The Artists Role | Gentle Voice This issue of Gentle Voice is titled ‘Art Unlimited’ and there are a multitude of different forms of art: drawing, painting, sculpture, collage, computer generated art, digital graphics, pop art, minimal art, performance art, street art, indigenous art, architecture, music, dance, film, photography, the art of conversation, the art of seduction and so on…! Types of art are as varied as media, subject matter and technology allow. Maree: [M] Emma Walker, one of Australia’s most respected young artists says, “The creative process is not a straight forward one. There is no exact recipe that can be followed to produce a consistent result. Each artist comes with unique inner workings and personal history that creates their own individual approach. For this reason, the variety of outcomes is limitless”.…. Rinpoche: [R] I really like that actually. M: What genre of art do you most identify with and why? M: From your perspective what is the purest form of art? R: I actually think both. R: Both.
This Garden In A Bottle Has Been Thriving since 1960: Sealed in its own ecosystem and watered just once in 53 years To look at this flourishing mass of plant life you’d think David Latimer was a green-fingered genius. Truth be told, however, his bottle garden – now almost in its 53rd year – hasn’t taken up much of his time. In fact, on the last occasion he watered it Ted Heath was Prime Minister and Richard Nixon was in the White House. For the last 40 years it has been completely sealed from the outside world. But the indoor variety of spiderworts (or Tradescantia, to give the plant species its scientific Latin name) within has thrived, filling its globular bottle home with healthy foliage. Mr Latimer, 80, said: ‘It’s 6ft from a window so gets a bit of sunlight. ‘Otherwise, it’s the definition of low-maintenance. The bottle garden has created its own miniature ecosystem. How The Bottle Garden Grows Bottle gardens work because their sealed space creates an entirely self-sufficient ecosystem in which plants can survive by using photosynthesis to recycle nutrients. He said: Source: Dailymail
Maybe this is a crazy question, but how did Europeans know what Africans looked like? I know that some of the paintings here are of North Africans/Middle Easterners, but others clearly depict people born south of the Sahara. I've heard of Prester John but He lives in a tree, doesn't wear shoes, and brushes his teeth with a pinecone Talk about living off the grid. About 25 years ago, Mick Dodge shed his shoes, grew his beard, and left modern civilization (and a family) to live alone in the Pacific Northwest’s Hoh rain forest. But he’s not a total isolationist; he’s dialed into a community of mountain dwellers and agreed (although it took convincing) to be the subject of National Geographic Channel’s series “The Legend of Mick Dodge,” In the first story, Dodge’s mission is to scatter his late father’s ashes up in the mountains — if he can recall where he stashed them. “My family has perfected the art of dodging civilizations for hundreds of years. All I have to do is follow my feet,” says the backwoods philosopher. MNN: What was your life like before you moved to the woods? Mick Dodge: Yes, as a heavy equipment mechanic. What prompted you to go to the forest in the first place? My feet hurt. In following my feet I found myself stepping out of the insulation of the modern world and landing in the earth.
Guerilla Gardening 101: How to Make Seed Bombs Get the lowdown on seed bombs with guerilla gardener Richard Reynolds. DIYGardeningGIYseed bombsseeds Related Posts « State Department Under Investigation, Lacks Most Basic Information on Keystone Pipeline 10 Amazing Photos of the ‘Invisible’ World » An Antidote to the Age of Anxiety: Alan Watts on Happiness and How to Live with Presence by Maria Popova Wisdom on overcoming the greatest human frustration from the pioneer of Eastern philosophy in the West. “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives,” Annie Dillard wrote in her timeless reflection on presence over productivity — a timely antidote to the central anxiety of our productivity-obsessed age. Indeed, my own New Year’s resolution has been to stop measuring my days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence. But what, exactly, makes that possible? This concept of presence is rooted in Eastern notions of mindfulness — the ability to go through life with crystalline awareness and fully inhabit our experience — largely popularized in the West by British philosopher and writer Alan Watts (January 6, 1915–November 16, 1973), who also gave us this fantastic meditation on the life of purpose. If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the assurance of a happy future, we are “crying for the moon.” Thanks, Ken