Category: Nature
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One More Night Draw with the Family | Road Trip 3
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfGnxHe3en0&w=560&h=315]
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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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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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Personification to Connect Us to Our Environment
Does it seem a farce to personify the world around us? The non-person world is going on all the time, just doing its myriad things. We share the same time and space coordinates as these non-person entities around us. We even share significant amounts of DNA with many of the organisms surrounding us. And yet,…
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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]
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Thinking and Drawing – The Hardest Thing to Put into Words
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HyEeRw_mAs?rel=0&controls=0&showinfo=0&w=853&h=480]
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Barnett Newman on the Aesthetic Roots of Humanity
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“Man’s hand traced the stick through the mud to make a line before he learned to throw the stick as a javelin.” “Undoubtedly the first man was an artist,” begins a remarkable little speculative essay written in 1947 by Barnett Newman. It proposes that the aesthetic act of wonder precedes the social and utilitarian acts…
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To Imagine the Real
All life is repetitive. Repetitive forms, repetitive behaviors. It isn’t strictly repetitive, for Nature loves surprises. But you won’t find fiddleheads popping out of the ground in December. Springtime calls them back to stage, always with that same quiet mathematical elegance. Of course, the human species is no exception. For all our cultural diversity, technical prowess,…