Category: Whatever
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The Power Of Art – Picasso | BBC
Born in Malaga, Spain, Picasso’s many styles and prolific work rate have marked him out as one of the most recognised artists of the twentieth century. Not limited to one medium he created sculptures, etchings and prints. His artistic career only began to boom once he moved to Paris in…
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Interview with Matt Bors: Drawing Terrible Things Without Causing Despair | Truthout
Truthout has been publishing Matt Bors‘ cartoons for more than a year now, and we’re not the only ones who have taken notice of him. Bors has won awards for his editorial cartooning including the Herblock Prize and the Society of Professional Journalists‘ Sigma Delta Chi Award, and he was…
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Easter Island
William Hodges painting of Easter Island Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether.
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The Grammar Of Pictures
Originally posted on The Dish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwDXlA_6usI Martin Scorsese underscores it: We’re face to face with images all the time in a way that we never have been before. And that’s why I believe we need to stress visual literacy in our schools. Young people need to understand that not all images…
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Water derives lucidity from stillness
Originally posted on Zen Flash: If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind. The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, a reflection of all creation. ~ Chuang Tzu ~ Tao & Zen
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Junior High Creative Writing Activity: A Fractured Fairy Tale
Originally posted on Teacher as Transformer: Children hear and read fairy tales at a young age. When they reach late elementary and junior high school age, they can explore and discover inconsistencies in fairy tales i.e. Goldilocks breaks into the Bears’ house and vandalizes it. Here is a creative writing…
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John Koch
John Koch was dismissed by the more progressive art scene as a society painter. He was little known outside his circle of wealthy, connected patrons. But time has a way of revealing something pleasurable that may have been ignored at the time. Koch (1909-1978) captured scenes of a New York…
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Kelli
Originally posted on Drive All Night: Traveling to Denton, Texas represented two “firsts” for me. It was my first time visiting the Lone Star state beyond the security perimeter of Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, and also my first face-to-face meeting with a Millennial I met exclusively through social media. Not long…
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Death and myth (Aesculapius)
Originally posted on Unanimous Tradition / Tradición Unánime: Concerning the myth of or Aesculapius or Asclepios, the Greek god of the medical arts, there is a fundamental idea underlying it and many other myths (like those of Cassandra, Sisyphus, Cassiopeia, etc. – well related, for example, in ‘La sagesse des…
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The Internet’s Vigilante Justice
Originally posted on The Dish: Laura Hudson worries about it: Shaming, it seems, has become a core competency of the Internet, and it’s one that can destroy both lives and livelihoods. But the question of who’s responsible for the destruction — the person engaging in the behavior or the person revealing…
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Nevada Wildfire Could Snuff Out A Rare Butterfly : NPR
The Mount Charleston blue butterfly, a tiny insect about the size of a quarter, is found in a couple small patches high in southern Nevada’s Spring Mountains. These mountains are known as a sky island ecosystem because its relatively cool and wet climate provides homes to a much greater diversity…
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Roots and Ladders – Benedictine Monasticism & the Integral Christian Future – Pre-Conference Workshop #ITC2013
Originally posted on Evolutionary Landscapes: Hospitality As Kosmopolitan 9:00 AM. I picked this workshop to start with because the Christian Contemplative path has always profoundly spoke with me. There was a time where I kept The Cloud of Unknowing in my winter jacket pocket, riding the NYC subways. It was my…
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Bright Blue Dot
In this rare image taken on July 19, 2013, the wide-angle camera on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured Saturn’s rings and our planet Earth and its moon in the same frame. It is only one footprint in a mosaic of 33 footprints covering the entire Saturn ring system (including Saturn…
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