Prelude

Welcome to Dice With the Universe!

Generally, I am going to put some thoughts from my life here. They will usually have to do with my translation work or with my writing. Your comments are welcome.

Thanks.

The title of the blog, for those interested, is a part of a paraphrase of Albert Einstein's words -- "God doesn't play dice with the universe." The words originally meant Einstein's scepticism about Quantum Physics (that gives a statistical chance of an event occurring), but I use this phrase as a general guideline to life. Things don't happen randomly. If we want to succeed we need to make it happen ourselves.

Welcome again. Enjoy your stay.

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Special Features 12/2/2015

It's time for a new batch of special features.
Check out these wonderful works

Sell Art Online

Sell Art Online

Photography Prints

Photography Prints

Sell Art Online

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Contest Winners

Another day, another contest!
Here are the wonderful works that tied for places 1-4 in the "Dreaming in Black and White" contest!
You can see all the works at the link below. Congrats to the winners!

http://fineartamerica.com/contests/dreaming-in-black-and-white-panoramic-images-only.html?tab=artwork

Photography Prints

Art Prints

Art Prints

Sell Art Online

Friday, November 20, 2015

Promotion

For a limited time, you can get a beautiful canvas of one of my photos at a discount. Follow the link to the promotion page

http://fineartamerica.com/weeklypromotion.html?promotionid=181247

Sell Art Online

http://fineartamerica.com/weeklypromotion.html?promotionid=181251

Photography Prints

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

New contest

A new contest for black and white panoramas

http://fineartamerica.com/contests/dreaming-in-black-and-white.html?tab=overview

Weekly special features!

A new batch of amazing work in my group! Enjoy!

Sell Art Online

Sell Art Online

Sell Art Online

Photography Prints

Art Prints

Monday, November 9, 2015

Special features

New special features on the group home page.
Congrats!
Art Prints

Photography Prints

Art Prints

Photography Prints

First contest winners

We've just finished the first contest in the group I manage. The theme of the contest was "Vertical Panorama".
Here are the winners. Congratulation on your outstanding work!

Sharing first and second place:

Sell Art Online

Sell Art Online

Sharing 3rd and 4th place:

Photography Prints

Photography Prints

And just because I like them as well, places 5-7:

Sell Art Online

Sell Art Online

Art Prints

Monday, October 26, 2015

Weekly Features

A new batch of wonderful artworks at the Pano-Whamma Outdoors. Enjoy!
Photography Prints

Art Prints

Art Prints

Photography Prints

Art Prints

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Weekly special features

From now on, I am starting a series of weekly posts to promote some of the amazing artwork I special feature in the group I manage at the FineArtAmerica
So, here goes! Please, go visit the website.

Photography Prints

Sell Art Online

Photography Prints

Photography Prints

Photography

It's been a while... In fact, it's been far too long since I posted.
Many things happened since then, and I hope I will start posting more regularly (aren't I always saying this?).

Anyway, I started selling my photographs on-line. You can find the link to my website selling the images at the link below.

http://dimitry-papkov.artistwebsites.com/

I am planning from time to time to promote the community selling the artwork.And I will start right now :-)

Please, visit the linked pages for some amazing artwork (not necessarily mine). In addition to more traditional prints and canvas prints (did I mention those look amazing?) hey have all kinds of cool stuff like tote bags, phone cases, shower curtains etc. So, go! You know you want some :-)

macro throw pillows for sale

macro greeting cards for sale

macro canvas prints and macro canvas art for sale

landscape canvas prints and landscape canvas art for sale

Saturday, December 28, 2013

Musing for the end of the year

So, I've decided I will try and post a bit more on the blog and include some more general musings. Not sure I will be able to do this, but we'll see. I will still be staying out of politics and economic discussions though :-)

Anyway, a few days ago I spent more than half a day listening to music on Youtube. I am not entirely sure how i got to this, but I think it started with the minions from the Despicable Me movies. It was a somewhat long line of free associations and I eventually ended up listening to a bunch of 70's-80's music. Much of it was not what you'd usually expect, but things that were pretty popular in USSR when I was growing up. Much of the songs are in Italian and French. Besides making me feel somewhat like an old fart, it also led me to some rather interesting things I haven't listen in depth to before. For example, I spent a lot of time listening to different versions of Vivo per lei by Andrea Bocelli (see links at the end of this post. i was somewhat surprised that I liked the German and the French versions the best. Especially surprising was the German version, since German is usually considered a somewhat harsh language. So, kudos to Judy Weiss. Obviously, in all these versions Bocelli's partner has a beautiful voice, but for some reason both of the English versions didn't speak to me too much, and I liked the Spanish one the least.

As a result of all of this, I will be buying a couple of Bocelli's albums as a present to myself for the end of the year :-)

Cheers all and enjoy

The 70s/80s mix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szWSLwkYa6k&list=RDQ0wZQbK938Y&index=1

Vivo per lei original version (Italian)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6MhjhMtq7s

French version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpAgfw4j5SU

German version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IyYqJyc-zk

Spanish version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNvGghuoJUo

English version #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOfadmFfuPc

English version #2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdxRmcgsKDQ

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Small addition to previous post

It turns out that our image not only featured in the top images for 2013 by Nature, but was actually also used as cover for their 2013 summary.
Cheers all
http://www.nature.com/news/specials/2013-1.14378