In 2011, for his "Beautiful Sunflower Panerai Painting, " he used hundreds of black Panerai watch faces, without their hands, to create a spin painting for the "O'Clock" exhibition at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan.

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The cash will be used to pay homeless young people for taking part in community projects, such as mural painting, as well as for education and job-training programmes.

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For example, the ancient "painting kit" contained red ochre and was likely used as body paint, just as the Himba people of Namibia use it today.

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In the final days - as we shall learn - Nato used drones, bombers, helicopters, electronic interference and special forces on the ground "painting" targets for the attack aircraft as the rebels closed in on the capital, Tripoli.

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