April 23rd, 2011
Julie Burstein: You need to embrace your challenges. Artists talk about walking straight towards things that most of us would run away from.
Chuck Close was severely learning disabled as a kid, and he had such trouble at school that his eight grade teacher said to him, “Chuck, don’t even think about college; you should go the vocational route. You’re not going to make it.” And this is a guy who went on to get his MFA from Yale and become a world renowned artist.
He has something called face blindness where he can’t recognize faces in three dimensions. All of his work is portraits. He takes photographs and then makes his painting from those photographs. Also he has a tremendous difficulty understanding the whole, really getting the big picture, and so what he does with his paintings is he breaks them down into grids and he paints little piece by little piece until as he says, be builds the painting; he doesn’t paint a painting,
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April 23rd, 2011
What is physics? Physics is nothing but the laws of harmony that you can write on vibrating strings. What is chemistry? Chemistry is nothing but the melodies you can play on interacting vibrating strings. What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings. And then what is the mind of God that Albert Einstein eloquently wrote about for the last 30 years of his life? We now, for the first time in history have a candidate for the mind of God. It is, cosmic music resonating through 11 dimensional hyperspace.
So first of all, we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out on vibrating strings and membranes. Obeying the laws of physics, which is nothing but the laws of harmony of vibrating strings.
Michio Kaku, Professor of Theoretical Physics, CUNY
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April 21st, 2011
We went to antique market on Alameda Island 3 months ago, where I saw this wonderful painting. The face reminded me of Spanish painting, and decided to buy it. I kept looking at it, wandering what kind of dog it is ? Checking web did not help.
I was walking down the street one day , and there , across the street, was my dog ! . I run to talk to the owner . ”What is he ? It is a newfoundland ” was an answer.
A month later , during a walk with my Australian cattle dog , I met another newfoundland owner and told him about my painting. ” There was an English painter named Edwin Landseer ” he told me, “look him up ” .
I did , and found similar painting…..
A million dolar question is – is it painted after him ? Can it be an early painting by Landseer ?
Any suggestions ? ?
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March 28th, 2011
” We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is out task.
The rest is the madness of art. ”
Henry James
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March 27th, 2011
F(or)EVER]
We are here to receive the invisible worlds. Not just the freight of our histories, our stories, all of the visible nowhere that is with us everywhere. Nor only love, repulsion, and desperate belief, even if these have long signaled the army to the field of death, or propelled the mother into the dark surf after her child. Not time, of which we can only say “it traps us.” Of which we can only say, “it does not exist.” There are other worlds.
by Quentin Hardy
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January 2nd, 2011
The Dreaming of the Aboriginal times – from Vikipedia
In Australia, Aboriginal people believe that every person essentially exists eternally in the Dreaming. This eternal part existed before the life of the individual begins, and continues to exist when the life of the individual ends. Both before and after life, it is believed that this spirit-child exists in the Dreaming and is only initiated into life by being born through a mother. The spirit of the child is culturally understood to enter the developing fetus during the fifth month of pregnancy.[1] When the mother felt the child move in the womb for the first time, it was thought that this was the work of the spirit of the land in which the mother then stood. Upon birth, the child is considered to be a special custodian of that part of his country and is taught the stories and songlines of that place. As Wolf (1994: p. 14) states: “A black ‘fella’ may regard his totem or the place from which his spirit came as his Dreaming. He may also regard tribal law as his Dreaming.”[2]
It was believed that, before humans, animals, and plants came into being, their ’souls’ existed; they knew they would become physical, but not when. When that time came, all but one of the ’souls’ became plants or animals, with the last one becoming human and acting as a custodian or guardian to the natural world around them.
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December 30th, 2010
“Nothing is more important about quantum physics than this: it has destroyed the concept of the world as “sitting out there”. The universe will never afterwards be the same.”
J. A. Wheeler
May 2011 be full of possibility waves for all !
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December 29th, 2010
“The classic example of the superposition of possibilities and the observer effect is the famous double-split experiment. In this experiment, a stream of subatomic particles is directed through the screen containing two very closely spaced slits. It allows particles to pass only one by one through the slits. Each particle makes its way to a second screen, where it hits and makes a single tiny spot. yet after many particles have made their way through, a pattern of dots appears on the second screen that can only be explained if each particle passed through BOTH slits simultaneously. In other words, the two possibilities – one slit or the other – seem to superimpose to produce a new result.
Amazingly, if you close one of the slits, more particles reach certain places on the screen than if you left both slits open. With both open, each particle aparently has two choices of which slit to pass through, so each should have twice an opportunity of reaching any point on the screen. In other words, any point on the screen should be twice as likely to record a hit, so there should be fewer open spaces between spots when both slits are open. But the opposite is true.
What is an explanation for this bizarre behavior? It seems that the two opportunities somehow affect one another: they interfere or bump into each other . How can it be? No particle ever encounters the slits in the presence of another particle. Can quantum physics explain it ? Yes. Suppose that instead of a single particle passing through , what passes is a wave. A wave does not behave like particle. It would reach both slits at the same time and than brake into two waves, one passing through each slit.
This behavior is called wave-particle duality. The notion that the same entity can be both a particle and a wave opens up to us a new view of the world. ”
Fred Alan Wolf
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December 28th, 2010
In Buddhist philosophy, the material and idea realms are referred to as Nirmanakaya and Sambhogakaya , but beyond these is the light of one consciousness , Dharmakaya, which illuminates both. And in reality, there is only Dharmakaya. “Nirmanakaya is the appearance body of Buddha and his inscrutable activities. Sambhogakaya posesses vast and boundless potentiality. Buddha’s Dharmakaya is free from any perception of form.”
Sambhogakaya is where all alterrealities are born.
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December 28th, 2010
Imagine human beings sitting in a cave in a fixed position so that they always face the wall. The great universe outside is a shadow show projected on the wall of the cave, and we humans are shadow watchers. We watch shadow-illusions that we mistake for reality. The real reality is behind us, in the light and archetypal forms that cast shadows on the wall. In this allegory, the shadow shows are the unreal immanent manifestations in human experience of archetypal realities that belong to a transcendent world. In truth, light is the only reality, for light is all we see. In monistic idealism, consciousness is like the light in Plato’s cave.
(Amit Goswami)
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