Götterdämmerung (1/19) - Wagner, "Ring",

Happy Halloween!

 

 





witch's broom

heksekost (kvistpur)

Schrodinger's Cat: A Thought Experiment

Schrodinger's cat
cat is a thought experiment, usually described as a paradox, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935. It illustrates what he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics applied to everyday objects

Trey Radcliff's Photography

Astonighingly beautiful HD photography.

High dynamic range (HDR) photography lets you capture the myriad colors and levels of light that you can see in the real world, and the results are amazing photographs that run the gamut from super real to surreal.

Explore this fantastic realm of photography through the unique vision of renowned travel photographer Trey Ratcliff.  The breathtaking images gracing these pages a marvelous collection of HDR photographs.



Eye of the beast
by Trey Radcliff


Visit His blog Here and his book Here.

Conk

One of my favorites, Mr. Hanson, has been at it again in a curiously conventional manner.

In his When Cynicism Meets Fanaticism, he chooses to frame the question confronting us in the following terms:

Can Western enlightenment and power, embedded in deep cynicism, still prevail over ignorance and self-inflicted pathology energized by fanaticism?

This, of course, is the continuation of the gentleman’s more recent dalliance with what he so inappropriately—or fittingly, take your pick—calls Hard Pounding in an earlier piece:

Whose vision of the future wins depends on who keeps his nerve — or to paraphrase the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo, “Hard pounding, gentlemen; but we will see who can pound the longest.”

We are, as humans, all (hopefully) thinking embodied beings. Our body situates us in the world we inhabit. “It” has certain visceral reactions that are hard to comprehend and yet unavoidable. Like allergies, for instance, that in extreme cases kills when kissing someone who has had peanuts long before that regrettable moment.

Now as living organisms we all have certain “energy” that keeps us going in life. But the way we think or perceive of the world will affect that energy. Human mind is a bit of a marvel when you think about it. We daily hear of those dying as a result of over taxing some body part or other. But do any of us ever end up dead “overworking” our brains?

 

Throw Yourself like Seed

"Throw Yourself Like Seed”

Shake off this sadness, and recover your spirit;
Sluggish you will never see the wheel of fate
That brushes your heel as it turns going by,

Now you are only giving food to that final pain
Which is slowly winding you in the nets of death,

The man who wants to live is the man in whom life is abundant.

But to live is to work, and the only thing which lasts
Is the work; start there, turn to the work.

Don’t turn your face for that would be to turn it to death,
And do not let the past weigh down your motion.Leave what’s alive in the furrow, what’s dead in yourself,

For life does not move in the same way as a group of clouds;
From your work you will be able one day to gather yourself.

Throw yourself like seed as you walk, and into your own field,

Miguel de Unamuno

Random Acts of Kindness

November is a month of remembrance and a month of kindness.   Take a moment to celebrate world kindness day on November 13.   Quietly and mindfully give back of 'yourself' or your 'resources'.

Wherever there is a human being,  there is an opportunity for a kindness. ~~Seneca

 Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle .~~Plato

World kindness Day

On Forgiveness

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
~Mahatma Gandhi

"There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love."
~Bryant H. McGill~

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Waiting for God!

Superb, Revolutionary, informative and hauntingly beautiful photography by Claire Martin is uniquely provoctive in depcting the shocking and abject poverty in so-called civilized societies.

The humanity shines through the desperate circumstances. I appalude her for showing the horrors with such skill and compassion.

Claire Martin Photography

Spiral Dynamics and Science of Memetics

The Theory that explains everything:

Spiral Dynamics reveals the hidden codes that shape human nature, create global diversities, and drive evolutionary change. These magnetic forces attract and repel individuals, form the webs that connect people within organizations, and forge the rise and fall of nations and cultures. This book tracks our historic emergence from clans to tribes to networks and holograms; identifies seven Variations on Change, and adds power and precision to the design of human systems and 21st century leadership.

Spiral Dynamics is an extension and elaboration of the biopsychosocial systems concept of the late Clare W. Graves; work that Canada's Maclean's Magazine called 'The Theory that Explains Everything'. The authors mesh UK biologist Richard Dawkins' concept of 'memes' with Gravesian 'value systems' in crafting a timely transformational change formula and process. Their concept of MEMES represents the first major statement of the new 'Science of Memetics.'

Read more about this fascinating socio-bio-psychological theory, here.

Prague

When unhappily married Christoffer and Maja travel to Prague to retrieve the remains of Christoffer's recently deceased father, their misadventures expose both a cultural gap and the cracks in their own relationship in this Danish drama. From doctors who sprint through the morgue to hotel workers who misunderstand simple requests, the bickering couple finds that every interaction in this foreign land leads to confusion and conflict.

See it. Don't wait.

Molawna

All through eternity

All through eternity
Beauty unveils His exquisite form
in the solitude of nothingness;
He holds a mirror to His Face
and beholds His own beauty.
he is the knower and the known,
the seer and the seen;
No eye but His own
has ever looked upon this Universe.


His every quality finds an expression:
Eternity becomes the verdant field of Time and Space;
Love, the life-giving garden of this world.
Every branch and leaf and fruit
Reveals an aspect of His perfection-
They cypress give hint of His majesty,
The rose gives tidings of His beauty.


Whenever Beauty looks,
Love is also there;
Whenever beauty shows a rosy cheek
Love lights Her fire from that flame.
When beauty dwells in the dark folds of night
Love comes and finds a heart
entangled in tresses.
Beauty and Love are as body and soul.
Beauty is the mine, Love is the diamond.


They have together
since the beginning of time-
Side by side, step by step.


Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

The Elegant Skull and the arrival of The Day of the Dead

La Calavera Catrina

La Calavera Catrina ('The Elegant Skull') is a 1913 zinc etching by Mexican printmaker José Guadalupe Posada. The image has since become a staple of Mexican imagery, and often is incorporated into artistic manifestations of the Day of the Dead in November, such as altars and calavera costumes. The etching was part of his series of calaveras, which were humorous images of contemporary figures depicted as skeletons, which often were accompanied by a poem.
The word catrina is the feminine form of the word catrín, which means "elegant". The figure, depicted in an ornate hat fashionable at the time, is intended to show that the rich and fashionable, despite their pretensions to importance, are just as susceptible to death as anyone else.
La Catrina, as it is commonly known, was a popular print in Posada's day, but soon faded from the popular memory. Along with the rest of Posada's prints, it was revived by French artist and art historian Jean Charlot shortly after the Mexican Revolution in the 1920s. La Catrina soon gained iconic status as a symbol of uniquely Mexican art and was reproduced en masse.

The image was incorporated into Diego Rivera's mural Dream of a Sunday in Alameda Park, which also includes images of his wife Frida Kahlo, Posada, and a self-portrait of Rivera. In addition to its use as a holiday symbol for the Day of the Dead, the image also has been reinterpreted in numerous forms, including sculpture.

Hunter

The film made by Rafi Pitts, a German-Iranian prominent director, was candidate for "Gold Bear" of Berlin International Film Festival in 2009.
The event opened on October 21 closes on November 3.
"Hunter" has got its idea from one of books of Bozorg Alavi (a Persian influential writer, novelist, and political intellectual).
"It Is Winter", "Sanam" and "The Fifth Season" are among other movies of Pittes.

Parsi begoo

http://www.iranian.be/start/Parsi-Begoo.pdf

http://www.iranian.be/start/Parsi-Begoo.pdf