Cliff Briggie (USA)
Cliff Briggie makes gorgeous and colorful macro shots by opening heart and mind to their naturally wakeful state - a vivid, raw, intimate experience - like licking honey from a razor blade and not backing away. Choice of subject is guided by what Brad Wise calls the hidden energies within ordinary objects. This has helped Cliff to take himself less seriously, accept that everything changes and eventually ends, and realize that extraordinary and ordinary both manifest from the same essential energy.
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Steve Coleman Workshop @SEEDS June 25, 2013
Recorded at SEEDS::Brooklyn Co-produced with the Jazz Gallery
“Le Voyage dans la lune” 1902
We Say We Like Creativity, but We Really Dont
In the United States we are raised to appreciate the accomplishments of inventors and thinkerscreative people whose ideas have transformed our world. We celebrate the famously imaginative, the greatest artists and innovators from Van Gogh to Steve Jobs. Viewing the world creatively is supposed to be an asset, even a…
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Carl Sagan, says one of his colleagues at Cornell, “is very often right and always interesting. That is in contrast to most academics, who are always right and not very interesting. ” In his books or off the cuff, on the lecture platform or sitting across from Johnny Carson, Sagan has a distinctive gift for expressing scientific notions vividly and with infectious enthusiasm.
October 19, 1980: The cover of TIME crowns Carl Sagan the “showman of science.” And for good reason – he had a singular way of enchanting people with the cosmos, knew how to capture the essence of science and its transcendent, spiritual quality, and he even received fan mail from Isaac Asimov.
If Time magazine covers actually did that, I would buy every single one.
The Barley Pub: New Hampshire's Jazz Epicenter
The Barley Pub: New Hampshire’s Jazz Epicenter jazz article by Chris Rich, published on March 7, 2013 at All About Jazz. Find more Gnome Notes articles
To be a working musician
Sam Francis, Untitled, 1958
Toro Y Moi "Rose Quartz"
“Rose Quartz” is the fourth single off Toro Y Moi’s third full-length, “Anything In Return”. BEST VIEWED AT 1080p Concept, direction, and painting by Lauren …
The Shaggs ~ Philosophy of the World (full album 1969)
~TRACKLISTING 1. Philosophy of the World 2. That Little Sports Car 3. Who Are Parents? 4. My Pal Foot Foot 5. My Companion 6. I’m So Happy When You’re Near 7…
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Ekaterina Koroleva | on Tumblr - Gemini (2012)
Ekaterina Koroleva | on Tumblr (Germany)
Ekaterina Koroleva is an Illustrator / graphic designer living and working in Berlin. She combines inks, watercolors and solid silouhette shapes to create sophisticated illustrations, featuring mostly feminine portraitures. Our sincere thanks to artforadults for this beautiful discovery, please visit artist’s website or follow her Tumblr for more work.
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June 4, 1989: China’s Army Storms Tiananmen Square
On this day in 1989, hundreds of pro-democracy protesters were killed by army troops in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.
During the spring of 1989, China’s communist regime was threatened by the largest pro-democracy demonstration in the country’s history. After several weeks of failed negotiations to end the protest, the Chinese government authorized nearly 300,000 soldiers from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to seize control of Tiananmen Square. As a result, hundreds of protesters were killed and thousands arrested. Explore FRONTLINE’s timeline of the protests and massacre at Tiananmen Square.
The most famous photograph from the standoff at Tiananmen Square is seen above. The protester known as “Tank Man” became an inspiration for protesters around the world. FRONTLINE’s “Tank Man” reflects on what he means for China today.
Source: BEIJING - JUNE 5, 1989: A lone demonstrator stands down a column of tanks June 5, 1989 at the entrance to Tiananmen Square in Beijing. (Photo by CNN via Getty Images)
Open Road, 1971