About Me
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- Tracy Roque
- My paintings are straight out of the contemporary art stream & modern design. The desire & enthusiasm in abstract & landscape designs have unleashed a natural talent beyond comparison. I try to bring life to my creations and evoke feelings through them, giving life to dull, empty walls. My inspiration has been nature - the world around me, human emotions, sensibility & invigoration. I love my work - creating & putting together a sequence of images that make a visual celebration to the human eye and mind.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Salesforce.com
2. The cloud theme (that goes with Cloud Computing) + the colour scheme
3. Incentive offered to customers: "FREE 30-day Trial - The World's Most Popular CRM Application
4. Caters to customer touch points - you can contact them if you have any queries. ( 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE) i.e. 1-800-667-6389
5. Provides a very interactive tour of salesforce.com's on- demand applications and platform. It shows us a first-hand insight into why so many companies depend on salesforce.com for their business success. (Available in their CRM Demo Center)
link: http://www.salesforce.com/demos/?d=70130000000Eg6t
6. This site also provides case studies (on CRM) and training modules.
(link: http://www.salesforce.com/platform/heroes/ )
I really like the tagline of this webpage.... "Today: Salesforce CRM Administrator,
Tomorrow: Emploee of the Month" - Salesforce.com
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
My Art Portfolio
Theme: THE WORLD IN THE YEAR 3000 - roaming space!
Medium: Water colours
Theme: CONFLICT - Destruction of Soul
Mediums: Water colours, Charcoal
Theme: SUMMER & WINTER
Medium: Water Colours
Theme: HARMONY
Mediums: Charcoal, Water colours, Markers, Poster colours, pens
Theme: THE CLASH OF THE TITANS
Mediums: Charcoal, Water colours
Theme: LIFE AT IBA
Mediums: Charcoal, pencil
Theme: RED & BLACK
Mediums: Charcoal, water colours
Theme: Still Life - BOTTLES
Mediums: Water colours
Theme: FRUITS
Mediums: Water colours
My Favourite Art Quotes
A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.
James McNeill Whistler
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
Jean-Luc Godard
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
Jean Arp
Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
Lindsay Anderson
Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.
Louise Nevelson
Art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.
George Sand
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
Suzanne K. Langer
Art is the objectification of feeling.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is the path of the creator to his work.
Pablo Picasso
Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Eugène Delacroix
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
Havelock Ellis
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Pablo Picasso
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Daniel Barenboim
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Marc Chagall
Great art picks up where nature ends.
Emile Zola
I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.
Pablo Picasso
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Emile Zola
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Max Eastman
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
Francis Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Michelangelo
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
Vincent Van Gogh
The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.
Michelangelo
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Wassily Kandinsky
There is no must in art because art is free.
Henri Matisse
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
Bob Rodale
To be the agent whose touch changes nature from a wild force to a work of art is inspiration of the highest order.
Henry David Thoreau
To enhance the quality of the day... that is the highest of the arts.
Thomas Berger
What is art but a way of seeing?
Michelangelo
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Edward Hopper
If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Danny Kaye
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
William Inge
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.
John Lithgow in Third Rock From the Sun: Quotes
Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain.
Vincent van Gogh
Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.
Art Galleries Around the world
- Australia:
- National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
- Canada:
- National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
- Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario.
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec.
- Finland: Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki. Fine art. (In Finnish, English and Swedish.)
- France:
- Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. (In French and English.) National Museum of Modern Art.
- Musée du Louvre, Paris. (In French, English, Japanese, Spanish and Portuguese.) Widely regarded as the most famous art museum in the world with the most famous painting in the world. See also Louvre.edu (in French), virtual visit, and here.
- Musée d'Orsay, Paris. (In French.)
- Germany:
- Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin.
- Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn. (In German.)
- Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg. (In German.)
- Hong Kong: Hong Kong Museum of Art.
- Iceland: National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik. (In Icelandic and English.)
- Ireland: National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.
- Israel: Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
- Italy: Uffizi Gallery, Florence. (In Italian and English.) Includes QuickTimeVR Virtual Reality of some of the galleries and an index of artists with some images such as Botticelli's The Birth of Venus. See also Virtual Uffizi (unofficial guide).
- Japan:
- National Museum of Art, Osaka. (In Japanese and English.)
- National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. (In Japanese and English.)
- National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. (In Japanese and English.)
- National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. (Also in Japanese.)
- Korea: National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul. (In Korean and English.)
- Netherlands: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. (In English, Dutch, German, French, Italian and Spanish.)
- Russia:
- Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. (In Russian and English.)
- Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow. (Not yet on-line.)
- South Africa: South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
- Spain:
- Museo del Prado, Madrid. (In Spanish and English.)
- Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.
- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.
- Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao. (In Euskara (Basque), Spanish, French and English.)
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona. (In Catalan, Spanish and English.)
- UK:
- The National Gallery, London.
- Tate Gallery, London / Liverpool / St. Ives. See Tate Britain and Tate Modern.
- National Portrait Gallery, London.
- Royal Academy of Arts, London.
- Hayward Gallery, South Bank, London.
- National Galleries of Scotland.
- The Saatchi Gallery, County Hall, London.
- USA:
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. One of the largest art museums in the world. See also the museum shop.
- National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Tour the collection.
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
- National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
- Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City. See current exhibitions and the permanent collection. 1998 Best of the Web competition winners.
- J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, California.
- Dallas Museum of Art, Texas.
- Denver Art Museum, Colorado.
- Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan.
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
- Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, California. Includes a large image database.
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California.
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California.
- The Art Institute of Chicago Museum, Illinois.
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
- Seattle Art Museum, Washington.
- The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinatti.
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
my Butterflies
Life happens.
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Children grow up.
Jobs come and go.
Love waxes and wanes.
Men don't do what they're supposed to do.
Hearts break.
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Parents die.
Colleagues for get favors.
Careers end.
BUT.........
Sisters are there,
no matter how much time and how
many miles are between you.
A girl friend is never farther away
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than needing her can reach.
When you have to walk that lonesome valley and you
have to walk it by yourself, the women in your life
will be on the valley's rim, cheering you on,
praying for you, pulling for you, intervening on
your behalf, and waiting with open arms at the
valley's end.
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Sometimes, they will even break the rules and walk
beside you...Or come in and carry you out.
Girlfriends, daughters, granddaughters,
daughters-in-law, sisters, sisters-in-law, Mothers,
Grandmothers, aunties, nieces, cousins, and extended
family, all bless our life!
The world wouldn't be the same without women, and
neither would I. When we began this adventure called
womanhood, we had no idea of the incredible joys or
sorrows that lay ahead. Nor did we know how much we
would need each other.
Every day, we need each other still.
Life at IBA
by Tracy Roque
The lush green lawns, students hurrying through corridors to reach their class before the second bell rings, the spicy biryani at the café, the frequent warnings to keep off the grass, the peals of laughter and sudden outbursts in the student lounge, the not so drop-dead silence in the library, the points with "Leadership and Ideas for tomorrow!", the blue logo on the curtains, the innumerable seminars, the famous "OMG…What's your GPA?", the shrieks of students as they work their way through tons of assignments…with various deadlines to meet, interviewers to impress and mid-term examinations to conquer… Alas, doesn't this all seem very familiar to any above-average intellectual…yes!!! Welcome to the world of IBA, dearies!!!
Despite the high pressure and speedy, relentless nature of student life here…trust me, you can have the absolute time of your life….with very few regrets actually. At IBA, there is always room for perfection and no room for delays; plenty of reports, presentations and quizzes, yet a see-saw of random days of recharging fun thrown in between the pressure-packed schedules. It is here that we learn the trade…it is here that novices are transformed into tough, competitive, hardcore professionals. By now don't you just have this splendid image created in your mind of academic excellence???
Okies…let's just go to the part that would probably captivate many…the activities...the events…the hype…in short: the LIFE at IBA!!!! Ragging in the cafeteria, singing of cheap songs and recitations of the most humorous urdu poetry on the points, the frequent stopovers at Shell - that's how it all starts off! It's here that you establish your contacts and expand your social network…by the interaction with your seniors. If you start off on the right note, nothing can really stop you from having a blast…however, if you sit, sulk and grumble over how the seniors *ruthlessly* dumped you into a pool of wet mud, you've had it!!!
Then comes the myriad of concerts, talentopias, annual dinners, election campaigns, bake sales, societies' meetings, beach trips and seminars. From the thrill of performing at gigs to performing on stage in front of an audience of 600 people, from the efforts of approaching freshies during a campaign, to the campaign dinner bills at Pizza Hut and Nando's, from the 'Personal Selling' team to the 'Guest Relations' team to the position of 'Vice-President' of the BASC, from the picture sessions with Rashid Bhai at the beach to the games of volleyball and baraf-paani to the scrumptious lunch and the amazing kulfi… all this is part and parcel of the joys and sorrows of this IBA experience… but in the end it all pays off!!! At the end of the 4 years, you know that this is what has groomed you - this has been your second home, this has been the blood flowing through your veins, this has been your LIFE and will always be, this is where you've met some of the best people you could never otherwise imagine having met, this is where you shared those precious memories of bunking class and wild Bovi Chic or Dunkin' Donuts sprees, this is where you learnt to survive and shine out as the best!!!!
*3 cheers to all IBIANS….!!!