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Archive for the ‘2b. Individuality Revalued and the Arts Celebrated’ Category
Dance to inspire, inspire to dance
March 8, 2009Takako Asahina, Pianist
February 6, 2009http://cdbaby.com/cd/takako is where you can order
Takako Asahina’s great DVD, “My New York Sound”. The DVD was shot live in Japan, This Youtube video is just a short sample from the actual HQ DVD.
Visit http://www.takakopiano.com for more info!
Internationally accomplished concert pianist Takako Asahina’s extensive career includes performances in the United States, France, Germany, and all over Japan. (Including being a two-time gust soloist with the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra at the Osaka Symphony Hall) Takako plays in both the Jazz and Classical styles. She is know by for her versatile style of performance and her original Jazzy-Classical hybrid sound.
Takako Asahina’s recordings include Piano of Healing, La Defense au Clair de Lune, and her new DVD release, My New York Sound.
You can buy the full DVD at http://cdbaby.com/cd/takako
Alex Grey – Visionary Artist and the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors
February 5, 2009Visionary artist Alex Grey discusses his purpose and intention behind the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors gallery.
Guide Me God – by PureMotherLove
January 28, 2009Free yourself from the cage that creates separation from your inner wisdom. The binds are broken and you are free to fly with the wind.
This piece is a prayer in gratitude to the mountains, winds, earth and sky who guide us to our Higher Selves.
from PureMotherLove
Nudes in Art, compilation slideshow
January 8, 2009
Nudes in Art:
Bellini
Francesco Hayez
Tizian
Jean Honoré Fragonard
Félix Vallotton
Salvador Dali
René Magritte
Amedeo Modigliani
Rembrandt van Rijn
Tamara de Lempicka
Gustave Courbet
Guercino
Peter Paul Rubens
Edgar Degas
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Edouard Manet
Edvard Munch
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Vincent van Gogh
Gustave Courbet
Botero
Diego Velázquez
August Macke
Paul Delvaux
Diego Rivera
Joan Miró
Jacopo Tintoretto
Francisco de Goya
Jean Antoine Watteau
Boticello
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Paul Gauguin
Guido Cagnacci
Bazille
Otto Griebel
Franz von Stuck
Jacopo Zucchi
Bartholomeus Spranger
Raphael
Man Ray
The Beauty of Being Nude
January 8, 2009Consider this video both a love letter to the Human form, and an open letter to any and all either interested in the nude in art, or are confused by it, or have trouble telling what is art and what is porn, or simply want to explore what goes on between model and artist in the creation of artistic studies of the naked human body.
Thank you to all who helped me make this video, It simply would not have been possible without you.
Thank you to all the artists who either offered their work directly, or allowed it’s use through the Creative Commons copyright license, Your generosity is greatly appreciated. 
To read all the letters I was sent during my research on nude modeling, please visit the following link;
http://bluntmation.com/content/?page_…
Personal information in these stories has been removed to protect the privacy of the submitters.
Bill Hicks: What is the point to Life
December 31, 2008
Poem – Jorge
December 24, 2008That’s Jorge
Humility
is when someone older
can bend their knees easier than you
and washes your floors with love;
is when he then says,
“You always care for me.”
But he brings presents for my parents
without ever having met them.
and he says, “Put a card inside,
in English, and say, ‘From Jorge.
Although I don’t know you,
I know you through your daughter.”
“I hope your father will like the little sculpture,
although they are dead people,
playing piano and the corpse singing.”
And the nativity scene.
“Is your mother Catholic?” he asked.
No, but she thinks of God on Christmas,”
I said, hoping it was true.
“So this nativity scene, she’ll like it.”
And inside was a Joseph and a Mary, and a little baby.
And behind, with the smallest of wings,
in the background.
A little angel.
That’s Jorge.
by JGrace
