It's not the sound
It's the booming
Of my heart.
That's what I miss
Friday, November 18, 2011
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Monday, August 1, 2011
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Saturday, June 18, 2011
chief Raoni
The chief Raoni cries when he learns that brazilian president Dilma released the beginning of construction of the hydroelectric plant of Belo Monte, even after tens of thousands of letters and emails addressed to her and which were ignored as the more than 600 000 signatures. That is, the death sentence of the peoples of Great Bend of the Xingu river is enacted. Belo Monte will inundate at least 400,000 hectares of forest, an area bigger than the Panama Canal, thus expelling 40,000 indigenous and local populations and destroying habitat valuable for many species - all to produce electricity at a high social, economic and environmental cost, which could easily be generated with greater investments in energy efficiency.
southern Sudan
From the series The violent cattle keepers of southern Sudan’s Pastoralist Tribes.
Pete Muller writes that these cattle keepers are members of the Dinka Rek sub-tribe, who describe themselves as a “brigade.” In this remote area of southern Sudan, there are no signs of the army or the police, and no government as such. Consequently, these men form a militia to protect themselves from marauders of other equally well-armed pastoralist groups in the area.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
"James Brown/Puerto Rican Rhythms/Into the Streets"
By the Last Poets, off of "Right On"
, 1969/1970. The three pieces were by Gylan Kain, Felipe Luciano, and David Nelson respectively.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Saturday, May 21, 2011
postpone death
Anais Nin quote: “I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.”
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Crossota alba
The jellyfish Crossota alba. Delicate jellyfish such as this thrive in the deep sea, where no wind, waves, or turbulence threaten to tear them apart, and are successful predators in spite of their fragility. In the quiet, dark environment this transparent, inch-wide animal sits motionless, with stinging tentacles arranged like fishing lines in a circle, and waits to encounter prey—ambushing, rather than stalking its food.
Larry Madin
Haruki Murakami (Sputnik Sweetheart)
“Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
Appointment In Ghana - Jackie McLean with Woody Shaw-McCoy
On this day in 1931 alto saxophonist Jackie Mclean was born.
He played on the Miles Davise album “Dig” with Sonny Rollins when
he was but 19 years old and went on to perform and recorded with
Charles Mingus and George Wallington.
Jackie was known for his hard bop style and later in his career
became an exponent of modal jazz without abandoning his roots.
In 1970, he and his wife, Dollie McLean, founded the Artists
Collective, Inc. of Hartford, Connecticut an organization dedicated
to preserving the art and culture of the African Diaspora. It provides
educational programs and instruction in dance, theatre, music and
visual arts.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Nicholas Kashian
Shawki Youssef
thunderstorms
“The goal is to capture the structure of supercell thunderstorms, the feeling of standing in wind gusts breaching 50 MPH, the lightning, the rumble of hail. I’ve never seen anything like these storms before… . They are born everyday, they fight against their environment to stay alive, change their form as they age, they lose their strength, and eventually they die. The hope is that the images presented communicate how I feel while standing in front of these amazing forces of nature”.
Mitch Dobrowner
Joséphine Mpongo
jelly
Moon jelly by Alexander Semenov
Porpita porpita—the blue button jelly —is a neustonic species mostly found in the tropics; that is, it floats right neat the surface of the water. The circular disc is made of chitin and filled with gas, allowing these jellies to float. The tentacles (zooids) radiating from the disc do all the feeding.
Kelly Rakow
W.G. Sebald
Even now, when I try to remember… the darkness does not lift but becomes heavier as I think how little we can hold in mind, how everything is constantly lapsing in oblivion with every extinguished life, how the world is, as it were, draining itself, in that the history of countless places and objects which themselves have no power of memory is never heard, never described or passed on.
W.G. Sebald
W.G. Sebald
Japan, Two Months After the Disaster
“A lot has been said about Japanese resilience and their response to the March 11 disaster,” writes Associated Press photographer David Guttenfelder. “But the stoicism hides the deep personal suffering. The humble efficiency makes it seem like help is not needed. I hope that our photographs will help people understand and continue to help Japan.”
NPR: Japan, Two Months After the Disaster
Photo: Christoph Bangert
Friday, April 15, 2011
Elias Canetti
His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.” - *Elias Canetti
Rainer Maria Rilke
You see, I want a lot.
Perhaps I want everything:
the darkness that comes with every infinite fall
and the shivering blaze of every step up.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Perhaps I want everything:
the darkness that comes with every infinite fall
and the shivering blaze of every step up.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Paracelsus
He who is born in imagination discovers the latent forces of Nature… . Besides the stars that are established, there is yet another—Imagination—that begets a new star and a new heaven.
Paracelsus
Paracelsus
Thursday, March 24, 2011
weekly scorpio
After a prolonged period of feeling powerfully unsettled following an intense disruption to the very core of your being, you can finally start to relax. Venus and Neptune come together at the bottom of your chart, producing a feeling of well-being that you haven’t had for a long time. With such a peaceful energy in your root system, it won’t be too huge a surprise when you encounter the unexpected around work and service possibilities in your life. The Sun and Uranus come together on Monday to bring an opportunity you don’t see coming, but just because you didn’t know it was there for you is no excuse not to go for it. You do prefer to know what’s under every rock before you go forward, but there are times in life when that’s just not the best way to make your move.
Go
Go
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
weekly scorpio
You’re moving through a time of intense personal adjustment, and it’s a great idea this week, while the energies support you, to take a giant step outside your proverbial box and get a taste of what else is out there that you have not been availing yourself of recently. It’s clearly the end of an era, and while it may not be the perfect time to start out on the next leg of your journey, it is a moment tailor made to test out the waters, see what’s going on ‘out there’ and come up with a tentative plan or two to get yourself mobilized in the near future. The important thing to remember is that you never have to go anywhere you don’t want to go. But how will you know what you want if you don’t take a taste?
Fill your senses.
Fill your senses.
Monday, March 7, 2011
weekly scorpio
You’re probably getting tired of hearing it, but it’s important to say it again and again: what’s done is done and you haven’t lost a thing. It’s all for your benefit, for your evolution, and if you let go and let God, you’ll find yourself in that very place couldn’t figure out how to get to. Do you understand? Your future depends on your willingness to let it all go. No matter how much you believed in it, wanted it, nurtured it, or prayed for it, it doesn’t serve you any longer. If it did, it would still be with you. Dream your dream for the future, the one you really wish for, not the version you were settling on. If you have the courage to take this moment on, you’ll learn in one undeniable flash what true manifestation is.
It’s why you’re here.
It’s why you’re here.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
weekly scorpio
With the Pisces New Moon this Friday you begin a brand new chapter of creative productivity, or perhaps it’s more appropriate to say you begin a chapter that ends the old cycle and kicks off the new one. All the struggle you’ve been through recently was not what it appeared to be. Sometimes the most uncomfortable moments yield the most magnificent results. The loss you sustained, the one that broke your heart, was only opening you up where you couldn’t do it before. Now that you’re cracked open, allow all those creative juices to bubble up and over. This week begins a month long cycle of realizing just how ingenious you really can be. No one effects transformation in others the way you do. That treasure you’ve been reaching for has been in you the whole time.
Access the buried treasure within. It’s time.
Access the buried treasure within. It’s time.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
The impact of open-cast mining in India.
A young woman stumbles as she tries to carry a large basket of coal as she and others illegally scavenge at an open-cast mine in the village of Bokapahari in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand where a community of coal scavengers live and work. The contrast between India old and new is nowhere more vivid than among the villages of coal scavengers in eastern India, sitting on an apocalyptic landscape of smoke and fire from decades-old underground coal fires. While India grows ever more middle-class and awash in creature comforts, these villagers risk their lives scavenging coal illegally for a few dollars a day, and come back to homes that at any moment could be swallowed by a fresh fire-induced crack in the earth.
Photo: Keven Frayer for AP (Slideshow). The impact of open-cast mining in India.
Blood-red Crossota norvegica jellyfish
Monday, February 21, 2011
update on me
weekly scorpio
No matter what else is going on in your life, on any level, in any arena, leave it where it is and turn every bit of your attention to your creative process now. The planets are gathering in your 5th house, where your inventive resource pool exists. Trust your inner guidance mechanism to show you to those hidden pearls of creative wisdom that have been lying there, waiting for you to open them up and turn them on. Dream your dream and trust your Self to Know the way to get there. You do. You always have. There is really nothing that can stop you now. All those people places and things that were once there have left so that you can do what you’ve come to do unimpeded.
Stop reaching for what you think you want and acknowledge what you truly have instead
Stop reaching for what you think you want and acknowledge what you truly have instead
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Judy Clay
Before she scored some serious hits duetting with Billy Vera and William Bell, Judy Clay had sung gospel and soul for a number of years. This ballad was recorded for Scepter Records of NYC in 1964.
amazing
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
weekly scorpio
You’ve really been through it, and there are very few words that could adequately describe the inner alchemy that has taken place. It’s been intense, and severe, and at certain moments, unbearable, but you’ve stayed with your emotions and as a result you’re about to realize that you’ve rounded a major corner and you’re on your way back to the lighter, happier parts of your Self. The Full Moon at the top of your chart on Friday lights up what was not so easily recognizable before, which is that your depth, your passion, and your intense emotional nature is a running river of life, and it nurtures and nourishes you, when you allow it to, far beyond the kind of sustenance most people have access to. The white water is behind you.
You can take it easier and let yourself coast for a while.
You can take it easier and let yourself coast for a while.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Luis Humberto
Luis Humberto Soriano is a 38 years old primary school teacher who lives in La Gloria, a small town in northeastern Colombia. From Monday to Friday, Soriano teaches in the rural school of La Gloria. But on weekends he loads his two donkeys, Alfa and Beto, with mathematics, history, geography and grammar books and heads out for the countryside. There he gives lessons to the kids living on the farms scattered on the hills surrounding La Gloria, who do not have the chance to go to normal school because of long distance and poor economic conditions. This is the Biblioburro, the travelling school. After 10 years this has become an extarordinary institution in this part of Colombia.
Luigi Baldelli, photographer
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Bob Marley- Africa Unite (live)
Africa unite:
'Cause we're moving right out of Babylon,
And we're going to our Father's land,
Owl Nebula
The “eyes” of the Owl Nebula
The Owl Nebula (M97), an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen gas, helium and other ionized gases formed roughly 6,000 years ago in the constellation Ursa Major, is regarded as one of the more complex of the planetaries. The object gets it name due to the appearance of owl-like “eyes” when view through a large telescope under dark sky conditions with the aid of a so-called “nebula filter.” The “eyes” are also easily visible through photographs taken of the nebula.
Monday, February 7, 2011
weekly scorpio
Do you realize how incredibly strong and indelible you are? No, really. Have the events of recent months gotten you to refocus on yourself enough to reclaim your greatness and begin the inner transformation that is yours to undertake at this time? One by one the planets that preside over your mind, body and spirit have connected with your ruler, Pluto, to facilitate a transformation so powerful you may not have known what hit you. But now, as Venus makes this same connection and completes the realignment at the heart level, it should become crystal clear that all the upheaval has been for your well-being. You may have already noticed the quality of honesty and truth that is expressed every time you open your mouth these days.
Chiron enters your creative sector and a long, powerful realignment of your emotional and spiritual resources begins.
Chiron enters your creative sector and a long, powerful realignment of your emotional and spiritual resources begins.
Friday, February 4, 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Bikini Kill in the U.K. 1993
Bikini Kill in the U.K. 1993 from Lucy Thane on Vimeo.
A Video about the 1993 tour of the U.K. by Riot Grrl bands Bikini Kill and Huggy Bear.
Also contains contributions by the Raincoats, Sister George, and Skinned Teen, interviews with all bands and many girls at shows.
Made by Lucy Thane
Amiri Baraka
Incident
Amiri Baraka
He came back and shot. He shot him. When he came
back, he shot, and he fell, stumbling, past the
shadow wood, down, shot, dying, dead, to full halt.
At the bottom, bleeding, shot dead. He died then, there
after the fall, the speeding bullet, tore his face
and blood sprayed fine over the killer and the grey light.
Pictures of the dead man, are everywhere. And his spirit
sucks up the light. But he died in darkness darker than
his soul and everything tumbled blindly with him dying
down the stairs.
We have no word
on the killer, except he came back, from somewhere
to do what he did. And shot only once into his victim’s
stare, and left him quickly when the blood ran out. We know
the killer was skillful, quick and silent, and that the victim
probably knew him. Other than that, aside from the caked sourness
of the dead man’s expression, and the cool surprise in the fixture
of his hands and fingers, we know nothing.
Amiri Baraka
He came back and shot. He shot him. When he came
back, he shot, and he fell, stumbling, past the
shadow wood, down, shot, dying, dead, to full halt.
At the bottom, bleeding, shot dead. He died then, there
after the fall, the speeding bullet, tore his face
and blood sprayed fine over the killer and the grey light.
Pictures of the dead man, are everywhere. And his spirit
sucks up the light. But he died in darkness darker than
his soul and everything tumbled blindly with him dying
down the stairs.
We have no word
on the killer, except he came back, from somewhere
to do what he did. And shot only once into his victim’s
stare, and left him quickly when the blood ran out. We know
the killer was skillful, quick and silent, and that the victim
probably knew him. Other than that, aside from the caked sourness
of the dead man’s expression, and the cool surprise in the fixture
of his hands and fingers, we know nothing.
Haruki Murakami
By living our lives, we nuture death. True as this might be, it was only one of the truths we had to learn. What I learnred from Naoko’s death was this: no truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness, can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see that sadness through the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sadness that comes to us without warning.”
— Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
— Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
Anaïs Nin
You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.”
— Anaïs Nin
— Anaïs Nin
Moon and Venus
Moon and Venus Over Switzerland by David Kaplan
Sometimes a morning sky can be a combination of serene and surreal. Such a sky perhaps existed before sunrise this past Sunday as viewed from a snowy slope in eastern Switzerland. Quiet clouds blanket the above scene, lit from beneath by lights from the village of Trübbach. A snow covered mountain, Mittlerspitz, poses dramatically on the upper left, hovering over the small town of Balzers, Liechtenstein far below. Peaks from the Alps can be seen across the far right, just below the freshly rising Sun. Visible on the upper right are the crescent Moon and the bright planet Venus. Venus will remain in the morning sky all month, although it will likely not be found in such a photogenic setting.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
The Rotunda in West Philadelphia
Leeway presents a diverse group of performances by a selection of grantees, featuring hip-hop, funk, classical fusion and neo-punk musicians including Camae Dennis (ACG ’07) of GDAG, earth-fx (ACG ’07), Ethel Cee (ACG ’10), Selena Carrera (ACG ’09) of GDAG and Qian Li (ACG ’10) hosted by Shayna "Sheness" Israel (ACG '08).
This one-of-a-kind lineup performs on Thursday February 3, 2011 from 7:00-9:00pm at The Rotunda in West Philadelphia. Tickets are free, but registration is required. Please RSVP by going to the registration page at www.leeway.org or by calling 215.545.4078.
This one-of-a-kind lineup performs on Thursday February 3, 2011 from 7:00-9:00pm at The Rotunda in West Philadelphia. Tickets are free, but registration is required. Please RSVP by going to the registration page at www.leeway.org or by calling 215.545.4078.
weekly scorpio
Life is all about energy. What you put out does come back. Karma is a real deal, it is simply the law of cause and effect. Lately you may have been wondering about such things because a great deal more may have been going out lately than has been coming back. There is no way to measure the benefits of recent energetic efforts yet Scorpio. Saturn the planet linked with hard work leading to the harvest is stopping in the sky on Wednesday, January 26 and moving retrograde in your house of culmination. You have yet to see the results of something you have labored long and hard for and the true dividends for your efforts may not materialize until summer. You will be receiving some validating feedback this week, and you will experience a step up from that the following week, reminding you that the struggle was all worth it.
What you put out does come back, and its comin’ Scorpio, it is comin’!
What you put out does come back, and its comin’ Scorpio, it is comin’!
Saturday, January 22, 2011
weekly scorpio
It’s been a couple of months of deep inner soul searching, getting at the core of your issues, much of it all by yourself. There’s nothing more scary than going into the dark alone, but after all, it’s what you do best. You can say you really dislike it, and that you prefer to be with a companion on a mission like this, but it isn’t possible to face the darkness when someone else’s light is changing the way the darkness appears. You’re here for a reason. Mercury completes his retrograde journey this week in the same conjunction with Pluto that began the whole thing. You have come full circle. Now all you have to do is admit it to yourself.
The light you’re seeking is within you, and if you don’t recognize it all the searching in the world will turn up nothing
The light you’re seeking is within you, and if you don’t recognize it all the searching in the world will turn up nothing
Indian town of Karchana
Friday, January 21, 2011
John Coltrane :: Alabama :: Jazz Casual
The John Coltrane Quartet (John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones) en 1963, el el programa de televisión Jazz Casual, interpretando Alabama.
i found my smoky quartz
right in front of my face...
too busy not looking.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
Koko Taylor & Willie Dixon - Insane Asylum
IM SRY BUT YOU CAN'T GET ANY HARDER THAN THIS.. IM SURE OF IT.
TALK - oh yeah, oh yeah
everything, everthing, everything gone be alright, oh yeah
COME IN W/RIFF
When I was a little girl Only twelve years old
Couldn't do nothing
to save my dog gone soul
My mama told me.
the day I was grown
She says "Sing the blues child, Sing it from now on".
I'm a woman,
oh yeah
I'm a woman, I'm a ball of fire
I'm a woman, I can make love to a crocodile
I'm a woman, I can sing the blues
I'm a woman, I can change old to new
Spell w o man,
Oh yeah
That means I'm grown
I'm a woman, I'm a rushing wind
I'm a woman, I can cut stone with a pin
I'm a woman, I'm a love maker
I'm a woman, you know I'm an earth shaker
SHOWS SHOWS AND MORE SHOWS
JAN 22ND. KUNG FU NECKTIE
JAN 26TH. ROCKERS! AT TRITONE
FEB 3RD THE ROTUNDA
FEB 5TH THE SHRINE IN HARLEM
FEB 19TH THE BODY ROCK GYM IN WEST PHILLY
FEB 23RD ROCKERS! AT TRITONE
COME SEE ME!!!!
GIRLS DRESSES AS GIRLS
THE MIGHTY PARADOCS
JAN 26TH. ROCKERS! AT TRITONE
FEB 3RD THE ROTUNDA
FEB 5TH THE SHRINE IN HARLEM
FEB 19TH THE BODY ROCK GYM IN WEST PHILLY
FEB 23RD ROCKERS! AT TRITONE
COME SEE ME!!!!
GIRLS DRESSES AS GIRLS
THE MIGHTY PARADOCS
Labels:
girls dressed as girls,
shows,
The Mighty Paradocs
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Philippines
Entry Description: Thimble jellyfish, Linuche unguiculata, My Paradise Reef, Cabilao Island, Bohol, Central Visayas, Philippines, Pacific Ocean
About the Artist:
Franco began to dive in the 1981, in the Lake of Lugano. At the beginning, he dived the fresh waters nearest home, especially lakes and rivers, where the water is clearer and he was able to improve his photographic technique. Then he travelled everywhere he could, documenting wildlife and human relationship with nature in environments from the Equator to the Poles. He is an award-winning photographer (World Champion in underwater photography in Cuba, 1992) and he regularly takes part at international photo-competitions as BBC Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year, the Travel Photographer of the Year, Glanzlichter Project Natur & fotografie, etc. He received top honours from the photo-competitions Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Nature’s Best, BBC Photo Competition, to name the most famous He is honoured to be appreciated at the Canon’s webpage: Canon Professional Network, Behind the lens. He is the co-author and photographer of three books about the sea: Papua New Guinea coffee table book (1996), Papua New Guinea dive-guide (1996), Underwater Planet book (2008). His image library includes a large array of images taken in different underwater ecosystems and extreme contrast environments from tropical coral reefs to diving beneath Arctic and Antarctic ice. These images had appeared in many books, advertisements, filmstrips, greeting cards, posters, calendars and other vehicles
impact of opium
AK Kimoto had immense talent but his humble nature prevented him from trumpeting his insights. He spent considerable time in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, documenting the impact of opium production and addiction. In this way he photographed parents administering opium smoke into their children’s noses to dull the pangs of hunger. JW Delano
Alessandro Gandolfi
Thursday, January 13, 2011
weekly scorpio
You experienced something of an explosion in your life prior to the two eclipses that just took place, and though you didn’t know it at the time, that event sent you on an inner journey to the brand new center of you. You were caught off guard, which is never easy, and then the wormhole delivered you to a place you never expected to go, even though just where that is may not be obvious to you yet. No matter what, you’ve been profoundly focused on your own well being and that’s never a bad thing. The Truth is, while you weren’t looking ‘out there’ you were restored to that place in your heart where you can access your most significant feelings. You know what you want and how you feel as you never have before.
Friday, January 7, 2011
From the series: Antartica
From the series: Antartica …And that is what tells us the brilliant blue of the iceberg, the sea under the black sky full of clouds, the incessant wind which stirs a tear from a corner of your eyes, the cliffs of volcanic rock that emerge from the water with violence, the reflecting white of a boundless glacier. The great white continent explains what life could be without us, the land before it knew man.
Fabiano Busdraghi, photographer
Monday, January 3, 2011
hole - Clouds
Rows and flows of angel hair
and ice cream castles in the air
and feather canyons everywhere
I've looked at clouds that way
Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels
the dizzy dancing way you feel
as every fairy tale comes real
Ive looked at clouds that way
weekly scorpio
The major relationship upheaval of a couple of weeks ago has disrupted your life in ways you never expected, but you have to admit it’s turning out to be pretty fortunate after all. That total lunar eclipse to your partnership sector may have seemed to change everything, but in truth the shift is only just beginning. Tuesday’s solar eclipse occurs in your communication sector, and is ruled by Saturn, currently transiting your house of hidden agendas. It’s time to start talking, sharing whatever comes up without filter. Sure, it’s not your style, but then that wasn’t exactly getting you where you wanted to go was it? You’re going to be amazed at what one well placed word can do for you. The Jupiter Uranus conjunction marks a major revelation where creative possibilities are concerned. Run with whatever occurs to you.
You’re in charge now.
You’re in charge now.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
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