Etude for Barney

My niece played this piece at her Senior Recital.  I'll post her version (it's better) when I get an mp3 of it.

I love modern classical music.

golden gate bridge

My dad gave me a roll of 35mm film when I was 11.  I think it was a Vivitar camera. Here's one of my shots.  I guess I was into "art" photography even then.

Macaulay Library - bird, animal video & sound

The Macaulay Library archive at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

All archived analog recordings in the collection, going back to 1929, have now been digitized and can be heard at www.MacaulayLibrary.org. 



For more fun, follow their Facebook feed.  Bird call games.  News.

Pondering the unknown.

I'm sorry.  You need at least one more angle defined before you can calculate the area.

Pondering the unknown is its own reward, so keep at it anyway.

(Kliban was the "cats" cartoonist.  Example below.  I was not intrigued by his "cats" cartoons when I was growing up but I love all his other stuff.)

Send His Love To Me - PJ Harvey 1995

Opus is back. Bloom County 2015.

I expected more media coverage.

Opus woke up, after a 25 year sleep.

You can follow him on Facebook:

Posted by Berkeley Breathed on Monday, July 13, 2015

Chiara Bautista

from:  http://www.urban-muse.com/blog/Chiara-Bautista-Milk-Feature/

caffè espresso spaziale

Swimmers and Diver, Scindia Ghat by Raghubir Singh

From Freer Sackler Gallery
Swimmers and Diver, Scindia Ghat
Raghubir Singh (1942–1999)
Varanasi, India
1985
Chromogenic print on Kodak Ektacolor paper
Gift of the Artist, S1993.39.8

Can you be replaced by a robot?

From
http://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/health/watson-jobs/

Researchers examined how susceptible jobs are to computerization using nine variables that affect automation. Each variable ranges from 0 to 100. With the exception of the "cramped work space" variable, a higher number means a lower likelihood of computerization.

PERCEPTION AND MANIPULATION

• Finger dexterity: Using fine motor skills to grasp, manipulate or assemble very small objects.
• Manual dexterity: Using gross motor skills (e.g., moving your hand or arm) to grasp, manipulate or assemble objects.
• Cramped work space: How often does this job require working in awkward positions?

CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE

• Originality: Developing creative ideas or solutions about a given topic, situation or problem.
• Fine arts: Knowledge of theory and techniques required to create works of music, dance, visual arts, drama or sculpture.

SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE

• Social perceptiveness: Being aware of and understanding others’ reactions.
• Negotiation: Bringing others together and reconciling differences.
• Persuasion: Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
• Assisting and caring for others: Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support or other personal care to others.

a limitless heart

As a mother would risk her life
to protect her child, her only child,
even so should one cultivate a limitless heart
with regard to all beings.

Sutta Nipāta 1.149





Pietà

A man who dances.

Got this link from one of my favorite dancers.  Thanks, Saundra!

http://thenaiveidealist.com/2015/01/20/date-a-man-who-dances/

Date a man who dances because a man who dances is one of the strongest men alive. A man who dances has faced his peers and told them “Begone, give me room to move.” He is no ordinary man, when you date a man who dances that strength lies by your side. Within easy reach is a man who has convictions and isn’t afraid to live by them, When you date a man who dances you can trust he is standing behind his conviction that you are a person worth dating and he won’t back down. A man who dances may have strength in his arms but his real strength lies in his mind and his passions and a man who dances has the strength to use them.

When you date a man who dances under his strength he owns a softer side. He understands the language of touch and he is strong enough to listen. A man who dances knows how to hold you. He can feel your every thought.   continued

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I've had a couple of lessons but I think I'm like that.  :)

Baltika > bud light

Russia wins this point. Baltika is real beer.

the crane's bill

The world? Moonlit
Drops shaken
From the crane’s bill.
- Dogen (1200–1253)

Saving your child through poems

NYTimes Style: Bringing a Daughter Back From the Brink With Poems

"What I wanted her to know is: People have been in pain before, struggled to find hope, and look what they’ve done with it. They made poetry that landed right in your shoe..."

Gran Torso Arditti String Quartet

Gran Torso Arditti String Quartet Helmut Lachenmann Arditti Quartet I love this. When we pay attention, we apply structure and meaning to it. Like surfers waiting for the good wave.

The Sweptaways, a Swedish group, sing "Oh My Darling, Clementine"

Left shark did it on purpose

Of course Left Shark was lagging on purpose.  Couldn't you tell?

"Dancing In The Dark"

In Wiry Winter - James Schuyler (1970)

IN WIRY WINTER 

The shadow of a bird

upon the yard upon

a house: it's gone.

Through a pane a

beam like a warm hand

laid upon an arm.

A thin shell, trans-

parent, blue: the

atmosphere in which

to swim. Burr. A

cold plunge. The bird

is back. All the same,

to swim, plunging

upward, arms as wings,

into calm cold. Warm

within the act,

treading air, a

shadow on the yard.

Or floating, gliding.

a shadow on the roofs

and drives, in action

warm, the shadow cold

but brief. To swim

in air. No. Not in

this wiry winter air.

A beam comes in the

glass, a hand to

warm an arm. A hand

upon the glass

finds it a kind

of ice. The shadow

of a bird less cold.

       - James Schuyler (1970)

James McNeill Whistler: Swan and Iris

Artist:

James McNeill Whistler, 1834-1903

Medium:

Etching on paper

Type:

Print

From Smithsonian photos of Freer Sackler Gallery

Sleeping in the clouds is cold

I explored the grounds with monks this evening, 
And now the night has passed. 
Heavy silence rises all around us
While late moonlight spills through the forest. 
The mountain rises almost to heaven. 
Sleeping in the clouds is cold. 
A single stroke of the early prayer-bell wake me. 
Does it also waken my soul?

 - Tu Fu (712-770)