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shifting minds
The lingering effects of the LSD culture… Though our minds do shift, though our range of perception will at times change gear, we cannot make that shift deliberately, consciously. Nor when it occurs can we hold onto it. And when … Continue reading
rapid lapid: end of the mexican standoff
Yet, again a new Israeli leader emerges.A brand new shiny? A flash in the pan love affair in US media with the TV celebrity. This is not the same as the favorable profiles of Netanyahu when he first emerged as … Continue reading
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Tagged David M. Weinberg Jerusalem Post, Hanin Zoabi, Jodi Rudoren, M.C. Escher, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Ono Academic College, Professor Brown Israel Democracy Institute, Tommy Lapid, Yair Lapid, Yesh Atid party, Zahava Gal-On
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on the wings of the mundane
Salvation of the mundane. An ambiguous friendship with the gnostic demons. Is a salvation nebulous in form a salvation anyway. Salvation light. Not too filling. Not too holy with just a thin layer in the abridged form of contemplation of … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, austin warren, boredom, Flaubert, Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka Albert Camus, irving babbitt, jerome witkin, joel-peter witkin, Joseph Campbell, M.C. Escher, Martin Buber, Max Horkheimer, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Walter Benjamin, Walter Sickert
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a tangible mansion in the imagination: knock before entering
Architecture has long had deep roots in the imagination. Creating fantastical structures, magnificent dwellings, and phantom cities , painters have always been drawn to erecting a dream architecture of the improbable and often psychologically revealing buildings. Certainly, architecture and psychoanalysis … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Jung, Chagall, Friedrich Nietzsche, Giorgio de Chirico, Jeremy Blake, Kay Sage, M.C. Escher, Mies van der Rohe, Nikolaus Peysner, Philip Johnson, Rene Magritte, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Cole, Thomas Cole art, Walter Gropius, Wilhelm Pinder, Yves Tanguay
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castles of the imagination: architecture of the mind
Some great buildings are never built. It’s imaginary architecture. Painters over the centuries have conjured up fantastic towers, and refined and elegant mansions of the imagination. This is often a dream architecture that is occasionally gaudy, often improbable and almost … Continue reading
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Tagged Aisling Campbell, Ambroglio Lorenzetti, Carpaccio, Charles Darwin, International Style, Jia ZhangKe, John Ruskin, Kay Sage, Leonardo DiCaprio, M.C. Escher, Michael Balfe, Pietro Lorenzetti, Rainer Maria Rilke, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Carlyle, Van Bassen, Vittoro Carpaccio, Wilhelm Pinder, Zhang Ke Jia The World
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the cat in the cavern: surreal manifesto of yuzz, zats, fuddle…
We all have some recollections of Dr. Seuss and in particular the unusual illustrations ( Theodor Geisel) which seemed to overshadow the narrative of the story. Nature was constantly bent, shaped and metamorphisized into hybrid living forms with unlikely and … Continue reading
ANGLING FOR LOVE: There’s A Memory On The End Of That Hook
(Ted )Hughes’s love of fishing was learned growing up in Yorkshire, but it became “a kind of metaphor for the creative act,” says Foss.”This idea of pulling something out of the darkness, into the light of consciousness.” ….He was an … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Hartry, Arthur Koestler, David Wallechinsky, Ehor Boyanowsky, G. Lehmann, Irving Wallace, James V. McConnell, M.C. Escher, Michael Morpurgo, Neil Roberts, Paul Quarrington, Rachel Foss, Robert Nye, Robert Thompson, T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, Tim Cornwell, W.B. Yeats
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MIND GAMES WITH THE INNER EYE
The Consent Late in November, on a single night Not even near to freezing, the ginkgo trees That stand along the walk drop all their leaves In one consent, and neither to rain nor to wind But as though to … Continue reading
BEYOND COMPREHENSION OF ORDINARY MEN
What does a dragon enjoy? It enjoys sleep. If large, for a thousand years; small ones, not less than several hundred years. After such a long hibernation, a dragon will enter into a nirvana like state to renew itself. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Chinese female divinities, Chinese literature, goddess of the Lo River, History of Chinese Literature, Hsiang Goddess, J.W. Waterhouse, John William Waterhouse, Li Ho, Lo Goddess, M.C. Escher, Mermaids, Nu Kua and Fu Hsi, Sung Yu, Victor H. Mair, Wu-shan goddess
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