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

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Games





 ↳ Christmas gifts ↵


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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Fine Arts Palace



Art

I’m not an abstractionist. I’m not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.
::: Mark Rothko :::

O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.
::: Jim Morrison :::

There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.
::: Henry Moore ::: 

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
::: 
John Lennon ::: 

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.
::: Giorgio de Chirico ::: 

I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.
::: Diego Rivera ::: 

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
::: Eckhart Tolle :::


Happy Light Day!

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Saturday, January 14, 2012

Winter Branches



It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back
~James George Frazer

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Friday, January 13, 2012

Rural Sky



(30 sec exposition)

Cloudy - Fri Jan 13, 2012
This week's challenge:
'Cloudy'.

Happy Weekend!

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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Tribal Blues













For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. 
For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
© Marshall McLuhan

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Always Look on the Bright Side of Life (from Monty Python)

words and music by Eric Idle

Some things in life are bad
They can really make you mad
Other things just make you swear and curse.
When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best...
And...always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the light side of life...
If life seems jolly rotten
There's something you've forgotten
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing.
When you're feeling in the dumps
Don't be silly chumps
Just purse your lips and whistle - that's the thing.
And...always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the light side of life...
For life is quite absurd
And death's the final word
You must always face the curtain with a bow.
Forget about your sin - give the audience a grin
Enjoy it - it's your last chance anyhow.
So always look on the bright side of death
Just before you draw your terminal breath
Life's a piece of shit
When you look at it
Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true.
You'll see it's all a show
Keep 'em laughing as you go
Just remember that the last laugh is on you.
And always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the right side of life...
(Come on guys, cheer up!)
Always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the bright side of life...
(Worse things happen at sea, you know.)
Always look on the bright side of life...
(I mean - what have you got to lose?)
(You know, you come from nothing - you're going back to nothing.
What have you lost? Nothing!)
Always look on the right side of life...

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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Promenade






“I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff 
about to fall down and break your neck.” 

“I need, therefore I imagine.” 

“chaos: it has no plural.” 

“Memory is satisfied desire.” 

“Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.” 

“What the United States does best is to understand itself.
What it does worst is understand others.”

“Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.”

“If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.”

“The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the other; historical violence revealing the tragic flaw of the hero who must then return to the land of origin; myth of death and renewal and silence from which new words and images will arise, keeps on turning in spite of the blindness of purely lineal thought.” 

~Carlos Fuentes

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