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  The Story of Modern Art
Arneson became head of the ceramics department at the University of California at Davis in 1962 and became a full professor of art in 1973.
Arneson was greatly influenced by the expressionist work of fellow Californian Peter Voulkos, who had studied Pablo Picasso's works in clay.
Arneson was part of the dynamic group of irreverent California Pop artists whose work has come to be known as "Funk Art." After the artist became ill with liver cancer in the early 1980s, his work became progressively more somber in tone.
hirshhorn.si.edu /education/modern/modern2.html   (953 words)

  
 UCSF Today - UCSF Exhibit Features Legacy of Robert Arneson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Arneson, who lived from 1930 to 1992, is internationally recognized for his innovative approach to ceramics, establishing clay as a major sculptural medium and using humor to comment on contemporary cultural and political issues.
While Arneson learned the technical aspects of ceramics from Prieto, he was inspired by the groundbreaking work of Peter Voulkos, who taught at UC Berkeley and created large-scale abstract expressionist sculptures out of clay in the late 1950s.
Arneson developed the program based on his own evolving philosophy of using clay to comment on broader artistic, social and cultural issues, according to Baer.
pub.ucsf.edu /today/cache/news/200606221.html   (721 words)

  
 GameSpy: Dave Arneson Interview
Arneson met Gygax at the 1970 Gen Con, where the two bonded over a shared love of wargames and the fact that both were members of the International Federation of Wargamers.
It would be Arneson's Blackmoor campaign that first tossed out the "either/or" combat matrix of the original game, adding in innovations such as "hit points" to determine how wounded a character was and the idea of advancing levels and experience points to indicate growing power.
Since then, Arneson has led a varied career, stepping into and out of the gaming field, first with a revised series of Blackmoor modules he did for TSR in the mid-'80s, and lately with a new series of Blackmoor adventures he's publishing under the d20 Open Gaming System with his new company, Zeitgeist Games.
pc.gamespy.com /articles/540/540395p1.html   (676 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Dave Arneson
Arneson attended the Gen Con gaming convention for the first time in 1970, which was only its third annual meeting (still primarily a wargaming only convention).
Arneson left D&D/TSR and they resolved the suits out of court in 1981, but this did not end the lingering tensions between them.
Arneson briefly returned to "Blackmoor" and D&D in the mid 1980s when Gygax became president of TSR.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/David_Arneson   (1353 words)

  
 KG0KE Obituary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
David Arneson, 71, of Cocoa, Fla., died unexpectedly Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2005 at his home.
David Louis Arneson was born March 03, 1934, the son of Fred and Lillian (Knutson) Arneson, in Northfield, Minn. and graduated from Northfield High School in 1952.
He is survived by his wife, Susan of Cocoa, children, Jess (Kathy) Arneson of Eagan, Minn. and Edie Frederick of Coon Rapids, Minn.; grandchildren, Joseph, Nicholas and Rebecca Frederick; brothers Paul Arneson of Bemidji, Minn.
www.waterwayradio.net /KG0KE_Obit.htm   (541 words)

  
 The Pilot-Independent - Walker, Minnesota   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dave Arneson is the new veterinarian at the Walker Animal Hospital.
Arneson is a 1976 graduate of the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Minnesota.
Arneson and his wife Debbie are now semi-retired and live near Longville with their pet dog and three cats.
www.walkermn.com /placed/index.php?sect_rank=1&story_id=158337   (216 words)

  
 Pointless Database - Dave Arneson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
David Arneson is known as the Father of Role-Playing.
Arneson had a cameo in the 2001 Dungeons and Dragons movie where he played a mage.
Arneson currently works at Zeitgeist Games where he is producing an updated d20 system version of Blackmoor campaign.
www.thealmightyguru.com /Database/DB-DaveArneson.html   (71 words)

  
 The Pilot-Independent - Walker, Minnesota   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
David Arneson was recently diagnosed with the early stages of a carcinoma of the liver.
Arneson hopes to be able to work periodically at the Walker Animal Hospital as he is able.
According to both Ekholm and Arneson, serving the Longville community is a joy and very satisfying.
www.walkermn.com /placed/index.php?sect_rank=7&story_id=193325   (367 words)

  
 MarsLab takes on new role
But as the mission ages -- in April NASA extended its life until at least mid-September -- demand is growing for space at JPL for other missions, such as Deep Impact and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
During the week of June 13, two of the four Cornell researchers qualified to write uplink commands for the Pancams, 2002 Cornell graduates Heather Arneson and Miles Johnson, returned to Ithaca to test, for the first time, the remote operations of the Pancams on Mars directly from the Cornell campus.
The only issues we have to work out are communications." Once away from JPL, she observed, people elsewhere in the mission team forgot that the two researchers were in Ithaca, and Arneson and Johnson had to resort to phone calls.
www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/04/7.15.04/MarsLab_role.html   (595 words)

  
 World of Greyhawk Bibliography
David L. Arneson's Blackmoor and Lenard Lakofka's Lendore Isles are other old-time home campaigns that found their way onto corners of the World of Greyhawk map.
Following that are those Greyhawk works which were overseen by Gygax and received his stamp of approval, as well as any subsequent works by Kuntz, Arneson and Lakofka, who are certainly authentic sources for their campaigns.
Compilations of modules were generally poorly done, by tying together modules that have little in common, and/or by a good degree of detail being lost in the process.
ulmo.mux.net /greyhawk   (1219 words)

  
 Animals in Art
David Smith's sculpture is imaginatively put together to form strong, innovative designs.
It is hard to see the details of this sculpture in a slide, but if you look closely, you may be able to find the rooster's pointed comb on top of his head and his wattles under his chin.
The artist, David Smith, liked to make sculpture out of previously used, discarded industrial metal, including scraps from old farm equipment.
hirshhorn.si.edu /education/animals/animals4.html   (604 words)

  
 David Gilhooly ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
David Gilhooly, Midas Beat his Meat, Unfortunately, 1970
David Gilhooly, Selbstbildnis mit Tod (Self-Portrait with Death), from the series 3-A, 1983
David Gilhooly, whose art is grounded in myth making, centers his w...
wwar.com /masters/g/gilhooly-david.html   (493 words)

  
 Dave Arneson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Originally Arneson played his own mix of rules, using rock, paper, scissors to resolve combat.
The gameplay would now be recognizable to players of Dungeons and Dragons, featuring the use of hit points and armor class, character development (levels and experience points), and dungeon crawls.
Arneson continues to play games, including DandD, military miniatures, and an annual meeting to play the original Blackmoor in Minnesota.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dave_Arneson   (1339 words)

  
 IR // News // Evelyn Mae Arneson
She married Ray Arneson on Oct. 22, 1938, after a two-month courtship in Fort Peck.
Their son Ron Arneson and his wife, Sue, live in Billings.
Their son David Arneson lives in Helena with his wife, Friede.
www.helenair.com /articles/2006/01/05/obits/arneson0104.txt   (1076 words)

  
 Dungeons & Dragons - history, versions, and revisions
Dungeons and Dragons (commonly known as DandD) is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) first designed by Gary Gygax and David Arneson in the early 1970s.
The most memorable published result of the Arneson-Gygax hobby crossover appeared at GenCon, 1974, in a thousand-copy print run, as Dungeons and Dragons, 1974, by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.
It consisted of three roughly digest-sized brown pamphlets in a deepish brown box with white labels.
www.lyberty.com /encyc/articles/d_and_d.html   (804 words)

  
 GameSpy.com - Articles
The gathering attracted a Minnesotan named David Arneson, who had modified Chainmail to a 1:1 scale (one figure equals one character).
Gygax reportedly liked the immediacy and the threat of instant death having a single 'character' added to his game; soon the two were working together.
The rest is history, as D&D went on to surpass the wargames that spawned it, making TSR more popular and powerful than any of the publishers that had turned it down.
archive.gamespy.com /articles/april02/rpgweek/rpg1   (545 words)

  
 ARNESON family history and genealogy information .. Arneson ancestry links
OVERVIEW -- As this genealogical help and research area is a new part of our website, and is currently under development..
genealogy software and family history research database for the Arneson name will likely be included in the updates along with an automated form to submit data for Arneson family history..
posting surname and ancestry data for Arneson items as well as allowing the public to search for Arneson details will remain free of charge.
www.museumstuff.com /zg.cgi?w=arneson   (192 words)

  
 clayart - thread 'san francisco museum of modern art/gilhooley'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The six were: Voulkos, Arneson, Price, Gilhooley, Shaw, and Mason.
also saw the Arneson Retrospect at SFMOMA a few years ago.
I believe Gilhooley is one of Arneson's Funk disciples.
www.potters.org /subject35296.htm   (495 words)

  
 MyVetOnline.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
David Arneson and the staff of Minnesota Veterinary Center have been working to keep your pets healthy and happy ever since the clinic was founded in 1997.
Our mission is to provide you and your pets with service of the highest quality, keeping your companions healthy and giving you piece of mind.
Arneson is a graduate of the University of Minnesota.
www.myvetonline.com /website/minnesotavc   (159 words)

  
 The Thieves Guild - What is AD&D
DandD has exerted a massive influence over its imitators and successors, in many ways defining what an RPG was — to some extent, the game continues to define the RPG genre.
Gygax and Arneson designed Dungeons and Dragons to take place in a fantasy fiction setting based upon popular fiction and mythology.
It was influenced by The Lord of the Rings, popular Greek and Norse mythology, the pulp fiction stories of Robert E. Howard and Edgar Rice Burroughs, and many of the more contemporary fantasy authors of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Jack Vance and Fritz Leiber.
www.thievesguild.cc /about   (979 words)

  
 Methadone Withdrawal - getting off of methadone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
I believe in the search for truth…the following monograph is what I know to be true about the use and withdrawal from methadone.
David Arneson was born on September 22, 1949 in Sidney, Montana.
He also maintains a private practice, focusing on treatment of alcoholism, drug dependency, and chronic disease.
www.dpeg.org /treatment/methadone_withdrawal.htm   (2641 words)

  
 Santa Barbara Swimmers Crusie Over Foes, Bagg, Arneson Highlight Meets - Daily Nexus Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The UCSB men's and women's teams romped past their opponents in all four weekend meets.
Gaucho men's standouts included juniors David Arneson and David Maddan.
The Gauchos were satisfied to have such a positive weekend at home.
www.ucsbdailynexus.com /print_article.php?a=277   (388 words)

  
 This Kitchen Soars Southern Living - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
To give the room an open-to-the-sky feeling, architects Lyn McClay, David Arneson, and Georgia Bizios created a simple, serene space closely tied to the outdoors.
Even though the kitchen is spacious, its size does not overwhelm because of the high ceiling and strong visual lines created by wood cabinetry and the oversize island.
The design team chose smooth maple cabinets to bring out the lighter tones in the antique heart-pine floors.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3676/is_200407/ai_n9424821   (383 words)

  
 clayart - thread 'san francisco museum of modern art'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
I would agree that Gilhooly is not in Oldenberg's league as a Funk/Pop
practitioner, although Arneson probably is. Comparing any of them to the
David Smith and Julio Gonzalez, these works suffer greatly by comparison.
www.potters.org /subject35295.htm   (893 words)

  
 In Harm's Way - Cambridge University Press
Autonomy and preference formation Richard J. Arneson; 4.
Critical analysis and constructive interpretation David Lyons; 5.
Liberalism, free speech and justice for minorities David A. Richards; 6.
www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?ISBN=0521454107   (256 words)

  
 Mark Arneson - Musician, Producer, Arranger, Keyboardist, Jazz, Vocalist.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Mark Arneson - Musician, Producer, Arranger, Keyboardist, Jazz, Vocalist.
Mark Arneson- Musician, Producer, Arranger, Guitarist, Bassist, Jazz,
This Site is under Construction but should be completed shortly.
www.markarneson.com   (35 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Charter Status: Concluded October, 1997 Chair(s): David Arneson Description of Working Group: Editor: David Arneson (arneson@ctron.com) The next generation of the Internet Protocol (IPv6) is intended to support Internet traffic for many years into the future by providing enhancements over the capabilities of the existing IPv4 service.
The IPv6 MIB Working Group is producing specifications for the core functionality of that service, per recommendations of the IPng Area Directors as outlined at the July 1994 IETF and in ``The Recommendation for the IP Next Generation Protocol,'' RFC 1752, January 1995.
If, at a certain time, these said working groups are inactive, the appropriate Area Director will be apprised.
www.ietf.org /html.charters/OLD/ipv6mib-charter.html   (182 words)

  
 GameBanshee Forums - David Arneson Interview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Following up on yesterday's interview with Gary Gygax, Computer Games Online has posted up an interview with the other half of the beginning of fantasy role-playing as we know it, David Arneson.
Although not getting as much credit as Gygax, Arneson was extremely influential to Dungeons and Dragons, as his "dungeon crawl" wargame campaign set brought DandD much of its content.
The time now is 08:52 AM GMT -6.
www.gamebanshee.com /forums/gamebanshee-news-73/david-arneson-interview-46766-print.html   (176 words)

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