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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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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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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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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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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The Night Before

Chelsea. New York City
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Flying Raindrops

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
~Seneca

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Top of The Rock

"I shut my eyes in order to see"
~Paul Gauguin

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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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Noon

Mexico City (View from Chapultepec Hill)

Noon - Fri Nov 18, 2011

This week's challenge:
'Noon'.

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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 Orozco, Fernando Leal, Diego Rivera and others. The complex is located between San Ildefonso Street and Justo Sierra Street in the historic center of Mexico City. [Wiki]

Take the Virtual Tour!

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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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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 Linares, Manuel 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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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. 

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Esculturas del Monumento a los Niños Heroes. Chapultepec

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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)

OCCUPY  TOGETHER

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Despair

“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”

~Mahatma Gandhi

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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. -

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

~Erich Fromm

Chapultepec Castle fountain.More Images Here.
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Mexico City

(View from Chapultepec Castle)

As an "alpha" global city Mexico City is one of the most important financial centers in North America. It is located in the Valley of Mexico, a large valley in the high plateaus at the center of Mexico, at an altitude of 2,240 metres (7,350 ft). The city consists of sixteen boroughs.

The 2009 estimated population for the city proper was around 8.84 million people, and has a land area of 1,485 square kilometres (573 sq mi). According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the Mexico City metropolitan area population is 21.2 million people, making it the largest metropolitan area in the western hemisphere and the fifth largest agglomeration in the world.

Mexico City has a gross domestic product (GDP) of $390 billion US$ in 2008, making Mexico City the eighth richest city in the world. The city was responsible for generating 21% of Mexico's Gross Domestic Product and the metropolitan area accounted for 34% of total national GDP.

The city was originally built on an island of Lake Texcoco by the Aztecs in 1325 as Tenochtitlan, which was almost completely destroyed in the 1521 siege of Tenochtitlan, and subsequently redesigned and rebuilt in accordance with the Spanish urban standards. In 1524, the municipality of Mexico City was established, known as México Tenochtitlán, and as of 1585 it was officially known as La Ciudad de México (Mexico City). Mexico City served as the political, administrative and financial center of a major part of the Spanish colonial empire. After independence from Spain was achieved, the Federal District was created in 1824.  [Wiki]

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The Box

Music: Invisible Lady by Charles Mingus

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