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Photo Friday - Fri Dec 09, 2011
This week's challenge:
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Jaques Torres Chocolate
Down Under the Manhattan Bridge
Overpass, on Water Street, you will find the first Jacques Torres Chocolate
location. From street level, visitors can glimpse the chocolate factory in
action and the store shelves filled with chocolate treats.
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In the words of Henri Cartier-Bresson, "you have to blend in like a fish in water, you have to forget yourself." |
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“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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Properly trained, a man can be dog's
best friend. ~Corey Ford
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(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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“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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Brooklyn 2008 Music: Ultra Music Festival 2010 (DJ Steve Porter Remix) [Proper for 10 Months as Mavie to 90th Years Old] Click Here To View Thumbnails For All Participants |
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(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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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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Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart. ~Seneca Happy Thanksgiving! |
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"I shut my eyes in order to see" ~Paul Gauguin |
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(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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| 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! |
