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- See: Images :: note :: ... days before leaving for Australia a look over the river ... the sky opens to her dreams ... wish you wellness & love ...

What is released in the curl of decay is the vein through which we feel a gentleness of archaic wisdom flowing into the earth. And pebbles surround it there watching breathlessly the shrivelling in on ourselves as wrinkles of torn time. - See: Poetry :: note :: ... thanks to Chris @ Parking Lot for his What is held ... a master at cultivating open spaces ... inspiring the release of inner spaces & creating expansive expression ...

""With Oriana Fallaci, we lose a journalist of global fame, an author of great success, a passionate protagonist of lively cultural battles,' declared Italian President Giorgio Napolitano on Friday." ( cbc.ca | Provocative Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci dies ) - See: Memorium :: note :: ... had always admired her passion ... her book Letter to An Unborn Child was an unforgettable read ... labelled a prophet of decline she never shied from controversy and lived in courage ... yes "May her memory be eternal" ...

"Time passes; it could be a few days or a millennium. Someone digs them up and holds their skull in hand and wonders: what was the dig like then? There is nothing wrong with the newer future. Those who make it work for them will be powerful and rich. But that older future seems to have more room in it for those quiet, dry-eyed men. And I know I want, someday, to join their group as it stands frowning around a steaming car engine, each trying to figure out what went wrong." ( FTrain.com | Men standing around broken machines ) - See: Artists :: note :: ... the long now ... Paul Ford was one of the first i read in posted writings ... there is a charm, eloquence & wry humour ... & a depth of human spirit ... we need that in all times ...

... dipping into the blue vexing learning ... seeking , attempting, failing, reflecting, succeeding, practice ... do i have the courage to unlearn to teach ... & without love what do you have ...

"By dividing the interpretation of an art work into several distinct "levels" it becomes possible to recognize a fundamental distinction between digital and non-digital art works, as well as realize the underlying ideology is based upon the illusion of infinite resources; as such it replicates the underlying ideology of capitalism itself -- that there is an infinite amount of wealth that can be extracted from a finite resource. It is an illusion that emerges in fantasies that digital technology ends scarcity by aspiring to the condition of information. The digital presents the illusion of a self-productive domain, infinite, capable of creating value without expenditure, unlike the reality of limited resources, time, expense, etc. that otherwise govern all forms of value and production." "Digital forms also exhibit what could be called the "aura of information" -- the separation of the meaning present in a work from the physical representation of that ...

"The eye of the artist concentrates on his pencil, the pencil moves - and the line dreams." ( apparently spoken by Paul Klee found in the pre-text of David Zinder's Body Voice Imagination: A Training for the Actor ) - See: Education :: note :: ... oh the delicate balance of work & play, control & release, freedom & discipline, trust & trust ... i have so much to learn while making so many mistakes ... am grateful my students & colleagues are so forgiving ...

"If I remember the sunflower forest it is because from its hidden reaches man arose. The green world is his sacred center. In moments of sanity he must still seek refuge there." - Loren Eiseley ( the sunflower forest ) - See: Artists :: note :: ... seeking refuge & sanity standing on the bank of the Saskatchewan seeing over the river at twilight ...

"informal learning is: * deep and pervasive (representing over 80% of learning that occurs in organisations) * uncontrolled (most is through colleagues and self discovery - without the training department in sight) * powerful (this is the driving force of the real learning culture of the organisation, influence this and you will radically change the way your organisation learns)" ( mousemusings | informal learning ) - See: Education :: note :: ... thanks to my students & colleagues ...

"Along time ago in China there were cities with high walls surrounding them, with huge, magnificent gates. The gates weren't just doors for letting people in or out but had greater significance. People believed the city's soul resided in the gates. Or at least that it should reside there. It's like in Europe in the Middle Ages when people felt a city's heart lay in its cathedral and central square. Which is why even today in China there a lots of wonderful gates still standing. Do you know how the Chinese built these gates?" "I have no idea," Sumire answered. "People would take carts out to old battlefields and gather the bleached bones that were buried there or that lay scattered about. China's a pretty ancient country - lots of old battle grounds - so they never had to search far. At the entrance to the city they'd construct a huge gate and seal the bones inside. They hoped that by commemorating them this way the dead soldiers would c...

"Everyone stands alone at the heart of the world pierced by a ray of sunlight, and suddenly it is evening." ( Salvatore Quasimodo ) - See: Poetry :: note :: ... an overwhelming beginning overflowing with gratitude and appreciation ... practice the art of the beginner ... to all cry & reach across infinite space into the heart's deepest well where the moonlight resides guiding ... bless you ...

"There are four other reasons why homework would be banned at my house." ( Parking Lot |A call for the great Canadian homework ban ) - See: Education :: note :: ... unschooling from within ...

"... If we didn't enjoy the war on terror, it would collapse." ( I cite | Enjoying Terror ) "'The first idea was 'OK, we don't go,' because it's impossible to put the rare instruments in the baggage [hold],'concertmaster and soloist Alessandro Tampieri told CBC News." ( cbc.ca | arts&entertainment | Baroque concert saved by loaned instruments ) - See: Politics :: note :: ... yes ... the power heirarchy has too much joy ...

"In earlier times, festivals like Lincoln Center's existed to display what artists had created in the normal course of business. Theater and dance troupes would come from all over, bringing the same works they played for their audiences at home. Nowadays, festivals are everywhere, a globalized phenomenon like mass marketing, and pieces that have no effective existence in their home countries are manufactured for the sole purpose of migrating from festival to festival." ( Village Voice | Theater |Bits of Pieces Crossbreeding cultures is fine, but what if nothing grows out of it? | Michael Feingold ) - See: Theater :: note :: ... reading & experiencing this phenomena more and more which continues to confirm the marketing of theater whatever scale from small fringe to international spectacular ... quality sacrificed for marketing ...

"... [power] lies in the fact that [repetitive musics] cause the forgetting of what is being repeated and they make for a nonforgetting of time as a beat in place. Tradition is that which concerns time, not content. Whereas what the West wants from autonomy, invention, novelty, self-determination is the opposite - to forget time and to preserve, acquire and accumulate contents. To turn them into what we call history, and to think that it progresses because it accumulates. On the contrary, in the case of popular traditions ... nothing is accumulated, that is, the narratives must be repeated all the time because they are forgotten all the time. But what does not get forgotten is the temporal beat that does not stop sending the narratives to oblivion. " ( Just Gaming . Lyotard . ) - See: Image :: note :: ... the whole dada movement about spontaneity in process, work & performance lives & is continually documented ... it is a practice of devising and a response to the...

"Art can be a career, but it is also a way of life. What does that mean? What is the place of art in life? What does the practice of art mean to the artist's inner life, and what is the place of one's inner life in art that is made for others to see? This is something I want to think more about, and if possible hear about from you." ( Two Artists Talking ( CA & JM ) | Saturday night: art comes from many places ) - See: Artists :: note :: ... dialogue project ... seems (listening in as it begins) a bit formal/forced ... a few posts later warmer ...

- See: Image :: note :: ... month ends, a season passes & the flowers cycle towards memory ...

"... it is quite obvious that our instincts actually work against our instincts, so that, so to say, our anti-instincts act instead of, or even as, our instincts ..." ( Kaddish for a child not Born - Imre Kertesz ) - See: Terms :: note :: ... the paradox is when the anti-instinct becomes an instinct ...

"strip language of emotion, end up with operate" ( One Line Poems by Zoketsu Norman Fische | The Everydaty Zen Foundation ) - See: Poetry :: note :: ...huge attraction to brevity whether one-lines, aphorisms, short story, novelette, playlet, txt message ...

"strip language of emotion, end up with operate" ( One Line Poems by Zoketsu Norman Fische | The Everydaty Zen Foundation ) - See: Poetry :: note :: ...huge attraction to brevity whether one-lines, aphorisms, short story, novelette, playlet, txt message ...