Picture/Quote of the Day: from Kurt Vonnegut April 11, 2008
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So it goes.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
(November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007)
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Picture of the Day: from the Voyager Tarot - 0 Fool-Child April 1, 2008
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Like the fetus and dependent child, you live on faith
in the order of the universe. You know that you are taken
care of. In accepting this higher law, you can be the Fool;
you can relax, be yourself, take risks, play.As the innocent Fool and wide-eyed Child, you are open
and curious. That receptive state of mind makes you
intuitive, original, spontaneous, and present.
You allow your natural genius its expression.Like the child, you have tremendous vitality, a youthful
energy that wants to move about, experience,and learn.
If you occasionally fall on your face, that’s part of growing.As the number of this card - zero - you are like spirit;
you are everywhere and nowhere, lost and secure,
young but wise, silly yet serious. You follow the spirit
rather than the practical and conventional.Taking such a leap of faith may allow you to be fooled
in a worldly sense, but also gives you a rebirth through
a mystical, transcendent experience which brings
a breath of fresh air, a new life, and a new beginning.
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Why go on? March 25, 2008
Posted by ~V~ in : Uncategorized, Politics, Video, Images, Spirituality, Philosophy, Portland, New Orleans, Sounds, Quote of the Day, Song of the Day, Picture of the Day, Web Resources, YouTube Video of the Day, Comix, How To: , 8commentsWhy do i even do this?
i get hundreds of visitors a day @ this site, and people are hotlinking to it
left and right, but no comments, no thanks, no nothin’.
Does anybody out there even like what i’m doing here, or is this site just a source of free music and photos for your LiveJournal or MySpace or Facebook profiles or message board posts to try and help you look cool to your friends?
i’m tired of always sending letters and never getting any back.
i think i’m gonna quit this exercise in futility and delete everything pretty soon, so download all you can while you still can, kids…
Picture(s) of the Day: from Theo Ellsworth February 26, 2008
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Theo Ellsworth is a self-taught
artist living in Portland, Oregon.He writes and draws comics,
makes art zines,
draws constantly,
and on occasion,
teaches workshops.
* He does invisible
* performance art
* that no one will ever see.
* He has a miniature city
* inside of his head that is
* overrun with funny monsters,
* yet he still manages
* to come across as
* a semi-normal guy.
He is abnormally fond
of clouds, and wants to
build things out of them.He is prone to
fits of whimsy,
and tends to have
weird dreams.He is a co-founder of the
Pony Club Gallery and Store.
see more: Capacity Online - The Art of Theo Ellsworth
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Picture of the Day: right place, wrong time February 13, 2008
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Archaeologists in Italy have unearthed two skeletons thought to be 5,000 to 6,000 years old, locked in an embrace.
The pair from the Neolithic period were discovered outside Mantua, about 40km (25 miles) south of Verona.
The pair, almost certainly a man and a woman, are thought to have died young as their teeth were mostly intact, said chief archaeologist Elena Menotti.
The burial site was discovered during construction work for a factory building.
“It’s an extraordinary case,” said Ms. Menotti. “There has not been a double burial found in the Neolithic period, much less two people hugging - and they really are hugging.”
Flint tools, including arrowheads and a knife, were also found alongside the couple.
Scientists will now study the skeletons and artifacts to work out how and when the two people died, Ms. Menotti said.
“I must say that when we discovered it, we all became very excited,” she said.
“I’ve been doing this job for 25 years. I’ve done digs at Pompeii, all the famous sites, but I’ve never been so moved because this is the discovery of something special,” she said.
Italy won’t split up its
Stone Age “lovers.”
In a Valentine’s Day gift to the country, scientists said they are determined to remove and preserve together the remains of the couple.
Instead of removing the bones one-by-one for reassembly later, archaeologists plan to scoop up the entire section of earth where the couple was buried.
The plot will then be transported for study before being put on display in an Italian museum, thereby preserving the world’s longest known hug for posterity.
“We want to keep them just as they have been all this time — together,” said Ms. Menotti.
Their removal will be a relief for archaeologists who had to hire extra security to guard the rural site outside the northern city of Mantua after the discovery made world headlines.
More importantly, it will give scientists a chance to figure out what was has become one of Italian archaeology’s greatest mysteries.
Was it a sudden death? A ritual sacrifice? Or maybe they were prehistoric, star-crossed lovers who took their own lives.
That is a crowd-pleasing theory in these parts, since Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet‘ was set in nearby Verona.
But scientists acknowledge they still know precious little about the now-famous Stone Age couple, whose embrace has become a subject of world newspaper headlines and chat shows.
Italians dubbed them the “Lovers of Valdaro” after the Mantua suburb of farmland and factories.
photo via CNet News.com
article excerpts via BBC News and Reuters
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Picture of the Day: from Chris Jordan February 11, 2008
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Cans Seurat by Chris Jordan | 60″ x 92″
Depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the number
used in the US every thirty seconds.
Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait
This series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books…
Cans Seurat, partial zoom
This project visually examines these vast and bizarre
measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints
assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.
The underlying desire is to emphasize the role of the
individual in a society that is increasingly enormous,
incomprehensible, and overwhelming.
Cans Seurat, detail
My only caveat about this series is that the prints must be seen in person to be experienced the way they are intended. As with any large artwork, their scale carries a vital part of their substance which is lost in these little web images. Hopefully the JPEGs displayed here might be enough to arouse your curiosity to attend an exhibition, or to arrange one if you are in a position to do so…
‘Un dimanche après-midi
à l’Île de la Grande Jatte’
or
‘A Sunday Afternoon on the
Island of La Grande Jatte’
by Georges-Pierre Seurat
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Picture(s) of the Day: from Jacquelyn Bond February 5, 2008
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‘Hope’ | 18″ x 24″ | watercolor on 100% cotton paper
My political art is inspired by the scary state of this nation these days. Most of my peers don’t vote. They’re afraid to learn about how government works, or even think about politics. They don’t want to be responsible for possibly making bad choices, so they don’t make ANY choices.
I’m very, very passionate
about our rights as citizens
to speak out and make
changes in this country.
I want my art to evoke some
thought from whoever views
it. I don’t care if it makes
them mad or happy, or even
if they agree with me or not.
I just want people to
DO SOMETHING —
get involved, take charge
and help make a difference.
I think we all have the ability to change things for the better, but too many people just watch American Idol
and eat at McDonald’s…The people in my art represent all of us, the American people, in all states and phases — people who have the power to right wrongs and help others. They represent anyone who believes democracy is a good and inspiring notion and want to use that power to help make this country and this world a better place.
‘A Little Help’ | 12″ x 16″ | watercolor on 100% cotton paper
see more art from Jacquelyn Bond: official site | MySpace
Wake Up, America! register to vote | Rock the Vote | MoveOn
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Picture of the Day: from the Voyager Tarot - II Priestess February 2, 2008
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As the Priestess, you symbolize the law of knowledge;
you know the truth. Through inner stillness
and equilibrium, you see what lies below the surface.You know yourself. Equanimous and balanced like your
number, two, you are able to see yourself objectively.
Through your dreams and meditations,
you allow your moon subconscious to rise
to the surface of conscious awareness.In your watery receptivity, you are the reflecting pool —
a mirror to others. You are a counselor, a wise owl.
Like the dolphin, you tune in to others through vibrations.
As the Temple of Delphi, you are an oracle. You see.The Queen Nefertiti as a Priestess symbolizes your ability
to bring metaphysical perceptions into the material world.
You can apply the psycho-spiritual arts
in a practical, influential, worldly way.
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Picture of the Day: from the Voyager Tarot - XII Hanged Man December 12, 2007
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The upside-down Hanged Man symbolizes the law of
reversal. As in the crucifixion of Christ, victory and success
are achieved in a manner opposite from any expected.
Instead of assertive movement and forceful resistance,
salvation is attained through passive surrender.When feeling hung up, encircled, netted, and walled in,
wait it out. Assume a holding pattern. You are in suspense,
a limbo that demands you tread water.
Acceptance of your limitations brings expansion.The octopus tentacles signify that you are under
constrictive influences beyond your control.
Surrender your ego. The feeling that you are drowning and
being dragged to the depths is the “dark night of the soul,”
the preparatory stage for rebirth and new life.The Hanged Man is also symbolic of compassionate
self-sacrifice. Like Christ, giving yourself up for the good
of others enables you to transcend the ego and achieve
union with the great spirit of the Universe.
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Picture of the Day: from the Voyager Tarot - V Hierophant December 5, 2007
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The Hierophant symbolizes the law of life mastery.
You are like a child learning through the tests of life,
and growing through experience into Buddhahood —
full enlightenment.The Buddha’s bare feet on the ground symbolize that
the path to enlightenment is through the lessons
of this earthly plane. Like the flower which grows
out of the compost, it is out of the garbage of life —
the storms, rifts, and valleys — that you flower.Like the Buddha, you are a sage who has already
mastered many tests. You are a guiding hand,
a teacher of others. Like the elephant, you can clear
the way for others. You are an enlightener like Venus,
the morning and evening star.
Listen to your inner voice of experience,
which is symbolized by the Buddha’s ears…
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Picture(s) of the Day: from Audrey Kawasaki November 6, 2007
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‘Nest Hair’ by Audrey Kawasaki | 23″ x 18″ | Oil on wood
I’m focused on what I can do
with the figure and expression,
with the lines and color.I enjoy the organic grains
and patterns on wood panel.
It’s very inviting to me.
It works as a good base and
background, and I use really
thin washes of oil, so the
grains show though.
I like to work and play
around with that.Although there is a story
behind my current girls,
it’s still very vague and up
in the air. I wish to develop
more lucid, detailed ideas
and plots and settings.
see more art from Audrey Kawasaki: official site | LiveJournal | MySpace
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Picture(s) of the Day: from Bret Hostetler November 2, 2007
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‘Treasure Chest’ by Bret Hostetler | oil on wood
It’s hard to know where to start and stop
when describing a painting.
You could just go around in circles…
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Picture of the Day: from the Voyager Tarot - XV Devil’s Play October 31, 2007
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The Greek Dionysian players in Devil’s Play symbolize
the law of celebration: a Dionysian exaltation of life
and its hard work, bedevilments, and erotic pleasures.
Laugh your fears and sorrows away. Dance and drink
to your successes, for life is a Saturnian harvest.
Lift your spirits by passion and play.
Re-create yourself through recreation.Through drink, music, and mind-altering drugs,
you become uninhibited and irreverent.
In your iconoclasm, you see in a new way and
break through Saturnian discipline and social convention.
You free yourself and become
natural, spontaneous, and original.Of course, you risk stepping off the edge
under the influence of intoxicated madness.
Stone blind, you perform misdeeds.
Out of ignorance, you are the devil.
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Picture of the Day: from Rachelle Clark October 29, 2007
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From bud break to bloom, fruit set to veraison, ripe into harvest; I watched and studied the Bishop Creek Vineyard for the last two growing seasons. I fought with the weather to achieve the photos I wanted, much as the grapes fought with the weather for the conditions they needed.
The 2006 summer was a long, hot summer that allowed them to take their time and get as sweet as they wanted.
The 2007 summer was moodier and created awhole different style of beautiful characteristics. Yet, at all times, the grapes were growing, changing, and becoming something
of their own.
see Life of a Grape - black & white photography by Rachelle Clark
at Urban Wineworks in Portland, Oregon during the month of November.
