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Family Collab #? (shawnan & the kids), multimedia

Memory Drawing #6? (forgive me if I've posted this one before, I can't remember)

Pictures

The Jungle Book, After Captain Goldstar

Alright, I tried several different ways to post this. But it was too difficult to try and get the context, which is key. BUT if you read this and want to find out what it is go to:

projectguttenburg.org, Kipling, The Jungle Book part 2, "The Kings Ankus", p. 64

"A Jungle-dweller gets to learn by experience as much as many doctors know of poisonous plants and berries. Mowgli sniffed the smoke that came up from the fire , broke off a morsel of the blakend bread, tasted it , and spat it out again.
'Apple of death,' he coughed. 'The first must have made it ready in the food for these, who killed him, having first killed the Gond.'
'Good hunting, indeed'! The kills follow close,' sadi Bagheera.
"Apple of Death" is what the Jungle call thorn apple or dhatura, the readiest poison of all India"

It's interesting to me as the story has to do with Mowgli taking an incredibly valuable jeweled piece of treasure out of this corrupted lair. He has no use for it but he takes it out into the world. The thing guarding it screams out as Mowgli takes it: "It is Death! It is Death! It is Death!".
When I read it I really quickly thought of the connection with Goldstar's journeying and exploration. As well as MOanez's posts a while back on Morality. Anyhoo, check it out and don't call me 'the boy'.

PS: unless you're Carlos, cuz you treated my teeth with genrosity and respect when i needed it. You may call me what you wish.

Manmade Earthquake

What do you think about this?
http://www.aroundglobe.net/2010/01/haiti-us-created-earthquake-in-haiti.html

Say it

I feel as though I'm getting naked here, but isn't this what beta blog is all about? being naked in front of your friends and letting them tell you you should really remove that unsightly mole? ...these are lyrics for a song that might go on the record. tell me what you think.... i'm scared to know, but I'm okay with the fear now. i'm constantly learning. i like them because 1. they fit the melody I hear in my head and 2. they came in a moment where i truly felt this feeling. but is that enough to make it good? en français i would say "j'ai besoin de recul" (I need an objective point of view). lyrics intimidate me. and so, i'm officially ranting, but what i want to say is that i respect you, beta friends, contributing poets and masters of verse, so sock it to me assholes! i mean friends! whom i love and respect, and am only chastising because of my love and respect (and it helps not to be so intimidated)....

say it

I can't go on like I'm the one
I used to think so but what have we become
Yesterday I was your true love lady
It's all faded away

Chorus:
Why don't you just say it, baby
you don't want this anymore
You love me but you've got to let me go
I just need to hear it, darling (if it's true)
That that old feeling's gone
And there ain't no use in tryin' to hold on
Ain't no use baby

It's so hard to loosen my grip
Afraid to lose the man my heart's with
but holdin' on does nobody no good
It's time to let this happen like it should

chorus

If you love something, they say to set it free
If it comes back, baby, it's meant to be
The door is open if you want to leave

chorus

Köln

some images from my trip to Germany...the locks where across a bridge on the Rhine, something to do with love where all these people put locks on the bridge as symbols of their relationships. Then the Kölner Dome, an amazing Gothic cathedral featuring stained glass by Gerhard Richter. more to come....

Dans mon panier j'ai

An animated short by Nat Dupont!

Life lessons, from Renzo Gracie

Look at the past and learn to make a better future

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” Theodore Roosevelt

Exhibition Announcement

I will have an exhibition starting mid-March, at the Piano Nobile Gallery

I would like a title, but am not sure what to do. Any ideas would be welcome. Some of the "themes" in my art are:
life/death
longing/isolation
celebration/liberation
beauty - design/nature
chosen/accidental or automatic
Meaning/Spirituality
Plurality/Diversity/Multiplicity
Imagination/observation
Or something unrelated. I was thinking "Watching Paint Dry", hehe.