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Art

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Images For Android Phones: New Landscapes – 01

Images For Android Phones: New Landscapes - 01

With every step I leave something behind …


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Images For Android Phones: Design

Images For Android Phones: Design

Is it an ARP synth, or a very tall building?


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Images For Android Phones: 4 Views 1 Place – 04

Images For Android Phones: 4 Views 1 Place - 04

There is always more than one truth to contradict any one belief ….


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Images For Android Phones: 4 Views 1 Place – 03

Images For Android Phones: 4 Views 1 Place - 03

Knowing what you believe …


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Images For Android Phones: 4 views 1 place – 02

Images For Android Phones: 4 views 1 place - 02

Believing what you see …


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Images For Android Phones: 4 Views 1 Place – 01

Image For Android Phones: 4 Views 1 Place

Seeing things …


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Images For Android Phones: A Painting In A Gallery

Images For Android Phones: A Painting In A Gallery

A painting
In more than one color
Where everything comes to life

A touch of red
A splash of blue
A hidden purpose
So true

A museum full of beautiful light
The sounds of our chatter
Throughout the day and night

In awe
In silence

It’s what the artist thought that matters
Escaping something here
Finding something there
… and
Renewing all with his mind
An abstraction so fine

It’s beautiful you know
What he has found
With the palette knive
Pressed in silent sound

Shaping
Forming
… and
Teleporting
This gallery space
To another far-off place

It’s art when you see it
Art when you feel it
Art when you know it
And art when you love it

A painting
Of light and shadow

A painting
In more than one color                                                                                                                                                                                             Where everything comes to life

A touch of red
A splash of blue
A revealing purpose
So true


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Images For Android Phones: A Window In A Dark Room

Images For Android Phones: A Window In A Dark Room

Painting in one color
A black as dark as coal
So dark it feels endless

It’s time to pick another color
Or look out a different window
Catch a thought or two

See things in another light
As the room collapses
Like falling cards

Entangled with the other’s calling
Like the dream that’s always falling

The blue sky outside
And my blurry eyes … blinking
Can’t save me from inside
The dark room in which I reside.


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Post Canvas And Paint: Images For Android Phones 07

Post Canvas And Paint: Images For Android Phones 7

looking over the horizon
along the railroad tracks
i wonder where
… in silence
this train will take me
it’s lonely here
… in isolation
not unlike
a place
i used to know


I Keep Standing On The Corner Waiting On My Own (A Robyn Remix)

The city series….

On the corner, on my own

some things feels like destiny…

some things never change

standing on the corner

waiting on my own

never knowing which direction

I should go

it’s all for show

you know

waiting on the corner

with nowhere to go….


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Post Canvas And Paint: Images For Android Phones 06

Post Canvas And Paint: Images For Android Phones 06

7 a.m.
sunday
sunrise
in may
driving while photographing
oh … ohhhh …
listening to robyn
she’s dancing on her own
oh … ohhhh …
your’e home
sleeping alone
oh … ohhhh …
and me …
i’m driving
while photographing
oh … ohhhh ……


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Post Canvas And Paint: Images For Android Phones 04

Post Canvas and Paint: Images For Android Phones

embrace the sky
dreaming …
and
let the light unfold
inside….


Weekly Movie-Making Moments In Film: HBO’s Girls and the Video by Robyn – Dancing On My Own

A moment to enjoy a little TV, finding creativity in the work of others….

So I am watching the third episode of HBO’s really cool new hit show “Girls”. During the ending credits, the song showcased is “Dancing On My Own” by Robyn. Okay, I don’t know if I am in the know or not (too much ambient electronic music) but I had never heard of Robyn prior to this song. Where’s my MTV when I really need it? But I digress, this song was way too cool. And when I watched the video, I was totally caught up in the strong, dynamic visual moves of her dancing and the editing with the live club dance scenes. And have you ever considered how interesting it is, when watching a rather good show or movie, the song or songs, during the ending credits can make all the difference? It keeps the mood going–bringing back the emotional pulse of the film. Last year, I was very much into HBO’s “Making It In America” and there was an episode that featured a group of the show’s characters biking after a roof-top party. Through the streets of New York City they trekked—at night. Now that is the way you live in the city. Which reminds me … I miss Philadelphia, the painting parties with artists and the late midnight runs with my boyz Trash (10 miles in 1hr 45 mins, in our twenties). But again I digress. At the end of the show the producers came up with another hip song to keep the flow. The song was “Midnight City” by M83. Pulsating, hip, cool. And yes this band I had heard of before (“Too Late from the CD Saturdays = Youth).

Music can make any art form feel prolific and elevate its content and mood….

I really like the programming on HBO. Everyone I am sure is familiar with their big hit “Game of Thrones” but I really do suggest you give “Girls” a look. And although “Making It In America” is not currently available on HBO demand, you certainly can get a hold of it.

Enjoy the video clips….

Girls – Trailer

http://tv.yahoo.com/girls/show/47563/videos/28822433

Robyn ‘s – Dancing On My Own

http://youtu.be/CcNo07Xp8aQ

M83’s – Midnight City Live on Carson Daly

http://youtu.be/q3w9mfk7D9c


Post Canvas And Paint: Abstract 09 – The Unending Edge Of All Things

When I was reborn and when I died I remembered only one thing … I AM, All THAT IS – UNENDING….

The unending edge of all things

Creativity is an essential part of being human, a vital force without which we can exist, but not truly live. – Ann Cashman

Namaste.

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Post Canvas And Paint: Abstract 08 – The Expanding Universe

On a beautiful summer day, we skipped our rocket ships along the waves of space….

The expanding universe

Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind’s eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration. – Johannes Brahms

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Post Canvas And Paint: Abstract 07 – The Circular Eclipse

The sky turned the brightest day into the darkest night, as I lit a candle to illuminate the ambiguities of my desires….

The circular eclipse

The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity. – Julia Cameron

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Post Canvas And Paint: Abstract 06 – The Winding Tapestry

On the winding road every past moment in life followed me as the future fell off the cliff ahead of me….

The winding tapestry

The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production. – George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon

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Post Canvas And Paint: Abstract 05 – The Returning Tide

As I found myself lost in the sea with no boundaries I never felt the need for gravity or place….

The returning tide

Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create – so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating. – Pearl S. Buck

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Post Canvas And Paint: Abstract 04 – The Loving Heart

In the translucent sound of night, the color of things to come were just beyond the stars….

The loving heart

Creation is such an elusive thing, for the more we think we are in control, the more we remove ourselves from the actual creation. – Betty Jean Billups

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Post Canvas And Paint: Abstract 03 – The Consuming Sky

As the sky fell to earth I heard a memory, and it was not so long ago that I fell in love….

The consuming sky

A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship. – W. H. Auden

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Post Canvas And Paint: Abstract 02 – The Dreaming Void

In a moment forged with the fluttering sounds of dreams in flight, I soon escaped my troubling fears….

The dreaming void

The true locus of creativity is not the genetic process prior to the work but the work itself as it lives in the experience of the beholder. – Monroe Beardsley

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Post Canvas And Paint: Abstract 01 – The Setting Sun

I looked into the mirror of my thoughts as the setting sun slowly disappeared over the horizon….

The Setting Sun

Something about making art has to do with overcoming things, giving us a clear opportunity for doing things in ways we have always known we should do them. – David Bayles

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Not The Kiss Your Mother Used To Give You (When She Wanted You To Leave The Room)

The city series….

Standing by the curb

So you think you’re a man….

You think you know what she is trying to tell you. Sitting by the curb with your new Trek bike. With your boys. Trying to be cool.

Looking cool … Being defiant.

Did you even listen? Is there any clue?

Baby Boy Blue

As to why she decided on … you?

Yeah I know, you think it’s because of the ball you play. Or the things you say. Just yesterday she gave you that look. When you helped her with her books. Were you listening then? When it was your hand she took. Yeah I know. It’s all about the tool of the trade. And not feeling like you’ve been made. Is it good to know? Keep the show? Or stay in the flow? Yeah, it’s a tough day and what a blow.

You sitting on the curb with your boys.

Being her toy.

But did you even know

That kiss….

Is not the kiss

Just for show….


I Really Want To Meet Your Sensitivity With Compassion And Love (A Hit The Mark Remix)

In a moment, my only desire is to meet your sensitivity with my thoughtfulness and longing….

Being centered with you

They tell me that love and compassion is a journey without measure….

Not unlike an arrow whose flight is true….


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