NYC Fire Engine

Essex St. at Canal St. Chinatown, NYC
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Frame

Master Bassui reduced the whole of Buddhist teachings to one phrase

“Seeing one’s own nature is Buddhahood.”

When asked how to see into one’s own nature,
master Bassui would reply.

“ Now! Who is asking? ”

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein. Living Philosophies, 1931
Happy Weekend!
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Classic

Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum

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Numbers

From sketches series.

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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El Caballito

The equestrian statue of Charles IV (also known as El Caballito) is a bronze sculpture cast by Manuel Tolsá in August 4, 1802 in Mexico City, Mexico in honour of Charles IV. This statue has been displayed in different points of the city and is considered one of the finest achievements of Mr. Tolsá. It now resides in Plaza Manuel Tolsá.
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Juan Soriano III

Pajaro III PAI, 2005 Bronce
Bird III PAI, 2005 Bronze

Toro, 1/3, 2003 Bronce. Juan Soriano. Sueños Moldeados. Andador Acuario. Paseo de la Reforma Puerta Zoo.
Bull, 1/3, 2003 Bronze by Juan Soriano. From Exhibition Molding Dreams at Chapultepec Park.
Dedicated to Sofia on her birthday!
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Juan Soriano II

Pajaro XIPA, 2005 Bronce. Juan Soriano. Sueños Moldeados. Andador Acuario. Paseo de la Reforma Puerta Zoo.
Bird, 2005 Bronze by Juan Soriano. From Exhibition Molding Dreams at Chapultepec Park.
Why Men / Women transform the simple reality?
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Juan Soriano

Sirena PAIII, 2005 Bronce. Juan Soriano. Sueños Moldeados. Andador Acuario. Paseo de la Reforma Puerta Zoo.

Mermaid PAIII, 2005 Bronze by Juan Soriano. From Exhibition Molding Dreams at Chapultepec Park.
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Searching

Como el Rothkito, tan solo buscando...

Like Rothko, just searching...

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Hongo Sonante / Sonorant Mushroom

Sonorant Mushroom (Details) by Roger Von Gunten 2005.
From the exhibition of various sculptors on Paseo de la Reforma.
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Styles

Arte Poética

Que el verso sea como una llave

Que abra mil puertas.

Una hoja cae; algo pasa volando;

Cuanto miren los ojos creado sea,

Y el alma del oyente quede temblando.

Inventa mundos nuevos y cuida tu palabra;

El adjetivo, cuando no da vida, mata.

Estamos en el ciclo de los nervios.

El músculo cuelga,

Como recuerdo, en los museos;

Mas no por eso tenemos menos fuerza:

El vigor verdadero

Reside en la cabeza.

Por qué cantáis la rosa, ¡oh Poetas!

Hacedla florecer en el poema;



Sólo para nosotros

Viven todas las cosas bajo el Sol.

El Poeta es un pequeño Dios.

Vicente Huidobro. De El espejo de Agua, 1916.

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Coldplay in Mexico City

Photos by Oly Ramirez

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Tehuacan

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Moment of Light

Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you possess light within, you see it externally.
~Anaïs Nin

An age is called "dark," not because the light fails to shine but because people refuse to see it.
~James Michener


Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
~Galileo
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Cotton Candy

“Adorable y enemiga, la Ciudad de México en los trazos de Abel Quezada”
1 al 31 de marzo. Las Rejas de Chapultepec.
Exhibition of Mexican political cartoonist works on Paseo de la Reforma Ave. Chapultepec Park
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Path of the Sleepwalker

We have to learn the desperate faith of sleep-walkers
who rise out of their calm beds
and walk through the skin of another life.
We have to drink the stupefying cup of darkness
and wake up to ourselves, nourished and surprised.

Edward Hirsch
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March 2010 Theme Day: Passageway

We live at the edge of the miraculous.
Henry Miller

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Towers

World Trade Center Mexico (1994)

Latin American Tower (1956)

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Organ Grinder

Organilllero playing old and nostalgic tunes at Historic Center.
The organ grinder was a musical novelty street performer of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century, and refers to the operator of a street organ.
Period literature often represents the grinder as a gentleman of ill repute or as an unfortunate representative of the lower classes. Newspaper reporters would sometimes describe them cynically or jocularly as minor extortionists who were paid to keep silent, given the repetitious nature of the music. Later depictions would stress the romantic or picturesque aspects of the activity. Whereas some organ grinders were itinerants or vagabonds, many were recent immigrants who chose to be street performers in order to support their families. Those who actually owned their barrel organs were more likely to take care of them and pursue the "profession" more seriously. A few organ grinders still remain, perhaps most famously Joe Bush in the United States.music+image
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Menus

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Break

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Saturday Shadows

Manuel Tolsa Square. In the background Los Girasoles Restaurant.
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Near The City

If I want to do anything, I want to speak a more universal language.
Seventy Thousand Assyrians 1934. William Saroyan.
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Balloons

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Bird Vendor

“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”
Mahatma Gandhi
"La pobreza es la peor forma de violencia"
“The mother of revolution and crime is poverty”
Aristotle
"La Madre de la revolucion y el crimen es la pobreza"
Aristoteles
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