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

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

NYC - I





Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same reason.
~Douglas Adams

I went to see a band in New York. The lead singer got on the microphone, and he said How many of you people feel like human beings tonight? Then he said How many of you feel like animals? And everyone cheered after the animals part. But the thing is, I cheered after the human being part because I did not know that there was a second part to the question.

~Mitch Hedberg

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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Rothko





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

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Monday, December 5, 2011

Central Park Runners





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Sunday, December 4, 2011

Momentos




(Sculptures by Jose Luis Cuevas)
The first thing we have to learn is that love is an art, just as living is an art; if we want to learn how to love we must proceed in the same way we have to proceed if we want to learn any other art. Maybe here lies the answer to the question of why people in our culture try so rarely to learn this art, in spite of their obvious failures: in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power - almost all our energy is used for learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to learn the art of loving.
Extracts from - The Art of Loving - By Erich Fromm.


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Friday, December 2, 2011

Gardening





“Music should be thought of as the desire for an ecstatic relationship to life."
"Music has to have a deep joy inside it."

~ Keith Jarrett  [Musician and former disciple of the mystic philosopher G.I. Gurdjieff.]



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Thursday, December 1, 2011

December 2011 Theme Day: Action Shot



Brooklyn 2008


Music:  Ultra Music Festival 2010 (DJ Steve Porter Remix)
[Proper for 10 Months as Mavie to 90th Years Old]


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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Janitzio



(Cross of a shrine in Janitzio Island. Mexico)

“No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he puts it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light.” 
~Jesus Christ


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Monday, November 28, 2011

NYC Streets





The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street. - Robert Doisneau - "The Encyclopedia of Photography" (1984)

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Sunday, November 27, 2011

The Night Before




Chelsea. New York City

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Thursday, November 24, 2011

Flying Raindrops



Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
~Seneca

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Top of The Rock



"I shut my eyes in order to see"
~Paul Gauguin
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Monday, November 21, 2011

Blues Étude






(Unknown Artist. Abandoned Art House.)

“Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal,
a city where everybody draw whatever they liked.
Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases.
Where standing at a bus stop was never boring.
A city that felt like a party where everyone was invited,
not just the estate agents and barons of big business.
Imagine a city like that and stop leaning against the wall - it's wet. ”
― Banksy, Wall and Piece


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Friday, November 18, 2011

Noon


Mexico City (View from Chapultepec Hill)

Noon - Fri Nov 18, 2011
This week's challenge:
'Noon'.

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Thursday, November 17, 2011

The San Ildefonso College





The San Ildefonso College currently is a museum and cultural center in Mexico City, considered to be the birthplace of the Mexican muralism movement. San Ildefonso began as a prestigious Jesuit boarding school, and after the Reform War, it gained educational prestige again as National Preparatory School. This school and the building closed completely in 1978, then reopened as a museum and cultural center in 1994. The museum has permanent and temporary art and archeological exhibitions in addition to the many murals painted on its walls by José Clemente OrozcoFernando LealDiego Rivera and others. The complex is located between San Ildefonso Street and Justo Sierra Street in the historic center of Mexico City[Wiki]

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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Just Moments



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

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

“Only the truth is revolutionary.”

~Graffiti quotes


Music: Love Remembered by Wojciech Kilar


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Sunday, November 13, 2011

The Portal Keeper / El Guardian del Portal



The Portal Keeper / El Guardian del Portal by Israel Alcala

 Alebrijes (Spanish pronunciation: [aleˈβɾixes]) are brightly colored Mexican folk art sculptures of fantastical creatures. The first alebrijes, along with use of the term, originated with Pedro Linares. After dreaming the creatures while sick in the 1930s, he began to create what he saw in cardboard and papier mache. His work caught the attention of a gallery owner in Cuernavaca and later, the artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. Linares was originally from México City (DF), he was born June 29, 1906 in México City and never moved out of México City, he died January 25, 1992. Then in the 1980s, British Filmmaker, Judith Bronowski, arranged an itinerant demonstration workshop in U.S.A. participating Pedro LinaresManuel Jiménez and a textil artisan Maria Sabina from Oaxaca. Although the Oaxaca valley area already had a history of carving animal and other types of figures from wood, it was at this time, when Bronowski's workshop took place when artisans from Oaxaca knew the alebrijes paper mache sculptures. [Wiki]


“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul”
~George Bernard Shaw 


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Saturday, November 12, 2011

Who Are You?


The Heroic Cadets Memorial in Chapultepec Park, Mexico City.  Monument designed by architect Enrique Aragón and sculpted by Ernesto Tamaríz at the entrance to Chapultepec Park in 1952. 
Esculturas del Monumento a los Niños Heroes. Chapultepec



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Thursday, November 10, 2011

The One Percent








Music: Sleepers Awake! - Johann Sebastian Bach

Greed is a bottomless pit, which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Erich Fromm




“The old get older
And the young get stronger

May take a week
And it may take longer

They got the guns
But we got the numbers

Gonna win, yeah
We're takin' over”

Come on!

Jim Morrison / The Doors
  "Five to One" on the album Waiting for the Sun (1968)




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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Despair


“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”
~Mahatma Gandhi

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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Thirsty for Light




Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
~Erich Fromm
- La mayoria de la gente muere antes de nacer plenamente. La creatividad significa nacer, antes de morir. -



Chapultepec Castle fountain.
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