17 Dec Donald Richie on Reading Noh Drama
Each note, each word must be savored, weighed, calculated, and then put again into context; the context and never the word alone creating the image...
22 Jun Tribute to Pranavanta
Australian Sri Chinmoy Centre member and painter Pranavanta John Montefiore passed away recently. Art critic, university lecturer, illustrator and exhibited seven times, Pranavanta was also an author 30 years in the making—his magnum opus on painting The Making of Paintings published in 2007. Like spirituality...
16 May Just a Bubble…
Just a bubble. Floating out of a Norwegian fjord with the sunlight reflecting in it. Nothing unusual there...
14 May Happiness Machine
http://vimeo.com/23155536 Applause and awe-struck, gob-smacked smiles go to Barcelona based motion-graphics and visual effects studio Physalia, who created quite possibly the happiest entry in this year’s “Happy”-themed F5 Re:Play Film Festival—Inductance. One giant magnet and hundreds of colourful capacitor-filled plastic balls later, and you can't help...
05 Mar Football Zen
Football and the art of meditation, a photo sublime on more levels than playing fields, by sublime photographer Pavitrata Taylor. If you see art, try to see the Artist inside it. You will do this only by taking them as one. When you see art, you...
09 Sep The Most Shocking Ending in All Literature
“How oddly situated a man is apt to find himself at the age of thirty-eight! His youth belongs to the distant past. Yet the period of memory beginning with the end of youth and extending to the present has left him not a single vivid...
25 Jul Mono no aware: Beauty in Japan
Meaning literally “a sensitivity to things,” mono no aware is a concept coined by Japanese literary and linguistic scholar Motoori Norinaga in the eighteenth century to describe the essence of Japanese culture, and it remains the central artistic imperative in Japan to this day. The...
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