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17 Dec Donald Richie on Reading Noh Drama

Posted at 06:47h in art, japan, literature 0 Comments

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

Posted at 12:40h in art, inspiring, sri chinmoy 4 Comments

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...

16 May Just a Bubble…

Posted at 07:24h in art, beauty, inspiring 5 Comments

Just a bubble. Floating out of a Norwegian fjord with the sunlight reflecting in it. Nothing unusual there...

14 May Happiness Machine

Posted at 08:17h in art, beauty, inspiring 4 Comments

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...

05 Mar Football Zen

Posted at 04:09h in art, beauty, life, meditation, sport 3 Comments

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...

09 Sep The Most Shocking Ending in All Literature

Posted at 22:54h in art, beauty, japan, life, literature, poetry, writing 12 Comments

“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...

25 Jul Mono no aware: Beauty in Japan

Posted at 23:13h in art, beauty, japan, life, sri chinmoy 13 Comments

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...