The Magic of the Cities.

Zen promotes the rediscovery of the obvious, which is so often lost in its familiarity and simplicity. It sees the miraculous in the common and magic in our everyday surroundings. When we are not rushed, and our minds are unclouded by conceptualizations, a veil will sometimes drop, introducing the viewer to a world unseen since childhood. ~ John Greer

Monday, October 18, 2010

Sign and graffiti with light on top


Detail:

“Time is an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space.”

“Is there intelligent life on earth? Yes, but I'm only visiting.”

“I used to be indecisive; now I'm not sure.”

“Laughter translates into any language.”

“Only the truth is revolutionary.”

~Graffiti quotes


Sunday, October 17, 2010

Dancer


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Friday, October 15, 2010

Hoja


When I look carefully
I see the nazuna blooming
By the hedge!

Cuando miro con cuidado
Veo florecer la nazuna
Junto al seto!

~Basho (1644-94)




Happy Weekend!

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Thursday, October 14, 2010

Pixels Skyline


Central Park. NYC 2008
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Diana The Huntress


Diana Fountain. Mexico City

Diana de Versailles. Musée du Louvre
Diana
 (lt. "heavenly" or "divine") was the goddess of the hunt, being associated with wild animals and woodland, and also of the moon in Roman mythology. In literature she was the equal of the Greek goddess Artemis, though in cult beliefs she was Italic, not Greek, in origin. Diana was worshiped in ancient Roman religion and is currently revered in Roman Neopaganism and Stregheria. Diana was known to be the virgin goddess and looked after virgins and women. She was one of the three maiden goddesses, Diana, Minerva and Vesta, who swore never to marry. [Wiki]
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Nocturnal



"A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free." 
Nikos Kazantzakis
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Monday, October 11, 2010

El Mexicano


(Sculpture) by Rachid Khimoune. 2003
Borda Gardens. Cuernavaca. Mexico

How much do you know about Mexican people?


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Saturday, October 9, 2010

John Lennon

Central Park (Garden Of Peace) New York City
The Dakota Building. NYC
Entrance The Dakota Building

The Central Park memorial was designed by Bruce Kelly, the chief landscape architect for the Central Park Conservancy. Strawberry Fields was inaugurated on what would have been Lennon's 45th birthday, 9 October 1985, by his widow Yoko Ono, who had underwritten the project.  The entrance to the memorial is located on Central Park West at West 72nd Street, directly across from the Dakota Apartments, where Lennon had lived for the later part of his life, and where he was murdered.


Dreamers of the world, unite!

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Friday, October 8, 2010

Cul-de-Sac


Reality is not always probable, or likely.
 ~Jorge Luis Borges 
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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Points of View (Peace Piece)



If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
~John Lennon
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Manifestation


Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. 

Herbert Marcuse (1964) One-dimensional man.

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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Designated Driver



Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend.  ~Corey Ford
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Monday, October 4, 2010

Sunday (Sundae)


We perceive time 
according to the completeness 
of our own presence.
Gurdjieff

The level of Being of a man attracts his life, and history repeats itself because we remain on the same level of being. 

Living Time, Maurice Nicoll


The world does not yield to us directly: the description of the world stands in between.
Tales of Power. Carlos Castaneda

Contracting our infinite sense we behold multitude;
expanding it, we behold One. 

William Blake

Our purpose in life 
is to have a unique relationship with the Universe.
Emerson

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Sunday, October 3, 2010

UpAndDown




“If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion, which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.”
~ James A. Michener
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Friday, October 1, 2010

October Theme Day: Graffiti




"Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can
make someone smile while they're having a piss."

It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of your work are the police department."
Banksy

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Thursday, September 30, 2010

Slide




The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness.
Old Chinese Proverb
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Dance

 
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
Rabindranath Tagore
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Monday, September 27, 2010

The Language of Doves




Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
Juvenal
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Sunday, September 26, 2010

Afternoon Light



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Saturday, September 25, 2010

Tarot


"Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.
I think I've forgotten this before."
Steven Wright

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Friday, September 24, 2010

Solitude



If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
Ray Bradbury

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Thursday, September 23, 2010

Road of Silence


“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.”
~Aldous Huxley

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

The Borda Garden III





The Borda Garden is one of the most famous monuments in Cuernavaca, it was the residence of rich families since the colonial times, it was chosen by its location beside the Cathedral of Cuernavaca and by its main road (now Morelos Avenue); this road comes from Acapulco, crosses Cuernavaca, Mexico City and ends in Veracruz. 
By this road passed the richness the Nao of the Orient brought to New Spain and also was the residence where many famous travelers were lodged. Don Jose Borda was the builder of the residence, he also donated to Taxco the beautiful Santa Prisca church and its Parvis Square. Don Jose de la Borda used this residence such as rest home and rest of silver caravans that came from Taxco to Mexico City.



Incidental News from The Allmusic Blog:



News Roundup: 9/20/2010

Frank Zappa




A bust of Frank Zappa was brought to the pioneering musician’s hometown of Baltimore, MD on Sunday. A replica of a statue erected in a public square in Vilnius, Lithuania, the bust was donated to Baltimore by Lithuanian Zappa fans. The statue was dedicated in a ceremony that coincided with the 25th anniversary of Zappa’s testimony before Congress on freedom of expression for recording artists, and included Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Zappa’s widow and three of his children, the mayor of Vilinus and Saulius Paukstys, the longtime president of a Lithuanian Zappa fan club who commissioned the original statue. The bust was placed on a 12-foot steel pole outside of an East Baltimore library; afterward, Dweezil Zappa’s band Zappa Plays Zappa performed. [Billboard.com]




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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Portrait / Retrato


In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
Annie Leibovitz

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his/her portrait.
Salvador Dali

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent


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Monday, September 20, 2010

Blues

Blue Harmony
Traveler

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:
If there is any reaction, both are transformed.


Carl Jung

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