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On September 10th, 2009 POVevolving Gallery will open a wonderful exhibition of original prints by Los Angeles based artist A. Conway Hubbard.

The show, hosted by Actor / DJ Danny Masterson, marks the artist’s first adventure into the world of drypoint intaglio printing.

The included works are the first that the artist has shown since formulating a special printmaking ink that uses blood as its primary ingredient. For this exhibition, Hubbard has printed each intaglio plate in varying ways using both traditional black inks and his specially created ‘blood ink.’

All of the prints in this exhibition are beautifully framed as groups of prints. A presentation that functions both as a great display of the formal craft involved in making prints of this…

I heartily accept the motto, “That government is best which governs least”; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe — “That government is best which governs not at all”; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which the will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. The standing army is only an arm…

Sat 17 Jan 2009

We’re upgrading SocietyFoundation.com to newer software and a better hosting partner this week. Some things may be broken for a few days, but all is well.

“There is only one goodness, it is knowledge. There is only one evil, it is ignorance”. These were the words of Socrates and they are as true today as the day they were first spoken.

Promoting the “Pleasure of Life-Long Learning” is the motto of The Teaching Company , an organization dedicated to the production and distribution of audio and video recordings of lectures from some of America’s most distinguished professors.

One of Society Foundation’s goals is to promote the values which have paved the way for this civilization. And so to encourage one of these values: ” …understanding life through knowledge and living.” we wish to invite our members to find out if The Teaching Company has something that may…