Author: Zack Ramey
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Sunset Duet Painting | Road Trip 1
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zrJdkRNtE4&w=853&h=480]
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Why Don’t We Draw on Our Clothing?
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6p0ZZJ24rA&w=853&h=480]
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What Writing and Drawing Have in Common
Sometimes I pick up a book, only half intent to read it. I carry it with me. It is now a moving body, it seems, with a mind of its own, for I leave it in places and don’t know why. I lose sight of it, become half aware of it or forget about it…
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Portrait of a Drawing
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57efuZPJ-tM&w=853&h=480] Could we use video to promote slower thought patterns and mindfulness? Could we use the same medium that tends to slide between us and Nature to restore our craving for the natural world and immediate experience?
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In Remembrance of Frances Seman
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL1Jf6HvfRk&w=853&h=480] music: “a void” by Joni Void.
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Calligraphy Quote – “A culture is no better than its woods.”
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ftZTpkebY0&w=853&h=480] More calligraphy doodling (the doodling only really happened because I smudged the ink mid-way through). The last line from a poem by W.H. Auden called ‘Bucolic II. Woods.’ “The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country’s soul. A small grove massacred to the last ash, An oak…
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Calligraphy and Doodling with Alan Watts
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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fsq50TXyVo&w=853&h=480]
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Bridges of Play in Art, Philosophy, and Childhood
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glWjG7_Sv0E&w=853&h=480] The nature of the will is one of the major problematics of life. Philosophers and artists have long labored to clarify the position we are in concerning the will. How much power does one person have? How much responsibility does one have in achieving for oneself the good life, and how can this…
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The Moth of the Fire Tower: a Living Parable
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkFZF1FsGa0&w=853&h=480]