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…Richard Shulman leads dual life as attorney and mobile digital artist. hen you're born into a family of lawyers, the pressure is on. And Richard Shulman didn't disappoint. For 17 years, he has been in solo prac- tice in Bloomfield Hills as a criminal defense and personal injury attorney. He wanted to be an artist. "I was always interested in art," he says. "At a young age, it came naturally to me. Deep down inside, I wanted to pursue art, but...…
…Left: Richard Shulman works on one of many self-portraits. Above: A portrait Shulman painted from a photograph of a member of Julia Kay's Portrait Party, an invitation-only artists' community on flickr.com 'With the slow economy, I found I had a lot of time on my hands. I bought an iPad in June 2010 and was drawn to the art programs. I found four or five really good pro- fessional programs, and I started to play around." His wife, Trista, wa...…
…continued from 41 and by night he is a passionate `iPad Junkie: We, as people, really can't be defined strictly by our careers or online profiles. How relieving is that?" THE MAN, THE ARTIST "LEGITIMATE" ART? What Shulman does has many names: virtual art, iPad art, mobile digital art. Whatever it's called, how does it fit into the venerable world of recognized art forms, such as those featured in museums around the world? Just as the Ameri...…
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…ETCETERA NIGHT CAP An Alternate Universe? The GOP primary race runs amok. By Harry Kirsbaum ust a few short years ago, I could have filed this column three days after seeing the results of Super Tuesday on March 6, and say, without hesitation and barring some grievous event, that Mitt Romney would be run- ning for president as the presumptive Republican nominee against Barack Obama in November. That although Newt and Rick and Ron tried th...…
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…Joints of view >> Send letters to: letters@thejewishnews.com Contributing Editor Editorial Stymie Iraq! Israel can't dally on stronger homeland security. I s Israel, a nation of 7.8 million people, ready for war with Iran, 25 million strong? The answer is an unequivocal no. So says the guy who chairs the Knesset subcom- mittee on Israel's national security. He should know. "The home front is not ready:' Zeev Bielski told former Jerusale...…
…Stymie Iraq! from page 48 Editorial Presented by Shapir's Institute for National Security Studies noted the recent failed attacks on Israeli targets in the Eastern Hemisphere's Georgia, India and Thailand as signals of Iran's les- soned terrorist infrastructure and global initiatives against terrorism. Israel blamed Iran for those three terror attempts. Should Israel be coaxed into war to defend itself, the price the home front would pay in...…
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