money in the classic gone with the wind. it's me. twenty thirty fifty and he's not afraid of money. she was way more excited about the gold now it wasn't so long ago th

karen ruskin. is it as simple as getting your kids off twitter and off facebook?> that is certainly opponent of it. we have to be diligent and help them balance technology and face time with people. >> talking with teenagers they have trouble communicating trouble putting together sentences or spitting it out. >> that is normal for most teenagers anyway hard to connect with other people they are going through a lot of changes. as parents if we can provide them with opportunities to be able to connect with other kids and with adults that can be helpful. >> give pointers you have. >> how do you know if your kid is too far gone? >> warning signs one is immediate response they are in need of. it's almost as though they have an impulseivity the people reacting to them constantly all of the time. >> they are constantly texting at dinnertime. >> if they are interacting with other people they want immediate time because they are being affected by their technology. >> parents have to set a good example themselves. don't be at a dinner table don't ignore your kids if you ar

. >> don ruskin do you believe the fed will bail out the jobs numbers? bernanke had the fine sense to bash paul krugman, your left wing friend. he said it's time to reinflate in order to bring down unemployment, bernanke said that was reckless. you don't expect bernanke to react just because we have a couple of misserable jobs numbers, do you? >> well, first of all, ben bernanke may bash paul krugman now, but he hired him to the faculty of the princeton economics don't when he was running it. let's not -- let's curb our enthusiasm. ben bernanke is politically weaker today than any time during the tenure at fed chairman. he is not in charge of the show. other people in the arise to be extra see controlling policy. bernanke is the least dovish of them. ultra doves are in control, janet yellin and william dudley. if it weren't for bernanke holding the bank we would have six months ago had a trillion dollars in unstare rilized qe. janet yellin is a big government girl, you know what big government is about fit doesn't work the first time, try it again bigger